At this moment, Guo Dan's mood is complicated.

The situation was obviously much better than he expected, after all, there were no large-scale victims, which relieved him a lot of burden.

At the same time, not only the Kaifeng Mansion and Weihui Mansion under his contract were flooded, but also the Guide Mansion on the side also flooded.

This in turn reduced his pressure in the imperial court.

But if he wants to be happy, he can't really be happy.

According to statistics, about one-seventh of the fertile land and one-fifth of the pasture in Weihui Province have been damaged by flooding.

The loss is incalculable.

Not only that, but because of the commodity economy, some of the problems that can occur in small-scale peasant societies have been avoided, and the most typical phenomenon is that there are no large-scale victims.

But that's not to say that there are no problems, and this is a new problem.

Cao Xiaodong and Chenchen sandwiched Guo Dan in the middle, and talked endlessly.

It can be seen that there are really a lot of problems.

Now the big landlords of the entire Weihui Mansion have rushed to the mansion city.

They don't want to bear the loss in vain.

However, Guo Dan is not obliged to pay them money, so according to the laws of the market, they will do two things, first, dismiss the hired farmers and reduce their own expenses and losses; Second, raise grain prices and transfer their losses to the greatest extent possible.

It makes so much sense.

This year's grain output will definitely be reduced, and there will be an imbalance between supply and demand, and grain prices will of course rise, and it will be abnormal if they do not rise. Besides, the land is flooded, what am I going to do with so many peasants?

But if you really do this, it will cause great damage to the commodity society of Weihui Mansion.

All the workshops in Weihui Mansion will be involved.

If the price of grain rises, the price of goods will definitely rise, and the advantage of Weihui Mansion will be weakened, and stable grain prices have always been the advantage of Weihui Mansion, and if the hired farmers are dismissed, the number of unemployed people will increase, and public order will be endangered.

This time there was a chain reaction.

It's tricky to deal with everywhere.

But why don't those big landlords do it directly, but still come to the city first, because these two points are protected by the contract system, if they do it directly, then the court can sue them.

They will face hefty fines.

Those big landlords rushed to Fucheng to make trouble with the three courtyards.

This special situation needs to be dealt with specially, and you cannot restrict us.

In fact, the gentry are still relatively easy to speak, they themselves are also gentry, and some gentry have serious losses in their families, and they actually want to increase the price.

However, the court resolutely refused.

Those litigators are all scholars, they have Confucianism, benevolence, morality, and integrity, but they are all values that they defend, at this time, if you want to increase the price of food, then you are not asking for everyone's life, and most of them are not from big families.

They are not having a good time with this rising food price.

At the same time, businessmen also participated, and they strongly supported the litigation court, and they were determined not to let the price of grain rise.

You don't go up, do you?

Then we won't sell it.

The big landlords immediately united to control the sale of grain, but he did not dare to say that he would not sell it at all, this was illegal, they sold a little bit every day, and then found all kinds of reasons, the granary was washed away, and it was impossible to get so much grain for a while, the roads were blocked, and the grain was still on the way.

The grain stores suddenly ran out of food, and the people panicked, and they themselves raised the price of a penny in the hope of buying food.

This black market is about to appear.

Fortunately, many businessmen had hoarded a lot of grain in advance, and Guo Dan himself had a lot of it, so in order to prevent the price of grain from rising, they began to put the grain in the warehouse, and if the price of grain rose, they would lose more.

Their focus is not on food, but on production.

Of course, this is actually the same as eating food.

They are dragging their feet, and in the end they still hope that Guo Dan can solve the problem, they can't solve this problem, and all parties have a lot of contradictions.

This Guo Dan had just entered Fucheng, and before he had time to take a breath, he was surrounded by Liang Kui, Xue Fang and other big landlords, complaining about grievances, complaining about grievances, and of course complaining more.

You kid can be regarded as coming, you were the one who fooled us in the first place, engaged in the hiring of farmers, and abolished the tenant farmers.

Now it's okay, the loss is all ours, and those hired farmers have become uncles, but it's really a loss to grandma's family.

"Everyone, everyone!"

Guo Dan raised his hand, signaled them to be quiet, and then said loudly: "Everyone, please rest assured, I am here today to deal with this problem, I can assure you that I will never let you bear all this alone, and I will definitely help you through this difficulty." ”

After a pause, he added: "But please also let everything get back on track immediately, and don't do anything negative, it's not good for anyone." ”

The big landlords looked at each other, looking a little hesitant.

Guo Dan said: "You shouldn't have forgotten, who gave a million taels to help you last time, will it be different this time?" Go back now and let the food supply be restored, and I want you to assure you that in three days' time I will give you an explanation. ”

Those big landlords suddenly remembered that Guo Dan spilled so much money last time, and although the loss was heavy this time, it was not enough to take out a million taels to relieve them, and Guo Dan should not fool them.

And three days was not a long time, so they agreed one after another.

