Dearth and Riot

The harvests have failed, and bread is dear beyond the reach of common folk. The cities of our Flavor Rank see hungry crowds gather at the granaries and turn to riot, while the countryside empties as the desperate take to the roads in search of a fuller table.

A ruler is judged in lean years far more harshly than in fat ones, for a starving people care nothing for silver won abroad if there is no loaf at home, and it is a short road from an empty belly to a stone thrown at our officials. We must find grain to fill the markets and keep order in the streets, or watch hunger do to our people what no rival army could.

Conditions

Fired by

• Golden CenturySituationFrom on monthly · right away

Major trigger

Is a member of The Grand Alliance

Exact conditions

Options

AWe face the hungry crowds.

Gains Dearth in the Land for 10 years

• Food Production−50%
• Production Efficiency−15%

Exact script

Connections

Requires 1

• The Grand AllianceMajor trigger

Grants 1

• DDearth in the Land10 yearsOption

Triggered by 1

• Golden CenturyEach month

Scripting 1

References 1

• Mmodifier_duration_years_normalOption

Definitionin_game/events/situations/golden_century_events.txt:3293

type = country_event

category = situation_event

image_list = "golden_century_illustration"

fire_only_once = yes

major = yes

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is_member_of_international_organization = international_organization:grand_alliance

}

title = golden_century_events.52.title Dearth and Riot

desc = golden_century_events.52.desc The harvests have failed, and bread is dear beyond the reach of common folk. The cities of our Flavor Rank see hungry crowds gather at the granaries and turn to riot, while the countryside empties as the desperate take to the roads in search of a fuller table.

A ruler is judged in lean years far more harshly than in fat ones, for a starving people care nothing for silver won abroad if there is no loaf at home, and it is a short road from an empty belly to a stone thrown at our officials. We must find grain to fill the markets and keep order in the streets, or watch hunger do to our people what no rival army could.

historical_info = golden_century_events.52.desc.historical_info The dense cities of the Iberian Peninsula were always vulnerable to dearth, and a single failed harvest or a severed trade route could bring famine and rioting to their streets within a season. The famines and rural depopulation of the early seventeenth century, remembered as part of the decline of Castile, drove the hungry from the land and made bread riots a recurring feature of Spanish city life.

outcome = negative

History