Naruto, Uzumaki Menma, just wants to conquer the world

Iruka is the only one who has a good attitude and doesn't care about what others say at class reunions.

People like Mizuki have a bad mentality. How does he feel when he sees that people around him have become either special jonin or jonin?

In Menma's words, it's like "It hurts more to see you making money than it does to me losing money."

However, Menma is very good at analyzing others, but he does not always face the fact that "he is actually very strong."

He was far ahead of his peers in every aspect, and he swept through all the books and scrolls in Konoha Village that he was qualified and capable of reading.

Those that he did not have time to read carefully were also recorded in his spiritual world to be read slowly in the future.

In addition, although Menma complained, he actually enjoyed the free life here in Mitarashi Anko.

Kakashi has all kinds of rules and regulations. When doing a mission, you have to work in team spirit. Three people work together and share the money for one mission. You are not allowed to do the mission privately.

Hongdou was much more relaxed. It was no problem for one person to take as many tasks as they wanted. Hongdou didn't care. But she was also cruel and wanted to take 30%.

But so what? Menma was short of money, and because of his fear of insufficient firepower, he wanted to empty the ninja tool shop.

Therefore, Menma is not only a moonlighter, but also a debtor who is in debt everywhere.

He has a lot of twisted logic, which he euphemistically calls: the most solid relationship in the world is between creditors and debtors. As long as the creditor still wants the debtor to pay back the money, he will never want the debtor to die.

However, lending money does have only benefits and no disadvantages for him. Imagine that a person who originally hoped that this monster would die sooner lent him some money on impulse one day.

At this time, would he still be looking forward to his death? He would be anxiously waiting to collect the interest every month, fearing that he would die.

However, it is not easy to maintain this kind of relationship. Just like the expected value of the stock market, you must make people believe that you can repay the money, that you can appreciate in value, and that you can make a lot of money in the future, only then will someone take over.

Therefore, Menma always only pays back the interest and never the principal. He borrows money and pays back the interest. He will not stop until he has borrowed all the money from Konoha.

What if I borrow the light of the entire Konoha? That's easy. When the time comes, I can just raise my arms and shout: "Down with the Daimyofu, make me the emperor, and I will have enough money and food." That's right, that's it.

In addition, his other twisted logic is: others hoard food, I hoard guns, and my neighbors are my granaries.

Therefore, his pockets were never empty. As long as he had enough money, he would buy ninja tools and carry them with him.

Just like today, Menma came to Tenten's Ninja Tool Shop again, and he chose a time when there were no other customers or passers-by.

Yes, he was that cautious.

Because what he was going to do was so shameful: he knelt down, hugged Tiantian's thighs, and looked at her with tears in his eyes.

"Tiantian, Tiantian, please, give me a discount! We are old customers!" Menma begged her in a tone that was almost crying.

"No, you haven't paid off the debt you owed me last time!" Tiantian's attitude was very tough. She continued to emphasize: "And last time, the time before that! The time before that!"

Menma rolled around like a child, lying on the ground, waving his limbs around, "Duck eggs, duck eggs!"

Of course, at his age he is still a child, and he is also very cute, so it is not that difficult to accept him from a visual point of view.

Oh, just to emphasize, Menma knows that he is very cute, so he wants to continue to squeeze out the last bit of value of his cute little shota appearance.

"Then what do you want me to do? I'll give you my life in exchange for it! Anyway, if you don't sell me, I won't get up from here!"

I don’t know how long they struggled, but after Menma’s constant nagging, Tiantian finally agreed reluctantly.

"Alas, there's really nothing I can do about you." Tiantian shook his head helplessly, "Okay, okay, I get it."

She compromised and turned to the backstage cabinet to get the scroll filled with detonating talismans that she had prepared for him earlier, "You need to write an IOU!"

By the way, there are many scrolls in that cabinet, all ready, and there is also a lighted machine.

Seeing that his persistent tactics had succeeded again, Menma returned to normal and changed his expression faster than turning the pages of a book, as if the guy who had been crying for his parents just now was another person.

