Naruto: Yes, Uchiha-sama.

Chapter 189 Konoha Ninjas Welcome the King of Light and Shadow to Set Things Right!
Humans are always like this, constantly repeating the same mistakes and never learning any lessons from past errors.

Rather than suffer forever, it would be better for a savior to appear and cast a perfect spell to let all the people in the world curl up in an eternal dream, to enjoy endless beauty and happiness until the last moment of their lives.

Is the beauty of illusion always more blissful than the pain of real life?
Madara Uchiha thought to himself, staring blankly at Hashirama Senju, unsure of what to say.

Hashirama Senju, however, was completely oblivious to Madara Uchiha's gaze, his mind entirely absorbed by Tobirama Senju's discussion of "adults."

Tobirama Senju talked to him about the development of Akatsuki in recent years and Konoha in recent years. After making a comparison, they sadly came to the conclusion that Akatsuki had far surpassed Konoha in some aspects and that the gap between the two was widening.

If Konoha doesn't make changes soon, it may never have another chance.

Hashirama Senju was amazed by his younger brother Tobirama's performance, a big question mark appearing above his head.

After all, Tobirama Senju's relationship with the Uchiha clan was enough to make him make substantial changes, and learning from Makoto Uchiha's village development strategy was no easy task.

"I did all of this for Konoha."

Tobirama Senju was genuinely a little numb, and a wry smile appeared on his face.

He knew better than anyone else about the threat posed by Uchiha Makoto.

In the past, when ninjas fought, their goal was simple: to complete more missions.

All of Uchiha Makoto's plans were ultimately aimed at seizing power in the country.

In Tobirama Senju's view, encountering an opponent unlike any he had ever faced in the ninja world, the ninja world was bound to fall into chaos and disorder.

However, there are many things that cannot be said to the elder brother, which is almost equivalent to Konoha giving up the use of force against Akatsuki.

So far, most of the wildly imaginative plans in Uchiha Makoto's mind have been easily accomplished—with money in one hand and kunai in the other, what can't he do in the Land of Fire?

Considering the rising public opinion in the Land of Fire, and Makoto Uchiha's talent for manipulating people's hearts...

Especially now that the two families have actually formed a marriage alliance.

Even Tobirama Senju couldn't imagine what Konoha would be like in the future.

The Akatsuki Village's economy is currently booming, with everything thriving. It's like they've cheated by using a cheat code, artificially elevating the living standards of the village's ninjas and ordinary people. Meanwhile, Konoha's economy is far behind the Akatsuki Village, which has a lot of power but lives a worse life than the Akatsuki Village's ninjas.

Although communication between ninja villages is currently sluggish and ineffective.

Therefore, most of the ninjas and ordinary people in Konoha are unaware of this.

However, this situation will definitely be changed by mission exchanges among ninjas, public opinion in the Land of Fire, and organizations like the Six Kage Summit.

If this continues, the isolation between ninja villages will only decrease.

If the ninjas of Konoha suddenly "awaken" and realize this problem, then there will be big trouble.

The two villages are already allies, and Uchiha Makoto seems to be pushing for some kind of visa policy, giving Konoha ninjas the green light. There are also Uchiha clan members within Konoha acting as inside agents. After the marriage alliance, Akatsuki will also have a legitimate claim. If anything happens to Konoha, Akatsuki can immediately find an excuse to unite with Konoha—Konoha ninjas welcome the Kage's army to restore order!
While Tobirama Senju was not opposed to the alliance, that was only on the basis of Konoha's alliance with Akatsuki—he couldn't let all the foundation he had worked so hard to build fall into the hands of Makoto Uchiha!

At that time, who was in chaos and who was in the right?

It is simply the opposite of Tiangang!

Tobirama Senju was truly afraid that he would witness such a thing while he was still alive.

—As everyone knows, the First Hokage was biased towards outsiders.

How can such a thing be allowed!

If Konoha continues to be so sluggish and doesn't make any changes, it's doomed!

"As expected of Tobirama. Don't worry, I will definitely support you with all my might."

Then, while marveling at his younger brother's transformation, Hashirama Senju patted Tobirama Senju on the shoulder and said...

As the leader of Konoha, even if Hashirama Senju didn't directly manage affairs, he knew he had to shoulder the responsibilities of the Hokage. Since his younger brother was leading the charge for Konoha, it was no big deal for him to take on some pressure for Tobirama Senju.

