Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 87 Ceasefire? Not a chance!

Everyone except Yua believed the samurai's dying words, thinking they were merely expressions of his fear before death.

Not to mention the Land of Iron, a country dominated by samurai.

Samurai despise such cowardly behavior the most.

Since the Land of Iron has discovered this final result, although it is difficult to accept, it is actually acceptable compared to Yua's suggestion to shift the blame to the Hidden Stone Village.

It's always better to have internal problems than to face a behemoth.

The warrior legions of the Land of Iron are indeed powerful, but that is definitely not the reason why they can go toe-to-toe with the Hidden Stone Village.

Not to mention that Konoha and Kumogakure are still facing off on the front lines and haven't left yet.

If something happens to the Land of Iron, it's hard to guarantee that these two families won't have any bad intentions.

To put it bluntly, everyone is secretly plotting their own agendas. The Land of Iron may not dare to offend Konoha and Kumogakure, but would they dare to offend Iwagakure?

Some might argue that the Land of Iron isn't without strength, so why not just help Konoha or Kumogakure defeat the enemy?

That's for sure. As long as the Land of Iron fully supports one side, the other side will definitely lose the battle.

However, losing a battle does not mean the country is destroyed.

At most, the losing side will have to pay reparations and cede territory, but the Iron Country will definitely be destroyed because it has virtually no strategic depth.

Therefore, remaining neutral and not getting involved in the war between the two sides is the only option for the Iron Nation.

Previously, not only Konoha and Kumogakure feared that their own people had killed the ruler of the Land of Iron, but the Land of Iron itself was also afraid.

Because once it's confirmed, war is inevitable.

Otherwise, no one could accept this outcome.

Now that this cowardly samurai has been made a model, it can be said that the wishes of all three parties have been fulfilled.

With the Iron Society resuming its neutrality, the Hidden Cloud Village and the Hidden Leaf Village continued their standoff.

However, this time the confrontation wasn't as tense.

The Third Raikage really wanted to continue fighting, but there were differing opinions within the Hidden Cloud Village.

They've been fighting in Konoha since 17, and now it's summer of 21. Autumn is almost here, and both sides will have to retreat to harvest their crops, otherwise the food problem for next year will be truly life-threatening.

Konoha is in a better position because it has been trading food with Iwagakure, so it can hold on. Although Kumogakure also has trading relations with Iwagakure, the cooperation between the two is definitely not as large as that between Konoha and Iwagakure.

Furthermore, after Konoha openly accepted refugees, Kumogakure must have known that Konoha had replenished its military strength.

Even if these are just regular soldiers, they can still handle tasks like transporting supplies.

In addition, there are factories, workshops, and assembly lines scattered throughout the mountains and forests surrounding Konoha Village...

If the fighting continues, the resources of Kumogakure will eventually be depleted.

It's not that Kumogakure lacks resources; in fact, Kumogakure can be said to have resources second only to Konoha, the most central and wealthy fertile land in the ninja world.

Although it cannot compare to Konoha, Kumogakure has no shortage of resources.

The reason why the Hidden Cloud Village is running out of resources is that its consumption cannot keep up with its mining.

If Yuya were to open a few steel mills, grain processing plants, or textile factories in Kumogakure, then Kumogakure could finally compete with Konoha.

Unfortunately, Youya couldn't possibly be that stupid.

Even if we will definitely have to cooperate with Kumogakure in the future, it will only be done under certain conditions with guarantees in place.

Therefore, the Hidden Cloud Village truly doesn't want to fight anymore.

As mentioned earlier, when the two sides started fighting, they threw ninja tools, explosive tags, and various ninja-specific wires around like they didn't care about money.

The merchants from Konoha were laughing so hard their mouths were crooked, and the merchants from Kumogakure were practically dying of laughter.

However, Konoha's merchants are tied to Yua. Basically, their assets have been converted into factories and shops within Konoha. It seems like they are making a lot of money, but in reality, the largest shareholder of their factories is Tobirama Senju, and the largest shareholder of their shops is the Hokage. Even the biggest merchants who are involved with Sarutobi and Shimura only have the right to receive dividends and do not have decision-making power.

