Chapter 18: The Joy of the Yellow Fur
The financial level of Sand Ninja Village has always been the lowest among the five ninja villages, and if it is calculated in terms of per capita income, it is even more ranked outside the top ten.
The income structure is also very simple, extremely dependent on tasks and ores, especially after the last ninja war, the country of wind not only weakened military spending but also entrusted some tasks to Konoha , which made the already not rich Sand Hidden Village even worse.
However, this is good news for Luo Sha, after all, the Wind Shadow is gone, and now he is the only one in the village who can skillfully explore the ore veins, which also makes his status rise rapidly, otherwise he would not be able to get the support of the Wind Shadow Sect with the identity of a third-generation disciple alone.
"Lord Rosha, is this true?"
Immediately, the head of a clan whose family was mainly engaged in ore trading confirmed to Luo Sha.
Luo Sha shook his head: "I don't know the village's finances, but the amount of ore mining is basically the same as last year, and I heard that there are traces of new ore veins in the west, and I will confirm it after a while." But..."
"But the ore can't be shipped."
Hoshino Mu interrupted Luo Sha's speech: "Due to the war, the surrounding countries have stationed a large number of troops on the border with the country of the wind, and it will take time to open the passage again, and it will be winter at the earliest, and the transportation speed will slow down, so many buyers are worried about the war and have signed an agreement with Iwain Village, at least in the next year, the ore sales of Sand Cain Village will not improve or even decline sharply." ”
After all, it was still those merchants who didn't have confidence in Shayin Village.
If Yunyin Village and Konoha go to war, they will at least bet on both sides, if they don't say that they are loyal to Konoha Table.
It's like now, I went directly to Yanyin Village, and it is estimated that the old man Ohnoki himself didn't expect that he would be the biggest winner in the battle against Yunsha.
Luo Sha nodded, he also meant this, and at the same time admired the other party's internal affairs talent in his heart.
There are many armed people in this village, but there are too few brains.
He has been around Fengying since he was a child, and because he took over the exploration of mineral veins, he often dealt with dignitaries and dignitaries from the outside world, which led to his current overall situation.
But the other party, a person who has never been out of the country of wind since he was a child, and even rarely leaves Shayin Village, can have such an insight, which is really amazing, and he can save a lot of worry by handing over the internal affairs of the village to him in the future.
While Orange Juro was still thinking about how to become the Wind Shadow, Raksha was already thinking about the development of the village from the perspective of the Wind Shadow.
That's the pattern.
The tribal leader sat back in his seat with a pale face.
The ore business is simply a business without capital.
These tribes lying on the veins of ore and sucking blood are very rough in management, as the leader of him is the same, in the past, if he was short of money, he would dig more, and if he was not short of money, he would dig less, and he didn't think about what to do if the ore couldn't be transported.
If I could have borrowed from the village before, but now the village has no money!
"Also, because the country of the wind has always relied on imports of grain, the war has caused the price of grain to rise sharply, and the neighboring countries have hoarded grain and grass when we are fighting with Yunyin Village, and now it is difficult for us to buy a large amount of grain at a low price, with the current food reserves in the village, it is expected that there may be a 'food shortage' in the second half of the year."
Before everyone could digest the bad news, Hoshino Mu made up for it, and it was the most ruthless.
Now it's not just the leaders of those big clans, all the ninjas are panicking!
Some of them can't see the deep binding between the ore and the village economy, and feel that the ore has nothing to do with them, and the unsalable ore is also the loss of those big tribes rather than themselves.
But the food is different, no one is a little fairy, she wants to eat!
"What should I do, ask the daimyo for help!"
"The daimyo has always looked at us unpleasantly, and now asking for help is a drop in the bucket, after all, if it is really as Hoshino Maki said, the entire country of wind will be short of food."
"What about the other villages? There should be food in Konoha and Iwakuin Village, right? ”
"They must have, but what do we get in exchange? There is no money in the village, and there is no shortage of ores, besides, how can people be so kind to help, it is true that the stones fall into the well, if they secretly stop it, I am afraid that it will be even more difficult for Shayin Village. ”
"Grab it! How can there be our opponents in the surrounding countries! ”
"Isn't this pushing people to Konoha and Iwa Shinobi's side? If they intervene, the village will go hungry and go to war! ”
“...”
There was a huge panic in the venue, and the last time this kind of battle was when the three generations of Kazekage disappeared.
The crowd was unable to come up with a convincing answer, and finally they could only look at the elders' chair in front of them.
