The rice riot is a unique term in Japan. In fact, it is a large-scale rice robbery carried out by the extremely poor. In fact, this kind of riot is also common in China, and there are also other countries, but only Japan has the word "ri" for this riot.

The reason is very simple. The Japanese people have too deep feelings for rice. In their eyes, only white and crystal clear rice is called grain, while any other grain crop is a side food.

The Japanese nation is very strange. Although it is surrounded by mountains, seas and fields, and even the problem of food and clothing has not been solved, it is not vigorously developing the crop planting and breeding industry.

Since high-yield crops such as corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes were introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty, they soon gained a lot of popularity. However, the popularity of these high-yield crops in Japan is far less than that in China. There is also a breeding industry that knows that pigs produce higher meat and is very suitable for the development of the breeding industry, but all Japanese people think that the pig meat is dirty and would rather be hungry than eat a bite.

This is really a distorted and perverted nation. It would rather starve than change its behavioral habits. The food security issues in Japan in the entire Middle Ages were all on one crop, that is rice.

The single type of food is, the greater the crisis the race faces. This phenomenon is also obvious in the biosphere. Omnivorous organisms are always more competitive than single-food organisms.

The changes in the Japanese dietary habits actually have to wait until after the Meiji Restoration, through communication with the world, various new food cultures poured into Japan, and Japanese people gradually tried to accept other food types, but now Japanese people are still stubborn and unwilling to change.

This is a big weakness of the Japanese nation. Xiao Letian's purpose of establishing the Sihai Grain Trading. His original intention of establishing the largest grain trading group in East Asia was actually the intention to use rice to kidnap the Japanese economy.

The world's largest rice-producing area is of course Southeast Asia. The climate here is like spring. The annual output allows East Asian monkeys to open up only a few fields to have enough food.

Coupled with the abundant fruits and seafood supplements, the agricultural civilization here cannot develop at all. On the contrary, the rubber industry also has coffee cultivation, spice cultivation, and minerals have become the main body of the economy.

But now everything has changed. Due to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement, a large number of people in Jiangnan fled to Southeast Asia, and Han civilization naturally brought about a strong sense of farming.

In addition, Xiao Letian consciously increased the purchase of rice, which made the people in Southeast Asia extremely enthusiastic about growing rice. The number of newly developed fields is equivalent to the number of ten days a year.

The rice orders for Lotte Foreign Company have never stopped. Ships of rice began to go north to stockpile in various granaries of Ryukyu and the Qing Dynasty. However, for Japan, Xiao Lotte would not stockpile any rice here, and his plan was to dump it.

Boats of rice were supplied openly, and the prices were basically the same as Japan's bumper years, and there were as much as possible. At first, Japanese grain merchants were preparing to hoard a lot for speculation, but then they found that there was too much rice in the hands of Ryukyu merchants, which was not something that Japanese merchants could eat.

No matter how they hoarded, the price of rice could not rise. Just when they were desperate, Lotte Foreign Company suddenly released a major news that the Prime Minister loved to drink Japanese wine and ordered a large amount of purchases and stockpiling for the army.

This has saved Japanese grain merchants, because the raw material of Japanese wine is rice, and both sake and turbid wine are rice wine. When the brewing industry flourished, the food stockpiled finally became a sales channel, and the market price rose by half, which made all Japanese grain merchants very happy.

This is a happy situation. A large amount of rice from Southeast Asia was dumped into Japan to stabilize the grain prices, and a large number of Japanese wine orders stabilized the grain prices within a normal value. No one felt that there was anything wrong with it, and knew now.

The assassination of Emperor Tongzhi completely angered Xiao Letian. He kept arming his colleagues in Osaka Castle. He raised the stick of economic sanctions and smashed Japan's face with a lot of flowers.

Japanese wine orders are still piled up on the wine dealer's desk, but rice transportation in Southeast Asia has stopped. There has been no grain ship in Edo Bay for three consecutive days. The Japanese who have lost the supply of foreign rice have found that their granaries are now empty.

A crisis is like a landslide in the deep mountains. Before it broke out, you thought it was a beautiful scenic spot, but you could never imagine how much pressure the lake water had accumulated. Once it broke out, the power could not resist it.

Almost every city in Japan is spreading news that the Qing emperor was assassinated and the Ryukyu Prime Minister was imposing economic sanctions. Looking at the food prices rolling up in the grain store, the people finally got to starve all the Japanese people to death.

