“Yes, quickly send a message to the family, no! Send a personal message to Elder Leimen! You must find that merchant caravan with the ferret.
Once found, immediately notify me!” Uchiha Tenxiu sternly instructed Uchiha Sakurako, his words changing midway as if he suddenly remembered something important, decisively changing “family” to “Elder Leimen.”
Although Uchiha Sakurako was still confused, she quickly took out paper and pen to record it, then summoned a cat with two short swords on its back—her summoning beast, a combat-type Ninja Cat.
“Meow meow! Master, what are your orders!” Meow meow stared with serious amber eyes, seemingly eager for a big fight.
“Meow meow! Please deliver this to Elder Leimen!” Uchiha Sakurako shook her head helplessly, saying apologetically.
“Meow meow! Alright, more errands! I hope next time, Master, when you summon me, there will be a splendid battle!” Meow meow sighed speechlessly, it was hard to imagine a cat having such a rich expression.
This even made Uchiha Tenxiu, who was standing by, chuckle.
The next moment.
Meow meow took the envelope and vanished with a “bang.”
“Now we just wait for news. With the family’s intelligence network, they should be able to find it quickly! After all, I’ve given so much information: a wandering merchant caravan with a ferret.
It clearly has an exotic style, so it can be locked down to a certain range.”
In reality.
The wandering merchant caravan with the ferret that Uchiha Tenxiu was looking for was none other than the greer stone mine from the original movie, the Phantom Underground Ruins incident.
The ore from this mine contained a large amount of life energy; just a mere overflow of its aura could instantly create a vast ecological forest.
Aside from other aspects, in terms of vitality alone, it was even stronger than Wood Release.
In ancient times, a civilization utilized this mine to establish a very vast and prosperous civilization, but just like any nation in history, it had its rise and fall.
After reaching the peak of its civilization, a massive internal war broke out.
This war, triggered by the struggle for the greer stone, completely destroyed their own civilization.
Of course, while destroying their own civilization, they also thoroughly destroyed the land they lived on at that time.
In the end, only a small number of people, along with the remaining survivors, escaped overseas to live, leaving behind only this ruined land.
Among them, some members of the royal family, in endless remorse, sealed the remaining greer stone mines and continued to linger on this continent, barely surviving.
Among them, this group of people, it’s unclear what they were thinking; they weren’t trying to revive their country or rebuild their civilization.
They just wandered in regret, strictly guarding their seal from being opened, fearing it would cause war or something.
Uchiha Tenxiu was speechless about this; there were actually such brain-dead people who, for fear of choking, simply stopped eating.
Fortunately, their foolishness was his greatest opportunity to seek profit.
Now he could use his foresight to find this caravan with the ferret and through them, locate the greer stone mine.
As for the nations established by the remnants of the ancient civilization from overseas in the original plot.
Uchiha Tenxiu didn’t even put them in his eyes.
That group of people could only massacre some civilians; their combat performance throughout the entire plot was comparable to Chunin strength.
They spoke of grand ideals like establishing a utopia, came to the Ninja World to commit massacres and invasions, but before the war, they didn’t even do their intelligence work properly.
They had no idea that Ninja existed on the Ninja World continent.
As a result, they excitedly invaded the Land of Wind, and after massacring a group of civilians, they were brutally beaten by Sunagakure Village, and their entire fleet was annihilated.
They were simply like clowns.
Is that all?
If he didn’t know where they were, Uchiha Tenxiu would dare to run to their home base right now and do whatever he pleased.
However, although these people were very weak, some of their technological capabilities seemed quite good, especially the device for extracting life energy, which made Uchiha Tenxiu quite satisfied.
He could research life engineering, and when he had time, he could go find their main base to get some supplies out.
Thinking of this, Uchiha Tenxiu also cleared these thoughts from his mind and began to focus on the construction of the new nation.
At this moment, Uchiha Tenxiu, having completely unlocked Uchiha Sakurako’s full loyalty, also discussed with Uchiha Sakurako how to deal with the inquiries from Elder Leimen of the family, as well as a series of issues concerning this nascent nation.
He no longer needed to worry about anything and hoped to see different perspectives from her viewpoint.
Towards the end of their discussion, Uchiha Sakurako couldn’t help but ask, “In Konoha Village, even if the Ninja families in the Village look down on commoners, the system they established is essentially one where all people are equal!
Aren’t you afraid they’ll rebel if you create such an obvious system?”
To this, Uchiha Tenxiu dismissed it with disdain: “Don’t worry! They will never be united.
Just pretend not to hear them.
They will fight among themselves for status and hierarchy, and they will never unite.
Just promote a portion of people every year! Of course, Yamato is an exception!”
Uchiha Tenxiu would not implement any egalitarianism; only the first batch of residents, who were deemed important, had the privilege of being citizens due to the space-time fluctuations and heavenly fortune they brought.
This was enough for Uchiha Tenxiu to spend money to support them, so they were all citizens.
The rest.
Among them, besides these commoners, the Ninja and Samurai who came here with him not only had the same citizen rights but also received one hundred mu of land and five years of tax exemption, and thereafter would only pay half the taxes.
Genrai Sata and Koike Junichiro, his two capable lieutenants, not only had their land doubled again but also received official positions and hereditary land bestowed by Uchiha Tenxiu.
That’s right, in this plan he arranged, only these two temporarily had hereditary land that they could privately own and even buy and sell.
Their status and power would also increase with their merits.
Others would not enjoy such privileges; land would be considered state-owned, and they would only have permanent usage rights, not the right to buy, sell, or dispose of it.
His purpose in doing this was to maximize the excavation of individual labor, forcing people to focus on cultivating land and producing food, so that more people would participate in cultivation.
Otherwise, no matter how much land they were given, if they didn’t cultivate it, it would be a complete waste of these lands and they wouldn’t be able to realize their potential.
After all, food is the foundation of survival; only with sufficient food can one support oneself and a larger population, thereby having more labor and war potential.
Therefore, before solving the food problem, other matters such as commerce, scientific research, and a series of other affairs can only take a backseat and be left for later.
Even in the field of scientific research, food production must be the primary consideration and the main direction of development.
Only by ensuring a stable and sufficient food supply can a solid foundation be provided for the construction and development of the empire.
Therefore, to accelerate the pace of empire building, the only future path of development is cultivation and warfare.
In other words, people who come here in the future will all need to start as commoners and gradually advance to citizens through diligent labor and accumulated merits.
Uchiha Tenxiu set this time at five years without criminal offenses to be promoted to citizen level.
Of course, geniuses are an exception.
Such special talents, relying on their own gifts, can easily rise to prominence and have the best chance of becoming nobles of the empire.
Others can only slowly endure.
Uchiha Tenxiu understood that only by making them pay a sufficient price could they be unable to part with all their hard-earned gains; conversely, if it was too easy to obtain, they would not cherish it.
They would only attribute it to their own luck.
What he was building was a future empire.
Everyone was his own ox and horse.
How could he promote egalitarianism or some kind of fairness? That would simply be too contrary to himself!
Oh, of course.
Below me, everyone is equal.
Below the nobility, citizens are equal.
Below citizens, commoners are equal.
These are still acceptable!