Naruto: I, the villain template, was hailed as a savior.

Chapter 224 The endless repetition of rhythm hardly qualifies as a song.

"Ahem!"

Noticing the increasingly strange look in Uzumaki Ichiya's eyes, Raimon Hikaru subconsciously coughed a few times, quickly suppressing the gloating smile on his face, and said seriously, "Does Lord Yunchuan have any further suggestions?"

"Everyone has their own expertise, and I'm not as good as you in this area, so I won't give any random instructions."

Yun Chuan shook his head and smiled, "Let's leave it at that for now. If the budget is insufficient, remember to apply for reimbursement from the finance department."

"Understood." Raimon Hikaru nodded solemnly, then smiled easily. "If needed, I won't hesitate to ask. I just hope Mr. Kakuzu won't find me offensive."

"Don't worry, he doesn't have those feelings yet. At most, he complains about you even when he's talking in his sleep."

Upon hearing this, the two exchanged a glance and couldn't help but laugh, imagining the scene in each other's minds.

But just then, a voice full of anxiety came from behind.

"Lord Yun Chuan, we've finally found you!"

Yun Chuan turned his head and, upon seeing the person's face clearly, raised an eyebrow and said, "Qiu Yu, what's with your outfit?"

Qiu Yu was soaking wet, the rainwater mixed with the sand on his body, making him look as if he had been rolling in mud.

"Oh, that's not important."

Qiu Yu wiped the mud off her face, flicking it onto the ground to leave mud splatters, and said anxiously, "Do you know where Kakuzu ran off to? He used to at least leave a clone behind when he went out, but this time when we needed to find him, he just vanished!"

"Kakuzu and his two clones have gone out on missions, so Jiyun is temporarily in charge of the Ministry of Finance..."

Yun Chuan first offered an explanation, but seeing Qiu Yu turn to run away without a word, he quickly grabbed his arm and said helplessly, "Are you confused? I'm right here, why are you still going to look for them?"

"..." Qiu Yu was stunned for a moment, then slapped her forehead after realizing what had happened. "Ouch, my brain..."

Because Yun Chuan was always carefree and didn't act like a boss at all, he was always in control and gave people the feeling of being a hands-off manager, so Qiu Yu subconsciously forgot about it.

The person in front of me is the true leader of the Dawn; no one else is as useful as him.

"Lord Yun Chuan, something terrible has happened!"

Realizing this, Qiu Yu quickly grabbed Yun Chuan's sleeve and said, "I just did some research with the Ministry of Agriculture, and with our current grain reserves, we simply cannot meet the needs of the rapidly increasing population!"

"Moreover, we will soon be regarded as enemies by the Land of Fire, and they will definitely stop exporting food to us and impose a blockade. At that time, there will be no possibility of transferring food from other places to make up for the losses!"

"In that case, even if we assimilate the population of the southern part of the Rain Kingdom, we will still face a famine with no food to eat. If things worsen to the worst extent, we may not only be dragged down, but we may even fall apart!"

After speaking, Yun Chuan's expression remained unchanged, but Lei Men Guang, standing beside him, looked at Qiu Yu with a strange expression and asked, "Mr. Qiu Yu, is this what you're worried about?"

Sensing the dismissive tone in his voice, Qiu Yu's expression changed, and she said anxiously, "You have no idea what this means! If the population increases, we won't have enough food, and then people will become restless..."

Even so.

Before Qiu Yu could finish speaking, Lei Menguang interrupted her, adjusted his glasses, and said calmly, "We weren't the first to be destroyed."

Qiu Yu was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly felt a surge of annoyance: "You, do you even know what you're saying?"

Just as he was about to lose his temper, Yun Chuan suddenly smiled and said, "Qiu Yu, don't be so quick to anger. You should know that Yi Long and the others have already returned, right?"

Upon hearing Yun Chuan's words, Qiu Yu calmed down considerably and said, "Of course I know. The reason I'm so anxious is because they're taking in far too many people. If this continues..."

Before he could finish speaking, Yun Chuan raised his hand to interrupt, "Then do you know how much grain they found?"