Tenten handed him the scroll and said, "Although I have said it many times, I'm going to say it first, Menma, you must remember what you said~"

Menma nodded like a chick pecking at rice: "Yeah!" He took the scroll, then ran away without looking back. Only a perfunctory farewell was heard, "Goodbye, Tiantian Sister."

Looking at Menma's departing back, Tiantian's mouth corners raised, his eyes became empty, and his bright eyes lost their luster, becoming extremely scary.

She went back, turned off the recorder, took out the tape and kept it safely together with the IOU on the table.

The prices in Konoha are comparable to those in the capital of the Fire Country. The average price of Konoha ramen is about 80 taels per bowl. The annual harvest of a self-employed farmer in the Fire Country is equivalent to about one thousand bowls of Konoha ramen.

Of course, this is a good situation. These self-employed farmers who enjoy good weather and good harvests are considered to be a class that lives a relatively good life in the Fire Kingdom, because there are countless people who are more disadvantaged than them.

The ninjas of Konoha are a super wealthy class. Take Iruka as an example. His average annual frequency of tasks is: A-level tasks × 1, B-level tasks × 10, C-level tasks × 20......

Just these alone bring him an annual income of 500,000 taels, not counting his annual salary as a teacher. This means that the annual salary of Konoha Chuunin Umino Iruka is at least dozens of times the annual income of a self-employed farmer.

However, in the final analysis, ninjas are just high-level workers, and this kind of income is actually earned at the cost of their lives. Compared with the money earned by the truly powerful and wealthy, it is simply not worth mentioning.

The wealth of the rich and powerful people and businessmen in the Land of Fire is about a million times the annual income of a self-employed farmer, and a hundred thousand times the annual income of a Konoha Chunin.

The more powerful the ninja, the higher the mission income. For example, the total amount of Jiraiya's mission remuneration has reached one percent of the wealth of the top dignitaries in the Land of Fire.

This distribution method is very reasonable. To put it bluntly, the boss is spending money to buy people's hearts. The stronger you are, the more money the boss will spend to keep you. People are not stupid. They know that you have the ability to kill him.

So now you know why the ninjas stopped rebelling?

Because the wealthy and powerful didn't treat ninjas badly, but well, so well that they used money to keep them in check.

The Ninja Village is content with the status quo, willing to be dogs of the powerful and be bought by their money, and has no greater ambitions for the time being.

This is not incomprehensible, because ninjas are very hard-working, patient, and abstinent, and these sweet things are already too sweet for them.

Those who are ambitious and dissatisfied with the status quo all become rebel ninjas.

All of the above are things that Menma is very clear about.

However, he is not omniscient and omnipotent.

He had never calculated how much money he owed, and there were many things he didn't know.

For example: He only knew that Tiantian was a wealthy woman, but had no idea that her family was one of the "eighteen richest families".

That's why she was able to enter the Ninja School, graduate successfully, and become a disciple of Konoha's top Taijutsu Jonin.

The market price of a detonating talisman ranges from three hundred taels to tens of thousands of taels, and prices below two thousand taels are generally wholesale prices for bulk purchases.

For example: When a war breaks out, the ninja village will place a large order with the arms dealer, and the arms dealer will naturally be tactful and lower the price beyond others' imagination.

Because the production cost of this kind of thing is really not high, it is mainly due to industrial technology monopoly and it is a secret technique of the Tiantian family.

Tiantian can easily produce a billion detonating talismans, but she will never put them on the market.

The market retail price of detonating talismans is very expensive, usually starting from two thousand two taels, and the effects vary depending on the price.

Tenten always gave Menma the best quality detonating tags at the highest price, and the same went for other ninja tools.

Currently, Menma buys a lot of ninja tools and detonating tags on credit every day, and they are all discounted at the highest market price.

013 Heaven created all things to nourish man: follow the way of Heaven!

It was early April, and Menma had been a Genin for a month. His efficiency in carrying out missions was almost several times that of other Genin of the same period.

The Sandaime Hokage was naturally happy because he saw the figure of a new generation of mission model workers after the Three Ninjas of Konoha, Minato Namikaze, and Kakashi Hatake.

"There are still three months until the Chunin Exam. Let's assign them some difficult tasks during this period." The Third Hokage murmured in front of the crystal ball.

