After Ying Yue and his United Government swiftly adopted a series of measures and successfully stabilized the Ninja World's Great Depression and economic crisis, people's basic needs were guaranteed and production gradually recovered. Yet the wounds and suffering left behind remained unimaginably deep.
According to United Government statistics, more than two thousand people had starved to death. However, because the figure was too horrifying, the government decided to stop counting beyond that point to avoid further damaging public confidence.
During the Great Depression, the Ninja World's productive capacity had fallen into paralysis. Idle capacity forced the destruction of vast quantities of food and supplies, while unemployment reached one-third of the population.
As poverty and unemployment spread, many people chose suicide, and the number of people living as vagrants surged as well.
In the Ninja World, which had already undergone a land revolution, land consolidation had become increasingly severe. Many small farmers were forced to become homeless wanderers, while new great landowners began to emerge.
In remote regions, public anger and dissatisfaction reached their peak, and uprisings began to erupt, demanding a change to the status quo.
Against this backdrop, Ying Yue decisively signed the order for a Great Purge. The United Government, the Ninja World Army, and the Five Great Ninja Villages jointly took part in the purge, attempting to restore order through it.
At first, the purge targeted old nobles and merchants. But as the situation worsened, its scope was forced to expand. The number of people directly executed or imprisoned rapidly climbed to over a hundred thousand, while the amount of confiscated property and seized land was staggering.
However, the purge provoked even more complicated social repercussions.
Many people who had once suffered began to question the government's methods, believing that they had not truly solved the problem