I sell sweets in Konoha

The food box contained nothing but rice.And of course a pair of chopsticks.

'Maybe this bowl of rice is also good. '

Mr. Wasabi picked up the rice and put it into his mouth with a large pair of chopsticks.

Not bad!

The next second, his eyes lit up.

Rice is one of the most indispensable staple foods in a person's life.Looking at the entire ninja world, there is almost no one who has never eaten rice in his life.

And this most common staple food is actually not easy to make.

There are two common ways to make rice, one is boiled and the other is steamed.

Cooking is the most common method because cooked rice will greatly retain the nutrients of the rice while maintaining the moisture of the rice.But there is a difficulty in cooking.

It is the control of the heat and the amount of water.

If the fire is high and the water is low, it is easy to make rice with uncooked rice. The rice will be tough and scratch your teeth.

If the fire is too low and there is too much water, the rice will become too sticky and soft after it comes out of the pot, and it will stick to your teeth and taste bad.

Of course, in addition to the control of water and fire, rice and water quality are also important.

The rice produced in different regions is different.

Although the Country of Fire is a big rice-producing country, with thousands of acres of fertile land, it is not a problem for the rice fields to be harvested three times a year!But the really best rice comes from the rice that is harvested once a year in the Land of Wind.

However, this kind of rice was not produced in large quantities and was expensive, and only nobles could afford it.

Of course, you can’t eat it often.

This time it’s a bowl of rice.

That's really good!

The rice is fragrant and full, with a full grainy feel. It is sticky but not loose and has clear grains. It is moderately soft and hard. It will not bite your teeth because it is too hard, nor will it stick to your teeth because it is too soft or sticky.

It tastes good and tastes great too.

The aroma of rice hits your face, with a light fragrance in your mouth, and the rice that spreads out as you chew it also has a hint of sweetness.

This...

This is pretty good rice.

"How is it?" Uchiha asked after seeing that Boss Wasabi was eating well.

"Very good." Boss Wasabi knew that he had no choice, but it seemed that the Konoha ninja was not here to pick a fight with him, so he said, "This rice is quite good."

“The rice is also very good.”

"Yeah." Uchiha said, satisfied with the answer, "Do you have any ideas about this variety of rice?"

"Compared with Wind Country rice? You must have eaten Wind Country rice."

"I have eaten it." Mr. Wasabi tasted it carefully for a while and said, "There are differences, but overall it is very good. The texture and taste of this rice have far exceeded the rice produced in this tea country. "

"Of course it's more than those made in the Country of Fire..."

"This rice will soon be a specialty of the Fire Country." Uchiha said with a smile: "This is a new variety from the Konoha Academy of Agricultural Sciences. It has been tested and finally tested."

"The Hokage has decided to promote this new type of rice across the country probably next year."

"The yield of this kind of rice is very high! It is two to three times higher than the current rice yield in the Kingdom of Tea and the Kingdom of Fire."

"If there is a better and more fertile environment that meets the ideal growing environment."

"It can be up to four times higher."

"Huh?" Boss Wasabi was surprised!Food is the lifeblood, and the reason why the Wasabi Gang has been able to remain at the top for so long is not because of the tea industry.It's because the Wasabi Gang has almost a monopoly on all the food in the Country of Tea.

Therefore, the wasabi gang can thrive for a long time, and this rice is up to four times higher...

Wasabi elder nature also knows what it means.

"Are you kidding me?" Boss Wasabi pretended to be calm and said, "It's four times higher."

"This is the most ideal, and the rest are test data under different environments." Uchiha did not directly say that it was false. He just explained: "Based on the data report of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the estimate of actual production capacity."

"Conservatively estimated, the yield of new rice will be at least 1.5 times higher than before!"

"1.5 times?" Mr. Wasabi's eyes widened.

Even 1.5 times is already a good number!You must know that being higher than this means that more people can be fed without increasing manpower and acres of land!

And this is the best news for the country of tea!

You must know that the country of tea has now reached its current population support limit. The most common way to solve the problem is to continue to cultivate fields and grow food.

But this method feels a bit like adding more water to noodles and more noodles to water.

Reclaiming farmland will increase labor costs, and the country of tea must maintain tea trade on the one hand, and farming on the other.Although it has accepted many refugees in recent years.

However, human resources are still in short supply, and allocating manpower to farming means reducing manpower allocation elsewhere.

But without doing this, it would be impossible to feed so many people with the current acres of land in the tea country.

This is where the current contradiction lies in the country of tea.

"The country of tea can also have..." Boss Wasabi captured this sentence keenly.

This sentence means that the country of tea can also get this new type of rice?

"Yes." Uchiha said: "It's just that this rice is a special rice cultivated by special means. After the next generation in the natural environment, if the seeds left in the first generation are used to plant it."

"It will quickly degenerate, which means it will turn into an ordinary deteriorated seed."

"Production will also drop sharply by 20-30%."

"We need to make this clear to you."

"Of course we, the Leaf Village of the Country of Fire, are willing to provide excellent first-generation seeds to the Country of Tea for a long time."

"I wonder if Mr. Wasabi is willing to be in the land of tea."

