It is undeniable that a genius can indeed support a great theoretical system.
But in contrast, it is absolutely impossible for one person to preside over a huge scientific research project.
What's more, with the development of the times and the deepening of research, scientific research projects increasingly rely on sophisticated experimental equipment and continuous massive capital investment, which has also weakened the absolute dominance of super geniuses over general scientific research projects to a certain extent. .
It is undeniable that although capital’s desire for profit will lead to short-sightedness in scientific research to a certain extent, the injection of funds will also stimulate and develop scientific research.
What Uchiha Tokumitsu has to do is to attack the needs of the Hokage series as much as possible in terms of funds and equipment, so as to delay the preparation and advancement of his experiments, leaving enough time to obtain the real research goals of his experiments.
At the same time, although the Uzumaki Research Institute did not have a super scientist comparable to Orochimaru, Uchiha Tokumitsu also made up his mind to solve the shortage of talents by spending more money and trial and error.
There is no way, the Tokumitsu shogunate is so "rich and multi-billion dollar".
Moreover, feeling that the past life memory makes reasonable inferences, Uchiha Tokumitsu also made some predictions about Orochimaru, a research project directly funded by the Hokage series, and then combined it with the many equipment purchased by Orochimaru in the past six months, Uchiha Podlight felt that his predictions should be close to the actual results.
However, everything requires evidence, and even the police department cannot prove someone's innocence, so Uchiha Tokumitsu patiently arranged his personnel to carefully spy on Orochimaru's information.
I just don’t know how Tsunade Senju, a classmate and friend, will feel after learning about the contents of Orochimaru’s experiment?
"It's really exciting..."
Uchiha Tokimitsu thought wickedly.
…
The reason why the third generation Sarutobi Hiruzen reused Orochimaru was actually because there was no other way.
Among the three disciples, the most upright one is Senju Tsunade, who is a direct descendant of Hashirama. She is the best choice among the three in terms of bloodline and reputation.
It's just that since Tsunade insisted on reorganizing the Senju clan, the master and disciple began to show some signs of parting ways.
Especially after her two attempts to snipe the Uchiha clan in the Jonin class failed, Tsunade began to consolidate the strength of the returning ninjas of various clans, and seriously accumulated strength, rarely showing her face.
And Jiraiya, a big fool, was first burdened with the evil fate of the Myoboku Mountains, the Holy Land of Psychic Beasts, and then was deeply affected by the fact that Tsunade and Kato Sudan became a couple, so he chose to go out and travel, but now he is moldy in the Land of Rain. , and also took in two apprentices. Although the third generation Sarutobi Hiruzen sent envoys many times to call him back to the village, Jiraiya said he was unwilling to come back.
However, apart from Sarutobi Shinnosuke, the Sarutobi clan, who was born in the third generation, could not even find another new-age ninja who could take on the important task, let alone middle-aged and young people like Hatake Sakumo and Uchiha Tokumitsu. Compared with the combination of previous generations, it is even inferior to the new era ninjas of the Inar, Deer, and Butterfly clans.
Therefore, the Hokage line, which was nominally the most powerful in Konoha, actually fell into the situation of having no successor, and could only choose to push out Orochimaru, who had a relatively poor image and popularity.
And even the other two core characters of the Hokage series, Mito Kaden and Koharu Kaden, regard Orochimaru as "a poisonous snake wearing human skin". This also shows that Orochimaru's popularity among the ninjas in the same village image.
Of course, Orochimaru is not alone. Although he is vicious and vicious, due to his unique personality charm, many ninjas who have fought with him on the battlefield still choose to rely on him.
However, compared with Hatake Sakumo's Reform Council and Uchiha Tokumitsu's shogunate, the power under Orochimaru was far inferior in terms of strength and financial resources.
But this does not prevent Uchiha Tokko Ninja from deploying a laboratory to snipe Orochimaru.
After Orochimaru's visit, Uchiha Tokumitsu called in the attendant ninja and asked him to arrange for personnel to immediately go and guard Orochimaru's several secret laboratories to prevent him from temporarily changing homes.
