Naruto, aspiring to become a well-known figure in the ninja world

The big boss’s honey shop is not far from Ichiraku Ninja Tool Store. It took about five minutes of walking through the crowd to reach the destination of this trip.

Compared to the situation of the Ninja Tool Shop, the business conditions of the Honey Shop and the adjacent Green Card Bookstore are much more miserable.

There are also gaps between people!

Those who came to Konoha after reading the first period of Yimu are now living the life they want. However, the situation of this group of people who came later is undoubtedly much worse.

Relying on Konoha's economic scale and population, it's not that they can't survive at all. It's just that their business conditions may be slightly worse than their original business conditions in the Land of Water, and it's still far from what they expected in Konoha.

Such a gap breeds dissatisfaction in people's hearts.

The honey shop is deserted.

All I could see were two pot-bellied men sitting in front of the counter, looking worried.

Gojo Jieyue walked towards them alone. Facing the two people's oncoming gazes, he spoke first: "Don't you know that it is illegal to make irresponsible remarks about Konoha in Konoha Village? Just based on this, I can deduct all the green card deposits you handed in!"

Seeing that the person coming was the "interviewer", the honey shop owner and the bookstore owner's faces changed drastically and trembled all over:

"But, but we haven't said anything yet!"

"Humph! Don't think I don't know what you are going to say just because you haven't started talking yet!"

"...Interviewer, we know we were wrong. Please forgive us." The big boss and the small boss pleaded.

Only after coming to Konoha did I realize that what I heard about Konoha in the refugee camp that day was not entirely true.

It was said that there was gold everywhere, but after I came here, I found that the competition here is so fierce that similar competing products can be seen in almost all stores.

The law is perfect, and there are potential consumer groups. But as newcomers, they can't compete with the old brands in Konoha that have accumulated a good reputation. According to the usual methods, "big opening promotion" and "hiring people to distribute flyers" have little effect.

"It's really hard to do business in Konoha. I haven't sold many cans of this honey that costs 179 taels a can."

"Me, me too. My book is also 79 taels a copy, and I haven't sold many copies so far."

"The rent of the new commercial street is also high. According to Konoha law, the salary contracts signed with ordinary workers must be paid even if there are no customers. If this continues... we may be on the verge of bankruptcy."

"Sir, I have five wives to support at home, what should I do..."

Originally, with the wealth of the big boss, it would be no problem for him to just lie down. But after paying the huge green card fee, it was already a huge loss. In addition, Konoha is a glamorous world, and the GDP contributed by the five wives to Konoha every day is a huge sum.

If this continues, the boss can almost be sure that his family will fall into poverty and his wife and children will be separated.

This is called a businessman's keen sense of smell.

Gojo Jieyue frowned and retorted, "Don't talk nonsense. A jar of honey is sold for 179 taels? A book is sold for 79 taels? Our Konoha Village brand products are very cheap. Sometimes you really should look for your own reasons instead of complaining about the environment. Have the prices dropped in all these days? Have you done any serious publicity work?"

"Ah? 79 is still low...if it's any lower, we won't make any money." The two bosses whispered.

They came to Konoha to pick up the gold that was everywhere, not to make a few cents by taking the cheap route. Then...then they might as well go back to the Water Country to sell it!

Gojo Jieyue noticed the confusion between their brows.

Humph, you came to Konoha and you want to leave? Is Konoha a place where you can come and go as you please? If they really run away, Konoha's external publicity work will be ruined by half.

"These outsiders are just difficult to deal with..." If the natives of Konoha dared to speak to Lord Gojo like this, he would have called Fugaku to arrest them long ago.

The identity of a foreigner does have some use. At least before Gojo Kegetsu achieves unification in the ninja world, it is necessary to establish a good external image and attract foreigners.

Not willing to lower the price? Just thinking of picking up gold? We, the people of Konoha Village, are simple, but not stupid.

Gojo Jieyue looked displeased, but he was a person who was used to change and did not like to complain. After thinking for a moment, he came up with a solution.

"You said... you sell honey, and he sells books?"

