Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 92 Konoha Year 22

On the day the war ended, Youya had a newsboy take newspapers to the streets and shout out the news to everyone in the inner city.

A sense of peace and excitement instantly filled Konoha Village.

Yuya stood by the window of the Hokage's office, and after a few seconds of feeling sentimental, he came back to his senses and prepared to continue working.

"Lu Ye, have the population statistics for the outer city been released yet?"

Nara Shika nodded: "The outer city has a total of 141,875 people. Among them, children under the age of 16 account for one-fifth, those between 16 and 30 years old account for three-fifths, those between 30 and 45 years old account for nearly one-fifth, and the last small group are elderly people over 45 years old."

You Ya nodded; in fact, he only needed one number.

But are there 140,000 people in the outer city...?

You Ya squinted and tapped lightly on the table with his fingers.

The combined population of the inner and outer cities has exceeded 800,000, which doesn't seem like much, and is quite far from Yuya's goal of one million. However, Yuya is more aware that compared to the war years, it is much more difficult to get people to come and serve you in peacetime.

During wartime, you only need to provide food, but in peacetime, the people who come to you have many more demands.

If you do anything that differs even slightly from what you advertise, those people will be on the defensive.

With that in mind, You Ya made a decision: "Go and notify the immigration bureau to completely stop the policy of absorbing foreign populations. Of course, not immediately, but gradually over a month."

Lu nodded: "Understood."

Youya waved his hand, and Lu went down to do his work.

"Brother Jing," Youya suddenly called out.

Uchiha Kagami stepped out of the shadows: "Substitute, what's the matter?"

Yuya smiled slightly: "The Second Hokage is about to return from the battlefield. This isn't good news for the Uchiha, is it?"

Uchiha Kagami remained silent. Yuya waved his hand: "Alright, I didn't mean to target you. I'd rather go eat barbecue than waste my time targeting you."

"Please pass on a message for me: on the day the second generation returns, those old fogies who are hiding in their families and refuse to come out should really go out and get some sunshine. Staying at home all day won't make them moldy. Please relay my words to the elders of your families; they will understand what I mean."

"...Understood, agent."

……

"Bang!"

"That's a threat!" The Uchiha clan patriarch slammed his fist on the table and roared.

An elder glanced at the clan leader and said softly, "So what if it's a threat? This acting leader is just talking. Tobirama Senju actually shoved the Uchiha clan into the ground. What, you want to defy the Second Hokage?"

"..."

The Uchiha clan is just that strange. Logically speaking, after Tobirama Senju targeted the Uchiha clan for so many years, everyone in the Uchiha clan should hate him.

Of course, many members of the Uchiha clan do hate Tobirama Senju.

But when it comes to actually going against Tobirama Senju, these people chicken out.

Even after Tobirama Senju died, in the original history, after Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Third Hokage who was not exactly a strong leader, came to power, the Uchiha clan only dared to do their dirty work in secret.

Yuya often couldn't understand these people's logic. "Are you Uchiha clan members good at scheming?"

If you don't have the skills, don't take on the job.

However, the Uchiha clan seems to be the typical type who are both bad at the game and love to play around.

It's the same now.

The Uchiha clan members, who hated Tobirama Senju to the core, immediately deflated upon hearing that Tobirama was about to return.

What can you expect from these kinds of people?

Yuya had finally seen through the Uchiha's mentality of being both weak and playful, so he simply brought it up directly.

The day Tobirama Senju returns, your Uchiha clan must send someone to greet him. I think you know the consequences of not sending someone.

This is indeed a threat, but if we look at it from a different perspective...

"Could this be...could this be a hint from the agent?" a Uchiha clansman suddenly raised his hand and asked.

The Uchiha clan elders and the old clan head both frowned and looked at this person.

This person suddenly became the focus of attention and was embarrassed, but still spoke up: "Actually, I've wanted to say this for a long time. The acting leader is different from the Hokage. To be honest, hasn't the acting leader always been giving benefits to the Uchiha clan?"

They even built the village's most important water treatment plant on Uchiha clan land..."

"That's because only the Uchiha clan is closest to the river," another Uchiha clansman scoffed.

The tribesman quickly spoke again, "And then what? The agent also wants to build a hospital here..."

The man didn't say what he was going to say next, but everyone knew what he meant.

The old Uchiha clan patriarch's face immediately darkened.

When I refused, you bastards all said it was a good thing I refused. The Uchiha clan would rather die than accept humiliation!

And now that you see that hospital in the Sarutobi tribe's territory is making money faster than robbing a bank, you bunch of bastards are starting to criticize me for refusing that brat's offer to be an agent.

Yes, that's true. If the hospital is located on the Uchiha clan's territory, and the Uchiha have even given up their clan's territory, then they'll definitely have a stake in it.

However, he refused, so forget about getting that share.

If we're talking about Yua, he's honest and straightforward and doesn't play games. Although he had a fight with the Sarutobi clan before, Yua also slapped the Sarutobi clan a few times. Now that the Sarutobi clan has backed down and gone quiet, Yua won't be stingy with what he deserves.

Anyway, Youya will do a summary at the end of this year.

In fact, many people are waiting and seeing regarding the first year-end summary after the war ended.

Moreover, as mentioned before, everyone knows that Konoha is developing well, but only Tobirama Senju and Yua know exactly how well it is developing without statistical data.

This year, Tobirama Senju returned, so the year-end summary for this year will be Yua giving a public report to Tobirama Senju in the Hokage's office.

At this time, members of the Konoha clan were allowed to go in and listen in.

The Uchiha clan originally had no particular interest in this meeting; everyone knew what Tobirama Senju's attitude towards the Uchiha clan was.

However, Yua's words clearly implied that the Uchiha clan had to obey and not make exceptions. He warned them that if everyone else arrived but the Uchiha were absent, it wouldn't be disrespecting Tobirama Senju, but rather slapping Yua in the face. He had made it clear that the Uchiha were to cooperate with everyone, and if they still didn't comply, the fate of the Sarutobi and Shimura clans might be repeated.

What can the Uchiha clan do?

The old Uchiha clan patriarch sighed deeply, and finally could only wave his hand: "That's settled then. When the time comes... you will come with me to welcome the Second Hokage... in triumph."

Indeed, as Yuya said, the Uchiha clan members only felt sorry that Tobirama Senju hadn't died in the war.

Why is it that this kind of scourge can live for so long?

In the winter of Konoha Year 22, on November 17th, Tobirama Senju led Konoha's frontline ninja forces back to Konoha.

The war is completely over.

But isn't this also the beginning of a new story?

(End of this chapter)