Naruto: Starting with the Two Kamui

Chapter 369 Getting Even More Outrageous!

Soon after the announcement was issued, 500 Chunin volunteered to participate in the agricultural pilot project in Ankugakure.

Lin Yu selected 200 Chunin who did not have the talent to become Jonin and formed an agricultural unit from them.

Lin Yu told the remaining 300 people not to be discouraged, to try again, and to work hard to become Jonin. If they really couldn't, he would arrange other positions for them.

Now that a team has been formed, someone must lead it.

Although the Takamura can convert chakra into power, combined with the production mechanism developed by Hosuke, it allows ninjas who know nothing about agriculture to complete their work with high yields.

However, the person leading the team must at least possess the relevant knowledge, and it seems there is no suitable person in the Hidden Village...

At this time, Saori introduced her maid, 'Nadeko Nobukuri'.

Nong Sang comes from an agricultural family in Fushiko Province. He has been exposed to agriculture since childhood and has acquired a wealth of agricultural knowledge. Lin Yu appointed him as the team leader.

During the second expansion of Ninja Village, Lin Yu reserved 20 square kilometers of land for agricultural use!

Farmland is calculated in mu (a Chinese unit of area, approximately 0.165 hectares). 1 square kilometer = 1500 mu, 20 square kilometers = 30000 mu!

Rice is the main crop in the Naruto world.

Due to different geological conditions and climates, the number of rice harvests per year and the yield per acre vary.

In the Land of Earth and the Land of Wind, rice is harvested once a year, yielding 200 catties per mu (approximately 0.16 acres). However, after about three years, the cultivated land loses its fertility and becomes barren, requiring the reclamation of new land for cultivation.

For the vast land of the Earth Kingdom, this is not a problem; but for the harsh environment of the Wind Kingdom, with its deserts and Gobi, it is fatal.

If we calculate that each person eats 1 jin of grain per day, then one acre of land in the Land of Wind is not even enough to feed one person!

The situation in the Land of Lightning and the Land of Fire is slightly better, with rice being harvested twice a year, yielding 250 catties per mu!

In the land of water, it is even possible to harvest three crops a year, with a yield of about 300 catties per mu.

But regardless of the country, the amount of food produced has little to do with the general public.

Because the world of Naruto is set in a feudal era, most of the land is concentrated in the hands of the powerful and wealthy. Tenant farmers can only rent land from the powerful and wealthy to cultivate. Not only do they have to pay high rents, but they also have to hand over a full amount of grain. In the end, the grain they receive is pitifully little, barely enough to be self-sufficient, let alone sell it.

Only the powerful and wealthy can buy and sell grain!

The Land of Darkness is located between the Land of Earth and the Land of Fire. Under favorable weather conditions, it can barely manage two harvests a year, with a yield of around 200 catties per mu.

If measured by this standard, the 30000 mu of agricultural land in Anyin Village yields 250 jin per mu. Assuming two harvests a year, each mu can produce 500 jin of rice. 30000 mu would yield 1500 million jin!

1500 million catties of grain, enough to feed 2 people. Ninjas consume a lot of chakra, so their grain requirements are much higher than ordinary people. They consume an average of 2 catties of grain per day. So, 2 people would eat 4 catties of grain per day, which would amount to 1460 million catties of grain per year.

With the added costs of some intermediate steps, it is just enough to achieve self-sufficiency!

After three days of training, the agricultural team of Dark Shadow Village started their work. Once the first batch of grain grown by Dark Shadow Village in the first half of the year (two harvests a year) is harvested, they will be able to achieve self-sufficiency!

We may still have a long way to go before we are completely self-sufficient in all aspects, but once the problem of food is solved, everything will be fine!

The remaining grain in the Dark Hidden Village's granary can last for at most three months. Lin Yu plans to purchase three more months' worth of grain to make enough for half a year, so that he can hold out until the first batch of grain arrives.

But at this critical juncture, something very unpleasant happened.

No matter where you go in the Dark Kingdom to buy food, the other party will immediately refuse as soon as they hear that you are from the Dark Hidden Village, and they will not sell to you even if you offer more money!

Lin Yu immediately ordered an investigation into the cause, and soon learned that it stemmed from a decree previously issued by the daimyo of the Dark Kingdom!

—Effective immediately, grain merchants from the Land of Darkness will restrict grain supplies to Dark Hidden Village. Furthermore, strict controls will be placed on grain entering and leaving the Land of Darkness from all countries to ensure it does not reach Dark Hidden Village!

