Since the first batch of relief food from Luanzhou was delivered to Shanhaiguan, the refugees gathered at the pass were greatly comforted, and a series of actions to divert the refugees that followed quickly showed results. The entire Shanhaiguan
The situation is tending to ease, and both the people in the city and the refugees outside the city are confidently waiting for this storm to completely pass, so that they can gradually resume life as usual.
After receiving the telegram from Yuan Su, He Qigong suspended the purchase of grain in Tianjin and Beijing, but still sent people to inquire about the specific grain prices so that he could replenish the grain at any time after the first batch of relief grain was used up.
Everyone knows very well that comforting the refugees depends on food, and once the first batch of relief food is used up, no one can guarantee what the situation will be like. Linyu County officials, large and small, are looking forward to it.
As long as Yuan Su can make big moves as soon as possible, the only person who is not in a hurry is Wu Chenglu. Anyway, there is the Commander-in-Chief of Disaster Relief above him, so if anything happens, it will not be his turn.
On the surface, since Yuan Su had a private meeting with Wu Like, he has shown that he is not in a hurry when it comes to disaster relief, except that on August 10, he sent 800 refugees recruited a while ago by train.
Apart from being sent back to Luanzhou, there has been no other substantive action on the refugee issue, and there has been almost no progress in hosting and investing in two major projects.
However, this is only a superficial illusion after all. He believes that both government officials and military lieutenant generals in Linyu County know that once the disaster relief fails, it will not be him, the commander-in-chief of the disaster relief, who will bear the blame in the end. He is the "nephew of the president".
, casually finding a scapegoat among some local officials is enough to explain the matter to the superiors.
Therefore, the less anxious he is, the more anxious the officials below are. Coupled with the gossip that has gradually spread recently, the officials in Linyu County are becoming more and more restless every day.
No matter whether the gossip is true or not, the only people who take the blame are Linyu County and Shanhaiguan. And if the gossip is true, once the commander-in-chief of disaster relief places the responsibility on the Shanhaiguan garrison, Wu Chenglu, the Shanhaiguan garrison, will obviously shift the blame again.
When it comes to the people below, they will bear a dual nature of guilt.
In fact, one of the reasons why Yuan Su pretended not to be in a hurry was to make all the officials in the Shanhaiguan defense zone feel nervous. Once people are nervous, they will panic and choose no other way out, and their psychological bottom line will naturally decline. At that time, they will naturally
Can be easily persuaded or defeated.
As for the other purpose, he deliberately launched an intensive arrangement behind the scenes under the cover of this illusion.
As early as August 5, Yuan Su had already met with an attaché sent by Reynoldson to Linyu County. The attaché introduced the situation of Beidaiheyang Diocese in detail. During this meeting, he also indirectly
He gave some hints that if the British side can assist him in taking charge of the Shanhaiguan territory, the cooperation agreement previously signed with the British Consulate in Jinan can be supplemented.
He did not disclose what the so-called "additional supplements" meant, but as long as he combined it with the actual situation, he could understand the meaning, that is, he would give priority to ensuring the interests of the British in Beidaihe.
Reynoldson's attaché made a detailed report when he returned to Luanzhou, and sent another telegram four days later, confirming that there was room for discussion on the matter. For Reynoldson, although Beidaihe was just a gathering place for expatriates,
The port facilities that have been formed or are about to be formed here are the most important maritime transportation hub connecting Beiyang.
Furthermore, the Beijing-Fengcheng Railway has only been open to traffic for a few months. If Britain wants to extend its influence beyond China's customs, Shanhaiguan has indispensable value in terms of commercial strategy and transportation strategy.
Reynoldson's telegram was the first step for Yuan Su to implement his personal plan. So after August 10, he not only began to frequently meet with foreign celebrities in Beidaihe, but also actively began to collect information about Wu Chenglu and his party members.
Tainted evidence. The former is a cyclical work, using the assistance of Reynoldson and the British Consulate in Jinan to build good relationships among British expatriates step by step. The latter is not difficult at all. As the saying goes, there is no need to accuse others.
