Of course, the East China *** did not mind establishing another channel for contact with the Qing court. After all, Yuan Shikai was not the agent of the East China ***, so there was no need for East China ** to stick to Yuan Shikai's line. Moreover, contacting the Qing court was originally one of the functions of the East China ** Beijing Office, but the Qing court itself gave up this channel, and the East China ** could only focus on using the Yuan Shikai's line. Now that the Qing court wants to pick up this channel again, the East China ** will certainly not refuse. Zhang Zhidong was right about this. Before the war began, it was absolutely necessary to maintain a communication channel.

So Zhang Zhidong, Zaifeng and the Beijing Office of East China established a contact relationship. Not long after, East China entered Anhui and Jiangsu to rescue disasters, so this contact channel immediately played a role.

Zhang Zhidong and Zaifeng came to the Beijing Office of East China and asked the East China to stop the disaster relief operations and withdraw personnel. Of course, the Qing court could compensate the losses of East China. This request was naturally rejected by East China, saying that the disaster relief operations would never stop. And he also talked about the principle of people-oriented and disaster relief is a major event that transcends all political manipulations. Zaifeng had nothing to say. After all, the Qing court did not take the truth in this matter. Therefore, Zhang Zhidong and Zaifeng could only reply to the Qing court and find another way.

In fact, Cixi and Guangxu also understood that it was impossible to just say that East China ** would give up disaster relief by just talking. This time, it was just a test of East China **’s attitude, and it would be better to think of other ways. However, the Qing court thought that this matter would be over, but East China ** did not want to end like this. Just three days later, the news of "The Qing court asked East China ** to stop disaster relief" was released in major newspapers in Shanghai, and it was also accompanied by photos of Zhang Zhidong and Zaifeng's talks at the Beijing Office of East China **.

The news quickly spread in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and public opinion suddenly became a thunderous. People say that the court really disregarded the lives of the people, and after reading it, the governors and governors all shook their heads and sighed. The court was simply committing their own death.

But the Qing court did not realize that it had done something stupid at this time. Although some people reported this matter to the court, it was difficult for the Qing court to connect north and south. Therefore, the Qing court could not feel this surging public opinion in Beijing, and thought that it was just "there were always unlucky people who wanted to harm me", so they didn't care at all. However, they came up with a solution and ordered the governors of Huguang, Liangjiang, Hubei, Hunan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other provinces to demand that they all stop the disaster relief operations of East China ** in their respective jurisdictions, and those who have already happened within the jurisdictions must also try to expel the East China ** personnel.

Of course, the Qing court knew that it was impossible to stop the East China National Security Council by relying solely on these governors. The reason why the order was issued was to hope that the governors and governors would stop the disaster relief operations and would conflict with the East China National Security Council, which would eventually lead to war. However, the court did not send troops directly, so it could exclude itself and destroy the East China National Security Council's disaster relief operations. At that time, the responsibility would be pushed to these governors and removed a few people. And even if it was the worst plan, it would lose several provinces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, but at the same time, the experience of the East China National Security Council could be restrained in the south, so that the Qing court could delay the respite for several years.

However, the governor of Huguang Zhao Erxun, the governor of Liangjiang Duanfang, the governor of Hunan Yang Wending, the governor of Jiangsu Chen Qitai, the governor of Jiangxi Wu Chongqing, the governor of Zhejiang Ke Fengshi and others were not smart people. The Qing court could not hide this little thought from them. They had a deeper understanding of the current public opinion trend than the court. Moreover, the flood occurred on their own territory and they were unable to help the disaster. If they were delayed, something would inevitably happen. At this time, the East China ** came to rescue the disaster, which really solved their urgent needs.

Of course, they even understand that East China ** is not as tall and bright as they said. It is just under the guise of a disaster relief palace to win people's hearts and seek places. However, East China ** will take time to find a place. At least after the flood is over, it will be at least September and October, and the flood is already in full swing, so we can only take a look at it before talking.

What's more, it is absolutely unwise to offend East China at this time, because the six provinces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are not opponents of East China. Therefore, to oppose East China at this time, it is definitely a search for death. With this period of buffering, I have a lot of room for operation. I can change my place, or simply take up an office and endure it for a few years. After the situation stabilizes, I will return. Anyway, those who can become governors and governors have at least been in the officialdom for more than 20 years and have saved up huge amounts of property. Even if I don't do anything from now on, I can still be a rich family member with a prosperous life. If it doesn't work, I will go to East China. Anyway, the governors and governors have formed a sympathy, and even the Qing court has lived for a few days.

