Daimyo?
The most profitable, most lucrative, and least technically demanding industries that could quickly generate cash had always been closely tied to people's basic necessities.
For this reason, Uchiha Makoto had even specifically sent ninjas out to conduct field investigations.
"Kazuma, let's go into the salt business together."
Uchiha Makoto pondered for a moment before deciding to imitate the usual operations of transmigrators.
Kazuma: "???"
"Salt isn't very expensive, is it?"
"Even families so poor they can barely scrape by can afford salt nowadays."
Kazuma had no idea why Uchiha Makoto had suddenly decided to go into the salt business.
But his life experience told him otherwise.
Salt prices in the Ninja World had been very cheap over the past year or two.
Even if Akatsuki Ninja Village entered the salt business, it probably wouldn't make much money.
"No kidding. Private salt dealers are everywhere. How could salt not be cheap?"
Salt was a necessity of life.
Throughout history, it had always been monopolized and operated by the authorities; that was precisely why selling salt had become an unquestionably lucrative business in ancient times.
It was also an important source of government revenue.
But this was the Ninja World.
Its national circumstances were naturally different.
Uchiha Makoto had already figured out the state of the Salt Market.
That was because the class system in this bizarre Naruto world was absurdly rigid. Some noble families had inherited the same family name for several generations, even more than a dozen generations. They were truly Celestial Dragons in the literal sense.
The Warring States Period had been chaotic for so many years that the Daimyo of every country had long since lost their grip on the local regions.
The Daimyo and the nobles merely maintained the same system for their own benefit, standing