Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 30 Mizukage: I've hit the jackpot (I'm really dead)

And the same procedure, the same logic, would leave the Land of Water with no reason to refuse.

Especially seeing the example of the Land of Wind signing an agreement with Konoha after itself but being able to reap the benefits first, isn't the Land of Water in a hurry?

Of course it's urgent.

I'm so anxious!

Especially with the Second Mizukage, Hozuki Gengetsu, and the Second Tsuchikage, Mu, engaged in combat on the front lines.

The Hidden Mist Village was ruled by the Minazuki clan and a group of other families.

These families in power certainly wouldn't be like Hozuki Gengetsu, who would kill people at the drop of a hat; they would prioritize getting the benefits they could get first.

The benefits offered by Konoha are something we absolutely must take.

Even the King of Heaven can't stop it.

Of course, no one would stop it, since it seems like a lot of benefits no matter how you look at it.

Compared to Sunagakure in the Land of Wind, which has nothing, Kirigakure in the Land of Water has much more to offer.

The market in the Land of Water is much larger than that in the impoverished Land of Wind, and there are merchants in the Land of Water itself.

And the impact of the market itself is self-evident.

If the market itself is large enough, even if you don't want to open it up, other countries will be eager to use cannons and ammunition to force you to open up and engage in free trade.

However, the Land of Water had never seen Yuya do this before. All the benefits were clearly written in the regulations. In short, the Land of Water would receive a great deal of benefits.

The Second Mizukage and the Second Tsuchikage are fighting on the front lines, while all the political affairs of Kirigakure are handled by those clans. Is it possible that these clans are wholeheartedly devoted to Kirigakure?

Of course, you have to feed your own family first before you can talk about anything else.

Yuya outlined three steps for Kirigakure. The first step was to open up their market.

This has already been achieved thanks to the cooperation of the other party.

The second step is to vigorously develop the village's various manufacturing industries, build factories, all kinds of factories, canneries, ham factories, cola factories. Of course, these are just supplements. The most important factories are those that can bring in a lot of revenue and strengthen the country.

For example, steel mills, construction plants, and chemical plants.

This chemical plant does not refer to petrochemicals, but rather to pharmaceuticals and fertilizers.

For some reason, this world doesn't have oil. But if there were oil, it would be located within the Land of Wind (a stereotype that oil and deserts are adjacent, but that's not true). The Land of Wind would definitely take off immediately.

Unfortunately, it's not there.

If we had oil, many things would be much more convenient, and building houses wouldn't be so troublesome.

But if it's not there, it's not there.

Without oil, there's one less thing that could cause global conflict.

Yuya treated Konoha's merchants extremely well, offering them various incentives that greatly benefited them.

Of course, the prerequisite is that you have to go out and explore.

You need to take the things from Konoha out of the village.

The factories that Konoha currently operates are sufficient for its own use, and there won't be any left over.

However, Youya understands one thing: the market is there, but if you don't seize it first, by the time you've finished developing it, local merchants will have already taken over the local market.

This is something Yuya would absolutely never accept.

He used so many regulations in the early stages to open up the markets of the two countries, and he did indeed deliver a lot of tangible benefits.

They even secretly exchanged 50 kilograms of gold from the black market just to ensure the continuation of their initial spending spree.

Yuya didn't even dare to let Tobirama Senju know about this. If Tobirama knew, he wouldn't stop him, but he would definitely make Yuya hand over dozens of kilograms of gold to distribute to the ninjas on the front lines.

Yuya isn't against providing subsidies to ninjas on the front lines, but everything has its limits. What will happen later if you give them out now?

Fortunately, once winter arrived, the muscular men of Kumogakure started clashing with Konoha again, leaving Tobirama with no time to stay in Konoha and handle government affairs.

After leaving the task of making money in the village to Yua and having Uchiha Kagami assist him, Tobirama went to the front lines.

Speaking of which, Uchiha Kagami now knows that Yua is actually the person who amazed him and directed the completion of the wetland bridge from scratch.

