Chapter 78 When the sickle falls, not a single leek grows in vain.

Chapter 78 When the sickle falls, not a single leek grows in vain.

Chapter 78 When the sickle falls, not a single leek grows in vain.

Futures Trading Hall
"Oh, a bunch of leeks!"

Kakuzu stood on the third floor with high spirits, overlooking the retail investors who were still in the lobby on the first floor. After more than a month of buying and selling, Kakuzu's capital amount had successfully entered the big investor room!

"Lord Kakuzu, the fruit plate and dessert are here."

The servants brought plates of beautifully presented food and placed them in front of Kakuzu. This set meal was not cheap, costing 8888 taels per meal.

The taste is naturally excellent, but at this price, it is obvious that what you are eating is not the taste, but a sense of ritual for status.

To put it bluntly, it is a scam to cheat the big customers.

In the past, Kakuzu would never order this kind of set meal.

But things are different now. It is too easy to make money. With the current amount of capital, Kakuzu can make millions of dollars in business every minute.

In the past, he went out in the wind and rain, doing bounty missions 365 days a year without a holiday, but the money he earned was not as much as he made in this month.

Money is so easy to make. Life was so hard in the past. What's wrong with enjoying yourself now?
Kakuzu waved his hand to let the attendant go out, took the toothpick on the plate, picked up a piece and tasted it carefully. It tasted really sweet.
While eating, Kakuzu skillfully opened his account. The amount of income was followed by a series of zeros, which made Kakuzu's dark green eyes almost tear.
Virtual transactions are separated from paper money. A single purchase and sale involves tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of taels. The bull market's rise continues to magnify Kakuzu's greed.

Kakuzu, who originally planned to invest only a little money, immediately abandoned his past principles after seeing the speed at which financial magic made money. He continued to increase the amount of money invested and has now invested more than 300 million taels!

The rewards are naturally huge. The total value of futures has tripled, and the price of pig iron has reached its highest point in the past, increasing eightfold.

But the price of pig iron is already high, and once there is any disturbance, the price will plummet.

In the past, the price of pig iron was controlled by nobles and merchants. Once the price fell to a certain level, they would take the initiative to support the price and raise it up. This time the situation is extremely complicated, with too many retail investors entering the market.

Street vendors, landlords, wandering samurai, rebellious ninjas, bounty hunters, all kinds of people got involved in this deal. Some of these people didn't even understand the concept of futures, but just bought in directly.

Once prices fall, the fear of a crash will instantly sweep the entire futures market, and prices will plummet to such a low that even one’s own parents won’t recognize them.

It's going sideways.
This time the price remained sideways for a full day and a half.

Kakuzu watched the price go up and down, and the sweetness in his mouth became less, and he felt a little uneasy inside. This situation had never occurred before after such a long period of sideways trading.

In the past, when prices were sideways, they would often continue to rise after an afternoon. This time is obviously different.

Kakuzu's eyes drifted towards another large room, the room where White Fang was. White Fang was still reading a book leisurely, not caring about the sideways situation in front of him, as if everything was under control.

Looking at White Fang's calm appearance, Kakuzu's heart calmed down again. Now White Fang was surrounded by layer of halo.

"The God of Futures!"

"Playing with the whiteness of the market"

"A man blessed by money."

After appearing in public for so many days, White Fang's identity has been deified in the eyes of this group of leeks. It is White Fang's predictions of the rise and fall of prices time and time again that save them from danger.

Whenever there are fluctuations in the market, White Fang will always come out to reassure people and predict the upward trend, and every time what White Fang says is accurate to the minute!

Even the nobles and businessmen looked at the young man White Fang in a different light. Every time he put forward a theory, they were amazed and found that it made sense if they carefully considered it.

The smart ones among the insects were skeptical about White Fang's theory and didn't take it seriously, but they were sure of one thing: White Fang had inside information!

Therefore, you can make operations every time before the price goes up or down!
Kakuzu admired White Fang so much that he even tore the secret book that White Fang gave him apart.

Although Kakuzu predicted some rises and falls according to the instructions in the secret book, he was not always right. It was Kakuzu's dream to integrate the contents of the secret book to the level of White Fang.

Kakuzu had approached White Fang more than once, hoping that White Fang would give him some advice.

