I sell sweets in Konoha

And a prosperous market will definitely bring a better life to ordinary people.

Everything seemed ideal and good, but today when I was preparing to inspect the market, I unexpectedly came across Junko's incident.This made the third generation a little worried again, although it might be just a little thing.But Sandai soon realized that this might be the beginning of something bad!

"But merchants... merchants..." The third generation exhaled a puff of smoke and looked at the sky and said, "Will they rob Konoha of its meager wealth and then leave?"

It's not that Konoha has no market behavior, and the third generation doesn't know anything about business.But the problem is that Konoha is a place dominated by military groups, and it does not produce many products.Supporting the lives of Konoha villagers and supporting ninjas. In fact, Konoha itself cannot support much. The main provider is the country of fire on which Konoha village relies.

The relationship between Konoha Village and the Country of Fire is somewhat similar to defense outsourcing.

The daimyo only retained symbolic troops and their own soldiers, while the real national defense was borne by Konoha.For the daimyo, the advantage is that he does not have to worry about a general who may rebel because he has too many troops to lose.The disadvantage is that he does not have the final say in this country's diplomatic alliances.

The advantage for Konoha is that even if there are no ordinary civilians, they can still have a stable source of income.

The disadvantage is naturally that such a group with a dominant military force is actually not rich!For the common people of Konoha, although they now have some money on hand, it is not much.After the market was opened, what Sandai feared most was that those outside merchants would wipe out the small amount of money and leave Konoha impoverished.

For Junko, Sandai's worries are actually...

"This is nothing at all." Junko said with a smile: "Actually, I think you have to change your mind before opening the market. That is, if money cannot be spent, it will become waste paper and rotten iron."

"Three generations of adults, treating money as a treasure is a concept for ordinary civilians. And a leader should have a higher understanding of money."

"Coin itself has no value, money is just a general equivalent used in market circulation."

"Businessmen are not robbers, and doing business is not robbery. When they come here to sell things and take the money, they must leave the goods. We can also process the goods into goods sold to the merchants. The economy is mutual, so if it is If you trade normally, you don’t have to worry about them draining Konoha’s wealth.”

"What you should really worry about is price gouging like today, which will directly disrupt the normal market order."

"The second is behaviors such as malicious hoarding of materials and selling them at high prices that are several times, dozens or even hundreds of times higher than themselves. Only in this way will the Konoha market collapse."

"So your best way is to recruit a few economic people from the daimyo to come over."

However, doing so would easily lead to suspicion from the daimyo, so how to do it depends on what the third generation does.But there must be a way to manage and operate the market, otherwise it would be really bad if such behavior of driving up prices and malicious hoarding of resources to raise prices really occurs.

"Or we can pilot it first and then gradually promote it, such as establishing a trade pilot zone or something." Junko suggested.

"By the way, I heard that Danzo is looking for you today." Sandai didn't have much to answer Jun's suggestion. He suddenly changed the subject and said, "You can say whatever you want, there are no people here with roots."

"Sandaime-sama, have you made your decision?" Junko asked after hearing what the Sandaime said: "Do you really think that Danzo is not harboring evil intentions?"

Sandai did not answer. He seemed to be thinking while smoking his pipe, and seemed to have a lot of helplessness.

"The importance of this battle is of great importance." Junko said slowly: "Everyone knows that peace is the general trend, and aristocratic families may not contribute in such a war. And for ordinary ninjas, this will be the last and best A road to promotion.”

"Victory, there is not much to say about your personal prestige. Secondly, you can quickly promote a large number of ninjas with military merit and outstanding family members into different important positions. The existence of these people will be a great help to your future reforms."

"On the other hand, if Danzo really gets the peace covenant without spending a single soldier, then it won't be so good for you."

"A large number of important positions continue to be controlled by the family. After peace comes, the class will quickly solidify. Even if they are forcibly promoted, it will be difficult to convince the public because they have no military merit. This will only quickly intensify conflicts. There is no way to control or reduce the rights of the family, and reform will inevitably be difficult."

"Even if it is implemented forcefully, the results will be greatly reduced."

Reform has never been smooth sailing in previous lives.Those with vested interests will never take the initiative to spit out the meat they eat!

only....

"Yes." Sandai said while holding the pipe: "You are right, it would be best if you can win. But what if you fail?"

"Konoha...can Konoha still afford to gamble?"

Chapter 52 sugar

The third generation left without Junko saying anything or encouraging.

What she saw was an old man using his old body to carve out a future for the village in the darkness.

The pressure of three generations is really too heavy!There are too many, too many, too many areas in Konoha that urgently need improvement and change.It needs to be reborn from the ashes, to throw away the increasingly heavy baggage and move towards a new path.However, who can know whether this last fire will completely burn Konoha or give Konoha hope of new life?

The third generation said this in the anime before his death.

Wherever the leaves are flying, the fire is endless.But when the fire is completely extinguished, how can there be endless life even if there are flying leaves?

War is not a gamble, and the future of the village cannot be completely pinned on one battle. Knowing that Danzo's motives are not pure, it is okay if a peace treaty can be negotiated.

