Danzo Shimura secretly unsealed many forbidden techniques, trying to find further power from them. When the ninja world in the future becomes more turbulent and has more dominance, the Chunin Examination held in Konoha Village is about to enter its final stage. stage.
Two days in advance, the current daimyo and the head of the Furusugi family arrived in Konoha Village and lived in a luxurious manor that was once again expanded and renovated to resemble a palace complex.
Although it is called a private estate, it is not much different from a large castle. The land area plus the attached farms, botanical gardens, training grounds, medicine gardens, workshops, etc. are larger than the territories of ordinary minor nobles.
Fortunately, this place is not usually open to the public. Banquets, horse racing, outings and other activities are held on specific festivals throughout the year, and nearby celebrities are invited to visit.
With a radius of nearly 100 kilometers, Konoha Village is considered a prosperous place. If the manor is upgraded to a large town, most of Konoha Village's foreign population will soon be diverted, and the former "No. 1 Village in the Ninja World" will also have to bear a great impact. .
It is not that no one in Konoha Village has seen hidden dangers. However, Kosugi Bushui has been acquiring nearby land for more than ten years. He has accumulated bit by bit, and the originally scattered plots have been connected together to form the current scale.
At the beginning, no one expected that Gushan Bushui would be so ambitious. When the first clues emerged, it was already too late to stop him.
No one can find any flaws in the land acquired with real money.
My uncle, who had been the daimyo for some time, visited hand in hand with the head of the Kosugi family, which added a lot of luster to this newly developed private territory.
What is not known to outsiders is that among the team, there is also Zhi Ji's cousin who has been out of mainstream sight for many years.
It has been some time since I was entrusted with the follow-up to the Konoha Village reconstruction plan. After being busy for so long, I finally took a break during the Chunin Exam.
My former cousin who was a disciplinary officer was indeed inexperienced in the sensitivity of the situation, which was why he suffered the overthrow.
Now, after having settled for so long, I have gained a lot of insights. Especially after several long conversations with Gushan Bushui, my ability to see the essence through phenomena has improved a lot.
It has been a long time since Gu Shan Bushui had such an encounter with him bringing a large stack of account books to discuss important matters with him.
After casually flipping through the thick account book for a while and picking out the general outline, Gushan Bushui asked with a smile:
"It looks like I've done a lot, it's really hard work."
"I don't actually need to do the trivial matters. Some of them are accountants. Just leave them to them. I just summarize and review them and come up with some rules."
"What's the catch?"
Uncle Zhiji knocked on the cover of the account book, shook his head slightly and replied:
"These... are all superficial. It's not that important to make more or less. What really matters to me is that through these numbers, I seem to see what the Konoha ninjas have gained by risking their lives and working hard to complete the mission. Most of the reward was robbed by the 'ant moving' method. Eating, drinking, sleeping, moving, sitting, lying and walking, every bit of the life of the Konoha villagers is almost controlled by an invisible string, like a string. Puppet, driven..."
It seemed that simple words could not describe what was in his heart. Uncle Zhiji paused, sorted out his words, and then explained again:
"The so-called 'Konoha Reconstruction Plan', you don't seem to care about how much money you make, but you care more about taking away the savings of the Konoha villagers as much as possible, and even burdening them with heavy debts..."
Hearing this, Gu Shan Bu Shui smiled while stroking his palms.
"All living beings always think that as long as they work hard, work hard, and be diligent and frugal, they will one day get rich. In fact, they don't understand that this world is more cruel than they imagined. It is full of wolves that eat people without spitting out their bones. …”
Making more money does not necessarily make you richer; taking away other people's wealth and making others poor can actually widen the gap between the rich and the poor.
Money is capital, but capital is not just money. It is a savage beast that eats flesh. Once it cannot eat others, it is very likely to turn around and bite itself.
During this time, cousin Zhiji was really shocked by his nephew's boldness.
Kosugi Bosui's arrangements over the years were more like suppressing Konoha Village than working for the development of the family. His methods were close to hostile wars.
It's just that the method of entrapment is not a fight with swords and swords, but a secret battle that kills people without blood.
Stupidity, weakness, fatigue, humiliation, and poverty are approaching each other step by step, leaving the Leaf Village with no time to think about anything else and posing no threat to the Daimyo and Fusagi families.
