With a single order from Uchiha Yū, a powerful dose was administered to the Land of Lightning, which had only just emerged from war.
However, whether they could stomach that dose remained a major question.
The matter caused an uproar from top to bottom. Even people deep in the mountains received rumors, while newspapers across the country reported on it.
"Are they prodigal fools? Even if they have money, they can't spend it like this."
"If they weren't prodigal fools, how would we make money? They've raised the price fivefold! At five times the price, our worth can at least double!"
"As expected of a wealthy major chamber of commerce. They act decisively, and they've already started paying out. They even declared that they would buy however much grain was offered!"
"There's also dried meat in storage. As long as we hand it over, we can get five times the money!"
Everyone had been blinded by money. When an immense fortune was placed before you and all you had to do was hand over some grain to obtain it, who could resist such temptation?
Under such circumstances, the stir naturally spread throughout the nation.
Yet what the nobles did was far more vicious than imagined. Not only could commoners not sell their grain at a good price, but they were required to sell it only to local nobles. If anyone dared to hide grain and sell it to others, the punishment awaiting them would be unimaginably cruel. Their land might even be confiscated.
Such a policy subjected the commoners already living at the bottom to another inhumane round of oppression.
Human lives were cheap as grass in this era. Before technology could drive revolution, everything had to be created by hand. Whether sowing or harvesting, it all required enormous amounts