Land of Fire Interest Rate Hike

It was really tough to gather the Dark Chakra needed to cast the Pink Fluffy Bunny Rabbit in a short period of time, and even though Makoto had been consciously accumulating it since a long time ago, it was still not enough.

Thinking about it, Makoto decided to launch a limited economic crisis.

This was not a whim; back at the time of the Coke War set off by the rescue of Terumi Mei, he had already talked to the bigwigs in the Land of Fire's financial system.

The bigwigs have said that Makoto is really bad.

But, they liked it.

Now, it was time to mobilize them.

So Makoto called Shisui and told him to meet them in person with a letter.

It wasn't that there wasn't a faster way, but writing a personal letter of invitation and having the now famous Shisui no Shinshui personally deliver it only showed sincerity - after all, the other party was also a real big shot, so everyone was on good terms, and the face that should be given still had to be put in place.

Considering that the other party may have other things to be busy, even if the starry night to come, but also a day or so. So Makoto joined Pakura and continued to accompany the two Hokages.

The Nidaime rarely spoke, he mostly looked at the design of the Pink Fluffy Bunny Rabbit, writing and drawing every now and then.

The Shodaime Hokage, on the other hand, talked to the two about how Konoha had changed over the years and... what the economic crisis was.

The title of the Shodaime Hokage is injured dog... no, wait, it's God of Ninjas. But the ninja world never teaches financial knowledge. Even the Shodaime Hokage is curious about completely unfamiliar things.

So Makoto resolved to briefly explain for the two.

"During this recent period, at my suggestion, the Land of Fire's central bank has been silently releasing water. After the war, the Land of Fire's capital could be said to be running rampant everywhere, rolling up all over the place. But under my guidance, a lot of capital realized that going to foreign countries turned out to be a good option. -

"Take for example the Land of Tea... The Land of Tea's lord, because of the help he received from the Land of Fire and Konoha, which enabled him to defeat those great nobles in the country, welcomed the arrival of the Land of Fire's capital and was willing to sell many of its important assets at a relatively low price. -

"But that's with the release of water... What if one day the Land of Fire raises interest rates?"

A large question mark floated over Shodadime's head.

"It's true that raising interest rates is unpleasant... but as long as it makes money, so be it. After all, it's not a parent, and there's always a cost to using other people's money. -

"Listening to you, you introduced them to a very profitable line of work, right? -

"And the small country is small and poor, there wasn't much money in the first place, and it's hard to develop. Foreign money comes in, even if it carries a purpose, as long as it can be utilized properly, it is not yet a thought."

...What can I say, from the perspective of the Shodaime, this is not wrong.

After all, his strength in life was there, which merchant dared to set him up.

He recognized the wealthy businessman, but Mokuton did not.

If the mansion of a luxury merchant suddenly grows out dozens of hundreds of meters high sky-high giant trees, it is exactly the same as a meteorite falling from the sky, belonging to natural force majeure, there is no relationship with the Shodaime Hokage.... It is true that the Shodaime Hokage would not have done so, but it is enough for him to have the ability to do so.

And that era was quite simple, not as fancy as it is now a few decades later.... The Shodaime has some words that was not said, but in his eyes, the current world is more or less a little bit of rites of passage...

In the face of helplessness, Makoto can only carefully introduce to the two again, the viciousness of this.

The Shodaime Hokage, after all, has also been a hand, and knows the importance of finances. Even if he didn't quite understand the economics of it because of the limitations of the times, the general vein could still be understood.

After several hours of understanding and analysis, he slowly realized the difference between the Godaime and himself.

He fought a war to kill the enemy, while the Godaime can destroy the country... Although he had known that he was nothing, the Shodaime Hokage was still a little numb when he actually encountered such a guy who destroyed the country while talking and laughing.

"You mean... Land of Lightningsuch a powerful country will completely collapse under this small strategy?"

"How can that be?" Makoto immediately denied, "The current Land of Fire currency doesn't have any bindings, and although it's good, it hasn't been completely abused yet, and even if a currency tidal wave does start, the effect will still be limited. -

"-After all, from the beginning, all we wanted was for the Land of Lightning to panic as a way of hammering the Dark Chakra, not to destroy the Land of Lightning... That would be both difficult to do and overkill..."

Great power wars are like two strong men stabbing each other with small knives, although incomparable pain and blood flow, it is difficult to kill each other for a moment.

And the monetary tide... that is really a knife all toward the heart.

-In this era, not to mention the small countries, even the big countries do not have similar experience, for the tide of capital, all countries are all undefended!

