After discussing serious matters, Naruto left.
Although Terumi Mei warmly invited Naruto to stay a while longer, suggesting they could have a late-night snack together later and chat more beforehand.
However, Naruto still declined.
It wasn't really appropriate to stay in an unmarried young woman's house late at night when there was nothing else to do.
Especially since she was a Fox Spirit. Although Naruto felt his willpower was strong, there was no need to create trouble for himself.
After that day, the Hidden Mist Village ninjas received many tasks issued by the Fifth Mizukage in the mission hall.
First, the Chunin and Jonin, all taking the rewards provided by the village, began to suppress bandits throughout the Land of Water, centered around the Hidden Mist Village.
After the bandits on land were almost completely eliminated, the Hidden Mist Village set its sights on the many islands along the coast.
In the process of suppressing bandits, news of the Hidden Mist Village's policy changes slowly spread, allowing many people who feared the Bloody Mist to dare to come to the Hidden Mist Village to post tasks, and even a number of merchants began to arrive.
The circulation of supplies made the lifeless Hidden Mist Village much more active.
The entire Hidden Mist Village began to get back on track.
In addition, the bandit suppression not only improved the security of the entire Land of Water, but also made a fortune through black-eat-black tactics, greatly alleviating the village's financial pressure.
As for the Genin, there was a different set of tasks.
"Unlimited purchase of King Crab, Sea Cucumber, Octopus, Squid, Salmon, Tuna, Shellfish... and all seafood products. Submit a task for every hundred kilograms of seafood accumulated, settle the reward, and calculate the task history."
At first, the ninjas rejected such tasks.
I am a powerful ninja, tempered from blood and tears, cold and emotionless!
How could I do this kind of task that only novice Genin would do?
However, if they didn't do these tasks, the village had no other tasks to offer them.
Ninjas were also people, and people ultimately had to eat.
In the end, among these proud ninja groups, some ninjas who were running out of money reluctantly accepted the task.
But after a while, the number of ninjas accepting seafood-catching tasks in the mission hall began to increase geometrically, and even many Chunin joined in.
Ordinary ninjas who just wanted to support their families found that such seafood-catching tasks were not only very profitable, but also completely without danger!
For ninjas who possessed Chakra and knew Water Walking, the sea was not a particularly dangerous place.
Although catching seafood was a bit tiring, it was much better than only going out on a few missions a month and waiting most of the time, which made the Hidden Mist Village ninjas' monthly income more than five times higher.
Increased income, and no need to lick blood from a knife like before and worry their families, was there anything better than this?
And for ninjas who aspired to become stronger through cultivation, catching seafood was not a chore.
While making money, because they stood on the sea for a long time to catch seafood, or dived into the deep sea, in this process, not only did their Chakra control ability increase greatly, but even their will and physique were exercised.
They could train themselves and make money, was there anything more wonderful than this?
Later, many ordinary people also joined the seafood-catching industry, but their efficiency was far worse than that of ninjas.
Naruto did not choose to use his Flying Thunder God Technique to transport these collected seafood back himself, but instead sent a supervisor from his own industry in the Land of Fire, under the protection of Hyuga ninjas.
After refrigerating and storing these seafoods, they were loaded onto ships for transportation.
In addition to seafood, they also transported many specialties of the Land of Water, such as pearls, minerals, and handicrafts.
Although Naruto's money was spent like water in the process of purchasing these ships, recruiting personnel, hiring guards, and building a warehousing and logistics network.
However, as ship after ship of supplies were transported from the Land of Water to the Land of Fire and the Land of Wind, turning into delicacies on the tables of Heavens and Earth customers and rare fresh items on the market, more funds began to flow back than were spent.
And these escort missions for transport ships to the Land of Wind and the Land of Fire added many job opportunities to the Hidden Mist Village. After all, some people still didn't like catching seafood.
Under these circumstances, the funds in the hands of the people of the Hidden Mist Village, and the funds in the hands of the village, were increasing at a visible rate.
This also caused their consumption level to continue to rise.
So, under these circumstances, the hot pot restaurant jointly run by Kakashi and Jiraiya, as well as Naruto's Heavens and Earth branch, and various trendy clothing stores, also opened in the Land of Water as a matter of course.
In this situation, although Naruto still didn't have much money in his hands, his assets on paper showed a trend of daily increase.
It is worth mentioning that some small episodes occurred during this process.
In the Land of Water, seeing the thriving Hidden Mist Village, the profitable transportation industry, and the seafood fishing industry, many nobles and Daimyo of the Land of Water were envious, so they joined forces to put pressure on them, wanting to seize this industrial chain.
However, they found that all their hair was gone at their bedside at night. The ninja guards they hired seemed to be non-existent, and they didn't notice when the assassin appeared or when they left.
Under this circumstance, even if these nobles and Daimyo, who were fed with the fat of the people, were brain-dead, they knew that this was not a place they could monopolize and interfere with.
Otherwise, what fell this time was just hair, and next time it might be their heads.
In the end, they could only honestly pretend that nothing had happened.
Although they also organized manpower to participate in this industrial chain, they never dared to mention anything about monopolizing or plotting to seize it.
And this, naturally, was done by Terumi Mei.
Although there are many Jonin-level ninja and samurai guards around these nobles and Daimyo.
But for Terumi Mei, who has now mastered Sage Mode, it is not difficult to silently invade the rooms of these nobles and Daimyo to give them a hairstyle.
Of course, unless necessary, she would not dare to risk the world's disapproval and directly kill people.
And in the Land of Wind, almost the same thing happened, and the person who finally took action was Gaara.
However, he was not as subtle as Terumi Mei, who just touched the door at night to give people a new hairstyle, but directly and rudely went up to block the door.
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