After reaching a consensus, the Zhongdu court set a tone.
That is to say, he denied Jiangnan State's request and asked Jiangnan State to cooperate with the Ming State in implementing a ban on the sale of Shu brocade and completely stop purchasing Shu brocade until the Shu-Song regime fell and Sichuan and Shu returned to normal.
To be honest, when they learned the news, Shen Gai and the Lin'an court thought it was unlikely.
Because things like Shu brocade don’t talk about foreigners. As long as we have some status, we don’t dislike it.
Rich people may not be able to buy this thing.
Because you don’t have a certain identity, you are embarrassed to wear it to show your identity.
Wearing clothes made of Shu brocade and using Shu brocade to decorate your appearance not only means that your family is rich, but also means power and status. This is the best way to show your identity and satisfy your vanity in social situations.
This is the most important.
Therefore, Shu brocade, which has accumulated a strong reputation over the years, not only has strong export sales, but also has strong domestic sales. It is an absolute hard currency that can be used both domestically and domestically. Many people are willing to use it as property or money.
He suddenly said that he would temporarily cut off the Shu brocade trade. This... this is simply great!
Shen Gai had wanted to do this for a long time, but he was worried that Ming Guo would not be willing to do it, but Ming Guo was actually willing!
In fact, in this wave of Zhao Buji ascending the throne in Chengdu, the biggest losses were the Lin'an court, which openly controlled the production of Shu brocade, and the senior officials of the Lin'an court, who secretly controlled some Shu brocade weaving villages.
The Lin'an imperial court specializes in weaving the highest-end Shu brocade in the state-owned Chengdu Jinyuan factory in Chengdu. Most of it is enjoyed by the royal family, but a small part goes out of the palace. Its value cannot be measured in money at all.
Some high-ranking officials in the imperial court also control part of Shu brocade weaving. Some of it they enjoy for themselves, and some of it is sold directly for domestic sales or export. There are many people chasing after them.
That was really a tearful and bloody effort.
With Zhao Buji's ascension to the throne, all the Shu Brocade Weaving Zhuangzi Courtyards in Sichuan and Shu were declared by Zhao Buji to be owned by the Chengdu Imperial Court. They became the first formal financial source directly controlled by the Chengdu Imperial Court and would provide a steady stream of funding for the Chengdu Imperial Court. Provide large amounts of money.
The Lin'an court and Lin'an's high-ranking officials and dignitaries suffered heavy losses, and they all cursed and cursed until their faces turned red. They almost raised their swords to kill Zhao Buxi in Chengdu, and hung Zhao Buxi on a boom to whip his corpse a million times.
When Shen Gai was discussing with people in the court, he mentioned the need to restrict the Shu brocade trade and hit the Chengdu court's economic source. However, they were worried that the Jiangnan Kingdom would block it and the Ming Kingdom would not be happy.
As a result, the Ming Dynasty was actually willing to blockade it - don't they have any need for Shu Brocade?
It does not matter.
The important thing is that in this way, the market blockade of Shu Brocade will be passed, and Jiangnan and Jiangbei will work together to seal Shu Brocade.
Even if it cannot be completely blocked, even if there are still smugglers, as long as it is blocked through official channels, it will definitely severely damage the Shu brocade industry and the economic lifeline of the Chengdu court.
Not only that, Su Yonglin also asked the Lin'an court to cooperate with him and implement a material embargo on Shuzhong from now on and impose the strongest economic blockade on the Chengdu court.
The specific method of action is to implement a comprehensive embargo on all supplies that Shu needs to purchase from outside, from grain to ironware to cloth, and block all transportation inside and outside Shu. Land and waterways are also blocked, and all channels that can enter and exit Shu are blocked.
The Ming Dynasty can blockade the north and east and never let anyone from Sichuan and Shu pass through.
The location slightly south is near Jiangnan Kingdom.
In this way, the Chengdu court will trap itself to death, and the internal strife will be more terrifying than the external enemies. The people in Shu will spontaneously organize to resist the court that leaves them with no food, clothing or warmth.