At the same time, he also developed a strong curiosity about Akatsuki Village and planned to take some time to visit Akatsuki Village and see what it was like.

"Well, I only have some ideas in my head right now. I'll organize them in the next few days. Brother, let's talk about it in more detail later."

Tobirama Senju nodded. As long as his elder brother was willing to support him, things would be much easier to handle within Konoha.

At worst, we can just overturn the chessboard and send Konoha's entire army to lose!

"By the way, now that the matter with Makoto Uchiha has been resolved, we can proceed with our plan to capture the Two-Tails."

"It's a good opportunity to test out my and Madara's combined attack technique."

"Ban, what are you daydreaming about?"

"Oh, Hashirama, I'm thinking about the future of the ninja world."

While Konoha was preparing a series of plans.

Makoto Uchiha didn't rest in Akatsuki Village either. The village's official duties became increasingly numerous, forcing him to create another clone to maintain the village's daily operations.

Fortunately, all this hard work was worthwhile.

The currency issuance system that Uchiha Makoto valued highly gradually got on track. Out of trust in the credibility of Akatsuki Village, the village's ninjas and villagers deposited their silver into the bank and exchanged it for banknotes with Uchiha Makoto's portrait on them.

Putting aside the drawbacks of currency devaluation and becoming worthless, the benefits of paper money for economic circulation are self-evident.

The banknotes issued by Xiaoren Village have been used for daily circulation and settlement within the village.

The feedback so far is good, and no problems have occurred.

If all goes well, Makoto Uchiha plans to get help from the Uchiha clan in Konoha to open an Akatsuki Bank in Konoha by the end of the year.

After all, the ninja world never teaches financial knowledge. In this era, let alone small countries, even large countries have very few professionals. Taking advantage of the great opportunity that Konoha's leadership is completely unprepared for finance, we should seize the time to take control of Konoha's monetary sovereignty.

If this succeeds, Konoha will truly be working for Akatsuki from now on.

"Xiaoren Bank, we can finally breathe a sigh of relief about the currency issuance issues, but where did Kakuzu go?"

"I need to relieve some of the pressure on myself."

Makoto Uchiha glanced at the intelligence report in his hand.

Akatsuki Village has yet to find any trace of Kakuzu.

Considering the immense pressure he was under, Uchiha Makoto had no choice but to continue increasing the manpower and resources available for the search. The ninja world was simply too vast; if a Kage-level expert really wanted to play hide-and-seek, finding him would definitely not be an easy task.

but.
If you can't find him in a month, try two, three, six months, or a year. You'll eventually catch him!

Then lock him in a dark room and make him work!

Uchiha Makoto thought this fiercely, then turned his attention to another matter—the construction of the fertilizer plant.

If a ninja village wants to get involved in agriculture, it must be fully prepared. Food has always been the most important resource, especially in the ninja world, which is rife with war and chaos. Food is practically a hard currency, and the emergence of industrial products that can significantly increase food production will inevitably cause a huge uproar.

This will be a revolution.

Advanced production capacity will inevitably eliminate outdated production capacity.

Therefore, even nobles who have always been at odds with Akatsuki had to personally visit for their own benefit, which gave Uchiha Makoto a lot of room to maneuver.

This will enable the establishment of an agricultural association.

In short, the plan is to use advanced production capacity as bait to win over a group of large landowners and grain merchants to form factions and interfere with the prices of agricultural products in the Land of Fire. With advanced production capacity, they can wage a price war and force a large number of enemies who are unwilling to cooperate with Akatsuki Village to their deaths. Akatsuki Village will not even have to bear the infamy and can enjoy a large amount of land without having to worry about it.

Ultimately, they indirectly gained control of the Land of Fire's food supply.

The plan does sound a bit far-fetched—to let the nobles in the country kill each other, stabbing each other in the back until bloodshed is rampant, so that Akatsuki Village can ultimately benefit from it.

However, in practice, Makoto Uchiha felt that the plan had a high chance of success.

Driven by self-interest and willing to sacrifice public interests for private gain, the nobles of the Land of Fire are likely quite adept at such things, and they might even be more ruthless towards their own people than Uchiha Makoto imagines.

So, Makoto Uchiha personally wrote several letters by hand, then summoned ANBU ninjas and had them take the letters to meet with some of the bigwigs in the Land of Fire.

This is a big deal.

These matters must be discussed in person by both parties.

After dealing with a bunch of things, Uchiha Makoto finally had a little time to relax.

However, he did not rest for long.

