Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 147 The Two Who Skipped Their Level in the Assessment and the Burning of Konoha Elementary School

Yua, the third generation, is actually the one who succeeded Tobirama Senju.

Therefore, his position is relatively stable.

But while stability is important, it's still essential to cultivate your own core team.

Without your own team, many things become much harder to do.

Moreover, it's difficult to find and train people for some of the dirty and tiring jobs.

However, to be honest, the focus of the past ten years or so has been on economic development, and You Ya really hasn't had much extra time to develop his own elite troops.

Of course, there is another important reason: Youya is waiting for some people to come of age.

"Knock knock knock"

"Please come in," said You Ya, who was grading documents without looking up.

Nara Shikaya walked in and asked softly, "This year, thirteen high-ranking Chunin have requested to be promoted to Jonin."

Yuya nodded and extended his hand to Nara Shika: "Okay, I'll sign, you take full responsibility."

Nara Shika nodded to indicate that there was no problem.

When Yuya took the documents from Nara Shika, she saw two familiar names and immediately smiled.

He had been waiting for this day for a very long time.

"What's wrong, Third Hokage?"

Yuya shook his head, signed the document, and handed it to Nara Shika: "I trust you with this matter. Go ahead, and don't hold back in this trial."

Nara Shika saluted and turned to leave.

After Yuya and the other Nara deer left, Yuya stretched, stood up from the table, and went to the window.

At this time, the southern and western districts of Konoha have been renovated, and the next step is the eastern district.

The North District is undergoing final renovations, and while the North District is being renovated, the Hokage's office also needs to be rebuilt.

After all, if it weren't repaired, the sun might not even shine for a few hours a day.

Yuya has already prepared to transform the Hokage's office and several adjacent mansions into an office building.

It should take about half a month.

After all, the Hokage's office is different from the renovated city. The renovation of the Hokage's office is definitely the top priority, and it wouldn't be a problem to deploy as many Earth Release ninjas as needed.

If it weren't for You Ya's design drawings, this office building would have been over twenty stories high, and it might have been completed in just two or three days.

Using only Earth Release techniques won't work; the interior must be reinforced with steel bars. Otherwise, if an Earth Release ninja were to raid the Hokage's office building, which is entirely made of stacked steel, it could be completely destroyed.

Regardless of the extent of the losses, Konoha Village will definitely lose all face.

Because of the increase in building height, and because a floor that used to have only two rooms now has six rooms, one building is equivalent to about eight or nine buildings that used to be three or four stories high.

Therefore, Konoha actually has some empty spaces now, but Yua has decided to build roads in these empty spaces.

Previously, the dirt roads in Konoha were about five or six meters wide. Now that there is so much more open space, Yuya naturally plans to build them into six-lane roads, about 30 meters wide.

It might seem like a waste of space now, but Youya doesn't care.

Because there has been a breakthrough in the research of chakra kinetic energy.

If that device can be placed on the subway, there's no reason why it can't be further miniaturized to the size of an engine and then used to develop automobiles.

The automotive industry is a country's most fundamental high-end manufacturing industry.

Simply put, a country's ability to manufacture cars independently is a fundamental indicator of its capacity to develop high-end manufacturing.

If you can't even build cars, what are you going to talk about with large transportation vehicles like airplanes and ships?

Note that this refers to individual manufacturing; it does not include the kind of manufacturing where you buy parts and assemble them yourself.

Youya has his own plans. Car manufacturing is basically on the agenda, and the jobs created by car manufacturing can rival or even surpass those of steel mills.

Oh, of course. Although that's the analogy, Yuya Steel Plant will at most close a few plants; it's impossible for them to give up all of them—that would be suicidal.

The manufacture of automobiles not only creates jobs within Konoha Village, but more importantly, it allows them to be exported to other countries, earning foreign exchange.

Although Konoha's currency is currently very strong, that's because firstly, Kumogakure almost ruined its economy by making a fool of itself, and secondly, Konoha itself is indeed very powerful, not just in terms of martial prowess.

However, this situation could not last. Although the Third Raikage of Kumogakure was very stubborn and wanted to kill all the ninja clans in Kumogakure and confiscate their property every day, the situation was still very serious.

However, the Third Raikage wouldn't be foolish enough to actually do that.

Nearly ten years have passed since the ninja clans of Kumogakure ignored the interests of Kumogakure and only cared about developing their own clans, and were then thoroughly defeated by the Third Raikage, which almost caused the economic collapse of their respective countries.