To put it bluntly, Kosugi Fusui did not place any hope on the Konoha ninja being kind-hearted, recognizing that he was inferior, and recognizing the authority of the daimyo.
There is no need to mention the background of Cousin Zhiji. He has basic political literacy and is very clear about the true meaning of what Gushan Bushui did.
"You don't want to take revenge because the Sandaime didn't issue you a ninja 'license', right? We in the Fire Country need a strong Konoha Village. Weakening it too much is not a good idea..."
"No, you misunderstood. I just want some of the 'dividends' from the development of Konoha Village to be given to us. The world's wealth does not fluctuate much in the short term. If you want to become stronger, you need to master two skills,' Making cakes and 'breaking cakes', in the field of 'making cakes', Konoha Village now has an absolute advantage, and its efficiency is far beyond what the world can compare with. Therefore, I need to hold the knife of 'breaking cakes' and take it away The majority of the share, otherwise, Konoha Village, which is 'too full' and 'too fat', will be difficult to control..."
Compared with compressing the task volume, controlling quotas, and targeting targets openly and openly, Gu Shan Bu Shui's method is obviously more clever.
We have to pluck the goose feathers, but we can't make the goose crow.
This requires very sophisticated control skills.
If you pluck too little and too slowly, it won't work. If you pluck too much too quickly, you'll end up with bald skin. Who can't tell?
To sum up, Kosugi Bosui lent a large amount of reconstruction loans to Konoha Village, which were packaged and distributed to every Konoha family. This actually increased the burden on ordinary villagers, but it did not make them unable to survive.
It's just that I have to live a hard life for a few years.
"Bu Shui, since I can see it, other people are not fools. There are always smart guys who can understand your plan."
"It doesn't matter."
Gushan Bushui smiled and waved his hand, and responded nonchalantly,
"They... the Konoha ninjas may think that it was us, the Kosugi clan, who came to us in times of need and gave them the necessary support. When I stood on the burned ruins of Konoha Village, I was the one who provided them with what they urgently needed."
"I hope nothing happens."
Regarding this point, Cousin Zhiji was worried. This was not the same as his original ideal, and even ran counter to it.
Of course, Gu Shanbu Shui's approach was truly the style of a great noble of the Fire Country.
"You are looking at the influence of Konoha ninjas on our Gusugi clan from the perspective of 'human nature is inherently evil'..."
Gushan Bu Shui shrugged and said slowly:
"Once you have secured your position, don't 'crotch your butt'. I don't care much about 'good nature' or 'evil nature'. There are indeed a few trustworthy guys among the Konoha ninjas, but for the Konoha Village group, I We will not ignore their huge impact on us..."
Seeing that Zhiji's cousin couldn't bear it, Gu Shan Bu Shui persuaded him calmly:
"You also know that for us traditional 'rotten' nobles, the so-called 'orthodoxy' is just a pretense to conquer people's hearts. The real foundation is the economic order and system rooted in the land. To put it bluntly, we are big landowners and local tyrants. Spokesperson for the evil gentry. At the level of daimyo and Gusugi, the position is not completely consistent with that of the squires who dominate the local area. However, we really need their support to maintain the situation."
In other words, feudal villages and clans spread all over the Fire Country, which is beneficial to big nobles like the Gusugi clan. Land and its income are hard currency; urbanization, developed commerce, large-scale navigation, international trade, etc. , are harmful to the spokesmen of feudal forces. The more developed they are, the harder they will impact the daimyo and Gusugi clan.
The advancement of urbanization has given birth to a huge citizen class. The process of its growth is to destroy the driving force of traditional villages, towns and clans, and the developed capital such as precious metal currency and credit currency to maintain its operation has formed another competing force. class. When it takes the initiative and grows to the point where it completely suppresses the interest classes derived from the land and integrates and annexes them, it means that the end of the "human superior" nobles like the Daimyo and the Kosugi clan has come.
Even in the super-developed information age like Gushan Bushui's previous life, after all order was stripped away, only "land economy" and "money and finance" were left. Without exception, farming, grazing, and building workshops on a piece of land It's still a bank. It's just that the development of science and technology has brought about an increase in productivity, making the utilization efficiency of 'land' and 'money' different.