As he spoke, he held up four fingers, his eyes curving slightly, but his tone was devoid of any smile: "Four years is enough for the entire registered population of the Rain Kingdom to eat three meals a day for four years."

Upon hearing this, Qiu Yu froze on the spot. After a moment, her throat tightened slightly, and she exclaimed in surprise, "Four years? How could that be so long?!"

"Hmph, many? This is only what's been revealed on the surface; there's much more hidden, not less!"

Having once been a merchant himself, and possessing an unparalleled understanding of the nature of nobles, Raimon Hikaru sneered, "That great daimyo, in order to establish relations with the nobles of the Land of Fire, purchases large quantities of grain from the Land of Fire at exorbitant prices almost every year!"

"On Musashi's advice, in order to demonstrate his benevolence, he extorted and threatened merchants to distribute grain for disaster relief, but countless people still starved to death every year!"

"Guess where all that grain went?"

Yun Chuan also sighed softly and said slowly, "After I had Yi Long conquer the capital of the Rain Kingdom, I immediately sealed it off and searched the homes of those nobles. The result was exactly as I expected, but it also opened my eyes."

"Can you believe it? Even in the home of a minor nobleman, there are mountains of grain. Every nobleman's home has enough grain to feed hundreds or thousands of people for a long time."

"Not to mention the granaries of the Land of Rain and the residences of the daimyo, where the grain piled up was so much that it was damp and moldy, and the quantity of grain was enough to frighten people to death."

Every time a nobleman's granary, used for personal consumption and accumulation, is captured, their grain reserves will increase significantly.

Yoshitaka, who dared to question his teacher Musashi when the disaster relief grain was replaced with coarse rice, was so enraged when he saw the mountains of grain and rice in the granaries that he killed several nobles with his bare hands.

Even Yun Chuan was astonished by the greed and ugliness of these nobles, as well as their ability to levy exorbitant taxes, after receiving the letter.

They would rather let the grain rot in the warehouse than give some away for disaster relief.

"That's why I said that even if we have no food to eat, we won't be the first to be destroyed."

Raimon Hikaru looked at Yun Chuan, who hadn't panicked at all throughout, adjusted his glasses, and said with emotion, "Because they were already numb. We told them that besides waiting to starve to death, there were other options."

"Once those who are starving realize that all their misfortunes are not due to their lack of effort or piety, but because they have been deceived, then their anger will burn the nobles to ashes without our intervention."

Raimon Hikaru knew very well that, apart from a very few individuals like Kakuzu and Shennong, the cohesion and aggressiveness of the rest of their team were never determined by Yun Chuan, their "leader".

It is determined by how chaotic the world is, how arrogant the ninjas and nobles are, and how unfortunate the common people are.

Since joining Dawn, Raimon Hikaru has been observing all the changes here from the perspective of a researcher, and the more he looks, the more amazed he becomes by Yun Chuan's methods and his vision that seems to transcend the entire ninja world.

What?

Do you think a bunch of nameless, worthless peasants can take a piece of flesh from the five great nations?

This was something that Raimon Hikaru would never have believed before, and if someone said that to him, he would laugh and call that person crazy.

But Yun Chuan did indeed do it.

Before Yun Chuan appeared, the ninja world was merely a chessboard for nobles, and wars were a game dominated by ninjas as pawns. Powerless commoners were just dust that no one cared about, and there was almost no possibility of changing the rules.

Every year, every month, every day, countless people who cannot survive die on this land. How could those born into high positions possibly care about these lowly, ungrateful mobs?

The lowly people know no manners, no humility, no virtue. Such scum can be as numerous as you want, and they will simply die.

The nobles had everything; their grand mansions were filled with rare treasures, and their deep mansions were overflowing with grain and rice.

At the very beginning, Yun Chuan had nothing, but he noticed these desperate and starving scum.

He actually dared to scoop up those dregs with his bare hands and add them to the game, giving these specks of dust power comparable to a ninja, and forcibly opening up a new path for them. In this world, he was the only one who could and was willing to do this.

