Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 13 Making Money, Making a Lot of Money

Hashirama looked calmly at Yua, then sighed: "That's true. Besides being my disciple and Tobirama's nephew, you have no other helpers."

But what if I told you... you actually have allies?

Hearing Hashirama's words, Yua looked up, puzzled. "Who?"

Hashirama spoke softly: "Uchiha."

Youya was speechless.

Hashirama: "Kagami Uchiha is the next head of the Uchiha clan. Tobirama doesn't trust many Uchiha clan members. Kagami is a good kid, and Tobirama trusts him. He is also quite strong and is a strong contender for the next head of the Uchiha clan."

If the Uchiha clan is willing to support you, you won't be alone.

You Ya was silent for a moment, then shook his head and chuckled, "Everyone says that you, Master, know nothing about village affairs. Now it seems that's all nonsense."

Hashirama Senju composed himself and reverted to his dazed expression: "Hahaha, really? Really? You just learn by watching a lot."

"Hmm... so... what do you think?" Hashirama steered the conversation back on track. "If you have this idea... I think Tobirama would be very happy to see it happen."

At this moment, Yuya knew perfectly well that Hashirama Senju had summoned him, partly to entrust him with his final affairs, but more importantly…

It's about wanting to see everything about yourself so you can decide how to treat yourself.

Yuya took a deep breath, looked up at Hashirama Senju, and said, "I'm not interested in the Hokage position."

Hashirama Senju looked surprised and stared blankly at Yua: "Oh? What are you interested in?"

Yuya raised his head and said to Hashirama Senju with a serious expression, "If you really want me to contribute to Konoha, then entrust Konoha's economic development to me."

Hashirama Senju was genuinely surprised: "Economic development?"

You Ya nodded: "The phenomenon I mentioned before, where a fixed amount of money can create several times the value after circulating once, is essentially called economics."

Its characteristics are the circulation of goods, the satisfaction of the spirit, and the stability of society. Simply put, the better the economy, the more abundant the goods, the more the spirit can be satisfied, and the more stable the society will be.

Further subdividing these, the circulation of goods can be divided into production, transportation, consumption, and reproduction, and this cycle can continue indefinitely.

The material foundation brought by economic development leads to spiritual satisfaction; the more abundant the material life, the greater the spiritual satisfaction, and the two are mutually reinforcing.

Yuya knew that if he didn't demonstrate his "value" today, he would probably be kicked out of Konoha Village tomorrow.

Hashirama Senju was a kind-hearted man, but he was also the First Hokage.

He could not allow someone like You Ya, who had no sense of belonging to the village and was unwilling to serve it, yet was truly talented, to exist in his village.

This talent does not refer to this economic theory.

Hashirama Senju had never heard of this theory before, so naturally he couldn't have any concept of it.

Therefore, what Hashirama Senju valued was Yuana's "bloodline limit"—the ability to sense, mine, and gather gold.

The Land of Fire is currently the richest of the five great nations, but if Yua were to go to another country, the title of the richest country might change in a few years.

Therefore, Hashirama Senju would never allow Yua to leave.

The first step was to test whether they felt a sense of belonging to the village.

The second step was to test whether he harbored any ambitions for the position of village leader.

If you don't have any of these, then what do you want to do?

Konoha Village cannot withstand any more turmoil.

You Ya understood this, so he simply played his trump card.

You just want me to serve Konoha, right? Let me be frank: I'm not interested in the Hokage position not because I lack ambition, but because my ambition is to make money, lots and lots of money. Now you understand, Master, right?

Do you understand Hashirama Senju?

He knows nothing!

Don't be fooled by the fact that the definition of economics is only a few lines long on Baidu. As the saying goes, the essence is in the condensed form. If Hashirama Senju could have understood the definition of economics on his own, then this God of Shinobi wouldn't have been able to establish Konoha for fifteen years, oh, it's sixteen years now, and Konoha wouldn't still be in this terrible state after sixteen years, with so many ordinary people going hungry and naked every day.

Of course, everything should be considered in comparison; the situation in the ninja villages of the other four great nations wasn't much better.

Konoha Village at least ensures that every member of the ninja clan has enough to eat and can learn ninjutsu; very few other ninja villages can do that.

Smaller countries, such as the Land of Iron and the Land of Whirlpools, can manage this, since their villages are small, their resources are limited, and they don't need much food. Ordinary people can get full just by eating scraps.

That night, Hashirama Senju and Yua talked for a long time.

No one knows exactly what they discussed, but the next day Yuya went to report to Tobirama Senju and stopped going to the Ninja Academy, basically doing the work of a secretary.

Yuya looked annoyed, but he couldn't show it because Tobirama was standing next to him.

Tobirama Senju also wanted to see just how capable Yua was, so he decided to have Yua handle the planning of the area south of Konoha Village.

You Ya rolled his eyes. Forget it, that place is full of ordinary people, there's no challenge at all.

However, he only dared to mutter these words to himself. When he relayed the orders through Tobirama Senju, outsiders naturally assumed that the orders came from Tobirama Senju.

As a result, the area south of the city underwent a reorganization.

In short, it boils down to two words: demolition and relocation.

The old houses in the south of the city were demolished, the land was leveled, and high-rise buildings of the same style were rebuilt.

The high-rise doesn't need to be too tall, about four stories is enough. Compared to the previous single-story buildings, it immediately provides three-quarters more housing. With ninja helpers, the efficiency is extremely high.

However, aside from having ninjas help him in the early stages, Yua repeated the operation of the wetland bridge after the foundation was built.

Tobirama Senju was horrified. The entire southern part of Konoha Village was leveled just like that. How much money must have been spent?

Especially after hearing that not only were these people who originally lived here given a new house, but also a large sum of money!

Each person has approximately 100,000 taels!

Well, Youya felt quite shameless about this. One person only received 100,000 taels of silver, which in his previous life would only be equivalent to 5000 yuan per person. If someone dared to do that, there would definitely be a rebellion.

But where have the people here ever seen anything like this? How could such a good thing happen to us?

Move! You're not human if you don't move!

Then a huge sum of money was thrown out, and Tobirama Senju was terrified. "I have so much money? Does Konoha have so much money?"

Senju Tobirama couldn't help but ask Yua where he got so much money.

You Ya chuckled and said, "Which eye of yours saw me spend money?"

Yes, these people received compensation for their demolition, but it's a one-time thing. These people need to buy food every day, right? I'll have someone open a steamed bun shop, open 24 hours a day, and also set up a general store that sells everything. Believe me or not, this money will be back in less than two months.

Then this money was used to pay them for building houses.

Otherwise, if I'm bored, I'll have the ninjas help lay the foundation and then let these people build it themselves?

The purpose is to make them deplete their own value so that it cannot offset the value they create.

Although this was a bit too capitalist and unscrupulous, no one thought it was wrong. In fact, they thought the Second Hokage's method was brilliant. He used the wages of a Jonin for one mission, plus 100,000 taels of silver per person, to get three-quarters of the area's housing area, a stone-paved road, and supporting infrastructure such as streetlights and public toilets.

Yuya himself felt ashamed, not treating these ordinary people who had put in physical labor as human beings at all. However, after Tobirama Senju finished calculating the accounts, he found that not much had actually been spent. And then he looked at the completely renovated southern part of Konoha Village...

He seemed to... understand something.

(End of this chapter)