Chapter 196: Obstruction

After a short few days of rest, Konoha's reinforcement army was launched. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Conan's goal this time is very clear, that is, to complete this big project before the fall, only then can the last wave of crops be planted in time, and then achieve the effect of regaining the hearts and minds of the people.

You must know that this is the most difficult and most needy time for the country of the wind, the previous war happened to be the time of sowing, and the civilians in the war zone of the country of the river fled the battlefield at the first time of the war, you must know that a large part of the food of the country of the wind depends on the country of the river, and the harvest of the country of the river is not good, and the country of the wind is naturally choked enough.

If the autumn planting is delayed, it will be more difficult to fill the hole in the Land of Wind, and it is impossible for Konoha to come up with so much money to buy food for the Land of Wind.

Even if Konoha doesn't take away the grain producing area of the Land of Wind, it is estimated that many people in the Land of Wind will starve to death, so now is the best time for Konoha to intervene, and there is no better effect than sending charcoal in the snow.

If this is naturally the case from the point of view of interests, and from the point of view of feelings, Conan also does not want so many people to die for no reason.

Thinking of this, Conan shouted loudly: "Speed up, we must rush to the City of Merchants by this evening." ”

The City of Merchants is actually the city of trade between the Land of Fire and the Land of Wind that Conan planned to build, and this city is the most important thing for the development of Konoha as early as the previous three generations, and even set up a special ninja stationed here for a long time and a separate branch to accept and assign tasks, and Conan also wanted to see how the city was developing.

In the evening, Conan and his party finally arrived at the City of Commerce.

The people who had already had Konoha had already done everything, and after settling the people of Konoha and Konoha together, Conan took Jiraiya and Kakashi Naruto to observe in the city.

Walking through the streets of the City of Commerce, Conan was a little surprised by the environment.

In Conan's opinion, with such a bridge of trade between the two countries, the merchants of the two countries must have rushed over like sharks who asked about the fishy smell, but the scene in front of them was completely different from what Conan thought.

Seeing that the streets were sparsely populated, empty houses abounded, and there was no sign of a commercial city at all, Conan felt extremely puzzled about this.

Thinking of this, Conan asked suspiciously, the person in charge of the local area of Konoha who had accompanied him all the way.

"The wind in the bamboo, what the hell is going on here, why is it so withered? Any questions? ”

As one of the most trusted subordinates of the three generations, Conan also dealt with the people in front of him, so he was not polite and asked directly.

Takenaka looked at Conan helplessly and told the reason.

"It wasn't like this a few days ago, it was still very bustling."

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Conan was even more puzzled when he heard this.

"Not that the other day? So what's going on? ”

The wind slowly narrated: "A few days ago, a big man came to the City of Shang, and he is the uncle of the Daimyo of the Fire Country, Fujian Yoshihiro. ”

"Yoshihiro Tomiyama? What does this have to do with him? ”

I have also heard of this person Conan, who has a bad reputation in the Land of Fire, and is particularly greedy for money and sex.

"He formed an alliance with the nobles of the other Fire Nations, privately divided the share of the City of Commerce, and declared that the merchants who came here could only sell their goods to them, not sell them privately, and the prices they offered were so low that many of them could not even recover the cost of commerce, so people had to leave one after another."

Hearing this, Conan's brows furrowed into a Sichuan character, so things are really troublesome.

Before, Conan only thought about the problem of the trade route being blocked and the bandit between the two countries, although he understood that many bandits were the private forces raised by these big merchants, but Conan felt that as long as the merchants were given enough safety to ensure that this trade route could flourish, but Conan forgot one thing, that is, the land of fire was not governed by Konoha.

Konoha cracked down on smuggling, in fact, to some extent, it was convenient for some people, if these big nobles sent bandits and small merchants, they could still find ways to evade or defend, but when they used their official status to blatantly threaten, this is the most helpless thing for those small businessmen.

"This is really..."Conan was also a little helpless for a while, the separation of the military and government in the Fire Country, there is really no good way to do such a thing, and Conan also had a headache for a while.

I didn't expect the well-crafted plan to break in the hands of a few moths, which made Conan not know what to say for a while.

"Sure enough, the plan can't catch up with the changes, and no matter how good the plan is, it can only be a plan, and once it is really implemented, it will encounter all kinds of unimaginable troubles." Conan couldn't help but sigh.

Suddenly, a noise on a street corner interrupted Conan's thoughts.

"My lord, this is the goods I bought with all my wealth, can you take it."

I saw a somewhat obese businessman holding a middle-aged man with his toes in his arms and crying incessantly.

"What do you mean by taking, isn't that giving you money?"

"But that's too little money."

The middle-aged man impatiently pushed the fat man away: "Didn't you hear Lord Yibo's order before?" It is forbidden to sell things without permission, and if you want to sell them, you can only sell them to us. ”

"Then we won't sell it, let's go, please give us back the things, my lord, I have an eighty-year-old mother to raise, and a seven- or eight-year-old child... Once the production is broken, they will all starve to death. The fat man cried so loudly that even Conan silently praised the fat man's performance.

Watching the fat man's performance, the middle-aged man said impatiently: "This is what Master Yibo meant, are you sure you want to disobey?" ”

When the fat man heard this, his crying stopped abruptly, and he suddenly didn't dare to speak.

"This guy, isn't this a robbery?" Naruto, who had the most sense of justice, heard the fat man say so miserably, and shouted that he was about to rush forward, but was stopped by Conan.

Hearing Naruto's movements, the middle-aged man's eyes moved slightly and looked at Conan and the others.

"It turned out to be Konoha Conan-sama."

"Huh? Do you recognize me? ”

"Well, yes." The middle-aged man's face was full of smiles: "I met you once when I was in the Daimyo's Mansion before, and I am the butler of Lord Yibo." ”

Conan thought about it for a while, it seems that he had seen this guy when the third generation nominated himself to become the fifth generation himself to meet the daimyo, no wonder this guy is so respectful, ordinary ninjas can not care, but the Hokage has to have a good relationship with everyone.

"Hey, I said, how can you rob this guy? Don't you see that their families are so pitiful? Naruto jumped out and asked.

The butler glanced at Conan, turned his head and looked at the fat man with a smile: "Didn't you sell us this batch of goods?" ”

The fat man wiped the cold sweat on his head and nodded incessantly: "Yes, yes, yes, yes, I sold it to adults." ”

As he spoke, the fat man ran away without looking back.

Seeing that the fat man had left, the butler looked at Conan with a smile again: "Lord Conan, I still have something to do, so I'll go first." ”

"This guy!" Naruto looked at the butler's back dissatisfiedly and yelled.

Conan also pondered silently, although these people, including the uncle of the big name, were very inconspicuous little people in his own eyes, but he couldn't kill them.

This is a fundamental problem in the system, and even if one is killed, another will emerge, and it cannot be eradicated at all.

However, such obstacles must be removed, and in Conan's plan, this trade route is crucial, and many things must be carried out on this trade route.

Thinking of this, Conan became a little irritable. (To be continued.) )