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Chapter 178 The Development Issues of the Rain Country

Rain Shadow Village, Rain Shadow Office Building.

Logically, a village chief shouldn't be called Yuying, but that's exactly the name of this building, and there's even a large sign with the words "Yuying" hanging upstairs.

After entering the city, the Akatsuki forces were responsible for sealing off the city gates, pursuing the escaped ninjas, taking over the outposts, and blocking information.

Actually, there's not much need to block the news. These days, the five great nations don't like converting prisoners. When they capture ninjas from enemy villages, they usually read their brains first and then kill them.

Therefore, even if Amegakure ninjas leave the Land of Rain, they will only become wandering ninjas, rather than defecting to other countries.

Ning Yuan went to the archives first, retrieved various books from the Rain Kingdom, and processed various matters while simultaneously inputting them into his mind and writing swiftly.

In just two hours, he gained a basic understanding of the Land of Rain and, through observing the handling of its current political affairs, grasped the general development of the Land of Rain.

The Land of Rain has a total area of ​​52 square kilometers, which is larger than SC Province, and a total population of 4400 million.

Surprisingly, there are no nobles among these 4400 million people, because Hanzo has already purged them all.

"It seems that Hanzo didn't do all bad things after all!" Ning Yuan was somewhat surprised as he looked at the documents and reports.

The Land of Rain was once primarily based on fishing, mining, and industry. What did Hanzo do after he came to power?

Because he didn't understand politics, he let the people develop freely!

Furthermore, the massacre of nobles left merchants without any oppression, which unexpectedly created a very free market in the Land of Rain.

In this market, technology is developing at an astonishing pace. Industries such as machinery processing, precision instruments, and electronic instruments, which rely on mining, have all developed within the Land of Rain.

For example, in the Land of Rain, computers have evolved from transistor computers to chip computers, and even the concept of photolithography has been developed!

By Naruto's time, the ninja world already had refrigerators and computers, but these things certainly couldn't have been created in a day or two; they must have gone through a long development process.

It's only been a little over a decade since Naruto's era, so it's normal for computers to have developed to the level of around 2000!

Besides computers, Ningyuan also discovered that some mines were using explosives for mining!

In other words, scientists in the Land of Rain have even invented explosives.

Ning Yuan thought of how, in later generations, Pain had a clone that used infrared-guided missiles to chase and kill Choji Akimichi, but in the end, Kakashi used his Mangekyou Sharingan to defeat him.

Many people speculate that this missile might be a Rinnegan connected to a summoning world filled with weapons.

It now appears that this missile may not have been created by some kind of mystical means, but rather by scientists from the Land of Rain.

As for why it wasn't widely used, and why only Payne was using it?

That remains to be seen.

Maybe it's because the missiles are too expensive for Pain to afford, or maybe all the money was used to build explosive tags for Konan, so he couldn't build missiles.

This also explains where Konan got her 600 billion explosive tags.

It should be mass-produced industrially.

After all, given how fast Kakuzu makes money, even selling his kidney wouldn't be enough to keep up with demand.

The ability to afford so many detonating tags must be due to industrialized production, which has greatly reduced the cost of detonating tags.

For example, in the traditional explosive tag industry of the ninja world, the cost of an explosive tag ranges from 100 taels to 2,000 taels.

After Ning Yuan started manufacturing in the Land of Fire, the production cost of the explosive tag, which originally cost 2000 taels and sold for 3000 taels, has now been reduced to less than one tael.

This is why Ning Yuan's first priority was to study the Paper Escape technique.

Amidst the wave of industrialized production, Paper Release is the most cost-effective bloodline limit, boasting the lowest cost, the strongest power, and the ability to kill even shadows or slay immortals.

Having discussed the current situation of the Rain Country, let's now talk about its most pressing needs.

While Hanzo's managerial approach created a free and prosperous market, without national coordination, some matters that required mobilizing the entire nation were left unattended.

For example, farming and water management.

Because Hanzo doesn't manage affairs, and because of the peace of recent years, the population of the Land of Rain has been increasing rapidly. However, due to industrial development, factory owners are encroaching on farmland in large numbers.

The land of rain already has little arable land, and now that it has been encroached upon, it seems to have even less!

The reduction in arable land has led to a continuous decline in grain production.

With a surge in population and a decline in food production, famine becomes inevitable.

Many cities are currently experiencing famine.

In addition, due to the numerous waterways within its borders, the Land of Rain suffers from the problem of river flooding year-round.

