1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 485 Disaster Relief
At the end of October 1629, a sudden typhoon swept across the Pearl River Estuary from west to east, covering most of the southern parts of Zhaoqing, Guangzhou and Huizhou.According to on-the-spot observations, the maximum wind force of this typhoon may have reached about level 10, which has surpassed the natural disaster encountered by Victory Port two years ago-the situation at that time was only a severe tropical storm. , the wind force is not enough for the level of typhoon.

A total of more than a dozen counties and nearly [-] people were affected by this typhoon. Xinning, Xinhui, Shunde, Xin'an and other counties at the Pearl River Estuary became the hardest hit areas, including Hong Kong, where the new port is located. Island included.The only good news is that this typhoon just passed through the border, and after going around the Pearl River Estuary, it headed towards the sea in the southeast direction.Most places have been hit by typhoons for less than a day.

Because the militia navy discovered the abnormal weather earlier, the new port had more than one day to prepare for disaster prevention and mitigation. Therefore, there was no loss of personnel in this storm, only a few people were blown by the wind He was slightly injured by something he picked up.However, many small boats were directly pushed ashore by the raging waves, causing a certain degree of damage.In addition, most of the houses with thatched roofs have been demolished, and six or seven houses have been blown upside down, making them uninhabitable.

Thanks to the adequate preparations in advance, there were no immediate problems with the food and housing of the local people after the disaster. The quantity of food and tents were sufficient to meet local needs, and social order was maintained without chaos.

Immediately after the disaster, Chen Yixin contacted the Guangzhou Office, Panyu and Wanshan Port to report the local disaster situation.Guangzhou and Panyu were not directly affected. Because Wanshan Port was warned early, it also made corresponding preparations, and the losses were within the controllable range.On the other hand, the Guangzhou Office has already prepared manpower, ships, and rescue supplies. If the disaster here is serious, Guangzhou will immediately send a rescue fleet to the south.

Compared with the weaker storm that landed in Victory Harbor two years ago, the typhoon this time caused less damage to the area controlled by Haihan.The disaster situation that You Yihan was worried about before did not appear after the disaster. The temporary management committee only took half a day to restore the local construction work to a normal pace.

However, this is only the situation in the area under Haihan's rule, and the situation of other disaster-stricken areas after the disaster is not so good.Many states and counties suffered house collapses, casualties, and property damage during the typhoon. However, the local government's rescue and relief work after the disaster seemed somewhat powerless and chaotic.

On the second day after the disaster, the immigration camp in Lijiazhuang, Panyu welcomed the first batch of victims who asked for help. These people lived near Panyu and knew that the immigration camp set up by the Haihan people here would take in helpless poor people.Although most of these people only came to ask for a little food for disaster relief and might not choose to join the naturalized people, Sha Xi, the interim director of the immigrant camp, still set up tents to give out porridge, and as long as the disaster victims who came for help could get at least one piece of food to survive.

This wave of people reached its first peak three days later. A large number of victims who lost food and property after the disaster and could not get government assistance in time flocked to Panyu County from surrounding areas, forming a crowd outside Lijiazhuang. .Xiao Liang and Yu Yao had to urgently lead the armed personnel under the jurisdiction of the Guangzhou Office and the security guards of the "Golden Shield Escort" to Panyu to maintain local order.

On the fifth day after the disaster, more than 4000 victims gathered near Lijiazhuang, which was several times more than the number of victims who went to Guangzhou City for help.In the past few years, once a local disaster occurred, a large number of people often flocked to Guangzhou City for help, but now this behavior is changing subtly.The people in Guangdong are losing patience and trust little by little for the government in Guangdong, which is weak in disaster relief. Haihan happened to appear in the years when the disasters were most concentrated in Guangdong, and he played a positive image of sparing no effort to help the common people. Han has also gradually gained a good reputation among the people. When natural disasters come again, the first thing many people think of is not the incompetent government, but the Haihan people in Lijiazhuang, Panyu, who have always helped the victims unconditionally.

