Massive Changes in the Ninja World

The days were uneventful yet busy, and Hinata was so bored she was practically growing grass on her head.

The world had changed drastically!

Though ninja did not understand politics or economics, they had governed villages before, so they still had some administrative experience.

Now that ninja governed the world, they were merely applying their experience running villages to running the world.

Well... in short, it was a complete mess.

Still, there was one advantage to having ninja govern the world: bandits, robbers, gangs, and all sorts of other criminal forces had basically vanished.

With society stable and harmonious, many things became much more convenient.

At the very least, life had improved considerably for ordinary people at the bottom. They no longer had to worry about being robbed by bandits or paying excessive taxes.

Once civilians were settled, commerce naturally flourished.

Merchants no longer needed to hire ninja for protection. A stable society encouraged more people to trade, while high commercial taxes brought greater revenue to the state.

What conditions had merchants needed to do business in the past?

Having capital to buy goods was not enough. They also needed money to hire ninja.

And where did that money come from?

Naturally, by fleecing the common people.

In the past, goods transported from the Land of Fire to the Land of Wind could increase in price by four to ten times.

Merchants had to consider shipping costs, labor costs, commercial taxes, tariffs for entering foreign countries, and the cost of hiring ninja.

If they transported too few goods at a time, they could barely make any money at all.

Now that merchants no longer needed ninja protection, the prices of imported and exported goods naturally fell.

Otherwise, why did you think the Land of Wind had been so poor? Geography