Duanmu Baiyun of Konoha

Chapter 352 Konoha Village's [-]th Law
Strolling on the streets of Muye Village, the village is quiet and serene at this time.

The last enemy, Yunyin Village, also withdrew from the war. So far, Muye Village has no foreign aggression.

There are a lot of people on the street in the evening, three or two people wandering aimlessly, walking shoulder to shoulder to the restaurant, young men and women meeting to go shopping...

The retired ninja who lost his legs was in a daze by the lake, the seven or eight-year-old children were running to deliver goods to the merchants, and the sad woman in black plain clothes didn't know where she was going with the child on her back...

Suddenly, a three-member Uchiha garrison team walked across the street, and the noise on the street suddenly became much quieter.

The three Uchiha ninjas also noticed this phenomenon, but they looked proud and raised their heads even higher.

Zhishui frowned, knowing that this was wrong, but he didn't know how to stop it.

His identity is an ordinary Konoha ninja on the surface, but secretly a member of Anbu, no matter which identity he has, there is no reason to take action.

Finally, Zhishui looked at Duanmu and said, "Senior Duanmu..."

Knowing what Zhishui was going to say, Duanmu said: "Wait, let's go to the pub. Go to the pub and find a cubicle for a good chat."

Lei Tong said, "What about the tail behind me?"

Duanmu said:

"It should be the tail following Shisui. You all have to be careful of Danzo, he dare not do anything to me, but he can do anything to you. If there is any situation, please notify me as soon as possible."

Duanmu looked at the three root ninjas following in the dark. The root ninjas met Duanmu's eyes, knowing that they had been exposed, they immediately fled away.

After thinking for a while, Duanmu continued: "Leitong, let Shoujiu organize some people tomorrow, check the roots around us, and let them be more honest."

Poor Shoujiu has now become a thug of the organization, so he can move wherever he needs to.

The three of them walked towards a tavern together.

Along the way, they encountered several conflicts between the Uchiha garrison and the villagers. Duanmu also didn't return to the village for a year. They didn't expect the villagers in the village to have so much resentment towards the Uchiha clan.

It was so heavy that the three of them could hear it with their ears. As long as the Uchiha guards appeared, vicious curses would always follow.

No one can maintain a good law enforcement attitude in this situation, and the attitude of the Uchiha garrison is getting worse and worse.

Seeing three Jonin walking together, and one of them was from the Uchiha clan, the guards deliberately avoided the three of them, not wanting to cause trouble.

The journey was not pleasant, but fortunately, Muye Village was not big, so they arrived at the tavern very quickly.

In the twelfth lunar month of winter, a pot of hot wine is served, and there are three or five side dishes.

The warm room dispelled the cold air, had a sip of hot wine and a couple of small dishes, Duanmu and Leitong hadn't felt so comfortable for a long time.

Shisui has been confined in the village because of Uchiha's identity, so he can't appreciate the enjoyment of the moment like Duanmu and Leitong.

He just hesitated to speak.

After several glasses of wine, Duanmu said:
"Shisui, Uchiha's matter, one requires the village to make changes, and the other requires Uchiha to make changes."

"Today, let's talk about the changes that the village needs to make. If the village doesn't make changes, then all the actions of Uchiha will be meaningless."

"Leitong, let's talk about it first. The data mentioned before should be almost sorted out, right?"

Leitong nodded, put down his wine glass, took out a scroll from the ninja bag, unfolded it, looked at the scroll and said:

"According to your request, Duanmu, I made statistics on some data of Muye Village."

"The current population of Konoha Village is 10 people, about 2 households. The peak number of ninjas was [-] people."

Lei Tong raised his head and said:

"Take the data before the start of the Ninja War as an example, Duanmu, you are right. This is the first [-]th law of Muye Village: the ratio of ninjas to civilians in Muye Village is close to [-] to [-]."

"According to the archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Muye Village, 80 ninjas and their families control [-]% of the wealth of Muye Village."

"This is the second [-]th law of Konoha Village."

Zhishui kept frowning, not knowing what Duanmu and Leitong were doing.

Rayton continued:

"At the peak of Konoha, there were 2 ninjas. I believe that in five or ten years, the number of ninjas in Konoha Village will return to this level."

"Among the 2 ninjas, 4000 are ninja ninjas, and 16000 are civilian ninjas."

"This is the third [-]th law of Konoha Village: the ratio of the number of ninja ninjas to the number of civilian ninjas is two to eight."

Duanmu nodded, almost as he guessed.

