Shimura Danzo secretly unsealed many forbidden arts, trying to find further powerful power from them, and when the future treacherous ninja world gained more dominance, the middle ninja exam held in Konoha Village was about to enter the final stage.

Two days in advance, the reigning daimyo and the head of the Furusugi family arrived in Konoha Village and lived in a luxurious manor house that had been expanded and renovated again, like a palace complex.

Although it is a private manor, it is not much different from a large castle, and the area of land plus the attached farms, botanical gardens, training grounds, medicine gardens and workshops is larger than the territory of ordinary small nobles.

Fortunately, this place is not usually open to the public, and there are banquets, horse races, and outings 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, and if the manor is upgraded to a large town, most of the foreign population in Konoha Village will be diverted immediately, and the former "No. 1 Village in the Ninja World" will also bear a great impact.

It's not that no one in Konoha Village sees the hidden dangers, but since more than ten years, Gu Shanbushui has been acquiring nearby land, accumulating bit by bit, and the originally scattered plots have been connected together, forming the current scale.

At the beginning, no one expected that Gu Shanbushui would have such a big stroke, and when the first signs appeared, it was too late to stop it.

The land won by real money and silver, no one can find a flaw.

His uncle, who had been a daimyo for a while, visited with the head of the Kosugi family, which added a lot of luster to this newly opened private possession.

What is not known to outsiders is that there is also a cousin of Zhiji who has been out of the mainstream for many years.

It's been a while since the follow-up of the Konoha Village reconstruction plan was entrusted to it. After being busy for so long, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Zhongnin exam, I finally have time to rest.

The former cousin of discipline was indeed inexperienced in his sensitivity to the situation, so he had the experience of overturning.

Now, after precipitating for so long, I have gained a lot of knowledge, especially after talking with Gu Shanbu Shui a few times, my vision of seeing the essence through the phenomenon has improved a lot.

With a large stack of ledgers to discuss important matters with himself, Gu Shanbushui has not had such an encounter for a long time.

After flipping through the thick account books for a while, picking out the general outline and glancing at it a few times, Gu Shanbushui asked with a smile:

"It looks like I've done a lot of work, it's really hard."

"I don't really need to do trivial things, some are accountants, just leave them to them, I just summarize and review, and summarize some rules."

"What's the catch?"

Uncle Zhiji knocked on the cover of the account book, shook his head slightly and replied:

"These ...... It's all superficial articles, making more and earning less, but it's not that important, what really makes me care is that through these numbers, I seem to see that the Konoha ninja risked their lives and worked hard to complete the task, and most of the money was plundered by the method of 'ant moving'. Eating, drinking, sleeping, moving, sitting, lying and walking, almost every bit of Konoha villagers' lives are manipulated by an invisible string, like marionettes, driven to ......"

It seemed that it was difficult to describe what he was thinking in his heart, and his cousin Zhiji paused, sorted out the wording, and explained again:

"The so-called 'Konoha Reconstruction Plan', you don't seem to care about how much money you make, and you care more about whether you can take away the savings of the Konoha villagers as much as possible, and even put them on heavy debts......"

Hearing this, Gu Shanbu Shui stroked his palms and smiled.

"All living beings always think that as long as they work hard, work hard, be diligent and thrifty, there will always be a day to get rich, in fact, they don't understand, this world is more cruel than imagined, and there are jackals everywhere who eat people and don't spit out bones......"

Making more money on your own doesn't necessarily mean you get richer; Taking away the wealth of others and making others poor can really widen the gap between the rich and the poor.

Money is capital, but capital is not just money, it is a flood beast, it wants to eat meat, once it can't eat others, it is very likely to turn around and eat itself.

During this time, Jiji's cousin was really shocked by the boldness of his cousin.

Gu Shanbushui's arrangement over the years is not so much an effort for the development and growth of the family as it is more like suppressing Konoha Village, and its means are close to a hostile war.

It's just a means of trapping, not a sword fight, but a dark war that kills people without seeing blood.

Foolishness, weakness, fatigue, humiliation, and poverty, step by step, are approaching day by day, leaving Konoha Village with no time to take care of anything else, and it cannot pose a threat to the daimyo and the Kosugi family.