"Chiyo-sama and Hoshino Makii, just say what you have in mind."
An elder spoke.
Chiyo shouted to everyone and took out the financial forms that had been prepared long ago, it was impossible to say that they did not have a plan.
Chiyo glanced at Hoshino Maki, nodded and silently walked back to the elder's seat.
Hoshino Mu cleared his throat: "Originally, I wanted to send these people to mine, but after discussing with Chiyo-sama, maybe I can use these people to make a deal with Yun Shinobi in exchange for the materials that the village urgently needs at the moment, such as food, tea, large equipment, etc., which should solve the current crisis in the village." ”
The ninjas present didn't speak, and most of them would have rejected or even reprimanded him if Hoshino had said this solution at the beginning.
Why?
It's not because of his 'weakness', but because there are too many grievances between the various villages in the ninja world, even if it's a village like Yunyin Village, which is very far away from Shayin Village, there are countless blood feuds between the two.
This war has exacerbated the contradictions between the two sides, not to mention anything else, how can those ninjas who died in this war, their parents, relatives, friends, lovers and children, give up?
It must be bloodbathed!
Killing, revenge, like a cycle of death in the ninja world.
But now the village is in a predicament, and it may not even be able to afford to eat, and some grievances are not unavoidable.
Besides, we won the war in the end!
Once people are inclined to a certain choice, they often find various reasons to convince themselves and prove that their choice is correct.
Silence, in fact, already shows the inclination in their hearts.
"For those ninjas who died in this war, I suggest that the village set up a special fund to help their families and children, and I will submit a specific plan to the Council of Elders after the specific constitution meeting."
While everyone was bowing their heads in contemplation, Hoshino Maki added a sentence, which was like handing a ladder to someone who wanted to go downstairs.
"Actually, if you can help the village, you don't necessarily have to kill those cloud ninjas."
I don't know who muttered, and suddenly cracked the silence technique that covered the audience.
"Yes, although I am a little depressed, I have to endure humiliation for the sake of the village, and this group of Yunnin is lucky."
"Since that's the case, let's order more things, in short, we can't make Yun Ren feel better."
"It's okay for us to suffer, and the children in the village can't be like we were when we were younger. I still remember when I was young during the last ninja war, I could only eat one meal a day with boiled beans mixed with branches..."
Everyone is thinking about the village, but no one knows how much is true, but Yun Ren's disposal method can be regarded as decided.
At this moment, Orange Juro, who had not spoken for a long time, suddenly coughed lightly: "After the disappearance of Lord Kazekage, the village has become like this, and we elders are to blame~"
Then the conversation changed: "But if you make a mistake, you have to make up for it, how can you fake it in the hands of others." Especially as an elder, the old man must lead by example, and leave the matter of Yun Ren's captives to the old man, with me in charge, even if Lei Ying is in person, he can't get a bargain. ”
Hoshino Maki: ???
The old thing picks peaches, right, and the face is gone?
Hoshino Mu squinted his eyes and looked at the withered face of the other party, he didn't understand that this person was half buried in the ground, why was he still daydreaming of being a wind shadow?
After Orange Juro finished speaking, he didn't hear the imaginary echo, and he glanced at it, and the two elders who had always been close to him lowered their heads in contemplation at this time.
I don't know if the two of them felt Orange Juro's gaze, and they just woke up from a big dream, and said with a smile: "Well, uh... This, this thing really needs a capable person to do. ”
"Yes, yes, everyone's for the village."
This kind of scene of not helping each other naturally can't satisfy Orange Juro.
His face sank, and he didn't expect his closest ally to betray him at this time.
Only Hoshino Maki understands what is going on.
Without him, the roots are almost gone!
This man can't be rootless.
The roots of these two elders, one in tea and the other in large-scale equipment, are the hardest hit areas of material shortage.
The Land of the Wind is located in the desert, and the main way to supplement vitamins is tea in addition to the fruit of the oasis, but the area of the oasis is there, and the output is not enough to supply the whole country, so most people rely on tea to supplement vitamins, and gradually drinking tea has become the daily habit of the people of the Land of Wind.
And the elder's clan monopolized the sale of tea in the southern part of the Sand Hidden Village and the Land of the Wind, making a huge profit every year.
Now the tea leaves outside will not be able to be transported for a while and a half, and the tribe's tea reserves are seriously insufficient, and there is no news from the people sent out by themselves now.
