rock ninja log

After the war, the destroyed Shinano Town quickly became lively, and its former prosperity was slowly being restored bit by bit.

Lumberjacks cut down big trees and skillfully processed each big tree into wooden planks, and then made them into materials needed for various constructions.

Horse-drawn carriages are constantly coming and going, transporting countless grains, porcelain, spices, and various daily necessities. Houses are being rebuilt, roads are being widened, and there are noisy voices and the clanging of hammers and saws.

There is no end for a moment.

Anyone who walks to Shinanotei will be attracted by the young people sitting at the port fishing.

A bamboo hat, a moonlight robe, and a black puppy sitting next to him formed a completely different quiet and natural scene amidst the hustle and bustle, which was very eye-catching.

The young man had very strange white hair, which was neither long nor short. It was braided into a ponytail and hung behind him, swaying as he swung the fishing rod.

When walking to the port, many pedestrians would involuntarily stop for a while before leaving. The reason is because the way the white-haired boy fishes is so exciting.

There is no fish, and even the fishhook is straight. The boy who is sitting quietly will often suddenly take action, and the swift transparent fishing line will be thrown into a silver light, and the fishhook will be thrown into the river with a swishing sound. It has excellent toughness.

The fishing rod was quickly straightened, and then a big fish was thrown out of the water with a roar.

Without even looking at the fish basket, Uehara swung the fishing rod, and the big fish was thrown into the bamboo fish basket with a small entrance.

"Okay!" This wonderful performance won people's cheers and thunderous applause. Listening to the noise, there were many people, probably another big caravan was coming.

"Boy, are these fish for sale?" A strong middle-aged man carrying a bow and arrow came over. He was tired from a long journey and needed to prepare some fresh food during his break.

"No," Uehara threw a basket full of fish to the middle-aged man, "I'll give it to you. There are a lot of fish here and the water quality is good. It's easy to catch fish."

The young man with a bright smile was very impressive. The middle-aged man took the fish basket and smiled honestly. He looked back at the wide street that was being renovated and the identical shops that seemed to have been deliberately built. He looked around,

He seems to be a local from Uehara.

"I heard that all the shops here sell it, right?" the middle-aged man asked, pointing to the neat rows of shops.

"Yes, after the reconstruction of Shinano Town, all the shops will be sold, including the port, and the port will also be leased." Uehara explained kindly, and the middle-aged man left in a hurry.

At this time, Uehara insisted on spending all his resources to build the sample room first, which showed its extraordinary advertising effect. The shop covering an area of ​​more than 300 square meters is 14 meters high and has four floors. The first floor is a

The spacious and bright hall is five meters high, and the remaining three floors are also three meters high.

Uehara personally designed and planned the architectural plans. What he wanted was not a village or a town. In his vision, he wanted a small city, which was even more prosperous than Konoha Village.

The population of the ninja world is not too large, and the high-rise buildings born from the highly dense population are not suitable for use here. However, after analyzing the geographical location of Shinano Town, Uehara believes that it has the potential to develop into a prosperous material transfer center. As for failure,

, the money is not yours anyway, forget it if you fail.

After the original residents of Shinano Town experienced a catastrophe, no one was left alive, so Uehara unceremoniously took possession of the entire Shinano Tei land as his own.

The prosperous Shinano Town was completely destroyed, which facilitated Uehara's redesign. He widened the road a lot. The wide main road could accommodate eight carriages traveling at the same time.

The original requirements for the road are very high standards. It must be flat enough, hard enough, and cannot accumulate water. Construction must start at least one meter below the ground, so as to ensure that the entire road surface can last enough years.

However, such high requirements have troubled the engineers responsible for the construction. There is too much rain in the land of rain. To prevent the road from accumulating water and not being washed away, a complex drainage system needs to be designed. Also, Uehara requires that concrete materials be used as the roadbed.

, these are conditions that the simple construction environment does not have.

The road surface was temporarily paved, and Uehara had already sent people to keep an eye on the upper reaches of the Shinano River. Calculating it, the massive water conservancy project of the Iwagakure Project was probably coming to an end. So many manpower must be fought over to fill the new Shinano Town.

At the same time, in Tano Country, Uehara also sent a caravan passing through Tano Country to deliver the message. He asked his swordsmanship teacher Kamizumioka Nobu for help and asked to borrow a team of 500 samurai guards to guard the Shinano River.

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As a price, Uehara promised to hire them with the remuneration of low-level ninjas. For the time being, Uehara has not yet received a reply.

In the bright hall, the cleverly designed room has windows at appropriate locations, and the light is reflected and gathered on a huge crystal chandelier in the center of the ceiling of the room, reflecting dazzling light.