"That's right, sir. What's wrong?"

"I have a plan that can make you a lot of money. But..."

The big boss observed the expression and said, "If I can really make a lot of money, I will give you the benefits you deserve, not a penny less."

"Oh, what are you talking about? Who do you think I am?! Do I care about your little tricks?"

The big boss smiled and rubbed his hands: "Yes, yes, sir, you are right, so...?"

"I want you, as representatives of merchants from other villages, to take the lead in responding to the village's policies in the future. Tomorrow, if we announce an increase in military spending, you have to donate. The day after tomorrow, if we announce the issuance of village bonds, you have to buy them. The day after tomorrow, if we announce monogamy, you have to... well, forget it."

"clear?"

"Ah...still donating?"

They forgot the middle part, forgot the end part, and only remembered the first sentence "to donate". They wanted to say that they would consider it after seeing the money-making plan given by Gojo Jieyue, but seeing the interviewer's face gradually getting worse, they could only nod and agree with a bitter face.

As the saying goes, when a businessman meets a soldier, he cannot explain his reason clearly.

That's enough. The interviewer is giving them face by giving them a reason. If they really offend him again... they won't be able to stay in Konoha Village in the future.

The plan to make a lot of money was probably just a plan to appease them, and it was nothing but a plan to make them shut up. I regretted that I listened to the slander and spent all my family wealth to apply for a Konoha green card. I should have just been a rich man in the Water Country. Now, I have lost my money and my life is in danger.

Runren, my heart is painful!

"Hmm..." Seeing that the two agreed to his unequal treaty, Gojo Jieyue's expression turned from gloomy to bright.

"You know Yi Mu, right?"

"I know that." The bookstore owner raised his hand to answer, "It sells very well in our Water Country, and I have been selling it. I wanted to sell it in Konoha, but the person in charge of the Fire Country Publishing House said that they would not sell it to local people in the Fire Country. They really don't know how to do business."

"Well, I know Commissioner Xiaoshan, the head of the Fire Country Publishing House, and we have a good relationship. I can ask him to help you contact the author of Yi Mu and publish your story in the next issue."

"Ah? What's our story?"

The two of them were first enlightened, and then raised their doubts.

If it can be written into Konoha as a story, according to the sales of "Yi Mu" in other villages, it can indeed promote their business. Although it takes some time for the influence outside the village to radiate to Konoha, and it also takes time for tourists from other villages to come to Konoha, the two are willing to wait.

With this wave of traffic coming here because of their reputation, they will definitely make a fortune.

But, it seems that they really don’t have any stories to promote.

"Stories come from processing reality. Whether you have stories or not, wouldn't it be better to process them?"

"The story about you is this—"

"A village that relies on reading and intelligence to strengthen its village"

[The average Konoha villager reads 64 books a year. More than 80% of the village’s population reads 64 books per person a year.]

[The people of Konoha Village have a custom that when a child is born, the mother will open the collector's edition of "Three Years of Ninja School" bought from the Green Card Bookstore, drip a little collector's ninja honey bought from the Green Card Honey Store, and let the newborn lick the honey on "Three Years of Ninja School". Through this licking, the child will have a good first impression of the book: books are sweet.]

[When children are a little more sensible, almost every mother will ask this question: "If there is a sudden fire in your house one day, what will you save first?" When the child answers that it is cash or military pills, the mother will tell him seriously: "These are not important. What you should save first is books! Books contain wisdom, which is much more valuable than cash or military pills, and wisdom cannot be taken away by anyone."]

[Therefore, the people of Konoha Village are the only village in the Ninja World without illiterate people. Even the beggars in Konoha Village cannot live without books. Even when begging, they always carry books that they must read every day, not to mention those who have no worries about food and clothing.]

[In Konoha, books and periodicals are very expensive. A copy of "Three Years at Ninja School" at Green Card Bookstore costs as much as 17900 taels, and regular books are also over 1790 taels. However, ordinary Konoha villagers are very generous in buying books and subscribing to newspapers and periodicals.]

