I sell sweets in Konoha

Junko just waited for them to play tough.

These people have no food in their hands!

Without food in hand, I felt a little panicked.

"But~" Junko thought for a while and said, "You are right."

"It's a bit bad to drag it like this, whether to hit or not, whether to pull or not."

"That's it." Junko said, "Go find someone to organize two missions to the Kingdom of Earth and the Kingdom of Thunder, saying they are negotiating for a peaceful alliance."

"As for what conditions we offer here, let those people mention it and say whatever they want."

"Open it as high as you can for me."

"Anyway, just keep talking!"

"Yeah!" Junko nodded and said, "Tell them and let them negotiate with confidence, as long as they can't negotiate any treaty."

"Come back and count it as a great achievement for them!"

Anyway, Junko never thought about solving any problems through negotiation. Negotiation is just a matter that involves the energy of the Kingdom of Thunder and the Kingdom of Earth.

It’s best if we can’t negotiate!

Now Junko wants to do diplomacy, military affairs and economics, any one of them!

He wants to torment the Kingdom of Earth and the Kingdom of Thunder to death!

Chapter 364 Their Future

With grain in hand, don't panic in my heart.

This is generally the last psychological line of defense for a ruler when facing a crisis.

but...

But what to say?

This principle seems very simple, but many rulers may not notice it, because three meals a day is so common and easy to forget.

It turns out that the rice and noodles they eat every day are so important.

And if the rulers have no concept from the beginning or they neither understand these nor go deep into the people.

That might be easier to forget.

When they began to realize that this crisis was coming...

Everything is too late.

The initial price increase of 20% set by Junko is not large and does not even need to increase so much at once, but increases gradually.But 20.00%.

It won't be the end.

"I heard that you are planning to raise food prices recently?"

Otsutsuki Kaguya held the grilled squid in her hand and said, "Is this what you said about people's livelihood?"

"Why do you care about this issue?" Junko asked, looking at Kaguya Otsutsuki who was transforming into a mountain in Horai.

"Aren't you going to clean up the Kingdom of Thunder?" Kaguya Otsutsuki asked: "It seems that doing this will not bring any harm to the Kingdom of Thunder."

"Oh~"

Junko said flatly.

She put her hands in her sleeves and suddenly asked: "I wonder if you have considered this question."

"If a country produces only enough food this year to feed 90% of the country's people, 10% of the people will starve to death."

"In the face of this situation."

"What will happen?"

"This?" Otsutsuki Kaguya didn't understand why Junko asked. She thought carefully for a while and said, "If the 90% of people are a little balanced, they won't be completely full, but as long as they survive this year, there will be no problem, right?" ?”

"Theoretically, yes." Junko said, "Theoretically, if you just smooth it out."

“Save a little and then allocate it based on actual needs.”

"Whoever eats it is dry, and whoever eats it is sparse."

"Some people eat three meals a day, and some people eat two small meals a day."

"Theoretically, we can survive this year with all our efforts."

"But there is a premise." Junko stretched out her finger and said: "We need a strong country, a strong and capable organization, and people who are highly educated and willing to cooperate."

"In short, it takes a great country and tenacious people to do all this."

"And even if you do that you can't keep everyone alive."

"What happens if a country can't do this?"

Kaguya Otsutsuki shook her head. This was a problem she had never thought about or faced.So she didn't know the answer to this question.

"It could kill far more than 10% of the population, or even half of the country's population."

"The gap doesn't look big and it feels like just a little smoothing can keep everyone alive."

"But human nature or capital doesn't think so."

"The price of food will rise, first to the point where [-] percent of people will starve to death because they have no money to sell food."

"Of course if someone is starving to death, someone will be crazy about collecting food."

“Some people farm food to ensure that they stay alive, and some people farm food just to make huge profits.”

"The price of food on the market will be pushed up quickly and then to an incredibly high price."

"More people will starve to death soon after."

"Is it over then?" Junko shook her head and said, "No, problems will arise in society when food prices rise step by step. When a person finds that he has been working hard for a month but cannot buy anything from you. What happens when you grill a piece of squid?"

"There will be vicious social incidents, which are simply robberies."

"Food is a necessity. If you don't have something to eat, you will starve to death."

"Hunger is the most powerful, primitive and unstoppable driving force in the world."

"Hunger will prompt a man to do anything he would have dared not do before."

