Qiming 1158

Chapter 1197 The economic crisis of Sichuan and Shu

After unifying the consensus, the Zhongdu court set a tone.

That is, it denied Jiangnan's request, and asked Jiangnan to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty to implement a ban on the sale of Shu brocade, and completely stop the purchase of Shu brocade until the fall of the Shu-Song regime and the return of Sichuan and Shu to normal.

To be honest, when they heard the news, Shen Gai and the Lin'an court thought it was unlikely.

Because Shu brocade is not to mention foreigners, as long as you have a bit of identity, there is nothing you don't like.

Rich people may not be able to buy this stuff.

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 decorating the facade with Shu brocade means not only wealth at home, but also 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 for many years, not only has the strong power of export sales, but also has the strong power of domestic sales. It is an absolute hard currency that can be used both internally and externally. Many people are willing to use it as property and money.

He suddenly said that he would temporarily cut off the Shu Brocade trade, this... This is simply too good!

Shen Kai wanted to do this early in the morning, but he was worried that Ming Guo would not want it, but Ming Guo actually did!

In fact, this wave of Zhao Buxi ascended the throne in Chengdu, and the biggest losses were the Lin'an court who controlled the production of Shu brocade on the surface, and the senior officials of the Lin'an Dynasty who secretly controlled some Shu brocade weaving Zhuangzi.

The Lin'an court in Chengdu had the Chengdu Brocade Institute, a state-owned workshop specializing in weaving the most high-end Shu brocade, most of which were enjoyed by the royal family, and a small part of which flowed out of the palace. The value cannot be measured by money at all.

Some high-ranking officials in the imperial court also controlled the weaving of some Shu brocades, some of which were enjoyed by themselves, and some of which were directly sold, sold domestically or exported, and many people were chasing them.

That was really bloody and tearful.

With Zhao Bushi's ascension to the throne, all the courtyards of Shu brocade weaving Zhuangzi in Sichuan and Sichuan were announced by Zhao Bushi to be owned by the Chengdu court, becoming the first official financial source directly controlled by the Chengdu court, which will provide a steady stream of funds for the Chengdu court. Provide a lot of money.

The Lin'an imperial court and Lin'an high-ranking officials and dignitaries suffered heavy losses, and they all blushed with cursing, and they almost went to Chengdu with a knife to hang Zhao Buxiu on a boom and whip his corpse a million times.

When Shen Gai was discussing with the people in the court, he mentioned that they would restrict the trade of Shu brocade and attack the source of income of the Chengdu court, but they were worried that the Jiangnan Kingdom would be blocked, and the Ming Kingdom would not be happy.

As a result, the Ming Kingdom was also willing to block it - don't they have no need for Shu Jin?

It does not matter.

The important thing is that in this way, the market blockade of Shu Jin will be passed, and Jiangnan and Jiangbei will work together to seal Shu Jin.

Even if it can't be completely blocked, even if there are smugglers, as long as the official channel blocks it, it will definitely hit 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, starting from now on embargoing materials in the middle of Shu, and carrying out the strongest economic blockade on the Chengdu court.

The specific action method is to completely embargo everything from grain to iron to cloth and all other materials that need to be purchased from outside Shu, and block the traffic inside and outside Shu, block land and water together, and block all passages that can enter and leave Shu.

Daming in the north and east can blockade, and no one in the land of Sichuan and Shu will be allowed to pass.

And a little bit to the south is the Jiangnan Kingdom.

In this way, the Chengdu court will trap itself to death, the civil strife will be more terrifying than the foreign enemy, and the people of Shu will spontaneously organize to resist the court that makes them hungry and warm.

If Zhuge Liang failed to feed the people of Shu, they would never be willing to pay such a high price to support a Tu court and emperor, and even sacrifice their lives to cooperate with their Northern Expedition policy, they would revolt.

In the same way, if the Chengdu court could not feed the people of Sichuan and Shu, some people would rise up and fight with the Chengdu court passionately.

The formal ban began in April of the sixth year of Hongwu.

To be honest, the Ming Kingdom and Jiangnan Kingdom may implement material embargoes and Shu Jin blockades through physical means of the army to deal with the establishment of the Chengdu court. It is not that no one has mentioned the Chengdu court, but it has not been taken seriously.

Because of the inertia formed over a long period of time, everyone generally believes that Shu Jin is the hardest hard currency in the world. No one doesn't like it, only people can't get it.

When someone suggested that the Ming Dynasty might do something about Shu Brocade, some people took the example of Zhuge Liang back then, believing that the quality of Shu Brocade was excellent and it was fine, even if their court wanted to block it, the rich couldn't stand it.

There are dog brains between the Three Kingdoms, but doesn't the ruling class still buy Shu Brocade?
As long as the aristocratic ruling class wants it, no amount of blockade will help.

What they didn't expect was that there were no serious rich people in Ming Dynasty, and those who were really rich didn't really need Shu Jin.

Therefore, the Ming Kingdom directly used the army to seal the Shu Road to the north and east, cut off the trade of Shu brocade, and gave up all orders.

The Jiangnan Kingdom control area also cooperated with the Ming Kingdom, giving up all orders and prohibiting a Shu brocade from flowing out of Sichuan and Shu.

The military attack of the Ming army did not come, but the economic attack has come quietly.

Relying on the agriculture of Shuzhong, Shuzhong will never run out of food for a while, and it will never die of starvation.

However, it is also true that large-scale businesses in the middle of Shu will fall into a huge crisis because of this, and it is also true that large-scale industrial and commercial populations will face large-scale unemployment.

In May of the sixth year of Hongwu, two months after Zhao Buxi ascended the throne, [-] privately-run brocade academies in Chengdu announced the suspension of work.

If you don't do it, there's no point in doing it any longer.

If you continue to do it, you will pay the machine owners, but if you can't sell the product, you are doing charity work.

In a few days, Chengdu Jinyuan, which is under the control of the Chengdu imperial court, also announced the suspension of production.

You can't continue doing it, and you'll lose all your capital if you keep doing it.

Next, the successive public or privately run brocade institutes announced that they would stop production and no longer produce silk.

The producers are fine, they won't run out of food and lose a fortune, so they can live on for the time being.

However, the machine households who rely on making silk to make money to support their families will be miserable. If they do not work, they will have no income, and if they have no 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. The machine owners are slightly better than the Moonlight Clan, and they don't have much savings in their hands. Go out and find things to do.

However, it is not only the computer users who are facing the crisis, the industrial and commercial practitioners in the entire Sichuan and Sichuan are facing the crisis of different levels.

The first to be impacted by this wave of economic blockade are the machine households, followed by the businessmen who do business outside of Sichuan and Sichuan.

Some were lucky, and the Ming army, who was not blocked, was caught, the goods were gone, and the people were still there.

Some are taken away together with people and goods, and both people and goods are lost, and the business cannot go on.

These merchants are generally somewhat powerful merchants.

Backed by the big tree to do business, there are also many professional practitioners such as store workers, caravan clerks, guards, accountants and so on.

Now that the business can't go on, these people are still waiting for the salary to live, and the extra day is considered a loss.

Therefore, these professional practitioners were fired and sacked immediately after the machine owners.

The host family with a little conscience also gave them some money to pay for their journey home, while those with no conscience just swept out the door, gave nothing, and told them to get out of there, regardless of whether they had money or not.

For a time, a large number of unemployed people appeared on the streets of Chengdu.

They sighed and panicked, not knowing where they would be tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)