Snatching and grabbing... There are calls for robbing rice everywhere in Japan. The food prices are so high that the people cannot accept. They can't starve to death. Anyway, there have been precedents of rice riots since the Warring States Period. Starving to death is death, and beheading to death is death. It would rather die than be a full-fledged ghost.

In a restaurant in Edo Castle, the French minister booked a whole floor, and the tatami table was filled with exquisite Japanese cuisine. In the past, five Mexican Eagle-Yang can be held for such a banquet, but today the boss said sorry that such a banquet had increased to 25 Eagle-Yang.

"It's been five times the price. Of course, the minister doesn't care about these dozens of silver coins, but for ordinary Japanese people, the price has increased by five times, which means forcing them to die..."

The one who came upstairs with the sound was the little ghost of Fog Hidden who disguised herself as a man. She is now wanted by all over Japan. If she doesn't disguise, she dares not take to the streets.

Now the envoy Luo Shi will no longer underestimate this woman. On the way to escape, this woman said she would take revenge on Xiao Letian, but Emperor Tongzhi was assassinated two days later. Could it be that the strength of the little ghost in Wuyin was so powerful?

"Please sit down, Lord Fujihi, I think you will definitely help us with doubts today..."

"I know what you are asking, but have you brought what I want?" The little ghost of Mizuho took a sip of sake, with a look of enjoyment on his face.

Roche nodded, and behind him was a French soldier lifting a large wooden box. When he opened it, he saw that there were ten Colt revolvers on it. The box below was full of yellow bullets, and the box below was full of half a box of Yingyang.

Then Minister Roche took out a big envelope from his suit pocket, "I signed ten documents here. With these documents, you can freely enter and exit the French colonies. In fact, as long as you do not violate the law, even if you go to the British colonies, there is no problem..."

The minister threw the documents into the box and said with a smile, "Now you should satisfy my curiosity."

The little ghost Mizuho tear off the disguise on her face and showed her originally beautiful face. She watched her subordinates carry a box of weapons and money away and drink a glass of sake. Her face flushed. When the only two of them were left in the restaurant, the little ghost Mizuho lies softly in the arms of Minister Roche like a lazy cat.

These two dogs and men have been hooked up long ago, but they each have their own political purposes, and no one will affect their tasks because of this indifferent thing.

"You guessed it right. The person who assassinated Aisin Gioro Zaichun is my subordinate. Do you have not saved up any of your own power in the years since I was in Japan, Ryukyu, and the Qing Dynasty? You underestimate me too much..."

The more Luo Shi heard it, the more shocked he became. He never expected that the little ghost of Wu Hidden was actually a master of spies, and he had defeated such a huge secret organization with bare hands.

The little ghost of Mizuho may want to find a new master for herself. She also knows that Japan and the Qing Dynasty no longer dares to take her in, so he must find a bigger backer. Now it seems that the French are a very good thigh.

If you want to get the attention of others, you have to show your strength appropriately. Only if you are useful can you get the attention of others. The ups and downs of the years and the series of thrilling stories made Minister Luo Shi stunned.

At the same time, in the dungeon of Osaka Castle, Haruka, whose face was covered with blood, was also hung on a wooden stand, surrounded by a group of angry intelligence officers.

"I'll give you one last chance, what is your identity and who is the messenger behind you, say..." The roar still received no response, and the angry intelligence officer raised his hand and whipped Haruka.

"Stop, even if she is a murderer, she is only a **-year-old child. How can you do it..." Everyone turned around and saw that it was Emperor Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty, Aisin Jueluo Zaichun.

Everyone greeted His Majesty, and then said anxiously, "There is no way, it's really impossible not to punish. The assassin's mouth is too hard, and he still doesn't say anything..."

Zai Chun's face was twisted and struggled, "But... But this is a **-year-old child after all..."

"Child, your majesty, don't be deceived. Our ninja has been identified before. This assassin is at least fourteen or fifteen years old. She practices a secret ninja technique, or a disguise technique. She deliberately makes herself like a **-year-old child. In fact, she wants to paralyze the target's vigilance..."

"Ah, she is already fourteen or five years old, so she is even bigger than me..." Zai Chun was stunned for a moment.

The intelligence officers around were all adults. When they saw the little emperor's face, they couldn't help but frown and said, "What's wrong? No wonder they say that the royal family is so precocious. Your Majesty is only 11 years old this year, and even according to the empti-year calculation, he is only 12 years old. Why did he have this heart?"

"You guys go back first, I want to ask some questions... Maybe I can ask something."
Chapter completed!