Six years later, Hokage Building top.
From the birth of the prototype to the present, Orochimaru's laboratory has gone through nine reinventions.
Minato Namikaze, wearing the fourth generation eye Hokage Haori, stood by the window and read the top secret scroll sent by ANBU.
Beside the desk, Uchiha Fugaku, wearing a dark high-collar uniform and a Hokage's Aide armband on his chest, was approving the budget allocations of various departments.
Minato turned around and handed over the scroll.
The fatigue from the past few days has dissipated a lot.
"Fugaku, the supporting installation of the ninth-round creature Geothermal Network has been completed."
"The full load test of the mass production verification machine was stable. Senior Orochimaru invited us to do the acceptance inspection."
Fugaku took the scroll and quickly scanned it.
There was a rare smile on the cold face.
"After six years, this gold-eating beast has finally produced a mass-produced version."
He stood up and nodded towards Minato.
"Let's go, Minato, I also want to see it with my own eyes."
Half an hour later, Minato notified Minato's Team in advance.
Ye came from the clan, Obito and Kakashi met him outside the experimental area, while Lin was on standby at the Medical Department.
The group passed through the triple barrier and came to the top-secret testing area of Konoha Northern Suburbs.
As soon as the heavy iron door was pushed open, a warm and moist air rushed in.
Within the wall, hundreds of acres of fields are green, with tomato vines climbing up the wooden frames, and expanding potato tubers buried in the soil.
The early winter Frozen Ground outside the wall is covered with hoarfrost, but within the wall grows a piece of life that should not belong to this season.
Orochimaru was wearing a white lab coat stained with mud and liquid medicine, standing next to a mass-produced verification machine that was as tall as two people.
Those golden vertical pupils were frighteningly bright, and his scientific research enthusiasm was written all over his face.
"The underground heat source is responsible for the energy supply, and the Hashirama Tissue cultivated by White Zetsu Cells only serves as a circulating buffer."
"The energy efficiency is ten times that of the Land of Snow prototype. Chakra is only used for startup and temperature adjustment, and daily consumption is almost negligible."
His voice was hoarse, but the pride was written all over his face.
Kakashi's pair of dead fish eyes widened.
Obito opened his mouth slightly and stared blankly at the unseasonal green all over the ground.
Minato squatted down, put his palms on the warm soil, and felt his Adam's apple rolling.
"Fugaku, immediately formulate a plan to roll out this heat network to all agricultural areas in the northern part of Land of Fire."
Fugaku nodded. Just as he was calculating the treasure in his mind, Orochimaru pulled out a list of materials and photographed it in front of the two of them.
Red Pen The name circled three times is particularly eye-catching: Marrowstone Sand.
The accompanying manager of the supplies department glanced at the list, sweat broke out on his forehead, and hurriedly handed over the business information scroll.
"Lord Hokage, Master Assistant, Ore Merchants Alliance of Wind-Earth Border seems to have seen our needs. They just formed an alliance last night."
By the time the steward finished speaking, his throat was already dry.
"And three days ago, Land of Grass's two suppliers suddenly broke the contract. The compensation was directly transferred to Konoha's account, and the ore was sold to the Chamber of Commerce Alliance."
"Black Market at the Land of Wind border was also blocked last night, and even the underground channels were cut off."
"Now in the market, the price of Marrowstone Sand is more than ten times higher..."
Fugaku Push the business scroll back to the table.
"They are forcing Konoha to bow down."
"Starting from today, the market price has been driven up tenfold, threatening to ask Konoha to exchange the Ninja Tools order for the next three years, and they will not sell it for a penny less."
Obito's anger surged upwards, but after hesitating for a moment, he still spoke.
"How about I use Kamui to explore the reality of their warehouse first? If it doesn't work, I can think of other ways?"
Ye put his hands in his pockets and walked slowly along the field ridge, laughing out loud.
"What about after this robbery? As long as the mine owner burns the spot goods and then complains to Kazekage and Tsuchikage about the cross-border robbery of Konoha, tomorrow this matter will become a vicious diplomatic incident."
Ye turned her head and looked at Obito.
"The pattern opens up."
Obito suppressed his blush and couldn't find the words to refute.
Fugaku crossed his arms and asked.
"So, what's your opinion, Ye?"
Ye walked to the desk, casually pulled out a Shinobi World map and spread it out.
