This Naruto is a player.

Chapter 142 Inspection Tour
On the first night of his holiday, Naruto Uzumaki arrived in the Land of Grass, which he had always been loyal to!
Speaking of which, the recent events in the Land of Grass are strong contenders for the title of the most bizarre behavior of the year in the ninja world.

Ever since the previous daimyo of the Land of Grass choked to death while eating a cake, the two daimyo who succeeded him were found dead on tatami mats the day after they gave their inaugural speeches!

Strangely enough, both of them also had half a pancake stuffed in their mouths!
They died one after the other, and their deaths were exactly the same.

From then on, no one dared to take that position of great name.

Not only that, the daimyo's family also fled the Land of Grass overnight.

But the result vanished without a trace.

When they were discovered again, the whole family was dead, all neatly arranged. Everyone, even the expensively hired ninja bodyguards, had biscuits stuffed in their mouths.

How cruel!

Even a fool could see what was going on.

Instantly, the powerful figures of the neighboring small countries couldn't sit still!

They all resorted to indirect criticism, shifting the blame to certain forces they disliked, and for a time, words and brickbats flew everywhere.

The level of unrest in the ninja world has increased by 5.

Actually, they themselves are afraid!
Is this yet another tactic of a large country swallowing up a small one?

But the expected situation did not happen. The very next day, a guy named Whirlpool Dog Egg, who came from who-knows-where, directly occupied a piece of land in the Land of Grass, and then started recruiting workers, buying materials, and began building a city with a bang!
People from the Daimyo Prefecture claimed to have seen this red-haired fellow meet the Daimyo of the Land of Grass.

Then, the next day, the daimyo of the Land of Grass choked to death while eating a rice cake.

And then, the nightmare began!
The moment this explosive "eyewitness testimony" was released, the neighboring country's dignitaries, who had just been clamoring and passionately condemning the incident, instantly fell silent.

The scene was very quiet for a while.

They dare to point their fingers at good people and curse them because good people won't do anything to them.

But, let's leave aside truly evil people.

This guy named Uzumaki Gou Dan dared to break the unspoken rules of the ninja world; he'll really kill them!
but
This did not stop them from putting the Grass Country on high alert and keeping their gates tightly closed.

The daimyo of the smaller countries all turned their pleading eyes to the five major powers.

But the days of the five great nations,
They're not exactly thriving, but they're barely managing to stay afloat.

Big Brother Land of Fire: The Hokage's eldest disciple just pulled off a major operation that almost wiped out Konoha. How could he have time to pay attention to a small country?
The Land of Lightning, with the strongest economy, suffered the most: the Two-Tails was gone, and the Raikage died tragically. Adding to the woes, the Eight-Tails was also discovered to have disappeared, but they dared not let outsiders know about the last one, focusing solely on searching within their own country.

The future of Kumogakure is uncertain, so why would they have the extra energy to pay attention to a small country?
The Land of Water: They're still in "isolation mode" right now. They haven't even finished dealing with the mess left by the previous Mizukage. How can they have time to deal with things on the mainland?

The Land of Wind: The relationship between the Daimyo and Konoha is even better than that between the Sand Village and the Land of Fire! They are caught in the same predicament as the Land of Fire.

Land of Earth: Old Master Onoki has his eyes set on the "fat piece of meat" that is the Land of Lightning, plotting whether he can take a bite out of it. Land of Grass? What is that?
This resulted in Whirlpool Dog Egg remaining at large for some time.

As for the tentacles that various forces have extended in?

They were all cut off directly.

All the spies were confiscated and sent to labor reform, joining the massive army of bricklayers!
In conclusion, the name "Whirlpool Dog Egg" has successfully topped the list of "most unpopular people of the year" in the circles of famous people around the world!
Therefore, upon learning that Lord Lao was coming...
Comrade Dog Egg is very sensible!

To avoid any appearance of impropriety, the welcoming ceremony will be kept simple!

It was just a token gesture; Gou Dan only gathered a few hundred or a thousand clones and put on a small show.

Then Naruto blasted them all away!

Doesn't anyone need to work in the middle of the night?
After a while.

The "President's Office" of Whirlpool Dog Egg still smelled of fresh cement.

Naruto sat in the main seat, reclining in his executive chair with his feet propped up on the table. His serious gaze swept over the red-haired dog repeatedly, trying to see right through him. You can't judge a book by its cover; even though they were both for him, Naruto couldn't be sure what the dog was thinking.

After looking at it for a while, Naruto gave up.

This guy's face looks nothing but cowardice!
"Tell me about it," Naruto said impatiently, tapping his fingers on the table, "about the Daimyo!"

Dog Egg broke out in a cold sweat under the boss's icy gaze; he was terrified that the boss would take him back.

Upon hearing the question, he felt like a drowning man grasping at a straw! He immediately breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to himself that he still had a chance.

"Boss!!!"

A piercing wail rang out, and Gou Dan's knees buckled with a "thud," causing him to kneel down!

"This is not my fault at all! I just wanted a piece of wasteland, and this bastard is asking for a hundred million taels of silver, a hundred million!"

"I really don't know if he wants to die or not! I'm thinking that since he's so desperate, I might as well send him on his way! And while I'm at it, I'll make sure his whole family is safe and sound on the road, so they can look after each other, right?"

?

Naruto stopped tapping his fingers on the table and put his legs down.

Good guy!
I thought Whirlpool Dog Egg was an honest person who didn't talk much.

Unexpectedly, it turned out that: as people get older, they don't speak the truth much.

but!

That Daimyo of the Grass Country truly deserves to die!
One hundred million?

I, Naruto Uzumaki, am always the one taking money from other people's pockets!
Who dares to put their hand in my Whirlpool family's pocket?!

That name deserves to die!

"Alright, I'll let this go. How's your city construction plan coming along?" As he spoke, Naruto picked up the planning map on the table and glanced at it.

"Boss!!!"

When Gou Dan heard that the chapter was over, he almost burst into tears of joy, but when asked about the progress, his face immediately fell, and he looked as aggrieved as a 200-pound child, "It's only been a month, boss!"

He pointed to the brightly lit, dusty construction site outside the window, "Building a city? That's a huge project! Look! Look! At least the site preparation and leveling are almost finished! That's fast enough!"

This office, along with the adjacent dormitory, canteen, and other early buildings, is located halfway up the mountain.

Looking down the mountain, a vast expanse of brightly lit construction sites stretches to the horizon.

It is indeed a very big city!

"Are you really planning to build that city you've been dreaming of?"

Naruto had previously seen the city concept art submitted by Kurenai, which, in short, was a scaled-down, customized version of Night City.

"Of course it's a big prison. I planned it myself, and didn't you agree to it?"

That's what they say, but then I think of some of the facilities in that city's planning.
"How do you plan to build rail transit and the like? Won't it be too far ahead of our time?" Naruto turned back to look at Uzumaki Inuyasha, pulling his gaze away from the window.

"Boss!" Now it was Gou Dan's turn to be surprised. "Haven't you been paying attention to the research results of the research center? The subway and automobile technologies have already been developed and are just waiting to be put into trial production. The factory in the southwest is a planned automobile production line."

is that so?
It certainly fits the plan for a technology center in the Grass Country!
At this moment, Whirlpool Dog Egg sneaked up and whispered.

"Boss, let me tell you a secret: our intelligence team has discovered a very large shallow oil field in the desert of the Land of Wind."

"What you should be thinking about now is how to secure that piece of land before anyone else recognizes its value!"

(End of this chapter)