"...I'm sorry, Lord Yun Chuan."

Qiu Yu, who had become overly anxious and irrational due to her lack of experience, quickly realized this after Lei Menguang's words. A look of shame appeared on her face, and she bowed and said, "I have overlooked too much. I really made a fuss over nothing."

"It's normal, keep a calm mind." Yun Chuan patted him on the shoulder. "Demolishing a once magnificent house that has become dilapidated over time is not a difficult task; anyone can do it."

"But building a new house that can shelter and protect many people on the ruins of an old house is an extremely difficult task. Let's explore and try slowly."

Raimon Hikaru didn't want the atmosphere to be so serious, so he joked, "Let alone experience building houses, this is my first time even demolishing one."

He paused for a moment, then said earnestly, "However, I believe that if we continue, more and more like-minded people will come to Lord Yun Chuan's side and join us!"

Before dawn, Raimon Hikaru always lamented that there were too few like-minded people.

People like him who focus on research are mostly not powerful ninjas, and some may not even know how to use ninjutsu, but they all know how to use chakra, and their understanding and application of chakra is unmatched by ordinary ninjas.

They did not crudely regard chakra as the "energy" for using ninjutsu, but rather regarded "chakra" as a very convenient "energy". They were not simply bound by the form of "jutsu".

The hope is that more people who do not have the talent for ninjutsu can also use this "energy" to unleash enough power to make it a groundbreaking driving force for the progress of the human world.

Unfortunately, in this day and age, most ninjas are too focused on the power of the "techniques" themselves, and even Tsunade's medical ninja plan is not taken seriously.

The use of chakra is now primarily for combat and killing, so much so that all research is focused on ninjutsu, which has resulted in the major drawback that chakra cannot be widely used.

After all, ninjas are only a tiny minority of humans, not the general public. Chakra cannot enter the world of ordinary people, so it will never become a truly groundbreaking force that promotes the evolution of the human world.

Powerful ninjutsu can only be used by powerful ninjas, while humans have become slaves to chakra, directly leading to the stagnation of current technological levels.

Raimon Hikaru's research focuses on how to enable ordinary people to use chakra and enjoy this energy. What he really wants to do is research civilian chakra technology.

Unfortunately, the ninjas and nobles did not value his ideals much, and looked down on his commoner status, receiving only ridicule and rejection in return.

It wasn't until he joined Dawn that he met so many like-minded people.

If he hadn't met Yun Chuan, he would probably still be spending his days in vain, pretending to be friendly with those short-sighted fools.

Here, he didn't need to worry about money and resources, nor did he need to travel around to avoid war. All he needed to do was do the research he loved most and give full play to his talents.

If the gods never look at me with respect, the devil's favor will make me praise them loudly; if the gods never look after me, the devil's invitation will make me gladly accept it.

Lei Menguang was certain that only Yun Chuan could give him the opportunity to unleash his talent, and only here could his abilities be developed to the fullest extent.

In response to Raimon Hikaru's flattery, Yun Chuan simply chuckled.

Everything he did was simply because the world seemed too boring to him.

In the early days after he arrived in this world, he was also hesitant to act for fear that his actions might change the course of the "plot".

However, he soon realized that endless repetition did not constitute a song at all.

War, war, meaningless war, nothing has changed at all.

Even if the future of this world perfectly matches the original plot in his memory, so what?

He came into this world to experience life, to die once and be reborn, not to experience a real-life storyline.

He doesn't have much affection for the so-called original characters, so he has no intention of sacrificing himself to make up for the regrets of the original characters.

He wanted to see a future and possibilities completely different from the events he remembered.

After realizing his true inner thoughts, he looked down at the changes and trends of the world, reached out and touched the stagnant sea, causing ripples to spread, and then, huge waves to rise.

"This massive rebellion will begin in the Land of Rain and sweep across the entire world."

Yun Chuan cast his deep gaze toward the morning mist outside and said casually, "Soon, everyone will understand how ridiculous and absurd everything they had in the past was."

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