News of the Two-Tails

In the year since Uchiha Mu's system had upgraded, the shinobi world had seen no large-scale wars, but minor clashes never stopped. Meanwhile, the Hundred-Clan Trading Company founded by Kakuzu had truly made a name for itself throughout the shinobi world.

Besides all kinds of novel electrical products, it also sold a wide variety of soldier pills, drawing in vast amounts of money from the great nations. Naturally, he could not keep all the profits for himself.

Without sharing the profits, he would meet obstacles at every turn. But once he brought the nobles and the daimyo of every great nation on board, Kakuzu's trading company could travel anywhere in the shinobi world without trouble.

If shinobi tried to rob him, Kakuzu's strength was nothing to scoff at, either. Though people joked about him taking on the Hokage with shuriken, he was still quite capable.

Konoha was the second to rise. All Uchiha Mu could say was that the wicked old Senju bastard lived up to his reputation. He had led Konoha's whole extended family into a new line of business and forcibly taken a share of the market.

Unfortunately, Konoha could only do business within the Land of Fire, and even there, it faced certain obstacles. After all, Konoha was a coalition of shinobi clans, giving it an advantage over them in both products and costs. If it really got into business, it would certainly make more money.

But unlike Uchiha Mu, they would not give up a share of their profits. The nobles were already eyeing them. In their view, shinobi should behave themselves and serve as tools and weapons. Who said they could just start doing business?

All of this was manageable while Hashirama was alive. But once he died, they would pull strings behind the other villages. Even without Black Zetsu and Madara working behind the scenes, war would still break out in the shinobi world. It was only a matter of time.

Once hatred took root among shinobi and an entire generation was killed off, they would no longer have any thoughts of doing business. Then they would return to their true role as shinobi. For now, Uchiha Mu had simply led them astray.

Speaking of Uchiha Mu, he gave some nobles quite a headache. That fellow had bound many nobles from various countries, along with every daimyo, to his interests. Taking action against him would be extremely troublesome. In fact, after a few more years of growth, they might not even be a match for those new-style nobles.

Still, there were ways. Internal strife was always more effective than external conflict; they only needed to divide them. But they also planned to wait until Uchiha Mu died before putting that into action. After all, the rumors circulating through the shinobi world were rather frightening.

As for the shinobi villages of the other four great nations? That was asking a little too much of them.

Uchiha Mu carried on as usual, using clones to handle paperwork while he remained quite relaxed. As for his strength suffering because he did not train? That was not a problem. He still had his system to fall back on.

"Uchiha Mu, you have even more chakra than I do," Mini Chōmei could not help complaining.

"Haha, how could I hold my ground here without being strong? The village is in a period of growth right now. I can't let everyone down." Since this place was only a little larger than Konoha, Uchiha Mu had given up on the idea. He would revisit it once he had developed the entire country.

"Speaking of which, public safety in the village hasn't been particularly good lately." Keiko Uzumaki sighed softly.

"It can't be helped. This sort of thing is inevitable when we're taking in new people, and that's after screening them with genjutsu." Uchiha Mu had a headache over it, too. When it came to development and construction, all he could do was copy existing models, and there really were plenty of problems.

Even so, he felt that development here was quite fast. He could only conclude that the world was one enormous amateur operation.

"Mu, there's one more thing. Do we really need to manufacture so many war supplies? Judging by our current intelligence, the great nations won't go to war for a long time, and Hashirama Senju is still in his prime." As the person overseeing the village's barrier and finance departments, Keiko Uzumaki had developed a keen sensitivity to money.

"Don't worry, we won't lose money. Besides, we have to keep production running for the sake of these shinobi's income. They're genin at best."

"Explosive tags are fine, since they keep for a long time, but soldier pills don't, do they? How many have we produced already?" Keiko Uzumaki placed a document on the desk. Her head ached terribly. Only after handling the finances had she discovered that every hastily assembled department was asking for money.

Without the gold coins Uchiha Mu had provided earlier, the village would have gone bankrupt and collapsed during this past year. There would have been no need for another village to attack.

"You checked Kakuzu's report too, didn't you? They're selling very well in the Land of Lightning and the smaller countries."

"But these quantities already exceed their demand. The Land of Whirlpools can only use up a tiny portion, too." Keiko Uzumaki had a terrible headache. After managing this place for so long, she had long since come to regard it as her own village.

"Relax. At least they won't spoil for a long time. Speaking of Kakuzu, he's sent back more intelligence. Want to take a look?" Uchiha Mu handed Keiko Uzumaki a scroll. He was honestly getting a little scared.

There was certainly nothing stopping him from insisting on his own way, but then he would have to accept being the only person working hard to develop the village. Precisely because he did not cling to power, after all this time, Keiko Uzumaki had naturally come to see this place as her village, rather than staying simply because Uchiha Mu was here.

"What intelligence is it?" Keiko Uzumaki sighed and examined the scroll with Uchiha Mu.

"It's intelligence on the Two-Tails. The location is in the Land of Lightning. Shinobi from Kumogakure discovered it." Uchiha Mu smiled as he read the intelligence. Next, he would go bring the little kitty back.

As with the Seven-Tails, he intended to first make the beast face reality and the power of the Uchiha Clan, forcibly controlling it with genjutsu.

"It'll take two days to reach that location from here. Mu, when do you plan to leave?" Keiko Uzumaki still held a certain reverence for tailed beasts. The village already had the Seven-Tails, and its enormous chakra had left her rather stunned.

And she had yet to encounter the Nine-Tails. After all, even half of the Nine-Tails could hold its own against the other tailed beasts combined.

"Hmm, right now. I'll leave the village to you all." Uchiha Mu rose and put on his robe bearing the Uchiha Gunbai, then prepared to leave.

After a year of development, the village was changing by the day and had become vastly different from a year ago. First was the Uzumaki Clan. He maintained frequent contact with them and often paid to commission them to come over. Word of their visits here had already spread throughout the clan.

Compared with Konoha, a village that had formed an alliance with them but had relatively little contact, the Uzumaki Clan found it easier to visit the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Village. They did not care that the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Village had few shinobi clans.

If they cared about that, they would have agreed to join Konoha long ago instead of establishing a village of their own. But everyone yearned for a better life, and shinobi were no exception.

When they enjoyed happy lives in the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Village, they wanted to go back and bring their relatives over, too. As for moving back? They could forget about that.

The Land of Whirlpools had no daimyo and relied entirely on a single clan to build it. It was easy to imagine how poor it was. Meanwhile, the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Village made money trading with the Five Great Nations and the smaller countries.

The village could also attract large numbers of merchants, and merchants would inevitably spend money when they came. The Land of Whirlpools could not compare with that ability to draw in wealth.

Thus, while the Land of Whirlpools was still rural, the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation had already developed to a modern scale. All of this stemmed from Uchiha Mu putting various products into mass production.

These covered everything from clothing and food to housing and transportation, and Kakuzu's trading company sold them throughout the shinobi world. The villagers used their spare money to fill their homes with these goods. In times of peace, both shinobi and ordinary people had a healthy appetite for spending.