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 areas of Zhaoqing, Guangzhou and Huizhou. According to on-site observations, the maximum wind force of this typhoon may have reached about level 12, which has exceeded the natural disaster that Victory Port suffered two years ago - the situation at that time was only a severe tropical storm at best. , the wind force is not enough to reach the level of typhoon.
A total of more than a dozen counties and nearly 100,000 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. Within the island. The only good thing is that this typhoon just passed through. After a circle at the Pearl River Estuary, it headed towards the southeast sea. Most places were hit by typhoons for less than a day.
Since the militia navy discovered the abnormal weather conditions earlier, the new port had more than a day to prepare for disaster prevention and mitigation. Therefore, there were no casualties in this storm, and only a few people were blown away by the wind. He was slightly injured when he was hit by something he picked up. However, many small boats were pushed ashore directly by the rough waves, causing a certain degree of damage. In addition, most of the houses with thatched roofs had their roofs removed, and six or seven houses were blown to and fro, making them uninhabitable.
Thanks to the adequate preparations beforehand, there were no immediate problems with the local people's food and accommodation after the disaster. The quantity of food and tents was sufficient to supply local needs, and social order was not disrupted due to the maintenance of militia groups.
Chen Yixin immediately contacted the Guangdong Office, Panyu and Wanshan Port after the disaster to report the local disaster situation. Guangzhou and Panyu were not directly affected. Wanshan Port received the warning early and made corresponding preparations, so the losses were within control. However, the Guangdong Office has prepared manpower, ships and rescue supplies. If the disaster here is serious, Guangzhou will immediately send a rescue fleet south.
Compared with the weaker storm that landed in Port Victory two years ago, this typhoon caused less damage to the areas controlled by Haihan. The disaster situation that You Yihan was worried about did not appear after the disaster. It only took half a day for the interim management committee to return the local construction work to the normal rhythm.
However, this is only the situation in the areas under Haihan's rule. The experience of other disaster-stricken areas after the disaster was not so good. Many states and counties experienced house collapse, casualties, and property damage during this typhoon. However, the local government's post-disaster rescue and relief work seemed somewhat weak and chaotic.
On the second day after the disaster, the immigration camp in Lijiazhuang, Panyu welcomed the first batch of victims seeking 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 just come to ask for some relief food and may not choose to join the naturalized population, Sha Xi, the temporary manager of the immigration camp, still sets up a tent to provide porridge. As long as the victims come for help, they can get at least a piece of food to survive.
This crowd reached its first peak three days later. A large number of victims who lost food and property after the disaster and were unable to receive timely assistance from the government 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 Guangdong 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 4,000 victims gathered near Lijiazhuang. This number was several times more than the number of victims who went to Guangzhou for help. In the past few years, whenever a local area suffered a natural disaster, a large number of people often flocked to Guangzhou for help, but now this behavior is changing subtly. People are gradually losing patience and trust in the Guangdong government, which is unable to provide disaster relief. Haihan happened to appear during the years when disasters were most concentrated in Guangdong, and played a positive image of sparing no effort to save people. Such performance made Haihan The Han people have also gradually gained a good reputation among the people. When natural disasters strike again, the first thing many people think of is not the incompetent government, but the Han people in Lijiazhuang, Panyu who have always helped the victims unconditionally.
After this typhoon, a considerable number of the affected people gave up going to Guangzhou, and instead went directly to Panyu, which was closer to the disaster area, to seek help from the Haihan people in Lijiazhuang. This sudden wave of refugees did indeed bring relief to the local people. Immigration work brings a lot of stress.
"These jars and jars of things are not allowed to be brought into the camp. If you want to bring these things, don't go in!" Sha Xi shouted loudly at several victims who had fled with a bunch of tattered belongings. They were all on the front line dealing 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 to avoid hazards such as diseases. However, the refugees who fled were often reluctant to part with their belongings that they had taken the trouble to move out. For this reason, they often struggled with immigration officials at the entrance. Sha Xi has been dealing with immigration matters here for several days and has long been impatient.
"Throw all irrelevant things over there!" Sha Xi raised his hand and pointed to the plain to the left of the gate of the immigration camp. About three hundred meters away, there were two or three large pits filled with various kinds of things. There are all kinds of waste, including old clothes, various furniture, pots and pans, almost everything imaginable. These are items abandoned by immigrants before entering the camp, and hundreds or thousands of items are confiscated every day.
"If you don't want to throw away these treasures, just go to the open space on the right and find a place to wait. Everyone will have a bowl of porridge every morning and night!" Sha Xi pointed to the other side and said loudly.
On the plain to the right of the gate, at least a thousand victims gathered, and there were many temporary shacks built by the victims among the crowd. These people are either reluctant to part with their belongings and are here to wait and see how things develop, or they just want to hang out for a few days and then decide whether to go back to their hometown or make other plans. The treatment these people can receive is basically only two bowls of gruel a day, and the immigration camp does not have so many human resources to take care of other things. For matters such as health and epidemic prevention and security, the existing manpower to deal with matters inside the camp is somewhat stretched. For the people outside who do not intend to follow Haihan, they can only let them go and let them fend for themselves.
