Bloodshed and Sacrifice Begin with Our Generation!

"What did you mean by liberating the productive forces?"

Yahiko's Trio were all somewhat puzzled. They had never heard that term before.

Uchiha Jin said seriously, "Don't underestimate this step. It's the most crucial part of all!"

Yahiko's Trio instinctively sat up straighter and focused with all their might, unwilling to miss a single word Uchiha Jin said next.

Rather than directly explaining what "liberating the productive forces" meant, Uchiha Jin asked, "You want to pursue peace, but what is your purpose in pursuing peace?"

Yahiko answered, "Of course, it's so everyone can live better lives! So they won't have to live in constant uncertainty anymore!"

Uchiha Jin asked again, "And who exactly do you mean by everyone?"

Yahiko frowned and replied as if it were only natural, "Of course, everyone!"

Uchiha Jin gave Yahiko a meaningful look and said in a low voice, "But what if I told you that peace alone cannot change the Current Situation? Even without war, everyone would still live in dire straits?"

"How could that be!"

Yahiko shook his head, unable to believe it.

Confusion also appeared in Nagato and Konan's eyes.

Yahiko's Trio were all war orphans. To them, every hardship they had suffered came from war. As long as there was no war, they naturally would not have to suffer those hardships again.

Thus, from Beginning to End, they had only thought about how to end war and pursue peace.

Yet now, Uchiha Jin was telling them that even without war, their suffering would not change in the slightest. It was simply too difficult for them to accept!

Of course, the Land of Rain's special circumstances had also limited Yahiko's Trio's understanding.

Although the Land of Rain also followed the One Country, One Village System, it was a small country and a place ravaged by years of bitter warfare. Thus, the Land of Rain had neither a Daimyo nor a Kage.

The Land of Rain had only one leader: Hanzō the Salamander!

Under the Land of Rain's unique conditions, people's first concern was survival. There was no soil for Nobles to take root!

Although there was also a group of people in the Land of Rain who lived relatively well, at most they ignored the lives and deaths of the commoners at the bottom. Their exploitation of those commoners was nowhere near as severe as elsewhere.

So it was perfectly normal that Yahiko's Trio, who had never left the Land of Rain, did not know the world's true face.

Uchiha Jin did not explain further and asked, "You three know that Nobles exist, right?"

"We do."

Yahiko's Trio nodded. They did know about that.

Uchiha Jin asked again, "Then what do you think of those Nobles?"

Yahiko's Trio exchanged looks. They knew nothing about the matter, so how could they possibly have their own opinions?

Only then did Uchiha Jin explain, "Simply put, Nobles are people who control vast amounts of resources! Less than 0.1 percent of the world's population controls more than 70 percent of its resources!"

"Shinobi are tools in their eyes, while commoners are cattle and horses that create wealth for them. War is merely a means for them to divide up benefits!"

"You may not be able to imagine it, but although the Shinobi World War has been fought three times, it has not affected in the slightest the Noble Lords' lives of nightly revelry."

"Even in times of peace, commoners at the bottom still suffered relentless exploitation from the upper Nobles."

"They toiled in the fields, yet most of what they earned had to be handed over to the Nobles, leaving them with only enough food to barely fill their stomachs."

"And a single Natural Disaster or man-made calamity could destroy countless families."

"Those better off sold off their property in hopes of surviving. Those with no property could only sell their sons and daughters into slavery, or turn to banditry."

"In this world, aside from the Gathering Places of those Nobles that could be called prosperous, Most of the other places were essentially filled with misery and suffering!"

Uchiha Jin's tone was heavy, his voice suppressing his anger.

What he had seen in the anime before had mostly been this world's most prosperous side.

Bustling commerce, lively streets, and people living stable lives.

It seemed that the only slight imperfection was the wars between shinobi!

Yet while this world's technology was highly advanced in certain areas, it remained extremely backward in many more. People were still living in an agricultural age.

So in this era of incredibly backward productive forces, who knew how much blood and sweat of working people lay hidden behind those bustling streets?

In the Original Plot, perhaps the most direct example of this was how the commoners of the Land of Waves could pool everything they had and still fail to gather the reward for a B-rank mission!

This world should not be like this!

Nor should shinobi be like this!

"How could it be like this..."

Yahiko muttered, his entire body going numb.

Nagato's Rinnegan was also filled with confusion.

All they had thought about before was peace. They believed that once peace came, everyone's lives would improve.

But they had never imagined that even with peace, everyone's lives would still not improve!

Uchiha Jin continued, "There are actually still many resources in this world. Our current level of development may not even be one percent!"

"It is simply that a small group of people already enjoy enormous amounts of resources, so they do not care how Others live. As long as they and their descendants can continue enjoying them, that is enough!"

"And so the social classes of this world have become fixed!"

"A slave's child remains a slave, a commoner's child remains a commoner, a scapegoat's child remains a scapegoat, while a Noble's son remains a Noble!"

"So if we want to change all this, we can only break the Existing System and establish a new one!"

"If we want everyone to live good lives, then we can only first unify the entire world under one position, then change the Existing System, liberate the productive forces, and create more resources!"

This was also the answer Uchiha Jin had reached after observing this world for so many years!

To completely change this world, those three measures had to be carried out together!

Yahiko looked troubled. He looked at Uchiha Jin and said, "Jin Big Brother, although what you said makes a lot of sense, there will definitely be tremendous resistance if we want to completely change this world's Existing System, right?"

Yahiko was not foolish. He quickly understood the Deep Meaning in Uchiha Jin's words.

But precisely because of that, Yahiko foresaw that if Uchiha Jin's ideas were truly put into practice, they would surely stir up a bloody storm across the entire Ninja World!

Such sacrifices filled him with dread!

Uchiha Jin did not hide it and said directly, "Because those people control Most of the resources in this world, if we want change, it would not be an exaggeration to say we would make enemies of the entire world!"

After a pause, Uchiha Jin's gaze turned resolute as he said deeply, "But throughout history, no reform has ever come without bloodshed and sacrifice! Since I have seen it, I will not leave the problem for the Younger Generation to solve!"

"Let bloodshed and sacrifice begin with our generation!"