Senju Tobirama's personal anti-Uchiha alarm bell was ringing wildly, but he still couldn't figure out what Uchiha Makoto was up to.
However, after much thought.
Senju Tobirama ultimately chose to agree—money... without money, he couldn't even solve the immediate problems!
"Then it's settled."
Uchiha Makoto said with a grin, and the two reached a consensus.
Afterward, Uchiha Makoto had no intention of continuing to accompany Senju Tobirama on his stroll through Akatsuki Village. There was still a huge pile of documents and people waiting for him to deal with and receive in his office.
Senju Tobirama didn't want Uchiha Makoto following him around either; it made him feel constrained.
"I have to go back to work. You can just wander around by yourself."
"Hmph, hurry up and go!"
The two tacitly gave each other the middle finger.
...........
Returning to the Lord Light Shadow's office.
Following the principle of "today's work, today's execution."
Uchiha Makoto quickly resumed his duties as the Lord Light Shadow.
The moment he returned to his office.
Letters of notification from Iwagakure and Kirigakure were already on his desk.
The contents of the letters were more or less the same.
In about a few days, they would arrive at Akatsuki Village to formally begin negotiations.
Uchiha Makoto was also prepared.
It was nothing more than providing a place for them to argue.
Neither side actually wanted a full-blown fight. Grasping this psychological point made the matter easy to handle.
After arranging the reception for the two Kage.
Uchiha Makoto began the main work of the day.
Without a doubt, the first thing he had to deal with was, naturally, the establishment of the Akatsuki Village bank and the issuance of currency.
The preliminary preparations, the connections—the wealthy merchants and nobles were already ready.
They were willing to provide real gold and silver to support Akatsuki Village at any time.
The specific action plan had also been prepared by professionals.
Uchiha Makoto carefully read the plan from beginning to end. The core principle was to calculate the ratio between the actual carrying capacity and the money supply, which was linked to the village's reserves of gold, silver, and other precious metals, to ensure price stability... in short, no overprinting of money at this stage.
Since the initial implementation would be in Akatsuki Village, which was Uchiha Makoto's core base, there shouldn't be any obstacles to its mandatory enforcement.
"It can be said that everything is ready!"
After feeling that there were no problems, Uchiha Makoto signed more than a dozen related executive orders in one go, to be implemented the next day.
After signing the dozen or so executive orders, Uchiha Makoto still felt something was missing.
"I feel like something is still missing... hiss... the choice for the bank governor... it hasn't been decided yet!"
"This is indeed a big problem... after all, it involves the core finances of the village. Anyone would be tempted by this vast amount of funds... I must find a reliable person!"
Soon.
Uchiha Makoto came to a realization.
Until now.
The governor of the Akatsuki Village Bank had not been decided!
Involving the core finances of the village and a vast amount of funds, this position was bound to be full of perks. Therefore, the choice of this person must be made with extreme caution. They must not only have rich professional knowledge but also a dedicated work ethic.
Their strength also had to be up to par.
After all, this position was too eye-catching and prone to trouble.
After some thought.
Uchiha Makoto couldn't find a suitable candidate in the village for a while.
There was no other way.
Considering combat power, this person had to be a ninja.
And all the ninjas in the village were a bunch of brutes.
If you sent them to kill people, they would probably set off with a grin.
But if you asked them to learn relevant industry knowledge and deal with numbers and ledgers every day... they would probably go mad.
Uchiha Makoto couldn't hold this position concurrently himself for long. It was fine in the short term, but over time... as the Lord Light Shadow, he had too many things to do every day, and his energy was simply not enough.
"Akatsuki Village has too many planes, and too few white paper fans!"
"Sigh... that guy... I wonder if he'll do... at least his ability and character are qualified. Professional knowledge can be learned from scratch... but his identity is very sensitive."
A flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in Uchiha Makoto's mind, and he thought of a person.
That's right, it was—Kakuzu!
Poor Kakuzu.
His experiences so far were almost no different from the original story.
As an elite ninja of Takigakure, he was assigned by the village's higher-ups to assassinate the Hokage. But when he returned to the village, what awaited him was slander and attacks.
To deal with the accountability from Konoha, the higher-ups scrambled to shift all the blame onto him.
This sense of despair and betrayal was enough to completely transform a person—in this world, what else is worthy of trust?
Undoubtedly, it was money.
Because money is just money.
If you put two gold bars together, who could tell which one is noble and which one is dirty?
Uchiha Makoto considered it from a personnel perspective.
