How to Save Humanity After Transmigrating into a Villainess Princess? Chapter 315 : The Food Problem

"Ugh..."

Elashia let out a wail as Adeline redirected her attention back to this issue.

"Then... what should I do afterward?"

Having her debut as a goddess... this wasn't a small matter...

"Empress Elashia, didn't we already say not to be so nervous!"

Caroline smiled brightly:

"Empress Elashia can just keep doing what she did before!"

"Anyway, we won't publish content related to the Goddess Religion in Northern Fire's official newspapers, and we've already revealed your true identity in previous publications. Now we just need to pretend we know nothing!"

"Oh... alright then..."

Under the repeated requests of the Northern Fire mbers, Elashia ultimately chose to accept.

"Hooray!"

Seeing that Elashia had finally accepted her and the Northern Fire mbers' request, Caroline laughed excitedly.

Now Northern Fire's appeal could be greatly enhanced!

"Mm... let's discuss this matter up to this point for now."

Adeline nodded, confirming this matter was resolved.

"We've basically completely solved the Holy Capital's security problems, and the united front issue with Goddess Religion believers has also been resolved..."

"Now the last thing we need to solve is the food problem in the Holy Capital..."

Adeline looked seriously at the four people present.

"Through investigation, we've reached the following conclusion—before we liberated the Holy Capital, grain prices there were approximately forty copper coins per pound."

"Honestly, this price is completely unacceptable for the vast majority of citizens in the Holy Capital."

Adeline said seriously:

"The average monthly disposable inco of ordinary citizens in the Holy Capital is about three silver coins, which is three hundred copper coins."

"Under such terrifying grain prices, an ordinary Holy Capital citizen could only buy less than seven pounds of grain from the market per month."

"Ah..."

Hearing this outrageous data, Elashia couldn't help but exclaim.

"Then... seven pounds of grain... probably could only sustain soone for less than half a month, right?"

A person eating seven pounds of grain per month?

What kind of joke was this?

Never mind adult n who needed to work—even Elashia, with her petite fra and basically slacking off every day as an underage girl, would consu at least one pound of grain daily...

"That's correct."

Adeline nodded gravely.

"So before our arrival, the economic situation in the Holy Capital had actually reached a seriously irreversible state."

"The Holy Court as governnt couldn't produce effective policies to stop rchants in the Holy Capital from hoarding goods for speculation, while transportation severely damaged by war also made the already scarce grain even harder to enter the Holy Capital..."

"Generally speaking, food crises mainly occur for two reasons."

"Either there's 'none left' or it 'can't get in.'"

"The Holy Capital faced both problems simultaneously."

"The Holy Kingdom, war-torn for years, was already short of grain, and severely damaged transportation also greatly increased the cost of transporting grain into the Holy Capital..."

"This already extrely scarce grain would also be massively purchased by rchants in the Holy Capital, even hoarded for speculation..."

"So ultimately, grain prices in the Holy Capital were driven up to this unimaginable level."

"Mm..."

Elashia nodded, her gaze showing anger and seriousness.

This was the Holy Kingdom's capital... how had it beco like this...

As Elasia's nominal monarch, she was very clear about Radiant Emperor City's average grain prices.

Never mind now—even when she had just transmigrated to this world, Radiant Emperor City's average wheat price was only ten copper coins per pound.

Crops with relatively higher yields like potatoes cost only six or seven copper coins per pound.

Even though the situation was much better than the Holy Capital's, Candice had imdiately begun vigorously controlling Radiant Emperor City's grain prices the day after being appointed Pri Minister of Elasia by Elashia.

Both Candice and Elashia were very clear—food problems couldn't be taken lightly.

Although Radiant Emperor City's grain prices wouldn't starve citizens to death, they would still leave quite a few poor citizens hungry.

So imdiately upon taking office, Candice rapidly brought down Radiant Emperor City's grain prices through a series of asures including forcibly setting maximum grain sale prices, raising warehouse tax rates, providing policy subsidies, readjusting trade policies, and even having so officials intimidate major rchants.

Combined with Elashia stopping grain tax collection upon taking the throne, the food problems of Radiant Emperor City and Elasia were finally completely resolved...

If Elashia rembered correctly, current grain prices in Radiant Emperor City should be about two copper coins per pound for wheat and one copper coin per pound for potatoes...

Even with grain prices suppressed to this level, Candice had reported to her that after next year's great harvest, Elasia's grain prices would drop significantly further.

Elashia didn't doubt Candice's report at all...

This wasn't just because Elashia knew Elasia would welco a great harvest next year, but also because she had compared with the Iron Empire's average grain prices next door...

As the Iron Empire's capital housing over three million people, Iron Capital's average grain prices weren't even half of Radiant Emperor City's current average grain prices...

However... as the Holy Kingdom's capital, the Holy Capital's average grain prices were nearly twenty tis those of Elasia's Radiant Emperor City and nearly fifty tis those of the Iron Empire's Iron Capital...

Who wouldn't be terrified hearing this?

Moreover, behind this food disaster wasn't just destruction caused by war, but human disaster caused by the Holy Court's incompetence and Holy Capital rchants' greed...

"Miss Adeline... I really can't understand... with food problems this severe, why can't the people rise up in resistance?"

After hearing such terrifying data, Elashia really couldn't understand—why didn't the Holy Capital's citizens resist?

They were about to starve to death...

Who wouldn't choose to fight desperately when about to starve to death?

You must know, when Elasia's situation was already much better than the Holy Kingdom's, in the plot, so areas without food also experienced serious riots...

If "Elashia" couldn't handle this problem well, Elasia might even be destroyed by her own people...

"Sigh..."

When Elashia asked this question, all the Northern Fire mbers present sighed deeply.

Adeline explained to Elashia:

"So you see... even if the Holy Court objectively did so things to ease conflicts with the people and gain strength to oppose us, it was ultimately just 'objectively'..."

"Even if the Holy Court did so things that seed humanly possible, it ultimately couldn't cover up their essence as a Blood Clan puppet governnt..."