In the ninja world, traveling merchants hire bodyguards because they are afraid of bandits who will block the road and rob them. They are also afraid that the ninjas acting as bodyguards will be blinded by the money and steal.
The prosperity of the ninja community is inseparable from the fact that the major ninja villages abide by the various provisions of the ninja code.
The better the reputation and the more trustworthy, the more people will come to issue commissioned tasks. In the original timeline, during the mission to the Land of Waves, Mochi Zabuza, who was evading pursuit, always wanted to use Cardo, kill him, seize his family property, and make a comeback.
No matter how famous you are, if you become a rebellious ninja, not only will your reputation be ruined, but you will also bring trouble to the ninja village.
Therefore, in order to restore their reputation, major ninja villages will send out specialized personnel to hunt down rebellious ninjas and use their blood to cleanse the reputation.
There are really too many rebellious ninjas in Kirigakure Village, not only in quantity, but also in quality. A weak Mist Ninja would probably die before he could make up his mind.
The various forces on the ninja continent do not like to hire mist ninjas with a bad reputation. This is inseparable from their past actions.
The endless sea is too empty and perfect for doing bad things. As for what Terumi Mei said
The excuse that "Mist ninjas are cheap" made Gu Shan Bu Shui laugh out loud. The dignified Gushan family is short of your three melons and two dates?
Is it disrespectful to raise money in front of Major Governor Gushan?
"I wonder if Major Governor Bu Shui has any requests? You can ask for anything. We Mist Ninjas are very sincere. The Fourth Generation has been in power for many years and is determined to change the status quo. Strengthening ties with the mainland is the first step."
"Wouldn't it be great if you contact the Leaf Village directly and become a true ally? The Third Hokage and Hiruzen Sarutobi are very easy to talk to. As long as you show sincerity, you might be willing to share some benefits with you Mist Ninjas."
"No, no, no, you misunderstood! Cooperating with Konoha Village is just a charity, but joining forces with the Gushan family is beneficial to both parties..."
"For the time being, I don't plan to choose to cooperate with you for this trivial so-called benefit. If you come to me on your own initiative, then prepare the conditions yourself. If you meet my requirements, we can discuss it in detail. Once I come to make a request , then it is not a simple matter, you have to think clearly..." Now we are just bargaining, and whether it succeeds or not does not have a big impact, but once Gu Shan Bu Shui opens his mouth, Wu Ninja disagrees, and his face is refuted There is nowhere to put it.
Face is more important than money, this is the reality of the Gushan family today.
"Then... let's talk about other things first!" Terumi Mei is not a troubled person. It is indeed impossible to determine such a big matter in just a few words. It is related to the fundamental interests of two major forces. After a long period of testing and bargaining, there is no way it will succeed.
"Regarding the growing labor dispatch between the Kingdom of Water and the Furusugi family, the Daimyo entrusted us to talk to you about how to avoid risks..."
"What's the risk?"
"Immigration, signing labor dispatch contracts, hiding and not returning, population loss, etc. You also know that the Water Country is a barren place. If there are not many civilians to maintain it, the entire social order will collapse."
"That's true!" Gushan Bushui knew this situation well. How to attract the country of water, the country of waves, the country of sea, the country of rivers, etc.
There is also a mature plan to use "cheap labor" to build a rich and powerful Fire Nation.
Even if you look at those people who have come all the way from afar and don’t even have the status of foreigners, who earn low wages, live in dilapidated work sheds, and do menial work, you feel that they are enslaved.
Life under the rule of the Gushan family is already much better than where they used to stay. In Inaba Country, as long as you are willing to endure hardships and make a living, there is still a good chance of supporting your family.
In a ghostly place like the Kingdom of the Sea, if Haixing's gold transport ship encounters a storm any year and fails to complete the transportation task on time, no one knows how many people will go hungry.
After all, the Kingdom of Water is a big country, and the Fusagi family wants to give face to the daimyo.
"However, it's not easy for us to take care of it. After all, there are so many people and it's impossible to keep an eye on them all the time. They are workers, not slaves. If they really run away, under what name can I catch them back?" To put it matter-of-factly, Gu Shan Bushui himself doesn't care at all about this kind of normal or abnormal folk flow.
Many of his subordinates, including Kaguya Kimimaro, Shiro, Ranmaru, and Yayoi, are foreigners. Attracting external talents and improving the overly rigid upward and downward mobility mechanism within the Gushan family has always been one of the established strategies.
