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

Chapter 41 The Twin Stars of the Museum—Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura!

"Danzo, what do we do now?"

"Didn't you say that the recent sharp drops were corrections, a way to buy on the dip?"

"Why has this been going on for several days in a row?!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes were bloodshot, his beard was unshaven, and he hadn't slept for a day or two. He was listless and anxious, asking Danzo Shimura beside him.

only.

Danzo Shimura's situation wasn't much better than Hiruzen Sarutobi's. He hadn't slept for a day or two, constantly muttering to himself, "How could this be? It shouldn't be like this! It should have risen back up again!"

"Danzo, say something!"

Danzo Shimura looked dazed, and Hiruzen Sarutobi nudged him again. He was really panicking. The two of them had taken over a lot of tulip contracts at a high price, almost at the peak. Now the price had dropped to the level of two weeks ago, and they had lost a fortune.

All previous profits have been wiped out.

They also lost 500 million taels of silver.

Tulip prices are still slowly declining, fluctuating downwards. Each subsequent rise after a drop is just Makoto Uchiha setting traps to repeatedly fleece them. He gives them a little hope each time, raises the price, and then fleeces them again. Today's low is tomorrow's high.

According to the plan, this cycle may last for a month or even two months, and the harvest will be repeated. Each time, they will be given a little bit of hope, and they can harvest a lot more leeks.

Danzo Shimura was a victim. Every time he saw hope, he couldn't help but fantasize. He stopped Hiruzen Sarutobi from getting off the train a couple of days ago. At first, he wasn't in a hurry, but Hiruzen Sarutobi was panicking because the losses were real. If the price couldn't be raised again as Danzo Shimura said to make up for the losses, they would be finished sooner or later!

"Stop arguing!"

"Hiruzen, now that things have turned out this way, what can I do?"

"Are we supposed to sell all the contracts we have and go back to Lord Tobirama with a loss of 500 million taels?"

Danzo Shimura was extremely irritable. Hiruzen Sarutobi was buzzing around his ear like a fly, making him anxious and flustered. He was already very flustered, and now Hiruzen Sarutobi was putting pressure on him.

Making money is all smiles, losing money is utterly disheartening!

I should have never gotten involved in the tulip mania.

Danzo Shimura was filled with remorse, accompanied by intense fear. He was truly terrified and had no idea how to end this situation.

The exhilaration they felt when they were making money was like a dream. Now that they've woken up, a terrifying nightmare awaits them. This deficit of 500 million taels is enough to buy dozens of their lives.

Hiruzen Sarutobi: "So what do we do now?"

"have no idea."

Danzo Shimura shook his head; he felt like dying.

How does he know what to do?

It's all in vain except to hope for a miracle.

But a miracle was not going to happen. Just when Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura were as anxious as ants on a hot pan, their fathers arrived.

Not long ago.

When Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura were making money and feeling triumphant, Hiruzen wrote a letter to Sasuke Sarutobi and Shima Shimura, telling them that everything was going well for them in the Land of Fire and that he had prepared a big surprise for them.

Sarutobi Sasuke and Shimura Shima assumed that the two were on a successful procurement mission in the Land of Fire and didn't think much of it. The relocation of their clans was almost complete, but Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzo hadn't given them any news yet. The village needed to send someone to receive the supplies after the procurement was finished. So, Sarutobi Sasuke and Shimura Shima had no choice but to come and check on the situation themselves.

Faced with his father Hiruzen Sarutobi's sudden arrival in the Land of Fire, Danzo Shimura was at a loss, unable to come up with any supplies or funds to purchase them.

After a barrage of interrogations.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura were able to recount everything that had happened in the past few days.

"Is this the surprise you were talking about?"

"Translate the meaning of 'surprise'!"

"Damn it, translate what 'surprise' means!"

Sarutobi Sasuke and Shimura Shima were both going crazy. They really didn't expect that their son, whom they had always been so proud of and on whom they had placed their hopes, would suddenly do such a big thing to them.

That's five hundred million taels!

Even for a family as large as theirs, it would take a considerable amount of time to accumulate this amount of money, and some of the tasks involved might even come at the cost of the lives of family members. These two spendthrifts squandered all the money, turning it into a pile of worthless contracts that no one wanted.

Even those tulips were nothing more than pretty flowers in the eyes of Sarutobi Sasuke and Shimura Shima.

It is only natural.

In a fit of rage, Sarutobi Sasuke and Shimura Shima beat Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzo repeatedly. Then they quickly wiped out all the tulip contracts under Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzo's names, leaving only a little over 200 million ryo in funding and a small amount of supplies.

"Let's go back. Let Lord Tobirama do what he wants then!"

After venting their anger, Sarutobi Sasuke and Shimura Shima still had to clean up the mess left by their two unfortunate sons. As fathers, they certainly couldn't bring themselves to harm Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura. Even tigers don't eat their cubs.

Running away is definitely not an option. The Sarutobi and Shimura clans have all moved to Konoha, so they can only be left to Tobirama Senju to deal with. Hopefully, Tobirama Senju will show mercy and spare the lives of Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura.

that's it.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura returned to Konoha with trepidation, only to find Tobirama Senju still busy processing documents in his office.

Tobirama Senju is in a good mood right now.

Konoha Village can now be described as a place teeming with life, where everything flourishes.

Hyuga clan.

The Pig-Deer-Butterfly family.

Other large and small ninja clans also came to Konoha, wanting to join the village.

Each of these ninja clans will become his potential supporter. He is the shadow leader, after all. In this way, he can gradually take control of the village and surround the Uchiha clan in the future!

The future looks promising!

As Tobirama Senju thought this, he then met Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura. The village was now waiting for supplies purchased by the Land of Fire to come to its rescue!

It's a pity.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura suddenly dealt him a heavy blow. Tobirama Senju, who was anticipating the future, learned that his 500 million ryo had vanished and that his plans to purchase experimental equipment had fallen through. He then proceeded to yell and scream at the two of them in his office:

"idiot!"

"Two idiots who deserve to be in a museum!"

"I sent you to the Land of Fire to purchase supplies, not to waste money on reckless spending!!"

The reason I wrote about Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura for so long was to help them achieve the status of the Museum Twins.

whee.

(End of this chapter)