Naruto: Yes, Uchiha-sama.

Chapter 187 The Konoha Ninja Clan Suffers, Who Will Bear the Blame? It can't be me again! (Tobirama's tragic face)

night.

At a family dinner.

Uchiha Makoto and Uzumaki Tsubaki Shizuku were chatting and dreaming about their son and daughter-in-law's future.

"I still haven't decided on a name for my son, this is a very important matter!"

"Uchiha Nan?"

"Uchiha Itachi?"

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"These names sound just like the main characters!"

"Let's forget about Uchiha Seon. The world can't have two suns."

"The Demon Dragon versus the Holy Lord, this kind of filial piety scene absolutely cannot happen to me!"

"Forget it, we'll see when the time comes. Anyway, he's already practically a protagonist, considering his future wife is Tsunade. That's quite something."

"Is this the fate of the Uchiha clan's protagonists?"

Uchiha Makoto muttered to himself.

Uzumaki Tsubaki Shizuku stared at Uchiha Makoto.

She didn't understand the strange things Uchiha Makoto was saying, but that didn't dampen her enthusiasm for the topic.

Uzumaki Tsubaki Shizuku: "I heard that Lord Hashirama is a gambler. I think... Lady Mito specifically said that Lord Hashirama should quit gambling, so that he wouldn't set a bad example for children."

"Wow, that's a very serious problem. I almost forgot about it!"

Uchiha Makoto suddenly remembered that Tsunade also had the title of "the fattest sheep in the ninja world".

They're veritable casino philanthropists, spendthrift women who treat money like it's nothing.

According to the plot of the original work.

After Tsunade left Konoha, she spent her time in casinos in the Land of Fire. At that time, she also suffered from hemophobia, so she definitely didn't have the chance to do ninja missions. To be a casino philanthropist, you need capital, and Tsunade's capital was probably the Senju family's wealth.

Ultimately, Tsunade even resorted to borrowing money from loan sharks to gamble, and was chased by a bunch of loan sharks for repayment. At its worst, she was starving and didn't know where her next meal would come from.

They've gambled away so badly that they must have lost every last penny of the Senju family's wealth. The Senju clan's only remaining possessions are probably their ancestral home.

The fact that the ancestral home of the Senju family was spared from destruction is probably because it couldn't be sold!
After all, Konoha also has its pride.

If Tsunade dares to sell, how come you actually dare to buy?
Are you out of your mind?
Uchiha Makoto couldn't help but start babbling at Senju Hashirama behind his back—the old gambler's corrupting influence on children is a serious matter.

This possibility must be eliminated!
Uzumaki Tsubaki Shizuku nodded, agreeing that this was indeed something to be careful about.

"I'll have to say hello to the casinos in the ninja world from now on."

"Anyone who dares to host Tsunade and let her lose a single coin at the casino will have their entire family die!"

Uchiha Makoto intends to use the most physical solution.

The scene was harmonious for a time.

Tobirama Senju looked melancholy. Makoto Uchiha and Shizuku Uzumaki treated him like family, not like a human being. They discussed their son and daughter-in-law's marriage right in front of him, and even cursed their older brother in front of him.

But you were absolutely right to criticize them!

Tobirama Senju had long wanted to kill those gambling addicts, even though he knew his elder brother lost nine out of ten times.

What is the difference between this and stealing money?
just
The thought of his elder brother's granddaughter marrying the Uchiha clan was unbearable.

Tobirama Senju kept drinking one cup of sake after another until he was half drunk. He was filled with depression, and his head gradually became dizzy.

As a ninja, especially one who has received professional ninja training from a young age, one does not usually drink alcohol. Tobirama Senju himself hated the feeling of being dizzy, but he still drank a few extra cups today.

There was nothing he could do; he still couldn't truly overcome that mental hurdle.

The Uchiha and Senju clans—this damned, thousand-year-old feud is going to be very difficult to truly resolve!

Especially the ninjas of Tobirama Senju's generation.

From a young age, they were exposed to the various atrocities committed by the Uchiha clan against the Senju clan. In their childhood, they fought against the Uchiha clan on the battlefield, and their relatives and friends also died at the hands of the Uchiha clan.

However, the war later became so brutal that everyone could no longer bear it, and ending the war eventually became the common wish of both families.

And so Konoha came into being.

However, those who can truly reconcile, like Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju, are ultimately only a minority. Not to mention that in the original story, they eventually broke up.