"Like killing people."

"If only one person was about to starve to death, he might kneel down and pay everything for a steamed bun from a noble."

"But if it's a group of people, they dare to assemble and attack any place they think has food with all kinds of weapons that you think are too crude to be used as weapons."

"Social order will collapse quickly, and the collapse of social order will further lead to a decline in food production, and will further intensify some people's behavior of hoarding food and making profits."

"This will further exacerbate the rise in food prices on the market, and can even rise to the point where gold is used to buy food."

"And this will further lead to the collapse of social order."

"The result is a longer and more tragic chaos."

"In the end, a strong man appeared from the sky."

"Lead a group of people with a new concept or simply use the old order, and then gradually develop and grow."

"And ultimately aspire to the highest power in the country."

"Of course at this time he may also have to face the problem of famine that has not ended."

"But at least at this time, the first generation of leaders of this country in this period has enough power and troops to allow him to balance the food issue."

"And ensure that the people's demand for food is above or at the minimum level."

“This is a way to get through this special time.”

"But this process is quite long, ranging from a few years to decades or even a hundred years."

"And this country may even become history completely because of this incident."

"At the same time, many people will die in this process, many people."

"Even more than half!"

Junko said it very plainly, without any exaggeration.This is not her personal random imagination, nor is it her guess or even her own deduction.

This is something that actually happened in history in previous lives, and it is something that appears over and over again in the cycle of history.

There are countless countries and even civilizations that have completely disappeared in the long river of history because of the problem of a bowl of rice.

Even after modern industry has developed and mankind has entered the era of industrialization, this kind of thing is still happening.

Including the country she was in.

Celestial Dynasty.

The fact that his last government was destroyed in just three years was related to this food issue.

Although the excessive issuance of currency is one of the problems, a large group of grain merchants, including some government officials, also maliciously stockpile grain and continuously raise grain prices to make huge profits. This is also one of the important reasons for the demise of that government.

"So you think 20% has little impact." Junko said with a sneer: "But you will soon find out in the future, if there is no national power to intervene."

"The price of food in the Kingdom of Thunder and the Kingdom of Earth can be as high as that of a tare, which is comparable to gold."

"But for feudal political systems like the Kingdom of Thunder and the Kingdom of Earth, we want to intervene in a beneficial way."

"It's difficult, very, very difficult."

"If I don't open my mouth to help them, these two countries~"

"Maybe it will disappear in the long river of history in the future~"

This is definitely not alarmist.

This is a reality.

The reality of Chiguoguo!

Junko's words made Otsutsuki Kaguya... feel nothing.

This future may be a bit far away from her and for her, an alien, eating now is not just to fill her stomach.Just to satisfy and enjoy it.

Besides, she is a being who can sacrifice ordinary people to the sacred tree and cultivate Bai Jue.

How could you care about this?

No, it's possible.

"But if you do this," Otsutsuki Kaguya said, "Wouldn't it go against your original intention?"

"Aren't you going to unite the power of the entire ninja world?"

"We need to unite." Junko shrugged nonchalantly and said, "It depends on how we unite."

"I tried to unite before, but what was the result?"

"As soon as the front foot walks away, the back foot starts to cause trouble with me."

"What's the use of this kind of alliance?" Junko asked, "Even if I call the other four shadows together, hold a joint meeting and sign a treaty."

"Then what? We work but don't do our best, holding each other back in order to consider our own interests?"

"Come on! I don't need such a loose alliance!"

"I don't need them all to be integrated into the same country."

"But what I need is a real alliance!" Junko said: "A real alliance that unites together, says the same thing, and goes together shoulder to shoulder!"

"Oh..." Kaguya Otsutsuki thought for a moment and said, "If that's the case."

"I don't think they can meet your requirements."

"Huh?" Junko looked at Kaguya Otsutsuki's posture and asked curiously: "Then what do you think they can do to achieve this?"

Could it be that Kaguya Otsutsuki still has a kind heart?Ah... no, it should still be a bit like the Holy Mother?

Are you going to persuade her Junko to use truth, kindness and beauty to influence these people?

"Destroy them all?" Otsutsuki Kaguya took a bite of the squid and said, "Destroy all the countries, and you will sit in the position of the Lord of the Ninja World."

"Push the policies you want to implement to every corner of the ninja world."