Xiong Bu estimates that the situation in the Erdian Grain Depot is very clear! The accounts and the amount of grain stored are not consistent, but the quality is far from good. A large amount of brown rice reserves are aged grains, which can only be used as feed according to modern standards. What can be taken out for human consumption is only a hundred or so kilograms. rice.
So Xiong Buyou had Chang Pingcang's idea. The level of communication and transportation in ancient countries was very low. It was unrealistic to expect the imperial court to provide disaster relief for ordinary local natural disasters. In most cases, it is up to local officials to resolve matters themselves. In addition to the county grain depot, the grain directly controlled by the county magistrate also includes private grain storage warehouses.
Generally speaking, local grain farmers donate some grain every year, store it, and use it for relief in disaster years. The ideas and methods are good, but Li Xuan goes wrong as soon as they are implemented. The grain reserves in Changpingcang are often misappropriated by the government. So it has always been in name only. The building in Changpingcang near Lingao is very grand, but not a grain of rice has been left inside for more than a hundred years.
What Xiong Buyou meant was to ask Wu County Magistrate to issue a notice asking the Shizhong landlords to "donate" to transport Chang Pingcang. Anyway, this kind of trick happens every year, and Shangshen people have long been accustomed to it. When the county magistrate came to "encourage donations", he always had to give ten or twenty dan to socialize with him. In this way, I can collect two to three hundred shi of food.
"It's easy." Wu Mingjin was quite satisfied with the fact that although the Cross Group had the actual power of the county government, it still sought his approval for everything. "The students just issued a notice."
At that moment, the caretaker issued a notice asking all grain households in the county to donate to replenish the rice warehouse in Changping for disaster relief.
"We still have to provide the bulk of the relief grain." Xiong Bucai said to Dude, "I asked the county magistrate and he said that we can only raise about 200 shi of brown rice and miscellaneous grains every year."
“How much does relief cost?”
"The Planning Commission is counting the damage," Xiong Bucai said, "but two hundred shi plus the amount in the county treasury will definitely not be enough."
"Let's do it, we will do it. Being a ruler still has to bear some responsibilities." Nade said angrily, "Now I have to exempt part of the money and food. This business is a bit of a loss!"
"Australians have become the first" and no one else dared not buy it. This time the "donation" was surprisingly enthusiastic, and 400 stones were quickly collected from all over the country.
Dude asked people to take part of the rice to various porridge sheds to make porridge and give it to the victims.
"Be careful, the food ration should not be too small - it should not be less than their daily caloric intake." Dude informed Jiang Qiuyan, who was responsible for the health of the victims, "Also gather some vegetables to ensure the intake of salt."
"Is this necessary? Just maintain the minimum physiological needs so that they don't starve to death, and feed them until next spring." "No, I don't plan to feed them," Dude said confidently, "They have to feed themselves."
"you mean?"
"Next, we have to feed them better." Bude said, telling him the plan he had discussed with the executive committee.
His disaster relief plan is simple: provide relief through work.
Work-for-relief has always been a highly effective method in the history of disaster relief and famine relief in China. It has not only saved a large number of victims, but also created many large-scale local projects. The successful experience of the ancients can naturally be used by modern people.
At the disaster relief meeting, the Executive Committee decided to use the victims of this disaster as the main labor force to start a comprehensive road construction project in winter, including the hardening construction of all roads.
"Facts have proved" Shan Daoqian said, "Simple projects built in the pursuit of cheap and fast construction are actually the most uneconomical." He then added, "This is what this typhoon has taught us."
The damage to transportation and communication lines was the most serious. The hastily built roadbed had long been loosened after a summer of rain. This typhoon caused more than a quarter of the total road mileage to be washed away. Only the road in Nanbao, the county town, is unobstructed. This is partly because Neijiang was relatively less damaged by the typhoon and also because this section was the first to undergo roadbed and road reconstruction to facilitate heavy vehicle transportation.
Wen Desi said: "All the victims of this disaster will be allocated to you as laborers. They will work until March next year. Will it be enough to repair all the roads? If not talk about other things, first get all the roads opened!"
"Not so fast, I'm afraid,"
Wu Nanhai said: "Spring sowing begins in March. We need to help the victims resume production and get them back to the land as soon as possible."
"In my opinion, why should we help them resume production?" Ma Qianzhu said leisurely, "We don't need many small agricultural producers. Let's just take this opportunity to turn them into industrial workers. We will buy back the land. This is A good opportunity to promote large-scale agricultural production!”
This idea is a bit reverse, jumping from simple relief to the overall level. The participants exchanged glances with each other tacitly: This is not a bad idea. The guiding ideology of Chuanchuan Group in agriculture is large-scale production, which does not require a large number of small farmers. Taking advantage of natural disasters to move this group of farmers off their land will not only increase the labor force directly controlled by the group, but also play a role in rural areas.
