Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 134 I Want to Become an Idol for XXX

After Hiruzen Sarutobi took the initiative, Yua immediately began preparing for the relevant matters.

The entertainment industry is indeed underdeveloped, but that's because there are no standards.

And what Youya aims to achieve is this standard.

Do you know why America's cultural exports were unparalleled in the early 21st century?

Because of America's strength.

Putting aside everything else, Konoha is currently the most powerful ninja in the world.

Of course, Yuya would never do America's dirty work.

They went straight to rob and steal oil from other people's homes.

Why can't you just do business honestly instead of resorting to robbery? If others don't give it to you, you beat them up. That's truly pirate logic ingrained in your bones.

What Youya does is lead everyone to develop together, while using some underhanded tactics to force the other side to have no reason to start a war with him.

Proxy warfare was Youya's first tactic.

In the future, even if there are conflicts between Konoha and other villages, the war will only be launched in the countries of the proxies. Unless the other side can crush Konoha and achieve a victory without losses or gain a great advantage with minimal losses, then others will not have the idea of ​​invasion.

However, the existence of the Chakra Cannon makes this possibility almost nonexistent.

Unless there was a traitor within Konoha itself, it would have been impossible for the fighting to have escalated to that extent.

Based on this, what Youya is now focusing on is cultural export.

The first target, naturally, is Sunagakure.

Unfortunately, Kumogakure has only recently emerged from its previous economic crisis. The Third Raikage is currently embroiled in conflict with the clans of Kumogakure. Simply put, without the selfish and self-serving actions of these individuals, the economic crisis wouldn't have escalated to the point where the Third Raikage had to come to Konoha to ask Yuya for help in exporting goods and purchasing Kumogakure's cattle, sheep, horses, and livestock.

At the time, Kumogakure wanted to buy food from Iwagakure, but Onoki wasn't stupid. He thought, "Kumogakure's money can't buy much food in your own country. If you give me this money, what can I buy in your country?"

Doing business is definitely profitable. We in the Land of Earth have all those cattle, sheep, and horses that you have in your country. We don't lack food at all. We won't take money from your Hidden Cloud Village. If you can get some money from Konoha, then I will definitely take it.

After all, Konoha has a lot of good stuff.

Therefore, the Third Raikage had no choice but to come to Konoha in person. He couldn't get angry even though the villagers of Konoha were secretly pointing at him and cursing him. He had to humbly express his hope that Konoha and Kumogakure would sign a cooperation agreement.

Of course, from the Third Raikage's own perspective, he did indeed lower himself, but from the perspective of others, his attitude was actually quite firm.

However, Yuya wasn't planning to rip him off. When it comes to business, especially business between Konoha and Kumogakure, it's impossible to just make a quick buck and run away.

Therefore, Yua did not rip off the Third Raikage in the terms of the agreement; on the contrary, he even gave him a discount. However, one thing is one thing, and you have to accept the compensation for the defeat in the war.

The Third Raikage had no choice but to agree. Strictly speaking, Yua accepting the village's currency was tantamount to endorsing the currency of the Land of Lightning, which helped the Hidden Cloud Village stabilize its domestic base.

Therefore, the Third Raikage actually had a pretty good impression of Yua.

However good it may be, if given the chance, the Third Raikage would definitely seize Konoha and take a big bite out of it.

For example, right now.

"What?! How much?! One hundred million?!?!" The Third Raikage instinctively reached to slam his fist on the table, but a dark-skinned, hot woman quickly stopped him.

"Lord Raikage, calm down! This money isn't from us! It's the prize money for the competition that Konoha sent someone to tell us about!"

The Third Raikage stopped and nodded: "Oh, I forgot, it's mainly because I've gotten used to giving money away every time it comes to money these past few years."

The dark-skinned hottie is the Third Raikage's secretary, and the Third Raikage is her brother-in-law. Her sister gave birth to a big, healthy baby boy for the Third Raikage a few years ago.

She's not actually Black; it's just that the area around Kumogakure is hilly and at a high altitude, so she got tanned from the sun.

I must say, she's actually quite sexy.

She was able to rise to power because a few years ago, they were still at war with Konoha. After the war, a bunch of problems arose in her own country, and the Third Raikage no longer trusted the ninja clans of Kumogakure. Therefore, he simply made his sister-in-law his secretary.

Upon hearing "one hundred million taels," I instinctively assumed that the Hidden Cloud Village was going to give them one hundred million taels. Fortunately, they were stopped in the end, otherwise we would have had to change tables again.

Although the Third Raikage had some PTSD, he was still quite reasonable once he calmed down.

His first thought was, "Could this be a conspiracy by Konoha?"

