Start farming in Konoha

The next day, Xu Qiang went to work at the Ministry of Industry and approached Fujino and said, "I want to set up a new department to bring all the state-owned enterprises in the village together for easy management. This department is the State-owned Enterprises and Resources Management Commission, or the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission for short. , and I want to leave this department to you to manage."

As for the state-owned enterprises Xu Qiang mentioned, Fujino knew that he was referring to the village-owned enterprises in Konoha Village, which were the factories where Konoha ninjas distributed welfare. However, he wondered why the teacher sometimes referred to them as state-owned enterprises, and why another one was established inexplicably. In the new department, he knew that the teacher didn't have such an idea yesterday.

Fujino asked strangely, "The teacher would think of a newly established department so much, and there are only these few factories in the village. There should be no need to set up another department to manage it, right?"

This is not Fujino's nonsense, there are not many state-owned enterprises in Konoha Village. There are water plants, geothermal power plants, and gas plants that ensure the lives of the citizens of Konoha Village. These factories are used to protect the lives of citizens, so the prices are not high.

Moreover, Madara Uchiha also habitually placed some injured ninjas in these factories, so they did not make much profit. Most of the time, they could barely maintain their capital. Only the power plant's cost dropped by more than 10 times due to Xu Qiang's improved technology. There was a lot of profit.

Then there is the 100 million-acre farm established by Xu Qiang in Konoye Village. This is the main component of Konoye Village's finances. Without this income, Konoye Village's finances will be reduced by at least half. However, in recent years, because Uchiha Madara has placed many ninjas without combat effectiveness, and the management is not as good as Xu Qiang's period, and a large number of farms using wood escape farming have been opened outside Senju Tobirama to compete with these state-owned farms, The current income has been declining year by year.

Finally, the arsenal established by Uchiha Madara during the war was originally to reduce military expenditures, but the armaments they produced were actually higher than those of other companies. If it weren't for the fact that Konoha Village had a large amount of finance to support this army every year, The factory is about to go bankrupt. It can be said that this military factory is the biggest drag on Konoha Village's finances. Every year, Konoha Village allocates nearly 2000 million yuan to maintain its normal operation.

Moreover, these factories are nominally managed by the Ministry of Industry, but the top management of Konoha Village are involved in the operation of these factories. There are many mountains and the Ministry of Industry cannot manage them at all. The only thing Xu Qiang can manage is the geothermal power plant he built himself. Fujino, who has been in the Ministry of Industry for so long, naturally knows this situation.

Teacher The newly established State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission can basically only manage geothermal power plants, but there is already a factory director there. What did he do in the past?

Xu Qiang explained to Fujino, "Yesterday I met Hashirama. He thought there were too many unemployed people in Konoha Village and came to me to discuss a solution. The solution I thought of was to set up a factory and turn the unemployed into workers. After our discussion, I have decided to increase the number of state-owned enterprises in Konoha Village. Although there are only these few now, a large number of state-owned enterprises will be established soon. When the time comes, I will want a department that specializes in managing these state-owned enterprises, and you are the one I trust the most. students, so this department came to manage it.”

Fujino suddenly realized it, and then said with a little worry, "So that's it, but teacher, have you decided to open a factory? You must know that opening a factory is not that easy. During this time, I heard that many factories in Konoha Village failed." Everyone went bankrupt one by one, even the first Hokage lost millions of dollars."

Hearing Fujino's worries, Xu Qiang said confidently, "Don't worry, Teacher has opened so many factories, none of them have failed. Teacher may not be as good as Hashirama in terms of strength, but his understanding of industry is not as good as even 10 Hashiramas." I, you know, the first person to open a factory in Konoha Village was the teacher."

When Fujino heard that Xu Qiang was so confident, and then thought about the teacher's past, it seemed that the factory run by the teacher had indeed never failed, so he felt relieved and asked, "Teacher, what are your first steps, what are you going to do?"

Xu Qiang replied, "Our first step is to build an ore factory near Konoha Village to provide various ores to the steel plant and metallurgy plant in Konoha Village."

"Ore factory?" Fujino was confused. You must know that the Fire Country is a plain and has a lot of rainfall, so the land is fertile and has become the granary of the ninja world. However, there is not much ore and the quality is low. They usually go to the Wind Country. The country and the country of the earth import ore, and Fujino has never heard of any minerals near Konoha Village. Why build an ore factory like this?

Xu Qiang knew Fujino's doubts and immediately explained, "When I was building a geothermal power plant, I discovered that there are a lot of iron ore, copper ore and gold mines 3000 meters to 4000 meters underground. Their quality is very high. , no less than the ores from the Kingdom of Wind and the Kingdom of Earth, so after discussing with Hashirama, I decided to open an ore factory near Konoha Village first."

"I see, the ore is underground." Fujino suddenly realized.

"The teacher has entrusted this task to you. Now you have to find ninjas who know how to escape, and use them to dig tunnels and find the ore underground. After you find the ore, you can buy mining equipment to mine. As for the miners, Hashirama will help you train them. Once these things are done, you can ask Hashirama for workers."

"Understood, teacher."