Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 53 sequel

Generally speaking, even if a Konoha resident is coerced or tempted by Yua to target other merchants, they would still find themselves in a dilemma, just like this wealthy merchant.

But one type of businessman will not.

Spies sent by other countries.

They serve other countries and feel no guilt whatsoever when killing Konoha's merchants.

Youya felt no psychological pressure in arresting these people.

And if we really say we arrested the wrong person, it doesn't matter. These merchants are a bunch of bastards who deserve to die a thousand deaths. It's just a mistake, not a mistake to kill someone. What's there to be afraid of?

As for whether there will be any wrongful convictions or anything like that...

The Yamanaka family's secret techniques are enough to make these guys reveal their underwear.

By then, it will be crystal clear whether they are spies or not.

The Yamanaka clan was not as powerful as the Uchiha clan, but its population was larger (after all, they fought with the Senju clan every day, and these two clans had the most deaths, but they were indeed the two best-off clans during the Warring States period, at least no one starved to death).

This family's secret technique is quite interesting. It's called Mind Transfer, which allows you to uncover secrets. Although it can be resisted by ninjas of similar strength, it's still very useful as a support technique.

What's more, it's incredibly useful when the target is a businessman.

……

After that, regardless of the process, the number of merchants did indeed decrease by half.

Several of them have been confirmed as traitors within the villages of Sunagakure, Kirigakure, and Kumogakure.

Yes, and there's also Iwagakure.

Damn it, the first batch of supplies hasn't even arrived yet, but the spies have already come. You've sent spies before even moving your supplies, haven't you?

Kill them all. Kill them all.

There's not much to say about that; any merchant with a spy identity will be killed at any time, and the other villages won't make a sound.

After all, this is an unspoken rule that everyone follows.

If you're against killing spies, then we'll send hundreds of spies to your side tomorrow. Anyway, you won't kill anyone, so what are you afraid of?

Konoha's spies are exposed and killed in other villages, and Konoha won't say anything. At most, they'll take care of their families and say it has nothing to do with us. The information he handed over was voluntary; I didn't make him hand it over. Anyway, he'll definitely deny it to the death.

What Yuya didn't realize was that although his actions seemed somewhat cruel, he hadn't actually killed anyone himself. Therefore, in later history books, Yuya used profit to incite these merchants to attack each other. Although this led to the exposure of spies, many merchants from Konoha Village still died, and the blame was placed on Tobirama Senju.

That's right, our Third Hokage is a sunny, cheerful, and kind-hearted young man; he would never resort to such a vicious scheme! It was all taught to do by the Second Hokage! 555 I feel so sorry for the Third Hokage, who met the wrong person.

As for the fact that other businessmen actually fought amongst themselves, and that in the end the list was less than half full...

You Ya himself has a clear conscience, and history books will only record that these merchants were only interested in profit and forgot about the greater good for small gains.

As for the families of those who died, their wives, children, and so on, that's none of Yuya's business.

As long as you have hands and feet and are willing to work, you definitely won't starve.

Of course, whether the savings bank can ultimately be opened depends on whether the businessman who proposed the plan can persuade the Sarutobi clan to vacate the land.

What? You're saying the reason it was Sarutobi is because all the other families were rejected?

Tell me, is this the final result?

Hmph, I'm such a genius for getting all this done in just two days.

Wait, did I forget something?

Yuya slapped his forehead and then rushed to the Konoha Ninja Academy.

After school, You Ya apologized to the three little ones repeatedly.

He explained that he had indeed been delayed by other matters these past few days.

However, Tsunade still had a dark expression, and even offering her a delicious grilled meat wrap didn't help.

When they parted ways, Youya didn't dare to make any more promises. He only said that if he had time after school, he would definitely go there early to bring them to eat barbecue.

However, Yuya was met with two suspicious glances and one indifferent glance.

With a sigh, Youya could only say that things were really too difficult for him.

……

Another day later, a ninja from the Nara clan requested an audience. These ninja clans finally couldn't resist testing Yua.

But that's normal; no one wants to be the boss they know nothing about.

In the past, everyone thought Yua was just a middleman relaying Tobirama Senju's orders.

Two years later, he's actually going to be promoted?

This……

Because Tobirama Senju currently enjoys high prestige in Konoha, no one would openly criticize Yua.

However, there are bound to be doubts.

Therefore, there will definitely be some probing.

As for Youya, it will take her a long time to prove herself.

Fortunately, You Ya is still quite young, which allows people to get to know her gradually.

The Nara clan's test was simple: they approached Yua with a pile of official business and said they needed to finish it all within a week.

Yuya really wanted to show the Nara clan what it meant to show off for six and a half days and then finish the job in half a day.

Unfortunately, after thinking about it, I decided against it. Finishing it sooner would allow me to get back to my own things sooner.

He hasn't had time to practice his ninjutsu lately.

Hmm... It seems that my uncle didn't have time to develop ninjutsu after becoming Hokage.

If my uncle were to dedicate himself to studying ninjutsu, the ninjutsu skills represented by the title of "Ninjutsu Doctor" could probably double.

As Yuya pondered this, she flipped through the so-called "needs to be reviewed" documents that the Nara clan had handed her.

Adjusting civil servants' salaries... that's simple, just a simple calculation. We benchmark it against the grain prices in Konoha Village, see if there are any fluctuations, and if so, we increase the amount. If not, we decrease it.

The factory's leave policy and workers' malicious leave requests are simple. First, there's the issue of compensatory leave. If the number of rest days is used up, then one can request leave and get a day off, but the salary for that day will be deducted. However, this policy must be separated from the fixed eight-day rest period each month, and the salary deduction for leave cannot be counted within those eight days.

The steel mill workers are not very motivated. Some can smelt ten kilograms more a day, while others can smelt ten kilograms less. Moreover, some people are blatantly slacking off. How can this be resolved?

The system is simple: those who work diligently and produce more iron will receive an extra bonus each week. Those caught slacking off will have their pay reduced, but not by too much – 100 taels for the first time, 200 taels for the second, 400 taels for the third, and so on. A system of rewards and punishments will prevent gossip; only rewards without punishments will cause problems, and only punishments without rewards will dampen enthusiasm.

Youya clicked his tongue and shook his head. Thinking back to those days, well, not exactly those days, it was only two and a half years ago, before the year of Kun. Most people in Konoha Village would just wander around the fields when they had nothing to do, idle all day long, with no work and not enough to eat.

Two and a half years later, almost everyone in Konoha Village who could work, except for the sick and disabled, has gone to work.

Even seven- or eight-year-old children want to work to ease the burden on their families.

Yuya had no choice but to accept the situation as a special case. Konoha Village was indeed in dire need of manpower, so he had to announce that factories and textile mills, which required technical skills and were dangerous, could not hire these children. If these children wanted to work, they could become newspaper boys, restaurant waiters, or simply run errands for others.

Although Youya has a somewhat unscrupulous capitalist flavor, it has indeed improved the lives of these people.

At least the villagers in Konoha, who had never eaten meat before and dared not even dream of having meat, can now choose whether to eat canned beef or canned pork, or go to the shops in Kirigakure to buy a fish to make soup at home.

However, once people's lives improve, they inevitably become lazy.

The fact that some people are slacking off and not working hard was something Youya had already anticipated.

All I can say is that I've seen and heard far too many cases like this.

(End of this chapter)