Chapter 40 Disaster Relief
The China Disaster Relief Charity Group is a temporary non-governmental organization. In order not to be disturbed by all parties, Feng Quan planned to put on the tiger skin of a foreigner. Feng Quan called Shanghai Shenzui and asked him to help find a big-nosed foreigner. The construction period was one month, and each person With a salary of 100 yuan, I believe many foreigners who have lost their jobs due to the economic crisis will flock to it. Soon the foreign devils arrived, one for each centurion.
Feng Quan made the following arrangements for these twenty centurions: The ten centurions will first go to Mongolia to buy horses, cattle and sheep in large quantities. Don’t worry too much about the price. They are all Chinese. It is estimated that the price the Mongolians will ask after hearing about their intention will not be too high. Black. Five centurions went to Shanghai to contact the Americans to buy grain. It is estimated that the United States is so short of money now that the price will not be too high. The last five centurions went to Myanmar to buy grain. It is located in the tropics. There will definitely be no shortage of food and the price will be higher. Cheap. After the first ten centurions have been dealt with, they will go from north to south to provide disaster relief in various places. The next ten will go from south to north. Everywhere they go, each family will receive a piece of ocean and a bag of grain. After the horses, cattle and sheep are killed, they will be distributed according to needs. .
Half of each centurion team went out, and the other half stayed behind to continue training. The main weapons were twenty guns, and each ten-man team had an mg-34. I guess the problem should not be big. The secret mission of each team is to continue to recruit troops locally, focusing on artillery. , navy, pilots and other technical arms, as well as various talents with training potential. Another secret task was given to the centurion who led the team, which was to survey the terrain, prepare for future wars, and find convenient backup base areas in the mountainous areas. location.
Soon, twenty hundred-man teams set off, and the base was half empty. Feng Quan followed the group that went to Mongolia and successfully purchased a large number of horses, cattle and sheep, and hired many locals to drive large quantities of livestock. Ten hundred-man teams The teams were divided into eight provinces: Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Suiyuan, Hebei, Chahar, Rehe, and Henan, as well as the severely affected areas in Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, and Guangxi provinces.
Feng Quan followed the team to Shaanxi. There was a small village in front of him. When he looked up, he saw that it was really devastated. It was the summer of ), and the crops in the fields were all dead, the leaves had turned yellow, and some only had bare straw left. It is estimated that this year The autumn harvest is hopeless, and the price of grain in grain stores will be very high, skyrocketing, and there will always be some profiteers who drive up prices. There are still many people on the roadside eating what is left after being looked over countless times. Anyone who could not dig out the bark of the grass roots was snatching it. The bark of the elm trees in and outside the village were all stripped clean, including elm leaves, poplar leaves, wolfberry leaves, willow leaves...even poisonous hemp seeds (castor) leaves. , cotton leaves were picked up and eaten. Not to mention wild vegetables, edible and inedible ones were all dug up and stuffed into their mouths. Feng Quan even found someone stuffing corn cobs into their mouths.
At this time, the sun had already risen in the sky, and people came out of their homes like ghosts. They looked numbly at Feng Quan and others from the walls sheltered from the wind. They had no energy to sit anymore, so they just lay beside the haystacks or on the ground. There was still a gathering at the entrance of the village. There were many people looking at the whereabouts of the wild geese, probably to estimate their landing place so that they could take advantage of the darkness to catch the wild geese. Unfortunately, this was in vain. The wild geese also had their own sentinels when they were resting, and they were very alert. Before anyone approached, the wild geese The flock roared and flew away. Without a gun, it was impossible to catch the wild geese.
From time to time, there were bullock carts pulling corpses on the road. A few young and middle-aged people who still had some strength struggled to push and pull them. All of them were swaying and unsteady. There were no coffins for the corpses, and they were lying on the bullocks wearing the clothes they had worn before death. In the car.
There are still some people who dig the soil, and the hole for burying the person is really tailor-made. There is no room at all. The body can barely fit in, and it is buried with a thin layer of soil. There is no grave head, and those people can't even dig an extra shovel of soil.
Feng Quan and the others had seen what it means to have a face covered with loess. Feng Quan even clearly saw three pits collapsed in the cemetery on the road. The famine was really terrible.