Most people from both families simply felt that things had come to this point, and since both sides had successfully concluded the contract, established Konoha, and obtained the long-awaited stability, then the past grievances should not be mentioned—but not mentioning them did not mean forgetting them; the hatred was still there, only now it had become hidden in the depths of their hearts.

Only when all these older generation ninjas are dead can this hatred be considered to have completely disappeared.

The meal ended quickly.

As usual, Tobirama Senju gave Makoto Uchiha the middle finger as he left, muttering something like "the inherently evil Uchiha brat." Makoto Uchiha did the same, giving Tobirama Senju the middle finger in return.

However, Uchiha Makoto was in a very good mood at this moment, with a smile on his lips.

"Tch~ you bastard~ your smile is never a good thing."

"Tobirama, are you still upset? As a ninja, you should understand that if you want to throw your shuriken fifty meters, you should train to throw it a hundred meters."

"You're so nagging! I understand this principle better than you do!"

"gone."

After saying this, Tobirama Senju walked into the night without looking back. However, he did not immediately return to his residence in Akatsuki Village to sleep. Instead, he went to a high point in Akatsuki Village.

The air is very fresh up high.

The evening breeze occasionally blew by, bringing a chill to Tobirama Senju, who couldn't help but take a few deep breaths of fresh air.

My previously groggy mind cleared up considerably.

Then Tobirama Senju began to gaze intently at the increasingly prosperous village before him.

Although Akatsuki Village is still nominally a village, its size and economy are already comparable to some of the top cities in the Land of Fire.

The only drawback is the population size.

After all, Akatsuki Village is still a newly emerging city.

However, with more and more capital from the ninja world being invested in Akatsuki Village, the population will also flow to Akatsuki Village along with the capital, and it is only a matter of time before this population shortage is addressed.

At that time, even the capital of the Land of Fire had to bow down to the Akatsuki Village.

under night.

Most of Akatsuki Village was shrouded in darkness, with only a few scattered lights flickering.

But one large area within it was radiating a bright light.

The light was extremely conspicuous in the night.

Tobirama Senju knew that place; it was the place he had spent the most time visiting these past few days. It was the commercial district of Akatsuki Village, the most prosperous area in the entire village.

Various wealthy merchants and powerful figures from the ninja world established their company branches here, becoming powerful driving forces that propelled the economic development of Akatsuki Village.

As the wealthiest area, this region was the first to benefit from the Xiaoren Village urban planning.

Long ago.

Makoto Uchiha wanted Akatsuki to install power lines and build streetlights on a large scale. Technology was no longer an obstacle; the technology tree in Naruto was truly bizarre. The only difficulty was funding.

Until electricity generation reaches a scale effect or a cheap source of chakra becomes available, it will be very difficult to make electric lights accessible to ordinary people in Akatsuki Village.

Financial subsidies are also limited.

But for those wealthy merchants and village ninjas, this electricity bill was nothing.

They revel in a night of extravagance and debauchery—consumerism is spreading.

"It's a pity that such a beautiful view doesn't belong to Konoha."

"I wonder how long it will take for Konoha's economy to catch up with Akatsuki's."

As Tobirama Senju watched, he couldn't help but sigh.

I've been in Xiaoren Village for a few days.

He discovered many problems that he had overlooked in the past during the development of the village.

It's not just a business issue, but a matter of the village's future development plan.

No matter what, Makoto Uchiha has precedents to follow.

As long as the general direction is correct, the details can be settled with money, and if all else fails, the ninjas can simply use force to solve the problem.

True.

To the ninja clans of Akatsuki Village, many of Uchiha Makoto's initial plans for the village were very strange. They believed that he always liked to squander money on things that traditional ninjas wouldn't bother with.

For example, research institutes in science parks.

Many researchers do not focus on combat-type ninjutsu.

Instead, they tried to combine ninjutsu with industry, or even purely research industrial technology, or even agriculture.

Nowadays, there are all sorts of varieties.

—In the original story, the people from Takumi Village and Sora Village were almost completely wiped out by Makoto Uchiha.

Wealthy merchants, nobles, and industrialists always pursue technological innovation in order to make money, and now they are increasingly collaborating with research institutes and providing huge amounts of research funding.

However, these research institutes were initially supported solely by the Akatsuki Village's finances.

Although Akatsuki Village's financial data is kept secret, there are always some clues left behind.

Some ninja clans have done some private calculations, and although they couldn't get specific figures, they were absolutely outrageous and wasteful!