"Promote planting?"

Chapter 412 The discoverer of the problem we can solve

Internal and external troubles.

The jounin of Konoha are gone, and they seem to have brought hope to themselves, but in fact...

"Hey..."

Boss Wasabi stood in the garden, looking at the small pool in his garden, listening to the thumping sound coming from the bamboo tube.At this moment, Mr. Wasabi felt that his heart was as restless as the bamboo tube that went up and down and made a thumping sound.

"Konoha has changed..."

Boss Wasabi sighed: "This Konoha Village is no longer the Konoha Village it used to be."

Konoha Village has changed, and Boss Wasabi, who once firmly supported the alliance with the Fire Country, couldn't help but feel a biting chill.What did Konoha Village look like in the past.

He's like a stupid guy, a stupid guy who has strength but not a very bright mind.

An ordinary neighbor who always hopes to win over others through kindness and dedication.

Even if you occasionally offend the Leaf Village and the Country of Fire, it doesn't matter. Some verbal expressions will almost make it over.

But the current Konoha is so cunning, although the current Konoha is still as smiling and happy as in the past.But the smile and joy on the surface hides a knife in the secret.

"The land of tea..." Boss Wasabi sighed and said helplessly, "I have no choice."

Boss Wasabi knew very well what the bowl of rice in front of him represented.It may be at least 1.5 times the average yield per mu of new rice. If it is quickly promoted in the country of tea, this means that the country of tea can quickly solve all the problems in the country of tea without increasing the number of acres of grain fields and the agricultural population growing food. The national food problem has not only been solved.

Not only that, the country of tea can also increase cash crops after solving this problem of food.

That is, the tea planting area will increase the number of people engaged in this industry.

The high added value currently contained in tea can also allow the country of tea to make more money in foreign trade.

This seems to be almost an optimal solution that can quickly solve the current dilemma of the country of tea.

but!

On the surface, it looks like it is full of infinite good prospects, and it can quickly resolve and quell conflicts. However, there is a core and most fatal hidden danger.

"Seeds..."

The wasabi boss was walking around in his garden. He lowered his head and muttered in a low voice: "This seed... is it really like what the Jonin said that there is no way to leave the last seed after planting it?" Are they good seeds?”

seed!

This is what makes Boss Wasabi most troubled.

Although you can get the best first-generation seeds, if the second-generation seeds after planting cannot be selected with the same high-quality seeds as the first-generation seeds, it means that the grain grown from the second-generation seeds may really suffer a serious reduction in yield.

And if there is a 20%-30% reduction in yield after the second-generation seeds are matured and harvested...

"That's a famine!" Boss Wasabi was really confused in his heart.

"This will starve 20% of the people to death!"

This is really going to starve people to death!

Although in theory it seems that it is just a reduction in production, and there is no worst case scenario of a dead harvest, it can be overcome by spreading the food evenly and eating 20% ​​or 30% less food.

But in fact this is not the case at all!

The reality is that 20% or 30% of people starve to death!

If you don't want to reduce production, you can only buy new seeds from Konoha. This means that your lifeline is controlled by Konoha.

And he, the ruler of the Kingdom of Tea, was simply reduced to a dog in Konoha!

"Hey!!!!"

Boss Wasabi was anxious to get angry, but there was nothing he could do.

The issue of food has become urgent. As for some other opponents, I don't know whether they can't see the crisis or they are opposing just for the sake of opposition.

Increase the acres of tea-growing fields, and even use some of the current grain-growing acres to grow tea.

These guys...

You really are crazy about money!

Boss Wasabi was helpless...

He looked at the full moon in the sky.

At this moment, his heart was as clear as a mirror. From tomorrow on, the country of tea will change.

The next day.

The boss of the Wasabi Gang first summoned the Konoha Jonin who came to the Kingdom of Tea through secret channels. His eyes were bloodshot and his complexion looked very bad.

He stayed up all night, tossing and turning, thinking about many, many, many countermeasures.

But in the end no plan was reached.

What Konoha was doing was a conspiracy, not a conspiracy. They didn't wait until the second-generation seeds were put into the ground and there was a real reduction in production before informing them of this.

Konoha informed it in advance, so Konoha has absolute confidence and must have sufficient data to say so.

"I wonder how Boss Wasabi has considered it." The leader Uchiha squinted his eyes into the shape of a crescent moon, and his whole face looked like he was full of smiles. "How have you considered Konoha's plan?" Already?"

"This..." Boss Wasabi said, "We..."

"Of course we have another plan." Uchiha pushed up a scroll and said: "Open trade in agricultural and grain markets, draft bilateral most-favored market agreement."

"Boss Wasabi, if you are interested, you can take a look."

"Maybe you'll be happy."

The most favorable bilateral relationship and open market.

Boss Wasabi's heart fell straight to the bottom. He could tell what was written in this draft without even looking at it.

But he still picked up the draft, opened it and looked at it.

Then a kind of anger jumped up!

"Only a 1% symbolic tariff on food?" the Wasabi Gang boss said with trembling hands: "You Konoha, your part-time job in the Fire Country is a bit too bullying, isn't it?"