"Since most people don't like land reform." Ma Qianzhu said, "We will seize this opportunity."
Wu Nanhai expressed concern: "Isn't it too discreet to take advantage of others' danger?" Wu Nanhai expressed concern.
"Without sheep eating people, where would the industrial revolution come from?" Ma Qianzhu didn't care. "Besides, we are doing fair business." As long as there is no coercion, everyone has nothing to say.
So a decision was made to turn all the refugees they took in into laborers under the control of the commune. They would allocate housing and private plots according to commune member standards, and send their children to school.
Those whose land is willing to be sold can be bought by the Agricultural Committee, and those who are unwilling to sell can be retained. In fact, once you become a member of the commune, your production and labor are completely controlled by the commune. Even if you retain the land, it will just be wasted and will eventually be sold. To the Council of Agriculture. This so-called selling of freedom is nothing more than a pretense.
"This method is really unfair, Wu Nanhai expressed regret.
"Compared with land nationalization, don't you think we are quite benevolent?" said Wen Desi. He is not interested in tricks like land reform, but he is very interested in comprehensive nationalization of land.
So the fate of hundreds of people who have been admitted to refugee camps and thousands of people who are about to be admitted to refugee camps has been decided. This part of the land has successively fallen into the hands of the Agriculture Committee. Especially in some severely affected areas, entire villages' land has changed hands. However, the gains from land were not as great as imagined. Households with more land tend to have better resilience to disasters, and most of the refugees are poor farmers and tenants with low economic capacity.
In addition to establishing refugee camps to accommodate refugees fleeing famine, the Civil Affairs Commission also provides relief based on the disaster-stricken conditions of each village. Disaster-stricken villages are exempted from this year's "reasonable burden." For villages that were not severely affected by the disaster but only damaged crops, Doude's relief plan is to allow them to carry out self-rescue activities through production. The Delong Grain Bank will provide them with loans to rebuild their houses and also lend them seeds for raising wheat and other famine-relief crops to grow. The period is very short and cold-resistant, so it is very suitable for rush planting in late autumn and early winter. In the spring of next year, we will provide loans for rice seeds and agricultural tools to the victims.
After calculation, the food currently raised is simply not enough. Just the seeds during spring plowing are a huge expense.
With modern management experience and a large number of well-trained and trained junior administrative staff. Disaster relief quickly got on track.
The original scenes of refugees begging on the streets inside and outside the county quickly disappeared and were replaced by well-organized refugee camps. At the same time, relief operations for the affected villages are also proceeding in an orderly manner.
But Bu De was not at ease about this. One of the characteristics of grassroots administration is that no matter how good the intentions and determination of the upper levels are, it is still difficult to control the actions of every lower-level administrative staff, especially when the rules and regulations are imperfect and have loopholes. And the evil behavior of one grassroots administrative staff is enough to ruin the image of all administrative staff. This was a situation he absolutely did not want to see. It has been an open secret since ancient times that relief efforts following natural disasters have always turned into a feast for those in power at the grassroots level. Even the imperial court had no choice but to continue to allocate relief money and food even though it knew that all the relief money and food would be recorded layer by layer, leaving nothing in the hands of the victims. Otherwise, natural disasters would trigger popular uprisings. Change. An important difference between the so-called prosperous times and the apocalypse is that in the former, some disaster relief materials can be distributed to the victims to a certain extent, while in the apocalypse, it becomes a complete carve-up and monopoly.
"In the final analysis, it is the decline of administrative capabilities." Dude said in his conversation with Ran Yao, "In the prosperous times, the institutions were operating normally, and the degree of corruption of officials had not affected the administrative execution capabilities. As the epidemic becomes more severe, the administrative system's execution capacity also declines. "
Now for disaster relief, many students who were in the training class yesterday have been mobilized to participate in front-line work, and a large amount of relief materials have been distributed through their hands. Many materials are not difficult to embezzle as long as you are willing: add some sand and tares to the brown rice, As long as the quantity is well controlled, it will never be noticeable. And the common people do not have the strong awareness of reporting and protecting rights as modern people.
Registering disaster victims is another task with many loopholes. Just like the subsistence allowances that Dude has seen in the past. People who need the subsistence allowance do not have the subsistence allowance, but many people who have no worries about food and drink have the subsistence allowance and are playing mahjong. In modern society, the government's strong control over the grassroots is full of loopholes, let alone the cross-travel group whose conditions are dozens of times worse? Dude knew very well that he could not check one by one whether the victims who received relief rice and obtained food tax exemptions had really suffered the disaster? If someone wants to fish in troubled waters, there is a high chance that they will not be noticed.
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