Chapter 142: Short of Money!!

The Sarutobi clan is very low-key. How do they keep a low profile?

There are a lot of unregistered ninjas in their family, but there are very few ninjas who carry out missions. At the same time, they don't have many obvious industries in the market.

But this is the ninja world, and training a ninja requires a lot of resources. Konoha is the richest of the five ninja villages.

But even so, a civilian family can only support one ninja at most, and this ninja's life will most likely end at the level of Chunin.

If you want to become a ninja, you must first keep up with the food from childhood. Sufficient nutrition and good development.

If Naruto didn't have the Nine-Tails in his body and the Uzumaki physique, it would be difficult for him to become a ninja.

After that, you need to pay tuition to enroll. The school will provide some ninja tools for training. But if you want to go further, you must train yourself.

This requires the support of ninja tools. And ninja tools will wear out, so this expenditure is still continuous.

At the same time, high-intensity training, nutrition, various auxiliary medicines, and medical expenses are all expensive.

After that, if you can graduate and become a ninja, you won't make any money at first. You'll do all kinds of low-level tasks until you become numb, but the money is pitifully little.

There is no subsidy for Genin. To become Chunin, one needs to take the Chunin Exam.

But the school only teaches the three body techniques. Joining the Chunin is basically like being a food delivery. This is the biggest expense of being a ninja.

Ninjutsu.

If a civilian ninja wants to learn ninjutsu, he can complete tasks to accumulate points, and then redeem them through the village.

But again, at the beginning, all the tasks were D-level. I couldn't accumulate any points at all, so naturally, I couldn't learn ninjutsu in the near future.

The second way is to buy it with money. Yes, you can buy it with money. Most of the five elements ninjutsu can be bought with money.

This expenditure alone is enough to drain an ordinary family. Most civilians need to go into debt to make it.

Having said so much, I am talking about one thing, that is, training ninjas is a very expensive thing. Training a large group of ninjas who do not need to go on missions is extremely expensive.

Like the Hyuga clan, or the Uchiha clan back then, they had a lot of industries to sustain themselves.

Nowadays, Zhuludie also has businesses such as pharmacies and barbecue restaurants to make a living.

But the Sarutobi clan had nothing. They didn't farm, go on missions, or run a shop. But they had the money to train and maintain a private group of ninjas. This was actually quite incredible when you looked into it.

However, as the Hokage Tsunade was able to mobilize, the power was far beyond what any ninja clan could resist.

Tsunade soon discovered the secret of the Sarutobi clan. They did not embezzle public funds or anything like that. At least not since Tsunade came to power.

But they have a lot of secret industries.

In Konoha, the Sarutobi clan uses various indirect means to control many lucrative industries.

Strictly speaking, the Sarutobi clan was the most powerful family in Konoha. It was just that Sarutobi Hiruzen was afraid of being too conspicuous, so he asked the entire Sarutobi clan to keep a low profile.

Tsunade's idea was to let the ninjas of the Sarutobi clan participate in the village's missions, while her own people went to Kado's shipping group to make a lot of money.

There is no way, Cardo's business is too big now. It is a large-scale shipping business, and everyone is jealous. It is not something that one or two ninjas can control.

After Tsunade tasted the sweetness, she would never give up this business. Therefore, she was ready to make trouble for the Konoha Ninja Clan.

After thinking for a while, Qingye put forward a slightly different opinion.

"We must take action against the ninja clan. But it would be inappropriate to attack the Sarutobi clan directly. So, let's hold off for now. Let the Ino-Shika-Chou and Hyuga clans set an example first."

Three days later, a piece of news attracted the attention of all the spectators in Konoha.

For some reason, all the major ninja villages in the village asked various 'retired' ninjas to start working for the village again.

Tsunade also gave a speech for this purpose.

The main content is that the village is currently in a relatively tense situation. The previous invasion of Obito was also slightly modified and made public as a serious invasion.

In order to help the village through this difficult time, the major ninja clans set an example by sending out a large number of "retired" ninjas from their clans to accept missions again.

During the whole process, the Hokage and the four major ninja clans can be said to have achieved mutual success and were in harmony.

But for other ninja clans in Konoha, this situation is not so good.

Whether it is Ino-Shika-Chou or Hyuga, they have always been representatives of the Konohagakure.

Ino-Shika-Chou has always represented the ninja clans that are close to the Hokage, while the Hyuga clans represent the ninja clans that tend to be neutral.

Although the two sides cannot be said to be in opposition, they actually have different positions on many issues.

But this time, the two sides actually joined forces silently and responded to the call of the Hokage. This signal is too dangerous.

The Hokage lineage was fine, after all, they were originally inclined towards Hokage. But those who were neutral were just Muggles.

The goal of this faction has always been to prioritize the rights and interests of their own clan, and then the village.

And now, the leader of the Hyuga clan has actually sent out their own private army to join the Hokage.

That's right, everyone understands. There are no retired ninjas, and those sent out are the private armies of the various families.

You have to know that even Ino-Shika-Chou, who is closest to the Hokage, has his own private army. And he will not use them easily, let alone send them out to join the team publicly.

This signal basically shows that the Hyuga has completely turned to the Hokage. This is undoubtedly a blow to the other neutral factions. The key is that they still don't know why.

For the common people of Konoha, they were just enjoying themselves.

The more naive ones were moved by Konoha's unity. The more astute ones realized that the fifth Hokage was no ordinary person. He had only been in office for a few days, but he had already dealt with the four largest ninja clans in Konoha.

And it looks like there might be some big moves.

There was a private army sent by several ninja clans to provide support. Tsunade barely had enough manpower. She was not in the mood to pay attention to the Sarutobi clan for the time being, and immediately focused on making money.

You don’t know how expensive it is to be a householder. After becoming a Hokage, I realized that everything costs money. The first thing to do when launching any new system or new welfare is to raise money.

It can be said that without money, nothing can be done. The biggest difference between Naruto and ordinary ninja is.

No matter how powerful you are, you can't double the subsidy for Konoha's war orphans. You can't make a high-level ninja school free of charge. You can't improve the food at Konoha's orphanage. You can't support a research institute that eats money.

It is even more impossible to make Konoha's entire economic system self-sufficient without the funding from the daimyo.

So, Tsunade now has only one thing in mind: making money.