Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 38 Sand Village Ninja's Encounters in Konoha

Not everyone in a ninja clan is a ninja.

There are definitely still ordinary people among them.

Or some people may actually have the talent of a ninja, but they just don't want to be one. You can't force them to become one, right?

Therefore, these types of people are the main targets of Youya.

Because these people are responsible for the lowest level in ninja clans.

That is, the kind that provides resources to ninja clans.

Simply put, in the past, they farmed, traded, and wove cloth to support the ninjas who protected them.

This model would be quite reasonable if it were during the Warring States period.

Ninjas provide protection and resources to civilians.

However, this approach was not suitable during the era of the ninja village.

Because these commoners not only hand over resources to their families, but also to the village.

If that's the case, then either don't pay to the family, or don't pay to the village.

Konoha has never forcibly levied food or money on the Sarutobi, Hyuga, Shimura, and other clans, but the annual taxes are always collected.

However, it's all about how much you give each year, and both parties know exactly how much.

This kind of model is obviously not sustainable.

However, the village had just been established when war broke out.

The war has not stopped; the Cloud Village has only temporarily retreated and has not signed a ceasefire treaty.

It was impossible to fall out with these families during wartime, so Tobirama Senju would simply take out his little notebook and make a note of these families.

Tobirama Senju remembered how few families gave Yuya face when she went to the village to collect supplies last time.

Regardless of whether Yua himself proposed the idea of ​​fundraising, he represented Tobirama Senju.

Oh, I finally managed to get my hands on tens of millions before, and you all blocked my door demanding money. Now that I'm sending people to collect supplies, you won't even give me face?

Is there such a thing?!

Tobirama Senju wrote things down in a small notebook, but Yua did not.

He never took these families seriously from the very beginning.

Ultimately, a family is nothing more than a group of people with the same surname sticking together for mutual support.

The family name is very useful when fighting against external enemies.

But is Konoha an external enemy?

No, so Youya has a million ways to split these families.

However, in order to prevent the conflict from escalating, Yua chose to cut the flesh with a dull knife. If Uchiha Kagami hadn't decided to come out and take a look, he wouldn't have discovered that many ordinary people in the Uchiha clan had chosen to leave the clan's territory and live in the city of Konoha.

Here's the key point: it's true that the Uchiha clan in Konoha has serious internal problems, but do other clans not have their own problems?

Don't they oppress their own ordinary family members?

How could that be?

It's just a matter of how much oppression there is.

The Uchiha clan is currently the most oppressed. Gradually, ordinary members of other clans will also leave their clan territories and move to the four districts planned by Yuya.

Can Uchiha Kagami stop it?

It can't be stopped.

To put it simply, this is a multiple-choice question.

What a family can give you in the future is the sense of community that comes from living together as a family.

That's all.

Can't Konoha provide the same protection that the clan provides?

If other clans can provide something, why can't Konoha?

Konoha still has so many jobs, and factories are scrambling to hire people. Often, even when the machines and materials arrive, there are no workers, leaving the machines to sit idle. Every day, money is being lost, money that Yua sees as money.

Ordinary people from these clans will find that if they work hard in Konoha's city, their lives will definitely be better than they did in their clan's territory.

For people like the Uchiha, it's several times better.

There won't be any cult-like guys knocking on your door to preach the Seven Deadly Sins of Konoha and make you fight against Konoha, nor will there be any monthly fees you have to pay.

And only after coming out did I realize who the Konoha Security Department was.

Uchiha.

What are they responsible for?

To protect Konoha.

Oh, so after you get out, you don't have to pay anything and you can enjoy the same protection as before...

Why not go out?

Once you get out, you'll find out...

That definitely feels much more comfortable.

(Of course, there's another advantage to coming out: if the Uchiha clan members go berserk, they won't be wiped out. After all, killing within the Uchiha clan is a family matter, but killing outside becomes a village matter for Konoha. Uchiha fighting seven at once - thumbs up!)

Having figured this out, Uchiha Kagami decisively corrected his position.

Just let it rot.

He wasn't the head of the Uchiha clan, and to be honest, he didn't think much of the Uchiha clan members leaving the Uchiha territory.

To be honest, they are definitely living better now, aren't they?

If that's the case, why disrupt Yua's plans?

Uchiha Kagami also realized that Yua was different from the Second Hokage.

Tobirama Senju's talent in ninjutsu needs no further explanation; the title "Ninjutsu Doctor" is the best compliment.

But Yuya is different.

This boy didn't display any ninjutsu skills at all, but it was enough to send chills down Uchiha Kagami's spine.

