Land of Wind is a country full of yellow sand, and only a few areas with oases can allow humans to live barely there. Other than that, all other places are restricted areas for humans.
The area where Gelel Stone Vein is now buried is also an inaccessible No Man's Land.
If Akatsuki Ninja Village hadn't been secretly investigating the news about Gelel Stone all these years, searching everywhere in Land of Wind, no one would have paid attention to this deserted No Man's Land.
No one wants or can live in such a harsh environment.
In other words, in Sunagakure, the land where Gelel Stone Vein is buried is now a useless wasteland in the eyes of Land of Wind - it is tasteless to eat, and it is not a pity to abandon it.
If this is the case, then we can use the information gap to let Akatsuki Ninja Village get a large piece of Bird Dropping Island that is rich in Phosphorus Salt Mine, just like we did with Land of Water last time.
Speaking of this matter, I'm afraid it won't be long before Land of Water will start a quarrel with Akatsuki Ninja Village because of this matter.
Although the value of Bird Dropping Island is not greater than that of Gelel Stone Vein, it is definitely not less.
War, war... First Shinobi World War will break out sooner or later.
However, Konoha also benefited from it last time. A mere Kirigakure couldn't face the two great ninja villages of Akatsuki Ninja and Konoha, so there's no need to worry too much.
Even if there is a fight, Konoha and Akatsuki Ninja Village can press Kirigakure's head to fight.
Anyway...
As long as Akatsuki Ninja Village is willing to pay a small price in the next Six Kage Summit, he can legally obtain the ownership of the buried Gelel Stone Vein area.
And before the news about Gelel Stone Vein leaks out, Akatsuki Ninja Village can still earn a good reputation as a benevolent and righteous person in Ninja World.
As for the news of Gelel Stone Vein in the future... it means that Sage of Six Paths values Akatsuki Ninja Village's benevolence and righteousness, so he specially dropped the gift for Akatsuki Ninja Village.
No one can take away Gelel Stone Vein that originally belonged to Akatsuki Ninja Village!
In this way, at least in terms of morality, Akatsuki Ninja Village will definitely be able to stand up, and even then he can turn around and scold Sunagakure and Land of Wind from the moral high ground for being ungrateful. It is because they have a piece of precious land without knowing it, and in the end they shamelessly seize the land of their benefactors!
Of course...
Uchiha Makoto is not naive enough to end it like this.
If an agreement could really restrain Five Great Nations and Five Great Shinobi Villages, the several Ninja World wars in the original plot would never have broken out.
As long as the interests are huge enough, the so-called non-aggression agreement is actually a piece of waste paper that is too hard to wipe your butt with.
The interests behind Gelel Stone Vein are completely enough for Sunagakure and Land of Wind to ignore the previous agreement and forcefully send troops to seize the Gelel Stone Vein that already belongs to Akatsuki Ninja Village.
The most important thing is to solve the big problem Sunagakure.
Moreover, the size must be grasped to prevent Sunagakure from completely falling out with Akatsuki Ninja Village.
Uchiha Makoto doesn't want to fight guerrillas in the desert with a group of poor guys like Sunagakure. They are barefoot and are not afraid of wearing shoes, but Akatsuki Ninja Village is too big and powerful to have time to fight a meaningless war of attrition with them.
This... is indeed a tricky thing.
Uchiha Makoto couldn't think of a particularly good solution for a while.
In fact, if both parties can cooperate and achieve win-win results...
Uchiha Makoto is not unwilling to share this Gelel Stone Vein with Sunagakure. He is not a person who likes to eat alone. (Sad)
It is naturally the best choice to cooperate with Sunagakure to jointly develop Gelel Stone Vein... Uchiha Makoto does not want to fall into the extremely high investment cost of launching a war.
After all, the next era is the energy era.
In Uchiha Makoto's plan, the future Ninja World and Chakra will no longer be exclusive to Ninjas. With the popularization of Ninjutsu life-oriented applications, they will enter thousands of households of Ninja World.
In other words, Chakra will become the most basic energy source of Ninja World, and will be given the value of a general equivalent.
Uchiha Makoto will take advantage of the energy revolution to bind the Akatsuki Ninja Village currency and the pricing of Chakra, creating the Ninja World version of the Bretton Woods system.
