Yang Fu hurried over with a serious look on his face.
"What happened? Uncle, don't be impatient. Speak slowly."
"Hangzhou Prefecture was hit by a disaster! The guys from Hangzhou hurriedly came to report that there was a strong wind and flooding, and half of the shops were flooded. The goods in the warehouse were soaked in water!"
"What!"
Flood in Hangzhou Prefecture? “What’s the situation?”
"The specific situation is not clear yet. I only heard that when the guys came, the whole city was flooded. They got the steward's order and sailed a boat to report the news. I heard that the turmoil started from the coast. Hangzhou was not immune.
I'm afraid that the shop in Ningbo will disappear."
There was a big storm, and half of the shops in Hangzhou were flooded, and people even died. How could the shops in Ningbo, which is right at the port, be spared?
Guangfeng Water has opened shops along the canal. There are shops in Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou, and Ningbo. The whole city of Hangzhou is flooded. Half of the shops are submerged. How much water will rise in the city? I can’t imagine.
"Treading on the moon!"
Ta Yue flashed in.
"Quickly, go and inquire in person to see if there is any emergency report from the palace, and then inquire about the specific affected counties and towns and the situation of the disaster!"
"yes!"
All the clerks in Hangzhou went to the capital to report the news, and the palace was afraid that the news would have been received by now.
Huo Xi then ordered others: "Quick, send someone to find out the news!"
"yes!"
"The goods in the shop will be gone as soon as they are gone. We need to send someone immediately to find out whether there are any casualties and what is going on in the homes of the clerks and stewards. Uncle, let's go, I will go to the shop with you!"
When the two of them arrived at the shop, they heard the waiter who came to report the matter tell them again.
"We don't know the damage situation in other places. We only know that the wind and rain in Hangzhou were heavy and the tide poured into the city. It soon spread from the ankles to the knees and then to the waist and abdomen. In the low places, the houses were not even roofed.
!There are animals and all kinds of things floating in the water.”
The guy was still frightened when he said it.
"The shopkeeper asked us to report the news. We started paddling over. Along the way, the water rose high, the waves were strong and the wind was strong. When we looked again, we saw that both sides of the river were overflowing! As we came along, we saw many people standing
Wave to us from the shore for help."
There were people asking for help along the way. They were afraid of delaying things, so they simply gave the boat to the people asking for help. They spent a lot of money to buy two horses and quickly went to Beijing to report the news.
Preoccupied with reporting the news to the main store, and secondly thinking about what was going on in the store and what was going on at home, the two clerks were extremely anxious.
"You're doing a good job! Just stay calm. After we understand the situation, we will send someone over to check it out, and then we will send you back."
"Thank you, boss."
Huo Xi comforted them and asked about the situation in detail.
He also sent people to the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce to inquire about the news.
Now, because of Huo Xi's relationship, the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce treats Guangfengshui like a distinguished guest. Every time a meeting is held, Guangfengshui can sit in the front row.
Seeing that Huo Xi couldn't sit still and walked back and forth in the room, Shen Qianzhong comforted him and said, "Don't worry, boss. We have already inquired with all the shops."
The tidal wave came quickly and caused huge losses. Now that the team has set out from Hangzhou, several days have passed since the tidal wave occurred. It is useless to worry about it. We just want to see how to deal with the post-disaster problems later.
After a while, Ta Yue came over first.
"Girl, please find out."
Urgent reports from all the prefectures along the coast of Zhejiang had been sent to the palace two days ago. I don't know whether the palace held back the news or whether Zhang Fu was not in court, but the whole government did not receive any news.
On July 16th, there was a big commotion in Hangzhou.
The report said: It was raining heavily, there was a strong wind, the river tide was surging, the water was several feet high, it was more than ten miles north and south, and more than fifty miles east and west. Renhe was 19 years old, and twenty residents drowned. Countless people died, and the survivors were displaced.
, the fields and huts were completely destroyed.
County governments across the coast also reported: "The sea is overflowing, broken houses hurt people, save 23 out of 10".
"Strong winds and floods damage crops, and people are drowned."...
"Countless huts and houses have been destroyed by flooding, heavy rains have come at night, and houses have been uprooted. The sea has overflowed, destroying more than a thousand residents in the area, drowning 167 men and women, and killing cattle and horses."
"The sea tide reached the flat land, rising more than ten feet, and many people were drowned. The tide was more than ten feet high, and the houses were swept away, and countless people drowned..."
Tayue took the British Duke's name card to check for news, and soon copied the news reported from various places. Every time the report was reported, everyone's heart was tugged.
Now I don't think about the shop and the goods, I just hope that the shopkeeper, the clerks and their families are safe.
"Our shop in Ningbo is right at the port. I wonder if you guys..." Shen Qianzhong couldn't continue.
Huo Xi clenched his fists. Even in modern society, there is nothing we can do when encountering natural disasters, let alone in today's environment.
The big wind surge mentioned in the report is a storm surge, which is an abnormal rise and fall of sea water caused by hurricanes, so that the sea water is higher than the normal tide level, or it is a kind of tsunami caused by hurricanes. Its destructive power ranks first among marine disasters.
The more everyone listened, the more panicked they became. The tide was several feet high, countless people drowned, and countless houses were destroyed. After listening to this, the two guys squatted on the ground and cried.
They escaped, but I don't know if their families are still there.
The more she cried, the sadder she became. Everyone rushed forward to comfort her.
"Perhaps they are as lucky as you, and they flee to higher ground when the tide rises."
"Hangzhou Prefecture is still far from the sea, so the impact should not be big..."
But there is a Qiantang River in Hangzhou. The tide is several feet high. Half of the city of Hangzhou is gone. In the suburbs and low places, waist-high water, can people, crops and livestock be spared?
Everyone's dry consolation failed to calm the panic of the two waiters.
Soon, people who had gone to various shops to inquire about the news also came back.
There were also people from many businesses who came to inquire about the news. Now everyone knew that there was someone behind Guangfeng Water, and the information was better than theirs.
"I heard that there is a big trend in Hangzhou Prefecture?"
"All the coastal cities have disappeared? What's going on? Have you heard any news?"
Which of the major Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce companies does not have a store in Zhejiang? There is no one engaged in maritime trade that does not open stores in Ningbo and Songjiang.
The two men of Guangfeng Shui, who were also the shopkeepers of Hangzhou Prefecture, were astute and sent them out to report the news when the city was flooded. They did not dare to delay the whole journey, riding boats and riding fast horses day and night.
, which was only two or three days later than the report.
More and more people flocked to Guangfengshui's shop to inquire about the news. When they heard that the report had been received in the palace, it seemed that the news was indeed true.
When I listened to the news in the memorial again, I became more and more shocked.
The shop was closed, and the clerks and stewards were not sure whether it was okay or not. Everyone's face was extremely solemn.
"Uncle, Shopkeeper Shen, I would like to thank you for a hard trip. You can bring some people to visit our several shops in Zhejiang and help deal with the aftermath. If there are casualties or property loss at home, be sure to do a good job of appeasing them and provide them with help. They pay one or two years' wages on an emergency basis."
"Okay. Let's go there right away."
"Go back and pack your things first. I will send Tayue and a team of people to follow you." There is also my uncle's family in Huzhou, and I don't know if they are okay.
Several shops in Zhejiang have a lot of people, as well as Zhuangzi's servants and tenants... Huo Xi is very anxious.
