Chapter 251
"Has the finances of the Hidden Rain Village become so tight now? They can even sell something like this?"
When Kakuzu was settling finances and conducting transactions with Konoha again, Nagato also rarely left the Rain Village and followed him to Konoha.
Looking at the things that the Rain Village took out for trading this time, Kane was silent for a moment. He looked at the stubbornly silent Nagato and the dead fish eyes of Kakuzu, and asked in astonishment.
It was a black stick, about twenty centimeters long, as thick as a thumb, with a sharp point on one end.
It looks ordinary, but when Lu Ne held it in his hand just now, he clearly felt that his chakra was affected.
This was not the first time he had seen this kind of black stick, but he did not expect that Nagato would actually take out this kind of thing and sell it as merchandise.
"Haven't you always been interested in this kind of Yin-Yang escape product? I can supply you with a large quantity." Nagato touched his head and said weakly.
"What's going on?" Ignoring Nagato, Lu Nie turned around and asked Kakuzu who was beside him.
"You're taking too big a step. You're going to collapse." Kakuzu said succinctly.
"Tell me, what have you done? Although it's not a war period and there is competition from the Cloud Ninja Village, haven't the sales of healing talismans always been good? How did it come to this?" Lu Nie was stunned.
He knew how much money the Rain Village made from the sale of healing talismans. Although most of this money was used to buy a lot of supplies such as food, equipment, books, etc. from the Fire Country, but with the money that Kakuzu collected in the Rain Country, there should be no problem in maintaining the operation of the village.
Even he had heard about what Kakuzu had done.
"If it weren't for these little brats messing around, I wouldn't have targeted those nobles." Kakuzu complained about the expenses of the Rain Village. Judging from the expenditure, it was not much worse than the ninja villages of the five major countries.
Even the financial expenditure is more than that of the Sand Village before the Dragon Vein Project.
This is simply outrageous!
Even if the Kages of other large ninja villages knew what the Hidden Rain Village was doing, they would be amazed at their courage and laugh at their arrogance.
Medical care, technology, and education, the three most expensive departments, the Hidden Rain Village has actually built a prototype from scratch. Even the first batch of Genin who have been carefully selected and received orthodox ninja education are about to graduate.
Although the Hidden Rain Village has suffered some suppression and secret exclusion in recent years, its development has not been hindered with the support of Konoha.
Yahiko, who was serving as Kage for the first time, was inevitably inexperienced. Managing and planning a ninja village was much more troublesome and difficult than managing an Akatsuki organization.
Faced with three young men who want everything and always want to spend money to buy some supplies to enhance the strength of the Rain Ninjas, all Kakuzu can do is try his best to control the finances and prevent them from collapsing, and even to rob Peter to pay Paul when necessary.
After all, it has come to this point. No matter how reluctant you are, you have no choice but to go all the way, otherwise all the previous investment will be completely wasted.
Seeing that the village's finances were in jeopardy and even the money-making idiots were at a loss, the three little ones also woke up from their fanatical desire to buy and build.
So when faced with the possibility of becoming the first large ninja village in the ninja world to be bankrupted by the top leaders, Yahiko and the other two were completely dumbfounded.
Xiaonan wanted to make more healing talismans to sell, but this stuff would only be consumed in large quantities in a short period of time during a war. Now all the major ninja villages were recuperating, and even if they bought healing talismans, they would just buy some regularly like detonating talismans, distribute and sell some to the ninjas in the village, and store some as a reserve for future wars.
This is a long-term and stable business, but there will not be huge demand for orders in peacetime.
If the safety of the Rain Village did not depend on Nagato's Rinnegan, Nagato would have wanted to sell it.
At least Orochimaru and Kagawa will definitely give a satisfactory price.
The Rinnegan cannot be sold, so Nagato searched around and found that the only things that could interest Konoha, or the two big moneybags, Orochimaru and Kaname, were some special techniques and creations of the Rinnegan.
For example, Yin Yang Escape...
"I'm sorry, this black stick is indeed very useful, but we already have a series of alternatives. Even if we buy it, we won't buy much. That little money is a lot of money, but for the expenses of a village, it can only be said to be a drop in the bucket."
Luna said sincerely. Nagato turned pale after hearing his words. Kakuzu looked a little disappointed, but he didn't feel surprised.
Having dealt with Lu Nie many times, he knew very well that Lu Nie was very stingy with money. He was a generous and honest collaborator, but this meant that he would easily sacrifice his own interests for waste.
If he forces a candy on you, then there is something wrong with the candy.
For example, his Earthly Complaint...
In the past, when he had a broken heart, he only needed to pick a powerful ninja, take the other's heart, and swallow it with the Earth's Grievance.
Now he wants to get a new heart, so he can only buy the bloodline heart made by Lu Nie.
The advantage is that you are stronger! The disadvantage is that your lifeline is controlled by others!
"But you can do ninja mercenary tasks. Konoha is a bit too big now, and it is a bit short of manpower after the war. The strength of the ninjas in the Hidden Rain Village is still good."
Nagato originally thought that he would return empty-handed and would have difficulty facing Yahiko and Konan when he returned, but he did not expect there to be a sudden turn of events.
All of a sudden, his trust and good impression of Lu Nie soared again. He felt that Lu Nie was simply a lucky star for the three of them! Whenever they encountered a problem that they couldn't solve on their own, they would come to Lu Nie, and Lu Nie would always help them solve the problem.
This was true for Yahiko’s health, for his move into the Hidden Rain Village, and it is still true now.
"Are we going to go to war with other ninja villages?" Nagato's face first showed joy, then froze. Under the leadership of Yahiko, the Rain Ninjas almost never launched wars against other nations. If they really encountered a large-scale battle in and around the Rain Country, he might have to bring people to force mediation.
The main goal is to maintain peace!
In this situation, Yahiko would never agree to hiring Rain ninjas and other ninja villages to start a war.
"Don't worry, it's not a war. It's just that Konoha Village discovered a chakra mine in River Country. If you are willing, you can protect the safety of this mine. I want to remind you that other large ninja villages may get involved at any time. Casualties are inevitable." Kane comforted Nagato and gave a final reminder.
(End of this chapter)