In this case, one Currency Tide can easily harvest all Ninja World's wealth, and Akatsuki Ninja Village can really gain an invincible position in Ninja World.
So... if Akatsuki Ninja Village and Sunagakure cooperate, Uchiha Makoto is willing to do so from the bottom of his heart.
Of course.
However, cooperation is a win-win situation for both parties. Uchiha Makoto does not like to eat alone, but he always eats a lot.
Gelel Stone Vein is simply a waste of money in the hands of the poor people like Sunagakure. They have neither the ability to launch the Chakra revolution nor the ability to develop this Gelel Stone mineral vein.
It can be said that Sunagakure guarding a golden mountain cannot maximize its role. This is simply a waste of natural resources!
Only a village like Akatsuki Ninja Village can fully tap the potential of Gelel Stone.
Then it is reasonable for Akatsuki Ninja Village to take the lion's share!
But this kind of thing is just wishful thinking of Uchiha Makoto.
He puts himself in Sunagakure's shoes...Sunagakure will not tolerate Akatsuki Ninja Village getting involved with Gelel Stone Vein, let alone letting Akatsuki Ninja Village take the big lead, even if he covets it, it is a sin.
Just when Uchiha Makoto was thinking hard about the solution.
There was a knock on the door in the office room.
"Come in."
Then, a Akatsuki Ninja Anbu Ninja walked into the office. He came to inform Uchiha Makoto of the meeting.
"Lord Shadow, all the people for the Agricultural Association meeting you ordered have arrived."
"I know, I'll be here in a minute."
Ninjas can collect information much faster than the insects of Land of Fire, even in the field of agriculture, which they are best at.
For some unspeakable reasons, the insects even concealed the information. Therefore, Uchiha Makoto took the initiative to hold an Agricultural Association meeting to prepare in advance for this food production reduction crisis in Ninja World.
But this reminded Uchiha Makoto.
This year's natural disaster can be regarded as coming at the right time.
It can be foreseen that in the next whole year, the grain output of the entire Ninja World will inevitably decrease.
However, countries with fertile land, such as Land of Fire, Land of Rice, Land of Rivers, Land of Grass, will definitely be able to survive with their food reserves in previous years. Naturally, they can survive this crisis... although people will probably starve to death.
But in those countries where the land is barren and there is no way to cultivate it, people will not simply starve to death.
To describe the situation as starving to death is an understatement.
But Land of Wind is full of yellow sand, and the country's food is almost entirely imported. It can be said that Land of Wind is Ninja World's number one food importer!
After this foundation, soon Uchiha Makoto initially thought of a general plan, and then he moved towards Meeting Room.
And in Meeting Room, there was already a group of people waiting.
These people are either rich or noble.
After all, Land of Fire is generally still in an agricultural country. It is natural that someone who can sell grain in an agricultural country and control a regional grain trade and price is not a small player.
They are either ministers from generation to generation, or wealthy businessmen, standing behind Land of Fire senior officials, or even Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire, acting as their white gloves.
But despite this, everyone in the room was still waiting quietly.
No way.
Now this Land of Fire, if ordinary people offend Daimyo, they might still have a chance to survive in another country.
But if you offend Uchiha Makoto, even if you go to other countries or to the ends of the earth, Akatsuki Ninja Village's ninjas can always catch you.
The last family that publicly offended Light Shadow had their whole family encounter Rogue Ninja's homeless people. They all died overnight without even a chance to escape.
I even heard that Land of Fire Elder's family was assassinated, and he committed the crime as a wanderer, which is inexplicably familiar... but this is a topic that cannot be discussed.
Of course, fame alone cannot make this group of people so obedient, they are more motivated by profit.
The agricultural revolution initiated by Akatsuki Ninja Village has begun to take shape.
Whether it is the high-quality improved varieties produced by Akatsuki Ninja Village or the Chemical Fertilizer that can greatly increase the yield, the supply in Land of Fire is currently in short supply, and only members who participate in the Agricultural Association are eligible to buy it.
Food has always been very important.
If people don't eat, they will starve to death.
Especially in Ninja World, a chaotic world with war as its background, food is the absolute hard currency.
Even if Uchiha Makoto is kind-hearted and is trying to deliberately control domestic food prices so that more ordinary people can eat, the group of people in the room can still make a lot of money.
The worst that can happen is that you will make less money in the domestic grain industry, and then when the grain is exported abroad, the price of grain will be raised.