Even Makoto didn't know what the consequences would be if this was accomplished.

After the precedent of Miso War, Makoto was very cautious about these things.

The Land of Water meeting, where he clearly had the chance but didn't do it, was out of such considerations.

He wasn't really completely out of any options, but he still chose a time when the currency tide couldn't exert its full power to explode it.

Because without the strong bindings, the currency tide would be much less effective, and after the first experience, the other countries would more or less have some defense methods... This was the only thing Makoto could do for the other countries without hindering the completion of the main quest.

He needed to capitalize on this summoning beast destroying the old world, but at the same time, he had to pull it so that it could kill as few people as possible.

In the era of the old and the new, it is absolutely impossible not to die, all he can do is to try to do as little killing as possible, and seek peace of mind...

Makoto heart of certain concerns can not and outsiders to say, good thing the two Hokages are dead people, they are not prepared to intervene too much in the present world, as well as the judgment of the new shadow.

For them, all that was needed was to know that Konoha was still dominant, and was becoming stronger and stronger.

...Of course, there's no way around something like frustration.

"Even if we can't bid for full credit, that's still impressive."

"What are the two of us brothers, who have fought for decades before combined..."

Powerful ninjas are bound to be confident.

Because only after experiencing long and cruel wars and defeating one strong enemy after another, they could become a truly powerful ninja.

But at this moment, anyone could hear that the Shodaime Hokage seemed to be doubting life... If they could use money to solve their strong enemies, then what was it that they had fought and killed for decades...

"It is because of the two seniors' courageous killing of the enemy that I can solve the problem lightly in this era - it is always the case that there is first a might before there is a blessing, or else the blessing that comes to hand will also change hands very quickly. -

"It is because the two lords have been fighting bloody battles for decades, everyone does not dare to underestimate Konoha... I borrowed the legacy of the two lords to get to where I am now. And the legacy I left behind after my departure will likewise allow those who come after me to go further. -

"One day, our dreams will be accomplished together, and the blue and pure world will truly come."

So far, most of Makoto's plans had been accomplished with relative ease. But aside from his experience beyond his time, he believed that what was more important was that behind him was Konoha, the world's number one armed group, and behind Konoha was the Land of Fire, the strongest of the nations...

A handful of money, a handful of ninja swords, as long as the idea is good, it can always get up.

The Shodaime Hokage is not really into the tip of the bull's eye, only is touching the scene, can not help but sigh a little.

Now hear Makoto said so, also will be relieved.

...No matter what, watching one's heir crush the descendants of old rivals is always very gratifying.

"Well, it's good that you have it in your heart. In the future, these few old things of ours will only be able to help you fight... hahahaha, then again, Makoto, the way you look now, you really do have a little bit of the majesty of the Sixth Point Temple back then, hahahaha..."

The Warring States era was chaotic. But in these chaotic times, there were also quite a few reckless heroes.

At that time, the Warring States was divided into sixty-six countries, large and small, and among them, there was a hero who was able to get eleven of them alone, occupying one-sixth of the whole world, and could be said to be clamoring for a while, and because of his power and authority, he was known as the Six Point Temple.

At that time many people were saying that he might be the first man under heaven in the world.

Unfortunately, he died young and his children and grandchildren were ungrateful, and the huge empire that had been built up with great difficulty eventually fell apart.

The long-cherished dream of many years turned into a bubble.

This is one of the most famous unlucky egg in the Warring States period, but at this time the first generation used him to describe Makoto, obviously is a very high evaluation...

All in all, the chat with Shodaime Hokage was enjoyable, but as he spoke, the Nidaime Hokage, who had been looking at the design drawings, suddenly spoke up - after all, the future of Konoha was involved, so how could he not be concerned.

"Makoto, your plan is good. You want to minimize the impact as much as possible, and I can understand... that your strategy is intimidation-based, but after all, this is the first time it's been implemented, so how will outsiders know about it? -

"How can they defend themselves if they don't even know?"

Worthy of being Nidaime Hokage, thinking is prudent.

"Of course I have considered this... my words and the renegade literati from the Land of Lightning will naturally take action."

Makoto spoke vaguely, but Nidaime Hokage stopped asking.

Instead, the Shodaime Hokage raised his hand again.

"By the way... why has little Miss Pakura been here all this time?"

The three Hokages had a close conversation, and Pakura never actually left.

"Oh, because she's my woman."

Makoto, as always, picked the answer that dropped the most favorability.

