Naruto: Yes, Uchiha-sama.

Chapter 60 Shh, there is no freedom of speech in Konoha, let us defect to Akatsuki Village!
The Uzumaki clan is a blood relative of the Senju clan, and of course it can also be said that they are blood relatives of the Uchiha clan. After all, if you trace back further, they are all actually one family.

It’s just that the Uzumaki clan has always had a close relationship with the Senju clan, and the two clans once joined forces to launch a war against the Uchiha clan.

But Uchiha Makoto doesn't hold grudges.

These things are already in the past, the era of the ninja clan is over.

Now is a new era of ninja village!
He had also sent an invitation to the Uzumaki clan before, wanting them to join his Akatsuki Village, but unfortunately, his invitation was never read but never replied. Later, he gave up. After all, compared to Akatsuki Village, Konoha was more attractive. Although in the original work, the Uzumaki clan did not join Konoha.

But
I didn't expect that the situation would take a turn for the better.

Uchiha Makoto was looking forward to this.

He really hopes that the Uzumaki clan can join the Akatsuki Village. This will not only strengthen the strength of the Akatsuki Village, but also effectively break the defense of someone in Konoha.

So Uchiha Makoto immediately wrote a reply letter to the Uzumaki clan, saying that Akatsuki Village always welcomes the Uzumaki clan's visit. To be on the safe side, this showed Akatsuki Village's sincerity.

Uchiha Makoto even specially called Kazuma over and asked him to prepare a welcome ceremony, intending to give the Uzumaki clan a good treat.

"Yes, Master Light and Shadow!"

Kazuma walked into the room and nodded in agreement, but he did not leave the room immediately. He held the documents and began to report to Uchiha Makoto on the important work progress of Akatsuki Village in recent times.

First of all, there are acquisitions by large publishing houses and newspapers, since the last great success of Yilin Short Stories.

Uchiha Makoto already had the idea that he must seize the high ground of public opinion first and completely control a mouthpiece that can speak for him.

It can be used to promote Akatsuki Village at other times.

Uchiha Makoto has a lot of brainwashing and magical little stories in his mind. It is no exaggeration to say that they can be used for several years.

As long as the publicity continues, the influence will be subtle and silent. As people follow suit, Akatsuki Village will inevitably become a free, equal, peace-loving and civilized place, which can attract more investors, more workers and more ninjas to join Akatsuki Village.

It was time for war.

The role it can play is even greater.

Xiaoren Village has currently acquired two or three large newspapers and publishing houses.

"The sales of 'New Ninja' Digest' have increased significantly recently. Keep printing it!"

"Konoha is a particularly important target. The ninja village was only established not long ago, and the various rules and regulations haven't been fully established. Public opinion is completely defenseless. Even if some ninjas want to leave Konoha and join the Akatsuki Village, it's perfectly reasonable. Hashirama is a very good man!"

"Of course, we must not let go of the other four nations either. The outstanding ninjas there are also our key targets."

Uchiha Makoto's voice was a little excited. He certainly couldn't poach people openly, but if those ninjas in Konoha wanted to withdraw from Konoha and join Akatsuki Village, there would be nothing he could do about it.

Anyway, Hashirama Senju will probably just feel regretful and won't take any coercive measures.

Even if Senju Tobirama took some compulsory measures to control speech.

Uchiha Makoto is not afraid either, because civilized people who pursue freedom cannot be imprisoned. As long as the propaganda work can be sustained, there will be villagers and ninjas who are willing to betray the village and come to Akatsuki Village!
"Yes, Master Cheng."

"And the 'Romance of the Warring States' you wrote yourself is incredibly popular. Readers are asking for more updates. Updating once every three days is too slow. Readers hope you can update once a day!"

"Ok?"

Uchiha Makoto frowned.

"Romance of the Warring States" was something he wrote for fun in his spare time. It was essentially a heavily modified version of the original Romance of the Three Kingdoms, with the main characters and plot set in an alternate history before the rise of ninjas during the Warring States period. Unexpectedly, it received a great response upon publication.

"Add more? How is that possible?"

"I'm not such a casual person."

"But...but I heard that the Gold Exchange has a bounty on your head. Someone is offering a large sum of money to capture the author of 'The Romance of the Warring States' and lock him up in a small dark room until he finishes the book."

"????"

Uchiha Makoto's eyes widened.

Readers in the ninja world are so rude. How can they just ask for the real author so casually?

Although he was not too worried about this matter, Uchiha Makoto still felt that it was the right decision to use a pseudonym to conceal his identity. Fortunately, there were no box weapons in the ninja world!

"Forget it, it's just an extra chapter."

"It's just a shadow clone thing."

Uchiha Makoto felt that it was better to have less trouble than more, so he decided to listen to the readers' opinions and update once a day from now on.

"Is there anything else?"

"Well, Master Guangying, regarding financial funds, we have already spent over 20 billion taels in recent times. This includes education funding, attracting ninja clans, attracting investment, building a medical system, purchasing scientific research equipment for the laboratory, and various scientific research funds. These are all considerable expenses."

"Master Guangying, you also want to invest in some iron ore. This amount of money is not a small amount."

"And the wartime logistics supply chain system you mentioned is an even bigger expense. And why does our Akatsuki Village have to guarantee a supply of ice cream during wartime?"

"These are all big money swallowers."

Kazuma talked about the financial expenditure during this period. It was too expensive to build a hexagonal ninja village. Uchiha Makoto did so many things to prepare for the First Ninja World War. Now it was only the initial investment, and there would be more and more in the future.

If they keep living off the resources and don't have a stable and high financial income, in two or three years the Akatsuki Village will become as poor as Konoha, which is not what Uchiha Makoto wants to see.

"I still have to find a way to make some money."

Uchiha Makoto said this.

Even though Xiaonin Village can still be said to have a huge amount of money, it has no financial income and is just living off its savings. This horrific expenditure makes him worried.

Although the technology of the ninja world has developed extremely rapidly in the future, and in just forty or fifty years, the backward agricultural countries of the five major countries have become advanced industrial countries, the current ninja world is still almost an agricultural country.

Uchiha Makoto has actually started investing in building a factory, intending to be the first to reap the benefits of the industrial revolution, but it always takes some time for a factory to be built and profitable.

There just needs to be a transition in between.

Therefore, we must now start with an industry that does not require high technical content, has a huge market, huge profits, and can be quickly monetized.

And Kazuma doesn't need to remind him.

Uchiha Makoto has actually been thinking about making money recently.

To quickly go through the development process that Konoha has gone through for decades in a short period of time, every step requires a lot of money, and it also takes time to ferment. It will take several years to see obvious results.

(End of this chapter)