After the typhoon this time, quite a number of people affected by the disaster gave up going to Guangzhou, but went directly to Panyu, which is closer to the disaster-stricken area, and asked for help from the Haihan people in Lijiazhuang. Working as an immigrant can be stressful.

"These pots and jars are not allowed to be brought into the camp. If you want to bring these things, don't go in!" Sha Xi yelled loudly at several victims who fled with a pile of broken household items. They were all on the front line to deal with these victims, and Sha Xi's voice was obviously hoarse.

According to the management regulations of the immigration camps, immigrants are not allowed to bring non-essential daily necessities into the camps at will, so as to avoid hazards such as epidemic diseases.However, the victims who fled from the disaster are often reluctant to part with the belongings that they have worked so hard to move out. For this reason, they often entangle with the immigration officials at the entrance.Sha Xi has been dealing with immigration affairs here for several days in a row, and he is already impatient with it.

"Throw all the irrelevant things over there!" Sha Xi raised his finger and pointed to the plain on the left side of the gate of the immigrant camp. About 300 meters away, there were two or three large pits filled with various There are old clothes, all kinds of furniture, pots and pans, and almost everything you can think of.These items were discarded by the migrants before they entered the camp, and hundreds or thousands of items were confiscated every day.

"If you don't want to throw away these treasures, go to the open space on the right and find a place to wait. Every morning and evening, each person will have a bowl of porridge!" Sha Xi pointed to the other side and said loudly.

On the plain to the right of the gate, at least a thousand victims of the disaster gathered, and among the crowd were many temporary shacks built by the victims themselves.These people are either reluctant to part with their belongings and are here to wait and see the development of the situation for the time being, or they just want to hang out for a few days, and then see whether to go back to their hometown or make another plan.The treatment these people can get is basically only two bowls of gruel a day, and the immigration camp doesn't have so many human resources to manage other things.For things like sanitation and epidemic prevention, security and security, the existing manpower is a bit stretched to deal with the inside of the camp. For those people outside who don't plan to follow Haihan, they can only let them fend for themselves.

"Director Sha, there is a message from the headquarters." Just as Sha Xi was so busy, his entourage ran over and handed him an envelope.

There is a wax seal of the Confidential Room of the Lijiazhuang Immigrant Camp on the seal of the envelope. This is a means to prevent the confidential messages sent from the Confidential Room from leaking during transmission. All must be put in an envelope and sealed.Although the chances of such a thing happening at this stage are very small, under the insistence of the Executive Committee, as one of the safety rules, it has been strictly implemented by various agencies stationed abroad.

Sha Xi asked the Guihuamin cadre next to him to take over his work first, then went to the side, opened the envelope, took out the telegram inside and began to read it.

The content of the message is very simple, it is to reply to the call for help sent back from the Lijiazhuang immigration camp a few days ago.Due to the arrival of a large number of local refugees, all aspects of affairs have fallen into a state of manpower shortage, and the various living materials needed must be replenished as soon as possible.Living materials such as food, tents, and clothing are also in short supply in the current Guangzhou market. Therefore, the immigration camp hopes that the executive committee can arrange a shipment of materials as soon as possible to supplement the needs of Lijiazhuang.

This telegram from the executive committee is to reply to the next material support arrangement for the immigrant camp.A convoy of four cargo ships has set off from Shengli Port, one of which is headed for Wanshan Port and Hong Kong Island, and the other three are heading for Panyu.The three ships carried [-] tons of rice and other ingredients, some commonly used medicinal materials, and hundreds of military tents.In addition to the ten doctors, there was also a company of militiamen accompanying them as support for Panyu's security forces.

These ships will also take at least [-] to [-] migrants to Sanya on their return journey to reduce the pressure on the migrant camps.The second batch of convoys transporting supplies and immigrants is already being mobilized and will depart from Sanya in two days at the latest.

