Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 165 Returning Home After Completing Studies

After Jiraiya left Konoha, Yua's side also underwent an important personnel change.

Those were the doctors from other villages who had come to learn over the past two or three years; they were going back.

The first batch of people sent to study from Iwagakure in the Land of Earth, Kumogakure in the Land of Lightning, and Sunagakure in the Land of Wind.

As for Kirigakure in the Land of Water, they were short of manpower because of the civil war, and after the war ended, they didn't know whether the so-called Konoha training program was reliable or not.

Therefore, Kirigakure decided to first observe the results; if the first batch was effective, then the second batch would follow.

If the first batch doesn't have much effect, then there's no need to waste time.

When the first group of doctors who came to Konoha to study left, Yua held a farewell party for them.

Although the farewell party was technically a form of formalism, the people who attended were indeed of very high status.

Leaving aside Yua, the current Hokage, there's Tsunade and Katsuragi, one of whom is the author of the first draft of the intermediate surgical manual they're taking back this time—

It's only about a hundred pages long, covering some simple surgical procedures currently available and a little bit of internal medicine cutting and suturing. Although the content isn't extensive, if they can thoroughly understand these hundred-odd pages, they'll be more than qualified to be attending surgeons.

One is the old man who has been pointing his finger at them and cursing them every day for the past few years.

Although old man Katsuragi is either cursing people or on his way to curse people every day.

But to be honest, you can't be too casual in a hospital.

If you become too easygoing, some people might think you're too relaxed and not take your teaching seriously, leading to occasional oversights.

Occasional carelessness is not a big deal in many industries, but it's different in hospitals.

If you are even slightly negligent, the consequence could be a life lost.

It's like a news story you remember from your past life: after the surgery, the doctor left the scalpel inside the patient's abdomen.

What is this if not negligence?

Fortunately, it was discovered in time; otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

You'd think even the nicest person would lose their temper in this situation.

Not to mention that being a doctor is a profession that requires complete concentration for every surgery.

Therefore, more than 95% of people in this profession have a bad temper.

Especially when it comes to my own field, and some students, I feel like killing them if I have to teach them a few more times.

Of course, this doesn't include veterinarians or groomers; it specifically refers to doctors who treat and save lives. This isn't about occupational discrimination, but rather about specialization. Many veterinarians are gentle and kind, because even the most serious incidents won't result in human death. While that may sound harsh, human life is undoubtedly more important than animal life. (If you're still criticizing this as disrespectful to animals after all this, then you're in the right, okay?)

Therefore, although Grandpa Katsuragi scolded them every day for the past two years, when it was time to part ways, these students still very seriously and earnestly performed the disciple's salute to Grandpa Katsuragi.

They naturally held Tsunade in even higher esteem, especially when Tsunade announced that she would send her the intermediate surgery manual after it was finished. The junior students were very excited.

After all, a surgical manual is a reference book! It's a lifesaver in critical moments!

Therefore, it's not hard to imagine how popular Tsunade is among these younger students.

You Ya waved goodbye to the group and then smiled.

This group marked the beginning of Konoha's interactions with other villages.

This wasn't something that couldn't be said, so after seeing off the first group of international students, Yuya said with a smile to the people around him, "These people who have come to Konoha for further studies will surely bring prosperity to their villages when they return."

After saying that, Yuya turned and left, leaving the representatives from other villages stationed in Konoha completely bewildered.

Their first reaction was whether Yua, the Hokage, had some kind of conspiracy.

Unlike the villagers of Konoha, they didn't have unlimited trust in Yua. In fact, even if they had feelings for Yua, they still had to be constantly wary of his every move because of his identity.

However, You Ya didn't care; this was an open strategy of his.

It's certain that these students were influenced while in Konoha, so they will definitely spread the word about everything they did in Konoha when they return.

Of course, the other villages wouldn't be happy about this, but here's the problem...

When they go back, they won't just bark like public intellectuals.

They are genuinely going back to treat and save lives.

Besides, there is indeed a gap between other villages and Konoha. Does that mean we can't even talk about reality?!

Those few people are not the only ones who feel disheartened.

So this wave means that other villages will have to send people here for further training if they want to acquire talent. Once they come here for further training, they will be influenced by Konoha. This will not be obvious in normal times, but in the future, if their villages want to launch an unjust war, they will definitely not support them.

