What are the flood relief methods in history?

There are three ways of flood relief in China:

1. Prevention: It is mainly to carry out the policy of valuing family but neglecting storage, carry out water conservancy construction, and control water and insects.

2. Relief: There are three ways of relief: relief, millet adjustment and pension. Relief is divided into food and money. The forms of relief are divided into simple relief and work-based relief. In modern times, it was popular to work for relief. Generally speaking, after the flood, the affected people are organized to participate in projects such as blocking the mouth, repairing dikes, dredging rivers and so on. In this way, the victims can earn some money and not be displaced. At the same time, the project has also been repaired, creating conditions for resuming production, adjusting millet, moving to bumper harvest areas and allocating grain from bumper harvest areas to disaster areas. Pension is a temporary emergency relief method, and porridge and subsidized housing are the most commonly used in past dynasties.

3. Aftercare: In order to resume production after the disaster, four measures were taken: insurance, relief, loan and rescue. The guarantee is to mobilize and organize the victims to return to their hometowns for production, and the relief is to reduce taxes and labor in the disaster areas and stop or delay the collection of silver and food that the victims should pay; Loans are mainly given to victims' seeds, rations and cattle. ; Saving means saving food after disasters in past dynasties, but it is forbidden to use rice to make wine, and it is strictly agreed to reduce government expenditure and use the saved money and food to support the victims.