Under these circumstances, people were unhappy due to worsened public peace in urban areas and the intensification of uprisings and destructive urban riots, Tanuma was suspected of bribery because he safeguarded the interests of merchants in Edo, and Tanuma's politics gradually began to be criticized.
このような世相の中、それらが元による都市部の治安の悪化、一揆・打ちこわしの激化により不満が高まり、江戸商人への権益を図りすぎたことを理由に贈収賄疑惑を流されるなど、次第に田沼政治への批判が集まっていく。