Absorb part of the workforce, keep the best and most value-creating leaders, and leave the rest to their own devices.
Illegal immigration and such, I am afraid that the security level of the ninja world is overestimated. Except for the areas under the direct rule of the Gushan family, foreigners without followers are running around. Even if they are not robbed by bandits, they are very likely to encounter violent tigers, leopards and jackals.
Ninjas are powerful and not very afraid. Unarmed civilians wandering around in the ninja world are very dangerous.
It’s really not that Gusugi Bushui wanted to design such a screening mechanism where the weak can prey on the strong. It’s just that it won’t work this way. The ninja world is like this from top to bottom. Gusugi Bushui can only control the direct forces, and the rest can only It can be left to social and economic laws to run on their own.
Terumi Mei seemed to have anticipated Fusugi Fusui's excuse, and smiled very mysteriously.
"You may have misunderstood the meaning of the name of the Kingdom of Water. Those nobles are not worried about the reduction of civilians under their names, which will shake the foundation of their rule. They are worried about too many people running away and too few people sending money home. .”
"oh, I get it!"
There are too few people to "earn foreign exchange", and life is not easy for the Daimyo of the Land of Water and the forces under his command. In the ninja world, there is a very strange phenomenon, that is, the daimyo of a place is the owner of the country, but he is not the monarch who rules the people.
Let's put it this way: the daimyo are the big landowners, the nobles are the small landowners, the powerful and wealthy businessmen from all over the country are the long-term workers and their families have children, and the common people are the tenants.
Nominal affiliation does not set in
As for the tenants of "Hengchan", they can change their owners at any time and continue to be tenants. If any landowner is more generous and gives the family the opportunity to work as a long-term worker and have children, the tenants of other families will run away.
The so-called tycoons and giant businessmen have already achieved a certain status and have become the reserves of the nobility. The daimyo of the land of water was indifferent to the people under his rule, and Kosugi Bushui also understood his mentality very well.
The monarch of a country is not the same as the monarch of the people. Although the common people at the grassroots level supported the foundation of the daimyo's rule, this was not entirely the case. They only provided finance and taxation, but did not provide military support. To stabilize their power, they had to rely on the ninja village to maintain it.
This is where the ninja world, a world where extraordinary powers exist, is more complicated. Endowments and taxes are not unified.
The common people paid taxes and the ninjas paid taxes. The former provided money and the latter provided force. The daimyo and the great nobles under his command maintained their rule in such an environment.
Because the ninja village did not have the righteousness to collect taxes from the common people, the daimyo and the great nobles had the foundation for their existence, instead of directly forming a pyramid-shaped society where force was supreme.
In the ninja world, the only major force that unified the power of taxation was the Fusagi family. Therefore, although it is named after a family, the Kosugi family, under the leadership of the young family governor, is already the most modern country-like group in the ninja world.
Therefore, the expansion of the family under the leadership of Gushan Bushui was all-round, which not only suppressed the challenges of secular forces, but also squeezed out the space for ninja activities.
Konoha Village because it is
"One of our own", so the situation is pretty good. Foreign ninja villages like Kirigakure, which are playing side games and reaping benefits in the ninja world, are simply unlucky.
If you want to make a living on the mainland, yes, the only way is to rob the Gushan family's fleet, trading station and warehouse.
It's okay to do some sneaky things occasionally. If there is a large-scale attack, the Fourth Ninja War is not far away.
"You Mist Ninjas are here to ask for money, and the Daimyos of the Land of Water are also here to ask for money. Do you think our Fusagi family's money is easy to make?" Terumi Mei agreed with a smile: "Young Master, if you show your noble hand a little, our life will be much easier. ”
"Your ninja village will dismantle its ninjas on a large scale during peacetime. We nobles, like us, can't even find a fighting opponent. Why raise so many armed forces? It's enough to keep some family warriors to protect the caravans and defend the clan's land. ." Gushan Bu Shui will not be so merciful as to give benefits just because of this compliment.
"The demand for fighting and killing is not very big. However, our Gushan family now has a big demand for canal construction. This kind of task does not pay high and is a bit hard, but it is better than stability." Of course, Hiring ninjas is not really to carry earthwork and lay foundations, but to clear passes when ordinary manpower is incompetent or extremely inefficient. By the way, they can also serve as security patrols at the construction site to deter those who want to do mischief. Honest guy.
