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Crabby Morey, director of the Foreign Trade Office under the Sark Kingdom's Ministry of Agriculture, had no idea whether His Majesty the King had a headache. He only knew that if he failed to complete his assignment within half a month, he would probably never have to worry about headaches again, because the furious king might very well have his head cut off.
Although the Sark Kingdom was not as plagued by low grain yields as the Lampari Kingdom had once been, with widespread famines breaking out frequently, it still faced serious difficulties. Every year, it had to spend a large portion of its revenue importing grain from other countries.
For several hundred years, the Sark Kingdom had addressed this problem by importing grain from its northwestern neighbor, the Falk Kingdom. In recent years, however, grain production in the Lampari Kingdom had risen dramatically, allowing it to export large quantities every year. After careful comparisons, the Sark Kingdom's Ministry of Agriculture discovered that grain exported by the Lampari Kingdom was twenty percent cheaper than the Falk Kingdom's and excellent in quality. Thus, despite the longstanding feud between the two countries, the ministry had no choice but to risk criticism and import grain from the Lampari Kingdom.
Last year alone, the Sark Kingdom had imported 360,000 tonnes of rice and 470,000 tonnes of wheat from the Lampari Kingdom. Together with other grains, the total exceeded a million tonnes, consuming a staggering seven million gold coins of the Sark Kingdom's budget.
Although this was considerably less than the minimum of ten million gold coins the