After taking control of Kusagakure's upper ranks, Amegakure partially opened its border with Kusagakure. Shops were set up along the border, allowing trade between the residents of Amegakure and the Land of Grass.
But new problems soon arose. The impoverished people of the Land of Rain simply did not have enough money to buy goods, and could only exchange food and cloth for high-value industrial products.
Even the god and angel of Amegakure had no good solution to this.
They could not order merchants to give their goods away for free, as that would ensure no merchants came to the border to do business afterward. Yet in the long run, the people of the Land of Rain would only grow poorer.
The only solution might be to gather more talent and accelerate the development of manufacturing within Amegakure.
These policies gave Nagato a splitting headache. He had never imagined governing a country would be so difficult, and he began to miss the days when the Land of Rain had shut itself off from the world. But that was not what he wanted.
At that moment, sensing a fluctuation of Chakra behind him, Nagato turned toward the blue figure in midair and frowned. "Konan, is Iwagakure causing trouble at the border again?"
Ever since Amegakure took control of Kusagakure, Iwagakure's activities along the border had become increasingly frequent.
If not for his wariness of Ōnoki and the two Jinchuriki capable of using Tailed Beast Bombs, he would have long sent Akatsuki members into the Land of Earth to wreak havoc.
Still, the locations of Amegakure and Kusagakure truly limited their development.
Aside from the Land of Stone to the west and the Land of Rivers to the south, every nation bordering Amegakure was a major shinobi power. Even after controlling Kusagakure's