According to the data on the scroll, Leitong continued:
"As for the ninja's wealth, it also follows the [-]th rule that Duanmu said, but it's reversed."

"Ninja ninjas, who account for [-]% of the number of ninjas, own [-]% of the total wealth of Muye Village."

"Civilian ninjas account for [-]% of the number of ninjas, but only own [-]% of the total wealth!"

"This is Konoha's fourth [-]th law."

Shisui felt shocked for a moment, is the gap between ninja and civilians so obvious?

He is a member of the wealthy Uchiha clan, and has never felt deeply about this matter.He always thought that all ninjas were similar to him.

Rayton continued:

"There is an even more terrifying fifth [-]th law!"

"The task issued by the village, after the ninja completes the task, the village will take 11%... No, it's already 12% tax."

"For the task issued by the client, the village will take 30% of the commission, plus 70% of the personal income tax of the remaining 12%, which is a total of 38.4% of the tax."

"Eighty percent of Konoha Village's annual financial income comes from the taxes collected by ninjas after they complete missions!"

"The remaining [-]% ​​is the commercial tax, business tax, land tax, etc. of the entire village."

"This is Konoha's fifth [-]th law!"

"This most terrifying [-]-[-] law has directly caused us ninjas to live and die, but our lives are not very good."

Duanmu took a sip of sake and sighed heavily.

It's the same everywhere, ordinary people with the largest number can only enjoy very few resources.The top layer with a small number of people occupies the vast majority of resources.The sociological statistical rule discovered by Pareto always presents a two to eight situation.

He and Zhishui said:

"Shisui, no matter how hard you Uchiha clan work, the people in Konoha Village will not favor you."

"Because everyone's life is very hard, this kind of hardship and anger of the whole village needs an outlet."

"This outlet happens to be your Uchiha clan."

"No, it's not 'exactly', it was artificially selected by the high-level as your Uchiha clan."

"Otherwise, it can't explain why the Uchiha clan is being targeted by high-level and other ninjas everywhere."

"If you don't want to be the villain, who will be the villain? The Sarutobi clan? Or the Nara clan?"

"Actually, did your Uchiha clan really do any evil things?"

"No, really not. It's a structural problem that has caused anger among the villagers."

Zhishui remained silent, this was the first time he thought about these issues.

Duanmu continued:

"The [-]th law is also called the law of the key minority, also called the law of the unimportant majority, and also called the principle of imbalance."

"Ninjas are the key minority, and civilians are the unimportant majority."

"Wealth is greedy, and those who own it are also greedy. Driven by greed, wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few."

"In the end, in most organizations, this [-]/[-] rule will be formed."

"These five [-] laws of Konoha determine that Konoha's distribution system is extremely unreasonable."

"The ninja family owns [-]% of the wealth, but only pays [-]% of the tax."

"The post-war construction of Konoha needs money and resources. The task rewards during the war have not been fulfilled until now."

"Today, we just passed a proposal to increase the ninja personal income tax by 1 percentage point."

"However, in the entire ninja class meeting, have any proposals for commercial tax, land tax, etc. been put forward?"

"Absolutely not!"

"Is it because Konoha's senior management doesn't know about commercial tax and land tax, and can effectively solve the current financial dilemma?"

"They know, they know better than we do!"

"It's just because the ninjas have always occupied Konoha's power structure, and they will not formulate policies that are not good for them."

"Among Konoha's senior management, there is only one voice, and that is the voice of the ninja."

Duanmu recalled the memories of his previous life, how this was like Daming when Chongzhen was hanged.

The gentry controlled the court and refused to levy business taxes, saying that it was shameful to compete with the people for profit, so they could collect taxes from the worst peasant households.

When paying taxes, the gentry all complained that they were poor, and they couldn't afford 200 taels.Hou Jin's knife rests on his neck, is 2000 million taels enough?not enough?Give me a chance, I can still take out 2000 million taels!

At this time, Lei Tong spoke again:

"Actually, when Lord II Hokage was in power, he was already keenly aware of this problem."

"At that time, the largest ninja clan in Konoha Village was the Senju Clan. During the 20 years of Nidaimu's reign, the proportion of the Senju Clan's wealth has been continuously weakened."

"The Senju clan began to intermarry with other ninjas or civilians, and Master Nidaimu did not require that the descendants of Senju must be named Senju. Therefore, the number of Senju clan is constantly decreasing."

"At the same time, the huge wealth of the Thousand Hands Clan is also distributed through this frequent intermarriage."

"It's definitely the right thing to try."

"At the end of the second generation's reign, it was the most glorious time for Konoha."

