The storm unleashed by Great Collective 1.0 was still raging within Konoha.
As more and more players with ulterior motives entered the fray, this grand drama of epochal change seemed about to be pushed to an extreme.
Yet even in the face of such a tangled situation, Director Yamada, whose groundwork in the early stages had been exceptionally solid, could still sit firmly in the "eye of the storm," even sparing attention to follow the Sand Ninja's development on the western side of the continent.
As an important piece of territory that had been incorporated into Director Yamada's overall strategic plan as early as the opening stages of the Second Shinobi World War four or five years ago, Mekiya Ruri had successfully completed most of the initial institutional reconstruction through reforms to the Sand Ninja's original tribal council political structure, aided by the east wind of the Second Shinobi World War's spreading flames.
By the time the Soul-Burial Corps centered around the divine child Sasori had taken shape, the Land of Wind, having partly cast off the shackles of backward relations of production, had finally entered a period of rapid growth of its own!
With the support of the Executive Committee, the five major regional trading companies—the Kitami Family, Kikonai Family, Yamabe Family, Tomari Family, and Rausu Family—continued expanding their market shares. They soon swallowed up the former self-sufficient agricultural producers and small workshop artisans, creating tremendous economic prosperity through the efficiency advantages of clustered production!
From food production to ninja tool processing, from logistics and transportation to engineering and construction—naturally including healthcare and education as well...
While rapidly filling the gaps in the old market, the five great families, propped up by an invisible hand, also created enormous social wealth and a huge number of job openings!
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