Hokage: Unable to persuade Madara, I chose to build my own ninja village.

Chapter 40 The Great Collapse! (Please read, add to your favorites, and vote with monthly tickets!)

At the dinner table, Shimura Danzo boasted extravagantly about the experience he had gained in the tulip trading market during this period.

One proper noun after another

Although Hiruzen Sarutobi only half understood what he was hearing, he was deeply shocked and ultimately accepted Danzo Shimura's suggestion as a matter of course.

"Danzo, will this really work?"

"That's seventy million taels!"

"Stop talking nonsense!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi, who invested 70 million ryo in one go, was initially terrified and even couldn't sleep. However, after a few days, when he saw the terrifying returns, he completely forgot his initial fear and, like Danzo Shimura, regretted not investing more.

The Palace of the Land of Fire.

"Kazuma, it seems the time is right for this price. After this period of promotion, most of the wealthy merchants and nobles in the ninja world have invested huge sums of money in the tulip market. Now let this feast begin."

Uchiha Makoto sat in his chair, looking at the price trends, the flow of funds, and the reports from the professional analysts sent by the daimyo. He felt it was time to start speculating on contract trading.

"Yes, Lord Cheng."

Kazuma nodded.

Now, the name of tulips has resounded throughout the aristocratic circles, and their prices are soaring along with the amount of capital invested. The next stage is when prices will be at their most frenzied. Moreover, the stock of tulips is also starting to decrease, and soon we will be in a situation where there is no stock left to speculate on. At this time, it is the most suitable time to bring out contract trading.

It's easy to imagine that physical transactions alone have already become so frenzied. Once they are converted into contract transactions, the turnover rate will probably skyrocket. Not only wealthy merchants, but even the high-ranking nobles will be envious of the profits generated by such transactions and will participate without hesitation.

Moreover, according to the available intelligence, even ninjas who usually only focus on their missions have become involved.

Although this is only a small part.

These ninjas are mostly reckless outlaws from the ninja world. The ninja clans, especially the powerful ones, would never get involved in such matters. They are not good at it, and instinctively, they are unwilling to engage in business. For them, serving in the army and receiving a salary is a matter of course. Thinking about anything else for even a second is considered a crime!

Not to mention the current situation.

The vast majority of well-known ninja clans, large and small, focus their attention on how to establish a ninja village and how to join a powerful one, matters that concern the future of their clans.

This is also where Kazuma feels incredibly lucky. Although his superior is thick-skinned and ruthless, he ultimately maintained his bottom line and did not involve the ninja clan.

After the feast, there will inevitably be a mess. With this handful of sickles cutting down the tulips, who knows how many nobles and wealthy merchants will be ruined by tulips and end up as flying acrobats jumping off the cliff.

To put it bluntly, this group of people was just rich and powerful. What do money, wealth, and power mean in the face of strength? Although this group of ninjas still didn't realize this.

The victims this time are almost all wealthy merchants and nobles. They cannot shake the current situation in the ninja world at all. If the ninja clans also get involved, they will be ripped off and lose everything.

That could easily blow up the ninja world, a powder keg.

A group of ninja clans whose resources have been completely drained are capable of anything!

Especially considering that the ninja profession is one that relies on youth, ninjas who can live past 40 and enjoy their old age are rarer than pandas, and the ninja clan is full of brave, fearless young men.

To put it nicely, these young ninjas are passionate, energetic, and daring; to put it bluntly, they are completely clueless and only act on impulse.

soon.

Under Makoto Uchiha's arrangement, as tulip prices skyrocketed, contract trading quietly emerged in major tulip trading markets across the Land of Fire.

Then everyone went numb.

Who knew tulip trading could be done this way!

no doubt

The emergence of this trading model has led to even greater frenzy. Previously, people had to buy tulips to speculate and trade, but now they don't even need tulips anymore; they can trade simply by presenting a contract.

This model is also particularly convenient for managing and recording price increases. With advantages that many physical tulip transactions cannot match, along with extremely high turnover rates and insane profits, more and more nobles and wealthy merchants are participating.

Of course, there are also Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura.

The two of them had completely lost their minds, immersing themselves in the decadent tulip market, and had completely forgotten their initial purchasing task.

"Hiruzen, this market is insane!"

"I just did the math, and the two of us have probably earned over 300 million. There shouldn't be anyone in the family richer than us!"

"Yes, Danzo."

Danzo Shimura and Hiruzen Sarutobi were overjoyed. They were now considering whether to throw all the remaining procurement funds into the tulip contract trading market, which was too tempting to resist.

It would be a mistake not to go all in!

"Hiruzen, how about we go all in?"

"Going all in is a sign of wisdom, and I think it's time!"

Danzo Shimura felt that he hadn't earned enough yet and needed to make a huge profit so that when he returned, he could simply shower Tobirama with money and make him beg to take in the two of them, the Crouching Dragon and the Phoenix Chick.

"Hmm, this isn't quite right."

"What's wrong with it?"

"Look, even the rice ball vendors in the Land of Fire know that tulips can make money. With a market like this, what are you still worried about?"

As Shimura Danzo spoke with unwavering conviction, Hiruzen Sarutobi, blinded by greed, was quickly persuaded. The two of them decided to gamble all their money on the tulip market, hoping to make another fortune!

But

Tulip prices were already high, and the contract trading was just adding fuel to the fire, a mere flash in the pan. Uchiha Makoto and the Daimyo were already frantically selling off their shares.

As for Shimura Danzo and Sarutobi Hiruzen, this was their first time being taken advantage of. Experienced investors know that if even a street vendor selling rice balls knows which stocks are profitable, then they should run away as fast as they can.

The crazy days didn't last long.

Just three days after Shimura Danzo and Sarutobi Hiruzen went all in, a country bumpkin ninja who had never seen much of the world ate a valuable tulip in public, mistaking it for an onion. The tulip's owner went crazy and demanded compensation.

The young ninja shrugged and said, "It's just a flower. What's so valuable about it?"

then

The tulip market seemed to have been severely impacted by this statement. (In reality, prices couldn't rise and began to collapse.)

Overnight.

Tulip prices have plummeted three times in a row!

Stop supporting me.

This is going to kill me.

(End of this chapter)