Konoha's strongest substitute user

As a generation of gamblers, Tsunade-sama, who has the reputation of being a fat sheep, attaches unprecedented importance to the daimyo's visit.

Just a few days after taking over the village's government affairs, Tsunade had already discovered the biggest difficulty she would face after taking office. Her salary as Hokage could not pay off the debts incurred from years of gambling. It didn't matter that she had no fixed abode before, and her creditors could hardly find her, but after taking over as Hokage, she couldn't abandon the village and run away to escape debts.

No matter what, we must get as much funds as possible from the daimyo.

With this attitude, the banquet specially prepared to welcome the daimyo was already the most luxurious setting in the village.

The daimyo and the third generation sat side by side, Tsunade and Tohoshi sat on either side of the third generation and the daimyo respectively, and the other positions on the sides were occupied by other elites and senior officials of Konoha Village.

If he didn't have to protect the daimyo all the time and didn't have time to find food by himself, Dongxing would definitely not have touched a chopstick of the food at the banquet. These foods look exquisite and don't taste terrible. The problem is that they are not very filling.

When the banquet began and the pleasantries were all said and done, the third generation as the current Hokage began to report to the Daimyo the recent situation in Konoha Village, including the war that had just been experienced, the current reconstruction of the damaged parts of the village, casualties, etc.

After these things were almost reported, the subject of Sandai's conversation changed and began to turn to the difficulties facing the village.

"Your Highness Daimyo, although Konoha Village has won the war and is currently being rebuilt, the situation is not optimistic." The third generation was already old and was injured, so he was coughing and wheezing when he mentioned the current situation of the village. Seems extremely convincing.

The daimyo put down a piece of sushi that looked very delicate, and then asked: "When I came here, I saw the people in the village smiling. Everyone decorated their houses and cleaned the streets. They looked very happy. Why do you say you are not optimistic?"

"The aggressive war launched by the Sound Ninja and Suna Ninja caused the death of many ninjas and civilians in the village. The village was also destroyed by many houses by the enemy. Everyone knew that His Highness the Daimyo was coming, and the fifth generation of the village was about to succeed, so Only then can you smile." The third generation looked downcast and lowered his eyelids: "The village has almost used up all the money just by paying pensions to the families of the martyrs who bravely protected the village. A lot of the cost of rebuilding the village is subsidized by the villagers themselves, plus During this period, everyone worked hard to complete the commission and made up the money to make up for it."

Dongxing was dumbfounded as he listened. He quietly leaned back and looked at Tsunade from the corner of his eye across the daimyo and the third generation. Tsunade actually looked sad and serious, as if what the third generation said was true.

He is worthy of being a two-generation Hokage, someone who has experienced great wars and done countless difficult tasks. This acting skill is really... I can't even keep up with it.

In the past, I always felt that Sandai was a somewhat stable, rather rigid and rigorous person. Now that I look at it, the words Chen Peisi used to describe Zhu Shimao in the sketch are suitable to describe the current Dongxing's view of Sandai.

Konoha is indeed in a bit of difficulty now, but it is definitely not in the situation that the third generation said that after the pension has been paid out, it can hardly afford to rebuild the village. In fact, the village is relatively wealthy. The hospital in Konoha Village is not a charity. The hospital alone can bring a lot of income to the village. Not to mention that as the main source of income for high-income ninjas, mission bonuses are collected by the village, which is another large amount of income, plus the taxes that merchants doing business in Konoha need to pay.

Relatively speaking, Konoha is indeed a bit poor now, but it is not to the point where the pot cannot be opened.

The three generations and Tsunade carried out two words throughout the banquet:

哭穷

The two big guys were crying for poverty in the audience. In short, no matter how the daimyo asked, they revealed the information in a roundabout way that Konoha was poor and needed assistance.

Dongxing felt very happy while listening, but had to hold back his laughter.

This scene looks really funny. Think about it, if the third generation was younger, it should be very easy for him to demolish half of the capital of the Fire Nation and leave in style. But now he has to pretend to be a critically ill old man and cry for poverty. . The person crying for poverty is an ordinary person who doesn't know much about Konoha Village. Even if he has a position like a daimyo, a daimyo without any fighting ability can really only be regarded as an ordinary person with great power.

The daimyo also knew that the third generation and Tsunade were complaining about poverty for him. The daimyo actually didn't care about giving more financial aid to Konoha Village, but from the daimyo's point of view, the aid was not given as much as it was said to be. The Country of Fire has a complete political and economic system. Although the daimyo is the highest decision-maker, the things he does have to be recognized and obeyed by his ministers: "I have a general understanding of the situation in Konoha. Konoha has always been a country of fire. We have paid a lot for the stability and security of our country, and assistance must be provided, but before that, I have a question."

The Sandaime and Tsunade looked at each other: "Your Highness, please speak."

In the past, when I applied for assistance through remote communication tools and the daimyo, the daimyo always gave two answers or no, and there were no problems. Today, the situation seems to be a little different.

The daimyo stretched out his hand and pointed at Dongxing: "I had a few chats with him before, and this is also the first time I heard about the life of a ninja. Listen to what Kujo means, can ninjas only make money by doing tasks?"

This matter is not very understandable to the daimyo.

According to Dongxing's statement and the third generation's report, there are almost more than 10,000 working ninjas in Konoha Village, and the total population is about 60,000. The external source of income of the Ninja Village is basically all tasks, that is, the village needs to rely on the money earned by more than 10,000 ninjas to maintain the operation of the entire village economy. Ninja Village basically does not conduct any external transactions, except for basic food, which needs to be traded with other villages and cities in the Fire Country. The remaining 50,000 villagers, except for the elderly and children who do not participate in work, are basically engaged in service industries, raw material supply industries, and handicraft manufacturing that serve ninjas. There is basically no planting or industry. In this way, how much income must the ninja generate to maintain such a deformed economic system from collapse?

The daimyo originally thought that the ninja village would do some food planting or breeding on its own. Now that he saw it, he still underestimated the ninja's ability to make money and the expenses that the ninja village needed to spend.

The third generation didn't expect the daimyo to ask such a question, and thought Dongxing had said something he shouldn't have said.

Looking at Dongxing meaningfully, the third generation replied: "That's not entirely the case. There are also some ninjas engaged in other jobs. For example, the ninjas of the Nara family also cultivate medicinal materials and make medicines."

"In other words, only ninjas from big families have their own industry, right?" The question left by the daimyo in the afternoon seemed to be answered by the third generation's words: "Furthermore, even those ninjas from big families work for the village, and those from Konoha Village Can ninjas accept commissions from other organizations?"

The third generation became more and more confused about what the daimyo meant: "Indeed, ninjas from civilian backgrounds basically rely on tasks to get paid. Ninjas in the village are absolutely not allowed to accept tasks from other organizations. Accepting commissions privately without going through the village is too much for most ninjas. It is dangerous and unable to receive assistance and protection from the village.”

"Is that so..." the daimyo said thoughtfully, "well, I will handle the aid funds for Konoha Village after I return, and they will be distributed soon."

I don’t know what the name was thinking.