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After returning to the Yimeng Mountains, Zhao Zhenzhong not only thought about the future construction and development plan of the control area and arranged to implement some matters that can be carried out that are closely related to the daily lives of the people, as the rainy season comes, he also pays attention to disaster prevention, disaster relief and other matters in the region and surrounding areas.

As mentioned earlier, Shandong has been in a state of drought since the Spring Festival this year, and this state continues until the rainy season comes. Just when Zhang Zongchang was "locking the Dragon King" in Jinan because he was unable to ask for rain, Shandong entered a season of frequent floods and disasters.

On May 29, 1926, the Shandong River Affairs Bureau urgently sent an emergency: "The water in the upper reaches has risen, and the new embankment has been washed away by eight or nine feet in the past few days, and the situation is extremely critical." After July, due to the continuous rainfall, the Yellow River broke in several places such as Linpuji and Liuzhuang, Nan'an, Dongming County, and flooded the farmland and villages in many surrounding districts and counties, causing huge disasters.

In addition to the flooding of the Yellow River, other areas in Shandong also caused flooding due to continuous rainfall. In the surrounding areas of the Yimeng Mountains, Zhao Zhenzhong alone knew about the flooding of the Dagu River in Jiao County, the canal breach in Yi County, and the Tai'an flood. Among them, Tai'an is the most serious flood.

Since July, the rain has lasted for more than a month, making the crops in the fields in Tai'an have no hope of harvesting in autumn. In the countryside, except for a few wealthy houses built with bricks and tiles such as landlords and gentry, most of the people have built houses built with loess and thatch collapsed one after another in a row. This has resulted in almost no villages surrounding the disaster area around Tai'an, and most of the people live in rainy days and waters, which is a terrible situation. In addition, the victims formed by the looting of officers and soldiers and bandits due to the Henan-Lu War last autumn and winter, there are more than 140,000 victims in Tai'an who are urgently needed to be rescued.

In addition to floods and floods, there are also epidemics that take the opportunity to rage.

Before the flood disaster ended, cholera broke out in Weixian, northeast of Yishan. According to newspapers and magazines such as Morning News and Shenbao, more than 200 people died a day due to the raging cholera and the lack of medical treatment.

Faced with the many disasters in the surrounding areas, Zhao Zhenzhong sighed because he felt powerless, but he could only try his best to take disaster prevention and relief measures to prevent the Yi River, Shu River and many large and small rivers in the control area from flooding due to continuous rainfall. Fortunately, the Yimeng Mountains are in a high terrain and the area controlled by the guards is in the upper reaches of the Yi River and Shu River. Under the responsibility of the divisions of various working groups, several detachments and the trainees in the training camp, a small amount of fields were destroyed in some low-lying areas of the river valley and several thatched huts collapsed due to rainfall for several days, no casualties were caused, and no major problems occurred.

While arranging disaster prevention and relief in the controlled area, Zhao Zhenzhong ordered the Xu Chaoyuan Detachment, which is responsible for the control area, to enter the Tai'an area in the northwest of New Thailand as secretly as possible, to retain orphans lacking ability to survive after the disaster, and to bring some reliable people back to the vicinity of their detachment. After all, because the landlords and gentry escaped, Xu Chaoyuan Detachment moved most of the elderly, weak women and children to Zhangzhuang and other controlled areas, freeing up a lot of housing that could accommodate nearly 30,000 people.

Just when Zhao Zhenzhong allocated various materials to prepare for disaster prevention and disaster relief for the people in the region, on August 10, Li Yuntian sent Wu Mingshan to Zhao Zhenzhong and told him that the food and other materials transported by White had arrived at the Qingdao Port Mobil Special Wharf. And with this good news, there was also bad news: cholera broke out in Qingdao.