Merchants in Kumogakure don't have this constraint. They have so much money they don't know where to spend it. There are opportunities to spend money everywhere in Konoha now. Not to mention, the annual rent for shops in the commercial district is already approaching ten million, and for better ones it's tens of millions a year.

Even so, many businessmen are still watching with bated breath, hoping to buy it next year.

Not to mention that many businessmen who wanted to buy shares in the factory couldn't get them.

At this point, we need to mention again that when those factories were first jointly built, Yua invested five million in the name of Tobirama Senju, and he invested two million himself (in fact, he didn't spend a penny; it was just a price adjustment. For example, iron ore is just mined stone, and it only has value after being refined into iron. Essentially, it's still just those iron blocks. Yua played a trick of concept substitution, using the finished steel worth 2 million to enter the market) and took 20% of the shares. The other businessmen shared the remaining 30%.

Later, because Youya wanted to implement environmental protection measures and install sewage treatment equipment, many businessmen were dissatisfied with Youya's domineering attitude and wanted to withdraw, which Youya agreed to.

Initially, one percent of the shares were worth only 100,000 taels of silver. At that time, one percent of the shares were worth 300,000 taels of silver. Basically, it was as if they did nothing and Youya made them three times the money.

But that was back then. Now, more than a dozen factories have been connected, and everyone's shares have been combined. One percent is already worth more than a million.

Those businessmen who withdrew back then are now filled with regret, but it's no use. What Youya wants are irreplaceable talents. It's not easy to find some short-sighted businessmen who only know how to speculate and make profits. Youya doesn't want to see these businessmen at all now.

With their initial fortune, they didn't have a hard time making ends meet. They owned two houses and a shop with a one-year lease, so their lives were definitely more comfortable than the average person's.

However, compared to those merchants who have followed You Ya from the beginning until now, those who got off the train midway are worlds apart.

Getting back to the point, Konoha has a ton of projects for businessmen to invest in, places where money can be spent, but Kumogakure doesn't have that.

So here's the question: In the current situation in Kumogakure, a large amount of cash is in the hands of the merchants in Kumogakure, but they can't spend it. What will this lead to?

Yes, money is worthless now.

When resources are scarce but money is plentiful, even a loaf of bread can sell for half a million...

Of course, the Third Raikage was unaware of these things, nor did he have the mind to do so.

In fact, some people in the Hidden Cloud Village must have sensed that something was wrong, but those who truly understood the situation probably didn't know what had happened.

Against this backdrop, several ninja clans from Kumogakure bypassed the Third Raikage and joined forces to express their intention to cease hostilities with Konoha.

The Third Raikage was so angry that he smashed up the Raikage's office, but there was nothing he could do. After all, he hadn't consolidated his power. To be honest, he was forced into the position of Third Raikage.

It does have a bit of Hiruzen Sarutobi's style.

[The Third Raikage: Am I playing the role of Hiruzen Sarutobi?!]

Just as Yuya was overjoyed upon receiving the news, envisioning a truce this year and inviting the other four Kage to Konoha for a "Chunin Exam" to showcase the talents of Konoha's next generation—mainly to let the Sannin show off—news arrived from the front lines.

The Third Raikage agreed to negotiate peace.

Yuya smiled immediately. Very good. It seems that the Third Raikage is not just a muscle-bound guy.

Then Shika continued reading the message: But they demanded that Konoha hand over Danzo, promising not to kill him, but only to imprison him in the Land of Lightning.

Yuya's smile vanished. These three Raikage...

Wow, that's quite a fancy way to play...

Now, it's his uncle's turn to face the difficult situation.

I'm sorry, I really ran out of drafts. Other authors usually update 10,000 or 20,000 chapters a day, but I only managed three chapters a day for almost half a week. It was really terrible. As for the results... do I really have to report them? The big shots in the author group said that an average of 3,000 subscriptions per day is the standard. I didn't even reach one-fifth of that standard. I'm so bad, I shouldn't report the results. Although I work in sales in real life and have long since abandoned all pretense of dignity, I still need to wear a mask of respectability online, haha. The January new chart is out of the dark room, but Hurricane is crying in the toilet, haha. Earth Dragon has actually been released, and Water Dragon should be coming soon too. As for Silver City, I can only say it's a good thing it died! Although it's only limited to 2 chapters, it still has a big impact.

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