The people of the Lehrmar Republic had been captivated by the diplomatic turmoil with the Federation during this period, and as a result, they had overlooked some substantial problems that had already emerged at home.
For example, how were they going to fill the large and small holes left behind by the flight of capital?
Aside from that, perhaps under the influence of the Federal Government, sales of some of Lehrmar's major exports had begun to plummet.
Orders for some of its major products had been cut in half outright, while the prices of certain crops that normally relied on imports had begun to climb steadily—at an outrageous rate, too.
The price of wheat had risen by thirty percent in a short period and was still climbing! When people's attention returned from these international issues to their daily lives, it would immediately trigger another crisis.
By then, people would find that they could no longer sell the fish they had worked so hard to catch, while the money in their hands was no longer enough to fill their stomachs.
People's needs were actually not complicated. Lehrmar was not a country with a highly developed economy or advanced technology, and its people were not particularly interested in enjoying luxuries. But they needed to survive. They needed enough food to eat.
When they discovered that their income was no longer enough to fill their stomachs, these people certainly would not remain quiet.
Solving these problems was actually not difficult.
As long as they found merchants willing to purchase Lehrmar's exports and merchants willing to sell food to Lehrmar at fair prices, that would be enough.
It sounded simple enough, but putting it into practice was not so easy.
Lehrmar's president knew very well that if someone was pushing these events from behind