Now, let's get back to food, but there are countries that have trouble exporting the food they've been exporting.
It's your neighbor, the Zabean Empire.
The Zabien Empire has a large national territory, but its central part is not high in food self-sufficiency because of its high desert content.
We don't get along well between nations, but merchants don't stop exporting food as a mental kingdom, no, mental royalty. rather than as a means of removing money from the empire, because it is optimal. Especially the unsaved fruits, leafy vegetables, etc. would have been more convenient if they had been exported to the Empire and replaced with gold, and taxes would have entered the country.
but nowadays, cereals such as wheat and sun-drenched potatoes are not flowing to the empire because fruits are also bought up by households Patrick.
With regard to leafy vegetables, Patrick spread the okonomiyaki, so the cabbage was thin, and even though the flour was just bread and pasta, not only did it start to be used for okonomiyaki, but it also made udon and even derived baked udon, at the end of the day there was even more demand.
I used other leafy vegetables as a substitute for cabbage, so this hasn't flowed to the Empire either.
Then, for the Empire, it had the most troublesome problem of maintaining the country of food shortages.
In fact, the fact that the country where Grace and the others lived was exposed to the scourge of war is also due to the imperial food shortage.
The country where Grace and the others lived was a multi-racial country, but also a rich country with high food self-sufficiency, exporting to the Empire.
Since the Empire is in a treaty of inviolability with its neighbor the Mental Kingdom attacked its neighbor opposite to the Mental Kingdom in order to eliminate food shortages.
At first, they demanded an increase in the amount of food imported, but they refused to export it until they starved their country, so they decided to take in each country that was smaller than the mental kingdom.
This is a similar thing, for a different reason than when the mental kingdom took the northern mountain regions in to prepare them for the battle against the Empire. That's what national convenience is.
The result is an imperial victory, so the food shortage has recovered somewhat, but the harvest will be reduced next season as the war has made the fields rough.
Even as we wage further war on our neighbours, the countries ahead are the great powers of the elves, the lush countries and the total population, so there are also many wizards.
Elves cannot use attack magic to invade religiously, but for the defence of the country, they are a fairly powerful country because they have no problem using attack magic for battle.
The Empire can't attack.
The means of obtaining further food are limited.
The footsteps of war are definitely approaching.