Three years passed in the blink of an eye, yet that was enough time to turn a village, a country, or even an entire world upside down.
The Konoha of today could no longer be described as a ninja village. Under the devoted protection of two supreme powerhouses, it was ambitiously growing and expanding outward.
Two years ago, when the first batch of civilian shinobi graduated and officially entered the workforce, they demonstrated a level of efficiency that moved Tobirama Senju beyond words-
The forests surrounding the village were steadily felled and processed into urgently needed building materials. Dust billowed as roads were laid, new buildings rose from the ground, and vast stretches of farmland were reclaimed. Facilities and institutions that had existed only in Tobirama's imagination were steadily becoming reality through the civilian shinobi's tremendous productivity.
Under the exploitation of their heartless boss, Tobirama Senju, these unfortunate tools enjoyed the happy life of working twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Their diligent labor transformed Konoha by the day.
Although these chakra-enhanced civilian shinobi were weaker than even proper Ninja Academy students, their speed, strength, and endurance far surpassed those of ordinary people. They even needed less sleep, making them the cream of the workforce, exemplary tools, and Tobirama Senju's perfect slave laborers.
Some civilian shinobi who had previously been farmers smoothly took over the newly reclaimed fields. High-yield crops such as the potatoes and sweet potatoes Shingetsu produced with Wood Release were also spread with astonishing speed. In less than a year, the famine that had given everyone such headaches was greatly alleviated, and the shinobi clans' storehouses and ordinary families' dinner tables finally stopped looking so empty.
This undoubtedly attracted even more people to Konoha. The Land of Fire had far too many starving people with