When the Chengdu imperial court was first established, many institutions and staff were not fully equipped, and many powers had not yet been taken back to the central government, and the local governments took charge of it. Therefore, during this period, local officials in the Chengdu imperial court had great power.

Many things are solved by themselves, rather than reported to the Chengdu court, waiting for the court's resolution. Many things such as finance and judicial affairs are solved by themselves, and the Chengdu court does not care.

After feeling the pleasure of freedom, local officials felt that their hearts of freedom began to take off, so when they received the orders from the court to stop, they felt dissatisfied and felt that the court had hindered their freedom.

They don’t care about the life and death of the civilians. They just want to squeeze out all the oil and water of these poor people in their next life and in order to satisfy their desires.

Since ancient times, how can there be no reason for not letting officials slaughter the poor?

It was October when the imperial court issued the order to add the suffrage. Officials acted at the news and immediately started robbing. The efficiency was amazing and the rapid creation of a large number of refugees was lamenting that the bureaucratic system could only show super high efficiency at this level.

However, when the order to stop was issued in mid-November, the officials delayed it again and again, while speeding up the pace of forcing farmers to pay taxes, blocking the news and preventing farmers from knowing the court's orders, so as not to delay their earnings, which fully reflects the execution of the bureaucratic class.

This delayed until mid-December.

When Su Yonglin set a future prospect for Ming Dynasty to sail towards the sea of ​​stars, the bureaucrats of the Shu and Song regime were still making money.

From early October of the sixth year of Hongwu to mid-December of the sixth year of Hongwu, officials in Sichuan and Sichuan forced a large number of self-cultivated farmers to go bankrupt at an extraordinary speed.

They not only rob farmers of their savings, but also took the initiative to cooperate with local powerful landlords. The two sides cooperated tacitly and took up their traditional skills. While forcing farmers to pay taxes to the point of desperate situations, they also came forward to lower the price to buy land.

The farmers were desperate and could not resist for a while. In desperation, they could only sell land in large quantities.

The officials stole the property and grain stored in the farmers' homes, and the powerful landlords stole the farmers' land, and then gave the government a kickback. The two sides cooperated tacitly, and they achieved a win-win situation.

In just less than three months, Sichuan and Shu officials successfully created hundreds of thousands of refugees in more than ten prefectures on the five roads of Sichuan and Shu, and as time goes by, the number of refugees is increasing.

But the bureaucrats don't care.

For bureaucrats, the most important thing now is to seize the time to make a fortune. Nothing else matters. Whoever dares to stop them from making money and making money will regard whoever they regard as their enemy.

As for the court's request for local wealthy households to stop plundering farmers' land and to build porridge sheds to feed peasants, it was basically a joke. He laughed at it and then pretended that such a thing had never happened.

Local officials colluded with them and would not allow refugees to return to their hometowns at all, which also caused a small friction between local governments.

Obviously, when refugees come out of their hometowns and go to other places, in this process, some places have "net outflows" of population, while some places have "net inflows".

The burden of net inflow in the local area was too great. The local local officials were very happy when they learned the imperial order. They immediately sent someone to count the household registration of local refugees and prepared to call the governments from those places to pick them up.

But the local officials agreed to say "Okay, okay," but they just didn't take action.

Local officials sent people to ask repeatedly, and they all said that they would send people to pick them up tomorrow, but after several tomorrows, there was no movement.

It is exactly what is said that tomorrow will be tomorrow, and there are so many tomorrows.

After more repeated, local officials also figured out some tricks and realized that those damn colleagues from the local area would not send people to pick them up.

What they most hope is that these refugees will die in other places and never go back to cause trouble for them, so that they will not pay for the porridge shed to feed the refugees.

Some people will tell the court at that time.

It’s not that they didn’t accept it, but that the group of refugees were dead and no one could take it back, so although they were very sad, they had to endure it.

This is absolutely not accepted by bureaucrats in the area of ​​net inflow.

If there are too many dead people, the unlucky thing is the influx of the land, which is the act of taking the blame for others. In this kind of matter, bureaucrats who are good at passing the blame and regard passing the blame as a serious official career will never be ambiguous.

So while submitting the Chengdu court to the court accusing the bureaucrats of the plains of leaking, they accused them of evading responsibility and not coming to pick up people, they planned to organize their own people to send the refugees back to them.

Of course it is impossible to escort or something. Sending people to send weapons and expel them from their jurisdiction by violent means is the best way to "send people".

This incident was also learned by the Chengdu court.

Zhao Buxi was furious and issued an edict to ask the officials in Jingliu to take back all the people and immediately send the censor to supervise. Whoever dares not accept the person will be dismissed on the spot.

The officials in Jingliu were helpless. While scolding Jingliu, the officials in Jingliu did not do human affairs, they also made a statement and made a case, and then prepared to spend money to bribe the censor.

Bribery of one person or a few people is much cheaper than relocating thousands or tens of thousands of people.

The imperial court was fooled and passed by casually. If you really wanted to bring back all the refugees, you wouldn't be fooled by thousands or tens of thousands of mouths. That would be a real money and silver.

They can still calculate this economic account.

The bureaucrats were happy to fight back and forth, and they made decisions and interventions against the Chengdu court. All their energy was focused on this matter, and their abacus was so loud that they never cared about the landless farmers who were treated like they were beaten by the ball.

The farmers were unable to stay in the shelter. After being violently driven away, they were desperate to find that no county accepted them. There were brutal armed forces everywhere to drive them away, and even animals were not as good as animals.

Some people stay in the wilderness, and they should not be called "Di" and "Di" are not effective.

Some were forced to return to their hometown, but found that their hometown was more cruel to them. When they saw it, they came up to beat them and drive them away, and never let them return to their hometown.

Although the world is big, it seems that there is no place for them to stand in any place. They seem to not belong to this world, this era.

Therefore, in the coldest winter of the sixth year of Hongwu and the coldest season of the seventh year of Hongwu, in this cold wind, the landless farmers in Sichuan and Sichuan who were wandering outside starved to death in batches and froze to death.

When a team of refugees walked from one county to another, more than one-third of the people died of starvation. When the distance was longer, two-thirds of the people died of starvation.

As the team walked, some people fell head-on and never got up again. There were many relatives who were still alive and howled around the corpse. If there were no relatives, the corpse was pushed directly to the side of the road.

No one watched or cared about it. Just waiting for spring to begin, the corpse will slowly rot and become a lonely ghost.

Although the land of Sichuan and Sichuan has always had a humid and hot climate, it should be cold in winter and early spring, and it should be cold, and it is biting cold.

The refugees who were dressed in single clothes and had no food to eat froze to death in large quantities, and there was no hope at all. What awaited them in any place was not warm houses and thick vegetable porridge, but fierce armed men and hard sticks.

They were eventually trapped in boundless despair.

But the armed and bureaucrats who treated them in this way may have forgotten that people are not only miserable, pitiful, but also very dangerous when they are desperate.

Danger in the physical sense.
Chapter completed!