24. Chaos

The guy still said calmly: "Auntie, you can't blame us, this road is blocked, we can't send someone to repair the road, right?" ”

"I heard that the road is blocked, and the imperial court has specially allocated money to repair the road, but it has not been repaired, and it seems that it has been embezzled by the government. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" said a person with great melancholy.

"What you said is true?" He spoke in a very loud voice, and it was difficult for the people around him to hear it, so they asked this person one after another.

"That's still fake! It is said that this time the Shen family was raided, and the court got a lot of wealth, and then said that it was going to release the money to us, but we didn't see a dime. This stopped talking in moderation, giving the people room to imagine, yes, this person was specially arranged by Shen Cong, and Shen Cong installed a lot of this kind of person.

"These dog officials, who can't die well, actually harm us like this."

"With the price of food so high, what are we going to eat today? Hungry. ”

"What the hell is going on?"

In just a few hours, rumors have swept across the entire Chang'an region, and everyone can't buy anything, because they can't afford it, and at this moment they are angry and hurried, because the hungry people have lost their minds, and the Chang'an region has been chaotic.

Shen Cong saw that the effect was almost there, and hurriedly ordered someone to close the Shen family's shop to prevent it from being robbed, after all, he didn't want Chang'an's business to be robbed, and the effect he wanted was to make the people dissatisfied with the government and the court, and then produce a riot or something, so that Zhu Yuanzhang was exhausted.

In order to make the people's anger burn a little stronger, Shen Cong promptly ordered someone to print the bill for the bribe, and then distributed it to the people, and when the people saw the names of these Chang'an officials, they were already mad.

"Good guys, we are starving, they don't want to do things for our people, they still dare to be corrupt, and they are still corrupt so much." A common man is going crazy looking at hundreds of thousands of ledgers.

"That's it, our green vegetables and tofu, they have big fish and meat, it's not fair."

"Let's go, go and kill this group of corrupt officials."

Under the circumstance that Shen Cong deliberately arranged people to guide this riot, the Chang'an official mansion was broken by the angry people, and all the Chang'an officials were beaten to death and injured with sticks, and there was a trend of people's uprising for a while.

Shen Cong was not messy enough, and printed the menu of the palace and the gift list of Zhu Yuanzhang's birthday, and then sent it anonymously, after the people saw these expensive expenses and gifts, they were completely filled with anger, and they hated to kill people immediately.

And Nanjing, these areas close to the imperial court, the people have already fallen into the crazy snatching of the Shen family's shop, the last robbery was Shen Wansan was taken into custody by the emperor, at that time the people just made a small fuss and did not dare to take it openly, now someone took the lead in the robbery, for a time the people also joined the robbery activities, people know that the Shen family is a thorn in the emperor's eye, so the robbery of the Shen family's shop is peace of mind, after all, they are angry for the emperor, some officials and courtiers also joined it, After all, if you don't rob white, you don't rob.

Under Shen Cong's order, the Shen family's shops set fire to fights and create chaos, making the already turbulent capital area even more chaotic.

Above the court, Zhu Yuanzhang faced the chaos in various places, and the whole person had fallen into a rampage, and he threw down the song in anger: "What the hell is going on?" How could the food and clothing in the palace go to the people, and how could the expenses and gift lists in the palace be known to the people. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang viciously threw the gift list and menu received from the people on the ground, angry and thunderous, this is the privacy of the royal family, it was actually known by the people, and then the people set off turmoil among the people, seriously threatening the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Xiaolin was frightened when he looked at these gift lists, when Shen Cong asked him for these things, he didn't think much about it, so he gave it to Shen Cong, but he didn't expect Shen Cong to use it to fan the flames and create civil chaos, if His Majesty finds out, I'm afraid that 10,000 heads will not be enough to kill.

At the moment, he hurriedly stabilized his mind, bowed his head and said nothing, he was quite dissatisfied with Shen Cong in his heart, how could he pit his own people, didn't he push himself into the fire pit?

"Your Majesty, now is not the time to be angry, we must solve the problem as soon as possible." Liu Bowen saw that Zhu Yuanzhang had lost his mind, and hurriedly stepped forward to persuade him.

Zhu Yuanzhang let out a long breath and stabilized his emotions before saying, "Berwyn, what do you think of this matter?" ”

"Now that there are rumors of soaring prices and corruption in the government, we should start from these two aspects to calm the anger of the people as soon as possible and prevent the riots from worsening again." Liu Bowen pointed to the point.

"According to the investigation of Weichen, this riot is mainly concentrated in the Jingshi area and the Chang'an area, so we must focus on dealing with these two places, and at the same time, Your Majesty should also show frugality to the outside world, so that the people's riots can be temporarily suppressed."

Zhu Yuanzhang also felt that it was a good way to listen to Liu Bowen's words, but if this passed, he couldn't swallow this breath in his heart: "This time someone must have done something behind his back, and it must be seriously investigated." ”

"There's no need to investigate at all." Song Lian said with a slight smile.

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned: "Song Qingjia, what do you mean by this?" ”

Song Lian smiled and said: "Your Majesty, this riot must be guided by someone, but the fuse is because prices in the Chang'an area are soaring, and the looting movement in the Nanjing area seems to be a conniving action, I don't know if Your Majesty has found that it is the Shen family shops that have increased the price of goods in the Chang'an area, and the Shen family shops are also robbed in the Kyoto area, isn't this answer self-evident?" Only the Shen family has this strength, after all, they control the shops of the whole country, and it is obvious that this chaos is directed by the Shen family behind the scenes. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was immediately furious after hearing this: "It's the Shen family again, I didn't expect Shen Mao to have such courage, and I didn't look at who made him take the position, and he actually dared to go against us." ”

"Your Majesty, Shen Mao received our support and then became the head of the Shen family, he was too late to be grateful to us, how could he betray us, did Your Majesty forget Shen Cong? Nine times out of ten, he's playing tricks. A minister suddenly thought of something and hurriedly stepped forward to report it.

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately calmed down after hearing this, and thought about it, there is indeed this possibility, the chaos happened from the Chang'an area, and Shen Cong was going west at the beginning, it seems that Shen Cong is already in Chang'an.

"But the position of the head of the family is Shen Mao's, how can Shen Cong command the Shen family's shop." Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it and asked everyone.

Liu Bowen lowered his head and thought for a while and said, "It is estimated that Shen Wansan has handed over the power of the Shen family to Shen Cong, and the seal of the Shen family is in Shen Cong's hands, and Shen Mao has nothing." ”