Konoha: Rebuild the glory of the Uchiha

Chapter 84 Nine-Tails: Uchiha Kusanagi, how are you going to repay what you owe me?

夜晚

After Uchiha Nan and Senju Tobirama reached an agreement, they immediately selected a suitable sacrifice from the Anbu dungeon to recreate a body for Tobirama.

Of course, Uchiha Nan still imposed a long list of restrictions on Senju Tobirama, just like before, to ensure that Tobirama could only work for him in the underground laboratory every day.

Although Uchiha Nan wasn't afraid of Tobirama Senju turning against him, he still wanted to avoid trouble whenever possible.

It wouldn't look good if word got out that someone had secretly dug up the grave of a previous Hokage and forced the deceased Hokage to serve them like a slave.

Then, Tobirama Senju, with a dark face and a look of resentment, threw himself into scientific research, creating more than sixty clones at once to carry out research work. They became the strongest research team in the ninja world.

This was already the limit of Tobirama Senju's Edo Tensei body. He had completely abandoned his combat abilities in order to create more clones. With a single punch, he could turn the clones into smoke.

As expected of Tobirama Senju, who possessed an innate physique, he completed the blueprints for the light bulb, large storage battery, generator modification, and power plant design in just about three weeks through his all-out efforts.

All that's left is to throw money at implementing the plan. This is a lucrative business, and Konoha's future electricity consumption will definitely not be a small number.

In the future, the power plant might be able to support Konoha just by selling electricity all year round. Investing in the power plant is investing in the future.

Building a large power plant is not cheap; it requires a budget of at least three billion, not including research and development costs.

Apart from Konoha, no other ninja village would invest in this project.

In the past, this amount of money would have been an astronomical sum for Konoha, but now Konoha's finance department is rolling in money and can certainly afford it. However, Uchiha Nan still has to consider the family's interests.

Uchiha Nan directly planned to use his position as the head of the Uchiha clan to allow the Uchiha clan to invest in Konoha's power plant, and Uchiha Nan generously prepared to pay half of the money.

Such a large investment is considered a major project of "village-level" significance in Konoha, which naturally attracted the attention of the Konoha ninja clan. On that day, Hyuga Takuma visited Uchiha Kusunoki with Hyuga Asuka and a bunch of gifts.

Uchiha Nan is eating shit right now, and even Hyuga Takuma is coming over to share a bite to taste the saltiness. Maybe this shit is actually a miracle cure, it just looks like shit. But when you eat it, you'll be begging Uchiha Nan to take you along.

And that shameless Hyuga Takuma still hasn't given up on pimping for himself; that little girl is only 12 years old. Besides, the two girls in his household are already making Uchiha Nan increasingly thin; if another one comes along, Uchiha Nan feels he'll die young.

Next up are Nara Shikamaru and Senju Momoma.

It seems the Uchiha clan won't be able to keep it all to themselves.

These ninja clans now all have money. A mere 3 billion yen is easily divided among the major and minor clans, and the amount is gone. The clans are even arguing over who should contribute and what percentage of their shares they should get. Uchiha Nan is delighted with this; these ninja clans are finally starting to understand things.

In the end, it was Uchiha Nan who made the final decision: Konoha would contribute 30%, the Uchiha clan 20%, and the Hyuga clan 30%.

As long as the Uchiha clan retains control of the Hokage position, they will always have veto power over the future development of the Konoha Power Plant.

The remaining issue is recruitment. The large-scale power plant project is too big, and the construction teams within Konoha Village simply don't have enough manpower, so they have to recruit more people from outside the village.

The job posting immediately ignited the enthusiasm of the unemployed people around Konoha who had been displaced by the war.

These people lived a life of aimless wandering, relying on the occasional relief food from Konoha, sometimes starving and sometimes full. Konoha wasn't a charity; it was already a kindness of Uchiha Nan to keep them from starving.

But now they finally have work to do that will give them enough to eat.

Uchiha Nan had originally planned to pay some wages, as the project was large and a lot of workers needed to be recruited. However, these starving refugees started to compete for construction jobs, willing to work for Konoha for free as long as they were provided with food.

Uchiha Nan naturally accepted such kind offer with a smile; emerging capital was simply thriving in this distorted ninja world.

So the boss of the Konoha construction team complained to Uchiha Nan with a sullen face that his men needed to make a living and eat, and that the first generator in Konoha was built by these workers.

Considering the difference between experienced workers and unskilled migrants, the wages for this batch of construction teams will remain unchanged, and Konoha will continue to support local skilled workers.

Time flies, and more than a month has passed in the blink of an eye. This project mobilized far more financial, material, and human resources than any previous public welfare project in Konoha, and it also boosted Konoha's economic development.

Hokage's Office

The progress is encouraging!

Uchiha Nan sat in his office, slacking off, and sighed sincerely. With one hand he looked at the progress report of the power plant construction site, and with the other he held a cup of goji berry tea, sipping it slowly. He had indeed been overworking lately and needed to replenish his energy.

