Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 8 Wetland Bridge

However, these things have little to do with Yuya. He's not the Hokage, so why should he think about them?

Yua wouldn't accept working herself to the bone to help the First and Second Hokage develop Konoha, only to end up getting nothing in return.

He's the kind of person who won't do anything without a reason.

Like this time, even though they knew that more than ten kilograms of gold would definitely have to be handed over to avoid problems being discovered later.

However, Youya also needs to gain some benefits.

Yua never expected that the Second Hokage would teach her the Flying Thunder God technique.

This ninjutsu, well, it's very difficult, but also very powerful.

Even so, Youya thought about it and felt that he could probably gain some other benefits.

So he went to Tobirama and said he wanted to learn the technique of creating clones.

The target was naturally the shadow clone of the second generation.

But you can't get fat in one bite, take it slow.

Just ...

Time may be running out.

There's something about Yuya that I've never really understood.

How exactly did Hashirama Senju die?

Died of illness?

Looking at this guy now, running around to casinos with great enthusiasm every day, he doesn't seem like someone who's sick and nearing the end of his life.

If Yuya weren't a time traveler, and you told him that the agile and nimble Hashirama Senju was doomed, Yuya would probably spit out a mouthful of salt water and kill you.

But to be honest, it's a manga after all. Kishimoto is just a manga artist, what does he know about Naruto?!

This is the real Naruto world.

Because I am right here now.

Yuya thought this with great ambition, then lowered his head and continued writing his next suggestion to Uchiha Kagami on the Ninja Scroll.

Gathering people is only the first step. The second step is to start work. There can be no ceremony for starting work, because with most people not having enough to eat, it's more practical to use the money that would have been spent on firecrackers to make a bowl of bone soup to share.

Therefore, what Youya values ​​most is the work efficiency of these ordinary people after the work starts.

So he had Uchiha Kagami divide these people into ten groups, and the group leader would tally up the work done by each group and then submit the tally to Uchiha Kagami.

Then, wages are paid according to the quality and efficiency of the completed work, and payments are made daily.

This is the experience Youya learned when he was carrying bricks on a construction site in his previous life.

Hire someone specifically to supervise? That would probably be even less efficient.

Therefore, we might as well be upfront and tell them that their daily wage is this much, but if the quality of their work is substandard, their pay will be deducted.

Of course, the deduction won't be too much.

However, given the current price level where one hundred taels can buy one jin of rice, these ordinary people certainly wouldn't want to lose even ten taels a day.

You Ya doesn't believe in people's hearts, but he does believe in self-interest.

As long as these ordinary people can see and touch the benefits right in front of them, their motivation will continue until the day the bridge is completed.

This is the second step: motivating these people to work hard by offering them incentives.

In fact, if these two steps are taken, there shouldn't be any major problems with building the bridge itself.

The other aspect is the impact of this collective action.

For example, maintaining the stability of the village: Yuya really doesn't think that giving tens of millions of ryo to a few Jonin is better than paying hundreds of ordinary people a few months' salary.

Putting everything else aside, just talking about creating value, ordinary people need to consume their wages, and what they consume are daily necessities.

Grain stores, vegetable vendors, clothing stores where people can get new clothes, and some might even splurge on a meal at a restaurant—the list goes on to involve far more than just a few hundred people.

That means thousands of people can benefit from it.

That's right, these are the only values ​​circulating within, but how much happiness can be increased by going through them once?

Not to mention, they can collect taxes by following Konoha Village around.

If you go around in circles a few more times, you'll get part of the money back.

But give it to a few Jonin...

What can they do?

How about going to a barbecue restaurant for a meal? Or buying some kunai, shuriken, or other ninja tools?

These are indeed major expenses, but more importantly, they do not create happiness.

Ninja tool shops are designed to serve ninjas, so they can't be short of money (it's often implied that Tenten is quite wealthy). Barbecue restaurants are also considered luxury establishments, at least for now.

Compared to giving these Jonin a better life, Yua felt it was more important to make life better for these ordinary people.

Although he wasn't interested in becoming Hokage and had no desire to work hard for Konoha, Yuya wouldn't refuse to help these ordinary people if he could.

These ordinary people in the Naruto world, who live day to day without knowing tomorrow, actually have it tough.

Throughout the entire Naruto manga, the focus is entirely on Ruto, while the hundreds of thousands of ordinary residents of Konoha Village are never even mentioned.

However, whether it was the Nine-Tails' attack or the subsequent Chunin Exams attack, the most injured were ordinary people.

Yuya stopped writing and sighed. It was already so difficult for ordinary people to survive, and they were still being exploited by Konoha Village. Every year, at least half of the grain that these ordinary people worked so hard to grow had to be handed over to Konoha as "reserve grain" to prepare for the ninjas.

Even so, it was already considered benevolent by them.

By leaving half of them, they could survive, even if they couldn't have enough to eat every day.

It's a pity that Konoha Village isn't actually safe either...

Yuya lay down on the tatami with her hands behind her head, then shook her head.

Why think so much? I'm not the Hokage, why bother?

……

What Yuya didn't know was that the scroll through which he communicated with Uchiha Kagami was completed by Uchiha Kagami without any compromise.

Yuya was well aware of his situation. He was just a kid, and no one in Konoha would care about him. So whether his opinions and suggestions would be adopted was another matter, let alone implemented.

However, Uchiha Kagami, the sixth brother, did not have the arrogance of the other members of the Uchiha clan who thought they were the best and everyone else was a noob. He had no intention of making decisions on his own.

Tobirama, the second Hokage, intentionally concealed Yua's true identity.

Therefore, Yuya thought his suggestion was just talk, but to his surprise, Uchiha Kagami carried out his "advisor's" suggestion without any compromise.

He even did everything himself during the construction of the bridge, sometimes helping out without taking a penny. He would also act as a peacemaker when workers argued.

He was a ninja, so naturally everyone else gave him face.

The result of this is...

Things went surprisingly smoothly.

It was so successful that even Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju were drawn to this place a week later.

The reason is simple: the family conditions of these construction workers who toil away every day carrying bricks, cutting stones, and assembling bridges have improved at a visible pace.

Tsk, why is the currency in Naruto called "Ryo"? Writing "Ryo" reminds me of the ancient Chinese "liang" (两). One hundred yen for a jin (斤) of rice is normal in Japan, but in ancient China, if you dared to set that price, there would be a rebellion the very day it was announced. Oh well, I guess I'll get used to it after writing it for a while, lol.

(End of this chapter)