As labor dispatch programs continued to expand, the wave of unemployment was effectively curbed, public security gradually improved, and the situation on the European Continent slowly stabilized.
Facts had once again proven that if you could not solve the problem, solving the people who created it worked just as well.
Everything was moving in a positive direction. Aside from the ambitious, every sector of society was quite satisfied with this outcome.
Only the Japanese were dissatisfied. Europe's stabilizing situation shattered all their fantasies. Their hopes of Spain exploding into chaos had come to nothing.
Not only could Spain no longer be blown apart, but signs of an explosion had instead appeared within Japan itself.
The "Rice Riots" had spread from Tokyo across the entire country, with more than a million people joining this "rice-grabbing" movement.
Although the Japanese Government decisively deployed troops to suppress it and brought the situation under control, bloodshed could not hold back hunger.
So long as the people's empty stomachs could not be addressed, the "Rice Riots" could never truly cease.
It was not that the Japanese Government had made no effort. The problem was that the Continental Alliance's economic blockade had truly begun. The Spanish, borrowing the tiger's might, used the Alliance's banner to hunt down "merchant ships trading with Japan" everywhere.
To intimidate the capitalists, the Spanish even came up with a blacklist of enemy collaborators. No matter what country a merchant ship belonged to, once it was proven to have transported supplies for the Japanese Government, it would be placed on the blacklist.
This was no fit of temper—they really wrote the names down in their little ledger. From then on, when sailing the seas, it was one thing not to encounter the Spanish Navy; but if they did, they could wait to