The village was established with a scale of hundreds of millions of yuan.

How utterly insane is this?
But Uchiha Makoto was the village chief, and the money didn't come from their pockets.

Furthermore, some of Makoto Uchiha's behaviors are also dangerous.

This is completely contrary to the rules of the ninja world—nobles are their employers, their biggest source of funding for missions. What will happen if you offend them?
To his uncles and elders in their respective ninja clans, Uchiha Makoto was just messing around.

However, the large blood packs that were initially obtained from the nobles really helped Uchiha Makoto unite a large number of ninja clans in Akatsuki Village – tasks that the older generation was unwilling to do, there were always younger ninjas willing to do.

"I've been working in the film industry for several years, and I'm basically able to get things done one by one. If I don't want to do something, no one else can either. Are there people who oppose me? Yes, quite a few, but I have even more people who support me!"

Makoto Uchiha skillfully balanced finances and the moral high ground of the ninja clan. Therefore, even though the ninja clans harbored many grievances, they all chose to back down.

Meanwhile, those uncles and elders from the Akatsuki ninja clans who had openly opposed Uchiha Makoto and whose names were recorded in his personal notebook have been gradually removed from the village's upper echelons over the years.

Some even died in the Cloud Village Wars—of course, they ended their lives as heroes, which was quite dignified!

Every year, Makoto Uchiha would offer incense to them.

Only Tobirama Senju
He focused more on the village's military, the development of the Anbu (secret branch), and the training of ninjas, just as he had done when he led the Senju clan, only now the scope had expanded to include the entire village.

To broaden one's horizons, there is always a need for transition.

When Konoha was founded, Tobirama Senju never considered that Konoha would no longer be a purely military organization, but would instead intervene in the economy, politics, and even the production of ordinary people in the Land of Fire.

The two people had different perspectives from the very beginning.

For example, Tobirama Senju viewed commerce as a small shop, where the most important thing was easy buying and selling. Makoto Uchiha, on the other hand, wanted a commercial center that brought together wealthy merchants, industrialists, nobles, and even high-ranking nobles from the Qinghua family. This center was a circle formed unconsciously to make money and expand capital, eventually uniting into an interest group. Then, centered on Akatsuki Village, it would expand outwards, exploiting and draining Akatsuki Village of its resources. Even without considering economic interests, the political benefits alone would be immeasurable in the Land of Fire.

What Akatsuki Village needs to do is to conduct macro-control and then provide them with military backing.

And of course, there's taxation!

This is a big deal.

In America, only death can end tax payments, and it's likely that Akatsuki Village will follow suit in the future. Perhaps the only difference is that death won't be the end of tax payments—which sounds a bit like hell.

But it can certainly be called ambitious!

Tobirama Senju was unaware of Makoto Uchiha's ambitions.

Konoha doesn't have a commercial center like Akatsuki.

However, in the past few days, Tobirama Senju has been observing the endless stream of wealthy merchants and nobles coming and going in the commercial district. The power that these people, who have gathered here and settled down, unleash in Akatsuki Village should not be underestimated.

Given time
He dared not think.

"I wonder what kind of earth-shattering changes will occur here when I come to Akatsuki Village again next time."

"I wonder how Uchiha Makoto, that naturally evil Uchiha brat, managed to convince the village's ninja clan to go crazy with him."

Tobirama Senju suddenly felt immense pressure.

The more prosperous the scene before him, the more headaches he got.

Getting Konoha, this big ship, to turn around is no easy task.

This year's fiscal budget has been capped at just a few hundred billion taels, with the majority coming from the daimyo's allocation. The planned use of the funds has already been finalized, and it should be sufficient to develop the village as before.
But if we were to emulate the Akatsuki, we would be truly stretched thin.

Otherwise, Tobirama Senju wouldn't have borrowed money from Makoto Uchiha. Although the interest rate was low, he still had to repay a portion of it every year.

If next year's budget remains unchanged, only a portion of it can be diverted, which will certainly cause objections among the ninja clans within Konoha.

After all, so-called primitive capital is usually accompanied by bloodshed and original sin.

Either, like Uchiha Makoto, you could use force to forcibly seize the wealth of nobles from the beginning and make your first fortune.

Either we have to suffer ourselves.

Who will bear the blame then?
Tobirama Senju didn't know.
In the end, he left Akatsuki Village with a belly full of worries.

(End of this chapter)