Edo Traveler

At first, the shogunate used one hundred thousand taels of gold to buy rice, and then stored the shortlisted rice warehouses. Many rice merchants also felt that the shortfall in the rice warehouses was too large, and the shogunate could not maintain it, so it needed to be filled.

After several old middlemen also began to order their retainers to buy a little grain, the rice merchants with very sensitive eyes and ears felt that something might happen. But after all, there was no sign of this matter, and the reason could not be guessed out of thin air.

Until there were a few greed, thinking that even the shogunate began to hoard grain and rice, this year's disaster situation may be true. As the so-called daring starving to death, some people have hooked up with a wealthy businessman, hoping to borrow some of the funds to do this lucrative business.

The news spread to the upper echelons of society!

At this time, the time has entered the middle of summer. This year's rainy season precipitation is far lower than normal. Then there is no rain in the middle of summer. For 30 consecutive days, it is sunny, and the seedlings in the sky and the earth are almost half dry.

If it doesn't rain again, it will be a catastrophe!

Although there was less rain in Edo this year, there were still a few rains, and the situation in the Kanto Plain was in a state of desperation. Coupled with the fact that the water conservancy facilities are fairly complete, perhaps it means that the production will be reduced by 20 to 30%.

In the Kinki and Western regions, severe droughts occurred. The vast rural areas, first of all, the fired fields and dry fields, all the crops withered, and then the paddy fields that are relatively far away from the water conservancy facilities and rivers. In order to ensure that some of the seedlings can still survive. Survive, but also abandoned.

The current situation is that those small rivers with short runoffs are basically dry, and most of the ponds and reservoirs have bottomed out. If it doesn't rain anymore, Saiguo and Kinki will all be over this year!

The hoarding of interested people, as well as the actual drought, finally caused a "food shortage" in Edo!

Nowadays, farmers basically grow food for one season, and then have rations for the next season. Alternately, there is almost no savings. The people in the cities basically only have food for ten and a half months at home, or even no overnight food. Today I made money by working, and I had a takeaway meal, and then I will go to work tomorrow.

News of the famine broke out in a short period of time. The news that had been circulated among some people in the previous two months quickly leaked out, and the people of Edo began to rush to buy food.

The first is that the price of food starts at one price a day, and the second is that the rice merchants start to sell their products and hoard them!

The drought outside the city is very difficult day by day, and the price of food in the city is higher than the day. Tokugawa Ieki, Ooka Tadaguro, and others exclaimed their fortunately. Fortunately, after listening to Tademon's words, including the more than 300,000 stone old rice that is still in the surrounding rice warehouse, and the hundreds of thousands of stones that they paid for Rice, the shogunate holds about half a million stone rice. In theory, it can supply the people of Edo to eat until the beginning of spring next year, and there may even be room to support other places.

Now that the drought has begun, and the rice merchants on the market are not willing to sell rice, the shogunate has increased the price so much that it doubles and sells, that is a great good governance!

But Chuemon secretly worried. There are two problems now. One is that the people's purchase of rice came too early, at least two months earlier than the estimated time. Under normal circumstances, people who have lived in their own village or on that street all their lives will not know much about external news if they do not inquire carefully.

The drought situation normally does not spread to a large area until the harvest is completely lost after autumn. In the summer, everyone is guessing at most, and it even feels that this summer is hot.

The other was not considered before, but only now. This rice is sold at a fair price, and it is very likely that someone will take advantage of it. Some are black-hearted goods. They will come over to buy cheap rice, and then hoard them, and wait until Edo has no rice in the winter before selling it.

In the face of money, there is no need to consider human nature at all. There have been too many such things throughout the ages, and they are uncountable. And there is no way to deal with it for a while, and the reason is very simple.

The shogunate does not control the household registration!

The household registration of those townsmen in Edo itself, that is, people with household registration, is in the hands of the monks and monasteries in Edo, and the shogunate can transfer it with a single official document, but hundreds of thousands of floating people without household registration, not only the shogunate does not have their household registration. , Nor in the monastery.

This leads to a very realistic situation. Even if you want to distribute food according to your household registration, it is difficult to do so quickly. Hundreds of thousands of floating people are distributed in the huge Edo castle town. Even in later generations, if not everyone actively cooperates with the registration, it will take tens of thousands of staff to work for ten and a half months, or even longer, to sort out.

The way it looks right now, ha ha, you won't be able to keep statistics for half a year!

So relying on household registration to sell grain cannot be realized at all. As for selling only a fixed amount of food every day, it is not feasible. Do you think the rich and powerful can buy it first, or the ordinary people can buy it first?

If the common people cannot buy food, they will still riot and will starve to death many people. When the time comes, don't prepare a game in advance, but it is almost equivalent to not preparing anything.

Talking to the old man about this concern, everyone was silent. The current situation is that rice merchants are hoarding and reluctant to sell, selling only a small amount of grain every day, and the people are already lacking in grain. The shogunate is desperately needed to start allocating food at affordable prices.

However, once the shogunate started selling grain, if the supply could not be opened up, there would be absolutely no way to lower the price of rice, and there would be no way to stabilize the people's hearts. But open the supply? Of course, 500,000 stone rice is a lot, piled up higher than the mountain, but it can't withstand the panic buying by the people of Edo and the people ~www.wuxiaspot.com~What should I do?

Songping Qixuan thought about it for a while, and started to open a porridge factory. Didn’t Chuemon just run a porridge factory under Edo Castle for two months, and helped more than 200,000 people.

Chungemon shook his head when he heard this. Last time it was no money for manpower and no money for firewood. Apart from rice, there was no economic cost. Moreover, only a part of the towns in Edo were burned, and there was no large-scale chaos in the production, life and management order of Edo, and it was very convenient to do everything.

Today this time is quite different. The first is that the number of people affected by the disaster may explode. Once they hear about the porridge from the shogunate, people from the villages in Sakon will definitely flock. At that time, more than a million people will need to be rescued. Even with the assistance of the Edo Town Magistrate, Chuemon does not believe that he can organize such a large-scale relief.

The second is that so many victims are difficult to manage. They are all oiled dry grass. Anyone who throws a spark into it will explode. Together, Edo Castle may be affected.

"First think of a way to evacuate the people under the city?" Chuemon was helpless.