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Thus, perhaps in a few years, 100 families will emerge in this place. Children will need education, creating a demand for schools, so Konoha villagers will open schools.
Workers will want to date, to spend money, to do other things, so there will be flower shops, commercial streets.
This way, even 50 years later, when the mine is nearly exhausted, this place will become a thriving city of around 100,000 people, and the mine owner will become the wealthiest and most respected person in the city.
Meanwhile, I received news that on the other side of the desert, a merchant from Sunagakure had also discovered a gold mine, invested in its excavation, hired 100 workers, and earned 5 million ryo per month.
But the mine owner only paid 10% of the profits as wages, each worker earning 5,000 ryo per month. This was barely enough to fill their stomachs, leaving them with no money to rent a house or find a wife, forcing them to live in shacks.
The mine owner earned 4.9 million ryo per month, but looking around at the poverty, there was no demand for further investment locally.
So, he transferred the money to the Land of Fire, to Konohagakure, because it wasn't safe locally. He bought several luxury villas in the Land of Fire and hired several shinobi as bodyguards.
The workers had no future, no needs beyond desperately working to survive.
If this continued for 50 years, there would be no industry in this place, only an empty mine. When the mine was exhausted, the mine owner would leave with a fortune, and the workers would become refugees, leaving behind a desolate desert for the Land of Wind and Sunagakure.
Why, in the same circumstances, on the same platform, do some people put in tremendous effort only to end up mediocre? Different thinking leads to different choices, and different outcomes!
Perhaps, this is the cognitive superiority of the people of the Land of Fire…
Long-term enterprise planning cannot only focus on immediate economic benefits but must also consider social benefits, sharing and winning with the general public, thereby promoting prosperity and economic development in the shinobi world.
The people of Konoha are probably the wealthiest and most intelligent people in the shinobi world. Their success is precisely because they have a higher level of thinking—the ability to "think what others cannot think."
Elder Advisor Gojo Kaigetsu of Konohagakure once said: "Humans can only develop rapidly after inventing the method of invention; we can only become masters after learning the method of learning."
Perhaps, now is the time for us to humbly and sincerely learn from Konoha, from Gojo Kaigetsu!
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Recently, the shinobi world has become increasingly unstable.
After the end of the Shinobi War, politicians settled into their village towers, the wealthy gained more wealth, and the poor could only search for the graves of their children and companions.
We… are just average people born in the Shinobi World.
Should we learn from Konohagakure, fight for our own good lives and tomorrow! Or should we fight for the power and money in the hands of politicians and the wealthy…?
The choice presented to us by our way of thinking may appear in this unassuming way at our feet.
The future lies ahead!
A Shinobi War is inevitable, but the timing is unknown.
According to intelligence from Konoha informants, Kumogakure and Sunagakure are actively expanding their military forces, especially Sunagakure, which has invested almost all the money traded with Konoha in Puppets, Shuriken, Explosive Tags… and other military supplies.
The Kazekage and the Raikage are actively negotiating with their respective Daimyo, requesting more funds to support the development of their villages. This intelligence was brought back by a high-ranking noble who dismissed it with a wave of ryo.
Kirigakure appears relatively honest, while Iwagakure, due to its militarized management, is difficult for Konoha Anbu to penetrate.
But a Shinobi War is a chain reaction.
There's no reason for Kumo and Suna to begin preparing for war while Iwa and Kiri remain aloof.
In the face of war, things like the "Konoha-Iwa Non-Aggression Treaty" and the "Konoha-Kiri Trade Agreement" are nothing more than worthless paper! Gojo Kaigetsu has already defined them as potential enemies.
The faster Konoha's power expands, the faster the Shinobi War will break out. It's only been a little over a year since the end of the war, and the shinobi world is once again on the brink of a major conflict.
This speed is unprecedented.
War is unavoidable.
All Gojo Kaigetsu can do is strengthen Konoha's military power while weakening the enemy's.
How to weaken them?
Making it impossible for the Four Great Ninja Villages to purchase or obtain shinobi tools is just one aspect. The other is to continuously erode the fighting morale of the Allied Forces.
Why do shinobi fight?!
Perhaps some shinobi fight for hatred, but Gojo Kaigetsu believes that a considerable number of Chūnin and Genin simply treat being a shinobi as a profession.
Life is already hard enough—where would they have the heart to care about hatred, bonds, or the Ninja Way?
What Gojo Kaigetsu needs to do is guide this part of the shinobi to think about what they are really fighting for!
"I have seen the Kage abandon this village! And today, the Kage must also submit to the will of ordinary shinobi!… We fight for all that is good in the shinobi world! Konohagakure is the most beautiful!"
Whether it's true or not, he needs to make them genuinely believe it and develop that conviction.
["After the Shinobi War, politicians settled into their village towers, the wealthy gained more wealth, and the poor could only search for the graves of their children and companions."]
Why risk your life to change the fate of others?
Your leader doesn't have the surname Gojo, and your ideology isn't the Will of Fire.
Once this conviction is established, war weariness will arise. Once war weariness arises… even with the village's Anbu and Root as military police, the Allied Forces will be difficult to maintain.
Perhaps when this article reaches Kumogakure, Sunagakure, and Kirigakure, the shinobi there will begin to think—
["The village is so big, why does a one-room apartment cost me 30,000 ryo?"]
["There are so many pure-hearted girls in the smaller ninja countries, why do I have to pay hundreds of thousands of ryo for a bride?"]
Once this trend begins to spread, perhaps a wave of desertions will begin among the ordinary ninja class.
"Escape, escape~"
"Otogakure doesn't ask about your past, welcome all ordinary people who want to join and make a living by selling their strength."
Here, it's a melting pot of all sorts, and intelligence agencies from all villages can only fumble in the dark. Here, there's gold everywhere. As long as you defect and sneak in, you don't have to face the prospect of death to live a life that's far more comfortable than being a shinobi…
Otogakure is currently undergoing a major construction boom. Relying on ordinary people for construction is too slow—they need shinobi with various Release Techniques to join.
Lightning Release and Physical Technique shinobi can work on construction sites, performing feats like carrying buildings for 10,000 ryo a day; Water Release shinobi can act as human cement mixers; Wind Release shinobi can lower the temperature during the hot summer and provide cool breezes for the workers…
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This is truly a biased and malicious article!
Gojo Kaigetsu held the article in his hands, savoring it with a delighted expression. He then put "Toes" aside and began to continue writing some heartwarming, humanistic stories for 'Iki'.
This was unavoidable. Not everyone likes The Forest Reader with its strong stance and venomous tone.
Those who read 'Iki consider those who read The Forest Reader to be uncultured and lacking independent thought. These people prefer to read Konoha's heartwarming, humanistic stories to improve their emotions.
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