Yuya knew the Uzumaki Envoy group was in a hurry, of course, but hold on a moment.
Let me take you to see the Steel Mill first.
Yuya led the group to the Steel Mill, which had expanded to fifteen factories. At this point, it should probably be called the Steel Industrial Park.
Fifteen Steel Mills standing together made for quite an impressive sight.
At least, the Uzumaki envoys stared at them wide-eyed.
After that, Yuya took them to the Food Processing Plant complex.
There was a Canned Food Factory, as well as a dedicated Snack Factory that made all kinds of biscuits, fruit drops, snacks...
There was also a Livestock Farm, though it was farther away, several kilometers beyond the mountains north of Konoha.
But it had every kind of livestock imaginable: cattle, horses, pigs, and sheep.
There just weren't very many yet. Yuya planned to breed at least a hundred thousand of each kind before he started selling meat and bringing prices down.
Right now, meat cost nearly a hundred times as much as those vegetables.
That was definitely unacceptable. At most, it should cost twenty times as much.
Even though those vegetables were technically wild greens, and a pound only cost one or two qian or so, that still wasn't acceptable...
Konoha would certainly need to plan for cultivating vegetables and the like in the future, too.
But Konoha hadn't finished industrializing yet. Though it was already doing quite well compared with the other great nations, which were still playing in the mud—with dirt roads everywhere—it still wasn't enough for Yuya. Not nearly enough.
At the very least, they needed to establish an industrial foundation: produce the industrial goods for two basic human needs, clothing and transportation, right?
Didn't people get tired of walking everywhere on two