Chapter 591 Collapse, Hokage’s House
Can ten trillion taels buy the Leaf Village?
Such a large amount of money, if inflation is not taken into account, is more than enough to buy the Konoha Village that has been in Konoha for about 60 years.
The economic development of Konoha Village in Konoha for 60 years can only be said to be quite backward. From an aerial view, Konoha only has three-ring streets and only a few hundred buildings. The tallest building in the village is only five or six floors.
The buildings in Konoha Village are made of wood and stone materials, mainly wood. The appearance of the buildings is slightly dilapidated, and it is obvious that no new buildings have been built for a long time.
The overall size is equivalent to a small town in China with a population of less than 100,000 in the real world, still the same as in the 1980s.
When buying fixed assets in Konoha Village, aside from the land price that cannot be accurately estimated, those dilapidated buildings are really not worth a lot of money.
The development scale of Konoha's commercial streets is not very good. There are no large shopping malls, department stores, luxury hotels, or high-end clubs in the village. There are only meatball shops, barbecue restaurants, dessert shops, flower shops, bathhouses, izakayas, ramen shops, and dormitory houses. Small commercial street shops.
Konoha is valuable mainly in two aspects.
The first aspect is ninjas. Talents from mainland China are the most valuable in the ninja world. Konoha's ninjas are extremely powerful. The number and quality of jounin are the highest among the five villages, and they have high employment value.
So, how much does it cost to hire all Konoha ninjas for a lifetime?
The number of ninjas in Konoha Village has always been a mystery. During the Ninja World War, Konoha gathered nearly 20,000 ninja troops, which was probably the limit of mobilization.
Different ninja villages have their own ninja registration numbering methods, which facilitates the management of ninja files. From the ninja numbers, it is difficult to estimate the total number of ninjas in the village.
Naruto's ninja registration number is 012607, and Sasuke's number is 012606. That is to say, in Konoha 60, when the two protagonists graduated from the ninja school and became genin, and obtained the ninja registration number, the numbers were sorted to twelve thousand. many.
This does not mean that Konoha Village had twelve thousand ninjas at the time of Konoha's 60th year, because the ninja numbers of many dead ninjas, such as Hyuga Neji's father Hyuga Hizashi, have not been cancelled. It's 005160. Even some rebel ninjas have numbers, such as Kabuto Yakushi's number is 012140.
Sarutobi Hiruzen's ninja number is No. 261. He was 69 years old in the 60th year of Konoha. The ninjas with numbers 1,000 to 2,000 are all in their fifties. After many ninja wars, many ninjas died in battle. Whether they die of old age or retire, there are not many people like Sarutobi who are still strong and continue to fight. The total number of Konoha ninjas who are still active will definitely not reach 12,000, or even far less than this number.
In other words, the number of active ninjas in Konoha Village with ninja registration numbers is probably only five or six thousand.
It can be seen that among the more than 10,000 Konoha ninja troops during the Fourth Ninja War, most of them were genin who did not even have ninja registration numbers, or their identities were hidden by Danzo and they deliberately did not register ninja numbers. root member.
Calculated based only on mission commissions, the cost of hiring a top ninja like the Sannin of Konoha for a lifetime would only cost one billion taels at most.
One trillion liang is enough to hire all the ninjas in Konoha for a lifetime. Ten trillion liang is more than enough to buy out the ninjas' lifetime mission commissions and package and acquire the bits and pieces of Konoha Village.
The second aspect is the intangible assets of Konoha Village, or intangible cultural heritage, which are the various forbidden techniques and secret techniques passed down from generation to generation of Hokages.
The four elephant seals, the inner four elephant seals, the Flying Thunder God, multiple shadow clones, the reincarnation of the dirty land... and the family secrets of various ninja families in Konoha are also priceless treasures.
What can be sold is worthless, but what is valuable cannot be sold. In the 60 years since the establishment of Konoha Village, he has been sitting on the golden mountain begging. He has superb skills and the most powerful force in the world, but for a little help, he has sacrificed his life for the name of the Fire Country. It is quite... Somewhat beggars style.
During the Boruto period, Konoha's economy developed greatly, and it finally began to produce its own blood. Skyscrapers were built in the village, and thundercart tracks were built between the ninja villages. The influence of the Fire Nation's daimyo began to decline significantly, and they almost disappeared. Chances are, like the Japanese imperial family today, they have only a nominal and symbolic role.
The great businessmen in the Boruto era had a higher sense of presence than the daimyo.
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"Hahaha, this little brother said it well!"
Faced with Nara Shikaku's questioning, Luo Feng laughed loudly, his belly trembling with laughter. After laughing enough, he blew out a cigar ring and continued:
"Actually, the entire Ninja World continent is very poor. The total amount of currency issued is limited, and the currency credit guarantee is also very insufficient. The total value of the goods in the entire continent does not reach ten trillion taels. Even if I spend ten trillion taels, it will be nothing more. It’s a pile of waste paper that can’t be exchanged for ten trillion taels of goods.”
The fat businessman chuckled and continued: "The currency of the Ninja World is just the general equivalent of a national credit guarantee and cannot measure the actual value of goods. The Ninja World continent is relatively closed and ocean trade is not developed enough. Your money has not been supported by the global financial system at all. Without recognition, goods cannot be purchased from all over the world, and the currency of the ninja world is just an internal circulation voucher, and its value is even lower."
