Grain merchants earn a lot of money, and the unemployed civilians almost run out of food when they take a bite.

So the first person starved to death appeared in Chengdu after the food price in Chengdu rose again on the third day of July in Hongwu six years.
By the sixth day of July, more than twenty people had starved to death.
In early July, a family of six hanged themselves in despair.
At the beginning of July, more than 1100 starving people knelt in front of Chengdu’s largest grain store and begged them to give some food. The grain merchants shouted to the government officials to violently drive away wooden sticks and beat 13 people on the spot. The scene was chaotic.
The patience of the unemployed has reached its limit.
On July 11th, an incident in which more than 1,500 people attacked the rice shop broke out.
Rice riots appeared in Chengdu.
On the day of the rice riots, Xu Tong and the comrades of Sichuan-Sichuan branch just arrived in Chengdu for a week, and they are combing the Chengdu court department through the Chengdu network of Tianwangjun to study the behavior style of Chengdu court components.
A month earlier, they had arrived in Sichuan and Sichuan, and the agents of Sichuan and Sichuan Skynet Army took the lead. The location was Linjiang County, Zhongzhou.
Sichuan-Sichuan Skynet Army Organization is Xu Wu, the leader of the Seventh Action Group of Skynet Army.
Their development in Sichuan and Sichuan is still good.
The seventh action group is a group of key members from the second action group according to the instructions of Tianwangjun headquarters.
According to Su Changsheng’s strategy for them, they first relied on organizing abundant funds to recruit people to do shipping business. After the expansion of manpower, they began to send money and benefits to the local government, and the government gradually monopolized the local shipping business.
After that, they made money from monopoly business, and Zhongzhou bought a large territory and secretly took in many landless refugees to cultivate the land.
In this way, while earning money from grain sales, we can feed these landless refugees and select excellent and qualified intelligence personnel to train them, so as to expand the Sichuan-Sichuan branch of Tianwang Army.
When Xu Tong and Sichuan-Sichuan Branch entered Sichuan-Sichuan, Xu Wu, the leader of the Seventh Action Group, directly moved the shipping force to transport them all the way to the An area of Linjiang County and gave them considerable help.
Including the Song Jun garrison area, number, general, military quality, names of local officials, family background, personal quality and so on.
Base Xu Tong wants to know the news, he can know it, and Xu Tong also knows that two-thirds of the state capitals and county capitals, including the Zhongchuan and Shu areas of the Chengdu court, have the eyes of the Seventh Action Group to give them information regularly.
To put it simply, Xu Tong and others want to launch operations in Sichuan and Sichuan, military operations or political operations, and they have already drawn a picture of two parts, and they are all the essence areas of Sichuan and Sichuan.
Xu Tong is very happy and wants to make friends with Xu Wu on the spot. Anyway, both of them are surnamed Xu and both are single-word names, which sounds just like brothers.
After talking with Xu Wujin, Xu Tong got a general idea of what happened in Sichuan and Sichuan at this stage of his arrival.
Then Xu Tong decided to take a trip to Chengdu to see what Chengdu was like. If Chengdu was in chaos because of this economic crisis, the whole Sichuan-Sichuan chaos was also nearby.
After some rest and preparation, Xu Tong and others went to Chengdu to observe all the way, and also constantly inspected some social conditions in Sichuan and Sichuan. Seven days after they arrived in Chengdu to stay in a hotel prepared by a special businessman, the rice commotion broke out.
Unfortunately, the Chengdu court is still thinking about how to enrich the country and Qiang Bing against the military invasion of China and Jiangnan, but a crisis has broken out.
Facing the crisis that Chengdu imperial court personnel base was not prepared for, Chengdu imperial court also failed to deal with it.
Chapter 122 Must make a punch!
The senior officials of Chengdu court are generally divorced from the masses and are not willing to have any contact with them. Living in their high-end circle is as happy as living in an ivory tower.
The only thing that makes them unhappy is that Shu brocade business can’t be done and there is no money to make.
But they don’t care about the fact that people are unemployed, have no income and have no food, or they don’t know anything. The people who come into direct contact with them are low-ranking officials and petty officials, and they know the actual situation.
Small officials and petty officials believe what they report. It is better to expect them to personally enter the people and have a cordial exchange with them to find out the actual situation than to expect sow trees.
The distance between senior officials and the people is distance, but it can be said that the class distance is limited, but it is actually limited.
And the officials at the bottom are more willing to please their own level to whitewash the peace and dance.
In the face of the unemployed people on the streets of Chengdu, I thought that it was not to solve, not to report, but to hide, so that the level would not know, and everything would be fine.
So when unemployed people began to appear on the streets, they felt that nothing had happened, and they did not report to the court what had happened on the streets. They were divorced from the masses and the senior officials knew nothing.
When the unemployed people on the street started to steal and rob on a small scale because they were hungry, very few of them thought it was feasible, but most of them were very negative. They thought it was better to have more than one thing. Anyway, it was just a few unruly people making trouble. It was no big deal to arrest them and finish them.
