After the arrangement was made, the fleet set off again and drove for about an hour to the mouth of Xinyu River. Luo Yue's ship Yongcheng and 2 troop transport ships, and 5 transport ships sailed from the Yangtze River into the Xinyu River. The fleet still sailed along the Yangtze River.

Although Luo Yue and his party stepped up their journey, it took more than two hours to go through the middle, and the warships had to accommodate the speed of the transport ship. Therefore, they did not arrive at the dock of the Luzhou disaster resettlement camp until after 6 o'clock in the evening. At this time, it was time for dinner in the camp. Fortunately, the camp had received a telegram from the fleet and prepared supper and camping tents for the fleet personnel.

Although it was late at this time, Luo Yue was eager to understand the current situation of the camp, so he and the two leaders of the camp, Xie Tao, Zhu Nanzhen and two people in charge of the camp safety, had dinner together. They were on the dining table to learn about the situation of the camp. Anyway, the Chinese dining table function was quite powerful, and in addition to basic food, they could do a lot of things.

In fact, Xie Tao and Zhu Nanzhen also imagined Luo Yue reporting the current situation in the camp, because in the morning, they also received a telegram from the Shanghai Disaster Relief Command to learn about the situation of the Red Lotus Sect. In fact, some information about the Red Lotus Sect have been heard in the camp. However, in the year of the disaster, it is normal for such religions to appear. Moreover, the Red Lotus Sect has been active in Yingzhou Prefecture and has not come to Luzhou or Fengyang Prefecture. Therefore, although the camp has been strengthened, they have not cared too much.

But after receiving the telegram, the two also had a relatively comprehensive understanding of the situation. Only then did they realize that the Red Lotus Sect is not simple, and with such a momentum, they must have conflicts with the disaster victim resettlement camp. Thinking about what happened in the camp recently, although it is not a crisis, it can definitely be considered undercurrents. Luo Yue is here, and the two hope to discuss a solution with Luo Yue.

It turns out that in the past month, a lot of rumors have been spread in the camp. Of course, it is normal for such a resettlement camp that accommodates more than 100,000 people to make some rumors. Although Bi Jing has to work in the resettlement camp, his daily life is still very monotonous. Therefore, the victims are idle and can only gather together to chat, so some rumors will inevitably not be spread.

Of course, the resettlement camp did not take rumors lightly. After all, letting the rumors spread will eventually become annoying. Therefore, first of all, it is to establish a line of defense against rumors in the rules, and to blame those who spread rumors. Of course, it is impossible to completely stop rumors by relying solely on severe punishments. Sometimes it is easy to have the effect of backfire. In fact, the best way to deal with rumors is to Zeng Qiang's trust in the victims of the disaster, or to cultivate a group of hard-core supporters of the resettlement camp among the victims of the disaster and let them oppose rumors. This will be better. It turns out that night school time was opened in the camp, on the one hand, to teach young people some basic cultural knowledge; on the other hand, they were allowed to make time, and at the same time, they also used this opportunity to instill the ideas of East China among the young people to increase their resistance to rumors.

It is precisely because of these measures that although Xie Tao and Zhu Nanzhen knew that in the past month, there have been more rumors in the camp, they did not take it seriously, but they were just a general incident. However, after learning about the Red Lotus Sect, the two realized that the situation was wrong, so they immediately checked the relevant information.

The camp not only has strict preventive measures for rumors, but also has detailed arrangements for the collection and statistics of rumors. There are also dedicated personnel sent by the Security Department to be responsible for it. It is very useful to understand the number, content, development and changes of rumors.

There are two main methods to collect rumors. One is that the East China ** will also send some secret sentries in the camp, and intervene in the victims as disaster victims to find out the news. Because these people have been professionally trained and have extremely high loyalty to the East China **, they can not only receive absolute trust, but also provide complete and credible information. However, the secret sentries that the East China ** can send are limited, only a dozen people. The camp is managed by small camps. The Luzhou resettlement camp is divided into more than 216 small camps. It is impossible to cover the entire camp with only these dozen secret sentries. Therefore, some suitable candidates must be selected from the disaster victims, such as choosing among students from security teams or night schools. However, the credibility of the information provided is a little less reliable, but through multiple channels, more accurate numbers can be obtained. Then there is a dedicated person responsible for statistics, classification, summary description, and various charts are produced.

Of course, the charts made will be given to Xie Tao and Zhu Nanxun after reading them. Although the two of them were just reviewing the routine formulas, they also had some impressions. After contacting the situation of the Red Lotus Sect, they realized that these rumors were not simple, so they immediately found all the charts and summary instructions and read them in detail.

