Urban Sims

Chapter 776 Efficient Disaster Relief
After there was no objection among the officials, Zhou Ming immediately set up an emergency relief team.

He himself serves as the team leader and is in charge of full command.

Giroud served as the deputy team leader and was responsible for coordinating and cooperating to collect the situation in the disaster area.

As for the main force of the disaster relief, 20 people were drawn from the 5 imperial guards stationed in the imperial capital and put into the disaster relief.

In fact, when Zhou Ming proposed to let the military participate in the disaster relief operations, no matter the high-level military officials or the soldiers selected to participate in the disaster relief operations, they were not very motivated, very resistant to the task, and even complained a lot.

Zhou Ming had to do some ideological work for them.

"As soldiers guarding the empire, during times of war, you have the responsibility to defend your homeland. On the battlefield, fight bloody battles with the enemy, and even shed blood and die... Each of you is a hero of the empire,"

"But in peacetime, you should also be the heroes of the empire. Facing the natural disasters that ravage the people, you should fulfill your responsibilities and understand your vocation."

"Your bounden duty is to defend the empire and protect the people of the empire!"

"It is the same in the face of war, and it is also the same in the face of natural disasters. You should also be heroes in the peaceful era."

"The catastrophic flood that occurred in Andorhal County this time is a war against the gods of nature! I hope that each of you will do your duty and fight with all your strength!"

"In addition, I have also formulated reward regulations. In this war, whoever performed well, who rescued more people, and who went all out, I will ask the inspector to record, and finally the outstanding performance , I will be promoted, promoted, rewarded, and commended just like rewarding military exploits!"

As soon as these words came out, the 5 soldiers were shocked collectively, and their morale immediately soared.

Battle exploits.

Where did the military exploits come from in peacetime?
If you can get it by participating in this disaster relief, why not try your best to show it?
The 5 soldiers instantly became easy to dispatch, and their enthusiasm was greatly improved.

In this way, there are people with money and enough manpower, but the relief supplies are still not enough.

The victims in the disaster area need at least 200 million shi of food, millions of pieces of clothing, and a large amount of wood to build simple houses... The food, clothing, and medical services for millions of people must be provided by him.

And in the short term, at least the problem of food and medical care must be solved first... After all, the victims who have no food in their hands can survive for at most 5 to 10 days by various methods.

In addition, the imperial capital is 200 miles away from the disaster area. This distance is not long, but it will take at least a day.

So how to do disaster relief, as much as possible, save the victims in the disaster area.

After about two hours of discussion, Zhou Ming formulated a five-step plan.

The first step: open the way.

From all directions, quickly open about four roads leading to the disaster area, so that there is a "disaster relief road" in the southeast, northwest, and the eastern road is the main road.

The second step: transfer the victims and deliver food at the same time.

Move the victims out of the disaster area, guide them to the designated disaster relief point, and take some self-rescue measures, such as cutting down trees, building houses, etc., and improving the facilities of the disaster relief point.

On the other side, the food is transported simultaneously from the imperial capital or surrounding counties to the disaster relief point to solve the most urgent hunger problem... Since the disaster relief point is located in the middle of the disaster area and the surrounding counties of the imperial capital, it can save a certain amount of time for food transportation .

Step [-]: Provide medical services.

After the catastrophe, there will be a catastrophic epidemic, and medical teams need to be stationed to treat the wounded while carrying out epidemic prevention and disinfection work, and even carry out isolation treatment for some diseases with high fatality rates to avoid greater losses.

Step [-]: After the flood recedes, guide the victims to carry out reconstruction work in the disaster area.

Step [-]: Build dams and control floods so that similar disasters will never happen again.

In addition to the above five-step plan, in order to improve the efficiency of disaster relief, Zhou Ming also invented three "artifacts" and formed a rapid response force.