To put it bluntly, Gu Sugi Bushui did not hope that the Konoha ninja was kind-hearted, recognized himself as inferior, and recognized the authority of the daimyo.

Needless to mention, the background of the cousin of Zhiji is there, the basic political literacy is there, and he knows the true meaning of what Gu Shanbushui did.

"You don't want revenge because the third generation won't give you a ninja 'license', right? Our Fire Nation needs a powerful Konoha Village, and it is not the best strategy to weaken it too hard......"

"No, you misunderstood, I just want to give us a part of the 'dividend' of the development of Konoha Village. The wealth of the world does not fluctuate much in the short term, and if you want to become stronger, you need to master two skills, 'making cakes' and 'dividing cakes', in the field of 'making cakes', the current Konoha Village occupies an absolute advantage, and its efficiency is far from being comparable to the world, so I need to hold the knife of 'dividing the cake' and take the lion's share, otherwise, it will be difficult to control the Konoha Village that eats 'too much' and raises 'too fat'......"

Compared with compressing the amount of tasks, controlling quotas, and targeting them openly, Gu Shanbushui's method is obviously more clever.

You have to pluck the goose feathers, but you can't let the goose call.

This requires a great deal of skill.

Plucking too little and too slowly, it doesn't work, too fast and too much, and it becomes bald, who can't see it?

On the whole, Gu Shanbushui lent a large amount of reconstruction loans to Konoha Village, which were packaged layer by layer and distributed to every family in Konoha Village, which essentially increased the burden on ordinary villagers, but it was not unbearable.

It's just that I have to live a hard life for a few years.

"Bu Shui, since I can see it, the others are not stupid, there are always smart guys who can understand your plans."

"It doesn't matter."

Gu Shanbu Shui smiled and waved his hand, and replied indifferently,

"They...... The Konoha ninja may think that it was our Furusugi clan who sent charcoal in the snow and gave the necessary support. Standing on the burned ruins of Konoha Village, it was I who provided them with what they desperately needed. ”

"Let's hope nothing happens."

Regarding this, Uncle Zhiji's cousin was worried, which was not quite the same as his original ideals, and even contrary to his own ideals.

Of course, the practice of ancient cedar water is the style of the great nobles of the Fire Country.

"You are looking at the influence of the Konoha ninja on our Furusugi clan from the viewpoint of 'human nature is inherently evil'......"

Gu Shanbushui, who shrugged his shoulders, said slowly:

"Sit down, don't 'crook your ass', I don't care much about 'sexual goodness' or 'sexual evil', among the Konoha ninjas, there are indeed a few trustworthy guys, but for the group of Konoha Village, I will not ignore their huge impact on us......"

Seeing that Uncle Zhiji's cousin was a little unbearable, Gu Shanbu Shui persuaded slowly:

"You also know that we, the traditional 'decadent' aristocracy, the so-called 'orthodoxy' is just a pretext to conquer people's hearts, and the real foundation is the economic order and system established by the land, to put it bluntly, we are the spokesmen of the big landlords, local tyrants and inferior gentry. At the level of the Daimyo and the Furusugi clan, their position is not exactly the same as that of the squires who are powerful in the local area, but we really need their support to maintain the pattern. ”

In other words, the villages and clans built in the feudal areas spread all over the Fire Country were beneficial to a great nobleman like the Furusugi clan, and the land and its income were the hard currency; Urbanization, developed commerce, great navigation, international trade, etc., were all harmful to the spokesmen of feudal power, and the more developed they were, the more severe the impact on the daimyo and the Furusugi clan.

The advancement of urbanization has given birth to a huge class of citizens, and the process of its growth is to destroy the promoters of traditional villages and clans, and to maintain the operation of the precious metal money, credit money, and other capital that has been developed, forming another class to compete with each other. When they took the initiative and grew to the point where they completely suppressed the land-derived interest classes and merged and annexed them, it meant that the end of the nobles of the "human sage" blood such as the daimyo and the Furusugi clan had arrived.

Even in the super-developed information age of Gu Shanbushui's previous life, all the order, after peeling off the cocoon, only "land economy" and "monetary finance" remained, without exception, farming, grazing, building workshops or opening banks on a piece of land, but the development of science and technology has brought about an increase in productivity, making the use efficiency of 'land' and 'money' different.

