The senior officials of the Chengdu court were generally separated from the masses and were not willing to have any contact with the masses. Living in their own high-end circles was as happy as living in an ivory tower.

The only thing that made them feel unhappy was that Shujin's business could not be done and he had no money to make money.

However, they don’t care about the people’s unemployment, no income, no food, or even know that they don’t even know that they are the people who are directly in contact with the masses, are inferior officials and minor officials, and only they know the actual situation.

Whatever the officials and officials report, they think it is. It is better to expect them to enter the people and communicate cordially with the people to find out the actual situation.

The distance between high-ranking officials and the people is said to be the distance between space, but it can be said to be the distance between classes, which is infinitely small, but in fact it is infinitely large.

The officials at the bottom are more willing to please their superiors, embellish the peace, and sing and dance to promote peace.

When facing unemployed people on the streets of Chengdu, what I think of is not a solution or a report, but a concealment. As long as you conceal it and not let your superiors know, the years will be peaceful and everything will be fine.

So when unemployed people began to appear on the streets, they felt that nothing had happened, so they did not take action, nor did they report to the court what happened on the streets. High officials who were separated from the masses knew nothing and realized it later.

When unemployed people on the street started to steal and loot on a small scale because of hunger, a very small number of them felt that they could act, but most of them were very negative, thinking that more things were better than less. Anyway, it was just a few troublemakers who caused trouble. It was no big deal. Just arrest them and finish them.

When unemployed people on the street form a gang to commit group crimes and have a tendency to make things bigger, officials in charge are frightened by the crowds of unruly people, thinking that they may be able to do something, but they are not in staff and cannot do many things.

When the rice commotion broke out in Chengdu in July of the sixth year of Hongwu, when seven rice shops in Chengdu were violently robbed by the public and many grain merchants were killed by angry people, the officials at the bottom realized that they might have done something, but it was too late.

Faced with the anger of the people, they were helpless.

The rice commotion that occurred in Chengdu City quickly intensified and broke out.

Originally, there were more than 1,500 people plundering seven rice shops, but after these people grabbed rice and grain, other Chengdu residents who were originally deterred by the government's deterrence were also ready to join the rice riot team at dusk.

The riot team of more than 1,500 people quickly expanded to more than 50,000 people. The entire Chengdu city was full of teams plundering rice and grain. At first, they plundered rice and grain to survive, but it soon evolved into a robbery of everything visible to the naked eye.

At this time, many commercial streets and shops in Chengdu were devastatingly impacted and looted, and even set fire to fire. During the commotion, many houses were also impacted, and some people were robbed and killed, and the situation was very chaotic.

The earliest group of rice commotion operators in Chengdu City were afraid of revenge from the Chengdu court after robbing rice and grain, so they escaped from Chengdu. Their escape brought the news of rice commotion in Chengdu to surrounding towns.

So the riots escalated.

The places where rice prices doubled are definitely not just Chengdu. The rice and grain prices in many towns except Chengdu have risen for three consecutive months, and the momentum is very fierce. The unemployed industrial and commercial personnel in these places are also tortured by the price of rice and grain.

News of the Chengdu rice commotion came, opening the furious valve in their hearts, anger began to gush, and people began to attack the rice and grain shops.

The grain traders with big belly and ugly faces were soon hung up by the furious unemployed people, and the grain was stolen and the shops were burned.

In early July of the sixth year of Hongwu, after the rice commotion occurred in Chengdu, a large number of unemployed people participated in the county towns of Guangdu County, Lingquan County, Pi County, Jintang County, Jinyuan County, Jiangyuan County, Pingquan County and other counties.

In the past, the more developed the industry and commerce were, the more unemployed people were, the more unemployed people were, the more intense the outbreak of the meter commotion.

At the beginning, all the rice commotion was directed at the rice and grain shops, and then it began to develop into an indiscriminate attack on commercial shops.

The participants ranged from hundreds to more than one thousand people, and there were also a large-scale commotion of more than two thousand people in some county towns. They plundered all the rice and grain shops in the city, killed the hateful grain merchants, and then robbed them red, lost their minds, and destroyed the towns, and even made zero yuan purchases.

The government was helpless. Some timid officials even hid in the government office and did not dare to come out. There was no other way except to send someone to ask Chengdu for help.

By mid-July and late in the month, the scale of the rice commotion further expanded, spreading from Chengdu Prefecture to Hanzhou, Pengzhou, Huaian Army, Jianzhou, Longzhou and Meizhou. All regions suffered from the general rise in rice prices, which eventually triggered a rice commotion.

Strong sacrifice. This large-scale and continuous spread of rice commotion scared the upper rulers of the Sichuan regime.

Although they are psychologically far away from the masses, once the anger of the people breaks out, they can physically shorten the distance between the upper and lower levels.

For the first time they faced such a large-scale mass riot, they were filled with confusion, worry and fear.

Shortly after Zhao Buxi ascended the throne, he was busy dealing with military expansion with senior officials. His attention was on military and national affairs and he had no time to take care of these small matters. However, when small matters suddenly expanded into big matters, Zhao Buxi was also panicked.

The anger of the people in Chengdu can even reach Zhao Buxi's ears.

He quickly found all the civil and military ministers in the court to discuss and asked about the solution to this matter. Everyone discussed it and directly characterized the matter as a rebellion.

It was a person with ulterior motives who created the rebellion of the Song Dynasty and the rebellion of the Song Dynasty court, which was finally reborn from the ashes. This was a very bad thing and something that could not be accepted no matter what.

This is by no means a simple civil rebellion, this is a group of rice thieves!

A heavy blow must be taken!

Therefore, the method proposed by Wu Lin was widely recognized to send troops to suppress it.

Not that there is no other solution to the problem.

For example, a subordinate of Ma Yongkang mentioned that he had heard a lot of news recently, saying that these rioters who made trouble in the city were the original machine shops who had lost their livelihoods and employees in shops. Because of the bankruptcy of textile factories and a large number of shops, they had no livelihoods and had to go out to the streets to cause trouble.

They originally wanted to have a meal, and the court gave them a bite of food. In addition, they could use the old method used by the court in the past, once there was a group of refugees who had no place in their lives, they would recruit them all into the army to manage them, which would be better than fighting and killing.

"Mr. Wu is now at the moment when the army is expanded. Your Majesty issued an edict to let these rioters surrender to the court and be incorporated into the army as appropriate. Everything will be fine. Why do you have to start a big killing?"
Chapter completed!