Naruto: Start by eating the golden fruit.

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

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

Here we have to talk about the price that Youya paid over the years to develop Konoha Village to its current level of prosperity.

First, decentralization of power.

The reason why power should be decentralized was explained a long time ago. Yuya is just a person, not a machine. If Konoha Village always remains the size of a village, then Yuya will be able to hold power firmly in his hands.

The crux of the matter is that Konoha Village is not static.

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

Please 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 continuing since Yuya came to power.

After so many years, the population of Konoha Village has finally exceeded 10 million. Of course, this is the population of the inner and outer cities of Konoha combined.

Most of the extra population is concentrated in the outer urban areas.

As mentioned before, relocating only one hundred households from the outer city to the inner city every year is really not enough.

You Ya has been in power for almost forty years. Even if we count it in round numbers, there are one hundred households per year, and ten people in each household, which is only forty thousand people.

In forty years, the population of the inner city of Konoha Village increased by forty thousand people. This scale of growth can be said to be heartbreaking and make people cry.

However, this is a perfect means of controlling the outer city of Konoha Village. The number can only decrease each year and cannot increase.

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

Of course, this is not a big deal. 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.

As for how the population grows naturally, it is natural that the lives of the lower-class people will become better and better.

To be frank, everyone in the inner and outer cities of Konoha Village actually knows that the inner city of Konoha Village is the place that everyone longs to live in, but being able to come in does not mean 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 that imaginary list of 100 each year?

of course not.

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

This is the real reason.

These people don't expect to obtain permanent residence status at all. They just hope that they can stay in the inner city of Konoha Village longer and longer.

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

It’s just that Youya uses very serious laws to prohibit everyone from engaging in discriminatory behavior.

Why would 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 people's thoughts. Countless ancestors have told Youya for thousands of years that this path is not feasible and it is impossible to restrain people with morality.

So Youya used the law to ensure that people in the inner and outer cities of Konoha Village had at least superficial fairness.

Of course, this situation can't last long. Most of the people in the inner city of Konoha Village benefited from Yuya's rise to power, while many people in the outer city felt that it was just luck that they were in Konoha Village when the Hokage came to power. If we were in the village at that time, we would definitely be better off now!

This underlying contradiction has always existed.

You Ya also knew that it was very simple to solve this problem by simply opening the border between the inner and outer cities.

But this problem is solved. But 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 explosion 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 long-term residence qualification system.

It is definitely not possible to directly grant permanent status, but by giving them long-term residence status for ten or twenty years, the residents of the outer city will feel that the Hokage's office has been forced to give in, and the conflict will gradually ease. Even if it occurs again, it is impossible for the inner and outer cities to fight fiercely or even have a gunfight.

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

And on top of this foundation, there is an upper-level contradiction.

Many times when we look at history, we must consider the current situation at the time.

Throughout history, whenever civilians appeared, there were reports of various conflicts [after all, who would remember if there were no conflicts? There were no explosive points...], but there were only two wars in which civilians won in the end in thousands of years.

More often than not, the fruits of victory 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 people who have graduated from college and…these ninja people.

Youya’s plan is very simple. As more and more people graduate from college, naturally, the power of the ninja clan will gradually decline.

But as the saying goes, plans cannot keep up with changes. These ninja people are not stupid. Moreover, they have people graduating from college every year. And because of the exchange of interests, Youya gave them many power positions in Konoha Village.

This resulted in a very serious consequence.

That is, those ordinary civilians who originally graduated normally and entered various units, or worked in grassroots or middle-level management positions, would either actively or passively have connections with some ninja clan members.

Youya was not unaware of this, but he didn't care, because he knew that the most important difference between civilians and ninjas was that... civilians also wanted to rise and become like the ninjas in Konoha Village. Theoretically, the two sides were not in the same class.

However, Youya overlooked one problem.

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

Of course, some civilians will choose not to interact with the ninja clan because of their own inner demands.

But naturally, there are also those who choose to give in and directly cater to the wishes of the other party, or simply marry a ninja woman, or marry a male member of the ninja tribe.

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

There is no external force forcing me.

It is simply that these people of civilian birth weighed the pros and cons and chose the fastest way to promotion.

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

But the final result is...

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

Either marrying into the wife's family or marrying a ninja man.

Or it may be a direct leadership relationship between superiors and subordinates.

Or it could be a teacher-student relationship where a teacher teaches an apprentice.

The most common of these...

It's a classmate relationship.

Many ordinary people may not care much about the relationship between classmates.

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

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

The current situation in Konoha Village is that there are always some members of the Ninja Clan among every graduating class of college students.

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 their 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...

You Yade admitted that it was he who failed this time.

He originally thought that those outstanding talents among the civilians who were carefully selected would not choose to cooperate with the ninja clan.

But Youya forgot one thing.

That is……

Isn't it more comfortable to play badly than to work hard? !