... ...

While the Hokages were meeting, the Akatsuki organization was also meeting.

"It's been pretty quiet on Paradise Island lately."

As the big boss, Nagato was the first to speak up.

"Obviously being at the forefront, there's no atmosphere of war at all. Those ninja troops are hiding in their barracks every day, and they don't see any intention of trying to make a move..."

Today's Akatsuki members were not very full, Konan was still healing, Orochimaru seemed to be studying something strange again and disappeared, Zetsu was addicted to TV dramas, and Tobi had been sent out.

So this time it was Sasori who answered Nagato.

"Hmph... daimyo are so cool, who would want to work for them? Throwing a few random explosive tags would be doing them justice."

Sasori reply was grim, and although his voice was cold, what it contained was clearly disdain for the daimyo.

"A lot of things have changed since that guy came to power. The ninja nowadays... aren't so tame to the Daimyo anymore... Heh, the great hidden villages are getting rich now, there's money and people, so who wants to listen to the Daimyo's nonsense... "

Sasori is truely a real evil party. Having studied puppetry for many years, his ideas are very different from those of normal people. But coming from a high-level position in Sunagakure, he is actually not weak in eyesight.

Like Nagato, he similarly smelled the pulse of the times.

It was said that the ninja defeated the samurai and became the protagonists of the times. But to Nagato and Sasori, the ninjas of the past had been swords in the hands of the daimyo, and it was only now that they were beginning to chase the positions of power they were supposed to have earned...

Nagato: "You guys think so too? That's good, it just so happens that I just recently got a piece of information..."

"Something is going to happen in the Land of Lightning!" Before Nagato could finish his sentence, Kakuzu immediately picked up on it, "I've received reliable information that the Land of Lightning is going to change, so we might be ready to take the plunge!"

For some reason, Nagato seemed to have thought together with Lightning.

But that didn't matter.

After all, what the Akatsuki organization wanted to see the most was the downfall of the five major countries and the five great hidden villages.

Namikaze even bluntly exited in support.

"Whether there is a problem or not, it doesn't really matter, but as long as everyone panics, then the problem really comes... is to take advantage of this momentum, and after tearing apart the Land of Water, then break the Land of Lightning!"

... ...

In the tea room of the Land of Fire's Daimyo, the Minister of Finance and several bosses in the financial industry were sitting on their knees in front of the Land of Fire's Daimyo.

For the most part, the Land of Fire Daimyo doesn't care.

Because it interferes with his ability to eat, drink, and be merry.

But as long as he wanted to be in charge, he was still the hand of the Land of Fire.

The Land of Fire couldn't hide the fact that it was suddenly going to raise interest rates from him.

Of course, like the previous generations of Daimyo, the current generation of Land of Fire Daimyo wasn't that sensitive to a lot of jargon.

If it's going to be raised, it's going to be raised.

Just as he wouldn't object to the previous daimyo's proposal to lower interest rates.

The Daimyo had always been very indifferent to such things.

What he was really concerned about was something else.

"That child, has he taken it in?"

"Yes, Your Highness!" It was indeed very improper to allow the princess of the Land of Fire to marry the Hokage, and it caused a lot of criticism from the traditional nobles, but the daimyo had already made up his mind, and there was nothing anyone else could do, "But with all due respect... I'm afraid that getting Hokage to make up his mind would be a very difficult thing to do... even from a personal point of view..."

Under the efforts of all interested parties, now the matter of the undersea tunnel between the two Lands of Water and Lighting has slowly spread out.

The people with a little bit of political common sense were incredibly concerned about this matter.

However, what the Hokage and the financial bigwigs were thinking about was the interest rate hike.

The great nobles pondered the political invasion of the Land of Water.

And what the Daimyo pondered was the alliance and the breaking of the alliance.

Hearing the Finance Minister say this, the Land of Fire Daimyo smiled.

"It's good that you're willing to stay, as long as you don't reject it on the spot, then it's good... The big deal is that you'll slowly increase the price."

The Land of Fire Daimyo himself also hated the relationship between the Hidden Village and the countries that was gradually changing now, but since things were happening in his tenure, he could only think of a way to deal with it.

For the Daimyo, who was used to hooking up, as long as he wasn't harshly rejected, it meant he had succeeded.

It was just a matter of giving more or less.

Loyalty is not absolute, it is absolute disloyalty.

In the end, the Godaime Hokage is still too young... As long as he can not kill all the nobles of the Land of Fire, then they always have a way...

