March 28, 2008, Recovery Calendar.
This year's science awards ceremony was quite lively.
Thanks to the development of biotechnology, the number of award recipients reached as many as four hundred.
Chen An is quite satisfied with the current situation.
There are more and more star walkers, technology is also developing, and the overall strength is showing a rapid growth trend.
"Two years have passed without me noticing. Time flies."
[Two years seems like a blink of an eye to you, but it's just a snap of a finger to some creatures, like Qianqiu.]
Qianqiu fell into a deep sleep half a year ago and has not woken up yet.
"Haha, that's true. Time is actually a relative concept, and it may become increasingly vague later on. However, since the Resurrection Calendar has time divisions, it means it's reasonable. The plan for the next year remains unchanged, and we will continue with the trials."
No matter what conspiracy the Tourism Bureau has, Chen An only needs to strengthen his own strength, and everything else is empty talk.
Chen An slept comfortably that night, but late at night, the sound of cannons outside the city lord's mansion still startled him.
"What's going on?"
[Riots in the lower city and serious clashes with the upper city]
Chen An was stunned for a moment, then returned to normal.
"It's serious, but it's not serious either. Let the army suppress it, and passengers are prohibited from participating."
This problem has appeared a long time ago, but not in Zicheng, but in other cities.
Class issues lead to an imbalance in resource distribution, and even the best planning is useless. This is the inevitable process of development for a city or a country, and there is no absolute fairness.
"It seems that the presence of the upper city is necessary, otherwise they would have attacked the passenger area tonight."
The riot was stopped the next morning, with the death toll exceeding 5,000.
Some organizers were caught and there was no need to try them, so they were directly executed for serious crimes.
Lin Hao reported to Chen An: "Under your rule, Purple City is much better than before. Everyone can eat and drink enough. But people are greedy, and those untouchables in the lower city want more. Therefore, I suggest that we control the supply of resources so that they can eat but not be full."
His statement has problems, but it is not wrong.
The mob in the downtown area was not causing trouble because they were hungry, but because they wanted more resources, better treatment, and even wanted to seize the houses in the passenger area.
Many times, for the ruling class, it is not a good thing to let the lower class have enough food. It is easier to control them when they are in a state of mild hunger, because at this time they can be tamed like dogs by just throwing a few steamed buns over.
However, Chen An discovered some additional factors.
There are instigators behind the mob, and it is not just a pure riot.
Chen An did not mention this matter and rejected Lin Hao's proposal, and everything remained the same.
After that, there were mob riots almost every ten days or half a month.
Either hit the uptown area or hit the public institutions.
Their demands are very unified: to double their current salary and halve their working hours.
When the mob besieged the Academy of Sciences, Chen An gave the troops the order to open fire.
Laser sweeps caused over 10,000 casualties.
However, even this could not serve as a deterrent. Ten days later, tens of thousands of rioters stormed the school.
The army responded promptly and massacred the mob.
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Three months had passed since the first mob, and Chen An finally felt a headache.
He habitually opened the Liuli main website to check the situation in other cities.
"Was the mob planned? Why did it start in all the cities?"
"Could it be a test for us?"
"What a test! Just kill them. If the lower city dares to riot en masse, I'll just start the train and kill a billion people easily."
The internet is mostly full of complaints, but no real solutions.
Chen An asked other people, and both Yang Dingtian and Tielan were troubled by this matter.
The Purple Star train conductors were also discussing solutions.
Some suppress it forcefully, some increase welfare, and some let it develop.
If we suppress it forcefully, there will be more and more mobs, just like Chen An’s current situation.
If welfare is increased, the mob's appetite will grow and become insatiable.
If left unchecked, the conflicts between the upper and lower city areas will intensify to the point of being irreconcilable, and there is a tendency for war to develop.
When Chen An was about to leave the Internet, he suddenly thought of the black vortex.
He tried to contact her and the call actually went through.
"Brother, how are things going over there?" Chen An was very polite.
Heiwo replied: "I'm so anxious all day long. This broken city is disgusting. If I could leave, I would have run away long ago."
Chen An originally thought that Heiwo could handle it with ease, but he didn't expect that he would also encounter trouble.
"Do you have any way to deal with it? The mobs keep popping up, and no matter what method you use, you can't completely eliminate them."
There was silence for a moment, and then Heiwo said, "Submit to the developments and remain vigilant. I don't know what's going on here right now. The Liuli Continent is different from what I know."
Chen An grasped the key information and asked, "Have you seen the Liuli Continent?"
"Haha, of course I haven't seen it. I've only seen descriptions of it in other materials. It says that Liuli Continent is just a station where trains stop for a short time. There are no cities or so-called super stars. I can't go into more details, just pay attention."
Chen An's intuition told him that Heiwo must know a lot.
But this guy kept it secret and refused to tell anyone, so Chen An had no choice but to give up.
After leaving the Internet, Lin Hao came.
"My Lord, the downtown area is becoming increasingly chaotic. I have two solutions."
"Which two?"
"First, as I said before, suppress the entire Lower City, control their resource supply, and prevent them from rioting."
"The second is to divert internal conflicts outward, such as starting a war under the pretext of obtaining resources for them. If we take Guangming City, the riot problem will automatically resolve itself."
Chen An's eyes flashed like lightning, and he asked in a cold voice, "What if I don't adopt either of them?"
Lin Hao said helplessly, "Sir, we can choose not to adopt it and let it develop. But the problem is what about other cities? They may have already seen us as fat meat and are ready to take a bite at any time."
A chain of suspicion emerges
Chen An knew it without Fu Yao’s reminder.
"You go down first and try to mediate the conflict in the lower city. I'll think about it."
Starting a war is not a big problem. Chen An believes that he can crush any city he knows so far.
But Chen An never regarded other cities as absolute enemies, because he knew that there was only one enemy, the mastermind behind the scenes.
"Let Luo Yu deduce me for a month."
The results came out soon after.
Luo Yu: "You actively prepared for war over the next month, but no war occurred. You rarely went to Super Star, spending most of your time on the train, building warships, weapons, and the Evil Eye."
Chen An pondered: "Right now, it seems like Barron and I can't fight for the time being. Let's talk about it later!"
He couldn't fight here, but wars gradually broke out in other places.
Most train conductors were unable to suppress the riots in the downtown area, so they had no choice but to choose the second method, which was to divert the conflict.
Initially, only a few cities broke out in the war, but later more and more cities were involved until half of the cities were involved in the war.
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