After Sha Xi read the telegram, his mood calmed down a little.As far as the current situation is concerned, the number of people in the immigration camp has actually exceeded the normal operating load by more than [-]%. If the flow of people cannot be evacuated as soon as possible, the immigration camp may gradually become chaotic and out of control. This is not what Sha Xi wants The situation to see.

Sha Xi worked as a tour guide before crossing, and his ability to speak well made him join the civil affairs department to manage immigration affairs at the beginning of crossing.Two years ago, he got the opportunity to be transferred to the Guangzhou Office. After coming to Guangzhou, Sha Xi continued to engage in the immigration work he was familiar with.However, in the past two years, although Haihan's development in the mainland has made a lot of gains, the speed of expansion of the scope of control is quite slow, and the authority held by officials like Sha Xi has not changed much. Sha Xi, who came to this time and space with great ambitions and wanted to be the emperor of the land, actually had a little psychological gap.

Of course, the situation in this time and space did not completely disappoint Sha Xi, and some things still made him happy.For example, last year Shaxi bought a quiet courtyard in Guangzhou, and married two concubines in succession, and these two girls were only fifteen or sixteen years old, so it would definitely cause trouble before crossing. However, here it is a normal phenomenon that is reasonable, reasonable and legal.

The Executive Committee has always been not too strict with the personal issues of overseas institutions, and only needs to register the personal and family status of the spouse with the civil affairs department.As for how many wives and concubines these people intend to marry, the Executive Committee has no corresponding regulations—one of the reasons why many people participate in the time-traveling operation is that the marriage status in this time and space is relatively free, and to be precise, it is for a husband. It came from polygamy, if these people are not allowed to enjoy such treatment, I am afraid that the backs of several executive committee members will be swollen.

Shaxi's second concubine is now five months pregnant, and the appearance of the next generation is one of the biggest motivations for him to continue to struggle in this time and space.Sha Xi is a very smart person. He knows that if he wants to leave more legacy and power to the next generation, he must climb to a higher position in the early stage of time travel. To do this, he must first You have to make a breakthrough in your current job position.

With the development and construction of strongholds such as Wanshan Port, Lijiazhuang, and Hong Kong Island, the establishment of the Guangdong Administrative Region is already an imperative measure. It just depends on when the Executive Committee will take it out as a formal proposal for discussion.After the establishment of the Guangdong Administrative Region, the first batch of officials to be promoted must have been the group of people who had been in the Guangzhou Office for two years.Even if the executive committee will make adjustments to personnel, even if they are transferred to other places or returned to Sanya, the promotion of this administrative level must be a certainty.

Sha Xi doesn't want to be transferred to other places or back to Sanya, he prefers to stay here in Guangzhou.In order to realize this wish, Sha Xi must fight for the position of chief civil affairs officer after the administrative rank of the Guangzhou Office has been raised.

Although he has been in charge of immigration affairs in the past two years, it does not mean that he will continue to be in charge of this work in the future.Recently, because of a business trip, the executive committee temporarily appointed You Yihan to Hong Kong Island as the local civil affairs chief, which made Sha Xi feel a certain sense of nervousness—these people in the Guangzhou Office are those who can be in charge of civil affairs But he is not the only one.In addition to You Yihan who was sent to Hong Kong Island this time, Ma Yu, who is in charge of medical care, is also one of the candidates.

Due to historical reasons, there have been no female executive members on the executive committee from the very beginning, and there are still some voices of discussion among the people.Although the suppression of feminists within the time travel group has always been relatively strong, it is impossible for the executive committee to openly reject the entry of female time travelers - this is almost an inevitable situation in the future.A feminist like Gu Kai's foreign girlfriend Risa will naturally be boycotted by the majority, while a woman like Ma Yu, who has an excellent public image, is very likely to be promoted as the next executive committee member. Commissioner, to seal the mouths of those feminists.

It is still too early for the next executive committee to be re-elected, but if the executive committee agrees to the introduction of female executive committee members in the next re-election, then it is a relatively safe approach to start paving the way for them politically.

(End of this chapter)