This time, this fat businessman from overseas made the entire ninja continent worthless, which made Nara Shikaku feel unhappy.
"President Bredlow!"
Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen took a long puff of cigarette and frowned: "Please stop beating around the bush. I have never been overseas. I don't know how rich the outside world of Ninja Realm is. And you can't prove the so-called 'Dragon Kingdom'." Whether the Dragon Chamber of Commerce is real or not, continuing to talk like this is a waste of time!"
"Be patient." Luo Fengxu pushed his hand and said: "It seems that without some sincerity, it will be difficult for you to understand the economic strength of our Dragon Chamber of Commerce."
As he spoke, Luo Feng nuzzled at Io, who adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses, took out a seal scroll from his briefcase, and handed the scroll to Sarutobi Hiruzen.
Sarutobi Hiruzen did not take it, and Nara Shikaku took the scroll for him.
This was also for security reasons, to avoid the fact that the two foreign businessmen whose identities were still doubtful were actually ninjas from other villages pretending to be ninjas from other villages, and this scroll was a weapon used to plot against the Hokage.
Nara Shikaku took a few steps back and nervously opened the scroll, only to see the word "gold" written all over it.
The sealing scrolls in the Naruto world can seal items in them. For example, the scroll with kunai sealed has the word "bitter" written on it.
Seeing the words on the seal scroll, Nara Shikaku guessed that what was sealed in the scroll was gold. The merchants from the Kingdom of Dragon probably wanted to show Lord Hokage the gold they owned to prove the amazing wealth of the Dragon Chamber of Commerce. .
"Then please ask this ninja brother to unseal the seal scroll. The gold inside will be used as a guarantee for our investment."
Luo Feng smiled and made a gesture of invitation.
Nara Shikaku took a few steps back again and came to the open space in the center of the Hokage's office. He vaguely guessed that the amount of gold in the seal scroll was definitely a lot. He was afraid that it could pile up into a hill, so he had to make room. It was the most empty space in the Hokage's office. Unlock the scroll.
Sarutobi Hiruzen also looked at Nara Shikaku with curiosity. Whether the two businessmen in front of him were real or fake could be judged based on the amount of guarantee money when they revealed their net worth.
After performing the seal scroll unsealing technique, a "buzzing" sound was heard as the ninjutsu worked, and a cloud of white mist was produced out of thin air. The secretary of the businessman from the Kingdom of Dragon picked up the fat businessman in an extremely fast movement, and while Shouting: "Boss, be careful", he rushed out of the Hokage's office in one step, jumped out of the window in the corridor, and escaped from the Hokage's house like flying.
"Oops!"
Nara Shikaku's heart suddenly sank. He was afraid that these two people were really assassins, and the scroll that sealed the gold was actually an assassination prop. It was likely that a huge amount of detonating talismans were sealed!
"Rumble! Crash! Crack!"
A series of dull sounds echoed over the Leaf Village. In an instant, the Hokage's house was shattered into pieces, smoke and dust were everywhere, and it collapsed.
This gold-sealing scroll contains 20,000 tons of gold bricks. Calculated by volume, it would require about a thousand cubic meters of open space to accommodate it.
One thousand cubic meters of gold bricks stacked together can form a huge golden cube that is ten meters long, ten meters wide and ten meters high.
Not to mention whether there is a thousand cubic meters of space in the Hokage's office, the weight of 20,000 tons alone is unbearable for a house with a wood and stone structure. After the seal is unlocked, countless gold bricks are scattered everywhere, directly crushing the Hokage's house and destroying it. This ancient building, passed down from generation to generation, was reduced to ruins.
The collapse of the Hokage's house suddenly alarmed the whole of Konoha. Many ninjas who didn't know the reason thought that the village was attacked.
Especially the jounin on duty at the jounin standby near the Hokage's house rushed out of the standby and rushed to the scene of the incident.
The jounin on duty at the jounin standby today happens to be the other two members of the fifteenth generation Inokacho, Akimichi Choji's father Akimichi Choza and Nakayama Ino's father Nakayama Haiichi.
The two of them were shocked when they saw the collapse of the Hokage's house. They greeted Nara Shikaku when they went to work in the morning, but now Nara Shikaku and the Hokage were buried in the ruins, and their lives were uncertain.
Luo Feng and Ai Ou were so cunning and had escaped long ago. They stood in front of the ruins and whispered small talk.
"Isn't it said that people in the Nara family have very high IQs? Is it a rumor? Tell him that I want to invest ten trillion taels. Wouldn't I consider how much something worth ten trillion taels would weigh when put on display?"
"Captain, where are the 20,000 tons of gold? It won't crush anyone to death, right? If Hiruzen Sarutobi crushes him to death, the plot twist will soar, but the Lord God's alertness will also soar."
"Ninjas shouldn't be so fragile. Hasn't the watch notified that the alert level has been increased?"
"Not good! Captain, the Lord God's alertness has begun to increase. It has increased by one percent. A ninja was really crushed to death and injured by 20,000 tons of gold! What should we do?"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, you really have a poor life. It's unlucky to be crushed to death by money. This is called having a life to make money but not spending it."
"Captain, now is not the time to make sarcastic remarks!"
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