The cause of cholera outbreak in Weixian is somewhat different. The cholera in Qingdao was not caused by disasters, but was transmitted from the outside. In July 1926, cholera that broke out in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Xiamen and other places was brought to Qingdao by some passengers on the ship. 304 infected people were found from ships and train passengers, 137 were cured and 167 died. From August 6 to October 10, cholera spread in Qingdao area and affected neighboring districts and counties.

After hearing what Wu Mingshan said, Zhao Zhenzhong couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly. This really corresponds to what the Morning Post said, "According to more than 100 counties in the province are almost all affected by disasters and all are waiting for relief." At this time, Zhang Zongchang, who was in charge of Shandong, was busy shooting Lin Wanli, president of the Social Daily, and attacking the National Army in the Nankou area, without caring about the large-scale natural disasters encountered in Shandong at all.

After rushing back to Qingdao with Wu Mingshan, Zhao Zhenzhong met White who lived in the Sihai Restaurant.

White transported 12,000 tons of wheat and other materials Zhao Zhenzhong needed. He was very happy to make another profit, but unexpectedly, he encountered a cholera outbreak in Qingdao, and his good friend Courtman returned to the United States at this time. He was depressed and bored in the restaurant in Sihai for the past two days. Now when he saw Zhao Zhenzhong, he seemed to have seen a lot of US dollars, his eyes were shiny, and his mood was much better.

After some greetings and lunch, the two of them rushed to the Mobil special dock with Li Yuntian and others who received the news. Since the cargo was apart from grain, there were some mechanical processing equipment and other application materials, and there were no prohibited materials such as weapons and equipment, Zhao Zhenzhong and others waited in the dock warehouse to unload the materials on the ship, and then inspect the goods to complete the handover procedures.

After unloading the cargo from the ship and inspecting it, Li Yuntian organized manpower to transport all the materials to the Dazhushan base. The base and Duyishan detachment cooperated to secretly transport the grain, flour processing equipment, oil pressing equipment, sewing equipment and other materials needed in the area controlled by the guards in the Yimeng Mountains.

It took Li Yuntian and others a total of 11 days to transport all the supplies to the Dazhushan base, but it took more than a month to transport most of these supplies to the area controlled by the Guards.

It’s not that Zhao Zhenzhong didn’t know that transporting supplies from Qingdao to Boshan by train and then transporting them to the control area would save more than half of the time, but if so much supplies were transported by Jiaoji Railway Bureau, they would definitely be known by the Jinan authorities. If the greedy Marshal Zhang had the wrong idea of ​​robbing, Zhao Zhenzhong would have no choice but to make sense. It is not yet time for the escort army to confront this "three unaware" Marshal head-on.

After Li Yuntian and others moved all the supplies out of the Mobil Wharf, Zhao Zhenzhong and White signed a new agreement, agreeing to purchase 10,000 tons of wheat, 1,500 tons of Tiendai explosives and some machinery and equipment in early August next year. They will also be inspected and paid after payment.

After getting a new purchase agreement, White was overjoyed and completely forgot the troubles he had spent on the boat three times from July last year to now.

While happy, White told Zhao Zhenzhong that the patent for the lightweight mortar had been applied for in Britain, France, Germany, the United States and other countries. Judging from the designed samples, it is indeed more convenient, flexible and more useful than the mortars commonly used in various countries. The equipment procurement director of the US military, which was being reorganized after World War I, was greatly appreciated by Fat Jack when he saw this improved mortar and expressed great hope of putting it on the US military procurement list. This is a big business that can make a fortune for several people.

"Mr. White, I only need 20% of the patent income. As for other profits, you can share them with Fat Jack and those key figures through building factories, producing, selling and so on. Moreover, I believe that this new design will be adopted by other countries such as Britain and France in the future, and we can get more profits at that time."

All patent income accounts for about 15% of all profits, while 20% of patent income accounts for only about 3% of all profits. The proportion is really not high. After White calculated, he nodded with a smile on his face.

