I really came here to fight against Japan

Chapter 627 Disaster Relief in Progress

While feeding porridge to the victims, they also sent telegrams to their superiors, asking for funds to buy food.

Both the Gannan government and the Red Border Region Government of northern Shaanxi issued orders immediately.

"Immediately distribute food and porridge, and take good care of the victims. Back-up support will arrive soon."

The Red Northern Shaanxi Order stated that if there was not enough money to buy food, one could borrow directly from the Gannan Office.

(The loan was made for the Imperial Guards to see, so as not to let the Imperial Guards know that Gansu and Shaanxi had joined forces.)

When the disaster victims from Henan drank the first mouthful of porridge with gratitude.

Song Wenwan already knew about this matter because the merit points rewarded by the system had arrived.

As the merit points increased one by one, Song Wenwan's eyes turned red with excitement.

The purchasing power of these merit points in the system is ridiculously high.

You should know that by 1942, the number of disaster victims in Henan had reached 10 million.

By 1943, the number of disaster victims in Henan had reached 30 million.

If I could save them all, the merit points I would gain would be enough to feed the people of the entire country for several years.

Song Wenwan immediately rushed over from Longshui and arranged for people to send them to Nanniwan first.

His explanation was that it was okay for me, Song, to give some food to the victims.

But the land in Gansu is barren and we really can't use so many people, so please ask the Communist Army to take more care of it.

As more and more Henan disaster victims were taken in by Red Northern Shaanxi.

Besides, it’s hard to say anything else about Shanxi and northern Shaanxi, except that there are enough houses.

As long as you have the tools, you can dig as many caves as you want.

Many of the disaster victims only had a thatched house in their hometown.

Now that we have come to northern Shaanxi, everyone lives in a cave-dwelling "villa" area with two bedrooms, a kitchen, a bathroom and a yard.

This is the drawing provided by Song Wenwan, which was directly planned by the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Region Government.

In the future, tens of millions of disaster victims will come to northern Shaanxi and Gansu to settle down temporarily.

If it is not arranged well, the loess slope will be collapsed.

The current procedure is to have dinner in Tongguan and register personal information first.

It is easier to deal with the victims who fled the famine from the entire village. Basically, there is no need to screen them, unless some people joined them along the way.

If some of the disaster victims are single, they may not be willing to share a cave with others.

That’s sorry, no matter whether you are a man or a woman, you all have to wait for re-identification.

Generally, people like this have secrets of their own and are afraid of exposing them.

Basically, they were spies sent from various places, some from the Southern Puppet Government, some from the temporary capital, and some were simply spies of the Japanese army.

This gave Song Wenwan a headache, so she specially transferred Yang Qingwen back from the temporary capital.

This made their task of identifying spies a little easier.

Of course, not all those who are unwilling to live together are enemy spies who have sneaked in. Some are simply women disguised as men.

Because they were all single women, they were afraid of being killed on the way, so they wore men's clothes to escape the famine.

It is of course impossible to live in a cave with a strange man now.

Otherwise, within three days, you will become someone else's bride.

People nowadays are kind-hearted and they don’t even rest after they have dug their own caves.

He also helped other disaster victims dig caves, which made Song Wenwan very satisfied.

After each family moved into the cave, they found that all the pots, pans, and utensils were prepared.

There were also farm tools and food for the whole family, a bag of millet and a bag of black flour (ordinary flour), which made the victims very happy.

Besides, how can such precious noodles be called black noodles?

Who would dare to buy a pound of this kind of flour and mix it with cornbread to make dumplings at home, except during the Chinese New Year?

Each person was given a two-and-a-half-foot-long jacket, which was very interesting when they went out for a walk in the evening.

Looking around, everyone in the village has become a "Tubalu".

They take care of their clothing and food, and also provide free physical examinations for them.

They look listless, but in fact they are mostly malnourished and will recover after eating a few full meals.

Now that their food, clothing and shelter are taken care of, it's time to recruit workers.

If they sign up to develop Nanniwan, they will all have to record their work points, and their wages will be settled in the form of grain at the end of the month.

Ordinary people all know that there is no such thing as free food and drink. Even in the countryside, one still has to work for the employer.

Besides, the people of the Eighth Route Army are pretty good.

I am given three meals a day when I go to work. In the morning, I have cornmeal pancakes and millet porridge.

The pickled vegetable shreds mixed with sesame oil and chopped green onions are available for everyone to eat as long as they don’t waste them.

There was no way he would give any eggs, otherwise he would have to give out hundreds of thousands of eggs every day.

By that time he wouldn't be able to explain it clearly. How would he find so many hens for everyone?

Considering that most of the victims were from Henan, we served wide mixed noodles at noon.

There are three large slices of fat meat on each bowl of noodles, and you can drink as much stewed bone soup as you want, it is very nutritious.

At night, each person would have three large steamed buns made of mixed flour and a meat dish.

This can be taken home and eaten, and everyone chooses this.

Using the iron lunch box issued by the border government, I could bring the cooked dishes back home, which was considered as adding more meals to the family.

In this way, the strong laborer of the family can not only earn work points outside, but also save three meals for the family.

The happiest thing for the children at home every day is waiting for their father to bring back meat dishes.

The whole family can be happy and have a good meal.

Of course, it’s not that Song Wenwan is reluctant to give them rice and white flour. If she gives them rice and white flour, the points used for the mixed flour will be less.

He had to be prepared to provide food for more than 20 million disaster victims over the next three years.

Since she had come to this world, she couldn't just stand by and watch the tragedy of millions of people starving to death.

This is not bad, after all, they couldn’t eat these things when they were in their hometown.

Families with more strong laborers can earn more food for the family.

Women with strong bodies could also participate in labor, and the Eighth Route Army treated everyone equally in terms of food.

Women and the elderly who could not work could go to the border government to get a spinning wheel and spin yarn at home.

All children can go to school for free, and two free meals are provided every day, morning and afternoon.

In this way, although the victims had to leave their homes, their lives were getting better and better.

The old saying is true, saving a life is a good deed of immeasurable merit, let alone saving an entire province's worth of people.

For a time, our party's reputation among the people became increasingly high.

From then on, many disaster victims would automatically choose to seek refuge with the "Red Bodhisattva" in the northern Shaanxi border area.

As Nanniwan was developed, the strong laborers became idle.

Seeing them scratching their heads because they couldn't earn work points, another recruitment team entered the village.

Now we are going to build a road. We want to build a road that goes directly from the Yellow River to Gansu.

However, because the road is too long, the people who build the roads cannot go home at any time.

Other benefits remain the same. You can go home and rest for two days every month, and you will be picked up and dropped off by car.

Each person will receive double sets of labor protection supplies, including work clothes and shoes.

There are also cotton-padded coats, cotton pants and cotton hats to wear in winter, which makes everyone in the family envious.

With the arrival of winter, the victims stopped working.

The border area propaganda team entered the village again, this time they came to recruit soldiers.