On the eighth day of the first lunar month, the Regional Commander's Mansion opened its offices.
Yang Zhengshan, draped in a thick fur coat, strode into the main hall with great, sweeping steps.
"Pass down my order. Command all Assistant Regional Commanders to come to the Regional Commander's Mansion on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month to discuss affairs!"
Just as he entered the Study, Yang Zhengshan directly gave the order.
Wanting to fight a natural disaster was absolutely no easy thing. The two provinces of Liaoyuan and Pingyuan had a population of more than ten million. A great drought might not make everyone become refugees, but at the least, it would make several million commoners become refugees.
And once a drought occurred, with grain and water both in short supply, if the commoners wanted to survive, they would have to leave their homeland and migrate elsewhere.
Even if only a portion of the refugees came to Chongshan Town, that would still be hundreds of thousands, even over a million refugees.
What Yang Zhengshan had to do was make proper resettlement arrangements for these refugees.
"Yes, sir!" The personal attendant answered, then immediately ran out of the Study to convey Yang Zhengshan's order to the Elite Guard Battalion.
Yang Zhengshan sat at the desk, thought about it, then picked up brush and paper and began to write.
All these days, he had been calculating the plans that would come next. In truth, he had already thought through the overall plan; what remained was to assign the tasks.
In disaster relief, the most important things were grain and water.
As for water sources, Chongshan Town would not suffer too severely from the disaster, not to the point of making the Yinghe river channel run dry, while the Northern Territory