Tsunade, you're really drunk!

"Since you've said that, just tell me directly what kind of request you guys from Kirigakure want to make."

"But you have to be prepared for the mission reward. After all, a village-level commission is no joke."

"I think Sunagakure will bleed a lot this time. They chose to settle the reward with minerals. I'm afraid almost all of their mineral reserves will be emptied by us."

"Be prepared for this and think about how you, Kirigakure, are going to pay the reward."

Qianye's words made Mei Terumi's heart skip a beat. She knew that the reward for tasks commissioned by the village would probably be very high, but she didn't expect it to be so high.

All the mineral reserves of Sunagakure? How much are they? Sunagakure relies on these minerals to survive...

But what she didn't know was that Luo Sha was currently working as a gold miner in the desert, experiencing both pain and happiness.

I kept hypnotizing myself: It’s good to be a little tired! If I get a little tired, Sand Village will have a small piece of forest and oasis.

In other words, he still doesn't know that it is Hashirama who is here to plant trees for them.

When he sees Hashirama, he will probably want to hug Hashirama's thighs tightly.

[Please, brother, no! Sir! Please plant more and don’t treat me as a human being. If it doesn’t work, bring my master out of the world. I mine gold and he mines. He mines faster than me!]

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After a long time, Mei Terumi finally weighed the pros and cons in her mind and decided how to "pay" the mission fee. Her eyes became resolute and full of determination.

"In the name of the Mizukage, I want to entrust you, Konoha, to build two cross-sea bridges for us, Kirigakure. One is the bridge connecting Konoha to Kirigakure and the other is the bridge connecting Kirigakure to Kumogakure."

"Mission reward: 10 billion taels!"

"Five billion taels in the first year, and 1.25 billion taels every year thereafter. Can we pay it in installments?"

Mei Terumi looked at Qianye with gritted teeth, the determination in her eyes reached its peak at this moment.

Qianye looked at Mei Terumi in front of him and couldn't help but say in his heart: What a crazy woman.

"Five billion taels? Can you, Kirigakure, come up with that much at once?"

"Even if you have made a lot of money in the past few years from tariffs, this much money will probably make you spend all your accumulation in the past three years in one go, and return to the pre-liberation era overnight, right?"

As he spoke, Qianye's gaze suddenly became sharp, as if he wanted to see directly through Mei Terumi's inner thoughts.

"Or do you want to overthrow the Daimyo with the Kirigakure ninjas?"

"In the short term, if you want to maintain the development of the village without disrupting it, there is only one possibility, which is to plunder the wealth of the daimyo and nobles."

"You might even be able to make a lot of money."

"But have you really thought it through? Are you going to attack the daimyo and nobles now?"

"After all, the situation in your Water Nation is different from that in our Fire Nation. I don't think I need to explain this. Let's eat first. You can think about it carefully. It's too early to act now."

After Qianye finished speaking, he closed his eyes and rested, continuing to try to figure out the ratio of natural chakra and his own chakra, as well as the route it ran through the body's veins.

But his words made Terumi Mei frown and lower her head to think.

Qianye was right. If Wuyin wanted to make money quickly in the short term, this was the only way, and this was her original plan.

Because she had not been idle in Konoha for more than a month. From time to time, she would go to Tsunade to inquire about the situation of other villages and Konoha's caravans.

Every day, he would observe the flow of people passing through the three main gates of Konoha in the dessert shops, and distinguish where they came from by their appearance and forehead protectors to understand the general trade situation.

After some observation, she could clearly find that even though Kirigakure had started trading with Konoha three years in advance, the number of caravans was actually almost the same as that of the other three villages!

There is only a small country between Sand Village, Iwagakure and Konoha. The caravan's carriage can usually complete a round trip in about ten days. Because of the high terrain, the Cloud Village is separated from Konoha by two small countries, so it takes about twenty days.

But they are all faster than the caravans from Konoha and Kirigakure.

Although it only takes two or three days for the ninja's ship to reach Konoha from Kirigakure, it is the most expensive ship, equipped with the most advanced engines in the shipyard. The ninja can increase the speed of the ship by inputting chakra.

But if ordinary large commercial ships want to travel back and forth, they can only rely on sea breeze or a large amount of manpower rowing.

It may take as fast as twenty days or as slow as over a month to return home safely.

Moreover, if any natural disaster or man-made disaster occurs in sea transportation, all the people and ships will be destroyed. The risk is many times greater than that of land transportation.

The most important thing is that not many people own large trading ships. The existing large ships are all funded and built by Konoha and Kirigakure respectively. Ordinary businessmen do not have such capital.

Not to mention that now that the five major villages have started to trade, many people have chosen to leave Kirigakure to do business elsewhere, which is tantamount to slow death for Kirigakure.

The bridge construction had to be carried out no matter what! Even if her actions might make other daimyos in the ninja world wary and prohibit Kirigakure from doing business with other villages, as long as Konoha was still willing to support Kirigakure, there would be a glimmer of hope!

But what Mei Terumi didn't know was that Qianye had said those words on purpose. Everything was just a test from Qianye to Mei Terumi...

Mei Terumi ate lunch absent-mindedly, hesitating in her heart whether or not to continue issuing commissions to build bridges. On one hand, there was the prospect of slowly dying as she fell behind the development of the ninja world, and on the other hand, there was the prospect of relying on Konoha for a gamble.

A tangled mass of emotions filled her heart.

Her conflicted look also entered Qianye's eyes. He knew what she was hesitating about, but he would not remind her. She had to figure it out on her own.

Otherwise, Kirigakure, or Mei Terumi, would not be qualified to become Chiya's first ally in his plan to eliminate the root cause of the ninja world's illness.

This ally may be weak, but he must have the courage and determination to resist the daimyo.

The throne in the sky in the ninja world has been held by the high and mighty daimyo since the Warring States Period.

It is that group of weak, dull-minded, selfish, and enjoyable reptiles who can easily hire the ninja clan, start wars, and make money from the people of the ninja world.

Qianye knew very well that there might have been precedents of resistance to such a life, but in the end, the dragon slayer would eventually become the evil dragon.

[This world has been corrupt for too long, but I will restart the path of development! ]

[The Ninja World needs new pioneers and new pioneers! ]

[The road of pioneering will never stop. I will become a new wind, blowing the sails of the times, allowing the pioneering ship to continue moving forward and rushing towards a better future! ]

And Mei Terumi was the first ally that Qianye was looking for.

Next, it depends on whether Mei Terumi has the courage and spirit to step onto the ship under Qianye's feet and embark on a pioneering journey with Qianye.

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