The original generators have been modified and are ready for use. The remaining generators are still under construction. In the area where the power plant is being built, rows of bottle-shaped structures have been erected, each nearly ten meters high and several hundred in number. These were built by workers working around the clock. They are used to store the tailed beast's chakra, ensuring that the Nine-Tails can be completely drained in one go.

A massive circular building connects these bottled chakra storage devices, which are used to extract the chakra of the tailed beasts.

Everything is ready, except for the Nine-Tailed Fox, which is like a power bank.

Uchiha Nan ordered his men to invite Uzumaki Mito to his office.

Mito Uzumaki learned of Uchiha Nan's idea and was surprised by Uchiha Nan's boldness, as the ninja world uses tailed beasts as weapons.

Uchiha Nan, on the other hand, treated the Tailed Beasts like an infinitely rechargeable power bank.

"As you know, Uchiha Kusanagi, Kurama's temper is anything but ordinary."

"It wasn't easy for me to control the Nine-Tails and extract its chakra."

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Mito Uzumaki began to pour out his grievances, rambling on and on. Uchiha Nan wasn't stupid, so he naturally understood what he was saying.

Uchiha Nan could get Tobirama Senju for free, but he couldn't get Mito Uzumaki for free.

Wanting Mito Uzumaki to do the work without paying her, this matter was brought up to the group of shareholders from the various ninja clans, and Uchiha Nan didn't gain anything either.

Mito Uzumaki is, after all, a real person with a special status. She has both power and position. The shareholders haven't evolved into fully-fledged capitalists who are shameless and greedy for money yet; they still have some sense of propriety.

Besides, we see each other all the time, and offending Mito Uzumaki and the Senju clan behind her won't do any good.

"50 taels of silver for one draw!"

Uchiha Nan set a price, roughly the price of one A-rank mission. Compared to burning coal, this price is dirt cheap, and one draw can last for half a year.

As long as Mito Uzumaki agrees, Uchiha Nan will still make a huge profit.

If coal were burned for a year, the price would be in the hundreds of millions. Uchiha Nan did a thorough cost survey, taking advantage of Uzumaki Mito's lack of market knowledge.

"Besides, the Nine-Tails lives here with me, and I have always advocated using love to influence the tailed beasts."

"I've spent so much time with Kurama, you outsiders can't possibly understand the feelings we have. Kurama is practically family and a dear friend to me."

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Mito Uzumaki was spouting nonsense with such deep affection; she didn't say this when she used chains to whip the Nine-Tails before.

Mito Uzumaki's meaning is clear: the price is wrong, you have to pay more!

This time, the money didn't go into the Senju clan's account; it went into Mito Uzumaki's own pocket. In the past, ninjas could only earn money by doing missions, but the day she became the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, she could say goodbye to missions forever, and her income from that source had been cut off for many years.

However, as the darling of the Senju clan, Mito Uzumaki naturally had no shortage of food, clothing, and other necessities, and she could easily obtain money from the Senju clan's accounts if she wanted it.

However, Mito Uzumaki was, after all, a wife who had married into the family. She had always taken money from her husband's family. Given her power and status, although everyone felt there was nothing wrong with it and that it was only natural, Mito Uzumaki was still married into the family.

As a strong woman, Mito Uzumaki always felt like there was a thorn in her side, but that wasn't the main reason.

Mito Uzumaki is thinking about the future; she needs to save money for Tsunade. Tsunade's gambling is getting increasingly worse. Before, it was just small bets of a few thousand taels, but now she's losing tens of thousands. She even used her transformation jutsu to gamble at the gambling den and almost got detained there.

What will happen when she grows up? She'll lose hundreds of thousands, even millions of taels of silver. That's gambling debt! The Senju clan isn't just Hashirama's family; it's a large clan with thousands of members. How can we possibly help Tsunade pay off her gambling debts when she grows up?

Unless the Senju clan becomes extinct and Tsunade inherits all their legacy, but that possibility can be ruled out, as the Senju clan has existed for over a thousand years.

If you love your son, you will plan far ahead for him.

Mito Uzumaki has fully witnessed Tsunade's gambling addiction, which is even more pronounced than that of her grandfather, Hashirama Senju, and there is absolutely no hope of correcting it.

Mito Uzumaki knew that Uchiha Kusanagi, that rich bastard, had plenty of money, so she had to ask for as much as possible. She planned to deposit this money in a bank and, after her death, send Tsunade a monthly allowance to ensure Tsunade wouldn't live a miserable life.

"One million taels per mission, that's the price for an S-rank mission. Don't push your luck. An ordinary Jonin can only do a few S-rank missions a year, and S-rank missions are life-threatening."