When the unemployed people in the streets form gangs to commit organized crimes and there is a tendency to make things worse directly, the officials are afraid of the crowds of unruly people and think that they may be able to do something, but they are understaffed and many things can’t be done.
When more than 1,500 rice riots broke out in Chengdu in July of the sixth year of Hongwu, when seven rice shops in the capital were violently robbed by the people and many grain merchants were killed by the angry people, the bottom-level officials realized that they might have done something at the beginning, but it was too late.
They are helpless in the face of public anger.
The rice riots in Chengdu soon intensified.
It used to be that several looting teams, totaling more than 1,500 people, looted seven rice shops. However, after grabbing the rice, these people were afraid of the government’s deterrence and did not dare to act. Chengdu residents were also eager to move. At dusk, they joined the rice riots.
The riot team of more than 1,500 people quickly expanded to more than 50,000 people. The whole city of Chengdu was full of looting teams of rice. At first, it was looting rice to survive, but it soon evolved into looting everything visible to the naked eye.
Many commercial streets and shops in Chengdu have been devastated and looted, and some people have set fire to them. Many houses have also been impacted in the commotion, and some people have been robbed and killed. The situation is very chaotic.
However, the first batch of rice rioters in Chengdu fled Chengdu for fear of retaliation from Chengdu court after robbing rice grain, and they fled and brought the news of rice riots in Chengdu to surrounding towns.
So the rice commotion expanded.
The place where the price of rice has doubled is definitely not just Chengdu. In addition to Chengdu, the price of rice in many towns has been rising for three months in a row, and the unemployed industrial and commercial personnel in these places are also suffering from the price of rice.
The news of Chengdu rice riots opened the valve of anger in their hearts, and anger began to gush, and people began to attack rice shops.
Those pot-bellied and ugly grain merchants were quickly hanged by the furious unemployed, and the southeastern branch was robbed of grain and the shops were burned down.
After the rice riots in Chengdu in July 10th, the sixth year of Hongwu, Guangdu County, Lingquan County, Pixian County, Jintang County, Jinyuan County, Jiangyuan County, Pingquan County and other counties and counties broke out with rice riots of different scales, and a large number of unemployed people participated.
The more developed the former industry and commerce, the more unemployed people there are, and the more meters the unemployed people are, the greater the intensity of the riots.
At the beginning, the Ministry of Rice Riot was all aimed at rice shops, and then it began to develop into a differential attack on commercial shops
Participants ranged from hundreds to more than 1,000 people, and there were also some large-scale riots of more than 2,000 people in individual counties. They looted the rice shops in the city, killed the hateful grain merchants, and then lost their minds, wreaked havoc on the towns and even appeared the Yuan Purchase Bank.
The government is helpless about this, and some timid officials are afraid to come out from the official office except to send someone to Chengdu for help
By mid-July and mid-July, the scale of rice riots had further expanded from Chengdu to Hanzhou, Pengzhou, Huai ‘an Army, Jianzhou, Longzhou and Meizhou, all of which were caused by the general rise in rice prices, which eventually led to rice riots.
This wave of large-scale and continuous rice riots scared the rulers of Sichuan and Sichuan political circles.
Although their psychology has been far away from the masses, once the public anger erupts, it can physically shorten the distance between the bottom and the bottom.
For the first time, they were filled with incomprehension, anxiety and fear in the face of such a large-scale mass riot.
Shortly after he ascended the throne, Zhao Bubu was busy dealing with the expansion of the army with senior officials. His eyes were focused on military affairs and he didn’t care about these small things. However, when the small things suddenly expanded into big things, Zhao Bubu also panicked.
The anger of Chengdu people can be heard in Zhao’s ears.
He hurriedly called the Manchu minister Wu Dachen to discuss and ask about the solution to this matter. We discussed and discussed to directly characterize the matter as rebellion.
It’s a very bad thing that it’s not easy to be reborn in the imperial court of the Great Song Dynasty because of ulterior motives, which is unacceptable even if it is discussed.
This is by no means a simple rebellion. This is a group of rice thieves!
You have to punch hard!
So Wu Lin’s method was widely recognized-sending troops to suppress it
It’s not that there is no solution to the problem.
For example, a member of Ma Yongkang’s department said that he recently heard a lot of rumors that the rioters in these cities were all people who had lost their livelihood. The employees in the original machine and shops had no livelihood because of the closure of textile factories and a large number of shops, so they had to make trouble in the streets.
They originally wanted to have a bite to eat, and the court just gave them a bite to eat. In addition, the court used the old method-once there was a refugee group with no life, it was better to recruit them into the army and put them in charge than to kill them.
"When Wu Xianggong’s eyes need to expand the army, it’s time to ask these rioters to submit to the court and be incorporated into the army as appropriate, so everything will go well and kill them?"
Chapter 123 Their method succeeded
Zhao thought about it for a long time, and felt that the official said that there was a lot of truth in killing people just after the establishment of the new dynasty, which was detrimental to the popularity and was not very good for the long-term rule of the Chengdu court. If the problem could be solved through Huairou means, he thought it would be good.
But Wu Lin is firmly opposed.