Ninja World There are many countries that are short of food!
For example, there is Land of Rain, which keeps raining next door, and Land of Wind, which is full of deserts.
These countries are eagerly waiting for food every year.
Now Uchiha Makoto holds a killing knife in one hand and an opportunity to make money in the other. It can be said that who has offended Akatsuki Ninja Village or Lord Shadow now. They are waiting to be kicked out of this agricultural revolution, and they may not even be able to save their property or life.
Sometimes there is no need for Akatsuki Ninja Village to take action.
Because Land of Fire some people are trying to curry favor with Akatsuki Ninja Village, and they add insult to injury to those guys who don't understand current affairs.
"Gentlemen, long time no see."
"Lord Shadow, long time no see."
"Lord Shadow."
Uchiha Makoto sat down at the main seat with a gentle smile on his face.
After a while of greetings, Uchiha Makoto picked up the teapot and started pouring tea. The room immediately became silent, waiting for Uchiha Makoto to speak.
And Uchiha Makoto didn't want to waste any more time, so he went straight to the point.
"According to reliable information, due to this year's cold wave, the grain production of the entire Ninja World will be reduced. Judging from the grain production in previous years, it will be reduced by about 20%. If the cold wave continues to spread, the situation will even get worse."
Hearing what Uchiha Makoto said, the eyes of everyone in the room lit up.
This news is indeed terrible for ordinary people, but it can even be a good thing for them.
It's not like they can't afford to eat.
Land of Fire has always been Ninja World's main grain-producing country. Last year, due to the agricultural revolution launched by Akatsuki Ninja Village, grain harvests in many places in Land of Fire were already bumper. Even if grain production is reduced this year, it will not affect Land of Fire too much.
But Land of Fire is a special case.
At present, the benefits of the agricultural revolution to the country are still only Land of Fire.
Ninja World's overall grain production is still declining, but once Ninja World's grain production is reduced, it means that everyone here can hoard it, take the opportunity to raise grain prices, and sell it at Ninja World's sky-high prices.
This is a good opportunity to wield the scythe at Ninja World.
"So in order to ensure the food security of Land of Fire, we must make timely preparations. We should stock up on food now to prepare for emergencies."
"Not only that, we also need to purchase food from all the ninja world to ensure the food security of the Land of Fire at multiple levels, in multiple aspects, and in multiple ways."
"The most important thing is that we have to find a suitable opportunity to ban grain exports nationwide."
Uchiha Makoto continued talking.
His purpose is simple.
It is necessary to hoard food, not only that, but also to buy enough food in Ninja World to prepare for emergencies.
Of course... the most important thing is the latter one, banning grain exports nationwide.
Soon, the nobles and wealthy businessmen in the room began to lose control.
The first two orders are completely acceptable to them.
Whether it is hoarding food or purchasing food at Ninja World, they will take the initiative to do it even if Uchiha Makoto doesn't say it.
Even if Lord Shadow kindly wants them to bleed money, offer low prices, or even open a granary for free to help those "untouchables", they can reluctantly accept it.
At least you can earn a good reputation.
But this has a prerequisite... the money they lose must be made up elsewhere.
Land of Fire has always been the largest producer of Ninja World. With grain in hand, as long as all of you here join forces and raise the price of grain when exporting, you can make a lot of money.
But now Lord Shadow Company has asked them to ban the export of grain abroad!
Then they have so much grain in their hands, what is the use of purchasing grain at Ninja World?
Are they all going to benefit those "untouchables", or are they just waiting to be piled up in granaries to rot?
However, before these objections could be heard, Uchiha Makoto had already continued to speak.
"But at that time, I allowed smuggling."
Smuggling?
Why didn't I think of this idea?
For a moment, the nobles and wealthy businessmen in the room suddenly became enlightened.
They all had to admire Uchiha Makoto's wisdom!
Yes, we can obviously take advantage of this food crisis to create a food crisis in Ninja World for several consecutive years, so why rush it?
As long as they work together, they can completely artificially control the value of food!
Land of Fire Nominally banning foreign exports can keep food prices at a high level, but privately opening a loophole... is a win!
It's like a genius idea.
No wonder Uchiha Makoto can do Light Shadow at such a young age!
"Lord Shadow, see you soon!"
"Lord Shadow, see you soon!"