Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 32 Yes, yes, you all made a profit.

Compared to the deserted state of the only shop in Sunagakure, the ten shops in Kirigakure were bustling with activity.

Moreover, the Land of Water, where Kirigakure is located, is surrounded by the sea and has abundant resources.

Moreover, although Kirigakure is sick of eating fish, Konoha still prefers it.

Fish is meat too. In this day and age, being able to eat meat is a very happy thing. Why distinguish between fish and beef?

It's a pity that Yuya doesn't know how to make ham sausages. Otherwise, he could make them taste like meat with some starch, and Yuya could turn Konoha into a paradise where everyone can eat "meat" within a year.

This is not an exaggeration. For ordinary people in Konoha at this point in time, being able to eat meat at every meal would be heaven.

Unfortunately, You Yamu doesn't have this skill.

Therefore, the most popular and best-selling items in these ten shops in Kirigakure are all kinds of fish products.

Adding to the fish that Yuya bought according to the regulations, Kirigakure earned several million taels just from selling fish.

This can already be considered a big business deal.

More importantly, this isn't a one-off deal. You might want to eat it again tomorrow or the day after.

Konoha is currently in an awkward situation where various factories are opening frequently, but because the total population is only a few hundred thousand, it is impossible to expand its scale.

Population is often a very important factor.

For Tobirama Senju, too many people in the village might be troublesome, but for Yua, the more people the better.

Moreover, there's a term called demographic dividend.

It may not be very obvious on an individual, but it becomes clear when viewed from the perspective of the entire country: a large population is very beneficial to the country's development.

While the people of Kirigakure (Hidden Mist Village) felt comfortable watching the money flow into their accounts every day, Yuya felt even more comfortable.

Why?

Look at where he conducts his transactions in Kirigakure.

Kirigakure did make money, but the ships of supplies they brought over were sold in the trading area designated by Konoha.

In other words, the trading center that Yuya originally thought would take at least one or two years to set up was set up in less than six months thanks to the help of Kirigakure.

In today's ninja world, everyone knows that you can buy local specialties from Kirigakure in Konoha: mild-tasting fruit wine, various kinds of seafood, and Kirigakure's unique salt and iron.

Needless to say, the steel mill in Kirigakure was built with the help of Konoha.

Although one-tenth of the total output is required each year, it is not unacceptable.

After all, it's only three years.

At the beginning, the powerful clans in charge of Kirigakure wanted to suppress production so that Konoha wouldn't get much resources in the next three years.

However, after careful calculation, they discovered that this would also result in a significant loss of iron ore for themselves over the next three years.

Upon closer examination, since this ironworks was a reward from Konoha to get Kirigakure to stop participating in the war—yes, everyone, even those from Konoha, still thinks so—and since they're only getting one-tenth, there's no need to deliberately reduce production capacity and prevent themselves from getting too many iron blocks in the next three years.

Of course, in reality, Yuya didn't really value the ironworks in Kirigakure.

After all, he was about to expand his own ironworks to its tenth plant.

Iron can be used to make everything from building materials in villages to pots and pans in one's own home.

Yuya was not prepared to let Konoha continue playing with hundreds of thousands of people.

Attracting refugees and small clans to Konoha is a long-term policy that must be continued.

Of course, it would be even better if all the people coming for this were young and middle-aged.

Kirigakure's business in Konoha is booming, and Sunagakure, though envious, can't do anything about it.

They do have some local specialties, like cacti and desert chili peppers. Maybe we should consider those.

Desert chili peppers are worth considering, but cacti are out of the question.

The villagers of Konoha aren't camels; they wouldn't chew on this stuff. At most, they might buy a few to try something new, but they wouldn't buy several fish at once like they would at a stall in Kirigakure.

Chiyo, the young lady who runs the shop in Sunagakure, delivered the finished puppet to Yua and collected the final payment.

After Yuya paid, Ms. Chiyo was clearly very happy.

This one item alone is worth the annual usage rights to the shop that Sunagakure bought in Konoha.