So he received an order from the Qing court. Almost all the governors and governors made Tai Chi to the Qing court. On the surface, he agreed to it, but in fact he did nothing. Anyway, the court can't take care of it now. If you can, you can do it and if you can, you can.

Only Anhui Governor Enming, who was originally a Manchu and also a royal family, was loyal to the Qing court, so he hated the East China **. After receiving the order from the Qing court, he did not consider whether he had the ability to stop the East China **, so he immediately ordered the officials of various prefectures and states to expel the East China **. The officials below did not feel sorry at first, thinking that their superiors were just going through the motions this time, so they all perfunctorily. Then they knew that Enming didn't want to be perfunctorily this time. After receiving the reply from the prefectures and states, Enming also realized his mistakes, so he ordered the prefectures and states again, with the words and attitudes much more severe than last time.

Of course, although undercurrents were surging at this time, the disaster relief operations in East China were still steadily advancing. Now 8 disaster victim resettlement camps have been established, namely 3 in Anhui, 2 in Jiangsu, 2 in Hubei, and 1 in Hunan. The camp with the most disaster victims is the Luzhou resettlement camp in Anhui. The number of disaster victims has exceeded 90,000, and the minimum is 50,000. At the same time, there is also a resettlement camp in Jiangxi and Zhejiang.

At the same time, due to extensive publicity, the reputation of East China's ** in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has increased greatly. They all say that East China ** loves the people as their children, benevolent people and righteous people. At the same time, it has attracted a large number of merchants at home and abroad to donate money, and charity performances are used for disaster relief. At the same time, there are also enterprises in Shandong who donate money to floods, and now they have received huge donations worth tens of millions of silver dollars.

Of course, although this donation is quite large, it is still far from enough to use for disaster relief. Because it is a disaster relief method like East China **, it is mainly a special disaster relief fund that East China ** has pulled out 30 million silver dollars as the first special fund for disaster relief.

However, disaster relief funds are often the hardest hit areas of corruption. For example, the Qing government can spend half of its money on disaster relief, which is a good result. Moreover, this is the first large-scale disaster relief operation in East China, and it also has huge political goals. Therefore, it is also very important and must not cause problems in the use of funds. The supervision of this disaster relief funds is also quite strict. The Finance Department of the Shanghai Disaster Relief Command Headquarters is composed of personnel drawn from the Finance Committee of the East China Disaster Relief Command Headquarters. At the same time, it is also required that the Shanghai Disaster Relief Command Headquarters make financial disclosure, and every account must be clearly stated.

The Shanghai Disaster Relief Command Headquarters certainly strictly abide by this regulation, and made detailed records of the number of victims contained in each camp, illness and death; the number of managers, equipment used, such as tents, beds, tables and chairs, materials consumed every month, etc., and made public to the entire society. In this way, the expenses can be obtained by converting them into market prices. This practice has also received a lot of praise for East China **. No matter in that era, honest and honest people were welcomed. Those who donated also felt that they could feel at ease to hand over the donations to East China **.

However, the numbers of each camp are reported by the camp itself. Although each camp has supervisors, it cannot be completely abandoned. In addition, as the two commanders in the Shanghai Disaster Relief Command Headquarters, it is unreasonable to not go to the camps to see them in person. However, now Li Songchen not only has to deal with the construction and operation of the camps, but also the government affairs of Shanghai need him to handle. Although after serving as the disaster relief commander, he handed over most of the Shanghai government affairs to other personnel for handling, he cannot be completely left alone, especially major matters need to be investigated. Therefore, Li Songchen really cannot get rid of himself now; and although Luo Yue is the deputy commander-in-chief, he is mainly in charge of the safety and public security of the camps, and his work is much easier than Li Songchen. He has enough time to patrol various camps.

On the other hand, Shanghai's news media also need new and richer content for disaster relief news reporting and publicity. Previous news was mainly written and supplemented by a large amount of relevant data. Others were various comments and editorial articles. Although the content could also be introduced in a more comprehensive manner and the content was too monotonous and lacked intuitive content. Therefore, after discussion, the disaster relief command headquarters decided to organize news media in Shanghai to set up a reporter interview team and go to various camps for interviews and taking photos. This not only allows first-hand information, but also allows a large number of pictures to be obtained, which is more conducive to the subsequent publicity work.

After this suggestion was reported, it was quickly approved by East China **. Therefore, the disaster relief command headquarters decided to merge the inspection and reporter interview team together.
Chapter completed!