But the results were never satisfactory. White Fang knew nothing about futures. Every speech he made was from memory. The contents of the book were all written by the Hokage, so how could he explain it clearly?

More importantly, the Hokage once solemnly warned White Fang that futures are used by insiders and traders to reap profits, so never operate at will and must act according to instructions.

In response to Kakuzu's humble request for advice, White Fang always asked Kakuzu to read more books and practice more.

White Fang is also very anxious about the current price of pig iron. This price makes White Fang nervous. In more than a month, the price has soared eight times.

The last time the price of pig iron reached this high was when the five major ninja villages were fighting each other. The price of pig iron reached this high when the fighting was the most brutal.

And now, this war has just begun, and the price has already risen to the current level. White Fang wanted to sell all the futures in his hands on the day when the market went sideways.

That’s a full 80 million taels, enough to save Bai Ya more than ten years of hard work!

After a day of anxious waiting, Bai Ya finally received information from Nara Shikato.

The final harvest is about to begin
The sickle that had been laid out for so long was finally about to fall. The simple words in the intelligence made White Fang break out in a cold sweat on his back. Although he had expected this day in his heart, when this day really came, White Fang still felt dizzy.

With such a huge price increase and such a huge amount of funds, anyone in the Fire Nation who had some savings threw money in.

It was very difficult for ordinary people to survive and they struggled on the brink of starvation every day. The main force among them were the middle class, wandering samurai, rebellious ninjas, and the most difficult to deal with nobles and big businessmen.

When the bubble bursts, the middle class will start to act like a flying man, while wandering samurai and rebellious ninjas will probably hunt them down frantically.

The nobles and big merchants would put up a high reward for White Fang at the gold exchange.
In this drama of harvesting leeks, Bai Ya plays the role of pushing them into the abyss and is the drummer who cheers for the manipulators behind the scenes.

This money is extremely valuable, but no matter how valuable it is, White Fang has no way back.

Now is the time. Bai Ya has memorized the script for this time. It is time to send these leeks under the sickle.

White Fang took a deep breath, sat up from the chair, and slowly walked to the stairs. White Fang, who had become a futures star, attracted much attention with every move he made.

"It's Master White Fang!"

"Master White Fang is about to speak again, everyone be quiet!"

"Is Master White Fang still available at this price?"

The futures hall immediately became lively, and the leeks looked at White Fang like pilgrims, wanting to get White Fang's clues.

"You're getting nervous again, and you're starting to want to give up your bargaining chips, right?"

"How many times have I told you that every time you sell them at a low price, I will buy them back at double the price next time!"

"You must remember one thing: the current price is not important. What is important is that one month or two months later, you will no longer see the current price!"

“Now is the best opportunity to buy at the bottom. If you are still panicking now, 10 years later when others have achieved financial freedom, you are still doing nothing because you are still hesitating today.”

"Buy at the bottom, you bunch of rubbish."

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White Fang's voice became low and magnetic, and its volume gradually increased, bewitching people's hearts like a demon.

The character that Uchiha Nan had painstakingly created for White Fang in the past began to take effect at this moment. White Fang's speech was like a charge horn, and the price of futures began to rise again.

"The Ninja World War has begun. This war will be more brutal than ever before. The price of pig iron is still halfway up the mountain!"

"Charge forward, if you don't have enough money, I, White Fang, will make up for it."

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The heated emotions along with White Fang's shouts have reached the peak. The leeks, whose eyes are blinded by the interests, are even planning to throw all their assets into it. The image established by White Fang is so perfect that it makes them lose their minds.

The shouts, the noise of queues, and the red curve of rising prices made Kakuzu's heart pound. The price of pig iron was still halfway up the mountain?

If I put the remaining 700 million taels in, wouldn't it double to 1.4 billion? Greed and reason are fighting.
More than a month of futures trading has raised Kakuzu's threshold. Earning hundreds of thousands of taels from one mission is too slow. Kakuzu no longer cares about this speed of making money.

Futures still make money faster
In the end, greed overwhelmed reason and Kakuzu gambled his fortune. White Fang's predictions had never been wrong, and this time would be no exception!
Stud!

The nobles and big merchants were a little more rational and did not throw their fortunes into it like the leeks. They were still waiting for news, waiting for news about the Ninja War.