If it is really like Hoshino Mu, it is estimated that there is no hope for the tea outside, and if the tea compensated by Yun Ren can be handed over to them to sell, it will be a solution to quench their thirst, otherwise the market in the south of the Wind Country of Sand Hidden Village will definitely be encroached upon by the tea merchants in the north!
So he can't offend Chiyo now, otherwise, even if Orange Juro and Yun Shinobi negotiate, as long as Chiyo does something on his side, two will die today and three will be sick tomorrow, and there is a way to drag it down or even stir up the yellow matter, then his own clan will really drink the northwest wind!
Between Orange Juro and the clan, this choice is not difficult to make.
Unlike Konoha which is made up of individual families, the base of Sand Hidden Village is the clan.
They were originally independent tribes, united by fierce battles, but did not disrupt the tribal structure.
Therefore, although there is a marriage between them, the blood ties are not close, and if the leader seriously harms their interests, they can organize the removal of the leader without mercy.
The situation of the other elder is the same, the scientific and technological level of the large-scale equipment Shayin Village cannot be built.
These are all information that Hoshino Mu asked Mei to inquire about.
Sometimes important information is not necessarily in the heavily guarded deep palace compound, but in the people at the bottom.
The list given by Hoshino Maki is full of some of the most basic salespeople, whose salaries are closely linked to sales, and there are many things that can be seen from their little things.
For example, the salesman on the list used to stand at the door to greet customers with a smile, but then he sat in the store and took out the tea, arrogantly shouting 'the highest price wins', and then closed the store directly.
As an alcoholic, he didn't go to the tavern much before, and usually bought alcohol to drink at home. Later, he went in and out of the tavern for several days and spent a lot of money, but recently he stopped going to the tavern, and he didn't even buy wine from the store.
A single sample can make hypotheses, and multiple samples can make a sound judgment.
The tea market in Shayin Village has changed from a buyer's market to a seller's market, and finally there is no goods to sell, which is enough to show that there is a problem with the supply channel of tea.
In this case, how can they still have the heart to shout for the boss?
Orange Juro felt like a clown now, as if he had a layer of frost on his face that would not melt for thousands of years.
"Let's let Hoshino Mu come, since it is the plan he proposed, it is more reassuring to be familiar with someone to do it, after all, it is a major event related to the development of the village."
Luo Sha spoke again, but Orange Juro did not back down: "It's because it's a major matter related to the village, so there must be a person who is familiar with the situation of the village and has high moral integrity." ”
Hoshino Maki looked at Orange Juro with a smile...
The old thing is too self-conscious, right?
Not to mention Luo Sha's unexpected help, but without Luo Sha, can he succeed in front of Chiyo?
He can't! He doesn't have the strength to know.
Hoshino Maki was just about to say something, but outside the door, a sand shinobi hurriedly walked in from outside the door, looked at his eyes, walked quickly to Chiyo's side, bent down and respectfully whispered:
"Adult"
With that, he handed an envelope with both hands.
Chiyo took the envelope, her slightly closed eyes quickly scanning the letter, and then calmly handed it to Orange Juro.
Orange Juro took the letter paper, only glanced at it, his breathing suddenly became a little heavy, his eyes were round, and the handful of sanitary mustache in the middle of the person also rose and fell like a wild boar's sideburns under the twitching of the corners of his mouth.
"The old man, the old man is unwell, go first."
He stood up tremblingly, restrained his anger with the last of his senses, and disappeared into the exit of the venue with a back that looked calm to himself but embarrassed to others.
Luo Sha looked at his back with some surprise, just at this time the letter paper was passed to his hand, Luo Sha read it quickly, and his expression was clear.
The envelope came from Yunyin Village, and it stated that Hoshino Makaki, the medical commander of Shayin Village, would be invited to discuss the redemption of prisoners in Yuyin Village seven days later, and it was also signed by Hanzo and the fourth generation of Ed.
Luo Sha immediately understood why Orange Juro had lost his temper just now.
Kazekage disappeared, Chiyo retired, he thought he was the number one in the village, but Yun Shinobu ignored him at all, and directly crossed him to send an invitation to Hoshino Maki.
It is unknown whether there is any sense of dissension in it, but it is certainly not as respectful as Orange Juro himself thinks, which makes Orange Juro, who has a strong sense of self-esteem, very embarrassed.
When Hoshino Maki got the letter, his face was a little strange.
The two ninja villages fought and beat people's territories to the ground, but the two sides stopped fighting, and when they negotiated, they had to be the biggest sufferer in the war as a witness, what is the difference between this and NTR?!
Thinking of this, Hoshino Mu felt a kind of joy in his heart.