News of the possible occurrence of locust plagues in Henan was naturally quickly delivered to Jiangling through special channels. But for Zhou Huaian, who was beyond his reach for the time being, this was not a question full of potential tests and challenges for the future Son of Destiny; it all depended on his choice.
For example, under the premise of corresponding interests and his own limitations, what kind of decision can he make, or how far he can go. In order to determine the corresponding attitude and policy direction of the Taiping Army regime to continue to interact with it in the future. After all, once the Taiping Army resolved the situation in Huainan, it would inevitably reconsider its countermeasures in the Central Plains area north of the Huai River.
Of course, even if things have reached the worst point, at least the Taiping Army will temporarily open Luyang Pass to receive and absorb refugees from Henan. However, this also means that the situation in Henan is completely out of control and plunged into the chaos of erosion.
In fact, thanks to the benefits brought by the traversers, the Taiping Army already has mature enough handling experience and ready-made operating systems for similar disasters. Of course, due to being in the south, the main problems faced are the flooding of several water systems and irregular winds along the coast.
In a sense, as long as there are sufficient material reserves and response plans, coupled with the daily maintenance and repair of water conservancy facilities, the efficiency of reflection brought about by the improvement of traffic and communication conditions, it is enough to protect most disasters. Control within the scope of limited loss.
This is also the basic motivation for the Taiping Army, since its rise, that it has not stopped the construction of corresponding waterway facilities and river dredging and irrigation projects in the Pearl River, Xiangjiang River, Hanshui River and Yangtze River basins. It is not that there are too many manpower and material resources to use, but that this kind of thing needs to form a sufficient contiguous area and scope before it can produce a scale effect of a real linkage nature.
It's like why Sichuan has been called the land of abundance since ancient times. Because the irrigation system built in the Laizi Minjiang River Basin on the Chengdu Plain has been developed quite maturely; so that a relatively stable self-circulating climate environment and local fine-tuning system in the basin have been formed, as well as the corresponding disaster tolerance upper limit.
Therefore, according to the sample survey conducted by the Ministry of Social Security and the regular census conducted by the Accounting Office, it can be seen after cross-data comparison. Under the rule of the Taiping Army, as long as they are not the first to bear the brunt, there will be a strange illusion or self-confidence. Since the rule of the Taiping Army established, it has been a rare disaster for many years.
But in fact, according to the information reported in these years, the various torrential rains, torrential torrents, wind-damaged insects, and tidal blasts occur almost every year and as many as dozens; after all, this is an exhaustion of manpower, and most of the production The activity depends on the time of day, but the ancient agricultural society continued to die in the chaos of war.
It’s just that in most unexpected situations, apart from the unavoidable basic loss of natural disasters, there is still no chance to form a sufficient vicious circle, and even before it spreads to become a social problem, it has already been dealt with by local measures and prepared for famine. Means, to a relatively effective solution and ease away.
Just like in Huainan now, the epidemics in Huangzhou (now Huangshi, Hubei), Qizhou (now Hubei Qichun), Shuzhou (now Hubei Qianshan), and Luzhou (now Hefei, Anhui) have been fully devastated. The soldiers of the Taiping Army were basically under control. There are naturally many reasons for this.
For example, the previous wars and disasters caused a large number of deaths and losses of Huainan's population, and most of the remaining people gathered in villages and towns that looked like isolated islands, and believed themselves to protect themselves among the core barriers and docks. Although there is no resistance in the face of a sudden outbreak of the epidemic, once you are determined to blockade, isolate, and control by forceful means, it is relatively simple.
On the other hand, there is sufficient human and material resources from the Jiangnan security area to ensure that various epidemic prevention measures and requirements can be implemented in detail and implemented to the specific content and details. This is the centralization system with strong execution. One of the great benefits.
Therefore, under the strict blockade where the army is mainly responsible for setting up cards on land and water and supplemented by armed civilian patrols, the areas where the epidemic may break out are divided up, and then divided into different levels according to the priority of the proportions that have been found. The affected areas were dealt with separately.
For example, in the most severely affected areas, not only should the villages with no living people be burned and landfilled, to prevent second-degree pollution and outbreaks after the decayed corpses, but also those who may have died from eating the disease and carrying germs should be killed on the spot. Wild dogs, jackals and other wild animals;
Checkpoints, quarantine areas, and buffer zones should also be set up in the second-class areas to compulsorily contain those potential carriers who have escaped from the epidemic area as short-term observation targets. During this period, if you encounter an existence that is unwilling to cooperate or want to dive over and rush through the barriers, it is only for the well-being of more people to survive, and to eliminate these black sheep.
