Lord of the House

The strong wind subsided a little, and Lin Fu sent the boat to set sail for Chongzhou overnight. The wind was unfavorable, but the water was very fast and the boat was fast. It was about dawn and arrived at the southwest beach of Xisha Island.

Lin Bie did not expect that the typhoon would be so severe. Compared with the situation where the island and the coastal vegetation were devastated by the wind, Xisha Island was in the core wind belt of the typhoon's transit, and the damage was extra tragic.

Lin Fu did not rush to Chongzhou, but made the boat detour from the south side of Xisha Island.

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Lin Fu carefully compared the most accurate map he could see in the world, and found that most parts of Shanghai, the most prosperous metropolis in the future, are either tidal flats or have not yet become land, and the eastern part of Chongzhou County is still a large tidal flat yard. Pingjiang House in Jiangdong County covers a vast area such as the western part of Shanghai, Suzhou and the eastern part of Wuxi in later generations.

Xisha Island is also not the Chongming Island of later generations. Its actual location is about one or two hundred miles away from Chongming Island. The predecessor of Chongzhou Island is probably the east of Xisha Island, which is actually located outside the mouth of the Yangtze River. Majiabin, Yao Liusha and so on. sandbar.

Unlike Bedrock Island, the average Sand Island is very unstable. When Lin Fu and the others arrived at the southwest beach of Xisha Island, the tip of a pointed island in the southwest beach that they could still see in late autumn last year had been swept away by the turbulent river water after the beginning of summer this year. In addition, due to the barren land of Shadao, in the past 100 years, no large number of people have moved to Xisha Island except for a few fishermen who settled on the island.

Xisha Island has connected several surrounding sandbars one after another in the past 100 years, and has become the largest sand island near the mouth of the Yangtze River. It is only four or five miles away from the north shore. , Most people tried but failed to support, only a small number of people settled down with some fishermen.

Nuoda's sand island, with a radius of hundreds of miles, is not a problem to accommodate 100,000 people according to the population density of Hailing House and Pingjiang House on the north and south sides.

The flood of refugees that started before the Chinese New Year and lasted until the beginning of summer this year has brought the number of refugees into Jiangdong County as high as one million. Spread, there are also hundreds of thousands of refugees into Hailing Mansion.

The contradiction between the large-scale refugees and the local people is always a thorny problem that is difficult to solve. Just like Gutang County drove the refugees to the river beach, Hailing Prefecture also used the local government of Chongzhou County to deliberately and irresponsibly guide the refugees. Go to unowned sand islands, river beaches and others to resettle.

There are also tens of thousands of refugees who gathered on Xisha Island after the spring of this year. These tens of thousands of refugees suffered terribly in yesterday's typhoon, and can even be described as horrific.

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Lin Fu made the boat go along the southern end of the island. There were almost no complete shacks and huts along the road. The natural sandy polders on the southern side of the island collapsed on a large scale.

Lin Fu stopped the boat at the southeastern beach of Xisha Island before noon, waded ashore from the shallow water, and went deep into the island for 14 to 5 miles. He could see the traces of the tide after the backflow. Going deep, there were shacks destroyed by the wind and waves along the road. The remnants and the drowned corpses became more and more chilling.

The refugees gathered on Xisha Island have no experience in resisting typhoon and tide recharge. They do not even repair the simplest seawalls and dams. Large swaths of reeds and bushes were wiped out with knife and fire, completely unaware that these are natural barriers that can resist wind and waves. The local government is extremely irresponsible and ignores it without guidance. Yesterday, the storm and tide recharge were extremely violent. How can it not be severely affected?

On a mound with a slightly higher terrain, Lin Fu encountered hundreds of refugees who had gathered there, calling Tian Tian not to, and shouting to be dead.

"Where are the others?" Lin Fu looked for an old man who had seen the world among the refugees and asked about the disaster situation here.

"They were all rushed in by the flood, and they all died. The bodies all floated into the sea. We are the only ones left, and we don't know when to feed the Sea Dragon King's stomach..." The old man also wanted to cry but had no tears in his eyes. Turbid, hoarse voice, watching Lin Fu and the others come over, some people have infinite hope, but the old man's heart was numb because of last night's catastrophe.

Lin Bian was there, he contacted Changshan Island, and he used the southeast beach of Xisha Island as a relay point. Changshan Island also sent two people to mingle with the refugees to observe the situation. He clearly knew that they gathered at the southeast beach of Xisha Island. There are only seven or eight thousand refugees, so how could there be only four or five hundred people left in front of them?

"Damn it!" Zhou Pu fiercely inserted the knife into the sand dune with its sheath, and Ao Canghai, Hu Zhicheng, Hu Qiaoyi, Hu Qiaozhong, Chen Enze and others who were tied to the shore with Lin were all silent.

Wu Qi walked around, came up to the mound, shook his head, indicated that the two people who were arranged here on Changshan Island were not spared, and said, "Yesterday, the wind brought waves, and the river was hurried down the river. I heard that the huge waves formed on the southeast beach were more than two feet high, and the island was hit by heavy rains.

"Why is this just a natural disaster?" Lin Fu let out a long sigh and instructed Wu Qi, Chen Enze, Hu Qiao and the others, "Move off the ship's grain, firewood, and all the charcoal that can be divided, and let's go to Chongzhou. The supplement is; if the disaster victims are going to take refuge in Chongzhou, they can go with our boat - you can do it separately. Before dark, we will set off for Chongzhou. Maybe by then, the disaster relief officials from Chongzhou should also be on the island... "

In addition to the disaster relief staff, Lin Bie, accompanied by Ao Canghai and Hu Zhicheng, traveled all over the eastern peninsula to check the disaster situation. It is roughly estimated that no less than 20,000 people drowned in yesterday's typhoon and tidal flooding, which is tragic. I am afraid that there are less than 20,000 people who drowned directly in the flood after the summer in the entire Jiangxi County and the vast parts of the lake.

