Uchiha Kotogawa from Konoha

January passed quickly.

There have been obvious changes in Konoha Village. Under the strong leadership of Minato, Konoha Village has expanded very quickly. Ninjutsu has become extremely efficient in land preparation and logging. Flat land twice the size of Konoha's original area has been formed.

It's just that Konoha's population is scarce enough to fill the newly opened space.

Minato actually didn't understand this, and he didn't understand why Kotokawa did this, but fortunately these things didn't take much effort and were of some benefit to Konoha, so he did it.

At the same time, the ninja team that cleared out bandits outside Konoha also gained a reputation.

Bandits and bandits were wiped out one after another, and in a short period of time, making everyone in the bandits feel in danger.

The security situation near Konoha has improved significantly, and it is still expanding outwards.

However, this also has a disadvantage, that is, the number of tasks is reduced.

Without bandits and bullies blocking the road, life for both civilians and businessmen has become easier.

In the ninja mission system, the bulk of the missions are due to security issues, and the missions related to ninjas are only a small part. Although this part of the commission accounts for the majority, the lack of missions is still very distressing for the middle genin.

Even related to their livelihood.

Of course Kotokawa also considered this. She meant to let these genin enter production and pay them a fixed salary.

The expenditures are of course issued by Konoha.

The source of Konoha's income is tax collection, and rent collection. The newly opened open space can attract businessmen to settle in, and Konoha can also dominate some of its own industries.

For example, the minerals around Konoha can also be used for deep processing of raw materials, and finished products can be sold to merchants coming to Konoha at a relatively low price.

Konoha's foundation is very good, but the previous Hokage has no interest in developing business.

Now, under the threat of Qinchuan's force, Minato had to embark on this path, and with Minato's wisdom, he realized the various benefits of this business method soon after embarking on this path.

In the past, Minato might have been worried that focusing solely on making money would cause the ninjas to neglect training and slow down their growth in strength. However, after several meetings and conversations with Kotokawa, he also realized that Konoha is actually capable of completely suppressing and balancing other ninjas. Ninja Village.

Just one of his Flying Thunder Gods combined with the Mangekyou and Kyuubi is enough to make the major ninja villages miserable, and even force them to destroy the villages.

Under this circumstance, Konoha Village has entered prosperity almost visible to the naked eye.

The surrounding bandits have been vigorously suppressed, and the environment has obviously improved. Coupled with some external publicity of Konoha, and the huge reputation of Konoha Village itself.

Foreign residents and businessmen come here every day.

In the past, Konoha was a military base with strict military control, but now there is a trend of transforming into a commercial city.

On the rooftop of the Hokage Tower, Minato looked at the entire village with a sincere smile on his face.

"Although it goes against the concept of one country, one village system of the first generation of adults, I think this seems better."

With a sense of satisfaction welling up in his heart, Minato remembered the promise he made to the villagers when he took over as Yondaime, and murmured to himself: "I will make the village better and better."

"Next, we will gather all the major ninja clans in the village. According to Kotokawa, as long as they join the business community, all families will be tied to Konoha, and everyone will be able to profit from it."

When Minato actually did all this, he suddenly understood how exquisite Kotokawa's layout and control was, using Konoha and the major ninja clans as the basis of strength to create a safe place for transactions.

This will attract merchants to settle in, and Konoha will extract taxes and rents from it. The major families and Konoha can also set up commercial trade on their own.

This is a win-win carnival.

It’s beneficial to everyone.

"As long as Konoha firmly controls the ninja school and trains ninjas from generation to generation to make them loyal to Konoha, we can ensure that Konoha is the center and the family is the branches of the tree."

"If some ninjutsu are also taught to the top students in the ninja school, they will not only grow up to be more powerful than family members, but their strength will not be much worse. Konoha does not have to worry about being infiltrated and controlled by major families."

The more Minato thought about it, the more he admired Kotokawa.

"She is a genius and is more suitable for the position of Hokage than I am."

Konoha has changed tremendously, which can be seen from the flow of people to and from Konoha during this period.

In the past, Konoha was not deserted, but it was not lively. After all, it was a war fortress under military jurisdiction. But now, the Fourth Generation has promulgated laws, and Uchiha, under the instruction of Fugaku, has also carried out a small reform in the security force. Act strictly in accordance with the laws of the fourth generation.

Although there are checks on foreigners, they are quite loose. However, when entering Konoha, the cold-faced Uchiha of the security force will hand them a copy of Konoha's laws and warn them not to violate them.

It seems that Uchiha is quite suitable for the cold-faced role. Outsiders who come to Konoha are relatively honest.

Of course, there must be spies from outside the village among these people, but that doesn't matter anymore. Konoha is now all focused on transformation, and Minato doesn't care about secrets or anything like that.

What's more, Konoha's more important secrets are nothing more than ninjutsu and some defense plans.

However, Kotokawa recently made a request to Minato, asking him to withdraw the ninjas stationed at the border and invest in the development of Konoha.

However, Minato refused because he was worried that other ninja villages would plunder the population and wealth of other cities in the Land of Fire.

This reason is quite good, and Qinchuan thinks it makes sense.

Three days later, Qin Chuan accompanied Fugaku to a meeting led by the Fourth Generation, which took place in the conference room of the Hokage Building.

All the clan heads in Konoha who could be named came.

Minato was quite high-spirited, and his dream since childhood made Konoha stronger, and he finally saw the light.

"Childs, we are summoned today to discuss the development of Konoha." Minato looked calm as he faced more than a dozen big family clan heads and dozens of small family clan heads.

"Yondaime, how do you want to develop Konoha? Just say it, I support it." Fugaku was the first to express his stance.

It immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Everyone here knows that since the establishment of the village in Konoha, the Uchiha have been an excluded ethnic group.

At this moment, Fugaku clearly expressed his support for the fourth generation's decision, which revealed the signal of Uchiha's surrender to the fourth generation.

There was no change in Hinata Hizashi's white eyes, and he slowly said: "I also support the fourth generation."

Even before the Minato pie was drawn, the two major wealthy families in Konoha had already expressed their support.

Such a terrifying scene made other clan leaders' scalps tingle, and the expressions of the third generation and the advisory group changed slightly.

It feels like things are about to get serious.

It was obvious that the Fourth Generation had won over Uchiha and Hinata.