In the relatively safe Green Zone where no epidemic situation has been detected for the time being, the three teams sent by the Taiping Army have also begun to be in populated settlements, compelling to follow some basic hygiene habits. For example, do not drink raw water from the wild, but use the water boiled with cheap coal from the south of the Yangtze River to meet the needs of daily life; pay to clean up and kill the squirrels in human cities and the like.
Among them, it is not that refugees from Shenju, Gwangju, Anju, etc., where the epidemic also broke out in the north, have not been impacted. There is even definite news that these refugees who carry a large number of epidemic carriers are simply the result of being driven over. Of course, this account can only be counted on Liu Hanhong's head.
It's just that the very epidemic prevention period is just after autumn and winter. Before Yang Xingmin's forces in Guangling City are completely resolved, the Taiping Army can only continue to recuperate and gather strength while temporarily recording this account as a kind of hanging people. Public opinion prepares for crimes, and waits for the coming year before making corresponding plans.
In fact, as long as the first snowfall of the northern cold wave goes south, the natural transmission route of the corresponding epidemic will naturally be cut off. Because in this way, even if there are scattered sources of the epidemic that are out of control, they will either freeze to death or starve to death, or they will not survive the attack. Those who survived by chance naturally have natural immunity.
However, what Zhou Huaian didn't expect was that the impact of these outsiders certainly caused many local conflicts and even battle deaths, and greatly increased the cost of maintaining order in the corresponding epidemic area. However, it has also made it easier for the armed personnel headed by the "three detachments" to carry out the tasks, or that the local people have a tendency to quickly move closer to the Taiping Army.
The reason is also very simple. The Taiping Army usually only targets and strikes at those who disrupt social order regardless of the relationship between your natives and the guest. In the conflicts that broke out in Huainan, it was obvious that these chaotic outsiders were hit and liquidated more. As a result, a certain sense of superiority and inclination is suddenly contrasted among the new contradictions intensified by outsiders.
Coupled with the extraordinary period of life and death and precariousness, most people have the instinct to get through the difficulties and eager to get close to power and collective organization; however, the local people with a little condition and prestige were not liquidated by the three teams before. Just fled to the city. The rest of the local people who can only wait to die will naturally be attached to survival and seeking refuge and empathize to the Taiping Army, which is working hard to maintain order.
Then, whether it was the originally suspicious health and epidemic prevention propaganda, or the various work of Kiyota Takato that was secretly postponed and delayed, the situation suddenly opened up and suddenly became clear. There are even many poor people who lack livelihoods and have to put aside local stereotypes and unsustainable accumulated habits. Under the physical employment of food and cloth, they have also joined the auxiliary labor of digging canals and repairing roads.
Of course, headed by Eyuejiang’s preparatory ambassador Liu Xun, the Taiping Army’s local temporary disposal agency is naturally happy to see its success; at least according to past experience and lessons, once these people are included in the control of the Taiping Army’s unique collective atmosphere , It is difficult to not be affected and nurtured. With a little operation and guidance, a group of potential vested interest groups can naturally be cultivated.
In this way, even if the upper-class people in the remaining rural areas can escape the epidemic and return home after the fact, they can only accept the new situation where the influence and appeal of the past are not the same. Thinking of this, Zhou Huai'an suddenly became a little bit rich, and said to Qing Luo, who was singing the newly arranged score "Zhu Zhi Ci" beside her:
"You put one foot on this case, and I will do the rest by myself..."
"Langjun..."
The gentle and moving Qing Luo couldn't help being charming and flamboyant and infinitely white. He groaned with a glance, but he still lifted up the hem of the woven and moiré skirt, revealing a light wrapped in the snow white Luo socks. The fleshy calf gently stepped on the edge of the case piled with paperwork, and formed a perfect bow in front of Zhou Huaian.
In another part of the city, in the restaurant where old friends such as Wei Zhuang and Han Han had a small gathering, Du Xunhe, a clerical clerk who had just been transferred from the local tour team to report, was also temporarily caught in a certain kind of self-consciousness while he was drinking hot. The future is at a loss. Of course, this is not because he made mistakes in his work, but because he got records of “firm stand”, “acting decisively”, “good at investigating” and “able to endure hardship” in his daily assessment.
Therefore, after he came back to explain and report on his work, there were slightly more research papers from various departments than others, and it was inevitable that there was a temporary difficulty in choosing. (End of this chapter)