Chapter 1182

Chen Wu is very effective in disaster relief. Under his arrangement, he mobilized a lot of people to work together in disaster relief. There was no act of looting materials, and the people were very orderly.

However, the difficulty of resettling these victims still plagued him. The amount of money he could borrow, more than one million silver coins, was already very high. It was not convenient to do anything without money.

However, at this time, many workshop owners came out. No matter what their purpose, they recruited people to work, feed and pay them.

In this way, big problems can be solved, and more than 20000 people will be lost in two days.

More than 20000 people are missing from the 100000 victims, leaving a lot of space and more manpower.

At this time, there is still food. If 20000 people are short of food, there will be more days.

The county and the state must also be in disaster relief, when more support arrives, all problems are solved.

At this time, Zhang Zhao was so anxious that he quickly went south from the capital.

After going south, he also issued several orders with the express horse, asking the States and counties to immediately prepare materials and actively rescue.

There are also hundreds of people going south with Zhang Zhao. Besides escorting Zhang Zhao, a team of veterans can also participate in disaster relief.

When he first came out of the capital, the intelligence he received was not optimistic. Local officials did not have too many resources to use, and the situation was not very good.

In recent days, he constantly received news that although he had ordered local officials to go to the bank to borrow money to buy food for disaster relief, he didn't know if he could make it in time.

In the next few days, what Zhang Zhao received was that the disaster situation tended to be under control. After that, he did not receive more detailed information for several consecutive days.

He also understands that he may be really busy. Many officials can only look at the present situation and have no way to grasp the overall situation, so they have no way to report.

Zhang Zhao was burning with anxiety.

"What is a general solution?" As he approached the disaster area, Zhang Zhao received intelligence again.

According to the news, all the victims have been resettled, and the disaster situation has been generally under control. For the time being, large-scale reconstruction work has not started because they have no money.

There is no way to carry out large-scale reconstruction without money.

Zhang Zhao doesn't know if they report casually, shirk their responsibility and ignore the lives of the victims, so Zhang Zhao decides to have a look.

Zhang Zhao had little time to rest every day, and he was on his way as soon as possible.

Finally, he got close to the disaster area.

Generally, there are many refugees and even beggars near the disaster area, but he only sees a few along the way, less than a thousand people in total.

This is a very low situation.

"I hope the local officials will do a good job." Zhang Zhao said.

Zhang Zhao sent for someone to ask him in person.

Zhang Zhao sent a lot of people out, but he hasn't decided where to go now, because he doesn't know much about it. He needs to have a general understanding before he can do things.

"My Lord, Jin county is ahead. It was reported that it is one of the hardest hit areas. Now there are tens of thousands of victims in it."

After hearing this, Zhang Zhao pondered for a while and decided to have a look.

Zhang Zhao and his gang, without much food, entered the disaster area in this way.

Their soldiers were just carrying sticks.

After Zhang Zhao went in, he found that it was quiet here, and there was no starvation.

Zhang Zhao and his party attracted the attention of others. Someone rushed to say hello.

"My Lord, I don't know where you are from? But did you bring supplies to support the disaster area? " Asked a muddy man.

Instead of answering, Zhang asked, "how many victims are there? The officials here, eh? "

"Next is the detective of the police station in the county. Now we are maintaining order in this area. There were more than 160000 victims before, and there are more than 68000 now."

"As for where the other officials are, I don't know. It's time for the county magistrate to borrow money. Maybe the county magistrate is going to receive a batch of grain."

The inspector said that he didn't go on here. He knew that Zhang Zhao must be an official from above, but the other party didn't show his identity, so he couldn't say too much. He could only talk about the basic situation.

Zhang Zhao frowned, more than half of the victims were missing. Although the flood receded, their homes were gone. Where can they go?

"Where have nearly 100000 victims gone?" Zhang Zhao asked.

Zhang Zhao's tone was a little urgent. The inspector heard that he was questioning.

The inspector said: "some went to work, some went to relatives, some went to build roads."

This explanation is hard for Zhang Zhao to accept.

After thinking about it, I decided to go there myself.

"I'm from the capital. I've received the imperial edict to understand the disaster. Follow me." Zhang Zhao said.

Zhang Zhao didn't let anyone lead the way. Instead, he asked him to follow him. He wanted to go to other places to have a look.

On the surface, the victims are pretty good. They are just outside the city. They have food to eat and temporary shelters to live in. There are still some people around to patrol and maintain order.

Some places are still cooking medicine, and there are also several doctors shuttling back and forth.

On the surface, it looks very good.

Zhang Zhao went to several places, but he didn't see any big problems, but it was quite against the rules, so he decided to understand it in person.

Zhang Zhao asked most people to stay, and he took these people with him.

"Brother, when did you come here?" Zhang Zhao sat in a shack and asked an old man in his forties.

The old man is really in his forties, but he looks as old as sixty.

"I've been here for days. It's all gone. " The old man said very sad.

"Is there anything else to eat?"

"There is porridge in the morning and in the evening. There are fewer people these days. There is a meal at noon, and occasionally a few cakes." The old man said with his eyes numb.

Zhang Zhao nodded darkly. This is disaster relief. The key is not to starve to death.

Not to starve to death is the most basic thing in disaster relief.

He thinks it's good if we don't starve people here.

"What about the others? Why did you leave? " Zhang Zhao asked again.

"I've gone to work. I'm old and I have no family." The other side shook his head again, obviously decadent.

Zhang Zhao heard about working twice. It seems that what the inspector said is true.

"Where did they go to work? Wait for post disaster reconstruction, and then go home to continue farming? "

"Some of my nephews went to Jiangdong, and the people there came directly to recruit workers. The salary was pretty good. They stabilized first, and when they made some money, they came back to build the house." Said the old man.

When he went to Jiangdong, Zhang Zhao was surprised that it was the people there who directly recruited workers.

"Well, that's good. It seems that the government is very difficult. I don't know if it can be settled." Zhang Zhao made a remark.

Zhang Zhao said: "brother, don't worry. The imperial court already knows the situation here and will arrange people to handle it properly soon."

"Officials are good officials. They organize people to help themselves, feed them with food and see doctors." The old man muttered again.