Why didn't there be a refugee uprising in "Dingwu Qi Huang" in Qing Dynasty?

In the capital of 1875, two great events happened in the Great Qing Dynasty. Emperor Tongzhi, who was only 19 years old, died on June 2, 1 year. On February 25th, Emperor Guangxu, who was only four years old, ascended the throne, and Cixi and Ci 'an listened to politics again. It was also that year that the people of the Great Qing Dynasty began to stage a terrible famine. In just four years, nearly 6.5438+million people starved to death and 20 million people were displaced, which is called "Ding Wuqi Famine" in history.

/kloc-in the spring of 0/875, there began to be little rain in the north of Qing Dynasty. This phenomenon lasted until winter. Drought has occurred in northern provinces, especially in Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu.

From 65438 to 0876 of the following year, the drought in all provinces began to increase, and the capital was Zhili generation. As a result of the drought, the plague of locusts reappeared. Locusts are everywhere, it is rainy in summer, and the Weihe River is flooded! Just suffered from drought, locust plague and flood in Zhili. "Shandong Tongzhi" records: That year, there was a "great drought" in the province. People are hungry. "

Shen Bao reported in June1876+February 1 1: "The phenomenon that the victims fled and the people begged for rain can be seen everywhere in Shandong. Everywhere began to "pawn wives and sell children, and many people died, which was terrible. "

According to "Yonghe County Records", young women are neglected, and the beautiful ones are only 1000 yuan, which is less valuable than the chickens and dogs.

Ceng Guoquan, governor of Shaanxi Province, called it "a disaster that has never happened in more than 200 years", and Ceng Guoquan said in his memorial that the disaster area "has more than a thousand miles of bare land and five or six million hungry people, which is unprecedented".

The victims first took pebbles and ground them into flour for food, or "dug Guanyin white mud to satisfy their hunger", (1876 reported the record. )

1877, the drought is further aggravated. Spread in most parts of the country. The victims began to eat in a barter way, and people who eat human flesh and sell human flesh abound.

Timothy richard, a missionary, recalled: "The disaster made people panic. Hundreds of women occupied the rich people's homes to burn firewood and cook, and ate one and changed another. Men see this way is good. They got together and went door to door to grab food.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of refugees led to refugee uprising, so why didn't there be a refugee uprising in Ding Wu, a strange famine in the Qing Dynasty?

Cixi, the actual ruler of the Qing Dynasty, approved the establishment of a large number of "porridge factories" in various places, one for the relief of the victims and the other for limiting the flow of the victims.

From Li Hongzhang to the Ministry of War and then to Empress Dowager Cixi, they all felt the urgency of "preventing the flow of victims", so they spared no effort to increase local disaster relief efforts and strictly guard against it. Even porridge factories have been set up in areas not affected by the disaster, and the victims have been "resettled on the spot". Rich gentry in the south of the Yangtze River also donated money to help the victims, and Jiangsu Governor Wu Yuan took the lead in donating money.

The catastrophic drought in the late Qing Dynasty was a catastrophe in history! At that time, it was said that "this is the end of the 230-year history of the Qing Dynasty, which is distressing and unheard of."