In addition to a large number of corpses brought overseas to low tide waters, there are also a large number of drowned corpses that can be seen everywhere in the disaster area.

Lin Fu and the others waited on the island until dusk, but the disaster relief officials from Chongzhou did not appear. There were still 20,000 to 30,000 victims on the island, not to mention they were full, and they couldn't even drink hot water.

Lin Fu knew that it was taboo for him to openly organize disaster relief here, but what were the things he did in Jiangning that were not hated by others? Besides, he was too ruthless to leave 20,000 to 30,000 victims on the island and let them starve to death or let the epidemic spread and do nothing.

Lin Fu called Zhou Pu, Ao Canghai, Wu Qi, and Ge Cunxin, the loach master, after a brief discussion, and decided to send the "Jiangdong County Inspector General's Military Regiment Road Food Raising Envoy Lin" and "Jiangdong County Inspector General Secretary Dongyang Soldier Regiment". The banner of "Dao Ji Yun Wei Yong" was erected, and in the name of food-raising envoys, disaster relief was first organized on Xisha Island.

Organize a large number of victims to gather in a slightly higher area in the northwest of the island. One is to facilitate rescue, and the other is to transfer the victims to areas where the disaster situation is less severe, so as to be isolated from areas where a major epidemic may occur, and it is also convenient to organize manual collection and burial of corpses. The weather is hot, and epidemic prevention work is the most urgent.

It can be said that Zhou Pu, Ao Canghai, Wu Qi, Ge Cunxin and others all have varying degrees of dissatisfaction with the current bureaucracy, and have a tendency to sympathize with the refugees. When Lin Fu made such a decision, they naturally supported it.

In terms of status, power, and even ambitious and capable people, there are countless people in the world who surpass Lin Bie, such as the crucian carp crossing the river. Cao Zi'ang, Qin Chengzu, Fu Qinghe, Lin Mengde, Zhou Pu, Ao Canghai, Wu Qi, Ge Cunxin and other heroes who could stand alone in any other place gathered under his command and did not give up.

Any force has its core elements that gather people's hearts. The simplest way to say it is "like-mindedness"; there is no unprovoked loyalty in the world, and loyalty comes from a high sense of identity. If it wasn't for Lin Fu like this, no matter how intelligent and capable he was, at most he would only be someone else's advisor and subordinate like Qin Zitan and Zhao Qinmin.

Lin Fu asked people to find Hu Zhicheng and said to them, "Mr. Hu, I have something for you to do..."

"Lord Lin please instruct me." Hu Zhicheng said.

The Hu family is different from the Xihe Society. The Xihe Society has a lot of power. No matter how powerful Lin Fu is, he is just a follower of Gu Wuchen. After leaving Gu Wuchen, Jiangning has more power and status than Lin Fu. The future related to the livelihood of the two thousand congregation was bet on Lin Fu.

The Hu family was not the same. The Hu family was severely damaged when they collected 2,000 taels of redemption money for their second son. Losing a boatload of sugar this time also hurt the bones. Besides, the deputy general of Ninghai Town, Xiao Taoyuan, will put the Hu family under the threat of ruining the family at any time. The Hu family has very limited choices.

Hu Zhicheng had already thought through it in his heart: Lin Fu not only helped the Hu family twice, but there was no one who could entrust the safety of more than 20 members of the Hu family like Lin Fu.

Qingliu regards Lin Fu as a different kind, and Hu Zhicheng is a businessman~www.wuxiaspot.com~ has the characteristics of being pragmatic and not paying attention to false names. Originally, he had no special prejudice against Lin Fu. He talked with his nephew Qiao Zhongbing last night and felt that Lin Fu was even more so. Many of the tying's behaviors are very much in the temper of their businessmen.

It's just that Hu Zhicheng couldn't discuss it with his brother, and it was inconvenient for Hu Zhicheng to express his position immediately, but Lin Fu was determined to rescue the disaster on the island, and if he had something to support, Hu Zhicheng naturally shouldered the responsibility. The safety of the twenty-odd members of the Hu family was entrusted to him.

"I can't leave 20,000 to 30,000 victims on the island," Lin Fu said. "I will send a boat to send Mr. Hu to Chongzhou at night. First, ask Mr. Hu to bring a letter to the magistrate of Chongzhou, and Xisha Island belongs to Chongzhou County. Under the jurisdiction, the typhoon disaster is severe, Chongzhou County has the responsibility of disaster relief, and the Chongzhou magistrate cannot come forward. Second, even if the Chongzhou magistrate will come forward to rescue the disaster, I am afraid that there will be delays in time, but the disaster relief is urgent. I hope to ask the Hu family to help me. I purchased disaster relief supplies in the county overnight, and they will be shipped here tomorrow for emergency relief..."

Most of the soldiers stayed on the island, so that "Jiyun 1" and "Jiyun 2" were led by Ge Cunxin, a loach master, to Chongzhou to find and buy disaster relief materials with Hu Zhicheng and Hu Qiaoyi's uncle and nephew, and informed Chongzhou County.

In addition, Lin Fu also wrote two urgent letters and sent people to go ashore overnight to go to Jiangning and Dongyang on horseback to deliver them to Gu Wuchen and his immediate superior Xiao Xuanchou. It was not until Xisha Island that the ship stopped and docked. It happened to encounter a major disaster on Xisha Island. As the only official personnel on Xisha Island, they could only stay and rescue the disaster first. After Chongzhou County sent someone to take over, they could leave and go to Pingjiang Prefecture to raise funds. grain.

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