Chapter 121: A mere 25-year mortgage, I, Uchiha Madara, will take the blame!
Chapter 121: Just twenty-five years of mortgage, I, Uchiha Madara, will bear it!
"Hokage, I have negotiated another big deal. I didn't expect those rich people in the Land of Lightning are actually quite wealthy, unlike those poor, stingy people in the Land of Wind!"
Kakuzu pushed open the door of Uchiha Kusunoki's office while yelling, without caring at all that this was the Hokage's office. However, Kakuzu was Konoha's gold medal salesman. He was very powerful, accepted the role of 007, and worked overtime on his own initiative. It was hard to find such an employee, so Uchiha Kusunoki had always been very tolerant of Kakuzu.
Currently, Orochimaru is the only one in the entire Konoha who possesses such potential!
Kakuzu entered the room and saw Chiyo with a gloomy face. What truth could this green-eyed guy tell?
In the land of cricket wind, can you please carry some people behind your back?
Kakuzu found that Uchiha Nan was not in the office again. He knew without a doubt that the Hokage had gone somewhere to slack off again. He would have to wait in the office for a long time again, as the contract still needed Uchiha Nan's signature!
"You are Chiyo, a ninja from the Sand Village?"
"Exactly!"
Kakuzu quickly recognized Chiyo's identity, and the whole Konoha knew that the Sand Village had sent a delegation to visit Konoha.
Kakuzu was thick-faced and black-hearted. He simply chose to ignore the offensive words he had just said. He found a stool and sat down. He looked at Chiyo with his green eyes and began to think internally.
According to the news heard from Nara Shikaon, this time the Sand Village is going to form an alliance with Konoha, and the two villages seem to be able to trade.
Now Konoha's main customers are the daimyos, nobles, and middle-class civilians of the Land of Fire. In more than a year, Konoha's business tentacles have slowly extended to all walks of life in the Land of Fire, and companies registered under the name of Konoha have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.
The wealthy merchants and nobles of the Land of Fire jumped into Konoha, obediently gave their money, registered companies in Konoha, did the same business as before, paid large sums of taxes to Konoha every year, and were eager to integrate into Konoha, a violent organization that was undergoing transformation, and become a new community of interests. An indescribable capital monster was growing wantonly.
Although Konoha's business has developed rapidly, the development time is still too short. The ninja village and the daimyo are not on the same track at all. Konoha has to go through the channels provided by the daimyo for many businesses, especially those involving cross-border transactions, which can only be accessed with the help of the daimyo's channels. The daimyo has made efforts, and Konoha will inevitably share some profits with the daimyo. Doing business and making money in harmony. Fighting and killing cannot last long.
Is Lord Hokage going to open up his own channel now?
The spending power of ninjas is not low. They are just a bunch of poor guys who chose the Sand Village. They can't squeeze much out of them. The spending power of the small ninja villages around Konoha might be stronger than that of the Sand Village!
Chiyo seemed to have a sense that the green-eyed guy in front of her was thinking something very offensive to the Sand Village.
Never mind. No matter how small a fly is, it's still meat. After all, the Sand Village is one of the five major ninja villages. A lean camel is bigger than a horse. Let's talk to this poor guy in the Sand Village first.
After thinking it over, Kakuzu made up his mind to try his best. It wouldn't hurt to ask, as business opportunities never fall from the sky.
Kakuzu quickly introduced himself: a senior executive in the Ministry of Finance, leader of Konoha's business negotiations, and head of the Business Intelligence Department. Chiyo was shocked by the long list of titles. She didn't expect that this rude guy was actually a high-ranking official in Konoha. Could he be the person in charge of negotiations for the business team mentioned by the Hokage?
"Selling chakra? Konoha does have this project, and it's quite popular now. Many disabled ninjas and ninjas who can't get missions sell chakra. Konoha consumes a lot of electricity, so the price is not low. But you, the Sand Village, want to sell it."
"Your Sand Village grounds all need to be rebuilt, which is a cost. And I guess your Sand Village's electricity consumption is negligible compared to Konoha's. I guess all the electricity will be divided into small cans and taken to Konoha for unified recycling, and the cost will go up immediately. Then the price of chakra will not be too high."
"What? Hokage-sama is going to send people to the Sand Village to sell food, medicine, and daily necessities?"
"Then how can Konoha make any money? Do you know how high the transportation cost is? I think the Hokage is crazy!"
"We still need to recruit workers from the Sand Village. That's fine. Konoha is short of workers in factories and construction sites right now. The villagers in your Sand Village are probably suffering. They are lucky to work in Konoha's factories."