Not to mention that Wu Chenglu was a pedantic person in the pre-Qing Dynasty. If you wanted to find flaws, you could easily find a lot of them.
Two days later, He Qigong sent another telegram from Luanzhou. The content of the telegram was about the resettlement of 800 recruited refugees.
There are many idle camps in Luanzhou, and the resettlement work is not difficult at all. It has only been three days, but there has been a lot of criticism among the brigade headquarters and the first regiment headquarters. The key is that these 800 people have been doing nothing all day long.
It was as if he was just living in the military camp, eating and drinking, and the food and drinks he was eating and drinking were the assets of the First Mixed Brigade. How could he not make people complain?
After reading this telegram, Yuan Su finally remembered that there were serious things to do in Luanzhou. He immediately responded with a telegram and asked He Qigong and Wang Li to join forces with several well-established businesses in Luanzhou.
, start preparing for the sulfur processing plant as soon as possible. You can borrow part of the funds from banks and banks, and then distribute part of the shares.
The scale of the sulfur processing plant will be based on the scale of 300 employees. First, we will recruit several experienced masters as soon as possible and let the masters train the 300 employees. The factory and sales channels will be determined before the end of this month.
Come down, it is best to start construction in mid-September.
In addition, the five hundred recruited handymen should be immediately taken out for training according to the standards of the military camp to make them familiar with the standards of various tasks in the camp. In addition, some work can be arranged for them to do, such as the start of the sulfur processing plant.
When building a factory, you can order these handymen to serve as construction workers. Not only can you practice infrastructure construction skills, but you can also save the cost of factory construction.
This matter is just a small detail, but for Yuan Su, it is the official start of expanding his industry. Today he can build a sulfur factory, and tomorrow he can build a charcoal factory. It won't take long for his personal arsenal to take shape.
One day in mid-August, an unprecedented official message was sent from Beijing. The central government had officially approved the first tranche of disaster relief funds, totaling about 70,000 yuan. This disaster relief fund will be allocated before the end of the month, and part of it will be exchanged for
The other part of the disaster relief grain was distributed in cash to Shanhaiguan for other dispatch purposes.
I have to say that this is absolutely great news. Although it has indeed been delayed for a month, and this is only 70,000 yuan in disaster relief funds, it remains to be seen when the second tranche of relief materials will be available.
It is unknown. But in any case, this is an important step for the central government to make a statement. It will not only comfort the refugees, but also encourage the officials responsible for the frontline disaster relief work.
However, this official message also mentioned another matter. In order to supervise the expenditure of disaster relief funds, the Ministry of Finance specially assigned an official to serve as the "Shanhaiguan Disaster Relief Committee Office". This new personnel appointment is very important.
This is largely unexpected. In the past, there was almost no such setting in any disaster relief work. The so-called supervision of the expenditure of disaster relief funds was basically the responsibility of the officials in charge of disaster relief.
Now there is an additional director responsible for supervision, which conflicts with Yuan Su, the commander-in-chief of frontline disaster relief, in terms of functions, and the division of powers is even more unclear.
Although this was a strange thing, Yuan Su didn't take it too seriously after thinking about it. It was a good thing that the central government had to supervise the accounts of the funds. Anyway, it was materials and materials worth 70,000 yuan, and they could be used as they wanted.
Yong. He has always taken money very lightly, let alone trying to profit from it. Even if he wanted to profit from this little money, he would not be able to fill his teeth.
After Wu Like received the message from the commander-in-chief of the disaster relief camp relayed to Beijing, he immediately thought of reporting the matter to Wu Chenglu. In the past half month, he had been in a daze every day.
He felt entangled and hesitant about the content of the meeting with Yuan Su. Although he had not given any reply to Yuan Su to this day, Yuan Su still acted like the same. Whenever there was any need to contact local officials, he would not go to Wu Chenglu, but
Come directly to yourself.
It seemed that this was Yuan Su's deliberately friendly and trusting behavior, but it made him feel more and more at a loss. The closer he got to Yuan Su, the farther away he was from Wu Chenglu. And it was so obvious that he was taking over, even if Wu Chenglu was