Mito Uzumaki thought for a moment. He would draw one million ryo each time, and he would probably draw several times a year. He would earn at least two million ryo a year. He was old and could live for another ten or twenty years without any problem. He would earn at least tens of millions of ryo. For an ordinary ninja, this was already an astronomical figure. After all, the death compensation for a Jonin in Konoha was at most five million ryo.

"make a deal!"

"It's a deal, let's put it in writing now!"

It's a huge profit, a massive profit. Once Mito Uzumaki sees the enormous profit potential of the power plant and the cost of coal, there's no doubt she'll raise the price on the spot.

Uchiha Nan hastily drafted a contract, signed his name, and stamped it with the Konoha official seal; the opinions of the remaining shareholders were no longer important.

"Sign it!"

Uchiha Nan handed the pen to Uzumaki Mito.

Mito Uzumaki possessed the ability to sense emotions. Although Uchiha Nan had tried his best to hide his inner joy, Mito Uzumaki still sensed that something was wrong.

Why do I feel that Uchiha Nan is so excited?

Is the asking price too low?

Mito Uzumaki hesitated and did not immediately sign her name.

"You've already agreed, are you going to go back on your word? If not, I'll call a shareholders' meeting. Mito-sama, you've essentially gotten the reward for an S-rank mission for free. I'm doing you a favor. Don't believe me? Just watch how the Jonin from the minor ninja clans scoff at your greed at the shareholders' meeting."

Uchiha Nan feigned a troubled smile and prepared to take the contract away. Then Uzumaki Mito panicked. In Uzumaki Mito's shallow understanding of money, this price was already considered high. She knew nothing about the electricity consumption of the industrial age.

"I'll sign!"

Mito Uzumaki signed her name, which made Nan Uchiha breathe a sigh of relief.

In that instant, Mito Uzumaki keenly sensed that Nana Uchiha's joy had intensified.

Damn, it really is going to be cheaper!

Mito Uzumaki felt a pang of regret, but the deed was already done, and there was no going back. Once back at the Senju clan, she needed to gather more information about the power plant, especially regarding the cost of alternative coal.

Let's see how much we've actually lost; this trip was far too rushed.

As Mito Uzumaki thought this to herself, she followed Nana Uchiha to Konoha's power plant.

Konoha Power Plant

Mito Uzumaki entered the circular building and unleashed a massive surge of chakra.

To prevent the Nine-Tails from violently damaging the chakra transmission device during Mito Uzumaki's extraction of the Tailed Beast's chakra,

Uchiha Nan even used his chakra to infiltrate the Nine-Tails' sealing space to keep an eye on it and prevent it from causing trouble.

Mito Uzumaki placed her hands on a special device, and a large amount of chakra was extracted from her body.

This chakra naturally belongs to the Nine-Tails, as tailed beasts are special life forms composed of chakra.

To use a somewhat inappropriate analogy, extracting the Nine-Tails' chakra is like extracting its red and blue bars. How could the Nine-Tails tolerate this? Even though its whole body was bound like a dumpling with chains, it still resisted frantically.

"Mito Uzumaki, it's me."

"You filthy bitch."

"Uchiha Kusunoki, you bastard, you were just standing there watching! Help me out! I helped you win the Hokage position in Konoha last time."

As Kurama felt its chakra being drained in large quantities, it became anxious. Mito Uzumaki turned the extraction power up to the maximum, and in just a short while, it had extracted the chakra of several Tailed Beast Balls.

"Snow Leopard... uh... no, Nine-Tailed Fox, shut up!"

"Nine-Tails, you've lived inside Mito Uzumaki for so many years without ever paying rent. What's wrong with her taking a little bit of your chakra? You're a polite tailed beast, don't be as rude as the One-Tail. Don't you know the meaning of gratitude?"

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Nine-Tailed Fox's eyes widened, revealing an expression of disbelief.

Uchiha Nan's words had completely shattered Kurama's understanding. How could Uchiha Nan say such morally bankrupt things? Kurama had actually believed that Uchiha Nan was a good person before.

"You can actually say things like 'rent' and 'gratitude'!"

"In this dark, cramped place, if it weren't for Mito Uzumaki's sealing technique, I would have run away long ago. You and Madara Uchiha are birds of a feather, neither of you treats the tailed beasts as human beings!"

"Uchiha Kusanagi, you have absolutely no shame! How are you going to repay what you owe me?!"

"Uchiha Nan, you are the most shameless person in Konoha."

"Fuck you!"

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Nine-Tails started cursing, but Uchiha Nan waved his hand dismissively. Ever since his affair with Kaede and Rin was exposed, his moral standards had plummeted to a new level.

Now, every wisp of Nine-Tails' chakra is filled with the fragrance of money.

The Nine-Tails' cursing was like celestial music to Uchiha Nan, and the louder the shouts, the more chakra the Nine-Tails still had.

"Mito, increase the pressure! Kurama still has the energy to roar here, drain it dry!"

Uchiha Nan revealed a greedy capitalist smile.

(End of this chapter)