A typhoon touches the hearts of countless people.

This is a big test and a battle. This is a battle between humans and nature.

In this battle, the Guards used their actual actions to show everyone what it means to put the people first.

They rushed to the most dangerous place as soon as possible. This time, the people did not have to struggle in the disaster themselves.

The entire Chinese ethnic group stood behind them.

After the typhoon, Dong Liang took Zhou Tenghu, Liu Fengliang, Lin Ben, Xiang Ying and others to various prefectures in Fujian Province to guide disaster relief work and solve problems on the spot.

Almost all the people from the medical department were sent out to organize various places to carry out epidemic prevention work.

A major disaster must be followed by a major epidemic. After a raging flood, mosquitoes breed and the probability of disease transmission increases.

Coupled with the living habits of the people at this time, for example, few people were willing to waste firewood to heat hot water. Therefore, local epidemics often broke out.

The Chinese Medical Department was able to contain even malaria on Iriomote Island. This kind of post-disaster epidemic prevention is simply childish.

People from the Ministry of Industry were also sent out to check the damage to rivers in various places, investigate potential safety hazards, and make timely repairs.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development raised five million yuan in special funds for post-disaster reconstruction and river maintenance projects.

Dong Liang was not stingy about spending money. This time when he regained Fujian, tens of millions of taels of cash were found in Fuzhou alone.

Chinese people have the habit of hiding money at home.

However, Dong Liang knew that hiding the silver in the cellar had no meaning.

Only by allowing them to circulate can they play a certain role in promoting the economy and make the economy more dynamic.

The head of state can be generous, but Zhou Tenghu has to be careful with his calculations. He still did not spend all the cash. The Chinese disaster relief mainly adopts the method of work-for-relief.

Almost all the funds allocated by the Ministry of Accounts to the Ministry of Work are colorful vouchers.

It just so happened that supply and marketing cooperatives managed by the Ministry of Commerce spread rapidly across the country.

If vouchers are issued to these people, they will not keep them at home, but will be taken to the supply and marketing cooperative to exchange them for things.

The most important of these is food.

Dong Liang had no shortage of food in his hands. Dongfan Island had a bumper harvest this year. The Su family from Nanyang, the Shen family from Zhejiang, and Fusang merchants all shipped a large amount of food to the Chinese.

The ordinary people in Fuso didn't have enough to eat, but the daimyo had a lot of food in their hands.

In exchange for goods from the Chinese, the only commodity they had to sell was rice.

With a large amount of grain in their hands, the Chinese could adopt a dual currency standard system.

One is to issue silver coins for foreign trade. The other is to issue vouchers based on the stock of grain in hand.

In the eyes of ordinary people, food is the universal currency.

In most rural areas, grain and salt can be exchanged for basically anything.

Even if you marry a wife, you can use food as a dowry.

Xiang Ying, Lin Ben, and Zhou Tenghu all became the busiest people.

Zhou Tenghu's original plan to change positions with Liu Fengliang was temporarily shelved.

This typhoon affected not only Fujian Province.

Toban Island and Yaeyama were also greatly affected. Especially Toban Island.

Fortunately, people on the island are used to this.

This time, they don't have to worry. Dongfan Island's government structure has already been established.

Long before the typhoon made landfall, Wang Ziyu had already coordinated with people from the training department to mobilize the local militia and make preparations for disaster relief.

Even the residents of Taitung and Hualien have been properly resettled.

In the north of Luzon, the southward column led by Kang Laoba and Dong Xingfu was also blocked in the Babuyan Islands.

Fortunately, they captured a lot of food, otherwise they would really be starving on the island. Don't expect supplies from the rear now.

In a dimly lit stone house on Babuyan Island, Kang Laoba, Dong Xingfu, Dawus, Damer, Xigo Longsheng and others were discussing the next move.

"Baye, as soon as the typhoon subsides, let's launch an attack on Luzon Island immediately. It's only 60 miles by sea from here to Luzon Island, and we'll be there in an hour or two. I think those people in Luzon must not have thought that we would be here

The attack will be launched as soon as the typhoon is over. If it is delayed for a long time, it will actually prepare them," Afu said.

"Commander Afu is right, we just want to catch these Luzon people by surprise and teach these Luzon people a lesson. These Ilok people deserve to die for killing so many of us." Damel gritted his silver teeth and said fiercely.

, quite a bit like a husband singing and a wife accompanying her.

Kang Laoba nodded slightly, but looked at Davus.

This Fan elder was very smart and experienced. He was highly relied upon by Kang Laoba and was the staff officer of the southward column.

He conquered the Ibatans on this island. He not only persuaded the Ibatans to defect to the Chinese.

He also asked the Ibatan people to organize five hundred young men to join the southward column and serve as the leading party for the escort army to conquer Luzon Island.

"Mr. Ba, there is nothing wrong with Commander Afu's suggestion, but now is the typhoon season. I don't know when the next wave of typhoons will come. Therefore, we must find a good foothold when we go south. What I mean is that we can't rush in. It's okay.

Use the typhoon to end this stall and occupy a port on the lower reaches of the Cagayan River as our foothold. This place must be the kind of place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, with complete infrastructure that allows us to operate without foreign aid.

Just hold on for a while."

Daus is equivalent to perfecting Afu's suggestion.

Before they went south, Dong Liang had talked to Kang Laoba, and they must give priority to stability after going south.

Their trip south this time was nominally to rescue the Banyan people, but in fact it was to open a window for Chinese forces to enter Nanyang.

Dong Liang attached great importance to Nanyang, especially the millions of Chinese living here. These people living overseas had a temperament that the local people did not have.

This is a kind of temperament that is in line with the world. This kind of temperament is exactly what the Chinese people lack.

Overthrowing the Manchus was not difficult for the Guards. But reviving the Chinese was not as simple as overthrowing the Manchus.

The biggest enemies of the Chinese people are foreigners, including foreigners from the south who come from the sea, and foreigners who come from the ice and snow in the north.

Dong Liang has always wanted to find an opportunity to discuss this issue with his subordinates.

The last time the Renaissance Society held an enlarged meeting of directors, Dong Liang gave a detailed explanation of the situation in China to his men.

People like Tang Qihua, Guan Yan and others were exposed to these contents for the first time.

The world in Dong Liang's eyes is the whole world and tradition.

The north and northwest of Begonia territory were surrounded by Tsarist Russia. The southwest was the British Indian colony, and the east and south were threatened by foreign maritime threats.

Originally, this Begonia map was the best because it was surrounded by oceans, plateaus, and mountains.

In other words, the entire China was protected through the dangerous terrain.

But Dong Liang told everyone that with the development of science and technology, the constraints of the natural environment on humans are getting smaller and smaller.

In a few decades, Tsarist Russia will build a large railway across the east and west, and then they will invade south on a large scale.

The British will also climb over the Himalayas and reach out to the southwest plateau.

With the popularity of ships, the sea is no longer a natural barrier that hinders human communication, but a thoroughfare.

Therefore, the Chinese can no longer stick to the Begonia territory of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, but must go out.

The only things that could stop the enemy were the guns in the hands of Chinese warriors and the fleets cruising on the ocean.

Dong Liang is not even satisfied with this. He wants to build a world dominated by the Chinese, a stable, safe world that will lead mankind to become stronger.
Chapter completed!