It is a pity that the Godaime Hokage was not born in his family, otherwise where would he have so much trouble.

...That heaven-opening sword had left an indelible impression on him after all.

"The biggest problem today is the Akatsuki organization, and all other problems are just incidental... You guys would rather slow down... If you want to throw a punch, then you have to take it back first..."

Where the people present did not understand the meaning of the Daimyo, they immediately paid deep obeisance.

"As you wish."

... ...

The Daimyo of the Land of Wind had heard from the mouth of the Yondaime Kazekage that Makoto was going to engage in a currency tide wave.

Honestly, he didn't really understand it too well.

After all, the entire Ninja world had yet to experience a similar baptism.

The closest thing to a currency tide would be the previous Miso War... But the Misp War was, to put it bluntly, merchants speculating on prices, which the Daimyo could understand, while the currency tide...

However, the daimyo of the Land of the Wind did not underestimate this matter.

After all, it was Makoto who led the matter.

Once this guy started making moves, he was sure to make money. And the targets he had his eye on would at the very least shed a layer of skin.

It was only that before it was the Small Land and the Land of Water, but now it had been replaced with the Land of Lightning.

The Daimyo of the Land of Wind mused, constantly tapping his palm with his folding fan. He pondered for a long time before he turned to the Yondaime Kazekage and asked.

"Is there any certainty about... how many people know the bottom of the inside today?"

"According to our messenger's return, only the two Highnesses, and a few core members of the handlers know about it. Everything today is still in a state of gestation."

"And what is the attitude of the Daimyo of the Land of Fire?"

"That Highness doesn't care, he just wants things to be done beautifully..."

"In that case..."

The Land of Wind Daimyo did not continue to speak further, but continued to think.

The relationship between countries is never that simple. Six girls in a dormitory can form 42 groups.

The game between great countries was naturally even more complicated.

For the Land of Wind, which was located in the middle of nowhere, helping the Land of Lightning open up the undersea tunnel and subsequently taking a hard bite out of the Land of Water was something that the Land of Wind was happy to see.

But that didn't mean that he didn't want to shade the Land of Lightning a bit.

The Land of Wind's underbelly was just too bad. Since he was a daimyo, it was natural that he had to find a way to make up for some of it for himself.

Only this time things are really a bit big...

After a long time, the Land of Wind Daimyo opened his tightly closed eyes.

"Since Konoha's side wants our help, it's only natural that we won't let our allies down, isn't it?"

"What you said is exactly right."

The Kazekage agreed, but in his mind he was thinking of something else...

The simulation experiment had already been conducted several times, with both failures and successes, and Suna had accumulated quite a bit of experience. In the next few years, should we just start trying to pierce mountains...

If it succeeds, it will naturally profit infinitely.

But if it fails...

... ...

The Land of Earth's Daimyo and the Tsuchikage Kitsuchi sat opposite each other.

Both of them are people with resolute temperaments who do not show their joy and anger, but at this time both of them have extremely ugly expressions.

"Is the information accurate?"

"I am willing to guarantee with my head that it is absolutely accurate!"

"This..."

Honestly speaking, the Land of Earth's Daimyo was slightly dissatisfied in his heart with Kitsuchi's secretive groping. But when he saw the information that Kitsuchi had just brought, he immediately stopped caring about such trivial matters - there was news that a certain Hokage was leaving the village again.

Every time this son of a bitch left the village, something was sure to happen.

In the past, it was okay to bother with those small industries and small countries, but last year, even the Land of Water... Although everyone lacks a lot of necessary evidence, do they need evidence?

When you discover something strange and don't know who did it, drag Tzeentch out and give him a good beating.

T/N: Tzeentch (from Warhammer 40k) is known as the Changer of Ways, is the Chaos God of Change, Evolution, Intrigue and Sorcery

Makoto has a similar persona now.

That's why ever since the embassies were established, they've all served a very important function of monitoring Naruto's whereabouts and making certain predictions.

With the constant efforts of the Iwagakure, they managed to determine that Makoto was up to something again from the bits and pieces of information they had obtained.

"So... why the Land of Lightning... in particular?"

"I don't know under my command!"

"Well... there's no need to be alarmed, Kitsychi, I don't mean to blame you..."

The daimyo of the Land of Earth continued to think.

Now Makoto was ready to make his move, and even if he didn't know exactly what Makoto was planning to do, it was certainly nothing good anyway... As a Daimyo, he could overlook many things. The biggest problem today is how to deal with this matter.

From the perspective of a daimyo, it was whether to follow, or oppose.

