Naruto: From Blood Extraction to the Sun of the Empire
Chapter 52

Grains in Hand

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To Uchiha Tenshu, these granaries were treasures more precious than the gold and silver he had just acquired.

As the saying went, with grain in hand, there was no panic in the heart.

With these strategic food reserves, he would have enough confidence to build his power in the future. Not only could he recruit soldiers and buy horses, but he could also safely lie low during the first few years of development, completely unaffected by the outside situation.

Thus, he personally inspected and calculated each one, as though appraising priceless treasures.

Under Uchiha Tenshu's gaze, these hundred-meter-wide grain depots resembled impregnable fortresses. Within each depot stood twenty sturdy stone granaries. Like loyal guards, these granaries possessed all kinds of protective properties and could preserve the grain for a long time. As a result, all surplus grain held by the people within a hundred-kilometer radius of Harvest City flowed here like rivers into the sea. The sheer quantity of stored grain was astounding.

Each granary was like a towering giant pillar, with an interior at least twelve meters in diameter and twenty meters high, standing proudly in place.

Using the estimate of nearly eight hundred jin of grain per cubic meter, these granaries were like ravenous beasts. Excluding the top two or three meters, each could hold at least eight hundred tons of grain.

Even a thousand tons would be no challenge for them; they could store it with ease. At eight hundred tons each, twenty granaries were like mountains of grain, totaling at least sixteen thousand tons.

The four grain depots, like four immense grain castles, could hold no less than sixty-four thousand tons of grain.

It was truly astonishing!

"This is incredible! The Otomo Clan was actually willing to put in so much effort and pay such an

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