Although the daimyo and nobles of the past were scoundrels, they still carried out maintenance work on dikes and waterways when it came to their personal safety.

But the businessmen didn't realize that building dikes and such required money.

Moreover, they are not only unwilling to spend money to maintain the environment, but they are also busy destroying it.

After all, people are willing to do anything as long as they can make money.

For example, the indiscriminate felling of trees, the destruction of mountains, and the dredging of high-quality sand from riverbanks.

These actions have led to serious soil erosion and river channel damage.

With destruction on one side and a lack of maintenance on the other, the problem of river flooding in the Land of Rain is becoming increasingly serious.

Last year alone, there were more than 460 reported instances of river flooding!

This is still the case that there are reports; Ningyuan believes there must have been many unreported floods as well.

In summary, a small country like the Land of Rain might experience eight hundred floods a year?

Even if you have a dense network of waterways, this many floods are just too outrageous!

After reviewing the documents, Ning Yuan gradually gained a better understanding of how to develop the Rain Kingdom.

He tapped the table, and several sheets of white paper on the table automatically folded into origami cranes, which flew out of the room.

Half an hour later, Yahiko, Nagato, Konan, Tsunade, Orochimaru, Kurenai Yuhi, and Sakumo Hatake appeared in a conference room in the Amegakure office building.

That's right, Orochimaru also arrived, but he didn't have any grudge against Danzo, so he didn't appear when Danzo was killed.

As for the other key figure, Yakushi Nonou, she was too busy to come to the Land of Rain.

"How did things go?" Ning Yuan rushed in and asked.

"The seriously injured patients have been treated, and the lightly injured patients have been handed over to the medics trained by the organization. This is a rare opportunity for real combat!" Tsunade said.

"The ninjas and thugs who took advantage of the situation have all been arrested!" Hatake Sakumo said. "We await the leader's decision!"

Ning Yuan nodded. Human resources in the ninja world are very valuable, so even death row inmates are not worth killing. Instead, they are reshaped using the Cursed Seal and then put back into their posts to shine.

There's another advantage to doing this.

If you use ordinary people to conquer the world, after you have conquered it, you will have to divide the world among them. In the process of dividing the world, new nobles, new aristocratic families, and new vested interests will inevitably emerge.

However, if a sinner with a reshaped personality is used to conquer the world, this problem does not exist.

These people did perform meritorious service, but their meritorious service was due to Ning Yuan's personality reshaping of them. The greatest credit should go to Ning Yuan. It would not be wrong for them to be executed as usual.

Moreover, due to the personality reshaping, these people will not marry or have offspring, and naturally there are no beneficiaries.

Ningyuan can completely disregard them and create an absolutely fair promotion system.

As for Orochimaru and Tsunade, they are on a different level. They are going to follow Ning Yuan to cultivate immortality. After cultivating immortality, they can rely on absolute power to become the pillars of their respective departments.

Ningyuan has only conceived a rough outline of the entire system, which will be gradually improved in the future.

"We've gathered most of the ninjutsu and research data from the entire Amegakure!" Orochimaru chuckled and licked his lips. Although many people found it disgusting, Orochimaru had already formed a habit, and it wouldn't be easy to correct him in a short time.

"All the orphans in the city have been taken in, a total of 4,762!" Kurenai Yuhi said.

"So many?" Tsunade was taken aback and asked in surprise.

"There weren't originally this many, but we've had a war!" Kurenai Yuhi said.

Tsunade remained silent.

"Tell Pharmacist Nonou to raise these orphans well. Don't hide anything from them; tell them everything!" Ning Yuan said. "Once they have the right values, they'll know what they can and cannot do!"

Yuhi Hong nodded.

Ning Yuan looked at the trio of Yahiko.

"All the Rain Village ninja who dared to resist have been killed, and those who escaped have been gathered. There are also some who surrendered. Currently, there are a total of 7,400 ninja alive, including 6 Jonin, 17 Special Jonin, 249 Chunin, and the rest are all Genin!" Yahiko said. "In addition, there are some who escaped quickly but cannot be captured immediately; we'll have to catch them slowly later!"

"Hmm!" Ning Yuan nodded. "Incorporate all these people into the Akatsuki organization and form the Rain Country Peace Army. Nagato will be the commander, and Konan will be the strategist. I want you to crack down on independent ninja organizations throughout the country. Those who obey don't matter, and those who don't, deal with them all. Within a year, I want all the ninjas in the Rain Country to accept the rule of the new generation of the Rain Country. Can you do it?"

