Konoha: Rebuild the glory of the Uchiha!

"It's a deal, let's put it in writing right now!"

It's a huge profit, a massive profit. Once Mito Uzumaki sees the enormous profit potential of the power plant and the cost of coal, there's no doubt she'll raise the price on the spot.

Uchiha Nan hastily drafted a contract, signed his name, and stamped it with the Konoha official seal; the opinions of the remaining shareholders were no longer important.

"Sign it!"

Uchiha Nan handed the pen to Uzumaki Mito.

Mito Uzumaki possessed the ability to sense emotions. Although Uchiha Nan had tried his best to hide his inner joy, Mito Uzumaki still sensed that something was wrong.

Why do I feel that Uchiha Nan is so excited?

Is the asking price too low?

Mito Uzumaki hesitated and did not immediately sign her name.

"You've already agreed, are you going to go back on your word? If not, I'll call a shareholders' meeting. Mito-sama, you've essentially gotten the reward for an S-rank mission for free. I'm doing you a favor. Don't believe me? Just wait and see how the Jonin from the minor ninja clans scoff at your greed at the shareholders' meeting."

Uchiha Nan feigned a troubled smile and prepared to take the contract away. Then Uzumaki Mito panicked. In Uzumaki Mito's shallow understanding of money, this price was already considered high. She knew nothing about the electricity consumption of the industrial age.

"I sign!"

Mito Uzumaki signed her name, which made Nan Uchiha breathe a sigh of relief.

In that instant, Mito Uzumaki keenly sensed that Nana Uchiha's joy had intensified.

Damn, it's going to be cheaper after all!

Mito Uzumaki felt a pang of regret, but the deed was already done, and there was no going back. Once back at the Senju clan, she needed to gather more information about the power plant, especially regarding the cost of alternative coal.

Let's see how much we've actually lost; this trip was far too rushed.

As Mito Uzumaki thought this to herself, she followed Nana Uchiha to Konoha's power plant.

Konoha Power Plant

Mito Uzumaki entered the circular building and unleashed a massive surge of chakra.

To prevent the Nine-Tails from violently damaging the chakra transmission device during Mito Uzumaki's extraction of the Tailed Beast's chakra,

Uchiha Nan even used his chakra to infiltrate the Nine-Tails' sealing space to keep an eye on it and prevent it from causing trouble.

Mito Uzumaki placed her hands on a special device, and a large amount of chakra was extracted from her body.

This chakra naturally belongs to the Nine-Tails, as tailed beasts are special life forms composed of chakra.

To use a somewhat inappropriate analogy, drawing chakra from the Nine-Tails is like drawing its red and blue bars. How could the Nine-Tails tolerate this? Even though its entire body was bound into a dumpling by chains, it still resisted fiercely.

“Mito Uzumaki, it’s me.”

"You bitch."

"Uchiha Nan, you bastard, you just stood there watching! Help me out! I helped you win the Hokage position in Konoha last time."

As Kurama felt its chakra being drained in large quantities, it became anxious. Mito Uzumaki turned the extraction power up to the maximum, and in just a short while, it had extracted the chakra of several Tailed Beast Balls.

"Snow Leopard... uh, no, Nine-Tailed Fox, shut up!"

"Nine-Tails, you've lived inside Mito Uzumaki for so many years without ever paying rent. What's wrong with her taking a little bit of your chakra? You're a polite tailed beast, don't be as rude as the One-Tail. Don't you understand the importance of gratitude?"

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Nine-Tailed Fox's eyes widened, revealing an expression of disbelief.

Uchiha Nan's words had completely shattered Kurama's understanding. How could Uchiha Nan say such morally bankrupt things? Kurama had actually believed that Uchiha Nan was a good person before.

"You can actually say things like 'rent' and 'gratitude'!"

"In this dark and shabby place, if it weren't for Mito Uzumaki's sealing technique, I would have run away long ago. You and Madara Uchiha are birds of a feather, neither of you treats the tailed beasts as human beings!"

"Uchiha Kunan, you have no shame! How are you going to repay what you owe me?!"

"Uchiha Nan, you are the most shameless person in Konoha."

"Fuck you!"

"."

Nine-Tails started cursing, but Uchiha Nan waved his hand dismissively. Ever since his affair with Kaede and Rin was exposed, his moral standards had plummeted to a new level.

Now, every wisp of Kurama's chakra is permeated with the fragrance of money.

The Nine-Tails' cursing was like celestial music to Uchiha Nan, and the louder the shouts, the more chakra the Nine-Tails still had.

"Mito, increase the intensity! The Nine-Tails still has the strength to roar here, squeeze it dry!"

Uchiha Nan revealed a greedy capitalist smile.

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"Mito, that's enough. Stop squeezing. The containers used to store chakra are all full."

"I think Nine-Tails is going to die."

"The Nine-Tails is Konoha's greatest treasure now. We need to understand the principle of sustainable utilization. We won't do a losing business like draining the pond to catch all the fish."

