Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 35 We must take down these harmful things.

After leaving this place, Tobirama Senju found a high place, which was specially built by Yua as a landmark building. It was a pair of twin towers with ten floors in the center of Konoha.

Although this height was incredibly low in Yua's previous life, it can still be considered a landmark in this world.

The heads of various departments in Konoha are located in these two twin buildings.

Okay, not different departments, but the workplaces of people from different ninja clans.

There was no other way; these ninja clans helped Konoha establish itself, so they naturally had some jurisdiction over Konoha.

What Tobirama Senju is seeing now is that busy figure inside.

Looking up, Tobirama Senju suddenly felt a sense of disorientation.

Strictly speaking, Tobirama Senju had reviewed some of the important decisions made by Yua.

He came back last year too.

He had personally witnessed the changes in Konoha.

But standing on high ground and looking around, Tobirama felt that Konoha had changed a lot.

In just two years, the dirt roads in Konoha were transformed into smoother stone slab roads.

It's said that Yua is planning to build some kind of "cement road" next. Tobirama doesn't know about it and doesn't intend to interfere. Let Yua do whatever he wants.

His words...

Just look at the changes in Konoha now...

Tobirama Senju looked up at the busiest street in Konoha, which was still teeming with people even during the day.

I've even heard that people from Kirigakure and Sunagakure have shops there, but I don't know what they're selling.

While other areas may be somewhat deserted, that's because the common people are working during the day. It's said that the common people's area becomes very lively from evening until late at night.

That said, Yua has mentioned more than once that they are short of people, but Tobirama, looking at the current state of Konoha...

Isn't this great?

Where is there a shortage of people?

Tobirama was satisfied, and then looked up again.

Ah, the gambling den... I really miss it. My brother used to go there all the time...

Ok?

Who is that?

Are gambling dens now even allowing children to go?

Hmm, that figure looks familiar.

Then, Hiruzen Sarutobi and Kagami Uchiha, who were standing behind Tobirama Senju, suddenly felt a surge of intense anger emanating from Tobirama Senju...

The two looked at each other and shrugged.

Well, whatever, they don't think Tobirama Senju would do anything reckless anyway.

And so, on this day, the cries of Tsunade, the princess of the Senju clan, granddaughter of the First Hokage Hashirama, the god of ninja, echoed throughout the entire Hidden Leaf Village.

……

"Bang!"

The door to the Hokage's office was kicked open.

Sitting to the side, Yuya, whose face was obscured by a pile of documents, raised an eyebrow—since he was the acting head of the table, he naturally couldn't sit in the main seat—and looked up to see, oh, it was his own uncle. He had wondered who was so bold as to kick down the Hokage's office door.

Since he's your senior uncle, then there's nothing to worry about.

"Yua!" Tobirama Senju glared at Yua, barely suppressing his anger as he spoke, "I'm going to drive all those gambling den bastards out!"

You Ya looked up at his martial uncle: "What?! Martial Uncle, are you crazy?! Do you know how much this will result in?"

Tobirama Senju frowned and looked at Yua: "What do you mean?"

Yuya rummaged through a pile of documents on his desk, then pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to Tobirama Senju: "This is the transaction tax and rent paid by those gambling dens last month."

In short, Youya abolished the monthly protection fees charged by those gambling dens and instead levied a transaction tax of 15% of the transaction amount, allowing them to openly display their signs and move from operating covertly to operating openly.

However, in return, gambling dens are not allowed to provide loan services privately. Even if a gambler kneels down and begs you to lend him money, if you dare to lend it to him, then sorry, you'll be subject to a one-stop service of confiscation, expulsion, and seizure.

After weighing the pros and cons, the gambling den agreed.

And now, he smiles every day as he looks at his monthly income of over ten million taels of silver.

You Ya wanted to laugh too. Didn't these guys know that you have to fatten up a pig before you slaughter it?

You Ya knew the character of these gambling den owners. He had already gathered information that three gambling dens had secretly sent people to set up a tung ball shop outside.

Simply put, one tung ball can be exchanged for 100,000 taels of silver at the gambling den. If you don't have the money, it doesn't matter. You can pay on credit and pay next month, and there's no interest charged.

Isn't this just a disguised form of lending?

You Ya certainly knew this would happen.

The methods I saw online in my past life were much more advanced than yours. Yours still requires your underlings to operate, while theirs directly had ordinary people transfer money for them, changing accounts every time, and in the end, all they could find were the scapegoats.

Isn't their technique better than yours?

However, Youya had already taken precautions; the bill stated that deferred delivery of money in any form was prohibited.

Don't underestimate the power of those five words before "loan." With those five words, even if you give money to someone and that person returns it to you a second later, you can still use this law to arrest people.

Moreover, the phrase "any way" essentially blocks all possible solutions involving money.

It's true that ordinary people in Konoha now have money, and Yuya has blocked these people's methods of transferring money through ordinary people. Otherwise, these people really wouldn't mind dragging some ordinary people down with them.

Is this regulation shameless?

Indeed, it was shameless, but Youya felt he had a clear conscience, and those gambling dens all deserved to die.

But...

It's not fat yet, let it grow a bit more first.

After hearing Yua's plan, Tobirama Senju remained silent for a moment before speaking, "We can't let children go to that place!"

Yuya was slightly taken aback, then fell silent: "Tsunade?"

Tobirama Senju was stunned for a moment, then instantly flew into a rage: "That little brat even said it was his first time going!"

Yuya quickly reassured her, "Calm down, calm down. Although it's not the first time Tsunade has gone, I've always sent people to protect her."

Tobirama Senju roared in fury: "Fine! You didn't stop it?!"

Yuya coughed up blood: "Uncle-Master! It's not that I didn't want to stop her! But Tsunade just had to go!"

Tobirama Senju: "So you're just going to let her go? I handed her over to you and this is how you're going to watch her go?!"

You Ya: "...Okay, okay, it's my fault, it's my fault. I'll arrest all these gambling dens tomorrow!"

Tobirama Senju was satisfied: "Ah, that's more like it."

It was obvious that Tobirama Senju lost his mind when he saw the long string of zeros on the gambling dens' books.

Since the founding of the village, when has Konoha ever had hundreds of millions of yen in cash?

Even when they were scamming people in Yuya, it was in gold nuggets, not cash.

These bastard gambling dens actually dared to take so much money from Konoha?!

We must take it!

You Ya sighed; he actually wanted to raise it a little longer.

But there was nothing he could do; Tobirama Senju was completely captivated by the number of hundreds of millions of ryo, so you can't blame him.

You Ya knew that this short-sighted act of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs could only be done once.

These gambling dens will definitely not come to Konoha anymore.

Therefore, you only get one chance.

In that case, let's go to the Uchiha clan tomorrow.

By the way...

There are still some things to take care of.

Tomorrow I'll be testing the waters for my new book's promotion, but I doubt it'll pass the initial screening and make it to the second round. The veterans in the author group said that if it gets recommended, I should update like crazy, but I have to work during the day, so I won't be doing that. I'll stick to my usual two chapters a day, 4000 words. Sorry everyone. PS: The book community is right, if you don't have the mental fortitude, you can't do anything else, let alone write. So I'm too lazy to reply to those comments anymore. Anyway, many people just leave after criticizing; even if you explain, they won't listen to your rambling. What's the point of wasting that time? I could have written another chapter with that time.

(End of this chapter)