The daimyo explained why such a decree was issued as follows.

"The Dark Kingdom's harvest this year is less than half of what it used to be; we have no surplus food to provide for you!"

Some people may wonder, if we can't buy food from the Dark Kingdom, can't we buy food from other countries?

But the Dark Kingdom has another policy... that has continued from ancient times to the present!

—'No citizen may purchase grain from other countries on their own. Even if grain production is insufficient and imports are necessary, the Daming Prefecture must personally oversee the procurement, and grain merchants from various regions must purchase grain from the Daming Prefecture, and the people must then purchase grain from the grain merchants.'

With more intermediaries involved, prices are bound to skyrocket, and people often have to spend several times, or even ten times, more, to buy food!

Therefore, in previous years when famine struck, it was always ordinary people who starved to death, while grain merchants and the powerful lived in luxury, even more so than during times of plenty!

“If they don’t sell us grain, we can’t buy grain from outside either… In other words, we’re just going to starve, right?” Lin Yu leaned back on the table and asked Saori in front of him.

Saori said, "The daimyo said... it's not impossible for us to buy grain, but he needs to coordinate with the grain merchants. Also, because this year's harvest is not good, if we want to get the grain first, we'll probably have to pay more than before!"

Lin Yu coldly replied, "Oh? So, you still just want money?"

Saori clenched her fist: "One pound of grain... 1 taels!"

Lin Yu laughed and said, "It's 100 times the amount of the past, hehe, not bad at all..."

So, what should we do?

"We need three months' worth of supplies, 365 million catties, 365 billion taels... How much balance do we have left in our accounts?"

"Not long ago, I converted a small batch of gold into cash. After deducting the 1000 billion taels I just gave to Daming Prefecture, I still have about 400 billion left."

"Buy it. This is for the daimyo's coffin. Tell Kakuzu that in six months, when our first batch of grain arrives, I will personally slaughter that pig..."

In this way, Dark Village spent 365 billion taels to purchase three months' worth of grain!

Late at night, in Daming Prefecture.

"Your Excellency, I have checked, and the Dark Hidden Village's accounts have no more funds..."

The daimyo stroked his mustache and asked in bewilderment, "That Uchiha Yu, eight years ago, just for the sake of changing the country's name, personally came to my door and threatened me with force. Now that I've put him in such a difficult position, he doesn't even hesitate. Why is that?"

Seated below, a sycophantic and treacherous minister said, "Heh, I'm afraid... he's realized his place! What else can ninjas do besides fight and cause destruction? In peacetime, ninjas rely on us to survive!"

Daimyo said, "If he is truly so pragmatic, then so be it..."

Time flies, and winter has arrived... Two uninvited guests arrived outside Dark Hidden Village.

"The blood pool clan's feud must be settled with the Shadows!"

Chapter 370 A Tribute to Blood!

On the cliff outside Dark Hidden Village stood a bewitching blonde woman in a charming red dress. Beside her was a short-haired man. Both of them had blood-red eyes with horizontal pupils similar to those of a toad. They were the Blood Dragon Eyes, who had disappeared with the extinction of the Blood Pool Clan!

But these eyes did not completely disappear!

In addition to possessing powerful illusion abilities, Blood Dragon Eye can also freely manipulate the blood of its victims, turning them into human bombs!

Musou and Shiro are the only two survivors of the Blood Pond clan. They possess the strongest eye power in the Blood Pond clan and hate the Uchiha more than other clan members. In particular, Blood Pond Musou, many years ago, in order to defile Obito Uchiha, who was a hero of Konoha, even used a cruel genjutsu on Kurenai, who was only 13 years old, making her experience the scene of being humiliated by Obito.

To this day, Hongdu mistakenly believes that the man who took advantage of her at the Hinatsuru Inn in Anku Village during the Ninja Annual Meeting seven years ago was Lin Yu!

However, instead of exposing Obito to Konoha, Kurenai fell for him. She even betrayed Konoha and came to Ankugakure in order to get closer to Lin Yu, which was probably something Musou had not anticipated.

Musou and Chengyan did not join the Blood Pool Clan in surrendering to Kumogakure, and therefore did not perish with their clan in the attack on Konoha.

But they knew that the one who truly annihilated the Blood Pond Clan was none other than Shadow Uchiha Yu!

In the past six months, they have never stopped thinking about avenging their clansmen... but they also know how powerful Uchiha Yu is, so they have been secretly accumulating trump cards!

Now, they have finally obtained the power to destroy Dark Village, or at least... that's what they think!