The Nine-Tails has now been stripped of its original form; its once smooth and lustrous fur has become withered and dry, and even its once enormous body has shrunk considerably.

Uchiha Nan quickly stopped Uzumaki Mito, who was acting like a high-powered juicer. Chakra was of paramount importance to tailed beasts, and they couldn't afford to damage Kurama by extracting its true essence.

"That's not what you said just now. Who said that tailed beast chakra is free and that you should just extract it?"

"The lives of the tailed beasts are worthless; they can be resurrected anyway, so the more chakra the better."

"The louder the Nine-Tails' roar, the more chakra it still has."

When Mito Uzumaki heard Uchiha Kusunoki scold her for overreacting to the Nine-Tails' chakra extraction, she immediately repeated Kusunoki's outrageous remarks.

This despicable man, devoid of any moral compass, was so overjoyed when he saw his chakra containers filling up one after another that he was practically dancing with glee.

They're still putting on an act here!

Ha!

When will I get my one million taels?

Mito Uzumaki inwardly scorned Uchiha Nan and directly demanded her reward from him.

"Don't worry, Lord Mito, I'm very honest. The money goes through Konoha Electric Power Company's account, and I'll send someone to deliver it to you."

"Before that, I have another question I'd like to ask: when will the Nine-Tails' chakra be restored?"

Uchiha Nan was very concerned about this issue. Chakra is one of the mainstream energy sources in the future, and the more times the Nine-Tails can be recycled, the better. The container for storing chakra can also be expanded a little more.

"What a beast!"

"What a beast!"

"Uchiha Nan, I'm already like this, and you still want to drain me dry!"

Upon hearing Uchiha Nan's words, Kurama completely lost control of his emotions. Despite being so weak that he couldn't even stand up, he still yelled and cursed, accusing Uchiha Nan of his beastly behavior.

Even Mito Uzumaki felt a pang of pity at the pitiful cries. The Nine-Tails, the leader of the nine tailed beasts, had fallen to such a state. Uchiha Nan had really gone too far.

They truly are born evil Uchiha!

But sorry, Nine-Tailed Fox, each draw costs one million taels!

"Based on my understanding of the Nine-Tails, its chakra will take about two months to fully recover automatically, at most three months. If it works hard to recover, it might only take less than two months."

Mito Uzumaki revealed the Nine-Tails' secrets to Nanami Uchiha without any hesitation.

For Tsunade's future, she had to earn as much money as possible. After waiting so many years, she finally found such an easy way to make money; she couldn't let it slip away.

"Lord Mito, for the sake of Konoha, you must urge Kurama to recover its health as soon as possible!"

"Don't worry, I understand. I'll take care of Nine-Tails' recovery!"

"Hahaha, Lord Mito is truly a pillar of Konoha!"

Uchiha Nan and Uzumaki Mito finalized the matter by speaking in unison.

"Disgusting, disgusting!"

"You can't wait until I'm asleep to do this kind of thing. You're secretly discussing it, and now you're even talking about how to drain me dry in front of me."

"Even Madara Uchiha wouldn't do something like this. You two are nothing but bandits, worse than bandits, and you still expect us tailed beasts to remember your kindness as humans?"

"You've messed it up, old man Six Paths, you've really messed it up!"

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Kurama, seeing the two of them colluding in their evil deeds, cursed them again. At the same time, she couldn't help but think back to the days when she was Madara Uchiha's mount. Those days didn't seem so bad, at least they were better than now.

However, Uchiha Nan and Uzumaki Mito ignored Kurama's accusations, happily reached an agreement, and then went home.

Mito Uzumaki returned home with light steps, and after a while, several ANBU ninjas delivered several leather suitcases full of money to her.

One million taels! Making money is so easy!

While marveling at how easily he made money, Mito Uzumaki asked Momoki Senju to gather information about the Konoha Power Plant.

If we replaced the tailed beast chakra with coal, how much would it cost per year?

Not long after, Mito Uzumaki received a detailed investigation report. Skipping over the irrelevant parts, he went straight to the part he was concerned about: the annual cost of coal consumed by the power plant.

One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred million?

Mito Uzumaki could hardly believe her eyes. This number was so different from her reward that it didn't make any sense at all!

Count again?

"One, ten, a hundred billion... Ugh... Aaaaaaah!!! Uchiha Nan, you really are a beast!!!!"

In an instant, a shrill, cursing cry echoed throughout the entire Senju clan territory.

A few days later

Hokage's Office

"The ideological textbook is finally finished!"

Uchiha Nan looked at his masterpiece with satisfaction. On the table was a small red booklet. The ninja academy's enrollment was about to end, and he had been thinking about doing something practical for the development of the ninja academy.

Each Hokage has their own guiding ideology. Although they are all nominally under the name of the First Hokage's Will of Fire, their underlying meanings are different.