Naruto: Start by eating the golden fruit

To be honest, Yuya has been in this world for decades, so naturally, he should have been prepared for many things.

It's just that things are a little out of his control now.

Here we have to talk about the price Yuya has paid for developing Konoha Village to its current level of prosperity over the years.

First, the decentralization of power.

Why power should be decentralized has been explained a long time ago. Yuya is just a person, not a machine. If Konoha Village is always the size of a village, then Yuya can hold power firmly in his hands.

The key to the problem is that Konoha Village is not static.

Since Yuya came to power, Konoha Village has been expanded three times.

Note that this only refers to the inner city of Konoha Village. If the outer city of Konoha Village is included, the expansion of Konoha Village can be said to have been continuous since Yuya came to power.

Over the years, the population of Konoha Village has finally exceeded 10 million. Of course, it is the sum of the inner and outer cities of Konoha.

Most of the extra population is concentrated in the outer city area.

As mentioned before, it is not enough to move only one hundred families from the outer city to the inner city every year.

Youya has been in power for almost forty years. Even if we count them in integers, one hundred families every year, ten people in one family, that is only forty thousand people.

The population of the inner city of Konoha Village has increased by forty thousand people in forty years. This scale of growth can be said to be sad and tearful.

However, this is a perfect way to control the outer city of Konoha Village. The number can only decrease and not increase every year.

If the population of the outer city is allowed to enter the inner city of Konoha Village, then the inner city of Konoha Village will immediately become overcrowded.

Of course, this is not an important matter. For Youya, this is just a means for him to control the stability of the outer city. He has never relied on this method to increase the population of the inner city of Konoha Village.

If you want to increase the population of the inner city of Konoha Village, there is no doubt that the best way is natural population growth.

And how the population grows naturally is that the lives of the lower-class people are getting better and better.

To put it bluntly, people in the inner and outer cities of Konoha Village actually know that the inner city of Konoha Village is the place that everyone yearns for, but being able to come in does not mean that you can live here.

However, even so, there are still many people who would rather work in the inner city of Konoha Village with temporary ID cards.

Why? Are they pinning their hopes on the illusory list of 100 people every year?

Of course not.

The reason is simple. The inner city of Konoha Village is better built than the outer city. Even if life in the inner city of Konoha Village is harder, it is much more comfortable than in the outer city.

This is the real reason.

These people don't expect to get permanent residence at all. They just hope that they can stay in the inner city of Konoha Village for a little longer.

And these people, to put it bluntly, are here to serve the residents of the inner city of Konoha Village.

It's just that Youya uses very serious laws to prevent everyone from discriminating.

Why did Youya make such a law?

I won't go into details about how the locals of a certain magic city where Youya lived in his previous life looked down on outsiders. After seeing so much, Youya also understood that one can never expect to use morality to restrain the people's thoughts. For thousands of years, countless ancestors have told Youya that this road will not work. It is impossible to restrain people with morality.

So Youya used the law to make the people in the inner city and the outer city of Konoha Village at least superficially fair.

Such a situation is of course impossible to last long. Most of the people in the inner city of Konoha Village have benefited from Youya's coming to power, and many people in the outer city think that it is just luck that they happened to be in Konoha Village when the Hokage came to power? If we were in the village at that time, we would definitely be better off than you now!

This underlying contradiction has always existed.

Youya also knows that it is very simple to solve this kind of thing, just open the border between the inner and outer cities.

But this problem is solved. What about the new problems? How to solve them?

Anyway, Youya thinks that it is better to continue like this for the time being, and wait for the population to explode in the future, when the population ratio of the outer city is much higher than that of the inner city of Konoha Village, and then implement the system of long-term residence qualification.

It is definitely not possible to give permanent status directly, but giving a long-term residence qualification for ten or twenty years will give the residents of the outer city a feeling that the Hokage Office has been forced to give in, so the contradiction can be gradually eased. Even if it appears again, it is impossible for the inner and outer cities to be very fierce, and even the possibility of a fight is absolutely impossible.

And this is the biggest underlying contradiction in Konoha Village now.

And on this basis, there is also an upper-level contradiction.

Many times when we look at history, we must combine it with the current situation.

In history, every time civilians appear, there are news of various conflicts [after all, who would remember if there were no conflicts? There is no explosive point...], but the wars that were truly won by civilians in the end, at most twice in thousands of years.

More often, the fruits of victory still fall into the hands of the upper class.     Here we have to mention the so-called high-level talents.

Who are the top talents in Konoha Village now?

That's right, those who have graduated from college and... those ninjas.

Youya's plan is very simple. When more and more people graduate from college, naturally, the power of the ninjas will gradually decline.

But the so-called plan cannot catch up with the change. These ninjas are not stupid. Moreover, they have people graduating from college every year. In addition, because of the exchange of interests, Youya gave them many positions of power in Konoha Village.

This has caused a very serious consequence.

That is, those ordinary civilians who graduated normally and entered various units, or worked in grassroots or middle-level management, will be related to some ninjas, either actively or passively.

Youya is not unaware of this, but he doesn't care, because he knows that the most important difference between civilians and ninjas is... civilians also want to rise and become a class like the ninjas of Konoha Village. Theoretically, the two sides are not in the same class.

However, Youya overlooked a problem.

That is, there will always be people who choose to take shortcuts.

Some civilians will of course choose not to interact with the ninjas because of their inner demands.

But naturally, there are also those who choose to play badly and directly cater to their preferences, or simply marry a ninja woman or marry a male ninja.

The reason why Youya has not discovered this phenomenon is because it is a voluntary behavior of these people.

There is no external force.

It is just that these civilian-born people weighed the pros and cons and chose the fastest way to get promoted.

Did the ninja clans do anything about this? No, they did nothing.

But the final result is...

Either actively or passively, the various departments of Konoha Village, such as the Construction Department, Finance Department, Legal Department, Agriculture Department, etc., almost all departments will have connections with various ninja clans.

Or marrying into a ninja clan man or marrying a ninja clan man.

Or a direct leadership relationship between superiors and subordinates.

Or a teacher-student relationship between a teacher and an apprentice.

And the most common one...

is the classmate relationship.

Many ordinary people may not care much about the classmate relationship.

But in fact, this relationship is a very important personal relationship in the upper circle.

If you are classmates, many things will be very easy to handle.

And the current situation of Konoha Village is that there are always some ninja clan members among the college students graduating every year.

After losing their clan land, these ninjas could only follow Youya's footsteps, let their family members go to college, and find ways to inherit their positions and power.

This is in line with the rules of the game.

But what Youya didn't expect was that in college, although these people didn't deliberately make friends with talented people among the common people...

But the relationship between classmates created a real bridge between the two sides...

Youya had to admit that he was wrong this time.

He originally thought that those excellent talents among the common people who were carefully selected would not choose to cooperate with the ninjas.

But Youya forgot one thing.

That is...

Isn't it better to be bad than to work hard? !