The ninjas from the police department who went to guard the area didn't even put on any disguises. They just stood on both sides of the entrance to the laboratory and began to stand guard.
After Orochimaru learned about this, he was shocked and annoyed, but there was nothing he could do.
If we carry out the expulsion, what will follow will definitely be a large number of ninja troops from the police department rushing into the laboratory to loot and destroy it.
Just ignore it, it's disgusting again. Even the "consumables" after the experiment were not so convenient to dispose of. After a few days, the laboratory became a garbage dump.
"This laboratory cannot be used temporarily..."
The helpless Orochimaru could only choose to temporarily close the laboratory.
At the same time, he secretly made up his mind that the new laboratory in the future must not only solve the problems of air circulation and sewage discharge, but the most important thing is that Uchiha Tokko cannot be found again.
This was also specially ordered by Uchiha Tokko.
What he wants is to alert the enemy.
…
Just when Orochimaru was rushing to build a new laboratory.
Under the instruction of Uchiha Tokumitsu, the Southern Islands of Water Country under the control of the shogunate officially issued the regional common legal currency-golden coupons!
The gold standard adopted by the shogunate gold yuan coupons is different from that of the currencies of the major countries in the ninja world. The gold yuan coupons are anchored by the currencies of the land of water and the land of fire. In other words, although the shogunate gold yuan coupons cannot be directly exchanged for gold coins, they can be exchanged for water by themselves. Paper money from the Land of Fire or the Land of Fire.
As for the implementation of gold yuan coupons within the jurisdiction of the shogunate, it is also very simple-the Southern Islands accept this kind of currency to pay taxes and purchase supplies for government-owned stores.
And this is just the first step in Uchiha Tokumitsu's financial plan.
The main reason why currency exchange is still maintained instead of using full credit issuance is because the productivity of the Southern Islands has not yet been restored. Even if a large amount of currency is issued, it cannot be spent, let alone the support of merchants outside other jurisdictions. recognized.
If it cannot be recognized by merchants, then the gold yuan coupons cannot be circulated in the ninja world, and the issuance of gold yuan coupons will have no effect and will just consume foreign exchange in vain.
Therefore, as supporting conditions, Uchiha Tokko issued three construction bonds in succession at the Minamagawa Stock Exchange——
The Southern Homeland Revitalization No. 1 Bond has a total raised amount of one billion taels and an annual interest rate of 6%. The main purpose of raising funds is to rebuild many shipyards in the southern archipelago of the Land of Water that were destroyed by war. At the same time, Uchiha Tokumitsu also Large investors who use shipyard assets as collateral and commit to invest more than 50 million can also enjoy additional discounts and priority in booking ships. .
There is also the Southern Islands Fuxing No. 1 Bond, with a total raised amount of 800 million taels, and an annual interest rate of only 5%. The funds are mainly used for infrastructure construction in the Southern Islands, such as seafood processing plants and refrigerated supply chains. This Investors with a personal investment of more than 10 million in a bond can also enjoy priority ordering and free escort activities for seafood and tropical fruits, the specialty of the southern islands of the Kingdom of Water.
The third bond is called "Southern Islands Advanced Industrial Construction Plan", with a total fundraising scale of 2 billion taels, and an annual interest rate of only 5%; and the purpose and specific use of the funds have not been announced to the public.
If nothing else, just the "advanced industrial construction" in the name of the bond is enough to make people imagine.
There is no widely recognized standard for defining what "advanced industry" is in the ninja world; if there is no standard, then don't blame Uchiha Tokumitsu for using metaphorical marketing through various means.
What’s special about this bond is that it is secured by the taxes of the Southern Islands - that is to say, if the Tokko Shogunate cannot repay the bonds in the future, the creditors will be able to directly control the governance of the Southern Islands. Agency and become the uncrowned king of the Southern Islands!
Although the wealthy businessmen knew that the possibility of abandoning the contract was not high, it did not prevent them from investing their idle funds in Uchiha Tokimitsu's bonds.
After all, for underground forces sitting on a large amount of black money, there is nothing more rare than achieving stable appreciation of assets.