The three artifacts are:
Four-wheeled carriages with a large carrying capacity...a total of 500 carriages have been prepared, each of which can carry 8 stones of grain, and the speed will not be very slow. Each batch of five hundred carriages can transport grain enough for 50 people a day ration needs.

Tweeter... The importance of the tweeter is unquestionable. In this era, it can fully play the role of a magic weapon... As for the principle of the invention of the tweeter, Zhou Ming will not introduce it. Anyway, for him, manufacturing the tweeter The technical content is not high.

Flying a controllable hot air balloon... It's good that Zhou Ming invented the hot air balloon. The technical content of this thing is lower than that of the tweeter, because many materials are ready-made and available, and there is no need to develop any batteries, but it is affected by the airflow in the atmosphere. The flight of thermal air is generally uncontrollable, so Zhou Ming installed a power device on the hot air balloon for the warlock to control, that is, as long as the "blue power" is input into the power device, the hot air balloon will Ability to fly in the desired direction - in moderate wind conditions.

Because of the addition of the power unit and the special requirements for the operator, Zhou Ming made a total of 10 hot air balloons.

Finally, there is the urgently established "Quick Response Team". These people are all elite practitioners of warlocks selected from the army. Being able to make some "short flight", "turn water into a wall, walk on flat ground", "harden sludge, turn into a wall", basically no matter what the natural environment, they can't restrict their free movement.

What's more worth mentioning is that there are three noble magic net walkers in this quick response force. They are not members of the military. The reason why Zhou Ming allowed them to join the quick response force is Zhou Ming's determination to rescue the disaster. They moved the kind-hearted people and made them willing to accept official orders.

In addition, in terms of various materials such as food, clothing, and medicine, Zhou Ming released news that the scale of the "commercial zone" will be expanded from 100 mu to 300 mu (200 mu will be removed from the imperial palace covering an area of ​​[-] mu). acres of land), more merchants will be invited to join in the cooperation.

Those merchants who were desperately hoarding and preparing to take advantage of the flood to make a fortune soon collapsed, and countless grains were sent to Zhou Ming. As for the price, it was lower than the usual market price. Selling at cost price.

In this way, in order to deal with the flood, Zhou Ming concentrated all the resources that could be concentrated.

Funds are relatively abundant.

There is also enough manpower.

There are countless merchants to assist in the supply of materials.

The disaster relief plan is also well formulated and reasonable.

Plus the powerful support of three artifacts.

And the high-strength warlocks in the quick response force participated in this disaster relief operation.

The aristocratic ministers in the court also stood with their arms folded and watched, letting His Majesty to toss about, neither helping nor stumbling behind his back. They just hoped that their young and innocent emperor would pay some tuition fees. , Learn to retreat in the face of difficulties, and never do similar stupid things that are not worth the candle in the future.

However, after 10 days passed.

The vigorous disaster relief operation lasted from high intensity to near the end.

80 million.

Today's court meeting.

Looking at the enlarged and bold number placed in the most prominent position in the "Disaster Relief Report", it almost blinded the eyes of all the ministers in the court.

"At present, 80 victims have been successfully rescued. The victims are emotionally stable, have fewer diseases, and sufficient supplies. They can ensure one meal and two gruel every day. This... How is this possible?"

"According to my estimation, even if the imperial court spares no expense and spares no effort to provide relief, it is not bad to save 30 of the millions of disaster victims... 80, how is this possible?"

"Yes! Impossible! I don't believe it, I don't believe it!"

"It's impossible to be so powerful. Our Emperor, how could he be so powerful? He's only in his teens, so it's impossible to be so powerful!"

"This report makes me really hard to believe. I have to go to the disaster relief site to have a look. I want to see is to believe!" Prime Minister Benedict said.

"Yes! We all have to see is believing!"

All the ministers asked to go to the disaster relief site to investigate and count for themselves whether there were 80 disaster victims!
Of course, Zhou Ming agreed to the request of the officials.

(End of this chapter)