Uchiha Kagami didn't think he could pull off such a massive scheme as cutting the flesh of all the ninja clans with a blunt knife.

I truly admire Tobirama Senju for entrusting the village's administration to Yua.

Well, while I admit defeat, whether Hiruzen Sarutobi, Danzo Shimura, and the others do so is another matter entirely.

Uchiha Kagami put aside his worries and focused on shopping with his wife. He was actually quite happy.

The commercial street is very lively even at night.

Moreover, compared to the aloofness of the shop in Kirigakure, the brother and sister who run the only shop in Sunagakure are very enthusiastic.

Because Konoha is so big, there will always be some people who want to try the flavors of other villages.

The fruit of the cactus... um... I've never eaten it before, do you want to try it?

Anyway, it's not expensive. 100 taels for a string of two fruits is just a drop in the bucket for the current residents of Konoha.

It's fine to try it out.

The shop in Kirigakure is run by a brother and sister from the Chiyo clan of Sunagakure. Although the lease is only for one year, Sunagakure wants to make the most of the shop.

The ninjas from Sunagakure who came to Konoha had already begun their investigation.

Oh, don't get me wrong, it's not about secretly targeting Konoha's various secret locations to infiltrate and steal intelligence or anything like that.

Instead, it's more direct: observation.

Open and aboveboard observation.

These Sunagakure ninjas were stunned on their very first day in Konoha.

The road was paved entirely with stones?

Moreover, these stones clearly show signs of polishing.

It's very smooth and doesn't hurt your feet when laid on the road.

This alone was already incredible to the people of Sunagakure. All the roads in their village were paved with a mixture of mud and gravel, the kind that would be completely ruined if it rained.

However, when it really rains, the people of Sunagakure are overjoyed and don't even think about the roads turning into mud.

After all, their village also lacks water.

How scarce is it? Water-style ninjas would be treasured and worshipped there.

However, generally speaking, no water-style ninjas are willing to go there, since the training environment in Sunagakure is not suitable for water-style ninjas, and even famous and powerful water-style ninjas don't care about the small benefits of Sunagakure.

Getting back to the main point, while the roads are one aspect, the prosperity of Konoha is evident to all the ninjas of Sunagakure.

Moreover, it's not simply a matter of being militarily powerful and developed.

During the day, the buildings in the four planned districts of Konoha are basically empty, and those that are there are mostly elderly, weak, sick, or disabled people.

However, thick smoke was billowing from the forests surrounding Konoha, and it continued to rise incessantly.

They're obviously working.

As evening approached, the entire village seemed to come alive all at once. The young and middle-aged men rarely went straight home after get off work; instead, they would call up a few friends to drink, chat, and eat skewers, or simply head to the gambling dens in Konoha.

Oh, now those gambling dens are gone, there's only one official gambling den in Konoha.

Business is said to be booming.

Once this Sunagakure Village record is written down, the Kazekage will confiscate the property of those gambling den owners and exile them, and the gambling dens will be run by themselves.

Gambling is also a problem in Sunagakure, but it's definitely not as big as in Konoha.

The busy workdays and vibrant nightlife of Konoha were keeping the Sand Village ninjas' hands almost broken from copying.

Because construction in Konoha has never stopped. The completion of the wetland bridge is not the end; bridges and roads can be built in other places as well.

Moreover, Konoha's current village size is still too small to accommodate too many people. If it reaches a million, it will probably be overcrowded. At that time, we will either continue to increase the size and height of buildings, or develop the outer city. Yuya chose to lay the foundation for the second option first, so construction is also underway outside the village.

The ninjas of Sunagakure were utterly baffled: Just how much money did Konoha have?!

With so many projects starting construction at the same time, what about the workers' wages...?

Just how rich is Konoha?

The observers in Sunagakure were puzzled, but a few days later, news suddenly spread in Konoha that Konoha was going to build a water plant in the Uchiha clan's territory in the east.

Upon learning this news, Sunagakure could no longer remain silent.

After all, they were truly short of water...

Therefore, their team leader directly submitted a diplomatic request:

Hey bro, give me a hand and build a water plant for our area too.

I've been searching for almost an hour and still can't find the recommendation data section. Oh well, whatever. Whether I pass the first round of recommendations or not, it doesn't matter. We'll know the outcome in three days anyway. It's best if I don't pass; if I do, there'll be a bunch of problems, and I'll probably get asked to update more by my editor. I'm saving my drafts for when it's published... [ps: The world runner-up is the biggest loser. We won 17 for a year, but we only got runner-up in PGC. Although the prize money was not small, it's still a pity that we didn't achieve a grand slam.]

(End of this chapter)