Traveling through three generations: Orochimaru, you become the Hokage

Chapter 104 Konoha has food...

After walking out of Pain's reception room, the Iwagakure ninja and the Sunagakure ninja looked at each other in a tacit understanding.

Soon after, they reached a hidden corner and started talking.

"The situation in the Bird Country has affected our income." The envoy from Sunagakure Village narrowed his eyes slightly.

The envoy from Yanyin Village also said not to be outdone: "I was just about to say this. Your ninjas burned the rice we collected. Isn't it a little too much?"

"It's as if you didn't steal the rice we confiscated." The envoy from Sunagakure Village said disdainfully.

The two messengers from the Great Ninja Village looked at each other unkindly for a long time.

Finally, both parties breathed a sigh of relief.

"Such a dispute will only affect the income of both of us. I suggest that in the future, when we collect rice grains in the Bird Country, we need to divide the territory to avoid conflicts that will cause damage to our collection operations."

"Yes, but how to divide the territory must be fair. For example, the food you can get in the Country of Sichuan is obviously higher than the food we can get in the Country of Grass. So in the Country of Birds, I hope you, the Country of Wind, can make concessions .”

"Why didn't you say that you can still get a lot of precious livestock meat in the Kingdom of Grass?"

"Animal meat is not easy to preserve."

"It's like you can't pickle it with salt. I remember that you have a lot of mineral salt in Iwagakure. If you use it to pickle meat, wouldn't you get a large amount of meat that can be preserved for a long time? Meat is more expensive than rice. ah!"

"You can also get fish in the country of Sichuan? Are you short of sea salt for pickling?"

"That's different."

"Why is it different!"

It can be said that the envoys from the two parties started arguing without giving in.

After all, there are real interests at stake.

After all, there is a food panic in the country right now. The lack of food has caused the price of food to be high. In addition, some businessmen deliberately released it. They plundered food in the Country of Birds, the Country of Rivers, and the Country of Grass and transported it to the Country of Rain. , it will be difficult to make up for the vacancy in the grain market caused by the withdrawal of the Fire Nation from the Western international grain market.

This caused the food prices in the Kingdom of Wind and the Kingdom of Earth to skyrocket!

As a result, this situation made the ninjas who plundered grain in the Kingdom of Birds, Rivers, and Grass and transported it to the Kingdom of Rain also have their thoughts in mind.

Since food has become so valuable, why must it be sent to the Country of Rain for free? It is true that the political mission of supporting the Country of Rain must be completed. If it is not completed, it will be difficult to explain to the respective hidden villages and daimyo.

However, why should the food obtained through hard work be given away for free?

What? The daimyo approved the funds for the operation... but that small amount of funds is nothing! Nowadays, rice is expensive in China, and even that little money is not enough to fill our stomachs.

Everyone’s hard work can’t be in vain, right? It makes sense to retain part of the grain obtained and sell it back to the domestic grain market to make a huge profit and make up for everyone's losses.

It's not like we have to intercept all the food shipped to the Rain Country. It's enough to leave some of it behind.

And when they did this, the domestic grain merchants could contact them, and behind the grain merchants stood the Daiming Gongqing, so the Daiming Gongqing also ignored this matter intentionally or unintentionally.

As for their respective hidden villages? I also understand that they are making excuses. You say that your funds are not enough to fill your stomach, but aren't you just robbing food? Do you still need to go out of your way to buy food? What a fool.

But seeing that they used the money they earned to manage things up and down, and seeing that their respective daimyo and ministers all acquiesced, and the senior officials of the respective hidden villages who got the money... so there was a tacit acquiescence.

After all, you can't turn such a large number of ninjas who have worked hard for the hidden village into traitors, right?

Beating one, two or several ninjas into rebel ninjas would be acceptable to Dayin Village.

But such a large number of ninjas?

There are so many forces and families in the Hidden Village involved behind this. Even the great hidden village in the ninja world, where the family has a big business, is impossible to accept.

In addition, rice is really expensive recently, and the funds previously approved by the daimyo may, really, probably... are not enough, plus the benefits presented to each of them... that's all, as long as they can barely get by, you can pretend you didn't see it.

Just when the two envoys from Sand Hidden Rock Hidden Hidden Village were arguing endlessly and were too involved.

They didn't notice that there was something unusual about the corner of the wall.

In other words, under a layer of invisibility, a chameleon was watching them with big round purple eyes.

Pain's Six Paths of Beasts, the summoned psychic beast can share the field of vision with the Samsara Eye.

In the previous interview room, Pain watched the quarrel between the envoys of Iwagakure and Sunagakure with his own eyes.

His fists couldn't help but make a banging sound.

Is this what they said, that when the country is in crisis, some rice has to be intercepted and shipped back to the country to calm the sharply rising rice prices in the country?

"Nagato?" Konan next to him called worriedly.

Payne took a deep breath.

He suddenly found that compared to Konoha as his enemy, Sunagakure and Iwagakure, the two allies of the Great Ninja Village, made him feel more disgusted.

It is understandable that Konoha blocked food because of its hostile stance, in order to reduce its own losses.

Moreover, Konoha is indeed promoting the plan of the 'United Agricultural Production and Preservation Complex'. Although this plan also demonstrates Konoha's ambition to fundamentally control the entire Fire Country and throw off the Fire Country's great ambitions. The list is dry.

But it is indeed increasing food production to better fill the stomachs of the people of the Fire Country, and as the plan is unfolding, they are also trying to stabilize food prices in various parts of the Fire Country as much as possible.

Pain has been paying attention to what Konoha has done, and has even been thinking in his mind that if Konoha fails to pass the test he gave, then after he replaces Konoha, he will copy Konoha's good policies and add his Deterrence, better bring peace!

He even studied the policies and speeches of the Fifth Hokage Orochimaru with great concentration.

Therefore, even from the standpoint of being an enemy, the current Pain still admires the current Konoha.

Compared to all that Konoha has done admirably.

Sunagakure and Iwagakure, the two allies of the Kingdom of Wind and the Kingdom of Earth!

How can we achieve peace with such allies? !

"Nagato?" Konan called again.

Nagato took another deep breath.

Raise your hand.

"I'm fine."

But Xiaonan still heard that his voice was slightly trembling.

Apparently furious beyond words.

Xiaonan hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help but ask: "What happened?"

"nothing."

Nagato shook his head.

He didn't want to tell Xiaonan what he had just seen. He could just bear the pressure on his heart.

However, Xiaonan was still keenly aware of something.

"Is it about the lack of food?"

After all, Konan knew that Nagato must be worried about lack of food.

Nagato trembled in his heart. He was indeed worried about food. He actually wanted to get rid of these two disgusting allies, Sunagakure and Iwagakure. But if he got rid of these two allies, where would he get food from?

Even the sinful rice with blood is better than no rice at all!

"actually."

Xiaonan spoke tentatively.

"Konoha has food..."

Nagato's eyes widened a little, and he suddenly turned his head to look at Konan.

Seeing Xiaonan's worried eyes.

"..."

But he didn't know what to say.