Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 7 Uchiha Mirror

The Uchiha clan was dissatisfied with Tobirama Senju.

After Tobirama Senju came to power, he not only restricted the power of the Security Department, but also moved the Uchiha clan's territory several kilometers eastward, near a river.

On the surface, the Uchiha clan's territory expanded, but in reality, this distanced the Uchiha clan from the center of power.

The Uchiha clan members naturally had grievances.

They tried so hard to integrate into Konoha Village, and this is how it ends? Is this how you treat us?

People from the Uchiha clan tend to have extreme views.

Moreover, Tobirama Senju's actions in this matter were indeed unethical.

Therefore, the Uchiha clan's dissatisfaction with the Second Hokage was gradually accumulating.

Seeing his clan's current attitude towards the village and the Second Hokage, Uchiha Kagami was anxious.

"What's wrong?" Uchiha Kagami's wife, Uchiha Masako, was a dignified, elegant, gentle, and generous woman.

Masako walked over and knelt down next to Uchiha Kagami, who was looking at the stars in the courtyard. She leaned on Kagami's shoulder and said softly, "I can't help you with your ninja affairs, but sometimes it's much better to talk about things."

Uchiha Kagami held Masako in silence.

The men of the Uchiha clan are mostly ninjas, while the women with outstanding talents are given special training. For example, the little girl Uchiha Yuu has a high talent for fire release techniques. She was sent to the ninja academy because of her cooperation with Tobirama Senju's reform of the ninja academy.

However, their sincerity was met with Tobirama Senju's estrangement, the Uchiha clan's distance from the heart of Konoha, and a reduction in the power they held over the security forces.

Can Uchiha Kagami tell Masako about these things?

unable.

Masako Uchiha's surname Uchiha wasn't changed after she married him; it was her original surname.

Uchiha Kagami could only manage a weak smile: "It's nothing, it's just that I have to go on a mission again tomorrow, and I won't be able to see you for a long time."

Masako Uchiha's eyes immediately reddened, and then she mustered up her courage and said to Kagami Uchiha, "Then we can go to bed early tonight."

Uchiha Kagami nodded and carried Masako into the bedroom.

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The next day, Uchiha Kagami came to the Hokage's office.

"Lord Hokage, you wanted to see me?"

Tobirama Senju looked at Kagami Uchiha and said softly, "I have something I need you to do. If you do it well, the reward won't be much; if you do it poorly, you'll be criticized by many people. Are you willing to accept that?"

Without the slightest hesitation, Uchiha Kagami replied, "I am willing, Hokage-sama."

Tobirama Senju's lips curled up slightly, then he shook his head and said, "I'll have my assistant handle the details with you. If you have any questions, you can discuss them with my assistant through the Ninja Scrolls."

Uchiha Kagami nodded respectfully in agreement.

Tobirama Senju signed his name on a piece of paper and handed it to Kagami Uchiha.

Uchiha Kagami took it and was somewhat surprised after just one glance.

"This... Hokage-sama... that bridge... is it really okay to have ordinary people build it instead of letting the Jonin build it?" Uchiha Kagami asked the question as a matter of course.

Tobirama Senju sighed inwardly, thinking, "That's exactly what a normal person would think right away..."

After solemnly informing Uchiha Kagami that he indeed needed to gather ordinary people to do this, Uchiha Kagami nodded and withdrew.

However, after Uchiha Kagami posted the job advertisement, he found that things were not as he had expected.

He was immediately in a dilemma.

Because there were too many applicants.

The project, which was expected to accept only 300 people, attracted more than 1,000 applicants. Uchiha Kagami has a gentle nature; he can kill enemies with a single blow, but he can't do that with his own people.

He had initially thought he wouldn't need to accept the contact information for the advisor that Tobirama had given him, but now it seemed...

Uchiha Kagami took out his ninja scroll used for communication and wrote down the problems he was encountering.

He quickly received a reply to the post, and Uchiha Kagami was astonished by the detailed instructions on how to recruit people.

As expected of Tobirama Senju's advisor, his thinking is so clear.

Afterwards, Uchiha Kagami found these ordinary people and asked if anyone knew any skills in architecture, water conservancy, or drawing blueprints.

Believe it or not, there were indeed two old men in the construction industry. However, drawing requires professional tools, which Uchiha Kagami didn't have, so he couldn't have the two of them demonstrate one on the spot.

Afterwards, Uchiha Kagami organized the group into family units and asked each of the more than one thousand people to nominate one person from their own family. This person could be skilled or strong, as it was not easy to be chosen from a large family.

The main members of Konoha Village are of course the large clans, but the number of ordinary people is also quite large.

To be honest, the number of ordinary people within those ninja clans is relatively small.

Therefore, they need a large number of ordinary people to serve them.

In the past, before Konoha Village existed, these large clans could only rely on providing protection to ordinary people in exchange for the ordinary people giving them most of the profits from their year's harvest.

This is a model that only ordinary people who are desperate to survive would not choose.

The land that I worked hard to cultivate and develop all year round, these ninjas took away most of it without me having to do anything.

The key issue is that if protection could truly be provided, that would be fine. However, the reality is that before the founding of Konoha, apart from the Uchiha and Senju clans, most clans relied on ordinary people to provide them with food and resources, but the safety of these ordinary people could not be guaranteed.

Because these families are indeed not powerful enough.

Konoha Village solved this problem perfectly.

These families no longer provide shelter for ordinary people, but instead serve the village, in return for the village's resources.

This saves a lot of trouble.

It must be said that the establishment of Konoha Village set a good example for other countries on the continent.

It's no wonder that other countries followed suit and established ninja villages.

However, this creates new problems.

That means that compared to the few thousand ninjas in a village, the number of ordinary people is definitely much greater.

Not to mention that Konoha Village has been welcoming to all ordinary people over the years.

This has resulted in Konoha Village often not having enough land for ordinary people to cultivate so they can feed themselves.

This resulted in a lot of unemployed people.

Solving this problem isn't difficult; one solution is to cultivate more land.

However, this method is somewhat difficult, because these ordinary people would rather starve to death in Konoha than go out into the danger.

Another way is to increase productivity.

Whether it's increasing land productivity or creating a project like this that gives hundreds of households the capital to earn income, these are all ways to improve productivity.

However, this approach is inherently unsustainable.

Because I don't have any money.

A dozen kilograms of gold could only build one large bridge, yet they wanted to revitalize Konoha Village and develop its infrastructure...

Even adding the more than 200 kilograms of gold that You Ya hid in the sealed scroll, it would still be impossible.

If there were a gold mine... Yuya might be able to use that as a starting point to drive the development of the entire Hidden Leaf Village.

But just like starting a business, the first pot of gold may not be that important, but you have to have it.

More than 200 kilograms of gold...

It's really not enough.

(End of this chapter)