[Nearly one-third of the people in Konoha Village will buy a copy of "Three Years at Ninja School" for their unborn children at Green Card Bookstore, making Konoha Village the country with the most books per capita in the entire Ninja world.]

[“Hokage Sabbath” is a very important day for the people of Konoha Village. On “Hokage Sabbath”, all Konoha Village residents must stop all commercial and entertainment activities. Stores, restaurants, entertainment venues and other places must be closed, public carriages must stop running, and even ninja activities must stop. People can only stay at home and pray for the deceased first and second generation Hokage. ]

【But there is one thing that is allowed, that is, all the bookstores in the village can open for business. And on this day, the Green Card Bookstore has the most people, and everyone is reading quietly here. 】

[A village that values ​​reading and learning will certainly be richly rewarded. The environment of Konoha Village is harsh, and most of the village is surrounded by forests, with scarce arable land. Villages like Sand Village with harsh environments do not have enough food, and they have to rely on Sand Village to pan for gold in the sand and exchange gold for food.]

【However, the people of Konoha Village were the first to develop Bingliang Pills through reading. Not only did they not eat all of the Bingliang Pills they produced, but they also exported them to other villages. With their intelligence and wisdom, they created amazing material and spiritual wealth.】

[The population of Konoha Village is large, and there are many talented people. There are so many strong ninjas at the level of Jonin that they can be reset. I have explored the secret of their strength. The powerful ninja of Konoha who is currently serving and does not want to be named, who I interviewed, revealed to me after recalling that when he was a child, his father bought a bottle of the most expensive and sweetest honey from the Green Card Honey Shop and dripped it on the ninjutsu scroll. ]

[From then on, he was obsessed with the pursuit of sweetness. In order to obtain that sweetness, he kept flipping through the Konoha Special Ninjutsu Scrolls that his father bought from the Green Card Bookstore, absorbing the honey in them.]

[When he came to his senses, he found that he had left his classmates in the same period far behind. He didn't understand why he became a jonin, but perhaps, this was the biggest reason! ]

[After hearing about this, Gojo Jieyue, who is in charge of cultural education in Konoha Village, personally went to Green Card Bookstore and Honey Store to purchase enough for the students of the Ninja School, and said: Konoha is willing to spend money for the children, and will never let the children of the Ninja School lose at the starting line! ]

[Note: This article is adapted from real events]

Volume 76: If I really give up, I will put you on the underground bounty hunting ground

Kill two birds with one stone!

After listening to the story narrated by Gojo Jieyue, the two looked at each other and saw the shock and confusion in each other's eyes.

They never thought that the honey and books in their store could produce such a magical chakra reaction and turn into such a... strange story.

As we all know, Ninja is a very rich but very poor profession.

Generally speaking, the ninja school graduates from civilian families are in the poorest and most difficult stage of their ninja career. As long as they get through this stage, everything will be fine.

Among them, those with talent have survived the stage of fresh graduates and have not chosen to quit the ninja industry. As the ninjas gain more experience, the rewards for the tasks they take on also increase.

As a ninja, as a high-risk profession, the general hobbies are just that - wine, sex, money, and children.

Drinking, foot baths, gambling, and training offspring to inherit his ninja ways.

Whether they were ninjas from the ninja clan or civilians, they were all willing to spend money on their children. They would buy boxes of the ration pills that they usually couldn't bear to eat, buy handfuls of ninja training tools that they couldn't afford, and buy the "Three Years at Ninja School" that they despised without hesitation at the lecture...

In the ninja world, the return on investment is very high.

A Genin or Chunin family can train a Jonin and recover the cost of training by completing two tasks. A Jonin family can train an elite Jonin or even a Kage-level descendant, and the position of Kage and advisor of the village may be rotated!

With such a mentality of wanting their children to become successful, even if a copy of "Three Years in Ninja School" is sold at a price of tens of thousands of taels, as long as there is a story to go with it, there will still be a lot of ninja parents who will choose to buy it.

The phrase "Don't let your children lose at the ninja starting line" has killed the game.

