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However, as more and more disaster victims were rescued, it became more and more difficult to resettle them. Finally, everyone decided to open a second disaster relief site in the southwest of Jiuchang Prefecture.

Although the terrain in the southwest is relatively not so flat, it is a hilly area with lush vegetation, so local materials can be used to build shacks. In addition, Lin Xijin designed the shack with an elevated bottom to prevent moisture and insects, making it very convenient to build.

Just when they were worried about the lack of manpower, all the members of General Wu's disaster relief team arrived, and also brought a large amount of disaster relief supplies. Most of them were food, medicinal materials, rain cloth, and clothing. The medical team led by the Imperial Hospital also arrived, and Lin Xijin breathed a sigh of relief.

Lin Xijin asked the medical team of the Imperial Hospital to take over the epidemic prevention work for patients in the city and the victims at the city gates. She herself led the medical team of Qingyuan Medical College to the resettlement site for disaster victims in the southwest outside the city to help the victims with treatment and epidemic prevention. Sometimes she also drove into nearby villages and towns to help the villagers with treatment.

General Wu, who was decisive in killing people on the battlefield, also handled disaster relief in an orderly manner and divided his soldiers into three groups.

The first group of people led the able-bodied victims to the resettlement site in the southwest of Jiuchang to build tents for the newly arrived victims to live in.

The second group of soldiers cooperated with Murong Xu to continue along the river into the disaster areas to search and rescue the victims.

The third group has the largest number of personnel, and their task is to lead the strong victims to clear the silt from the river and plug the breach as soon as possible, so as to prepare for the next step of rebuilding the homes for the victims.

The salary for dredging and repairing the river bank was 40 wen per day, and two meals of white rice, one meat, one vegetable and one soup were provided. Many people wanted to sign up for this, but Lin Xijin sent doctors to screen them, and those with weak physical fitness were not accepted, because they had to soak in muddy water every day, and their bodies were too weak to withstand it.

The meals for the dredging and embankment repair and search and rescue teams are enviable: white rice, braised pork, stir-fried beef, sliced ​​pork with cabbage, and bone soup with ginger and pepper. There is only one reason for this: they work too hard.

Those soldiers and disaster victims went out in the wind and rain every day, covered in mud and water. Although everyone wanted to earn that little bit of money and that bowl of rice made people drool, the intensity of the work was really not something that ordinary people could bear.

By the sixth day, fewer and fewer victims were rescued. Most of the rescue team members withdrew, and most of the people who built shacks were freed up, so everyone worked together to dredge the river and repair the river bank.

The disaster relief work was carried out in an orderly manner because of the participation of the soldiers led by General Wu and Murong Xu's decisive and thunderous means. Local officials dared not to cooperate, let alone corruption, so everything went on in an orderly manner.

Some of the victims who were lazy, thieves, and raped women were also caught by Murong Xu's secret guards. Those who committed serious crimes were killed on the spot, while those with minor crimes were supervised by the sergeants and worked for free to disinfect, clean up feces, and deal with corpses. In this way, even victims with evil intentions would not dare to act rashly.

The most difficult thing to deal with is to repair the damaged river bank. It is obvious that local officials cut corners when managing the river. They only did some superficial work to strengthen and raise the river bank, but did not dredge the river at all, which led to the accumulation of silt, the continuous increase of the riverbed, and the difficulty in draining the river, which eventually led to the breach of the river bank.

Murong Xu was very angry and ordered all the officials in charge of river management in Jiuchang Prefecture to be arrested and detained first. After checking the whereabouts of the silver allocated by the court every year, these parasites would be dealt with.

In fact, he, Lin Xijin, An Yi and others had already visited the residences of the Magistrate of Chai County and some officials at night and obtained first-hand information. They were just waiting for the disaster relief to be over before giving these officials a tough lesson.

Lin Xijin, Murong Xu, and General Wu asked everyone to clear the silt on the riverbed first, clearing a channel for the river water to flow smoothly along the original river channel. They also mobilized a large number of sacks and asked the soldiers and victims to fill the sacks with stones and silt and start filling the gaps in the river embankment from both ends.

The gap was not dealt with in time and became wider and wider, appearing to be more than 40 meters, causing the river to change its course. Turbid water poured out of the gap, destroying towns, villages and large tracts of fertile land on the shore, turning it into a vast ocean, which was really horrible to watch.

But all this is irreversible, and the only thing we can do is dredging and reconstruction after the flood recedes.

Faced with such a large gap, there was really no other way but to have everyone slowly pile up sandbags from both sides. When there was less than three meters left in the middle, the soldiers carried the manual iron gate and long wooden strips into the river to intercept the river water, reduce the impact of the water flow, and then fill it with sandbags.

"One, two, three... one, two, three..." The soldiers and the victims recruited to dredge the river shouted together. Some of them fixed the gates and large timbers, while others filled the gap with sandbags. Finally, with the efforts of everyone, the river embankment was finally closed and the gap was blocked tightly.

"Everyone has worked hard! Let's go back and rest first. Drink some more bone and ginger soup to get rid of the cold." Murong Xu spoke to everyone in a voice that penetrated his inner strength.

"Thank you, Your Highness!" Everyone was moved by Murong Xu's concern and responded in unison.

Looking at the temporarily tamed flood flowing downstream, Lin Xijin felt a little emotional. From the flood control by Gun and Yu in ancient times to the river management in modern society, it all requires a huge amount of manpower, material resources and financial resources. If you relax a little, you will have to pay a heavy price.

This is the case with the flood this time. Due to the corruption of some officials who are in office but do nothing, countless people have been displaced or even lost their lives in this flood.

The rain had stopped when they returned to the city. Lin Xijin and Murong Xu were exhausted, so they did not go to the disaster settlement. Instead, they returned to the yard, sneaked back into the space, and took a comfortable hot bath.

"Jin'er, I'm sorry to have troubled you." Murong Xu said to Lin Xijin while helping her blow her soft long hair.

"What are you talking about? This is our fate, just accept it! Besides, didn't Heavenly Father reward me? He gave me a handsome boy!" Lin Xijin accepted it all calmly and teased Murong Xu at the same time.

It is impolite not to reciprocate. How could Murong Xu miss the opportunity that was delivered to his door? He immediately presented the handsome face of the flower boy to him. The two of them stayed together for a while before coming out for dinner.