Judging from the current situation in Sichuan and Sichuan, the local land annexation situation in Sichuan and Shu is also quite bad.
Large landowners occupied most of the fertile land, and a large number of landless peasants were forced to move into cities and towns to make a living.
In any dynasty, big events would happen, but the Song Dynasty was different. The commodity economy, which was far larger than any previous dynasty, gave this group of landless farmers a chance to survive.
In Sichuan and Sichuan, the large-scale and prosperous silk handicraft industry happens to require a large number of people to serve as labor force, so landless farmers still have somewhere to go.
They earned wages by doing manual work, and then purchased food from the grain shops set up by big landowners to support themselves, becoming early proletarians and workers.
Their survival relied on commercial activities, and Southern Song dynasty commerce itself was very fragile, so when this economic model that relied heavily on external exports was hit by the economic blockade, the bad effects suppressed by false prosperity broke out.
Business can no longer continue, there is no money to pay wages, landless farmers can't find anything to do in the towns, and they can't return to the land. Without income, they will go hungry. When they are hungry, they can do all kinds of bad things.
Petty thefts can only be committed by people with a conscience. Those who were originally wild are now semi-open robbers.
From May of the sixth year of Hongwu to July of the sixth year of Hongwu, in three months, there were 160 thefts, 78 robberies, and 93 stabbings in Chengdu alone. There were 69 robberies and robberies, resulting in a total of 21 deaths.
The Chengdu government had a headache over this. Officials were constantly trying to catch guys who were wielding knives and wounding people, but they were powerless to deal with the larger number of petty thefts and robberies.
The public security environment in Chengdu has rapidly deteriorated, and public dissatisfaction is boiling.
And this is not even the most serious situation.
Along with the large-scale bankruptcy and closure of urban industry and commerce and the large-scale unemployment of the industrial and commercial population, the vital food price began to rise quietly.
This time Chapter 17 Si. The most important thing in troubled times is not money, but food.
Once the situation becomes chaotic, people will begin to stockpile grain on a large scale, and grain merchants will quickly discover opportunities to make a fortune, immediately begin to raise grain prices, hype up the food crisis, and take the opportunity to make money on a large scale.
They don't care about the country's financial crisis, they just want money.
If you don’t make money during a crisis, when will you make money?
So from May of the sixth year of Hongwu to early June of the sixth year of Hongwu, grain prices in Chengdu rose by one-third, and people complained. The unemployed urban citizens were furious. On many occasions, rice shops were surrounded to denounce grain merchants. The opposition between the two sides Very serious.
People angrily accused grain dealers of being heartless and hoarding goods because they only care about making money but not about human lives.
The grain merchant was furious and sneered, saying that if he wanted to buy it or not, if he could come in and rob him, he would report it to the officials and arrest him, so that these unscrupulous people would have nothing to eat!
The opposing emotions between the two sides continue to accumulate and strengthen.
During this period, no official figures came out to provide guidance, and food prices continued to rise. By the end of June, food prices had doubled from April.
Grain merchants made a lot of money, and unemployed civilians almost exhausted all their savings just to eat a bite of grain.
So, on the third day of July in the sixth year of Hongwu, after food prices in Chengdu rose again, the first person to starve to death appeared in Chengdu.
By the sixth day of July, more than 20 people had starved to death.
On the eighth day of July, six members of a family hanged themselves collectively out of despair.
On the tenth day of July, more than a hundred people who were about to starve to death knelt in front of the largest grain store in Chengdu and begged them for some food. The grain merchants called in government officials to violently drive them away and beat them with wooden sticks. Thirteen people were killed on the spot. The scene was chaotic. confusion.
The patience of the unemployed has reached its limit.
On July 11, a collective attack on Midian by more than 1,500 people broke out.
Mi commotion occurred in Chengdu.
On the day of the Mi riot, Xu Tong and his comrades from the Sichuan-Shu branch had just arrived in Chengdu for a week. They were sorting out the internal relations of the Chengdu court through the Tianwang Army's Chengdu relationship network and studying the components and behavior of the Chengdu court. .
A month before that, they had arrived in Sichuan and Shu, and met up with spies from the Sichuan-Shu Sky Network Army in Linjiang County, Zhongzhou.
The organization of the Sichuan-Shu Skynet Army is the Seventh Action Group of the Skynet Army, headed by Xu Wu.
Their development in Sichuan and Sichuan is still good.
The Seventh Action Group was organized by a group of key members from the Second Action Group based on instructions from the Skynet Army headquarters.
According to the strategy Su Changsheng set for them, they initially relied on the abundant funds provided by the organization to recruit manpower for the shipping business. Later, when the manpower expanded, they began to send money and benefits to the local government, using money to clear the way, and using the government's bias to gradually Monopolize the local shipping business.
Later, they used the money earned from the monopoly business to purchase large areas of territory in Chungju, and overtly and covertly took in many landless refugees to cultivate the land.
In this way, while obtaining food and selling it to make money, they can also feed these landless refugees, select outstanding and qualified ones, and train them as intelligence personnel, thereby expanding the strength of the Skynet Army's branch in Sichuan and Shu.
When Xu Tong and the Sichuan-Shu branch entered Sichuan, Xu Wu, the leader of the Seventh Action Group, directly used shipping power to transport them all the way to a safe area in Linjiang County, and provided them with very important help.
Strong sacrifice reads sacrifice. Including the area, quantity, commanders, military quality, names of officials in various places, family background, personal qualities, etc. of the Song army garrison in Sichuan and Shu regions.
Basically, he knew everything Xu Tong wanted to know, and Xu Tong also learned that including the Chengdu court, two-thirds of the state and county capitals in the Sichuan-Sichuan region had informants from the Seventh Action Group on a regular basis. Provide them with information.
To put it simply, Xu Tong and others want to launch operations in the Sichuan-Sichuan region, whether military operations or political operations. They have already opened two-thirds of the entire map, and they are all the essence of Sichuan-Sichuan.
Xu Tong was so happy that he even wanted to sworn brothers with Xu Wu on the spot. Anyway, both of them had the same surname as Xu, and they both had one-character names, which sounded like real brothers.
After having a conversation with Xu Wu, Xu Tong roughly understood what happened in the Sichuan-Shu region at this stage of his arrival in Sichuan-Shu.
Then Xu Tong decided to go to Chengdu to see what the situation was like in Chengdu. If Chengdu became chaotic because of this economic crisis, then the chaos in Sichuan and Shu would be right around the corner.
Control the big one and control the owl. After some rest and preparation, Xu Tong and others went to Chengdu for observation. Along the way, they also continued to examine some social conditions in Sichuan and Sichuan. Seven days after they arrived in Chengdu and checked into a hotel specially prepared for businessmen, the rice riot broke out.
The unlucky Chengdu court was still thinking about how to enrich the country and strengthen the army to fight against the military invasion of the Ming Kingdom and Jiangnan Kingdom, but an internal crisis had already broken out.
Faced with an internal crisis for which the people within the Chengdu court were basically unprepared, the Chengdu court's response was also quite unsuccessful.