In fact, except for Guo Dan, anyone who said this, including the emperor, would not easily believe it, so it can be seen that the one million not only helped Weihui Mansion survive the crisis, but also made Guo Dan's credit rise significantly.

He is eligible to overdraw his credit.

Guo Dan only called Liang Kui to go to Chen Lou together, and as for the rest of the big landlords, Guo Dan asked them to go back and wait for news.

It's hard to talk about this kind of thing when there are many people.

When panic gathers, something is bound to go wrong.

When he came to Chen Lou, Guo Dan said to Liang Kui: "Outside Liang Yuan, you and I both know the roots, I am still relatively good at this arithmetic, you don't have to exaggerate in front of me, you just tell me truthfully, how much have you lost?" ”

He knew that the previous big landlords must have been exaggerating, but this time it caused him to make a mistake in prediction.

Liang Kui said: "To tell you the truth, in fact, we are still very happy in our hearts, if it weren't for the fact that we have been strengthening the river in the past few years, I am afraid that our losses are far more than that, but even so, our losses are still very large."

You also know that there has been no harvest in recent years, only the fertile fields by the river, the harvest is the most, and it is precisely these fertile fields that have been flooded, and now the sowing season has long passed, and it will be harvested in two or three months, I never thought, alas... If you want to plant again, you will have to wait until August this year, and this year, these fields are basically not harvested.

And this includes the technology that we have worked so hard to develop agriculture in the last two years, as well as the big waterwheels, the ditches, and the wages we have to pay for the peasants. ”

Most of the wheat planted south of the Great Wall is winter wheat, and most of the wheat is to be harvested for winter.

Guo Dan nodded slightly and said, "But this is mostly about next year's market, and this year, you should be able to support it." ”

"It's hard for me to see it too."

Liang Kui said: "Because it's not just us who have floods here, there are floods in many places in Henan Province, and food prices will inevitably rise, and our Weihui Mansion still needs to buy a lot of grain from outside, even if you don't let us raise prices, those grain merchants outside will definitely rise, and now the price of grain in the Daimyo Mansion has begun to rise, and there is no flood on their side." Unless you come up with a subsidy, food prices will inevitably rise. ”

Guo Dan couldn't help but smile bitterly: "But have you ever thought that if I give a subsidy plan now, then the price of food outside will rise even more unscrupulously." ”

In fact, this situation is completely different from the last time, and it can't be easily stimulated, because food is a necessity for the people, and you can't live without food.

Liang Kui said: "But if we don't do this, even if we don't raise prices, those businessmen won't be able to support it for long, they need to buy food from outside, and in the second half of the year, food prices will definitely get out of control, there is no reason to raise prices outside, we don't raise prices." ”

"You're right!"

Guo Dan nodded and said, "I will seriously consider this, but I hope to be able to get the support of Liang Yuanwai." ”

Liang Kui hesitated for a moment and said, "Of course we will support you, but... But you can't let me lose too much either. ”

"Of course."

Guo Dan said: "But for now, I know that many people want me to give a subsidy plan, but as I just said, if I give a subsidy plan, the price of food outside will rise even more crazy."

For the time being, I would like you to verbally tell you that you don't need my subsidy program, and that we have enough food to stabilize the people's minds and confuse the big grain merchants outside.

If it really doesn't work, I'll launch a subsidy program, and I will never let you bear all this loss, because I know you can't afford it either. ”

Liang Kui thought for a while, nodded and said, "Okay, I promise you, I will tell them." ”

"I'm tired."

As soon as Liang Kui left, Zhou Feng, Qin Zhuang, Hu Yuan, and other wealthy businessmen came to the door.

It turned out that they also suffered a lot of losses.

Because the wharf must be by the river, and there is a warehouse by the river, although I thought about this when the warehouse was built, there are still about 10% of the goods on the warehouse side that have been damaged in large and small ways.

Especially when there is grain that has just been delivered.

But that's secondary.

This loss is also bearable for them.

The key is that the arrival of the flood has seriously hindered trade exchanges, and now all the goods in Weihui Mansion have to be diverted to the Daimyo's Mansion, and the price of food outside is already rising.

You can stop the price of food from rising in Weihui Mansion, but you can't go up from food outside.

Then the problem becomes, the grain we bought at a high price, I must also sell it at a low price in Weihui Mansion, no one can stand this, they hope that Guo Dan will quickly give a way, otherwise, they will not dare to buy food from outside rashly.

At the same time, they also hope that Guo Dan will quickly adjust the transportation plan, the goods cannot be transported, and they have to buy grain to come in, which is really worse.

It can be seen that the commodity economy is not omnipotent, but it only transfers the risks to the big landlords and big businessmen, and because their ability to resist risks is far better than that of those poor peasants, there will be no large-scale disaster victims for a while and a half.

However, if these problems are not resolved in the second half of the year, the consequences will be unimaginable.