As for Konoha...

Konoha is already complaining that the chives in these villages aren't growing well enough to harvest much, so why would they launch a war against them for no reason?

No one is willing to do something that doesn't bring them any benefit.

As expected, the first group of people who returned from Konoha quickly demonstrated the skills they had learned, and their remarks also caused headaches for the other villages.

Hidden Rock Village:

The Four-Tails' Jinchūriki, arms crossed, looked on with displeasure at the leader who had just returned from studying abroad and immediately approached Onoki, proposing to build a large-scale hospital and ideally have the Four-Tails' Jinchūriki, Komurasaki, help out as well.

What are you doing, acting so bossy? You don't actually think I'm supposed to listen to you...

"Okay, are there any other requirements?"

The four-tailed jinx looked at Onoki in complete bewilderment, then pointed to himself and then to the leader in white robes.

Onoki nodded seriously: "I agree, I will allocate more resources to you."

The Four-Tails Jinchuriki almost lost his temper, but was immediately intimidated by Onoki's glare.

Onoki was also suffering. He hadn't noticed it before, but now that this first group of people had returned from Konoha, he could clearly feel it.

Not used to it.

Yes, the first batch of forty-odd doctors showed obvious signs of maladjustment.

This sense of unease became particularly apparent after I saw my family in the first few days after returning home.

The most striking effect is that they cannot show any disdain for the village's bumpkins before leaving for Konoha.

Onoki felt a pang of sadness. Iwagakure had been like this for over thirty years since its founding, and he hadn't paid much attention to it. But he hadn't expected that these people would go to Konoha, stay there for more than two years, and come back as if they were completely different people...

Well, at least they still consider themselves to be from Iwagakure (Hidden Stone Village). Although they talk about Konoha (Hidden Leaf Village) all the time, at least they don't stay there.

In fact, if it weren't for family and friends in Iwagakure, some of the first group of forty-odd people would not have wanted to come back.

However, the leader brought him back on the grounds that he should at least go back to see his family.

After they returned, the leader had no intention of letting them leave Iwagakure again.

However, the leader also understood that moral blackmail could not hold people's hearts captive forever. If they hadn't been to Konoha, they might have been able to stay, but after going to Konoha, let alone others, he himself didn't want to come back.

However, deep down he still considered himself a member of Iwagakure, and he wanted Iwagakure to develop together with him.

In fact, Konoha Hospital recognized his excellence and offered him a position as a director, along with a monthly salary of 60 ryo to try and keep him in Konoha, which was almost the salary of a Jonin.

However, he resolutely refused. After returning home, he spent three days with his family before rushing to the Tsuchikage's office to find Onoki and express his intention to build a hospital in Iwagakure.

Onoki agreed, but what followed disappointed him.

Because in Konoha, he had even seen with his own eyes a place that used to be a cluster of two-story houses, which in just over a month was transformed into a residential area consisting of eight twenty-story high-rise buildings that rose from the ground.

Konoha's efficiency made him feel that building a skyscraper from scratch should be done at this speed.

However, he forgot that this was Iwagakure (Hidden Rock Village). Although there were engineering teams and various equipment, the village had the most Earth Release ninjas.

However, no one here would offer an exorbitant reward of 200,000 taels of silver per week to incentivize the workers, nor would anyone boast of the extra 10,000 taels per person for a day's work done ahead of schedule, given that the project is only two months long.

Although Onoki did his best to support him, it was impossible for him to come up with 100 million yen in a week to motivate every member of the 500-person construction team.

Iwagakure cannot afford such a renovation; they don't have that much money.

If that were all, it wouldn't be so bad. The construction site was poorly managed, not because the workers were fighting, but because they ate, drank, and relieved themselves all on the construction site.

The doctor, who had just returned from studying abroad, was so angry that he started cursing.

Already short-tempered, witnessing this scene, he knew, having learned about related matters in Konoha Village, that fecal transmission could be fatal.

Although when he returned from Konoha, he and his juniors used all the meager wages they had earned as medical apprentices over the years (indeed meager, these were hospital interns who hadn't been officially hired, treated like dogs with even less pay) to buy some common medications and bring them back, so that they would have medicine even if they got infected.

But even if you have medicine, you can't use it like that.