Kakuzu was qualified in terms of combat power and character, and he had already undergone a transformation... Making money = Kakuzu's ninja way!
Recruiting Kakuzu would be very difficult in itself, because he had just experienced a heart-wrenching betrayal by his village.
But he loved money, and right now, the one thing Akatsuki Village didn't lack was money.
In theory.
Directly throwing money at him might have a miraculous effect—you can't get Kakuzu's loyalty, but you can buy it!
But Kakuzu's identity was too sensitive.
He was a rogue ninja from Takigakure, the criminal who assassinated the Hokage... hmm... and the heinous person who slaughtered the family of a great noble from the Land of Fire.
Both Konoha and Akatsuki Village had issued S-rank bounties for Kakuzu.
For such a villain to serve as the governor of the Akatsuki Village bank, once his identity was exposed... things would get serious.
Uchiha Makoto was extremely conflicted.
It was a waste to have such a talent killing people in the ninja world, but recruiting him into Akatsuki Village was undoubtedly planting a time bomb in the village.
"Forget it, let's catch him first and then talk..."
Uchiha Makoto thought quickly in his mind, still feeling that he should catch this guy Kakuzu first before considering how to deal with him.
Then, he pressed the button on his desk.
An ANBU ninja quickly appeared in the room.
Following Uchiha Makoto's inquiry, the ANBU ninja quickly pulled up the intelligence on Kakuzu.
It had to be said, catching Kakuzu was really not easy.
As an elite ninja, Kakuzu was very good at protecting his whereabouts.
His strength had also been greatly enhanced after obtaining Takigakure's forbidden jutsu, "Earth Grudge Fear."
Faced with the joint pursuit of Konoha and Akatsuki Village, he had not yet been caught.
"Recently, pour all resources into finding Kakuzu's whereabouts."
Uchiha Makoto began to issue orders.
As a top-tier great ninja village in the ninja world, with vast funds, it was just that Uchiha Makoto hadn't wanted to put his mind to it in the past. Once the village's intelligence resources were truly mobilized against Kakuzu alone, they would more or less be able to find his tracks.
"Yes!"
"Also, do not notify Konoha of this news."
"Yes!"
Such an order was definitely very unconventional.
But out of adherence to the ninja code, he would never ask questions.
And he knew very well that the Kage and their ANBU ninjas considered things on completely different levels from the very beginning.
After dealing with these few matters, the rest were just some trivial things, nothing more than the issue of expenses. Uchiha Makoto followed his experience, looking from the bottom up, and then rejected the vast majority of the funding applications—the bigger the business, the more all kinds of demons and monsters wanted to scam for funds. These bastards would do anything to scam for funds.
He worked until six in the evening.
Uchiha Makoto left a clone to continue working overtime, while his real body got off work on time.
On his way back.
Perhaps it was a coincidence, but Senju Tobirama happened to pass by him.
"Ah~ it's Senju Tobirama!"
Pretend you didn't see him!
He was going home to have dinner and spend time with his wife now!
Uchiha Makoto walked on with a cold expression, treating Senju Tobirama like air.
Senju Tobirama didn't want to get entangled with Uchiha Makoto either.
But seeing Uchiha Makoto's cold expression, Senju Tobirama's anger flared up again.
"You guy, are you treating me like air? I'm a distinguished guest from Konoha, aren't you even going to prepare dinner for me?"
"There's a place selling dango on the side of the road, just make do with that... heh, don't you have money..."
"I don't care, I'm not paying for this!"
Senju Tobirama acted shamelessly. Uchiha Makoto didn't want to continue entangling with him and delay the important matter of going home for dinner with his wife.
Helplessly.
He could only take out money from his pocket, buy some dango from the roadside, and hand it to Senju Tobirama.
Senju Tobirama took the dango but didn't eat it immediately. Instead, he stared at the change Uchiha Makoto got back in his hand.
Of course... he wasn't after this little bit of change.
It was just that Senju Tobirama, who had been wandering around all afternoon, suddenly remembered a very important thing—the food purchasing power of an ordinary person's daily salary in Akatsuki Village.
"What, you don't want my change too, do you?"
"Hmph, then give it to me!"
"In your dreams!"
Senju Tobirama huffed twice, took a bite of the dango, and stopped looking at Uchiha Makoto. Instead, he started chatting with the old woman selling dango on the roadside.
The data from ordinary people like this old woman was very convincing, without any processing.
And then... he learned a fact that made his jaw drop.
It turned out that the guy he regarded as a disgrace to the journalism world hadn't lied on this point; it was more or less the same.