If Zhuge Liang had not been able to keep the people of Shu fed, the people of Shu would never have been willing to spend such a high price to raise a local court and emperor, or even sacrifice their lives to cooperate with their Northern Expedition policy, and they would have revolted.
In the same way, if the Chengdu court cannot keep the people of Sichuan and Sichuan fed, some people will rise up and passionately confront the Chengdu court.
The formal ban began in April of the sixth year of Hongwu.
To be honest, the Ming Dynasty and Jiangnan Kingdom may implement a material embargo and a Shu brocade blockade through physical military means in response to the establishment of the Chengdu imperial court. It is not that no one has mentioned it, but it has not been taken seriously.
Because first of all, the long-term inertia has made everyone generally believe that Shu brocade is the most solid hard currency in the world. No one dislikes it, only people can’t get it.
When someone suggested that the Ming Dynasty might do something about Shu brocade, some people cited the example of Zhuge Liang, thinking that the quality of Shu brocade was excellent and it would be fine. Even if their court wanted to block it, they couldn't stop the rich from wanting it.
The Three Kingdoms are fighting each other, but the ruling class still buys Shu brocade?
As long as the aristocratic ruling class wants it, no amount of blockade will be of any use.
What they didn't expect was that there were no serious rich people in the Ming Dynasty, and the really rich people really didn't need Shu Brocade.
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty directly used the army to seal the Shu roads in the north and east, cut off the Shu brocade trade, and gave up all orders.
The area controlled by the Jiangnan Kingdom also cooperated with the Ming Kingdom, giving up all orders and prohibiting a piece of Shu brocade from leaving Sichuan and Shu.
The Ming army's military attack did not come, but the economic attack came quietly.
Relying on the agriculture in Shuzhong, Shuzhong will definitely not be without food for a while, and it will definitely not be starved to death everywhere.
However, it is true that businesses in Shuzhong that have reached a large scale will fall into a huge crisis, and it is also true that the industrial and commercial population that has reached a large scale will face large-scale unemployment.
In May of the sixth year of Hongwu's reign, two months after Zhao Buxi ascended the throne, eighteen privately owned brocade courtyards in Chengdu announced a shutdown.
If you don’t do it, there is no point in continuing to do it.
If you continue to do it, you have to pay wages to the machine owners, but if you can't sell the products, it's equivalent to doing charity. Private businesses don't have such good sentiments, so they just close down and stop losses.
A few days later, Chengdu Jinyuan, which was controlled by the Chengdu imperial court, also announced the suspension of production.
I can't continue to do it. If I continue to do it, I will lose all my money.
Then one after another public or private brocade institutes announced that they would cease production and no longer produce silk.
Fortunately for the production side, they won't be without food or lose a fortune, and they can still survive for the time being.
But the farmers who make money by making silk to support their families are in a miserable situation. If they don't work, they will have no income, and if they don't have income, they will have no food.
The price level in Chengdu is not as high as that in Lin'an, but it is not low either. The computer households are slightly better off than the moonlight people, and they don't have much savings in their hands. It is not a problem to sit back and have nothing, and they are forced to do nothing. Go out and find something to do.
However, it is not just the machine owners who face the crisis, but also the industrial and commercial employees throughout Sichuan and Sichuan are facing crises of different levels.
The first ones to be affected by this wave of economic blockade were the merchants, followed closely by the businessmen who sent the local products from Sichuan and Sichuan for business outside Sichuan and Shu.
Some were lucky enough not to be arrested by the Ming army who blocked them. The goods were gone but the people were still there.
In some cases, people and goods were taken away together. If both people and goods were lost, the business would no longer be able to continue.
These businessmen are generally businessmen with some strength.
Doing business with a big tree on its back, it also employs many professional employees such as store workers, caravan clerks, guards, accountants, etc.
Now that the business can't continue, these people are still waiting for wages to live, so every extra day is considered a loss.
Therefore, these professional employees were fired and dismissed immediately after the computer users.
The conscientious owner would give them some money as travel expenses back home, while the unconscionable owner would just leave without giving anything and tell them to get out, regardless of whether they had any money on them.
For a time, a large number of unemployed people appeared on the streets of Chengdu.
They sighed and felt terrified, not knowing where they would be tomorrow.
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