Of course, while the Senju Clan was taking action, the Uchiha Clan wasn't idle either.
While the Senju Clan was tirelessly forging alliances everywhere, the Uchiha Clan was also vigorously developing its own villages within the clan.
"Has it reached its limit?" Uchiha Takashi looked at the expansion application submitted by the village, pondered for a moment, and then began to write on the application.
The village is currently mainly focused on absorbing population and expanding production. After all, it's the first village established by the Uchiha, and it might even become the capital of the Uchiha nation in the future.
For the time being, direct contact with foreign entities is not being considered; their main products are primarily traded through intermediaries within the Uchiha Clan.
"Blacksmithing, cloth production, and everything else can begin now," Uchiha Takashi thought to himself.
When the village was extremely poor, the only considerations were absorbing population and expanding grain production, mainly to provide food support for the family.
Now that food production is more than sufficient, it's natural to start some secondary industries.
While grain production is the primary industry and therefore the most important, other industries must also develop in tandem to make a village prosperous.
"We can build an internal commercial street and a food street!" Uchiha Takashi wrote quickly on the paper. At that moment, he suddenly realized something.
"It seems like we've gone astray in our tech development..." Uchiha Takashi's brows immediately furrowed. He hadn't noticed it before, but seeing this application suddenly reminded him.
The Shinobi World Wars were frequent, but the main players were still the Five Great Nations plus a bunch of smaller countries. The wars primarily broke out between ninja clans, and because ninjas had low social status, they were also the main actors in these wars.
This has led to a very unreasonable situation: the technology tree has been developed in the wrong direction.
Under normal circumstances, in the event of war, neither side, lacking superhuman abilities, would aggressively develop war technology.
Once you unlock gunpowder and firearms, the development will accelerate dramatically, eventually unlocking missiles, airplanes, and everything else imaginable.
However, when ninjas are the main force in warfare, a situation arises where life technology can develop rapidly, but war technology stagnates.
Since everyone is outmatched, they're mostly focused on making the ninjas stronger; who's thinking about how to equip them with gear for actual combat?
That's why the original story includes rice cookers and even trains, but you never see a single gun, not even a musket...
Not really, at least the Land of Lightning still has cannons.
"No way? How can we do this? If technology doesn't develop, how will we fight when the Otsutsuki invade in the future?" Uchiha Takashi kept shaking his head.
Although he might not live to see that day, he couldn't leave his descendants with a huge pitfall, could he? He had to find a way to ensure their survival.
That's right, Uchiha Takashi's idea for dealing with the Otsutsuki was to utilize technology, and to leverage his foresight to accelerate technological development in his generation.
At the very least, the acceleration needs to reach the level he had in his previous life. Even if we don't go into outer space, we should at least bring out those advanced war technologies.
Furthermore, Chakra must absolutely not be used. Any war technology that is activated using Chakra will require Chakra and will be completely ineffective against the Otsutsuki.
The Otsutsuki are awesome, but wait until I unleash my nuclear weapons, let's see how many you can withstand! Even Kaguya, who ate the God Tree Fruit, probably couldn't withstand more than a few.
Even if you can really withstand it, as my technology continues to develop, it will eventually develop to the point where you can't withstand it anymore. Your physical strength has its limits, but my technological limits are limitless!
When technology reaches its peak, even gods will be killed! Don't you think gods exist in a special form? Can't they exist in a physical form?
Anything that cannot be explained simply means that our technology has not yet reached the level to explain it.
At this moment, Uchiha Takashi felt as if he had found the door to a new world. Oh no, after staying in this world for so long, he almost forgot that technology is the primary productive force.
When you feel you're not strong enough, your subconscious thought is how to make yourself stronger, without ever considering simply overwhelming them with technology.
He can now pursue a two-pronged approach: simultaneously striving for greater strength and developing technology, waiting for the Uchiha Clan and other families to achieve a technological leap forward.
By then, any other clan that encounters the Uchiha will only get kicked away. Do you understand the overwhelming power of technology? If you can't keep up with the times, you'll just get kicked away by them!
Imagine a future scenario where every member of the Uchiha Clan wears modern bulletproof vests and helmets, carries an assault rifle, and has earpieces in their ears.
Calling headquarters into my headset, "Headquarters, forward coordinates [location], requesting fire support! Or just direct interstellar orbital cannon coverage... Ah, just thinking about it is awesome!"
Just as Uchiha Takashi was smugly imagining the future scenario of the Uchiha Clan crushing other clans, the sight of the Uchiha clan members brought him back to reality.
"Oh, how could I forget that every member of the Uchiha Clan is a battle maniac? Expecting them to develop technology is like expecting ants to fly or pigs to climb trees..."
Uchiha Takashi was helpless. Just thinking about the pathetic state of the Uchiha Clan made him feel like his life was utterly bleak.
"Alright, let's take it one step at a time," Uchiha Takashi shook his head, focusing on the present. The current era's technology was roughly at the end of the Iron Age.
Those miscellaneous iron tools have all reached their peak development; if there aren't any major problems, we should be able to enter the steam age.
Entering the steam age, wanting to build a steam engine... well, just thinking about it Uchiha Takashi feel like it's impossible.
Not to mention, the Uchiha Clan's battle maniacs don't seem like they'd be capable of anything technological. Even if Uchiha Takashi explained the principles to them, they still wouldn't seem competent.
Technology is a slow and meticulous process, and most Uchiha are impatient and find it difficult to calm down and focus.
In fact, the Uchiha Clan is very intelligent; this is evident from their ability to continuously develop and Ninjutsu Ninjutsu.
However, technology is different from Ninjutsu; it is a completely independent path separate from Ninjutsu, and an impatient person is ultimately not suitable for it.
"Looks like I need to find a smarter clan, one that can also calm down... Let me think, which clans in Hokage are the smartest?"
Uchiha Takashi stroked his chin, deep in thought. Based on the portrayal in the original Hokage manga... researchers, people who do research.
Uchiha Takashi immediately thought of Orochimaru. It was the mid-Warring States period; not only had Orochimaru not been born yet, but even if he wanted to find Orochimaru's ancestor, he wouldn't know who Orochimaru's ancestor was.
Orochimaru is out, then he brought Danzo Danzo. While Orochimaru's research skills aren't as advanced as Orochimaru's, he's still a researcher, so who knows?
The Shimura Clan is worth considering, and then there are very intelligent families... Need I say more? Of course, it's the Nara Clan!
Uchiha Takashi narrowed his eyes. The Shimura Clan had already been absorbed by Uchiha. If he wanted them to get involved in technology, all he had to do was start a new project at the research institute and bring these people in.
Next up is the Nara Clan! Once we absorb the Nara Clan, we can officially begin large-scale technological development!