Uchiha Makoto was not surprised by this.
There was a rumor that during the Republic of China period, the daily meals of rickshaw pullers in the big cities were better than those of landlords in the countryside.
This had a lot to do with whether the city's market was developed.
If the city's food market was developed, you could buy good food with cash, and the purchasing power was strong. But landlords in the countryside had land but no market, and resources were scarce, creating this peculiar phenomenon.
The same principle applied here.
Konoha's current economic scale was only that of a small city. The economy was relatively backward, which indirectly led to a scarcity of goods in the village, relying on external imports, which increased costs.
But the scale of Akatsuki Village was not something Konoha could compare to. It had already formed an active market mechanism, with a rich variety of goods, sufficient supply, and fierce competition. This made commodity prices more transparent, transaction efficiency higher, and allowed money to circulate faster, creating a money-begets-money effect.
Of course, a large part of the reason was also because...
Uchiha Makoto had used all the blood bags he had cut from the vermin of the Land of Fire on the village. He really didn't love money—wages were rising, but Uchiha Makoto was using financial subsidies to suppress prices from rising.
This was still a long way from the golden age in Uchiha Makoto's mind.
At the very least, an ordinary worker should be able to support a family of four, including two cars, a dog, a house, and their children's education, on a single income.
"Is Konoha really that bad..."
Senju Tobirama began to doubt his life again.
He admitted there was a gap between Konoha and Akatsuki Village, but he never expected the gap to be so exaggerated... Could Konoha really catch up to Akatsuki Village?
And seeing Senju Tobirama's expression of being unable to eat his dango, Uchiha Makoto's appetite immediately opened up.
"Tobirama, as the saying goes, the master is the one who is skilled... 'New Ninja' is the culmination of my governing philosophy. I always like to publish many philosophical short stories in it."
"Akatsuki Village didn't achieve all this overnight... you should reflect..."
"Hiss... reflect... I think I really do need to think about it carefully."
The world was no longer about fighting and killing.
Uchiha Makoto's economic warfare was quite effective. It was time to copy it in its entirety and replicate it in Konoha.
As Senju Tobirama was thinking this, while he was still immersed in his reflection...
Uchiha Makoto had quietly disappeared from the spot, jogging all the way home.
Pushing open the door.
Uchiha Makoto smelled the familiar fragrance and couldn't help but hum a little tune.
"After eating salted vegetables and boiled tofu, even the Daimyo can't compare to me..."
"Makoto, you're finally back... we can eat now."
At the dinner table.
Uchiha Makoto was eating, while Uzumaki Tsubaki Shizuku's attention was not on the delicious food in front of her, but on a textbook teaching how to make clothes, socks, and the like.
"I plan to personally make a few clothes, socks..."
As a good wife and mother.
Uzumaki Tsubaki Shizuku was already preparing to make clothes for her future son.
Actually, Uchiha Makoto felt that all these things could be bought, but since Uzumaki Tsubaki Shizuku was so interested, he would let her follow her interest.
"Alright... if you're interested, why don't I just find someone to teach you..."
"Really... that's great."
Uchiha Makoto wore a look of enjoyment.
He really enjoyed this peaceful life... scheming and fighting outside all day was super tiring.
That bastard Senju Tobirama never let him have a moment of peace.
He was really looking forward to his future reform actions in Konoha.
Akatsuki Village didn't even have a few influential public intellectuals in Konoha. It would be different in the future... but he could only play the old-school tricks.
The spread of information in this era was too slow...
"Hey, wait... at this time, why am I thinking about this bastard?"
..............
In a dense forest somewhere.
Several intelligence ninjas from Konoha and Akatsuki Village were whispering.
"This chakra... is so terrifying... it's like a monster!"
"Hey, don't get any closer, it will notice us!"
Before them was—a cat with blue-black fur, its body wrapped in flame-like chakra.
The cat also had two tails trailing behind it.
And the cat's body was like a small mountain, emitting a heart-palpitating chakra fluctuation.
It was the Two-Tails!
"Alright, since we've found the Two-Tails, hurry up and send a message to Lord Hashirama!"
"Yes!"
Just as the few ANBU ninjas finished their exchange.
The Two-Tails kitty, several miles away, seemed to sense something. For some reason, it suddenly shivered.
For a Tailed Beast to shiver involuntarily, this was very abnormal in itself.
So the Two-Tails kitty hissed.
"Meow!"
Super Transformation—Spine Dragon Mode, activate!
However, a few seconds later... nothing happened.
Cat: "Could it have been my imagination?"
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