This time, the two finally saw a lot of tricks from these numbers and charts. First of all, from the curve of the number of rumors, there has been a significant increase in the past month. In the past 10 days, the curve has shown a significant cliff-like increase. From the figures, the number of rumors in this month is nearly three times that in the previous month, and the number of rumors in the past 10 days accounts for more than 60% of the month. This means that the number of rumors has increased in the past 1 month, or to be precise, it has increased in the past 10 days.

Judging from the distribution of rumors, the number of rumors in a total of 12 camps is significantly higher than that in other camps, and the number of rumors in these 12 camps is nearly twice the total of other camps, which also shows that rumors mainly come from these 12 camps.

Judging from these two points alone, this rumor spread is obviously a result of human manipulation. Looking at the content of the rumor, the few ranks in the top are very obvious guiding the public opinion in the camp, which is what is often said in the old time and space.

The first rumor is that the East China ** was originally a rebellion of the court. The court was dispatching troops and generals to attack the East China ** and expedition and suppressing the current resettlement camp. At that time, everyone might be charged with rebellion from the thief and would not survive.

Although some intellectuals can see that the Qing court is in short order, and it is a general trend to replace the Qing court, for ordinary people, the Qing court is still the court with unlimited authority in their minds. Of course, the East China ** is far from being compared with the court. This rumor is to firmly grasp the psychology of the victims, create panic in the resettlement camp, and at the same time it also destroys the relationship between the victims and the East China **, so that the victims can invisibly keep a certain distance from the East China ***.

The second-ranked rumor is that the victims who died in the resettlement camp will be cremated. If they have any good deeds, they will inevitably be sent by heaven. The victims living in the resettlement camp will also be implicated and suffer unintentional disasters.

It turns out that when the resettlement camp was to receive disaster victims, the sick victims were placed and treated after a strict physical examination. Even if they entered the living area, the victims often became ill. Moreover, because farmers in this era were generally malnourished, and they were starved and scared during the flood, eating raw food, rotten food, and drinking dirty water. The hospital conditions of the resettlement camps were obviously not as good as those in the territory of East China. Therefore, the mortality rate of sick victims was very high. Now there are nearly 2,000 victims in the resettlement camps. For the dead victims, the resettlement camps were cremated and then buried in centralized areas.

However, cremation in China is not popular in this era. Only the elderly, unclaimed dead will be cremated if they really don’t have money. The people generally focus on coffins. Even if the family is poor and cannot afford to buy a coffin, a roll of reed mat will be used instead of burying the body. Among the people, there are superstitious sayings such as cremation who cannot be reincarnated or reborn, which will affect their descendants. This rumor is to use the superstitious psychology of the victims to artificially create confrontation.

Ranking third and fourth, the rumors are even more ruthless. This flood was caused by the East China **. Overseas Chinese were evil demons and heretics. They gathered to rebel, oppose the court, disobey the will of heaven, and went against the will of heaven. Therefore, God committed crimes on the earth, which caused this major flood. Only when East China ** perished, the flood could stop. Otherwise, the flood would not only never retreat, but would also become larger and bigger, and eventually flooded all places. Now, after East China ** was unhappy to take care of the victims, it turned out that they had learned some evil magic and magic tricks overseas. Because they knew that gathering people to rebel was against the will of heaven and went against the will of heaven, they would use the souls of millions of creatures to refine the magic method of the demon forbidden method to change the heaven and eventually seize the world.

It should be said that the contents of these two rumors complement each other and their intentions are quite good. They are to fundamentally deny the legitimate behavior of establishing resettlement camps and hosting refugees, and resolve the gratitude of the victims to the East China **.

The fifth-ranked rumor is the private goods of the Red Lotus Sect, and it is the chaos in the world, the devastation of life, the reincarnation of Maitreya, the red lotus descends to the mortal world, saves the world and solves problems, and those who believe in me will receive eternal life.

As for the following few, it is nothing more than using various mysteries and ideas, and then using various rumors to spread rumors and slander, defam the East China **, this disaster relief operation, etc. Of course, the specific content of the various rumors is not exactly the same, and there are certain deviations, but the general content is similar.

Of course, although rumors have increased and all kinds of absurdity, they did not have much impact in the camp. On the one hand, the camp has not weak ability to fight rumors. Most of the young people participating in night schools have become hard-core supporters of East China **, and the young people have relatively active ideas and have considerable doubts about the thoughts of mystery letters. Therefore, when they hear someone spread rumors, most of them will stand up to defend East China **, and even directly refute the content of the rumors. Moreover, the camp has a punishment system for the rumor-makers, so the disseminators basically dare not to talk to them.
Chapter completed!