The dark-skinned hottie thought for a moment and said, "That's possible, but... the winner gets 100 million taels... that's enough to pay the Jonin of Kumogakure for a month's salary, and that's Konoha's money..."

Konoha currency is now widely recognized as a safe haven in other countries.

Many times when you buy rice in Kumogakure, if you use Kumogakure taels and the banknotes have the Kumogakure mark on the back, the vendors might hesitate to accept it.

However, if you pay Konoha's money, the merchants will be willing to sell to you even if it's less.

The reason is simple: they were scared by the economic crisis of the previous few years.

Not to mention that Yuya later had products like electric fans and phonographs sold to other villages, making it clear that if you used your money in Kumogakure or Sunagakure, it would cost more, but if you used Konoha's money, it would be the original price.

The people from other villages didn't think it was outrageous. Their villages didn't have factories, and they all used Konoha's power plants. Besides, it was only right that Konoha would charge a little extra for transporting goods over.

This has led to a situation where the ratio of local village money to Konoha's money has gradually become 130:100, and this ratio is still rising.

Simply put, if they want to exchange Konoha's money for 10,000 taels, they need to pay 13,000 taels themselves.

They don't think it's a big deal right now, since Konoha doesn't have many technological products. But as technology advances, that proportion will gradually increase, and then Konoha's money will be able to buy more things.

Meanwhile, some people in the various villages have already noticed that something is wrong, but there is nothing they can do. If you want something from Konoha, you have to abide by the rules of the game. If you don't, once Yua shuts down the commercial activities, the villages will immediately return to the situation where they grow their own food, weave their own cloth, and wear their own clothes.

The factories are expected to have to shut down.

Although Youya helped them build the factory and the ownership belongs to them, as long as Youya announces that anyone who dares to cooperate with them will immediately have their business dealings cut off, the factory will go bankrupt within a year.

In fact, Yuya has already forced three factories to close down. This is mainly because they have publicly stated that they will not do business with Konoha. So no one can say anything when Yuya forces them to shut down their factories, since those factories were the ones who showed their face first.

As for whether anyone authorized these factories...

I don't know then.

Youya's participation in the "Super New Voice" talent show was an invitation sent to all other villages.

Although talent shows can also be dance, acting, or even just a swimsuit show...

Uh-huh, Yuya thinks that if he did a swimsuit show, Tsunade would beat him so badly he couldn't get out of bed.

This girl is getting stronger and stronger lately, so it's best not to mess with her.

As for the singing, there's basically nothing to say. If it sounds good, it sounds good. As long as you have ears and are a normal person, then it's good.

This time, the talent show divided Youya into male and female groups.

The winner will receive a prize of 100 million taels.

As for the second to tenth place winners, the prize money decreases from ten million to ten million, eventually resulting in a total reward of twenty-five million.

Because this talent show involves a large number of people, Youya directly announced that it will be divided into various competition areas.

At the same time, the event will be broadcast live simultaneously in various villages.

It's supposed to be a live stream, but we don't have the technology for that right now. Actually, it will be pre-recorded and then played at the designated time.

But it doesn't matter, I said he was live streaming, so he was live streaming.

Anyway, once the competition is over, these players will be unable to leave Konoha for the time being.

Because there are no mobile phones, voting can only be done manually.

Only the residents of Konoha's inner city will be able to vote.

Although some people might think that Konoha was pulling strings behind the scenes, Yua doesn't care. If you think it's a shady operation, then don't play it.

You Ya attaches great importance to this first talent show.

With the preparations in full swing, the stage for the finals was quickly set up on the ancestral land of the Nara clan, a place that will surely become a sacred place in the hearts of many movie fans and music lovers in the future.

Once the venue was set up, Yuya announced that the Konoha internal talent show would begin immediately.

Then it doesn't matter.

Rather than Konoha's own talent show, he wanted to see how other villages would react to it.

And the results were very encouraging.

The registration and participation rates in other villages were excellent.

However, the competition is fierce because each of the other villages only has ten slots.

Furthermore, Kumogakure was the first village to have a story of a rough, uncouth man who went berserk and threatened to beat up a judge after being given three X's for singing badly.

All I can say is that I'm too familiar with this taste.

As expected of Kumogakure.

Meanwhile, the cola factory that Yuya created, backed by the Konoha government, made a fortune.

Furthermore, Yuya put up signs in other villages stating that only the Coca-Cola from Konoha is genuine, while other Coca-Colas are toilet cleaners used for cleaning toilets.

Anyway, nobody cares about this kind of GG now; there are even worse and more despicable GGs out there!

There's even a cola that's said to have aphrodisiac properties.

What? How did you know?

Well, Jiraiya bought it before and found it was useless, so he knows that.

In the first three months of Konoha 29, Coca-Cola sales surged by 27%, making a fortune.

