Rice riots are a term unique to Japan, in fact, it is a large-scale rice snatching action carried out by the desperate people, in fact, this kind of riot is also very common in China, and other countries also have it, but only Japan has given this kind of riot a rice word.

The reason is very simple, the Japanese nation has a deep affection for rice, and in their eyes, only white and crystal rice is called grain, and any other grain crop is a non-staple food.

It is very strange that the Japanese nation has a natural environment with many mountains, many seas, and few fields, and it is clear that it has not even solved the problem of food and clothing, but it has not vigorously developed the cultivation and breeding of miscellaneous grains.

High-yielding crops such as corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes have quickly gained a lot of popularity since they were introduced to China at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but the popularity of these high-yield crops in Japan is far less than that in China, and the breeding industry knows that the production of pig meat is higher, which is very suitable for the development of aquaculture, but all Japanese people think that pork meat is dirty and would rather go hungry than eat a bite.

This is really a twisted and perverted people, who would rather starve than change their behavior, and the food security problems of Japan throughout the Middle Ages were all pressed on one crop: rice.

The more homogeneous the food variety, the greater the danger to the race, and this phenomenon is evident in the biosphere, where omnivores are always more competitive than monofood organisms.

It wasn't until after the Meiji Restoration that Japanese people began to try to accept other types of food as they began to try to accept other food types through communication with the world and the influx of new food cultures, and the Japanese people are still stubborn and unwilling to change.

This is a big weakness of the Japanese nation, and Xiao Letian's purpose in forming the Four Seas Grain Bank, and his original intention of engaging in this largest grain trading bloc in East Asia, is actually an attempt to use rice to kidnap the Japanese economy.

The world's largest rice-producing region is, of course, Southeast Asia, where the climate is spring-like all year round, and the production of three crops a year allows the East Asian monkeys to have enough food with only a small amount of land.

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

But now everything has changed, due to the Taiping Rebellion, a large number of Jiangnan people fled to Southeast Asia, and the Han civilization naturally brought a strong sense of agriculture.

Coupled with Xiao Letian's conscious increase in the purchase of rice, the enthusiasm of people in Southeast Asia to grow rice is unprecedentedly high, and the number of newly developed fields is equivalent to the number of ordinary ten years a year.

Lotte & Co.'s rice orders never stopped, and shiploads of rice began to go north and accumulate in various granaries in the Ryukyus and the Qing Dynasty. But for Japan, Xiao Lotian will not hoard a grain of rice here, and his plan is to dump it.

Truckloads of rice are supplied openly, and the price is basically the same as in Japan's bumper year, and as much as it wants. At first, Japanese grain merchants were also preparing to hoard a lot for speculation. But then they discovered that the Ryukyu merchants had too much rice to eat.

No matter how much they hoard, the price of rice just can't go up. Just when they were desperate, Lotte suddenly threw out a bombshell news, the prime minister loves to drink Japanese sake and ordered a large amount of purchases and hoarding for the army.

This can be regarded as saving the Japanese grain merchants, because the raw material of Japanese sake is rice, whether it is sake or turbid sake is rice wine, when the sake industry is booming, the hoarded grain is finally marketable, and the market price has risen by one and a half, which makes all Japanese grain merchants very happy.

This is really a happy situation, a large amount of Southeast Asian rice dumped in Japan to stabilize the price of grain, and a large number of orders for Japanese sake to stabilize the price of food within a normal value, everyone does not feel that there is anything wrong with it, and knows now.

The assassination of Emperor Tongzhi completely angered Xiao Letian, and he kept arming his colleagues in Osaka City, he raised the big stick of economic sanctions, and smashed a face in Japan with his head.

Orders for sake were still piling up on the desks of sake merchants, but the transportation of rice from Southeast Asia had stopped, and there had not been a single grain ship in Edo Bay for three days.

The crisis is like a dammed lake in the deep mountains, you think it is a beautiful scenic spot before it erupts, but you can never imagine how much pressure the lake has accumulated, and once it erupts, the power will be irresistible.

Almost every city in Japan is spreading the news of the assassination of the Qing Emperor and the economic sanctions imposed by the Prime Minister of the Ryukyus.