The furnishings in the room are equally exquisite, with dark marble floors, white cashmere carpets, painted desks and bookshelves, bright flowers sprinkled with water, and a fish tank on the desk with water plants and fresh fire inside.

, and two small red fish that Uehara found after catching for a long time were also placed inside and swimming quietly.

This kind of layout can be considered exquisite, but not luxurious. This is the office layout that Uehara copied from the third generation Tsuchikage Onoki. At the same time, he also added his own decoration, planning to use it as his own office in the future.

The real attraction is the knife rack placed in front of the screen and a contract framed on the curtain wall.

The sword was sent by Hanzo, the leader of the rain ninja, and Shinano Town will be under his protection.

Ordinary people do not have enough strength to deal with the threat of ninjas. Hanzo's name is not only a legend in the Land of Rain, but has also been heard by businessmen who often travel to various countries.

"Is it true? Master Hanzo has included this town within the protection scope? Is it true?"

"It should be," someone beside him explained in a low voice, "I once delivered food to the Rain Ninja Village, so I recognize Hanzo's handwriting. Besides, this is the Kingdom of Rain, and it is under the control of the Rain Ninja. There is no one who can fake it.

Bar?"

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The economy of the Kingdom of Rain is not prosperous, but rather poor. It may rain more in a month than in the Kingdom of Earth in a year. Too much rain is not a good thing. Without sufficient light, soil in the soil will

The reproductive material also failed to accumulate under the erosion of rain, and crops could not grow. The most lacking thing in the Rain Country was food.

During the war, Konan and his group met Jiraiya when they went out to look for food. But even in peacetime, Uehara's several experiences in the Land of Rain, there were wilted carrots in the store and I don't know if there was a pound of carrots.

The price of white rice is more expensive than a detonating charm.

As for why Hanzo worked so hard to develop his military power and even recruited a large number of wandering ninjas and rebel ninjas at all costs, he imposed heavy taxes on the areas under his jurisdiction, and all the proceeds were used to purchase ninja tools, but why didn't he spend some energy to develop them? Regarding people's livelihood or restoring the economy, Uehara believes that either Danzo is stupid or there are other reasons.

The Country of Rain is located in the land of four wars, and wars occur frequently. Because countless villages have been destroyed by the war, often a new town is established before it has time to make profits, and it may soon be destroyed by bandits, wandering ninjas or powerful ninjas. The conflict between them was ruined in one fell swoop. The investment was not directly proportional to the harvest. Besides, that was the business of the Rain Country daimyo.

And Sansho Hanzo, who rose up in the war, was the first rain ninja to completely drive ninjas from other countries out of the country. He defeated the rock ninjas, defeated the Konoha ninjas, and drove the mist ninjas into the sea several times. At the same time, After winning the war with the three major countries, he became a hero of the entire Kingdom of Rain and was admired by many people. This included Yahiko, the founder of Xiaozhong later.

As the actual controller of the Kingdom of Rain, Hanzo can control most of the things that happen in the Kingdom of Rain. The reconstruction work of Shinano Tei was discovered by the Rain Ninja on the first day. Later, the Rain Ninja sent by Hanzo brought Hanzo He is here to ask for money, or to collect protection money...

Five million ryo per quarter is actually not much, but this is only the first year's share, and it is doubled in the second year. In other words, it doesn't matter how Uehara is run, but Shinano Town, which belongs to Uehara, has to pay Hanzo 40 million a year for protection. fee.

As one of the future owners, protectors and managers of Shinano Town, Mr. Murakata, who has experience in managing the underground black market and takes both black and white, thinks that the share is too high, 40 million is too much, and he wants to give less. For this reason, Uehara It mercilessly satirizes the old village man who has never seen the world.

Originally, the guy who handed over to Amano was the mayor of Shinano Town, but that guy was later blown up by the Sanyo people. According to Uehara's observation, the price of goods unloaded by ships passing by the dock increased every day. It is enough to pay off the protection fee, not to mention the income from renting out other shops and other income from the underground black market.

The old man from Murakata is probably qualified as a manager. He is very resourceful. He used his savings from running underground casinos for many years to recruit a small number of construction teams in the nearest town. A larger part of the people are actually dying or about to transform into bandits. With Uehara's permission, he promised to allocate houses to the homeless people, so the problem of manpower shortage no longer existed.

All the homeless people nearby came, and the old man in the village just paid some food and got a large group of laborers for free without even paying wages.