The Hidden Cloud Village is already rich in resources and products, and with the export of goods from Konoha to the Hidden Cloud Village, the village's currency has gradually become stable.

The same is true for the other villages.

To put it bluntly, a Wagyu cow that can sell for millions of ryo in Kumogakure would be worth far more than a few hundred thousand ryo in Konoha. Not to mention the other livestock, grains, minerals, forestry resources, and so on.

As long as this foundation exists, the economy of Hidden Cloud Village won't collapse too much.

Although the Land of Lightning's resources are not as good as Konoha's, they are not far behind.

However, Konoha has developed peacefully for ten years, which is more than enough.

The gap between other villages and Konoha right now is just these ten years.

As long as Konoha continues to develop its manufacturing industry, continues to industrialize, and continues to upgrade its technology, other countries will never catch up.

Look at other countries, not a single one has established a research institute to this day.

They probably saw this TV that the research institute developed, so the fan wasn't very useful.

No problem, we'll give them a big surprise once the car is produced.

Let's put aside the technical aspects of cars.

As long as there is a first-mover advantage, even if other brands catch up later, it is not worth the price. This is because some people only know a few brands that have a first-mover advantage, and even if other cars have caught up, some people still believe in those few brands that have a first-mover advantage.

For example, when people talk about cars, they think of Mercedes-Benz and BMW.

But actually, spending a million on a BMW to buy a new energy or hybrid domestic car would be a great option. The only difference is that buying a BMW might make you look cool and attract beautiful women who might even throw themselves at you.

Emotional value is still very important.

Ahem, getting back to the main point, in short, Yuya will continue to devote herself to the research institute, and if possible, Yuya even wants to write this into the law.

But as I said before, Yuya can only guarantee Konoha's strength while he's alive; after his death...

Let's see how the young master and his ilk play their game.

Of course, if we really want to talk about it, there is a way to solve it once and for all.

Konoha, or rather the Land of Fire, simply swallowed up other countries.

Unfortunately, that's impossible.

If you don't even have an advantage in terms of population, what are you going to do?

With over a million people from Konoha Village divided among other villages, each village would only have 200,000 people. What good would that do?

Other villages won't be foolish enough to just wait for Konoha to attack them.

In reality, most of the time it's the other village's secretive preparations for trouble.

Therefore, launching an attack on other villages is impossible, at least for now.

Even if the population doubles every twenty years, Yuya's reign of one hundred years would only reach the tens of millions of people...

There's still not enough population...

You Ya sighed. Although this was true, it was impossible to directly follow the example of Europe and America in his previous life, where having children would result in compensation. Even the poorest people could receive relief food from the government to survive.

Because the abundant material life in those countries was built on the foundation of colonial exploitation of others.

Putting aside Yuya's deep-seated hatred of colonization, let's just say that if you really want to colonize, who would you colonize? Small countries are worthless, and if you dare to do this to a large country, just wait for war.

Therefore, the economic harvesting approach is still the most reliable.

After much deliberation, You Ya could only remain steadfast in the actions he had always adhered to.

While he was pondering these things, the Jonin Exams in Konoha this year also came to an end.

Seven people ultimately passed the Jonin Exams, but two of them arrogantly declared that they would continue to apply for the Intermediate Jonin Exams.

Nara Shika laughed too. Every year there are always some self-proclaimed geniuses who want to jump the ranks twice. Indeed, the only difference between a junior Jonin and a junior Jonin is that they receive an extra 100,000 ryo in salary each month.

However, to be promoted from a junior ninja to a senior ninja, one must serve as a junior ninja for ten years without making any major mistakes, and must achieve at least an A-rank rating in the annual ninja exams before applying after ten years of service.

This means that the sooner you reach the intermediate rank of Jonin, the sooner you can apply.

However, the assessment for intermediate-level Jonin is more than ten times more difficult than that for junior-level Jonin.

Being a junior Jonin simply requires you to fight other Jonin; you either defeat them or survive for a certain amount of time.

Intermediate Jonin would have to spend three days safely in the Forest of Death.

During the assessment, three intermediate-level Jonin conducted a simulated real war against the examinees in the form of a squad battle, holding nothing back and truly treating the assessment as a war.

Nara Shika didn't refuse either. Every year there are always a few arrogant guys like that, and this year there are only two who are honest, which is already considered a small number.

He didn't refuse; it's become an annual tradition.

It's pretty good, it can provide some fun.

However, to Nara Shika's surprise, this game of cat and mouse, which was supposed to be a class of three Chunin, turned out to be...

It turned into a solo showcase for the two examinees.

