Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 14 Small Changes

The wetland bridge project was completed a month after the Lunar New Year. However, it's not summer yet in the wetland area, and the fruit trees and flowers haven't bloomed, so it's not needed for the time being.

In the second month of the sixteenth year of Konoha, the southern part of Konoha Village was leveled and rebuilt. After three months, the southern part of the village became the cleanest and tidiest street in Konoha Village.

Hashirama Senju walked along the road in the southern part of the village. His wooden clogs made a clattering sound as they stepped on the stones. They were actually a bit uncomfortable, but he didn't care.

I looked with some amazement at the streetlights on both sides of the road, the signs, and the shops on the ground floor of the buildings...

Although many houses are not yet fully occupied, it is foreseeable that once the housing problem is solved, the number of these ordinary people may double in the next twenty years.

With more ordinary people, there will naturally be more ninjas to support.

Hashirama Senju was somewhat pleased with himself. His disciple was indeed a man of real talent. Although he didn't have the combat skills of a ninja, in terms of combat power, Hashirama Senju had already reached the pinnacle of the ninja world. However, even so, the changes in Konoha Village in the first sixteen years couldn't compare to those in the last six months.

Take this area in the south of the village for example. It's a road that's been leveled and planned out so beautifully. Can you believe that You Ya had those people who were doing the work laid it out on the side?

The materials were all brought from the cliffs north of Konoha Village.

Although it's not very nice to say this about the Hokage Rock, the stones from the Hokage Rock are indeed quite useful.

Moreover, the roads in Konoha Village used to be muddy everywhere, unlike now, where there are drainage ditches on both sides of the roads with covers on them. This was the first time Hashirama Senju had ever seen such a thing, but he knew what it was for the moment he saw it.

The main problem is that Konoha Village didn't even think about the sewers when it was built. Otherwise, Yuya could have avoided this drainage ditch altogether. Once the manhole covers were put on, the road would be wide, smooth, and level. Unlike now, where there's still a drainage ditch. This drainage ditch has quite a problem. For one thing, in my previous life, leaves and cigarette butts often fell into it.

There are cigarettes in the Naruto world, so there are definitely cigarette butts, and of course there are leaves. Who knows, shuriken or kunai might also fall in there.

It's a pity there's no sewer, otherwise they would have built you a manhole cover weighing several tens of kilograms.

With this drainage ditch here, who knows if someone will use it to navigate bends in the ditch in the future?

Ahem, I digress. Hashirama Senju had seen the changes in the south of the village. Fortunately, he hadn't driven Yua out of Konoha because of his suspicions, but instead gave Yua a chance to show himself.

Looking at it now, isn't that amazing?

What Hashirama found even more impressive was that people in other areas were unhappy because of the changes in the south of the village.

Those people in the southern part of the village are all ordinary people! Ordinary people can enjoy such good housing and roads, while we, the noble ninjas, still have to walk on muddy roads! How can we tolerate this?!

With a wave of his hand, Tobirama Senju declared, "I've already mastered that so-called economics! Just watch, I'll settle this matter with lightning speed!"

Then construction started simultaneously in three locations, and the renovation was completed in a week. When Tobirama Senju looked back at the accounts, he found that 25 million taels of silver had disappeared, and he fainted from anger.

You Ya was speechless. "Even if you're copying homework, you have to consider whether the conditions are the same!"

If these ninja clans were to mobilize their initiative, wouldn't they just become a bunch of mere tools?

If Yuya were to do it himself, these families might have a lot of money in their hands afterward, but the warehouses of Konoha Village would definitely be full. At that time, these families probably wouldn't understand the difference between money and resources, and would probably think they've made a huge profit.

Unfortunately, that's no longer possible.

But it's alright, Youya felt that the benefits they were receiving weren't entirely useless.

That would lull these families into a false sense of security, so they wouldn't suspect anything if something similar happened again.

The current situation in Konoha is that various ninja clans control all of Konoha's power structures.

However, this is a common problem in various countries. Only ninjas are qualified to wield power. This is not an unspoken rule, because the rule is directly out in the open.

Yuya didn't think there was anything wrong with this rule. Ninjas truly risked their lives to fight and protect the village, so it was perfectly reasonable for them to have the corresponding rights.

Perhaps because of this, most of the leadership focused all their attention on the ninjas.

They don't care much about ordinary people.

In fact, ordinary people can also create value.

Moreover, there are far more ordinary people than ninjas. If they were to serve ninjas, then the vast majority of ordinary people would not be in that position.

And those who are not valued may only be able to see the rice seedlings in their own fields all year round.

This is a devastating blow to the enthusiasm of ordinary people for life.

In the early stages, they might be content with a relatively peaceful environment due to war or other reasons. However, once things stabilize, facing a future they can already foresee, they wouldn't necessarily give up, but they certainly wouldn't have much motivation.

Therefore, there is still a second step for development for Youya.

That means building a factory.

It doesn't need to be a high-end technology factory; it can be a textile factory, a food processing factory, or even a factory using various high-tech methods.

Decades later, if Naruto comes to power in Konoha, he can transform the village into a technological metropolis utilizing ninja world technology. There's no reason why such technology wouldn't exist at this point in time.

However, research projects are all very expensive, and even if Yua wanted to do it at this stage, Tobirama Senju would definitely not agree.

Because Yuya casually mentioned that the draft required an initial investment of at least one billion taels, Tobirama Senju's mind started buzzing.

Tobirama Senju now understands that Yua seems to have no concept of money.

A figure as large as one billion taels came out casually.

This is equivalent to several years' worth of Konoha's tax revenue.

Well, it can only be said that if a village is underdeveloped, its economy cannot be good.

……

Hashirama Senju's health has been improving lately, but Mito Uzumaki's smiles have become fewer and fewer.

Yua once asked Hashirama in private if there was any way to delay death.

Hashirama casually told Yua that there was a solution, but he was unwilling to use it.

The solution is simple: just like when I fought Madara Uchiha, find someone else to fight and injure myself, preferably seriously.

In this way, the cells in his body that are constantly devouring will have a new target. The instinct for survival will make them turn to the wound to devour the rotting old cells and various cells in the outside world.

That should give him a few years to live.

However, Hashirama did not intend to do that.

The ninja world has finally regained peace. If he goes looking for trouble now, that peace will surely vanish in an instant.

Hashirama spent his entire life trying to end the chaotic, disorderly, and war-torn world, and he succeeded. So even in death, he could not bring himself to destroy everything he so desperately desired.

You Ya could only remain silent in response.

(End of this chapter)