Gojo Jieyue added: "This is called the Special Edition for Outsiders. When you meet villagers from Konoha and ask about the price of the product, you can tell them that this is a special edition for outsiders and is not sold to the public. It can only be purchased with a temporary green card."

Sometimes, the products supplied to other villages may not be the best. On the contrary, because of this unique system, those outsiders will spontaneously believe that such products have unique qualities.

At the same time, Gojo Jieyue would not feel any pain for the money he earned in this way.

"Ah? Can we only sell it to outsiders?" The honey boss sounded regretful.

After Gojo Jieyue's guidance, a perfect fraud industry chain has emerged in his mind.

Hire extras to act as agents in front of honey shops and bookstores, and watch at the village gate. When they see tourists from other villages, start selling products and bring them into the store... Then, spend more time on the packaging of the products and make the presentation more beautiful.

It would be best to find a well-known senior ninja from Konoha to endorse the store and cooperate with the performance. Whenever strangers ask about it, they can say that they are the protagonist in the article and grew up eating honey.

"Yes. After all, Yi Mu is only sold to the public. Remember this is a red line. You must hold a temporary green card to buy it." Gojo Jieyue warned. He didn't want the natives of Konoha to learn such bad habits. "If it is purchased by an outsider, you don't have to care and just sell it as usual."

It's hard to persuade the damn ghost with kind words. If there are really natives of Konoha who believe this... Gojo Jieyue has no intention of stopping them from paying the IQ tax.

"Also, I'm going to take half of your profits. Just consider it as the price for having your store name appear in Yimu."

"Yes! Visa Officer!"

The owners of the honey shop and the bookstore were so excited that they kept rubbing their hands, ready to work hard and reap the cash from the strangers.

It is almost foreseeable what kind of great help their business will be when the fourth issue of "Yi Mu" is released and radiates to all villages outside Konoha.

Selling a special edition book can bring in tens of thousands of taels of profit, which is a completely cost-free and profitable business. Even if you have to spend some money on packaging design and hiring actors, and you have to hand over half of the profit to the visa officer, it is still worth it.

Outside of Konoha, the users of "Yi Mu" are mostly the "middle class" of the country and the village, and some are just petty bourgeois, with various longings for Konoha in "Yi Mu". The circulation of each issue has exceeded one million copies.

Judging from the keen sense of businessmen, the conversion rate will be very high. A large number of outsiders holding Konoha temporary green cards will flock to the store to purchase on behalf of others. Even if the conversion rate is only 1%, it will be enough for them to realize their dream of "picking up gold".

The Green Card Runren controversy has been resolved!

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Gojo Jieyue was in an unexpectedly good mood today.

"Oki III", which carries the dream of shattering the Sand Village, has been shipped out of the official publisher's warehouse and shipped to various parts of the ninja world. It will be officially on sale at 11 o'clock this morning.

At the same time, Samui, who had been away from Konoha Village for fifteen days, was finally going back to the village! God knew how Gojo Jieyue spent these days alone when Samui was away.

When Mei Terumi first entered Konoha Village, she was like an unruly female beast. She turned a blind eye to Gojo Kegetsu's invitation to watch the Nine-Tails do a backflip, which was really disrespectful to Lord Gojo.

These days she stayed in the house that Gojo Jieyue sold her, and she didn't go anywhere except to eat and go to the hospital. She was so good, taking advantage of Gojo-sama but not giving him any advantage.

Fortunately, Gojo Jieyue had urgently arranged for someone to clear out an unused ward in the hospital, and after renovating it with his superb aesthetic taste, it looked like the real deal. In the eyes of outsiders, it was also in line with the style of Ashe's ward.

All that's missing is for "Tsunade" to be present in person to hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of Aishiyu, and invite the two great elders, Danzo and Mitomon, to give speeches to congratulate the Aishiyu special ward on its growing fortune.

"But it doesn't matter. The seeds of separation have already been planted in Terumi Mei's heart."

"When the time comes, Mei Terumi will rebel!"

Gojo Jieyue, who understood human nature, gave his own judgment. It was just a matter of time.