The ink pen drew a circle on Wind-Earth Border, and he raised his head.
He was smiling happier than the miner who had just raised the price.
"The Chamber of Commerce Alliance looks monolithic, but in fact it is all supported by a fragile expectation."
He tapped the tip of his pen on the map.
"Konoha must buy mines at a high price. This is their consensus."
"What I want to do is to crush this consensus."
"Senior Fugaku, I need to use Dark Gold from Konoha to do short borrowing and leverage blasting."
There was silence in the greenhouse.
Minato and Fugaku looked at each other and their eyes fell on the map at the same time.
Ye raised her first finger.
"The first step is to create forward contracts and create suspicion."
"Let ANBU disguise Shell Company as Land of Grass and Land of Water to contact the second and third ranked chambers of commerce in the Alliance."
"We won't touch the spot goods for now, we will use a premium of five times the market price."
"Sign a forward purchase contract for delivery in three months, pay a 20% deposit, and then include technical substitution in the termination clause."
Ye tapped the position of the Alliance with the tip of the pen.
"In order to swallow this windfall, they will ask Underground Money House to borrow loan sharks to expand mining, and even poach their allies to steal the spot goods."
"Once someone wants to eat alone, the trust within the Alliance will be shattered immediately."
Obito stared at the map, his mouth half-opened for three seconds, and then closed silently.
After two seconds, he grabbed Ye's sleeve.
"Wait a minute, you mean, let's get them to borrow money with a high-priced contract first?"
Ye slapped his hand away.
"The contract is real, and the termination clause is also real. Whether they borrow usury or not, what does it have to do with us?"
The second finger then lifted up.
"The second step is technical expectations, borrowing goods and shorting."
Ye turned her head and looked at Orochimaru.
"Please Lord Orochimaru first make a batch of new Chakra gel that can survive the complete test, then publish the experimental report, and announce that Konoha will suspend the purchase of Marrowstone Sand."
"At the same time, the shell company used the deposit to borrow a large amount of Marrowstone Sand from the Black Market mining bank."
"Sell them all while the price is high, and when the price falls below the mining cost, we will buy it back at a low price and pay it back, and the difference will go to Konoha."
Fugaku's eyes moved from the Konoha purchase mark to the Ore Hoarding Chamber of Commerce, and his fingers stopped at the latter's position.
"Wait a minute, Konoha has publicly suspended purchases, and there is a large amount of low-price selling in the market."
His fingers dug into the edge of the table and picked out a thin wooden thorn.
"Those chambers of commerce that borrowed usury to hoard ore will find that the ore in their hands cannot be sold at all."
Orochimaru licked his dry lips and squeezed out a laugh from his throat.
"Once the panic spreads, they will rush to sell at lower prices, just to collect funds to pay off debts, and the price of ore will fall to the point where it is even worse than cabbage."
Ye nodded and raised his third finger.
"When the price falls below the cost of extraction, the third step begins."
"When mortgages are liquidated, when those chambers of commerce borrow money, most of them will use mining rights as collateral."
"The ore cannot be sold and the account is due. Money House will naturally take over the mine according to the contract."
Obito was scratching his hair into a mess, but still didn't follow.
"Then what does this have to do with us getting the mine?"
The fingers of night moved from the location of the Chamber of Commerce to the border Underground Money House.
"Of course it does matter. What Money House put out was short-term debt, but what it got back was a batch of unsaleable mineral rights."
"When the upstream creditors press, they won't be able to get the cash, and the capital chain will still be broken."
"At this time, we enter the final step."
"The Fugaku patriarch is coordinating and asking Shell Trading Company to take Konoha's unique high-end medical equipment special supply quota and production increase food stamps to find those Money House who are about to go bankrupt."
Ye tapped the map with her fingers.
"Package and buy all the bad debt including mineral rights at a discount of 10% off the real estate price."
The greenhouse was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, except for the hum of the ventilation fan.
Ye put the ink pen on the table and concluded the hunt.
"On the surface, Konoha only releases experimental reports and does not involve any mining transactions."
"A few months later, the Chamber of Commerce went bankrupt and Money House changed owners."
"At the junction of Wind and Earth and the two countries, all the medium and large mineral veins controlled by the Alliance will fall into the name of the multi-layered Shell Trading Company controlled by Konoha."
He grinned.
"This is called Financial Dimensional Strike."