As the major ninja villages rushed to stock up, every stage of ninja tool manufacturing suffered an unprecedented wave of canceled orders.
Especially those ninja tool shops that had not introduced new types of ninja tools. They had previously purchased large quantities of ordinary ninja tools from blacksmiths everywhere, only to find themselves unable to sell them now.
These shop owners were unwilling to sell their mountain of stockpiled ninja tools to the major ninja villages at low prices, or offload them to ninja organizations and rogue ninjas.
As a result, they could only grit their teeth and hold on, praying for ninja tool prices to return to normal as soon as possible.
Under these circumstances, the Land of Iron, a nation founded on samurai, welcomed two special groups of merchants.
The Uchiha Consortium and the Golden Consortium.
As distant relatives, the Uchiha might be a little unhinged and a little tsundere, but they were still deeply trusted by the Hagoromo Clan.
A few years earlier, when Sanjie brought Uchiha Fugaku's proposal for commercial assistance and hoped the two sides could develop together, the Hagoromo Clan had agreed without a second thought.
If anyone else had been so eager to help the Hagoromo Clan, they would have been viewed with absolute suspicion. Otherwise, the Hagoromo Clan would have had to be brainless to not think the other party had ulterior motives.
But the Uchiha?
It was not that the Hagoromo Clan looked down on them. The Uchiha genuinely did not have the brains for it!
The Uchiha were all thickheaded idiots!
The solid-core kind!
Ever since the partnership began, Uchiha Makoto had remained somewhat wary of them, afraid that one day the Hagoromo Clan would offer the Uchiha some "heartfelt words."
Thus, although there had been several events where members