When the two merge into one, if the Kosugi family has not completed its transformation, a mercenary group like Konohagakure that controls force will no longer be obedient.
"Therefore, the reins and whips that control Konoha Village cannot be relaxed, but must be strengthened to buy time for changes at the secular level. Before taking the initiative, find more things for Konoha Village to do, and don't be idle. Come and intervene in my transformation of the Land of Fire. By the way, I will also borrow the power of the Konoha ninjas. After all, they are quite strong and very useful."
Of course, it would be best if the resistance of the Leaf Village could be successfully broken down and it could be completely brought under its command. Considering the development in the next ten years, this possibility is close to zero, but some preparations are needed. Things in the future are not static.
Cousin Zhiji pressed his temples to clear his sore head and sighed slightly.
"I understand. Next, we need to improve it. Although there is no doubt about the repayment ability of the Konoha ninjas, we must be prepared to be rejected."
Whether lending or borrowing, the ability to deal with defaults is the real core.
Money is quantified capital, but that is not all. How to use measurable money to buy immeasurable core competitiveness is the key. Otherwise, it will be useless to earn a bunch of waste paper.
"It's okay even if the Leaf Village makes a little more money. The superficial numbers can easily give people a false sense of power and satisfaction. This illusion can also temporarily paralyze their resistance."
"I see."
Uncle Zhiji nodded understandingly,
"Are you going to launch the plan to decouple currency and precious metals that you mentioned last time and issue a sovereign credit currency?"
"Not the time."
Kosugi Bushui smiled and shook his head. The entire ninja world is still in chaos. The currency is still gold and silver. Now issuing sovereign credit currency will only hurt the poorest civilians in the mountains and forests who are not in line with the world. The rich and powerful The urban rich will immediately abandon the sovereign credit currency that has no actual value, restart the gold and silver physical currency, and even barter. In this case, it will not be able to "crack down on profiteers" or "cut leeks" at all. Instead, it will make it more difficult for the poor. If people like Chen Sheng and Wu Guang come together to rebel because of this, it will be troublesome.
Although it is impossible to play the ninja world's version of "quantitative easing" now, we can find ways to reserve gold and silver.
There are many gold and silver mines that can be mined in the entire Ninja Continent, but compared to market circulation demand, it is still not enough.
Fortunately, there is a group of "mermaids" in Gushan Bushui, who can find wealth in the depths of the vast sea without competitors.
Are the values of precious metals such as gold and silver too high?
This is a good thing. Gushan Bushui can mine seabed mineral veins and continuously invest reserves to issue large amounts of banknotes. Without the influence of the extraordinary professional group of ninjas, Gushan Bushui is sure that this simple method will not be outdated for two hundred years.
Even if the ninja world develops rapidly in the next twenty years, there will still be at least nearly half a century.
After all this time, if Kosugi Bushui still hasn't settled the Konoha Village and made the Daimyo and Kosugi clan the worthy rulers of the Fire Country, then it would be better to go back to his hometown, close the door, and spend the rest of his life living in debauchery.
"I just have to do what I'm doing right now. When things stabilize here, I'll go back to Inaba Academy and become a teacher."
"Why...are you addicted to teaching?"
"Change your mood. After seeing so many underhand methods of killing without blood, I have to change my environment and cultivate my moral character. Otherwise, I'm afraid I will doubt my life in the future."
"That's where we are."
Gushan Bu Shui smiled narrowly and said,
"You have seen the world, how could you get distracted by such a trivial matter?"
"Forget it, you guy, you looked quite honest when you were a child, but when you grow up, you are full of bad ideas. I don't know where you learned it from. Your parents are not such people."
"Extraordinary talent, self-taught without a teacher."
"Anyway, don't go too far."
Cousin Zhi Ji finally warned,
"No matter how the outside world changes, it is still people who determine the future of this world. The original intention cannot be drowned by external things. Konoha Village... is not an enemy with irreconcilable contradictions, but an ally that can be won over."
"I see."
Gu Shanbu Shui nodded,
"Being my ally is very dangerous, being my enemy is very deadly. Just to prevent my allies from making mistakes and becoming enemies, I have made so many arrangements that could have been avoided..."
