Under One Person: The Invincible Catfish King

In fact, before those major shrines dealt with the Catfish God Group, the agricultural associations of Japan had already launched an attack on the Catfish God Group at the request of the Japanese government.

Behind this incident lies a power struggle over economic interests.

In order to prevent overproduction of rice and maintain rice prices, and to achieve the goal of food scarcity marketing in Japan, the Sakura Country Agricultural Association limits the rice planting area to about 60% of paddy fields.

This approach is the most typical way to influence prices by controlling the total supply.

When the total supply decreases, if demand remains relatively stable, then prices will rise. To put it bluntly, it's like deliberately making it so that ordinary people don't have enough to eat!

The Japanese Agricultural Association is attempting to create artificial scarcity by limiting rice cultivation areas, thereby reducing food production and increasing rice prices.

According to their research, this strategy would bring high profits to association members.

Over the past few years, they have successfully implemented this strategy, and rice prices have indeed risen significantly and continuously in the face of food shortages, which has brought substantial profits to large farmers and agricultural enterprises with large rice fields.

The remaining rice paddies are converted to other crops or left fallow, allowing farmers to make huge profits by raising rice prices, while the government provides subsidies to the farmers who switch crops.

This move may appear to be an agricultural restructuring, but in reality, it is more about serving the interests of agricultural associations.

Land that has been converted to other crops or left fallow has become a means of obtaining additional subsidies, arranged by agricultural associations.

The government subsidies have, to some extent, compensated for the losses that farmers may suffer due to reduced rice cultivation, and have also provided agricultural association members with an additional source of income.

However, this subsidy policy clearly has many problems.

This is because these subsidies mainly flow to farmers and businesses associated with agricultural associations, while smallholder farmers or impoverished farmers who truly need help may not benefit from them.

At the same time, the agricultural association also restricted the import of foreign agricultural products, imposed high tariffs on agricultural products, and limited the total quantity!

This policy is a measure taken by the Japan Agricultural Association to protect its domestic agricultural market.

In a globalized economic environment, agricultural product markets in all countries face competitive pressure from abroad.

The Japanese Agricultural Association is concerned that the influx of foreign agricultural products will impact the domestic agricultural market, causing rice prices to fall and thus affecting their interests.

By imposing high tariffs and restricting total import volumes, they have effectively reduced the share of foreign agricultural products in their domestic market.

However, this approach has also brought a series of negative consequences.

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On the one hand, the variety of agricultural products in the domestic market has decreased, limiting consumers' choices; on the other hand, due to a lack of international competition, the quality and production efficiency of domestic agricultural products have improved slowly.

This policy has led to consecutive years of reduced rice production in Japan, resulting in a rice shortage and persistently high prices for food and agricultural products.

Data shows that in recent years, Japan's rice production has been declining year by year, while the food price index has been rising continuously.

This situation has not only affected the cost of living for ordinary people, but has also put some pressure on the overall economy of Japan.

Some food processing companies that use rice as their main raw material have had to raise product prices due to rising raw material costs, which has suppressed consumer demand to some extent and hindered the development of related industries.

The Catfish God Group bypassed restrictions on agricultural product imports under the pretext of purchasing tributes, allowing the poor to eat their fill in the name of tributes, causing heavy losses to the Agricultural Association, which made the Agricultural Association very angry!

Catfish God Group's actions have disrupted the market structure carefully constructed by the agricultural association.

In the religious culture of Japan, offerings to shrines have special significance, and it is often necessary to ensure their quality and variety.

The Nyanko-sensei Group used the pretext of purchasing offerings to import agricultural products from abroad, thus alleviating the impact on shrine activities caused by insufficient domestic agricultural product supply.

However, since the offerings are not commodities and are not sold, tariffs can be circumvented!

This, however, presents a direct challenge to the interests of agricultural associations.

They believe that the actions of the Catfish God Group have undermined their plans to maintain rice prices and control the agricultural market.

Agricultural associations, for their own benefit, would rather let the poor starve to death than give up their exorbitant profits!

This practice highlights the extreme selfishness of agricultural associations in their pursuit of profit.

In Japan, a significant portion of the low-income population relies on cheap food supplies to make a living.

However, in order to keep rice prices high, the agricultural association disregarded the plight of these poor people.

In some impoverished areas, high food prices have forced many families to reduce their food intake, and some are even facing the threat of hunger.

This situation has aroused widespread concern and dissatisfaction from all sectors of society.

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However, those who act against the will find little support, and other departments in the Sakura Country had long been dissatisfied with the Agricultural Association.

In the government departments and social institutions of the Sakura Country, there are interrelationships and mutual constraints among the various departments.

The agricultural association's practice of prioritizing its own interests while neglecting the overall interests of society has aroused resentment from other departments.

Other departments, considering the overall interests of social stability and economic development, believe that the agricultural association's actions are detrimental to the long-term development of the Cherry Blossom Country.

Moreover, the Catfish God Group, which pays taxes in accordance with the law, has brought many benefits to other departments:

Tax revenue increased, public security stabilized, and the unemployment rate decreased. In short, there was less trouble and more money was distributed!

The positive impact of the Catfish God Group on economic activities is multifaceted.

First, the increase in tax revenue is due to the increased profits generated by the Catfish God Group's business development, which resulted in the payment of more taxes in accordance with tax policies.

This increased tax revenue can be used by the government for public services and infrastructure development.

Secondly, in terms of public security, the Catfish God Group manages the monsters, making their behavior more orderly and reducing social security problems caused by monster activities.

Finally, regarding the unemployment rate, the expansion of the Catfish God Group's business created more job opportunities, absorbing a portion of the workforce and thus reducing the unemployment rate.

These positive effects enabled other sectors to gain tangible benefits from the development of the Catfish God Group, so they were willing to stand up for the Catfish God Group, which led to a confrontation with the Agricultural Association.

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After all, the agricultural association has been increasingly interfering in its affairs, seriously infringing on the interests of other departments!