Before the Hongzepu Rebellion, although Lin Jingzhong was very capable and ambitious, he could hardly recruit many people when he returned to the forest. Although Lin Mengde was a descendant of the Lin clan, he could respond to a hundred people and recruit hundreds of people for Lin Fu.

It's not a problem to come out - this is the difference in influence and reputation.

At this time, Lin Fu wanted to select 200 people from the victims to go to Pingjiang Prefecture to raise food. Some of the "Lin Mengde" type of people would be selected to go, and some of the "Lin Jingzhong" type of people would be selected to go. This arrangement would not only make the remaining

The victims who came down will be more stable. Only by being able to capture these two hundred people in the future can the impact of this disaster relief be maintained to the greatest extent in the long term.

The refugees on Xisha Island had no household registration information to begin with. After the disaster, the situation became even more chaotic. When the relief camps were set up, they were only roughly divided by cadastral records. To truly grasp the information of more than 20,000 people, it cannot be done in a day or two.

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Lin Fu also had enough manpower available. After all, there were 200 soldiers who came with the ship, and there were more than 100 boatmen, handymen, and Hu family members. However, there were many things to do in disaster relief. Lin Fu selected people from the victims through self-recommendation and mutual aid recommendation.

He, Lin Mengde, Fu Qinghe and others worked tirelessly to participate, seizing the limited time to contact and communicate with more victims. In order to do this, Lin Fu even purchased grain from Hailing Mansion at a high price in the early stage instead of

I was in a hurry to go to Pingjiang Mansion to collect food.

Lin Fu set up the disaster relief camp at Guanyin Beach in the northeast of Xisha Island. In addition to being the closest to Chongzhou and looking north to Zilang Mountain and Junshan Water Village, the Hu family has hundreds of acres of sugar cane forest south of Guanyin Beach. These will be resettled in the future.

Naturally, the victims were resettled around Guanyin Beach, which made it easier for the Hu family to move to Xisha Island and continue to increase their influence among the victims.

In order to avoid suspicion, Lin Fu will remove all his visible personnel in the future. Except for the personnel left secretly, the only ones who can directly rely on the control of Xisha Island are the Hu family.

If Chongzhou really wanted to resettle the refugees on Xisha Island, it would naturally have to choose gentry from the local people as the village chiefs. The chiefs would be responsible for local affairs on Xisha Island. What excuse could there be for not choosing Hu Zhiyong and Hu Zhicheng brothers?

The relationship between Lin Fu and the local people in Chongzhou County is definitely irreparable. He was only nominally life-saving to Hu Zhicheng and Hu Qiaoyi, so he asked the Hu family to participate in the disaster relief work; but the Hu family still had to belong to the local gentry class, so Lin Fu

Once they left, they had no real conflict with Chongzhou County.

Besides, Lin Fu was being protected by Gu Wuchen at this time. Not to mention Chen Kun, the magistrate of Chongzhou, the Hailing Mansion did not dare to really break up with Lin Fu.

At present, Lin Fu's contact with the local government in Chongzhou County, in addition to Li Shuyi, is through Hu Zhiyong and the Hu Zhicheng brothers, in order to create the reputation of Hu Zhiyong and the Hu Zhicheng brothers as representatives of local disaster relief.

"It would be great for the Hu family to live in the sugar cane field on the island," Lin Fu tapped his fingers on the table and said over and over again, "We can't wait for the county magistrate to come up with specific arrangements for the resettlement of the victims and then calmly make arrangements for these hundreds of acres of sugar cane field.

If we make good use of it, we will have the upper hand. The craftsmen transferred from Jiangning will be on the island tomorrow. After I go to Pingjiang Mansion, you will build the enclosed house first. The enclosed house also needs to build the outer wall first, and use local materials except river sand and mud.

For the exterior, we purchase and transport blue bricks, lime, lime, bamboo and wood reinforcements from Danyang. I think the base width of the exterior wall should not be less than three feet. I will draw a rough diagram for you. How to build it specifically, I will wait for the craftsmen.

Come here, you can discuss and decide..."

Although Xisha Island is a desert island, the land on the island is all official land. Even except for this, Lin Fu can't do anything until the county, Hailing Mansion, and Chongzhou County have come up with specific provisions for the resettlement of refugees.

A large-scale enclosed house building with a capacity of 80 to 100 households was built in Guanyintan to resettle the refugees.

The Hu family had a sugar workshop and needed to plant a large area of ​​sugar cane forest, so they spent some money to bribe officials in Chongzhou County to obtain more than 300 acres of sugar cane fields in Guanyintan. Lin Fu could also use the name of the Hu family to plant sugar cane fields in this area first.

Two inner buildings were built in the field to provide a foothold.

The She family should be able to see great benefits from the disaster on Xisha Island. At this time, the She family has not come forward, but they have to take precautions. Guangjiao Temple in Zilang Mountain is suspicious, and Xiao Taoyuan's deployment in Junshan Water Village is always a threat. In

There is no solid and reliable foothold on Xisha Island. No matter how strong the elite Lin Fu leaves on the island, they will be fatally attacked at any time.

First, build an inner enclosure building in the name of the Hu family. In an emergency, hundreds of people can be evacuated to stay there. Once the specific resettlement conditions for the refugees are released, the central enclosure building and the outer enclosure building can be expanded in addition to the inner enclosure building.

The large enclosure with the outer layer covering the middle layer and then the inner layer is like a strong fortress. The strong and thick outer layer not only prevents bandits and bandits, but also prevents typhoons from passing through and the intrusion of sea tides.

The unstable topography of Xisha Island is also a headache. During river surges and heavy rains, the natural polder can easily collapse. The short-term and limited solution is to build stone dams. Lin Fu hopes that the river bay in Guanyin Beach can be built first.

A short section of stone dam gave them a reliable anchorage on the riverside for small and medium-sized ships.

At this time, "Jiyun 1" and "Jiyun 2" were parked in the middle of the river, using assault canoes with a capacity of only 14 to 50 kilograms to transfer supplies to the shore. Dongyang also used manpower to pull them to the river beach; fortunately,

There were so many disaster victims who gathered at Guanyin Beach that they didn't find it particularly troublesome to go through such twists and turns.

In addition to picking some strong men from the refugees to maintain basic order in the relief camp, Lin Fu sent Zhou Pu to lead half of the military guards to stay in case of emergency, and also temporarily left the Dongyang to Lin Mengde, Fu Qinghe, Hu Zhiyong, and Hu Zhicheng.

Lin Fu took the Great Loach Master Ge Cunxin, Ao Canghai, Wu Qi, half of the military guards and more than 200 selected victims on two ships, "Jiyun 1" and "Jiyun 2", to Pingjiang Prefecture to collect food.
Chapter completed!