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They would not be able to return to their hometown until late September at the latest. Although they had missed the wheat planting season, they could still sow some barley, broad beans and other crops so as to avoid a total harvest next year.

Some young laborers who were extremely poor in their hometowns and found jobs outside the city of Nando this time, after calculating their income for the whole year, applied to the government to stay in Nando to work temporarily.

Considering that they missed the planting time due to the flood after they returned, there might be famine next year.

After discussing with local officials, Tongzhi Yan approved these people to stay temporarily.

Therefore, among the families of the disaster victims who had several able-bodied laborers, half of them left one able-bodied laborer to work in Nandu. Among these people, more than half were absorbed by Chen Qingzhu's followers, totaling several thousand people.

The rest of the people returned to their hometowns under the organization of the government to prepare for post-disaster reconstruction.

The wealthy businessmen in Yangzhou and Nandu City not only transported a lot of food to the disaster area, but also sold it to the victims at a fair price to help them overcome the post-disaster food shortage crisis.

Before leaving, the Nandu Chamber of Commerce joined forces with the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce to raise tens of thousands of taels of silver again, and gave each victim, regardless of gender, age or status, a donation of 100 wen.

As a result, every family, regardless of whether they originally had money or not, will now have an additional income of several hundred coins.

If you buy coarse grains, a little savings will give the whole family enough to eat until the New Year.

With this money, even the poorest families don't have to worry about starving to death.

All those orphans without parents were taken in by the Salesian Church newly built by the Nandu Chamber of Commerce in the east of Nandu City.

Many of the hundreds of thousands of disaster victims died in tears, all of them grateful to the Nandu Chamber of Commerce and its many charitable businessmen.

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The disaster victims who returned to their hometowns were heartbroken but also grateful when they saw their collapsed houses and completely submerged roofs.

Fortunately, the government allowed them to move early.

Otherwise, with the terrible extent of this flood, countless people would have been drowned.

Valuable food, livestock, winter clothes, quilts, silver and other items in the home will be swept away by the flood.

Although the losses are huge, the most crucial things have been preserved. With the help of those righteous businessmen, everyone has hope of survival.

Everyone once again expressed gratitude to the imperial court and the merchants and officials who participated in the disaster relief efforts.

The government roughly counted the number of deaths in the flood and finally concluded that among the hundreds of thousands of people in several counties, less than 600 people died of illness, and the rest were all safe and sound.

This is a major flood.

Among all the natural disasters in the history of the country, this one had the lowest death toll.

Several county magistrates in the disaster-stricken areas also felt very lucky.

When their superiors ordered them to migrate, they thought it was troublesome. But when they came back and saw the water level, they realized what a wise decision it was.

Otherwise, even if they did not die in the flood, they would probably be punished by the court if they survived.

Nowadays, as long as you manage the post-disaster reconstruction well, even if you don’t say you have made any contribution, at least you don’t have to worry about losing your official position.

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In the Nandu government office, the prefect felt very complicated when he saw Yan Tongzhi, who had sent away the disaster victims and returned to the government office to work.

"Brother Qingzhi, you have made great contributions in this disaster relief effort. I'm afraid you will be promoted soon, right?"

Yan Tongzhi was also very happy.

He himself did not expect that with everyone working together, such good disaster relief results could be achieved.

This time, no one can be left out from the award from the higher-ups, but Yan Qingzhi will be left out!

He was very humble and politely bowed:

"Your support and cooperation are also indispensable! The court will definitely not forget your contribution!"

The prefect curled his lips.

Everyone knows that it was Yan Tongzhi who was in charge of this disaster relief effort from beginning to end.

Among the disaster victims, all of them knew the good name of Yan Qingtian.

Even those cunning wealthy businessmen were able to be so generous this time and donate money, materials and manpower because of a pre-disaster relief fundraising organized by Yan Tongzhi.