Because of this, the Four-Tails Jinchuriki felt that this guy was being too pretentious. Iwagakure had been doing this for years and had never seen any problems. Just cover it with soil, what's the big deal?!

You're such a troublemaker every day.

And the seeds of conflict were sown on that day.

After all, only a handful of people from Iwagakure have ever been to Konoha. They haven't been to Konoha and don't know how much of an impact that modern beauty brought by the steel jungle is on the rural population of Iwagakure.

Although they kept seeing news about Konoha in the newspapers, the people of Iwagakure just thought that Konoha and Iwagakure were like each other, where people could make money while lying down, and didn't need to live as hard as they did.

The truth is, strictly speaking, the people of Iwagakure Village who are responsible for growing crops are not necessarily more tired than the people in factories.

After all, most people in Iwagakure stay at home when it rains occasionally.

However, the factory in Konoha will definitely operate regardless of the weather.

Even so, if you let a hundred people choose, none of them would choose to live in Iwagakure.

The hospital took more than three months to build, and it was only a four-story building.

There's no other way but to make do with it.

The hospital officially opened for business by hanging up the cross symbol representing the hospital.

Then it was fully booked on the first day.

There are indeed many people with minor injuries and illnesses.

These people usually put up with it, but now that there are hospitals, they're checking out the fees and finding that a registration fee is only 50 or 100 taels, which is still affordable.

Then it got completely packed.

The forty-odd doctors who returned from studying abroad are exhausted every day, and they also have to deal with some misunderstanding villagers who say, "I've already paid for the registration fee, why do I have to pay for the medicine too? Huh? Injections? I don't want them, I'm scared, I can bear it." Another example is a patient with a tumor who said he needed to have it removed, but his face immediately changed, and he repeatedly said he didn't want it removed and could endure it.

Tired.

The main focus is on mental exhaustion.

That was bad enough. At the end of the year after they returned, the hospital director approached Onoki and said that he needed to purchase a batch of hospital equipment for Konoha. Onoki immediately shook his head and said that he didn't have that much money.

The dean, who had just returned from studying abroad, was furious. "No money? If you don't have money, why are you even running a hospital?!"

These patients are tormenting me, and you're tormenting me too, aren't you?! Everyone knows that hospitals are golden goose geese; the hospital in Konoha Village alone makes over 10 billion yen a year!

Even after deducting costs, R&D expenses, equipment procurement, and salaries for doctors and nurses, the total assets amount to billions, making it the most outstanding first-tier asset in Konoha Village.

The number one asset type in Konoha Village can't make money in our Iwagakure Village?!

Onoki, looking embarrassed, tried to soothe him gently. He was embarrassed too, because they had actually made money, since the hospital was indeed profitable. However, Iwagakure had far too many expenses. Putting aside other things, a group of workers who had been waiting for a year needed to be paid, and if they weren't paid soon, something bad could easily happen.

Onoki refused to add more equipment, and then, unfortunately, an accident happened that same day.

That evening, several villagers carried a man who had fainted from the pain to the hospital; it was the man with the tumor on his back.

Without surgery, he definitely wouldn't live more than a few days, but with surgery...

Although the conditions are tough, let's give it our all.

In the end, the surgery was successful, but an infection developed.

Since the water drawn up was from the river in the Land of Earth, it goes without saying how many bacteria it contained.

Fortunately, the dean, who had returned from studying abroad, bought some medicine and antibiotics, and the person recovered after suffering for a few days.

On that very day, the dean finally collapsed from exhaustion.

After he woke up, he called over the more than forty people who had returned with him.

Finally, he solemnly stated that from the very beginning, he had never intended for any of them to stay in Konoha, even though he was a sinner in terms of their future.

But... Iwagakure (Hidden Stone Village) is where he was born...

Even if he is despised and resented by his companions for the rest of his life, he will hold them back and make them work with him to contribute to the development of Iwagakure.

And now, what he needs from them is...

They jointly requested that the Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, approve a grant for the hospital to purchase water purification equipment, disinfection equipment, and surgical instruments.

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"This is truly... all for the sake of the village..." Yua sighed as she looked at the intelligence sent home by the Anbu.

Because of his keen interest in people returning from other villages, Youya insisted that any information be sent over immediately, so even at night, he still received intelligence.

not to mention……

"Is it news about my juniors?" Tsunade snatched the scroll of intelligence compiled by the Anbu.