The two were in different exam rooms, but they did the same thing.

Instead of trying to hide or conceal themselves, they stood there openly, and then...

Go head-to-head with the examiners.

And he decisively defeated three examiners.

If this were a battlefield, these two men, at the cost of their own minor injuries, would have taken down two enemy squads...

Nara Shika was also astonished and made a mental note of the two people's names...

Sakumo Hatake...

Matt Day...

……

That evening, Yuya went home with a smile, carrying the report that Nara Shika had given him.

Tsunade deeply resented Yua bringing work home, but upon hearing that two people had single-handedly defeated three Chunin examiners today, she immediately put her displeasure aside and inquired about it.

To be honest, the current Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya, the three legendary ninjas, are still considered genin within Konoha's ninja organization.

However, Orochimaru and Tsunade's salaries weren't paid by Yua, so they didn't really care.

As for Jiraiya...

This guy said he was going out to gather material for his novel, but five years have passed and he hasn't produced a single word.

In Yuya's memory, Jiraiya's first novel in his previous life was a boastful novel about a ninja who single-handedly turned the tide of battle on the battlefield.

The main character's name is still Naruto.

As a result, Jiraiya still hasn't written it.

To be honest, he was quite looking forward to it.

after all……

Hiruzen Sarutobi has been focusing on his family lately, which is normal; his son was born, so he needs to spend more time with him.

As a result, Konoha TV started airing some inexplicable documentaries again.

It's so saccharine you can't even look at it.

Although the stories of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, who were supervised by Hiruzen Sarutobi, are quite absurd, they are still incredibly dramatic.

Although it's not allowed to be broadcast now, the documentary about Konoha's own ninja clans, directed by Hiruzen Sarutobi, is quite good.

What Yuya is looking forward to now is the tokusatsu drama every Friday.

To be fair, although Yua started it, it was Hiruzen Sarutobi who popularized it.

If you give him a good script, he can follow it strictly.

Compared to some of the directors in Yua's previous life, this director is much better.

Yuya has absolutely no liking for guys who don't understand tokusatsu but like to point fingers.

Hiruzen Sarutobi is different. He doesn't understand tokusatsu, but he knows that strictly following the established script is enough.

Yuya and Tsunade were eating dinner, and Tsunade was breastfeeding Yuya while eating.

I don't know where this idiot learned it from, but when Yua and Tsunade eat, he has to sit at the table. If he doesn't sit down, he starts crying, and his crying is so loud it's earth-shattering.

Youya was very frustrated; this brat wouldn't listen to a word!

Daughters are better; they're definitely more obedient than this brat.

So, Yuya had to be fed milk after every bite of food, and Tsunade had to be fed milk after every bite of food. Although Yuki was over a year old and couldn't speak, his attitude of holding onto the milk bottle and not letting go showed that he was a qualified foodie.

I don't know who he learned it from, but not only does he have to sit at the table, he also has to wait for an adult to eat a bite before he'll drink a sip of milk. Yuya and Tsunade have to hold up their milk bottles every time they eat a bite of food, it's torture.

Fortunately, it's Friday today, and Tsunade's parents will be coming to pick up the travelogue later.

Normally, Tsunade's parents would take care of Yuuki during the day, and then hand the child over to Yua and Tsunade when they got home from get off work in the evening.

Although Yua wanted to hire a nanny or maid, Tsunade's parents firmly refused.

You Ya didn't insist; the old couple were happy with whatever they wanted.

Just as I was thinking this, the doorbell rang.

Yuya and Tsunade both thought their parents had come.

When Yuya opened the door, he was surprised to find it was Uchiha Kagami!

Yuya looked at Uchiha Kagami with a puzzled expression: "What's wrong, Uncle Kagami?"

Uchiha Kagami looked at Yua with an embarrassed expression and said, "Um, I'm sorry to have let you down... the office of Konoha's First Elementary School was burned down..."

You Ya frowned immediately: "It was burned? Who was so bold?"

Uchiha Kagami became even more embarrassed, stammering for a while before finally blurting out, "Yes, yes, sigh... it was Miss Kushina who gathered a whole bunch of kids..."

We thought it was just kids playing around and didn't pay attention, but then...

Uchiha Kagami looked embarrassed, while Yua was completely dumbfounded: "Huh? What did you say?! Kushina?!"

A six-year-old child?!

Tsunade didn't actually want to laugh.

After all, it's obvious to everyone how much the First Primary School values ​​You Ya.

but……

but……

"puff……"

I just couldn't resist...

(End of this chapter)