"Director Sha, a message has arrived from the base camp." Just when Sha Xi was busy, his entourage ran over and handed him an envelope.
The seal of the envelope has the wax seal of the confidential room of the Lijiazhuang Immigration Camp. This is a means to prevent confidential messages sent from the confidential room from leaking during the transmission process. Unless the traveler himself goes to the confidential room to collect the message, otherwise All must be put into envelopes and sealed. Although the chance of this happening is very slim at this stage, due to the insistence of the Executive Committee, it is still strictly implemented by all overseas agencies as one of the safety rules. Sha Xi asked the naturalized cadre next to him to take over his work first, then walked aside and opened the envelope, pulled out the message inside and started to read it.
The content of the message was very simple. It was a 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 supplies needed must be replenished as soon as possible. Daily supplies such as food, tents, and clothing are also in short supply in the current Guangzhou market. Therefore, the immigration camp expressed the hope that the executive committee can arrange to ship a batch of supplies as soon as possible to supplement the needs of Lijiazhuang.
This message from the Executive Committee is a reply to the upcoming material support arrangements for the immigrant camps. A material transport fleet consisting of four cargo ships has set off from Victory Port. One of the ships is headed for Wanshan Port and Hong Kong Island, and the other three ships are heading for Panyu. The three ships carried seventy 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 militia accompanying them as support for Panyu's security forces.
These ships will also take at least 700 to 800 migrants to Sanya on their return journey to reduce the pressure on the migrant camps. The second batch of fleets transporting supplies and immigrants is already being mobilized and will depart from Sanya in two days at the latest.
After Sha Xi read the message, 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 20%. If the flow of people cannot be evacuated as soon as possible, the immigration camp is likely to gradually become chaotic and out of control. This is not what Sha Xi imagined. situation to be seen.
Sha Xi worked as a tour guide before crossing over, and his ability to speak well allowed him to join the civil affairs department to manage immigration affairs at the beginning of the crossing. Two years ago, he got the opportunity to be transferred to the Guangdong Office. After arriving in Guangzhou, Sha Xi continued to engage in the immigration work he was familiar with. However, two years later, although Haihan's development in the mainland has made considerable gains, the expansion of the scope of control has been quite slow, and the authority in the hands of officials like Sha Xi has not changed much. Sha Xi, who came to this time and space with great ambitions and wanted to be a local emperor, actually had a slight psychological gap.
Of course, the situation in this time and space did not completely disappoint Sha Xi. Some things still made him happy. For example, last year Sha Xi bought a quiet courtyard in Guangzhou and married two concubines in succession. Moreover, these two little girls were only fifteen or sixteen years old. Before time travel, something would definitely happen. rhythm, but here it is a reasonable and legal normal phenomenon.
The Executive Committee has never been too strict about the personal issues of overseas institutions. It only needs to register the spouse's personal and family status with the civil affairs department. As for the number of wives and concubines these people plan to marry, the Executive Committee does not have corresponding regulations - one of the reasons why many people participate in the time-travel operation is because of the relatively free marriage status in this time and space. To be precise, it is for one husband. Coming 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.
Sha Xi's second concubine is now five months pregnant. The emergence of the next generation is one of the biggest motivations for him to continue struggling in this time and space. Shaxi is a very smart man. He knows very well that if he wants to leave more legacy and power to the next generation, he must climb to a higher position in the early stages of time travel. To do this, he first You have to make a breakthrough in your current job.
With the development and construction of Wanshan Port, Lijiazhuang, and Hong Kong Island, the establishment of the Guangdong Administrative Region has become 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 be those who have stayed in the Guangdong Office for two years. Even if the executive committee will make personnel adjustments, even if he is transferred to another place or transferred back to Sanya to serve, promotion to this administrative level is definitely a certainty.
Sha Xi does not hope that he will be transferred elsewhere or back to Sanya by then. He prefers to stay here in Guangzhou. To realize this wish, Sha Xi must compete for the position of civil affairs officer after the administrative level of the Guangdong Office is upgraded.
Although he has been in charge of immigration affairs in the past two years, it does not mean that he will continue to control this work in the future. Recently, due to a business trip, the Executive Committee temporarily appointed You Yihan to Hong Kong Island as the local civil affairs officer, which made Sha Xi feel a certain sense of nervousness - among the people in the Guangdong Office, there is no one who can be in charge of civil affairs. But he's 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 and health care, is also one of the candidates.
Due to historical reasons, there have been no female executive members on the Executive Committee from the beginning, and there are still some public discussions about this. Although the time-traveling group has always suppressed feminist elements quite vigorously, the executive committee cannot openly exclude the entry of female time-travelers - this is almost a situation that will inevitably occur in the future. Feminists like Gu Kai's foreign girlfriend Raisa will naturally be resisted by most people, and women with excellent public images like Ma Yu are very likely to be promoted as the next executive committee member. Committee member, to silence those feminists.
It is still early before the election of the next executive committee, but if the executive committee agrees to introduce female executive members in the next election, then it is a relatively safe approach to start paving the way for it politically now.
(End of chapter)