Kakuzu took out a few portable calculators from somewhere and started calculating the costs and benefits in front of Chiyo. The more he calculated, the darker Kakuzu's face became.
After running this business for a year, Konoha won't be losing money, right? No matter how you calculate it, Konoha won't make any money. Is the Hokage crazy? He is actually doing a business that doesn't make any money.
Is this going to cost a lot of money to support the Sand Village?
Jiaodu, who has been pursuing money and profit all his life, was sighing there. He would not sign the contracts of these businesses that are destined to not make money. He would let Nara Luyuan sign them, and let him take the blame if there is a loss.
Chiyo watched Kakuzu make some calculations, then sat there sighing. She felt a pang in her heart, wondering if the alliance agreement between Konoha and the Sand Village would fail. It seemed like Konoha would lose a lot of money.
"Goodbye, bye!"
Kakuzu left Uchiha Nan's office without looking back. He made money by taking commissions, and he didn't want to waste any time on this business that was bound to lose money.
Chiyo was left sitting alone on the sofa in a daze. She waited for a long time, but there was no sign of Uchiha Nan.
"Master Luyuan, why didn't Master Hokage come today? I've been sitting here waiting for a long time. It can't be..."
Chiyo was very panicked. After waiting for a long time but not seeing any sign of Uchiha Kusunoki, she anxiously went to the Hokage's assistant Nara Shikato to inquire about the news about Uchiha Kusunoki.
"Ms. Chiyo, you can wait a little longer this afternoon. I'm afraid the Hokage-sama has something urgent to deal with."
Nara Shikaon perfunctorily answered Chiyo, saying that he had sent people to Uchiha Kusunoki's house in the morning. He naturally knew about Uchiha Kusunoki's feat of fighting two opponents alone last night, so it was impossible for him to come in the morning, and he didn't know whether he could come in the afternoon.
I can't tell Chiyo that the Hokage of Konoha is having sex and has lost his mind, so he might just take a day off from work.
Chiyo sat boringly in the Hokage's office all morning, while Uchiha Madara was strolling around Konoha Village with great interest. After making up his mind to stay in Konoha, Uchiha Madara's hesitant and anxious mood suddenly improved a lot.
"There are really too many more people in Konoha than in the past." Uchiha Madara walked while sighing at the changes in Konoha. The difference between Konoha at night and Konoha during the day was really huge, especially in terms of traffic flow, which was simply a world of difference.
Soon Uchiha Madara arrived at Konoha's sales office and followed the service staff to visit the simple and exquisite small house of the model house. Uchiha Madara thought it was good. This was just the most ordinary suite. As long as he was willing to spend money, Konoha could design a luxury house specifically for you.
Since the purpose is to make money from nobles and wealthy businessmen, they must provide corresponding services, but Uchiha Madara doesn't care about these. He has gotten rid of vulgar interests and has long begun to pursue spiritual satisfaction. An ordinary single apartment is already very good. In any case, it is more comfortable than Uchiha Madara's life in the underground cave.
"The room is equipped with basic equipment, such as electric lights, water heaters, and pots that can also use electricity. These are the latest products developed by Konoha's laboratory."
The service staff introduced the basic facilities in the room. Uchiha Madara walked back and forth in the room, feeling an incredible emotion in his heart.
Although Uchiha Madara was trying his best to conceal his expression and emotions, the service staff could still feel the emotional fluctuations coming from Uchiha Madara. It was not that the service staff was strong, but that he had seen too many emotions and expressions of this kind - even the high-ranking nobles looked the same when they saw such infrastructure for the first time.
Is Konoha developing so fast?
When did these strange ninja tools come into being? When the light is turned on and off, the room becomes bright. Hot water can be heated anytime and anywhere. Is electricity a new type of energy? What happened during the time I was not in Konoha?
All this should of course be attributed to Uchiha Nan. Ahem, we can barely credit Senju Tobirama, after all, it was Uchiha Nan who resurrected Senju Tobirama through the Impure World Reincarnation, and he also provided the most superior scientific research conditions. And Senju Tobirama only provided a little bit of technical support.
Uchiha Nan has spent a lot of effort to promote the popularization of electricity in Konoha. Everything in the room is a new product that combines electricity and chakra. In the past year or so, Uchiha Nan has put a lot of pressure on Senju Tobirama and has indeed produced a lot of very useful daily furniture.
The scientific research team composed of dozens of Senju Tobirama has unleashed potential that is promoting the innovative development of science and technology in a way that Uchiha Nan cannot understand.
