Kakuzu's words also took Yuuki by surprise.
Looking at Kakuzu, who was on high alert, Yuuki pondered for a moment and came up with an absurd possibility.
Could Kakuzu have misunderstood his meaning?
Yuuki knew that Kakuzu, as Takigakure's top expert and a genius Ninja, was ostracized into assassinating Senju Hashirama, so he must have also been a bit of a simpleton.
But so many years had passed; surely he hadn't made no progress at all.
At least, the old men Yuuki remembered were all incredibly shrewd, so stroking his non-existent beard, Yuuki decided to try again.
"A business worth at least one hundred million ryo, Mr. Kakuzu, are you sure you're not interested?"
Kakuzu, who was originally on alert, felt all five of his hearts simultaneously twitch, and his breathing became heavier!
"Tell me, who am I killing?"
Kakuzu, for whom a few million ryo was usually a big deal, lost some of his rationality after hearing "one hundred million ryo" for the first time, blurting out such a thoughtless question.
He didn't even consider that if Yuuki couldn't handle the target, how could he, Kakuzu, succeed?
Yuuki was thus certain that Kakuzu had indeed made little progress over the decades; he had truly wasted his life.
The Akatsuki Organization's future is worrying!
With such a group of subordinates, is Nagato really not exhausted?
However, Yuuki then remembered that Nagato seemed to get along quite well with the Akatsuki Organization members, so the one truly exhausted should be Black Zetsu.
He silently sweated for his partner in his heart; Black Zetsu truly had incredible endurance!
Yuuki's expression, like he was looking at a talented individual, finally made Kakuzu realize he had said the wrong thing, but fortunately, his mask covered his face, so it wasn't too awkward.
"Cough, cough~"
Using a cough to relieve his internal awkwardness, Kakuzu asked again.
"Hokage-sama of Konoha, may I ask what kind of business this is, and can you elaborate?"
The slight smile on Yuuki's face turned into a brilliant grin, and his eyes narrowed slightly.
"It is my honor!"
Immediately, Yuuki meticulously painted a grand blueprint for Kakuzu.
Commonly known as 'drawing a big pie'!
The pie was indeed drawn very large, but it was also a pie that could genuinely be eaten.
The Konoha Experimental Building, various advanced projects, every tiny breakthrough, when applied practically, could derive dozens of useful products.
Excluding products that might be used in critical areas such as military and agriculture.
Only leaving behind parts related to entertainment, enjoyment, and enhancing life's pleasure, there were still countless types of goods.
Among them, the Land of Fire was the main market, while the Land of Lightning and the Land of Water opened up markets through war and also dumped many goods.
But the Ninja World does not only have Great Nations; it also has many smaller nations.
For smaller nations, the market is small and scattered. Konoha is ultimately a Ninja Village, not a merchant village, so Yuuki could not possibly send so many Ninja to monitor transactions in various small nations.
Behind slightly larger merchants were either nobles or Ninja, and Yuuki was unwilling to let middlemen earn the difference, so he had corresponding nobles act as agents in various small nations.
Konoha's products were naturally just as popular in small nations, but almost all of them were high-end products.
Those low-end products, which had the largest sales volume in the Land of Fire, Land of Lightning, and Land of Water, were almost unsellable in various small nations.
The nobles of these small nations, acting as agents, had no interest in those low-end products; as for making money from commoners, it was unnecessary.
As nobles, they could legitimately and legally rob; why bother doing business with commoners?
If it weren't for Yuuki's sake, they wouldn't even take one low-end product, even if they had to take some stock.
After taking them back, they also used frighteningly high prices to directly deter commoners who wanted to buy, leading to the stagnation of low-end products.
The nobles were not fools; the commoners were on their land, and all profits would ultimately return to themselves; even if it rotted, it would rot on their own land.
And once Konoha products became popular, the wealth that originally belonged to them in the hands of a large number of commoners would be plundered by Konoha.
Yuuki truly didn't have many solutions for this situation, after all, Konoha was not a nation, but merely a Ninja Village.
Its main energy could not be placed on commerce; sending Ninja to maintain the markets in the Land of Lightning and the Land of Water was already the limit. For the countless small nations, to fully expand, all Konoha Ninja might as well switch to being merchants.
The low-end market in small nations was such a tasteless and regrettable dilemma, like a chicken rib.
Of course, he would not tell Kakuzu the truth; in Yuuki's description.
This was an undiscovered blue ocean market, an unexploited virgin land, a source of wealth where one could pick up gold by simply bending over.
He didn't have much energy to develop it himself because there were even larger markets in the Land of Earth and the Land of Wind waiting for him to develop.
And for the relatively complex and troublesome market of small nations, Yuuki was also unwilling to give up and wanted to find a reliable partner.
This partner could not be associated with other Great Nations, and must possess sufficient military strength. In case of emergencies, before Konoha's support arrived, they wouldn't necessarily have to solve it alone, but at the very least, they would need to be able to hold out until Konoha's support arrived.
Coming from Takigakure, one of the top Ninja Villages outside the Five Great Ninja Villages, and now having joined the Akatsuki Organization, a powerful organization well-known among small nations, he himself was filled with a desire to make money, and his strength was even capable of clashing with the First Hokage.
"In summary, this position as Konoha's partner is simply tailor-made for Mr. Kakuzu, and today's chance encounter due to Sasori-senpai further indicates that Mr. Kakuzu has a destiny with Konoha!"
Kakuzu was so swayed by Yuuki that both of his eyes turned into the shape of money!
He imagined a wonderful life where he wouldn't need to fight and kill, but could just lie down and make money.
"Hokage-sama of Konoha, how much does it cost to become this partner of Konoha?"
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