After liquidating the price of the transaction materials with White, Zhao Zhenzhong specifically instructed Liu Dehai and Li Yuntian to pay attention to strengthening the prevention of epidemics in the Sihai Restaurant and Nanyao Factory. After the instructions, Zhao Zhenzhong also felt glad that fortunately, Qingdao University was on summer vacation when the cholera broke out in Qingdao this time, otherwise so many teachers and students in the epidemic area would be hard to say what the result would be.

On August 23, Zhao Zhenzhong returned to Yimeng again and organized manpower to use the newly transported machinery and equipment to set up some industries related to people's lives, such as flour processing plants, oil pressing plants, and clothing factories.

The autumn quickly entered. With the help of the working group and the detachments, the people in the controlled area quickly completed the autumn harvest and autumn planting. Subsequently, Zhao Zhenzhong began to use the slack season to organize manpower to carry out a new round of farmland water conservancy construction and road renovation in the area. At the same time, he also began to send working groups to the newly occupied areas of the detachments to carry out relevant rural work.

After the summer expansion operation, several detachments expanded the outer periphery of the controlled area a lot. The eastern line occupied the areas from Yishan to the south through Shagou Village, Zhuge Village, Han Wang, Cuijiayu, and all the way to Yaojiadianzi; the southern line went west from Yaojiadianzi, through Mamuchi, Tanbu, Poli, and all the way to Longting; the western line went north from Longting, through Huangzhuang, Xinzhuang, and all the way to Miaoshan and Tusikou; the northern line went east from Miaoshan, through Lu Village, Sanchadianzi, and all the way to Jiushan.

The activity area added by the entire expansion operation is almost the same as the existing control area, making the Guards' current activity range reach an area of ​​more than 5,000 square kilometers.

Of course, the detachments that carried out operations in the name of bandits in the newly added activity area did not use the banner of escort troops. In order to avoid the big waves, they attracted the attention of the escort troops in the Yimeng Mountains too early, each detachment used the titles of "National Salvation Army", "National Restoration Army", "Liberation Army", "Autonomy Army", "Fengtian Army" and other titles to carry out activities.

Faced with these newly emerging bandits who frequently robbed wealthy families in the Yimeng Mountains, the governors of Yishui, Mengyin, Xintai, Laiwu and other counties clearly felt that their heads were quite big. The guards that appeared in the northern part of the Yimeng Mountains last year had not stopped yet, but now these troops appeared again, so why can't people survive? Although these "army" are all bandits with only a few hundred people, they can't resist them. The police brigades of each county reported the relevant situation to Jinan and requested the sending of troops to help, but because Zhang Zongchang was busy with the war between the north and the National Army, he had no time to take care of the gangs in the Yimeng Mountains that he seemed to be irrelevant, and put aside the request of the county's request to send troops to suppress the bandits. The governors of each county had no choice but to grit their teeth and endure it for the time being.

The overall control area of ​​the Guards has increased, and they have the successful experience of turning the active area into a control area. It is not difficult to transform these new areas into control areas, but this transformation activity also requires manpower, material resources and time.

In order to increase available personnel and accelerate the transformation of the newly added activity area into a control area, Zhao Zhenzhong once again set up military and political study classes in the newly built barracks near the Donglidian Guard Headquarters to conduct rotation training for the backbone forces of each detachment.

However, unlike the last time that Zhao Zhenzhong was the only one who gave a lecture, this time the military and political study class added some subjects, mainly the responsible personnel of several detachments and experienced personnel selected from each working group. In addition to being responsible for the explanation of certain subjects, Zhao Zhenzhong is mainly responsible for reviewing the lesson plans of these newly added interpreters and making various comments, including comments on the expansion operation of each detachment and comments on the effectiveness of the teaching of these newly added interpreters.

In this way, Zhao Zhenzhong hopes to further improve the comprehensive level of relevant command personnel of each detachment and cultivate more available talents for the future development and growth of the team.
Chapter completed!