Having received a letter from Makoto Uchiha, Shinji Uzumaki, who had rushed there by boat overnight, appeared in Makoto Uchiha's office of light and shadow.

"Shinji, you've finally arrived. I've been waiting for you for so long."

"I'm sorry, the boat trip did take a few days."

"This time, we really need the sealing masters of your Uzumaki clan to take action. Some things are not clear in a letter, so we need to talk in person. Akatsuki needs a large-scale sealing technique to seal the tailed beast, so we are entrusting this time to you."

After pouring Shinji a glass of water, Makoto Uchiha got straight to the point.

It won't be long before they start capturing the Tailed Beasts, and the Akatsuki are determined to obtain them.

According to the original plan, all nine tailed beasts were to be distributed.

All six major ninja villages want a share of the spoils.

It's likely that Sunagakure will follow the original storyline, where a family already possesses a One-Tailed Beast and chooses not to keep it, instead demanding land and funds to enrich the village's resources.

In that case, five ninja villages would share eight tailed beasts.

If Akatsuki can't get the Nine-Tails, they should try for the Eight-Tails or Seven-Tails, which have more tails. They can also try to get the Two-Tails or Three-Tails. Getting two tailed beasts should be enough.

The most traditional approach to dealing with tailed beasts is to implement the Jinchuriki program.

This practice is cruel to the tailed beasts. As intelligent beings, none of them would want to be imprisoned and ultimately used as weapons.

But there's nothing we can do, humans are just evil!

Therefore, Makoto Uchiha smoothly incorporated the Jinchuriki plan into Akatsuki's plans.

As for the selection of the Jinchūriki, Shinji Uzumaki patted his chest and said that the Uzumaki clan would select a suitable candidate to support Akatsuki.

"Shinji, while we are promoting the Jinchuriki plan, it is actually just an alternative. I still hope that you can bring the Uzumaki clan's sealing technique masters to participate in the construction of the Akatsuki Village Chakra Center."

"The tailed beasts aren't important; what's important is their chakra. I need a massive sealing technique to imprison the tailed beasts within it, constantly draining their chakra. Ideally, I need to calculate the tailed beasts' chakra regeneration rate, keeping them in a weakened state, and continuously draining their chakra. The Akatsuki's power grid project requires this."

Makoto Uchiha acted like an unreasonable client, making extremely demanding requests of Shinji Uzumaki.

no way.

Humanoid weapons like Jinchuriki have too many drawbacks.

Generally speaking, the Jinchuriki of the Tailed Beasts are only useful for clearing out mobs; they become rather useless against skilled opponents.

Aside from a small number of Jinchuriki who can reconcile with their Tailed Beasts and become perfect Jinchuriki, gaining stable combat power, most Jinchuriki are unstable factors within the village. Their minds are frequently affected by the Tailed Beasts' massive chakra, eventually leading to them going berserk and causing the village to suffer heavy losses.

Akatsuki Village is not so destitute that it needs one or two Jinchuriki to influence the course of the battle.

It would be better to use the Tailed Beasts as a source of chakra from the beginning—constantly extracting chakra to keep the Tailed Beasts in a weakened state, preventing them from going berserk and maximizing their utilization.

It's just that the usage is a bit hellish.

For the sake of humanity's vast universe, the Sage of Six Paths would probably understand.

"This is not a sealing technique that can be completed overnight."

"It would absolutely require a huge amount of manpower and resources to complete such a large-scale sealing technique, and isn't it... well... a bit inhumane?"

"But they are tailed beasts, not humans. Don't worry, I'm very fair. Everyone will receive the same treatment in the future."

"That's what fairness is."

Uchiha Makoto smiled.

Once Tobirama Senju develops the Impure World Reincarnation technique, he will definitely have to obtain it through his own means.

It is said that resurrected ninjas possess unlimited chakra.

This is certainly not in line with common sense.

As we all know, chakra cannot be created out of thin air.

Otherwise, Kaguya Otsutsuki wouldn't have gone so crazy for chakra that she was sealed away by her two rebellious sons.

But since this technique is designed this way, it must have its unique features, so the "electric meter reversal" method is not impossible.

Why not give it a try? You definitely won't lose anything.

"???"

Shinji Uzumaki frowned, then fell silent.

He didn't know what kind of treatment Uchiha Makoto was talking about, or what exactly constituted fairness.

But this must be very bad.

Therefore, Shinji Uzumaki felt it was best to stop discussing this issue now.

(End of this chapter)