There was no need for Feng Quan to issue any more orders. His subordinates and the hired Mongolians silently took out the fried rice and pancakes they had brought beforehand, and distributed them to everyone they saw. Soon everyone in the village who could move came swarming in.
The people who received the food were grateful and stuffed it into their mouths desperately.
Nutritional supplementation after long-term starvation should follow the twenty-fold principle of "first less and then more, first slowly and then fast, first salt and then sugar, more vegetables and less rice, and gradually transition", and gradually return to normal needs (intake) after ten days.
, otherwise "refeeding syndrome" will occur.
The so-called refeeding syndrome is an electrolyte metabolism disorder characterized by hypophosphatemia and a series of resulting symptoms that occur after the body re-ingests nutrients after long-term starvation or malnutrition. Usually within a few days after nutritional treatment
If it occurs, it will damage the cell functions of the victim's heart, brain, liver, lungs and other cells, causing failure of important life organs and even death, which is what is called "death from swelling" among the people.
After these people finished eating, Feng Quan and the others also walked out of the villagers' homes. When they saw Feng Quan and the others again, they all cried. Under the leadership of the elderly, they lay on the ground one after another, calling Feng Quan and the others living Bodhisattvas.
When a man who looked like a patriarch came, Feng Quan asked and learned that the famine was beyond his imagination.
"... Every time it was dark, people died every day in the village. When people died at first, some people cried. Later, more people died, and no one cried anymore. The village sent a bullock cart and a few
The younger generation went to help with the funeral arrangements. There was nothing easy to do, just dig a hole and bury it..."
Feng Quan couldn't stand it anymore, and his face was in tears, as were the members of the charity group. They distributed the ocean according to their heads, leaving some horses, cattle and sheep. After repeatedly telling them to eat properly, Feng Quan and the others moved forward, but those people were still kneeling.
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Driving horses, cattle and sheep, everyone came to a crossroads and saw many people doing something there. When they got closer, Feng Quan was stunned. What, they were actually selling people! It looked like they were selling their children.
There are also those who sell their young wives or fifteen or sixteen-year-old daughters. These people who are being sold are kneeling on the ground numbly, with a handful of grass stuck in the back of their necks. This is probably the so-called "grass mark".
"Grass" has a bit of a cheap meaning, that is, this thing is not "valuable" to me and I don't need it anymore. So it is called a grass sign. It is also called a grass mustard. It is a natural growth, but when it is inserted in the place where it is sold or sold,
When it is put on items for sale, it has a symbolic meaning. In different historical periods of ancient Chinese society, straw mustard was used in everything from daily necessities to poor families selling their children due to hunger and cold.
This was nothing, Feng Quan was shocked to find that some people's eyes had special eyes, and those people's eyes had a special light. It reminded him of the sudden light that flashed in the eyes of a hungry dog when it saw a hare.
It seems that the starch produced by harvesting domestic and wild plants is far from being able to fill the huge gap in the food needed by the villagers. In order to survive, some people began to starve and eat. No wonder some pits suspected of burying people were empty.
Historical records record: When the epidemic comes, hunger dominates people's actions. When all modern food is exhausted, people instinctively extend their teeth to the same kind. The civilized order and ethics that have been inherited for thousands of years are completely destroyed.
Famines and famines have depleted human nature and led to perversions and heinous tragedies of cannibalism. Cases of cannibalism occur frequently due to famine, and the government is helpless. Cannibalism is just to survive, and people in famine years have turned into beasts. Famines
Later, the abduction and trafficking of women and children became an open trade, and the social atmosphere deteriorated. "Selling wives and daughters" became a very common choice for victims in desperate situations. When the famine made it difficult for them to protect themselves, they no longer took them into consideration.
Their own flesh and blood. Not only are abandoned babies everywhere on the market, but victims of the disaster even exchange their children for cannibalism, and even actually sell human flesh. Society has returned to the primitive barter era.
Feng Quan quickly fired a gun to stop all transactions. From the mouths of the victims, Feng Quan learned that cannibalism was not uncommon. The only question was whether to eat dead people or living people. Many victims claimed that they only ate dead bodies and never eaten living people.
Chapter completed!