Looking out over the dense forest and the rows of buildings, Cheng Yan sighed, "Things have really changed. Seven years ago, when Danzo sent us here, An Yin Village was just a small village that could be seen at a glance... After two expansions, it has become a behemoth."

"Heh heh, the larger the creature, the more real the sense of revenge it brings when it wreaks havoc..." Wushuang chuckled strangely, "Let's begin, servants of blood!"

Whoosh! Countless figures emerged from the darkness behind them, swaying unsteadily, clearly disoriented, their eyes glowing red—a sign that they had fallen into the Blood Dragon Eye Illusion...

The number was as many as three thousand!

"After half a year of effort, we have finally created 3000 human bombs, enough to raze the entire Hidden Shadow Village to the ground! Shadow Uchiha Yu, you remnant of the Uchiha clan, you caused my clan to be imprisoned for a hundred years, and after our escape, we suffered another catastrophe! I know I can't kill you, but I will destroy the culmination of eight years of your hard work!! Go!! Blow the Hidden Shadow Village to smithereens!!"

Blood Pool's beautiful face was now contorted with rage. With a single command from her, three thousand human bombs advanced toward Dark Hidden Village!

In the woods, a suicide bomber runs, his skin cut open by a tree branch...

As blood flowed out, the body swelled into a giant heart, which then exploded with a bang!

It was this unexpected event that alerted Itachi and Mangetsu, who were scouting several kilometers away. The two rushed over and met at the tops of two adjacent trees, watching the large group of people approaching below.

Full Moon's eyes narrowed sharply: "I've seen this before! That damned suicide bombing is happening again!"

Itachi asked, "Human bomb... Could it be the attack that happened at the village entrance many years ago, the one that has yet to be found?"

Full Moon recalled, "To be precise, it was six years ago. Lord Shadow has already found out that the Blood Pool Clan was behind that incident. It was a man and a woman. Lord Shadow's sister-in-law was also once bewitched by that illusion!"

"Shadow's sister-in-law, Yugao..." Itachi's eyes narrowed slightly.

"Be careful, these guys are all human bombs. They'll explode if they get even the slightest wound, with a power comparable to Explosion Release! With this many, I wouldn't be surprised if they razed the village to the ground! I'm in Edo Tensei, so I don't need to worry about getting caught up in it, but Itachi, you're made of flesh and blood. You're not suited to participate in this battle. Go report to Lord Shadow. I'll hold them off here for now!"

Hozuki Mangetsu gave his instructions, already gripping the hilt of the Executioner's Blade.

But Itachi, who usually listened to Mangetsu's opinions, had his own ideas this time: "Mangetsu-nii, go report to the Shadows. To be honest, with that many, you can't stop them..."

"And what about you?" Manyue asked.

"I'm going to find the caster!"

Do you know where the other person is?

"I don't know, but techniques that manipulate people's minds all have distance limitations, especially with so many people. They can't be too far apart, and a high place is more suitable. So, the range can basically be locked..."

Itachi's gaze fell upon the towering mountain at the far end of his line of sight!

"Then you have to be careful. According to the intelligence, the other party operates in pairs and is very cunning. Now that so many years have passed, their eye power may be even stronger. This exaggerated number of human bombs is solid proof! I don't want even you to become an Edo Tensei..." Manyue warned worriedly.

"Don't worry, Brother Manyue, the only one who can kill me is my brother!" Itachi replied with a smile, heading towards his target with a cold gaze: I've heard my father talk about the Blood Pond and the entanglement between the Uchiha clans... I never expected they would go so far as to use innocent civilians to launch a revenge attack. It seems the conflict between the two clans is irreconcilable. Every Uchiha is a target of their revenge, including the Shadow, myself, Shisui, and even Sasuke!

"..." Mangetsu gazed at Itachi's retreating figure with a complicated expression, then turned and walked away in the opposite direction.

On the cliff.

Cheng Yan said, "It seems that someone has already noticed our presence..."

"Those who are perceptive often die young!"

Wushuang licked her lips with a bloodthirsty look, put on a pair of blood-red gloves on her slender hands, and then formed a hand seal!

—Blood Dragon Secret Technique: Skull Blood Handprint!

Bear!! Crimson chakra covered Wushuang's hand, extending into a giant blood skull handprint that reached forward!!

"!" Itachi's eyes narrowed slightly, and the crimson Susanoo skeletal arm responded, colliding with the blood skull handprint in front of him!

Rumble rumble rumble rumble!