Although it was a bit small, mosquito legs were still meat. Terumi Mei was slightly relieved and couldn't help but ask: "Do Konoha ninjas do this too?"
"In the hinterland of the Fire Country, they are basically helping. There are many things to do in the surrounding small countries, offshore islands, peninsulas, etc." Not only building canals, the Furusu family also needs to level the land and create high-quality farmland artificially. It's also very big. Before the population of the ninja world exploded and a lot of land was still uninhabited, Gushan Bushui had already circled the best places to prepare for the future mechanized farms and efficient work areas for ninjas. .
As for the terrain being a bit steep and difficult to transform, is this also a problem for a ninja who has the power to move mountains and seas?
Speaking of this, Terumi Mei became excited. This was an opportunity to gain benefits for Kirigakure Village. However, Gushan Bu Shui will not really hire a large number of Mist Ninjas just because they are cheap, and go to the surrounding small countries to let people everywhere wear
It's okay for the small "vest" forces to hook up with the Mist Ninjas. If they are really alienated from the Leaf Village, it will be a bit more gain than loss.
Now the ninjas of Konoha Village cannot keep up with the scale and cannot complete the task of Gusugi Water Breathing, so there is nothing to say about seeking foreign aid. Within the traditional sphere of influence, it is better not to be too ostentatious.
"By the way, Lord Major, I heard that you plan to build a bridge from Inba Port to Yuki Island, and you have also hired bridge-building experts from the Country of Waves to supervise the construction."
"You are quite well-informed. There are many informants of yours in the Land of Waves, right?" Gushan Bushui shrugged, not angry at all because the news was leaked. It was not a secret in the first place. There were so many intermediate links that could have been leaked. Too much.
"It's true. Not only Yuqi Island, but also the Country of Waves, Country of Whirlpools, Country of Bears and Country of Sea, some valuable outlying islands have plans to build bridges."
"That will definitely require a lot of manpower, right? Can you give more thought to the workers in the Kingdom of Water?"
"Yes, yes! However, you are not planning to learn the craft and then build a large-scale sea bridge in the Kingdom of Water, are you?"
"We, Kiri Ninja, are not as wealthy as the Furusugi family..." That is to say, we already have a plan, but we don't have the money or talent, so we have put it on hold for the time being.
The too fragmented Water Kingdom is actually not conducive to the management of the Daimyo and Mizukage of the Water Kingdom. However, once the fragmented islands are connected by bridges and the natural chasm becomes a thoroughfare, the influence of the Daimyo and Mizukage can spread more easily. went.
By that time, the local tycoons who dominate the land may not have a good life.
"This matter is still in preparation, and it is still early to start construction. Let you temporarily participate in the defense and reconstruction of the canal, just because the Konoha ninja can't keep up. It is a deal that you and I are willing to do. If you want more benefits, please show Show the sincerity you deserve." Gu Shan Bu Shui no longer wanted to continue talking about this topic.
"Then... thank you, Lord Commander, for your favor. I will not bother you again until I write to discuss with the daimyo and the fourth generation." Looking at Terumi Mei's graceful figure disappearing into the distance, Furugi Fusui put the matter aside for the time being.
Just when the young governor was going back to the study, a little head poked out from the door.
"Father, are you done?"
"It's Xiao Hiiragi. Why did you come here to play? Didn't you take care of your two younger sisters?"
"Asleep, Jing and Si are both lazy."
"They are not as energetic as you, they are tired."
"Well! I want to go see my sister..."
"Not now. My sister is honing her skills with her classmates and preparing to compete on stage..."
"Oh!" The little guy tilted his head and thought for a while before suddenly realizing,
"We lost last year, we must win this year!"
"You actually still remember?" Gushan Bushui was a little surprised. A two or three-year-old child with a very poor memory can still remember what happened last year after a year. It's amazing.
"Of course!" Xiaoyi raised his head very proudly, took Gushan Bushui's hand, and walked outside. Now is a good time when the weather on Yuqi Island is pleasant. Xiaoyi likes to go out for a walk when he has nothing to do. .
As she grew up, she was no longer satisfied at home
"Adventure". Although the house is large, it is limited after all, and you will get tired of seeing it too much. The outside world is bigger and more interesting.
"What do you want to eat today?"
“Tofu hot pot!”
"You have such a strange taste. You actually like spicy food." Every time I go out, I say it's to watch people compete, but in fact I just eat from beginning to end. This little guy's appetite is really amazing.
