The days that followed were not easy for the king and his ministers. The people were upset, not only because of the struggle with China, but also because of several wrong political decisions, which shall not remain unmentioned. For example, the king wanted bread to be accepted as a luxury good, so he ordered that it would only be allowed to sell aureate bread in the future; a decision causing bread prices to go through the roof. Another decision which alarmed the people was that the king forbade the selling of food in the first week of a month at all. This law was passed, because the king wanted to guard his reign against possible revolutions, which he expected to get under way in periodic intervals based on complex mathematical studies executed by his close friend Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace. It was the king’s theory that hungry people wouldn’t be able to stand up and offer resistance. And yet another example of one of the king’s rulings that were not well-perceived by his nation: The king arranged for his financial advisors to be both fired and burnt and then to be replaced by Australorp chickens he had met and befriended on a holiday trip nine years before. The national debt had already been unmanageably high due to the king’s massive spending on warfare and gilded bread, but the people feared the debt would grow even further if chickens were in charge of the nation’s financial development from then on. So one thing led to the other and the confusion of the king’s Privy Council, consisting of one man who thought he was a vanilla pretzel, only added to the tense political situation.