Food Plan

Carlo was deeply worried about the situation within Britain and France. According to investigation data from the Royal Security Intelligence Agency, combined with economic reports from European nations, it could be inferred that throughout 1919, the economies of European nations would still face a severe downturn.

Influenza, coupled with the aftermath of the World War, had pushed Europe and countries around the world to the brink of an economic crisis.

This was precisely what Carlo feared. Once an economic crisis erupted, it would be difficult for Spain to emerge unscathed from such a catastrophe.

Even if Spain could use every possible means of self-rescue to shake off the effects of the economic crisis as much as possible, with the global economic environment languishing in the doldrums, Spain's imports and exports would suffer an extremely severe blow, and economic and industrial development would inevitably hit the stop button.

Of course, avoiding regression was a good thing. Compared with other European nations, whose situations were already quite serious, Spain had a stronger ability to withstand an economic crisis.

Furthermore, Carlo enjoyed immense prestige among the people of Spain. Even if an economic crisis broke out, Spain could still greatly reduce its effects by investing heavily in infrastructure construction.

But failing to advance was itself a form of retreat. With Spanish industry and economic development flourishing by the day, Carlo did not want the economic crisis to arrive early, even if the current crisis would deal a heavy blow to Britain, France, and the United States.

The good news was that after the United States provided Europe with a one-billion-dollar interest-free loan, the economic decline in European nations had been eased to a certain extent.

Moreover, unlike in history, Germany's industrial products had not swept across Europe at this time. The markets in