Hokage: Give Me Face

Chapter 60 Price Increase (2/3)

The next morning, in a small village on an island in the Land of Water, a man with a full beard mysteriously approached a young man's ear.

"Hey, Ida, have you heard that war is about to break out."

"Nonsense, who doesn't know about this kind of thing?"

"No, that's not what I'm talking about, you know, because of the thick water vapor in the air in our country of water, many things cannot be planted, especially cotton, hemp, and silk that need to be imported from abroad. my country, or other countries, will block foreign trade transactions, and when these things cannot be imported, what should we wear?"

"Isn't it?" The young man was stunned for a moment, obviously stumped by this question, he frowned and thought for a while, then slowly said, "Aren't our seafood products also exported to other countries? If Block foreign trade transactions..."

"Hey, Ida, you think about our country too well. You know, decisions at the national level don't care about the lives of us civilians!"

Perhaps thinking that it was almost done, the bearded man patted the young man on the shoulder earnestly, and suddenly took out the money in his purse: "See, this is my savings for a few years, no matter what you think, anyway, I plan to Take all the money to buy fabrics. Once countries cut off foreign trade transactions, the price of fabrics will skyrocket until the end of the war. Not only that, have you ever thought that if this war is fought for ten or twenty years, The fabrics in our country's inventory can't support the consumption of millions of people at all, so to speak, think about it for yourself, I'm going to buy fabrics!"

After the bearded man finished speaking, he quickly disappeared, leaving only the young man frowning and thinking. After thinking for a long time, he felt that what the bearded man said was very reasonable, and immediately gave up going out, turned and ran towards his house.

"Wife! Quickly take out all the remaining money at home, I'm going to buy cloth!"

Scenes like this happened constantly in the big and small cities and villages of the water country, and the first people to spread the news were the members of the spy force.

In order to obtain more information, the spies are good at communication, especially those who have been lurking in the Land of Water for many years, and they are all acquaintances in Shili Ba Village.

The businessmen and spies didn't act, they didn't need to act, and now their actions would only make a fool of themselves. In Ye Xuan's plan, the businessman is a more important pawn, and it is only in the early stage of the plan, so there is no need to use it.

At night, in a fabric shop in Mie City, ten Elite Jōnin were silent, and everyone looked at Ye Xuan and Hatake Sakumo respectfully.

"Lord Xuan, according to your reasons last night, less than two out of ten people were willing to buy cloth, and not even ten people were unwilling to buy cloth!"

"The same is true of Hamasaki Castle and the surrounding cities that I am in charge of."

"I'm in charge of making Macheng worse."

"I'm here too..."

Hatake Sakumo's heart sank at the words of the ten captains, he turned his head to look, only to find Ye Xuan drinking tea leisurely, with a calm look.

"Little Xuan, stop drinking, your plan has gone wrong!" Hatake Sakumo's voice was urgent, he didn't understand, he knew that the situation was not right, if it didn't change, the whole plan would be in vain.

However, Ye Xuan was still drinking tea leisurely, he smashed his mouth, pointed to the tea cup and said, "I like this kind of tea, add some hot water for me."

“Little Xuan!!!”

"All right"

Ye Xuan was helpless, put down the teacup and leaned on the chair lazily, his voice was calm, with confidence in his calm: "Today I walked around Mie City, and just like you said, I made a special trip to the fabric store with money. There are very few people who buy several large boxes of cloth, including our own store, and we also sold two big customers, but...what are you anxious about?"

"We're in a hurry? You're not in a hurry! Little Xuan, Konoha is facing pressure from the two countries, and will face a strong attack from the four countries in the future. Our Konoha will perish at any time, what the hell are you thinking!!!"

Hatake Sakumo almost roared if it wasn't for his calmness, but even so, he clenched his fists tightly, obviously suppressing his emotions.

"I didn't think about it. No one bought it in the early stage. It was a normal thing. Human beings are naturally suspicious. , most of them won't come to buy cloth."

"then you......"

"No hurries?"

Ye Xuan glanced at Hatake Sakumo, his calm and confident appearance quickly infected everyone, and Hatake Sakumo and the ten captains gradually stabilized their emotions.

At this moment, the atmosphere in the room was solemn and slow, but there was no impatience. Ye Xuan closed his eyes and thought, and after some time, he finally opened his eyes, his eyes were bright and bright.

"There is only one task for tomorrow. You 300 Anbu disguised as civilians to buy fabrics. If you want to show madness and strong emotions in the store, isn't the market price 100,000 taels per box, so you can buy it with 110,000."

"110,000 boxes? We used 5 billion to buy 4 fabrics in the country before, and now we raise the price to buy them. Is the money enough?"

"Don't worry, when I was trapped in the Land of Water, I already knew the layout of the city. The commercial stores of the Land of Water were all gathered in the city's business district, and every inch of land was expensive, which also resulted in the small area of ​​each store. These The fabric store is in the city, but the inventory is in the countryside and suburbs. There are at most ten or twenty boxes in the city store. You will directly use the price of 110,000 boxes to sweep the goods tomorrow. Yes, the spies continue to cooperate with Anbu's propaganda, they don't believe the price of fabrics will go up? Good! I'll let them see it believing!"_