It is said that Sichuanese have never lost their country. What did Sichuan do?

"Sichuanese will never lose their country, and China people will never lose their country." This is a popular sentence after the Sichuan earthquake, which is more domineering and touching than Cao Cao's sentence "I would rather teach me to lose my country than teach everyone to lose me". Why has Sichuan been so troubled since ancient times? In history, Sichuan was almost conquered twice, once at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Sichuanese were almost killed by Mongols, and once, Zhang slaughtered Sichuan.

At that time, Sichuan had the best tea and silk products, academies and the most precious rare books of ancient books. Most importantly, Sichuan provides nearly one-third of the country's tax revenue and a large number of soldiers. After the Southern Song Dynasty joined forces with Mongolia to destroy gold and became the goal of Mongolia, Sichuan became the most fierce place to fight against Mongolia, and it was also the last barrier of the Southern Song Dynasty.

The Mongolian fighters created by Genghis Khan swept across Eurasia. They never lost, but they lost their lives under the fishing city in eastern Sichuan. This isolated city fought alone for 36 years, and even continued to resist for many years after the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty. Fishing Town is famous all over the world because it made Mongolian Khan die at the gate, and the pioneer Wang Dechen died, which to some extent reversed the pattern of the Eurasian War.

However, after decades of persistence, the fishing city was finally broken and the people of Sichuan were slaughtered by the Mongolian army. The population decreased from 6.5438+0.29 million before the war to 825,000, and 6.5438+0.4 million people were killed in Chengdu alone, 4.5 times that of the Nanjing Massacre.

After more than 200 years of recovery in the Ming Dynasty, by Chongzhen, the population of Sichuan had recovered to 365,438+10,000, but it was far less than12.9 million at the end of the Song Dynasty. But no one expected that, not long after, Sichuan fell into the massacre of the devils again, this time it was Zhang's massacre.

Legend has it that Zhang killed all Sichuanese, but it was not. After all, after Zhang died in 1646, the Qing army still fought in Sichuan for 13 years. In the early years of Kangxi, Sichuan had lost more than 90% of its population and once again became a barren land of the Yuan Dynasty.

Although Sichuan suffered two disasters, Sichuanese still contributed to the country as long as the country needed it, such as the road protection movement, which made the Revolution of 1911. 1On October 27th, Chengdu declared its independence, and the rule of the Qing Dynasty in Sichuan was completely destroyed.