Rush to grab ...... The whole of Japan is full of calls for rice grabbing, the price of grain has been so high that the people can not accept it, they can't starve to death, anyway, there is a precedent of rice riots from the Warring States period, starvation is death, beheading is also death, and it is better to die than to be a full ghost.

In a restaurant in Edo Castle, the French minister chartered a whole floor, and the tatami mat table was full of exquisite Japanese cuisine.

Of course, the Minister doesn't care about these dozens of silver coins, but for ordinary people in Japan, the price of goods has increased fivefold, and that is to force them to die......

Accompanying the voice upstairs is the little ghost who disguises herself as a man, and she is now wanted by all of Japan, and she is not afraid to go out on the street.

Now Minister Rosh will no longer underestimate this woman, on the way to escape, this woman said that she would take revenge on Xiao Letian, but Emperor Tongzhi was assassinated two days later, could it be said that the strength in the hands of the little ghost in the fog is so strong.

"Please be seated, Miri-sama, I think you'll be able to answer our questions today......

"I know what you're asking, but what I want, did you bring with you?" the misty imp took a sip of sake, a look of enjoyment on his face.

Roche nodded, and a French soldier behind him brought a large wooden box, opened it to see that there were ten Colt revolvers, and the box below was full of yellow, orange and orange bullets. Underneath it is a half-box full of eagle oceans.

Then Minister Roche took out a large envelope from the pocket of his suit, "I have signed ten documents here, with these documents you can freely enter and leave the French colonies, in fact, as long as you do not break the law, even if you go to the British colonies, it is no problem......"

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

The imp tore off the disguise on his face, revealing his otherwise beautiful face, and watched his men carry away a box of weapons and money. After drinking a glass of sake, her face flushed, and when the two of them were the only ones left in the restaurant, the little imp of the fog was like a lazy cat, lying limply in the arms of Minister Rosh.

These two dog men and women have hooked up a long time ago, but each has its own political goals, and neither of them will affect their tasks because of this indifferent matter.

"You guessed right, the person who assassinated Aisin Jue Luo Zaichun was my subordinate, and you didn't save any of your own power during the years I was operating in Japan, the Ryukyus, and the Qing Dynasty? You underestimate me too much......

The more Rosh listened, the more shocked he became, he never thought that the Fog Hidden Imp was actually a master of spying, and he would actually defeat such a huge secret organization with his bare hands.

The little ghost in the fog may be trying to find a new master for herself, she also knows that there are no political forces in Japan and the Qing Dynasty that dare to take her in, so he must find a bigger backer, and now it seems that the French are a very good thigh.

If you want to get the attention of others, then you have to show your strength properly, only if you are useful will you get the attention of others, the ups and downs of the foggy ghost over the years, and the series of thrilling stories, made Minister Rosh stunned.

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

"I'll give you one last chance, who are you, who is the main messenger behind you?" and ...... roar still didn't get a response, and the angry intelligence officer raised his hand and was whipped Haruna.

"Stop! Even if she is a murderer, she is only an eight or nine-year-old child? How can you do it......?" everyone looked back and saw that it was the Tongzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Aixinjue Luo Zaichun.

Everyone saluted His Majesty, and then said impatiently one by one, "No way, it's really not okay not to be tortured, the assassin's mouth is too hard, and he still doesn't say anything......"

Jae Soon's face was full of twisted struggles, "But...... But this is an eight- or nine-year-old kid after all......"

"Child, Your Majesty, don't be deceived, our ninja has already identified it before, this assassin is at least fourteen or fifteen years old, she is practicing a kind of ninja secret method, it can also be said to be a disguise technique, deliberately making herself the same as an eight- or nine-year-old child, in fact, she just wants to paralyze the vigilance of the target......"

"Ah, she's fourteen or fifteen, so she's even older than me......" Jae-chun froze for a moment.

The intelligence officers around him were all adults, and when they saw the little emperor's face, they couldn't help but frown and said, "What's the matter?" No wonder they say how precocious the royal family is, Your Majesty is only 11 years old this year, and even if it is calculated according to the imaginary age, it is only 12 years old, how can you have such a heart?"

"Stand down, I want to ask some questions...... Maybe I'll be able to ask something!"

How dare this group of intelligence officers let His Majesty stay alone with the assassins, but a figure in the darkness nodded, and these intelligence officers stopped talking and exited the dungeon one by one.