The snow was deep and the road was difficult to walk, making every step difficult.
Fortunately, Xujiazhuang is not far from the county seat, only more than ten miles. No matter how slow the speed is, it will still take two hours.
"Master Xu, please help the victims!"
Inside Xujiazhuang.
When they saw Xu Yuan, Qian Chengzhi, and Sun Lin, they bowed deeply and made a plea.
Listen to them tell you about the situation in the county.
Xu Yuan was quite surprised, because those living in the city were generally from families with relatively good economic conditions, and the quality of their houses would be much better, so the disaster would not be particularly severe. As a result, hundreds of houses collapsed and thousands of people were affected.
There are hundreds of villages and towns surrounding the 11 collective estates in Xujiazhuang. The number of collapsed houses and the number of people affected by the disaster are similar. However, as soon as they stayed at the refugee shelter in Xujiazhuang, the victims were resettled. Most of the people are currently in stable mood, and the injured have also been treated.
received medical treatment.
It can only be said that those officials and gentry in the county have never had any awareness of disaster prevention and relief. They only care about reciting poems and composing poems every day. At most, they can express their conscience by expressing their conscience with a few lines in their poems about the country and the people.
No.
It can be called poetic disaster relief, which is similar to some charity evenings in modern society.
Even the first family in Xinghua, like the Li family, is not incapable of disaster relief, nor does it want to save the victims. It’s just that they don’t dare to be the first person, and they don’t dare to be one of the few good people. They can’t bear the price of being a good person, so they must recruit the big families in the city to join them.
Just make a donation.
"Secretly, all the fifteen sled tractors in the village are at your disposal. Bring a batch of food, cans, fuel and clothing to the county town for disaster relief. No matter how many victims there are, we must do our best to rescue them and temporarily place them in the reception center.
inside."
Xu Yuan asked someone to call Fang Yizhi over and gave him the disaster relief task.
"Yes, I'll go right away!" Fang Yizhi nodded and took action immediately.
"Brother Mi and I will go together." Qian Chengzhi followed.
Naturally, Sun Lin would not be left behind and had to follow him to help.
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The disaster relief team sent by Xujiazhuang quickly arrived at the county town, but was blocked by the city gate guards at the city gate, who did not allow Xujiazhuang people to enter the city. If the tractors were not rumbling forward and making a gesture of trying to break open the city gate, they would probably have been killed for a while.
He couldn't enter the city for a while.
Then we first cleared a space and spent money to recruit some people.
Several large iron pots were set up, with wood burning underneath. Some were simmering ginger soup, some cooking porridge, and some victims who were really hungry and couldn't bear it were handed out biscuits and cans to fill their stomachs immediately.
The most important thing was to keep warm from the cold, so thick cotton-padded jackets were distributed one after another. Children and the elderly were brought first to the fire to keep warm. The injured were also quickly treated and treated.
After preliminary rescue, the homeless victims were transported in batches by sleds and tractors to the refugee shelters, where they were officially settled.
I was busy until midnight.
Of the nearly 1,000 victims, except for a few who could not bear it and died of cold and starvation, 818 people were properly accommodated and were considered to have survived.
During this entire disaster relief process.
Not only the other disaster relief team members, but also Fang Yizhi, Qian Chengzhi, and Sun Lin, who were mainly responsible for command and dispatch, were almost paralyzed from exhaustion, their voices were hoarse, and they were all so tired.
But it was Qian Chengzhi who felt the deepest. He saw the gap between reality and ideals for the first time, and began to reflect for the first time: Can the principles of sages and moral articles really be effective in such a cruel world?
If these are effective, why after Xujiazhuang's disaster relief team entered the city to provide disaster relief, the big households in the city still did not take any action. They were not even willing to provide some manpower to help, borrow some tools and materials, and even raised the price significantly after paying for them.
Where has the conscience gone?
Of course, the celebrity Li Qing still had a heart for rescuing people and personally participated in the disaster relief operations. However, after a while, his uncle Li Changfu came over and directly pulled Li Qing away and asked him not to get involved.
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"The victims are in poverty, why can't we help them?" Li Qing found it difficult to understand.
"Xujiazhuang has ulterior motives and wants to buy people's hearts. It will cause serious trouble in the future! If it is involved with Xujiazhuang, it will bring disaster to the Li family in the future!"
"this……"
Li Qing still didn't understand, but he was forcefully taken away by his uncle.
Qian Chengzhi, who was standing nearby and saw this scene, felt chills in his heart, and some traditional concepts in his mind were seriously shaken.
Yes, many of Xujiazhuang's practices are suspected of buying people's hearts, and they may indeed have ulterior motives, but for these nearly a thousand victims, Xujiazhuang actually spent money and materials to save them, and it was indeed
In practicing the concept of "valuing people", as long as we can save people, we don't care about the cost.
But for an elder like Li Changfu who has read the books of sages, what are ordinary people in his eyes? Is it an unbearable burden? Or is it water that plays the role of carrying a boat? Or is it someone who has risen to Xujiazhuang to take advantage of people?
The height of the treasure?
Obviously, in his eyes, the victims were simply unable to bear the burden. Either they should be rescued by capable people, or none of them should be rescued. There was no other option.
Now that Xujiazhuang has come to help, these victims have immediately become unlucky. Let alone being saved, they cannot be involved too much. It is as if they are potential rioters. Once Xujiazhuang leads them to revolt, it will definitely have an impact.
to the interests of the Li family.
At this moment, the interests of the family in the world are extremely important. Not only do they attach great importance to them, they even begin to be vaguely hostile to these victims.
You must know that the sage also said that no one is perfect when it comes to deeds but not the heart. Now Xujiazhuang has not done anything treasonous and immoral, so he has become the enemy in the eyes of these gentry. No matter what good things Xujiazhuang does, he always resists and negates it.
, instead of blushing and being ashamed, is this really appropriate?
Perhaps gentry like Li Changfu thought this approach was very appropriate, but Qian Chengzhi was still very young, and ordinary people still belonged to the category of "people" in his eyes, so he felt very awkward and a little unable to accept it.
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After rescuing each of the victims, seeing them kneel and kowtow, or thank him repeatedly, or express their gratitude to him as slaves, these vivid and grateful faces gave Qian Cheng a strength.
This strengthened his inner belief: saving these people was right and 100% the right thing to do.
As for Xu Jiazhuang's concept of "putting people first and treating people as treasure", although he did not fully agree with it, he at least agreed with 70% of Xu Jiazhuang's willingness to take action to implement this concept.
And the "principles of sages and moral articles" sound very ideal and are engraved in people's hearts, but how many gentlemen practice them in reality? No matter how good they are, what's the use?
Shaken.
Qian Chengzhi began to waver.
On the way back to Xujiazhuang, he couldn't help but said wisely: "Brother Mi, I somewhat understand your approach and why you joined Xujiazhuang."
"Oh, you figured it out too?" Fang Yizhi looked at him and smiled.
"Yes, moral articles may not be able to change the world. Xujiazhuang's approach may work," Qian Cheng said.
"In that case, Brother Huanguang, why don't you do like me, shave your hair, change clothes, and join Xujiazhuang. Let's work together to change the world." Fang Yizhi issued an invitation.
"This...let me think about it for a moment or two, for two days."
Although it was a serious wavering, it was not enough for Qian Cheng to make up his mind because there was still a little more heat and opportunity.