"Konoha's geniuses emerge in endlessly. Konoha Hakuga, Sannin, Kato Dan, etc., are all Kage-level powerhouses who grew up at that time."

"but···"

Duanmu knew that it was difficult for Leitong to say much, so he took over the conversation and said:
"However, after the third generation came to power, this good form came to an abrupt end."

"The ninjas are closely united around the third generation, forming the so-called 'Roku Family'."

"All resources are tilted towards Yuliujia."

"In the past few decades, not only has there been only one Kage-level strongman in the fourth generation, but Konoha Shirato committed suicide, Kato died, and even Sannin is not involved in village affairs now."

"Except for Kage-level ninjas, Konoha's overall strength is also declining rapidly."

"In the Second Ninja World War, although Master Nidaimu died, Konoha never let others beat him to the entrance of the village."

"In the third ninja world war, Konoha became more and more difficult to fight. Not only was he beaten to the entrance of the village by Shayin Village, but he also confronted Yunyin Village, a ninja village, at the border for many years."

"All in all, due to the uneven distribution of wealth and the solidification of classes, Muye Village is lifeless, has lost its vitality, and its overall strength is also declining rapidly."

"If you want to address these issues, you need to fundamentally address distribution patterns."

"We want to carry out a change, not writing articles, not painting and embroidering, not being so elegant, so calm, so gentle, courteous and frugal."

"Inviting guests to dinner can't make ninja spit out interests that don't belong to them."

"Next, there may be a short-term terrorist phenomenon. Otherwise, we must not let the activities of the ninja be suppressed."

"Several ninjas must be knocked down to the ground, and even stepped on."

"Correction must be excessive, but correctness cannot be corrected!"

Zhishui and Tongtong had inspired light in their eyes, and they were in high spirits.

Duanmu continued to speak:
"Shisui, I will tell the third generation that you will be transferred to the ninja class office, just like Lei, to be responsible for some things about the ninja class."

"Our ultimate goal is to make the distribution of Konoha a little fairer."

"A large part of Uchiha's plight is due to the heavy hostility in the village."

"Eighty percent of people are living a bad life, how can they not be hostile."

"We also want to prevent your Uchiha clan from becoming a vent for that hostility."

Zhishui nodded, he gained a lot today, and said:
"Then please forgive Senior Duanmu and the same seniors!"

"I thought that ninja affairs should be resolved in a ninja way, and that fighting and death are the ultimate destination of ninjas. I didn't expect that there are so many complicated reasons and rules for ninja affairs."

Duanmu said with a smile: "This is also the reason why the ninja tribe can stabilize us. They have a long history, have seen many things, and summed up many effective laws."

Finally, Duanmu and the two said:
"Likewise, Zhishui, in the next few days, you should pay attention to one thing."

Both Leitong and Zhishui straightened up and listened carefully.

Duanmu said:
"The breakthrough of the Yuliu family lies in the Nara family."

"Nara Shikama died on the Wunin Battlefield, Nara Shikahisa died on the Cloud Ninja Battlefield, and most of the elites of the Nara Clan died with their two patriarchs."

"The Nara clan is at its weakest, and the old Masao Nara will not make any waves."

"This is an excellent opportunity that has been rarely encountered in decades. We will use the Nara clan as a guide to gradually disintegrate. No, if we operate properly, we can even disintegrate the forces of the Yuliu family in a very short time."

On the second day after becoming the monitor of the ninja class, Duanmu went to the second floor of the Hokage Building.

There is an office here, which belongs to Duanmu.

The office of the ninja class is located here, and Duanmu also works here.

When passing by the aisle on the second floor, Duanmu found that Nara Shikahisa's photo had also been hung on the wall.

Oh, the action is really fast.

I hope Nara Shikamaru does not have the chance to hang on the wall. I hope that when Nara Shikamaru grows up, the status of the Nara clan has already matched its wealth.

After entering the office, Duanmu found that similarities had already arrived.

Along with Lei, there were two young men wearing Chunin vests.

Sitting behind his desk, I heard the same thing say:

"Duanmu, these are two young men from my previous team, Shenyue Izumo and Gang Zitie."

"I recommend the two of them to join the ninja class office."

Isn't this the guard duo after Konoha?

Duanmu was overjoyed and said:
"This is simply great! With the addition of two Wolong and Fengchu, our ninja class office is like a tiger with wings added!"

The two newcomers were a little embarrassed, not knowing what the leader of the ninja class was talking about, but they felt the joy of the leader of the ninja class.

(End of this chapter)