Next to the notice board of the task claim office, Menma was struggling with which task he should take today.

"This, that, this, that..." The way he pokes the air with his fingers is also cute.

"Menma!" This was Sakura's voice.

"Ah, Sakura!" Menma simply replied perfunctorily, his eyes fixed on the mission notice in front of him from beginning to end.

At this time, the cute pink-haired girl who looked like Sakura waste had come to his side.

Xiaoying patted his shoulder and said angrily, "Really? Why don't you come to see me?"

"Oh." Menma said perfunctorily, "Because I'm busy."

"Really? What are you pretending for? Don't think I will like you just because you act like this!"

Menma ignored Sakura and reached out to take the selected mission announcement. By the way, the sight of this little boy standing on tiptoe was quite adorable.

He took the notices and ran to the counter, pointing at a few scrolls, "This, and this..."

Although he is the infamous "fox demon", his childish voice and cute appearance make it hard to dislike him.

After completing the formalities, he ran outside, and as he passed by Sakura, he did not forget to greet her, "Well, I'll be leaving first!"

"Hmm..." Sakura looked at the boy's departing back, standing there in a daze, her mind dazed.

Why do I feel that strange and oppressive feeling...

Why does this guy treat me like this...

Zuo Yue had been waiting for her under a tree not far from the entrance of the mission claim office.

Not long after, Sakura, who had accepted the task, came over with the scroll.

"Satsuki, is this mission okay?"

"Yeah." Zuo Yue nodded, then asked, "Have you seen Menma?"

"Ah, no!" Sakura felt a little guilty.

She was afraid that Zuo Yue would misunderstand her, so she lied and said she didn't see it.

However, no matter how she behaved, there was no place for her in Zuoyue's heart from beginning to end.

Satsuki saw Menma passing by her. Sakura's lie only made the already shallow friendship between them even more dull.

Namikaze Naruko, although she and Menma are siblings, she has lived in a luxurious environment since childhood.

Her life is very regular:

06:00, get up.

06:10-06:20, take a quick shower.

06:20-06:45, breakfast, the maid comes to read out today's schedule.

06:45-07:45, morning combat training.

07:45-08:30, bathing, image management, dressing, and changing clothes.

08:30-11:40, courses and tasks arranged by the Sandaime Hokage himself.

11:40-12:40, lunch and lunch break time.

12:40-18:00, courses, training, tasks, internships (e.g. street patrols for the police force)

18:00-18:30, dinner, listening to Konoha News Radio, and reading Konoha newspapers.

18:30-23:00, freely allocated private time.

23:00, bedtime (lights must be turned off)

She can be as gentle and polite as a young lady, or she can be generous and heroic in battle.

She is perfect. In the eyes of others, she has perfectly inherited the talent of the Fourth Hokage, but only she knows the hard work behind it.

"Damn it, that guy Zuo Yue has become stronger again." She muttered to herself as she walked into the entrance hall after returning home.

Namikaze Naruko and Uchiha Satsuki are sworn enemies. They always compete with each other in study or other aspects.

She felt that practicing day after day was very tiring and she felt exhausted every day.

Just as Menma believed, this was how the world was, and no matter if they were nobles or commoners, life was not easy for anyone.

The nobles lived in fear and toiled hard, fearing that they would die one day.

One can imagine what kind of miserable situation the people in the poor areas outside Konoha are in.

The time goes back to late March, in a remote village somewhere in the Land of Fire, the people here still live in extreme poverty.

Some of them were starving, some were naked, and some were emaciated. Bones of people who had frozen to death could be seen in the barren farmlands, and the people here did not even have the energy to bury them.

Genin cannot receive and carry out missions alone. To carry out missions, Genin must be accompanied by a teacher or captain of a Chunin or above level. This is the rule. As the Jinchūriki, Menma must have a ninja following and monitoring him.

But Mitarashi Red Bean is a heavyweight Xian 4, that is, pure Nicotine Zhen.

So, Menma easily fooled Hongdou temporarily and started to act alone.

Unable to sit still, he decided to run a little further away and ended up in this village.

Curious about this situation, he entered the village and got the answer from an old man.

"Last year, there was a bandit attack around here, and this is how it looks like."