The Coca-Cola company recouped the cost of hosting the event and had some left over.

In April of the 29th year of Konoha, the village began its three-month preliminary selection, and the entire village was bustling with excitement.

One of them, Bo Feng He Tu, came from a commoner family; his husky voice immediately suggested he had a story to tell.

Unfortunately, after he stepped down, he hugged his wife. There's no story there, but it's a story of a winner in life.

When You Ya disguised himself as an ordinary person to be an audience member, he paid special attention to the three-year-old child that the parents were playing with in their arms.

Yeah, this blond guy, it's you, Yongdaimei.

Although he recognized her, Youya didn't plan to greet her.

Just let things take their course; after all, the history of this universe has already been tangled up by its own actions.

but……

Is it the brown soil of the Bofeng region...?

Yuya went back to the Hokage's office and quickly found the record of Yongdai's father.

You know what, it's amazing that a commoner could reach the level of a Jonin, and even a high-level Jonin after the Yua system was reformed.

It seems that Yongdaimei's dad has quite a talent.

Looking at his profile, he is 32 years old this year, and his wife, Bofeng Xiaomei, is 26 years old. The two got engaged ten years ago.

Wow, my son was only three years old when I got engaged ten years ago. What have I been doing all these years...?

Oh right, I forgot, Konoha and Kumogakure went to war.

Uh-huh, this is my uncle's fault, it has nothing to do with me.

Upon closer inspection of the documents, it was discovered that Namikaze Kurotsuchi's father had passed away. The documents also indicated that he had many hidden injuries, presumably sustained during his time as a ninja in war...

Oh……

You Ya sealed the documents away.

Death is the greatest loss. Even if Namikaze Kotoku's father had some purpose in bringing him to Konoha, it has been 29 years since Konoha was founded. No matter what purpose he had, it is impossible for Namikaze Kotoku to inherit it.

Let's just leave it at that...

Let it go with the wind.

Hmm, but wait a minute, if we calculate it this way...

Strictly speaking, Minato Namikaze wasn't a ninja from a commoner background...

Hmm, whatever, let's leave it at that.

The next day, Bofeng Hetu was eliminated by a burly man with a fierce face, but who sang folk songs exceptionally well.

The big man excitedly accepted his reward for advancing to the next level: a 10-pound bag of laundry detergent.

It's not that I can't afford it. Just look at this big man's physique and you'll know he's definitely not short of work. And judging from his clothes, he doesn't look like a poor person at all.

However, having money and taking advantage are two different things.

Having money doesn't stop people from liking to take advantage of others.

Moreover, this isn't about taking advantage; it's something my brother earned through his own abilities.

This was the first time Yuya had ever heard of Konoha having so many talented singers.

He was also looking forward to the arrival of other ninjas from the ninja world in Konoha.

Ok……

Okay, Yuya admitted that he didn't really care who came, or how well they sang. He only cared about whether the people who came had influence, whether they could help him make some money, and whether they could get people from other villages to watch Konoha's TV channel.

In order to bring Konoha's television station to other countries after this ninja talent show.

If Yuya can manage to keep even one out of ten of these people watching Konoha's TV station, he'll feel like he's made a killing.

Because that way, Youya could mix in their own agendas in many places.

In late summer of September 29th year of Konoha, people from other villages selected ten of their best singers to come to Konoha.

Although only the residents of Konoha's inner city ultimately have the right to vote, as Yua had imagined, people from other villages couldn't do anything about it even if they had opinions.

not to mention……

Even if we don't talk about first place, the second place winner will still receive a prize of ten million.

Ten million! That's enough to buy a house in Konoha.

Well, even if they received ten million, these people still wouldn't stay in Konoha.

In short, in September, people from one village after another came to Konoha.

Some of them wanted to serve the village and gave all their bonuses to the village; some wanted to improve their family's life; and some wanted to see a bigger world.

And within this...

There is such a person.

She was not eligible to participate because she was not from one of the five elemental superpowers.

But she still came.

And he caused a sensation on his very first day in Konoha.

Because she was the queen of a country.

Of course, that's not important. The important thing is...

Her singing voice is really beautiful.

This person is the current Queen of the Land of Snow, Fuuka Yuki-onna.

On her first day in Konoha, she stood atop the tallest building in the city's central commercial district and sang a cheerful, relaxed, and free song at the top of her lungs.

Like a bird released from its cage...

I have mild pneumonia and am getting an IV drip at the hospital. I wrote this chapter while at the hospital. If there are any typos or anything, please point them out and I will correct them. Thank you everyone. — PS: The doctor advised me not to smoke anymore, and after my IV drip, I habitually smoked one… Hmm… I will definitely quit in the future.

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