No matter how you sell the rest, you'll still make a profit.

Furthermore, thanks to Yuya's special arrangements, several restaurants also came and signed purchase contracts for desert chili peppers with Sunagakure Village.

Although the initial volume is not very large, the demand for chili peppers, which are consumed in huge quantities every day, will definitely increase as the market develops.

They're selling over 100,000 taels a day now. Although that's just the selling price, if you factor in the journey they took from Sunagakure in the Land of Wind, and the daily expenses of the dozen or so Sunagakure ninjas here, they actually don't make much money at all. But the people of Sunagakure don't calculate that much.

Is the journey itself a cost to them?

That was clearly my training as a ninja!

Well, it's true that the daily energy expenditure in Konoha is quite high.

After all, Konoha Village understands men and women too well.

Massage parlors, jewelry stores, and gambling dens deep within the trading street...

To be fair, if we weren't unaware of the relevant technology, Yuya would have given the ninja world a little bit of a shock in the internet cafe world.

However, firstly, we don't know the relevant technology or how to create a network. Secondly, the world is not peaceful yet. If such a thing were to be set up, those kids would definitely not be able to resist the temptation. At that time, the next generation of Konoha's fighting force would be in great danger and might collapse.

However, as the saying goes, if one door closes, another opens.

Youya can open internet cafes in other countries and poison their next generation.

Unfortunately, having ideas alone is useless; you need the ability.

Of course, the cultural invasion of other countries by Yuya had already begun long ago, and the first step was naturally the promotion of "You can buy things from other countries in Konoha".

Although Konoha can now be said to have gathered the resources of the Land of Water and the Land of Wind, allowing them to trade on its own exchange.

But to be honest...

That's definitely not enough.

Yuya looked at the maps of the Land of Lightning and the Land of Earth with a hint of envy.

He really wanted the high-quality Wagyu beef from the ranches of the Land of Lightning, and the abundant food resources of the Land of Earth—referring to potatoes, you tell me if they were edible or not—

In comparison, the Sand Village, which is as poor as ghosts (yes, only the Sand Village is poor; the daimyo of the Land of Wind is anything but poor), and the Land of Water, which is far from the mainland and whose resources mostly depend on the ocean, are indeed not as promising as these two countries on the mainland.

However, this war still has to be fought.

War is a continuation of politics, and Yuya's strategy of getting these two countries to join in making money (meaning they can't make money if they come to Konoha, and they can't make money if they don't come to Konoha) is impossible to implement before this war ends.

But it's okay.

He can wait; he has every reason to wait.

While Konoha was developing rapidly, Yuya opened a clothing store with outrageously high prices, but surprisingly, it actually sold a few items within just a few days of opening.

Yes, the buyers were from the Shimura and Nara families.

Wow, the Nara family with their thick eyebrows and big eyes is actually this rich?

You've always been so low-key, but now you can't hide it anymore, huh?

While making notes in his notebook, Yuya secretly established a "Ninja Equipment and Information Technology Research and Development Department".

Their main focus is on firsthand research.

After all, Konoha is making money now, so it's time to think about how to spend it.

And without a doubt, conducting research is one of the fastest ways to spend money.

The first research project: Using the exquisitely crafted Sunagakure puppet that Yuya bought for ten million, let's try to reverse-engineer Sunagakure's puppetry techniques.

Yua does like anime characters, but the puppetry techniques of Sunagakure are really absurd.

Yuya is just using the anime character as an excuse because he's too ugly.

The real purpose is to see if we can conduct reverse research.

Regardless of whether your research is useful or not, I may not use it, but I can't be without it, understand? The main focus is on having a tactical reserve.

And so time slipped away, bit by bit.

And so, in the late summer of the eighteenth year of Konoha, that news arrived...

Ultimate Ninja Storm even has an AI game, which is considered an official game, right? So strictly speaking, it might have internet access, but I was worried it would look like I was running an internet cafe in Naruto, so I skipped it. That idea is off.

(End of this chapter)