When the two become one, if the Gushan family has not completed the transformation, the mercenary group like Konoha Village, which has the power of force, will no longer be obedient.

"Therefore, the reins and whips that control Konoha Village cannot be loosened, but strengthened, to buy time for the change on the secular level. Before you completely grasp the initiative, find more things to do for Konoha Village, and don't be idle to interfere in my transformation of the Fire Country. By the way, I also borrowed the power of the Konoha ninjas, after all, they are quite strong and easy to use. ”

Of course, it would be best if the resistance of Konoha Village could be successfully broken and completely brought under his command. Considering the development of the next ten years, this possibility tends to be close to zero, but we also need to make some preparation, and the future is not static.

Uncle Zhiji pressed his temples to sober his sore head a little and sighed slightly.

"I know, now it's time to get it right. Although there is no doubt about the repayment ability of the Konoha ninja, we must also be prepared to be repaid. ”

Whether it's lending or borrowing, the ability to deal with default is the real core.

Money is quantified capital, but this is not all, how to use measurable money to buy measurable core competitiveness, this is the key, otherwise, make a bunch of waste paper back, it is useless.

"Even if you let Konoha Village make a little more money, it doesn't matter, the numbers on the surface are easy to make people feel a false sense of strength and satisfaction, and this illusion can also temporarily paralyze their resistance."

"I see."

Uncle Zhiji nodded understandingly,

"Are you going to start the plan to decouple currencies and precious metals that you mentioned last time and issue sovereign credit currencies?"

"It's not the time."

Gu Shanbu Shui smiled and shook his head, the entire ninja world is still in chaos, the common currency is still gold and silver, and now the issuance of sovereign credit currency will only suffer the deep mountains and old forests, the lowest civilians who are not in line with the world, and the rich and powerful urban tycoons will abandon the sovereign credit currency that has no actual value at the first time, restart the gold and silver physical currency, and even barter at the expense. In this case, it will not play the role of "cracking down on profiteers" and "cutting leeks" at all, but will make it more difficult for the poor. If there are guys like Chen Sheng and Wu Guang who gather to rebel because of this, it will be troublesome.

Although you can't play the ninja version of "quantitative easing" right now, you can find a way to reserve gold and silver.

There are a lot of gold and silver mines that can be mined in the entire ninja continent, but it is still not enough relative to the demand for market circulation.

Fortunately, there is a group of "mermaids" in Gushanbushui, who can find wealth in the depths of the vast sea, and there are no competitors.

Is the value of precious metals such as gold and silver on the high side?

This is a good thing, the ancient Shanbu water can mine the veins of the seabed, and constantly invest reserves to issue a large number of banknotes. Without the influence of the extraordinary professional group of ninjas, Furusugi Bushui would have been able to play this simple technique for two hundred years without becoming obsolete.

Even if the ninja world develops by leaps and bounds in the next twenty years, it will be at least nearly half a century away.

For so long, if the ancient sugi Bushui hadn't settled the Konoha Village and let the daimyo and the ancient sugi clan become the rightful rulers of the Fire Country, then it would be better to go back to his hometown and close the door and spend his whole life drinking.

"I'll just do what I'm doing, and when this side stabilizes, I'll go back to Inaba School as a teacher."

"How...... Addicted to teaching? ”

"Change the mood. After seeing so many selfish methods that kill people without seeing blood, I have to change the environment and cultivate my self-cultivation, otherwise, I am afraid that I will doubt my life in the future. ”

"This is where it goes."

Gu Shanbu Shui smiled narrowly,

"You have also seen the world, how can you be confused because of this little thing."

"Forget it, you guy, you obviously looked quite honest when you were a child, but when you grow up, you have a bad stomach, and I don't know where you learned it, your parents are not such people."

"Gifted, self-taught."

"Anyway, don't go too far."

Uncle Zhiji's cousin finally admonished,

"No matter how the outside world changes, it is still people who determine the future of this world, and the original intention cannot be drowned out by external objects. Konoha Village ...... Not an irreconcilable enemy, but an ally that can be fought for. ”

"I ...... Got it. ”

Ancient Shanbu water jaw head,

"To be my ally, it's dangerous, to be my enemy, it's deadly. It was in order to prevent my allies from making mistakes and becoming enemies that I made so many arrangements that could have been avoided......"