After Chentian and the others left, news of their deeds quietly spread throughout the ninja world. Almost everyone knew about it.
Iwagakure and Sunagakure immediately grew tense. Their strength was roughly on par with Kumogakure's. If they provoked Konoha, they would be in serious trouble.
So they all issued orders to avoid provoking Konoha's ninja whenever possible and to maintain good relations with Konoha.
The one thing that reassured them was that Konoha's ninja did not accept missions from other countries. Every day, they were busy helping their own farmers water crops, plow fields, pull weeds, and so on. They would not steal anyone else's missions.
This also meant that ninja from both sides rarely came into contact, greatly reducing the chances of trouble.
But it also made them green with envy. Konoha had already moved beyond relying on missions to make money, shifting all its focus to commerce.
Money poured in every day like rain. Even ninja had started receiving salaries!
From then on, even ordinary citizens of the Land of Fire strutted around as if they were something special.
We people of the Land of Fire never worry about food or drink. Our ninja are civil servants.
We can hire ninja to help farm the land, and the prices are incredibly low.
After learning this, how could civilians from other countries possibly sit still? They packed up their families and headed for Konoha.
If the various countries had not discovered it early and blocked the routes in time, they would probably have been left with nothing but empty shells.
Even so, the population of the Land of Fire more than doubled.
The daimyo of the other countries were extremely unhappy. They pressured the daimyo of the Land of Fire, hoping he would send those civilians back.
When he