After all, she's a senior colleague of those doctors, so it's normal for them to show concern.

After reading it, Tsunade smiled with satisfaction, then sighed, "It's a pity they're not from Konoha."

You Ya laughed. Actually, you could force someone to come over using some underhanded methods, but there was no need. This kind of person is still worthy of respect.

Moreover...

"Where are there no examples? My uncle is just like that. He'll stop at nothing to develop the village."

Tsunade fell silent as she listened to Yua's words.

Indeed, Tobirama Senju was a man who would do anything for Konoha.

In fact... Hashirama Senju was the same...

In the final battle against Madara Uchiha, the usually straightforward First Hokage ultimately chose a treacherous tactic for the sake of the village: using shadow clones to draw attention before launching a sneak attack. Madara probably never expected this. However, that's the First Hokage for you; he'll stop at nothing for the sake of the village.

As Tsunade was thinking about her grandfather, she heard Yua sigh, "What a pity. He's a good person, and he's capable, but unfortunately, he can't see the bigger picture."

Tsunade's train of thought was abruptly interrupted, and she looked at Yua with a puzzled expression: "What does this mean?"

Yuya smiled slightly: "Iwagakure only has that much money each year. If he wants so much equipment, he'll need at least a billion ryo. Well, although it's nothing to us, a billion ryo for Iwagakure... is very valuable."

Putting aside everything else, just transporting the water purification equipment from Konoha to Iwagakure and then laying the pipes and setting up the equipment would cost over 100 million ryo. After all, Yuya always sells equipment along with installation services. The water purification equipment itself only costs 30 million ryo, with the rest being transportation and installation fees.

Of course, subsequent maintenance is also included.

As for Iwagakure...

Because they started doing business with Konoha, Iwagakure is doing better than Konoha was a few years ago, with an annual GDP of about 40 billion yen.

Compared to Konoha's more than 200 billion, it is indeed quite a bit less.

However, if we let Youya do it, there is a way to break the deadlock.

That meant selling land, mines, and labor—selling everything that could be sold, gritting our teeth and risking our lives to achieve initial industrialization.

Did we lose money? Yes, we did.

Are you going to be bullied?

Being bullied.

But there's nothing we can do. The technology and products are in other people's hands. If you want to develop, you have to put up with their attitude.

To be honest, if Iwagakure had established a strategic partnership with Konoha in 16 and 17 when Konoha was just starting out, Iwagakure would definitely be much more developed now.

It's been almost 20 years, after all.

Moreover, Yuya was only 9 years old at that time, and the one in power was Tobirama Senju. He was only responsible for giving advice, while Tobirama Senju made the decisions.

Tobirama Senju knew nothing about economics. If he had established a comprehensive partnership back then, he would have taken off by now.

It's at least at the level of the Land of Whirlpools.

If the Land of Whirlpools developed to that extent in just a few years, then the Land of Earth could easily become even stronger.

It's a pity I missed it.

There was another opportunity ten years ago, when Youya had established her advantage and was about to take the lead.

At that time, if other villages offered to exchange their mineral resources for technology and investment, Youya would not have been able to refuse.

Unfortunately, no one thought of this.

Thinking back to Yuya's past life, how did that great Eastern power rise economically, and how did it rise without aggression or plundering other countries' resources?

It was the result of three generations of hard work.

It's like exchanging 300 million pairs of pants for an airplane, or trading those sheet metal machines for a pittance, almost like giving them away, only to dismantle and copy them.

It's like trading the world's largest consumer market for foreign investment, with the lion's share going to the foreign parent companies, leaving the domestic companies with only scraps and a thank you to the foreign powers for their appreciation.

That's how it started.

Youya knows what it feels like to fall behind.

However, he also knew that there was no necessary connection between the backwardness of Iwagakure and the political environment within the village.

It's not that just because Iwagakure is inferior to Konoha, Iwagakure should unite and set Konoha as their target.

There is still internal strife.

There's still a sharing of the profits...

"Huh? Then, is my junior alright?" Tsunade asked nervously.

In any case, he was her junior after all, and...

Such idealistic people are actually quite admirable.

You Ya laughed: "Don't worry, it's fine. I'll have someone send him an invitation letter with an annual salary of ten million tomorrow."

In my name.

"Huh? Didn't you say he wouldn't come to Konoha?"