Rationally speaking, of course it was to oppose.

After all, the Land of Fire was a dominant force, and the Land of Wind was a soft-boned one. Now that those two bastards in the Land of Water were fighting hard, the Land of Lightning, which was still intact, was born to be an ally of the Land of Earth.

But if you really oppose it directly, then won't it become another two on two killing each other... And with the character of the Godaime Hokage, will he not consider the feelings of the other big countries before he makes a move?

Perhaps, from the beginning, this is a conspiracy...

In the end, the Land of daimyo made a decision.

"Go and inform Kumo, and be prepared to intervene strongly... After all, it is a great country, no matter what you do, I'm afraid it will take some time..."

In the absence of the necessary intelligence, this was also considered an old-fashioned choice.

Neither overreacting nor ignoring it lightly.

But Kitsuchi quickly raised another question.

"With which Kumo?"

"Are there two other Kumo? Of course there are... Of course there are..."

The Land of Earth's daimyo tapped his folding fan lightly on his forehead.

"I almost forgot... what the hell are these Kumo guys, you say! It's already that time and they're still infighting! -

"Anyway, hurry up and decide a winner! How long are they going to drag this out!"

Kitsuchi bowed his head, speechless.

He both wanted Kumo to succeed and didn't want Kumo to succeed.

The waves of the times came roaring in, but he was unable to grasp them at all, and could only breathe hard underneath them...

... ...

In Bodhi Temple, the family tradition of the Daimyo of Land of Water, the two representatives of the second prince and the seventh prince glared at each other, but finally sat together under Terumi Mei's persuasion.

By some means, some important information came into Terumi Mei's hands.

Terumi Mei then exhausted her words and reluctantly organized the meeting.

"Both of you, I know the conflict between you, but this is no longer the time to discuss whether to be revitalized or conservative..."

The Land of Water was not blind to the thoughts of the Four Great Countries, so how could they not feel them?

The other countries, their two brothers could not do anything for the time being, but if the Land of Lightning...

In front of life and death, there were some big conflicts that could only be suppressed first.

"Terumi Mei-sama's meaning, we have already understood! If we were not sincere, we would not have come here. -

"But our Land of Water is weakened so much, how exactly should we cooperate?"

... ...

For some reason, Yugito always felt that the atmosphere in Konoha was a bit strange lately.

It was as if there was some kind of conspiracy brewing.

...Although Konoha almost every day to brew a lot of conspiracies, now the Hokage building, basically like devil king's base camp, but... conspiracy atmosphere is still too strong...

It was as if there would be something bad that would happen to him or her.

But what exactly is it?

Yugito couldn't figure it out.

"Konoha's infiltration efforts are still too difficult. This guy has bought off almost all of the Konoha ninja, and it's really hard to get them to cooperate with us. -

"It's not easy to find a few that aren't as good as we'd like, but they were also quickly discovered by Anbu... -

"After all, it's on someone else's territory, can't go too far..."

Nowadays, Konoha's welfare is extremely good, and the ninja's loyalty is naturally ridiculously high. Although even the best organizations are sure to have a few that are not as good as they should be, the Konoha's Anbu has become more and more capable over the past two years, and can almost be said to be pervasive.

-Can't be helped, there's plenty of funding.

Money can not solve all the problems, but in the sea of funds, or can let Anbu of the Konoha headquarters surrounded like an iron bucket, outsiders are extremely difficult to penetrate.

"Money hah, money... is not at all a capable opponent... but now there is Killer B stationed in this village, a moment should also... hey. In the end how can I go back... -

"Forget it, buy a few donuts first. -

"Donuts are delicious."

Yugito thought so, and resolved to go buy some snacks first - it wasn't just what she ate, there was also the share of the biju in her body as well.

It couldn't be helped that her biju was a big, arrogant cat.

It could obviously not eat anything, but if it really didn't have anything to eat, this master would be 100% angry.

It wouldn't cost much anyway, and Yugito didn't feel the need to argue with the other party in this regard.

Bijus were always just a ruthless weapon of war in the world's mind. But only those who were familiar with them, jincuuriki, knew that this group of seemingly ferocious guys were mostly just capricious giant babies.

As long as one is willing to spend time and effort, it is possible to improve relations with them...

It was only when she bought back the donuts and incidentally bought a newspaper from the newsstand that she was surprised to find...

"Land of Lightning Collapse Theory..."

Printed in the most conspicuous place was a paper by a famous economic expert in the Land of Lightning.