This time the news came faster than usual. Kirigakure has already landed in the Land of Fire, Konoha and Kirigakure have already exchanged fire, Iwagakure and Konoha are fighting fiercely, and there are even rumors that even Kumogakure will join the war again.
Among them, Uchiha Nan released a mixture of true and false news to confuse the public. It was difficult for these nobles and businessmen to distinguish the truth from the falsehood when faced with the news spread by the ninja.

Whether it is true or not is no longer important. Various news indicate that the war situation is still expanding and there are signs of a repeat of the First Ninja World War.

That kid White Fang really has inside information!

The nobles and big merchants who were still hesitating whether to increase their positions also joined the army of leeks and started a new round of bottom-fishing. The price of pig iron soared again.

Nara Shikato was slowly shipping out the goods. This time, the funds involved were as high as tens of billions, and the price had increased nearly tenfold due to speculation. He couldn't sell too much at once, and needed to sell it bit by bit.

In order to ensure that the daimyo would not act rashly, Nara Shikato directly took over all of the daimyo's accounts and handed them over to Konoha for management.

With funds amounting to hundreds of billions, Nara Shikayuan could no longer handle it all by himself, and he urgently transferred some people from his family to bring the situation under control.

Gradually, the price increase of pig iron began to slow down, but it was still rising every day. There were too many leeks, and they threw money into it with red eyes. The nobles and big businessmen, who were these insects, were also very wealthy. With the help of the highly intelligent Nara clan, everything went extremely smoothly.

Iwagakure Station
Tsuchikage Mu sat in the temporary camp tent with bloodshot eyes. The high-intensity war of attrition made Tsuchikage Mu's heart ache.

Several times, Tsuchikage Mu wanted to have a one-on-one duel with Uchiha Tomita. As long as he could kill the front-line commander, the situation would turn around.

But Uchiha Tomita didn't give the Tsuchikage any chance at all. Uchiha Tomita's strength definitely made him a leader in Konoha. Although he didn't open the Mangekyō Sharingan, he was also a well-known strong man.

Even though Uchiha Tomita would be at a disadvantage in a one-on-one fight against Tsuchikage Mu, Uchiha Tomita was not alone. He was surrounded by a group of Uchiha's elite three-magatama jonin. If Tsuchikage Mu was not careful and was left alone, he would be in danger of being hunted down.

The situation was at a standstill. As Tsuchikage Mu watched the troops being consumed like water, he began to feel like retreating. The battle line was too long. If he wasted another month, he would lose all his assets.

I fell into Konoha's trap!
The Tsuchikage felt bitter inside. It seemed that he would not gain any advantage by attacking Konoha this time. It was time to find an excuse to return to the village.

No matter what, this time the attack reached the heart of Konoha, which was understandable. It was a case of winning in face but losing in substance.

Before, Konoha had been badly exhausted by the barbarians from the Hidden Cloud Village. This time, Konoha would not be able to get any benefits from this war of attrition. Everyone would be defeated, which meant that no one was a loser!
Tsuchikage Mu comforted himself in his heart, his brain working at high speed, preparing to find an opportunity to return to the village in a dignified manner.

It would be best to let Konoha take the initiative to negotiate with me and extort some compensation from them.

The most direct way is naturally to kill Uchiha Tomita, but Uchiha Tomita is as slippery as a loach and doesn't give any chance for a single fight.

"Tsuchikage-sama, no. It's not good."

"What's going on? Why are you yelling so loudly?"

"Could it be that Uchiha Tomita led a surprise attack with his team?"

Tsuchikage Mu frowned. What could get worse in this situation? Even if the Hokage of Konoha went to the front line himself, Tsuchikage Mutsu would not be afraid of him. It would just be a strategic decisive battle.

This war of attrition has been going on for more than a month. It would be better to have a real decisive battle with real guns and swords.

"No, Tsuchikage-sama!"

"It is the Second Mizukage of Kirigakure, Hozuki Gengetsu, who has led the Seven Ninja Swordsmen to appear on the flank of our military base, intending to raid the rear of our base."

"The wounded, food and supplies are all there!"

Tsuchikage Mu's eyes went dark and he hadn't yet reacted to the news.

Hozuki Huanyue circled most of Konoha and headed straight to the rear of our army?

Are you out of your mind? Just look at the map and you will know how ridiculous this statement is!

(End of this chapter)