Naruto: Start by eating the golden fruit

Chapter 44 What’s going on?

After settling such a big matter as the Four Kingdoms Alliance, Senju Tobirama left the village affairs to Yuya with great confidence and went to the front line.

Of course, before leaving, he also took Sarutobi Hiruzen and Uchiha Mirror with him.

When Yu Ya went to see him off, he didn't know why he felt that Uchiha Kage was too polite to him.

There is even something faintly...

What do you mean by respect?

What's happening here?

Uchiha Kage, you are more than ten years older than me, I can even call you uncle.

Although Yuya felt baffled by Uchiha Mirror's attitude, Yuya would not change his arrangements for the Uchiha clan.

After the water plant was established, the Uchiha clan would get several million taels a year just from collecting water fees.

The Uchiha clan must collect the water bill themselves, then hand over part of it to Konoha for taxes, and keep the rest for themselves.

But as a result, the water plant is also short of people.

The Uchiha clan used to be a group of people wandering around every day, but now basically everyone wants to split into two shadow clones to work.

But this way the level of fatigue is doubled.

Well... overexertion can really kill someone, so let's forget it.

The water plant was established, and the news about the income that Yuya asked Konoha's businessmen to promote outside also came to fruition.

A small ninja family came to Konoha.

They heard that when Konoha came, they would be given land and food to settle on the spot. However, the food was not given for free. They had to pay it back, even though it would be divided into three to five years.

Basically, this policy is not attractive. If it is not to the extent that it is really unbearable, it will not attract people.

Unfortunately, there are indeed such ninja families in the small countries around Konoha that cannot survive.

There are more than a hundred people in a family, but there are only three ninjas, and their strength is at most equivalent to Konoha's chuunin level.

Basically, if you continue to be outside, you will inevitably become someone else's slave.

In order to survive, more than a hundred people from this clan came to Konoha.

They just hope that Konoha can feed them first as advertised.

Youya was naturally very happy.

Although he knew that the conditions he gave were not the kind of family that really couldn't survive, civilians would not come.

But isn’t this the first one now?

With the first, there will surely be a second.

Youya was very satisfied.

Moreover, Youya's notice actually has a second purpose.

It's just that this purpose is a little too dark.

Konoha is in the interior of the Land of Fire.

Because of the rich local resources in the Fire Country, no one would be unable to survive. Although being exploited by the daimyo was very painful, it was not to the point where they could no longer survive.

This is also the reason why Youya did not target these people.

If we really target the people of the Fire Nation, the Fire Nation's daimyo won't agree. Their land and minerals also need to be mined.

It's not time to fall out with the Fire Nation daimyo, Konoha doesn't have that ability yet.

After seeing this news, those families who couldn't survive and those who came to Konoha after a long journey, some of the old, weak, sick and disabled on the road must have been exhausted.

Otherwise it would be impossible to persevere on such a long journey.

In other words, the first batch of more than a hundred people who came to Konoha were all young and middle-aged labor force.

Regardless of men or women, what Konoha lacks most right now is people.

Although these more than 100 people are a drop in the bucket, they are enough to fill a steel plant.

Well...as for other places...

Then I really have nothing to do. To be honest, what Youya can guarantee must be to give priority to filling the manpower of these factories and stores under his own hands. The factories and stores opened by your ninja family and merchants themselves, then I really have nothing to do.

Yuya calculated that even in this era when human life is at stake and ninjas graduate at the age of eight and enter the battlefield at the age of nine, even if children are allowed to enter the factory at the age of ten, it will take ten years to create a generation. In ten years, Yuya is sure to eliminate poverty in Konoha and make every household eat meat. Who will be willing to let their children enter the factory at the age of ten?

I can only say that a small stall has its advantages.

But this stall in Konoha is indeed too small.

The number of people is too small, no matter how many ways are used, if no one comes to Konoha to dedicate themselves, there is no way.

And if you want others to come over, except for inducements, then...

There seems to be only one other way.

——Incentives will definitely not work. Those who come here value the benefits, and Yuya would rather give those benefits to the people in Konoha Village than to these guys who come to get benefits from outside——

This other method is...

public opinion.

In the nineteenth year of Konoha, when Konoha's front line and Kumogakure began to enter a hair-tearing war stage, various rumors began to spread in the ninja continent.

Why is Konoha Village so rich? People in Konoha Village can eat meat every day. Why is Konoha Village the best in the ninja world in combat power, and no other village can compare...

These are all facts, but what follows is different.

The air in Konoha is sweet, the moon in Konoha is rounder than theirs, you can make a fortune and get a wife if you go to Konoha, you can become a master if you go to Konoha, etc. Spreads like a virus.

Moreover, these communication methods are different from the previous notifications that were circulated among ninjas. This time, the main one is spread only among civilians.

By the time every village reacted, it would already be a year later.

In the nineteenth year of Konoha, Yuya upgraded various factories, mainly to improve sewage treatment to the highest level.

After all, Konoha is a small village. In the past two years, in order to grab profits as quickly as possible, it could only expand its scale regardless of the size. Sewage treatment was also a problem.

It's just that some people are unwilling to do so.

I used to be able to earn 100 yuan a day, but after treating sewage, I can only earn 50 yuan a day.

This is the first time that Youya has asked his secretary to forcefully push forward a policy.

And it was also from this moment that Yuya, who everyone considered to be Senju Tobirama's mouthpiece, officially entered the perspective of everyone in Konoha Village.

At the end of the summer of the nineteenth year of Konoha, Kumogakure said that I would go home to harvest wheat and that there would be a temporary truce. Senju Tobirama slapped him and shouted, "Do you want me to accept you? You must have thought too much. I was afraid before." During the pursuit, Iwagakure's gang of earth-escape bastards made a sneak attack.

Now that I don’t have such worries, am I still afraid of you?

Harvesting wheat? Go to hell and collect it!

Konoha did not retreat like the previous two years, but directly pressed closer, crossing the Kingdom of Iron and arriving at the Kingdom of Thunder.

The Daimyo of the Kingdom of Thunder suddenly panicked. The previous battles were all fought within the Kingdom of Fire, and he didn't care how many things were broken.

But now Konoha has invaded the Land of Thunder...

Those who lost were all the treasures of their Kingdom of Thunder!

No, we must not continue fighting.

On the way to the march, Senju Tobirama discovered a place within the Kingdom of Thunder.

Senju Tobirama originally wanted to go to the river to drink water and take a bath that day.

After taking a bath, Senju Tobirama suddenly had a whim and practiced a wave of water escape. Then at this time, he found some golden sand and the like pouring out from under the river bed that he had smashed with water escape.

Senju Tobirama dived down and took a look. Although each individual was very small, there was no doubt that what was underneath the river bed and what leaked out from the broken river bed was gold sand.

So below...

There must be a gold mine.

And judging from the golden sand exposed here, it seems that the gold mine below may contain a lot of gold.

Senju Tobirama was excited and asked Uchiha Kagami to rush back within three days to bring Yua here.

Uchiha Mirror was ordered.

However, when he returned to Konoha, he saw those who gathered at the door of the Hokage's office, holding up banners and writing slogans such as "Strong protest against the closure of the textile factory!" "XXX is in arrears of wages! Pay back the money!"

Uchiha Mirror looked confused.

what's wrong?

(End of this chapter)