Murashita also has some very wise measures. For example, he is very kind and gives some food to the workers every day. It is just a small bag, which cannot fill the stomach. At the same time, he only gives it to those who work the hardest. , fully mobilizing enthusiasm. At the same time, those people who bring food back to the village will have the best advertising effect. Slowly, more and more people will gather towards the Shinano River. Even if there is no work to do, even if ten people carry A piece of wood, Uehara also warned people to stay.

The basis of urbanism is the concentration of human resources, and the basis of industrialization is also the need for population.

It is impossible to develop agriculture in the Rain Country unless Uehara can develop crops that can grow plumply under one-tenth of the lighting conditions.

As for industrialization, it must be investigated. At least you must know to what extent the world's productivity has developed, so that you can make corresponding development plans.

The home was destroyed by the war, and even the food was stolen by bandits. Many children also followed. They could not lift heavy objects and could not do dangerous things, so they had to do work such as picking up stones.

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However, an accident still happened. A very naughty little guy climbed up to the high scaffolding alone, and accidentally fell down. He was hung on a nail and his belly was broken. When Uehara and the others got the news very late, they came over.

By that time, the little guy whose name I didn’t even know had already lost his life.

If Nagato and the others hadn't met Jiraiya, they would probably have had this kind of experience. Also, if they hadn't met Zabuza, Haku would just be huddled at the bridge in winter wearing single clothes and bare feet, and there were many other little guys.

, there are always many people with bad luck.

Before the Shinanottei house was built, the first divided cemetery was built first. The kid has no relatives. I heard others said that he had wandered in other towns long ago. He heard that there was food here, so he came here.

He ran over with the adults.

The kid who didn't even have a pair of shoes had arms as thin as sticks, which really moved Uehara's heart of compassion, and finally he made a decision that made the old man in the village heartache - providing free food to minors under the age of 16 until

Until the day Shinano Town was built.

"We'll come back tomorrow!" Yahiko's eyes were choked with his mouth full of steamed buns, but he still kept picking up the boiled fish on the plate with his chopsticks. Really, it's been a long time since he's eaten so delicious.

The bastard Mr. Jiraiya promised that he would come back, but the war is over, why hasn’t he come back yet?

"It's better not to," Nagato, who knew his eyes looked weird, huddled in the corner wearing sunglasses, "We come here too often, we will be discovered, right?"

"No matter!" Yahiko feasted without any image, "Don't eat mushrooms. Poisonous mushrooms will cause you to hallucinate and bang your head against a tree. Don't eat fish either. Fish is also poisonous. Eating it will cause stomachache, so don't eat it."

Stealing other people's things, robbing other people's things will..." Suddenly, Yahiko stopped using his chopsticks, and he remembered something that made him feel full of guilt.

There is no elegance in the struggle for survival. A whole village of people can die for a little bit of food. Yahiko and the others have seen this kind of thing many times. After learning ninjutsu, their lives will take a different trajectory. Yahiko, who has many clever ideas, meets him again.

When he saw a kid who was carrying food carefully and secretly, Yahiko knew that there must be food stolen from somewhere hidden in his arms, and he would either take it back to his hungry brother or take it back to his sister.

"Hey, I caught you!" Yahiko pretended to snatch the food, "But if you call me big brother, there will be endless food!"

As his strength changes, his mentality must also change. Yahiko is very kind. He doesn't even want to hurt a bird, but later he learned ninjutsu. I don't know when, he will accurately shoot down the bird with his shuriken.

And cheered for joy.

The frightened kid didn't understand Yahiko's joke. He was so frightened that he quickly turned around and ran away, hitting the wall with his head in a panic.

Yahiko couldn't understand, and neither Konan nor Nagato could understand why the person died after the collision. The emotion of self-blame almost swallowed up Yahiko, and it took Yahiko a long, long time to step out of the shadows.

After that, the reason why the savior became the savior was not many earth-shattering reasons. At first, Yahiko just wanted to make the Rain Country no longer have children as miserable as them.

The dishes and chopsticks were all put away, and it was time to sleep again. After eating, I felt very sleepy, especially Yahiko and the others who could no longer blend in among the noisy children.

"Should we also help build the town?" Nagato suddenly said, "Children don't have to work. But we are not ordinary children."

"Huh." This suggestion was very good. Yahiko thought about it seriously and said, "I agree!"

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The three people used the transformation technique to look like adults and went to the construction site. "One, two...three!" With a bang, a huge log was thrown to the ground.

"This is the third steamed bun." Yahiko muttered, rubbing his worn shoulders, "I want to lift two more steamed buns, and another fish... Oh, and there is mushroom soup that is not poisonous."