However, considering the abnormal technological development of the ninja world, which is both backward and developed, Uchiha Nan does not find it strange. Now it is still a purely backward agricultural country. In Naruto's era more than 30 years later, Konoha's technological development is not only close to modern times, but even advanced electronic products such as computers have appeared. Then, after Naruto became Hokage, Boruto: Naruto Next Generations was only more than 50 years away from now. The technology displayed has become even more outrageous.
After all, old thief Kishimoto is just a comic book artist. This is really the characteristic of the ninja world!
As an antique from the last era, Uchiha Madara naturally did not have a good life. Even the top ninja in the ninja world like Uchiha Madara did not enjoy such modern living facilities.
Ordinary people in Konoha can all live such a life. Go deep into the grassroots and understand the people at the bottom of the ninja world. Uchiha Madara suddenly remembered this sentence in the book for some reason. The little boy Ito Sosuke's family bought this kind of house yesterday.
This junior Uchiha Nan actually executed it very well.
But all this is not free, it takes 20 years to start, and ordinary houses don't have such superior facilities. If it is a model house decorated like this, it will probably take another 10 years.
However, Uchiha Madara didn't understand all of this, and even if he knew the cost, he wouldn't say anything.
The high-ranking ninjas have to risk their lives to complete missions in order to live a carefree life. Ordinary people can work in factories for thirty years without worrying about food and drink. What else can you complain about if you live this kind of life?
If I starve you for two meals, you will be obedient!
"How much does a house like this cost? I'll buy it!"
Uchiha Madara liked this kind of apartment very much and wanted to pay for it directly, but after the service staff reported a number, Uchiha Madara realized that he didn't have enough money!
In the past, Uchiha Madara had to sneak into the movies without paying the entrance fee, and the money he has now was stolen from a few reckless ninjas who wanted to rob people on the road.
"Uncle, if you don't have enough money, we have loan services here, but..."
The waiter looked Uchiha Madara up and down. He looked like a refugee from the countryside, probably having come to Konoha by begging for food.
For an old man like Uchiha Madara, starving to death on the roadside is the normal ending in this ninja world. He would never make it to Konoha to escape to famine. He is really lucky.
However, if you still want to buy a house in Konoha, it is probably impossible in this lifetime. Although Konoha's mortgage business is growing wildly, even if Konoha lends mortgages, it still depends on the individual. An old man like Uchiha Madara's age can only work in a sweatshop for a few years to make ends meet, and live in a cheap shed with seven or eight people, where he may die at any time. But at least he can die with a full stomach, which is a good way to die.
The best candidates for home loans in Konoha are all young people working in factories and construction sites. They are like slaves who can work for twenty years with only two meals a day.
"Generally speaking, mortgages are for 20 years. If you can't pay the mortgage by then, Konoha will take the house back. By then, you won't have any money left but the house."
The service staff wanted to persuade Uchiha Madara to quit, saying that the old man went to the factory to do odd jobs every day and lived in a wooden shed, which was actually quite good. At least he was not exposed to the wind, rain, or starvation.
"I'll take out a loan, I want this house!"
Uchiha Madara interrupted the waiter's well-intentioned chattering. He had been living in the underground cave for so long. Although he did not seek material enjoyment, he would not refuse it if there was any. The elderly also need to spend their old age in peace. As for money, it was even simpler for Uchiha Madara. He could just send a clone to exchange gold for some bounty missions and make money by taking a few heads. It was a very simple concept. Make money by completing missions!
"The first batch of houses will be completed soon. Buying houses with full payment will be exempt from the lottery.. Hey? Why am I telling you this? Are you sure you want to take out a loan?"
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"Okay. Show me the relevant documents you were given when you entered Konoha."
Seeing that Uchiha Madara had made up his mind, the service staff continued to persuade him for a few more words and then shut up. Anyway, his salary was calculated based on the commission from selling houses and loan business. If he couldn't pay back the mortgage and Konoha forcibly took back the house, it wouldn't be his fault that Uchiha Madara had to sleep on the street.
It is difficult to sell the houses in Konoha now, and there is no need to worry about not being able to get the houses back.
Uchiha Madara took out the certificate he was given when he entered the village, and quickly completed the loan business. The service staff also asked Uchiha Madara whether he had a stable job. If not, he could introduce Uchiha Madara to the factory, which was considered a good deed.
"Working in a factory?"
Uchiha Madara remembered the theory of ninja production and ninja diversion system in Uchiha Nan's book. He could agree to it first, and then send a clone to experience it. It wouldn't waste much chakra.
After signing a series of tedious house purchase contracts and loan contracts, Uchiha Madara paid part of the money and officially took on a 25-year mortgage!
After finishing a series of chores, Uchiha Madara looked at the sun outside. It was almost noon.
"Is it already this time?"
“It’s time to give this book back to that kid.”
(End of this chapter)