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Chapter 74 A Simple and Crude Plan
The entire conference hall fell silent in an instant, and almost everyone looked at Li Ke and Minato Namikaze in amazement.

Everyone wanted to get enough feedback from Minato Namikaze, but the only response they got was Li Ke's words.

However, Li Ke did not say any more nonsense, but instead told the main point of the play.

"I think everyone should know that after the war, the salt in the Water Country could not be sold and there was a large-scale hoarding phenomenon. In addition, their aquatic products were also cut off from sales channels, so people in other places could only eat river fish. In places like the Wind Country and the Rain Country, the price of salt has tripled or quadrupled. Ten thousand kilograms of salt could only be sold for 20 million taels there before, but now it can be sold for 80 million taels. However, this is a number that can be easily consumed, because ten thousand kilograms of salt is enough for a few towns, that is, for the consumption of 10,000 people for one or two months."

Li Ke paused for a moment, then spoke.

"The population of the Grass Country alone is more than five million, and this is the population that can be counted. If we can monopolize all the salt trade in this small country, even if each of them only buys one pound of salt a year, we can still earn 40 billion taels of salt every year. I want to ask, how much can a ninja earn after fighting for life and death in a year, and how much risk is involved?"

Li Ke’s words made the ninjas take a deep breath, but Li Ke did not stop.

"An A-rank mission may encounter an attack from a jonin squad, and the reward is only about 150,000 to 1 million ryo. On an S-rank mission, you will almost certainly encounter attacks from multiple enemy jonin, and the reward is only about 1 million ryo. But what are the risks involved?"

After he finished speaking, he looked at all the family ninjas present, as well as their leaders, especially Nara Shikaku, whose family was actually in the medicinal materials business.

Yes, there are ninja families doing business in Konoha Village. Didn’t the Murata family used to sell charcoal? The Nara clan also specializes in selling medicines from deer.

But the scope is very small, because they are just ninjas after all, and they are just doing business in the village.

"So I'm very curious, why can't we Konoha ninjas earn this money ourselves, but let those who need our military force to ensure the smooth flow of trade earn it? Why can they watch us fight to the death with peace of mind, and then use a tiny part of the money earned with our lives and efforts to pay us? After all, for this world, can you imagine a caravan without ninja protection? It is obviously relying on our efforts and lives that they can build a huge business system, why can't we take the biggest part? Why do we ninjas have to complete missions to make money?"

No one in the room dared to speak, not because they didn't think what Li Ke said made sense.

But I don’t know what to do.

For Li Ke, he naturally knew what to do, but for these reckless men who had been chopping people for their entire lives, they didn't know.

Some people know it, but they don’t have the ability and dare not speak it out.

At present, some people sneered, because Li Ke was only a twelve-year-old child. In their eyes, Li Ke’s words were just childish nonsense and there was no need to take them seriously.

But at this time, Minato Namikaze spoke.

"Qingtan, if you have any ideas, feel free to speak up."

Minato Namikaze gave a warm smile. He actually didn't quite understand Li Ke's thoughts, but he understood physics and knew that in this world, the one with the bigger fist has the final say.

He had also thought about the problem that Li Ke mentioned, but he didn't know how to solve it, so in the end he just felt that there was something wrong with the ninja system.

But he didn't know where the problem was, he just felt it vaguely. However, Li Ke's words sorted out his previous thoughts and made him more certain of his guess, but he didn't know what it would be like after this idea was realized, so he was not sure.

But Li Ke dared, because he had the qualifications to make mistakes! As long as Li Ke still loved the village, even if he made a mistake, he had the ability to make it right!

That's why he chose to support Li Ke.

"It's very simple. We can set up a chamber of commerce to let those who cannot become ninjas work in our factories and chambers of commerce, and use the intelligence we get to make money. Just like I said, we can organize a caravan to buy from the Land of Water, or set up a salt factory there, and then send it to the Land of Fields and the Land of Grass. We will keep part of the profits for future development, and the rest will be distributed as dividends to the ninja families involved in this matter. The specific goods can be other things. After all, for us ninjas, the information on the prices of various goods sold in different places is too easy for us to obtain."

Hearing this, Nara Shikaku spoke.

"So, how can we ensure the safety of our factories and chambers of commerce? Those merchants and countries whose interests are frustrated will inevitably react. What if they hire ninjas from other countries to sabotage them?"

Hearing this, Li Ke spoke without thinking.

"Sufficient money means sufficient ninjas. We can pay ninjas from other ninja villages to protect our factories, or we can hire ninjas from other villages with high salaries, or we can use money to bribe daimyos from other countries, or even ninja villages. We can force those defeated villages not to attack our factories and caravans, and even send people to protect them... Of course, we just give them money. Just pay them according to the A or even S-level mission money, what else can they say? Or... after being defeated, they still want to wage war and destroy our factories? Or work without putting in effort, and get a reputation for not taking the mission seriously and failing to complete it?"

After a pause, Li Ke continued.

"On one hand, we can get a lot of money, and the people in the ninja village can get jobs, reduce economic pressure, restore production capacity and manpower, and kidnap some of our forces to deter people from other countries... On the other hand, we will anger the enemy we can't afford to offend, and we may even suffer a huge blow... What will you choose?"

The various ninja families finally understood how Li Ke was going to operate, but they still had a problem.

"So, what if the daimyo of each country wants to attack us?"

The one who asked the question was Nara Shikaku, the smartest person.

At this time, Li Ke showed a brilliant smile.

"Then tell them."

He pointed to himself.

"They issued an order in the morning, and in the afternoon a ninja who knows Flying Thunder God will defect. I'm really curious, who will this defector be? Will he attack the family members within the nine clans of the daimyo and the officials who manage these things? Oh, it's really worrying."

The field was completely silent.

　Well, that's all for today...

　　I overslept today...

　　I have two more books to write soon...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)