Every autumn, the wetlands over the wetland bridge bring several tons of resources to Muye, including fruits, herbs, and all sorts of plump animals—all of which are meat.

At this stage, the people of Konoha Village have no problem having enough to eat, but it's definitely not enough for Yuya.

Nowadays, ordinary people in Konoha Village basically don't eat meat at home except during festivals and New Year's.

This is definitely not acceptable for Yuya, who possesses memories of that country from her previous life.

I'm not saying that in a country like the one in my previous life, you can have meat with every meal, but you should at least have it once a month, right?

The ultimate goal is definitely to ensure that the people of Konoha have meat at every meal, but at this stage, that goal is a bit difficult.

However, Youya is very resourceful. If you can't get pork, beef, or mutton, fish will do.

The first batch of 3,000 catties of fish traded with Wuyin Village has been delivered via Wuyin Village's large ship.

This batch of 3,000 catties of fish is enough to feed the people of Konoha for a week.

Of course, when the large ships from Kirigakure arrived, they were loaded with fish. Once they reached Konoha, the water was scooped out of the ships, they were dried for a few days, then coated with tung oil, and then the ships could be used to purchase goods in Konoha.

The first choice would definitely be Konoha clothing.

Because of the trade regulations, the prices of the clothes sold in Konoha are the same as those in Konoha. For the people of Kirigakure, the prices are similar to those of the clothes made in their village.

However, the quality is much worse.

After all, the humid environment of Kirigakure is not suitable for raising silkworms, but Konoha can.

Youya also specially organized dozens of female workers to raise silkworms, abandoning the previous model of each household raising one mulberry tree and one batch of silkworms.

What kind of individual business are you talking about? Come and run a collective silkworm farming business!

Each person will be allocated five trees. When the harvest is complete, you will hand over a portion, and the rest will be yours. How much you earn depends on yourselves.

Anyway, those dozens of female workers were working very hard.

The clothes made of silk are a complete rip-off compared to those woven from hemp and grass seeds in Kirigakure.

The prices are about the same. You're a merchant from Kirigakure, what do you think?

Of course, I'd buy Konoha's!

Then Youya also set up several wineries.

Yes, brewing can also be done in a factory.

When Tobirama heard this news, he was stunned. Isn't brewing a process where you just put some stuff in a jar and wait? How can they turn this into a factory?

In fact, it can not only be turned into a factory, but the output is also quite high.

If it weren't for the fear that buying too much grain might cause famine, You Ya would have expanded the scale tenfold long ago.

However, there are also advantages.

In places like Kirigakure, the humid environment makes them crave clothes made of silk from the silkworms in Konoha, and they also long for a glass of strong liquor to dispel the dampness in their bodies and work up a sweat.

These things are not found in Kirigakure itself.

The main reason is the climate.

The sake brewed in Kirigakure even has a sweet taste, and its alcohol content is negligible; it's practically fruit wine.

However, now that they have started trading with Konoha, Kirigakure has discovered that Konoha has everything they need.

As a result, their local liquor and clothing merchants were driven out of business and went bankrupt by this competition. Others built steel mills, which hired many of their employees, and Kirigakure opened a copycat cola factory, but instead of calling it cola, they called it happy water.

After this series of actions, Kirigakure became visibly wealthier.

The Second Mizukage, who was engaged in a fierce battle with the Second Tsuchikage on the front lines, was very satisfied with the changes in his village.

However, they failed to realize that these fattened-up ninja clans were all from their own village.

As for ordinary people...

You should be grateful that we've made sure you're well-fed and watered.

The following year, in the spring of the eighteenth year of Konoha, the war had been going on for almost a year.

However, compared to the high intensity in the early stages, the intensity of the battle between Konoha and Kumogakure has decreased significantly. It's just that the battle between Iwagakure and Kirigakure has gradually escalated into a full-blown conflict.

The intensity of the conflict is increasing, and both sides are sending out more and more ninjas.

until……

In the late summer of the 18th year of Konoha, the Second Tsuchikage and the Second Mizukage perished together.

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