Therefore, as soon as the bonds were announced, the mysterious wealthy Ninja businessmen who had been paying attention to the Minamagawa Stock Exchange immediately sent envoys to Konoha and stayed in a small hotel next to the Stock Exchange.
The Konoha ninjas were once again shocked by Uchiha Tokumitsu's generosity.
Let's not talk about why Uchiha Tokko's bond issuance is so large. What puzzles the Konoha ninjas, especially the Ninja ninjas, is that such a low interest rate can actually attract so many wealthy businessmen to wait eagerly. Bond pay.
You know, after the bond crisis was resolved with the bailout of the Minamagawa Stock Exchange, except for a few ninjas who were able to retain some credibility without being hit by thunder, most of the fearful ninjas stopped their bond business. Return to the old tradition of making money from tasks.
The people who are most concerned about this matter are naturally the Hokage series...
"Teacher, the funds for the laboratory are almost running out. We need to add more money."
Orochimaru said as he pushed the door open and entered.
"I see……"
The Sandaime Sarutobi Hiruzen massaged his temples with a headache.
He also knew why Orochimaru said he was short of money again.
Due to the large-scale fundraising of the three bonds of the shogunate, and the general belief in the ninja community that the construction of the southern islands of the shogunate requires a large amount of materials to support, the sales prices of various types of equipment increased overnight, in the hope of getting more from the wealthy Tokumitsu shogunate. Get some fat.
Orochimaru's laboratory suffered a disaster and was one of the victims of the crazy rise in prices.
But the problem is that although Sarutobi Hiruzen is the leader of the Ninja Village, after two Jonin Class Conferences, Konoha's finances, which were originally operated in a black box, have become semi-open, and he, the Hokage, does not have much funds to mobilize. .
As for the funds secretly allocated by the daimyo, the third generation Hiruzen Sarutobi still needs to use them to train the daimyo's ninja army. There is no way to allocate too much, otherwise it will delay the formation and training of the ninja army.
…
Just when the Hokage family was worried about funds, the clan leader Uchiha Shifang, who was worried about Zhongzhong, found Uchiha Tokumitsu.
"With so much money...where are you going to use it? Can you repay it?"
Uchiha Tokumitsu rolled his eyes at him, "Used to build ships and factories, and improve the technology of detonating talismans."
Afterwards, Uchiha Tokumitsu casually handed a battle report document to the clan leader Uchiha Shitikata.
"This is……"
The Uchiha were a little confused, so they read through it carefully.
"This is real?!"
The entire Uchiha community was also shocked.
This war situation report comes from the information obtained by the Tokumitsu Shogunate to assist in the construction of Kirigakure Shipyard.
Just the day before the bond announcement, three ironclad ships sold to Kirigakure by the Tokumitsu shogunate killed nearly a thousand Kumogakure ninjas in one fell swoop with a torpedo salvo in a large-scale sea battle with Kumogakure , and thus completely defeated the Kumogakure invading army.
After the war, the Third Mizukage once again delivered a passionate speech, and urged the Kirigakure ninjas to bring the war to the Land of Thunder!
At the same time, Kirigakure's envoy Loquat Juzo once again submitted an arms order to the shogunate, ordering six armored ships and 600,000 detonating charms. In addition, he also signed a contract for a massive amount of kunai, shuriken and other basic ninja tools. purchase contract.
"Four and a half billion..."
Clan leader Uchiha Shifang read out the total amount of Kirigakure's arms order, and couldn't help but be stunned.
“If there’s so much money, why would you issue bonds to raise money?”
Uchiha Shifang was still a little puzzled. In his eyes, this was a waste of money to pay interest for no reason.
“The more money you have, the better you can do big things~”
Uchiha Tokumitsu was too lazy to explain too much to the medieval-minded patriarch: "The shogunate will never lose money anyway. The interest is earned through arms orders. If you have more money, you might be able to earn more~"
"...You have a point."
Although he still didn't understand Uchiha Tokumitsu's intention, Uchiha Shifanghai, who was shocked by "4.5 billion", nodded numbly in agreement.
Today’s Chapter 3 (√)
By the way, I’d like to ask for a ticket again~ Anyone who comes with the recommended monthly ticket will be accepted~
(End of chapter)