Nagato and Konan exchanged a glance, then stood up and nodded firmly: "We guarantee to complete the mission!"

"Sit down!" Ning Yuan nodded and said, "Next, we'll discuss the future development of the Rain Kingdom in this meeting!"

"Should we attack the Land of Waterfalls?" Yahiko asked excitedly.

"Huh?" Ning Yuan was speechless. "Why attack the Land of Waterfalls? And aren't you a peace-loving person? Why are you thinking of attacking another country now?"

"But didn't you say that Mount Taki blocks the monsoon winds from the sea, causing the Land of Rain to be perpetually flooded?" Yahiko asked. "If we don't attack the Land of Taki, how can we destroy Mount Taki?"

"Or, should we send in some experts to secretly bomb it?"

Ning Yuan shook his head: "The rainwater from the Land of Rain is actually a good thing!"

"Huh?" Yahiko was taken aback. "But how can the Land of Rain develop without rain? If it rains year after year, we won't even be able to cultivate the land!"

Ning Yuan shook his head. Yahiko is still thinking about farming all day long, unaware that some places, if too suitable for farming, may actually fail to develop.

"Before, I didn't understand the Land of Rain, so I made the decision to blow up Mount Taki to reduce the rain in the Land of Rain!" Ning Yuan said. "However, after understanding the situation in the Land of Rain, I realized that maintaining abundant rainfall in the Land of Rain is actually a good thing!"

Yahiko's eyes widened with curiosity: "How so?"

"Because the Land of Rain has a highly developed industrial sector!" Ning Yuan said. "And in this world, 99% of industry requires a large amount of water, and the Land of Rain's abundant rainfall brings an inexhaustible supply of water!"

"What do you call this? A natural industrial mecca!"

"Huh?" Yahiko listened blankly, somewhat bewildered. "Is that so?"

"That's absolutely right!" Orochimaru chimed in. "Whether it's food processing, papermaking, machinery manufacturing, electronics, or car manufacturing, shipbuilding, steelmaking, and metallurgy, every industry needs water!"

Yahiko nodded, seemingly understanding, but still puzzled: "If the Lord develops industry, how will the food problem be solved?"

"If the Land of Rain were a small, isolated country, the food problem would indeed be a major issue. But if the Land of Rain were under the control of Ning's organization, the food problem would cease to be an issue!" Ning Yuan said. "We can build a railway between the Land of Rain and the Land of Fire, specifically for transporting food from the Land of Fire to the Land of Rain. Later, after we take over the Land of Fields, we can also transport food from the Land of Fields to the Land of Rain. In short, there will definitely be no shortage of food here!"

"Oh, oh." Yahiko finally understood.

In other words, when the Land of Rain was a separate country, food was indeed a problem.

But if the Land of Rain is part of Ning's organization, then the food problem will no longer be a problem.

"So, the main development direction for the Land of Rain in the future will be industry?" Yahiko asked.

"Not just industry, but also education, science and technology, cutting-edge technology!" Ning Yuan said, "The Rain Country already has a good technological foundation, and we can take it a step further in the future. We will concentrate our organizational resources to establish several universities and high schools here, with the goal of building the Rain Country into a nation of science and technology, a nation of industry, and a nation of education."

"Shouldn't the country's name be changed? "Should it still be called the Land of Rain?" Tsunade asked.

"For now, let's call it the Land of Rain. It's not time to lay our cards on the table!" Ning Yuan said. "Our education system has only been widespread for two years, and we haven't even cultivated enough talent. We don't even have enough officials to govern the Land of Fire, and now we have the Land of Rain. So, let's take it slow!"

"Hmm!" Tsunade nodded. She thought it was because they didn't want to attract the attention of other villages, but it turns out it was because they lacked talent?

"However, the name 'Amegakure' can be changed to 'Amegakure City,' which would be easier to manage in the future!"

Everyone present nodded in agreement. After all, no one here had any emotional attachment to Amegakure, so changing the name was no big deal.

"Next, let's talk about how to build the Rain Kingdom into a nation of technology, industry, and education. To get rich, you must first build roads. In terms of transportation, we must first repair the Rain Kingdom's roads and waterways. After all, if we want to develop industry, the road conditions cannot be poor."

"Institutionally, we need to establish a management organization that is conducive to business development."

"In science and technology and education, we should first establish a comprehensive university and a normal university to cultivate talents, and then gradually add more. We should hire scientific and technological personnel from major companies to write teaching materials and serve as teachers."

"As for the university's name, let's call it Yudu First Normal University, or Yudu University!"

(End of this chapter)