This has nothing to do with personal honor. He must do his best to save a fire for this village that is on the eve of change.

Change...change!Perhaps we can only wait for his successor to continue to complete it.

And all he has to do is to preserve this fire and continuously broaden the path for future changes.Until someone who can truly shoulder the burden of change appears and leads Konoha onto the road to real reform.

Junko will not continue to talk big words and let the third generation come up with the Showa spirit of "the empire rises and falls, in one fell swoop" and so on.

Sometimes you do have to be a gambler and take a chance on turning your bike into a motorcycle, but not all the time.The rise, fall and governance of a political entity involve too many hardships.

Junko won't be the keyboard warrior she was like in the past, typing on the keyboard and making noises regardless of where she is.

Just do what you have to do, and how to deal with the rest is a matter for the third generation.

But Junko doesn't need to worry too much about the sugar issue, the third generation will help solve it.Of course, Gennin will also help Junko get the sugar and other ingredients she wants.

In short, the only thing Junko has to do now is to go back and make candy.

Sure enough, it seemed that Danzo was very interested in candy. As soon as Junko returned, she saw that an ANBU had brought all the ingredients she needed.Including those 600 pounds of sugar!

This made Junko dumbfounded. Those vendors really made money if they sold well.

Danzo and Nebe won’t give you money!It is still the end of the war period, and Konoha has not yet completely escaped from the state of war.They just said "requisition" and they really requisitioned them, and they would not give a penny to these civilians.

But after getting the materials without spending a penny, Junko couldn't be happy no matter what.

On the surface, nothing will happen, but in fact this will intensify the conflict between the civilian class and the ninja class!It feels good to requisition it for a while, but you can’t requisition everything you want every time, right?Danzo's doing this will make it a little difficult for her to purchase raw materials in the future!

'Hey... As expected, we still have to find a way to find a stable supplier of raw materials. Junko shook his head.

If the store is officially opened, in addition to the store's supply, there will also be sweets from the upper class families of Konoha that are supplied daily.Daily shopping from the farmers' market in Konoha Village is no longer an option.The farmer's market is mainly a daily food purchase source for ordinary civilians and middle- and lower-class ninjas. Their daily consumption alone is definitely not as large as Junko's.

Junko's daily purchases alone are equivalent to the daily purchases of five or six people, and this does not include the purchase of some luxury goods.

And if you want to make fruit-related food supplements or accessories in the future, the demand for fruits will also be huge.It is imperative to find a qualified and stable supplier who will not mess with her price!

So I have a lot of ideas, let’s start making sugar.

Sugar production begins on the street, and it is easy for people to watch.And Junko seemed to know some things from the mouths of those aunts. For example, the snacks she made had become a luxury item that some ordinary people could only look at from afar.When she started to light a fire and boil water, there were already people watching.

If it weren't for the uneasy-looking ANBU who were watching the scene, it is estimated that these civilians would not stand five steps away and watch.

I have to say that Danzo was quite thoughtful, because there were a lot of people coming and going on the street. If something happened, Junko alone would not be able to deal with it.Sending one or two people over to watch can totally act as a deterrent.

The ingredients were basically together, but for Junko, this batch of sugar lacked a special kind of sugar.It’s maltose!There is no special maltose in Konoha Village, so if you want to make it, Junko has to do it yourself.However, making maltose takes five to seven days, so Danzo can't wait in a hurry.His request was to do it as quickly as possible.

Therefore, the taste may be slightly different from the sugar in the previous life, but that's all.

The first step in making hard candies is to boil the sugar. If you want to make soft candies, you must first make a sugarpaste with only 2% moisture.The moisture in sugar is not easy to remove. In the past, there were special machines that could cook it under vacuum conditions to facilitate the evaporation of the water.But there is no such thing here, so Junko can only cook it by hand.

According to the knowledge in books, sugar must be boiled until it is brown, and it is ready to be cooked at 160°C.The moisture content of the massecuite at this time is just right.

This is a process that requires continuous attention and is also an extremely important process. If the sugarpaste is not made well, it will be difficult to make up for it in subsequent productions.

Fortunately, Junko already has top-notch cooking skills. Although it is only her first time trying to make sugarpaste, she already feels comfortable.

Simmer and wait until the syrup turns from light yellow to golden yellow, and finally turns to brown.Take out a piece of sugarpaste and drop it into cold water. You will find that it hardens immediately. Take it out and chew it until it breaks into pieces, indicating that the sugarpaste has been made.

Then quickly take the sugar paste that has been made out of the pan. The temperature of the sugar paste that has just been made is very high and needs to be cooled to a certain level before proceeding to the next step.

That’s reconciliation!

The blending process is a bit like kneading dough and pulling sugar. The sugarpaste is folded and pulled repeatedly in Junko's hands to further spread the flavor of the ingredients integrated into the sugarpaste and evenly distribute it in every corner of the sugarpaste.Another point of this step is to allow the sugarpaste to dissipate heat evenly.If the heat dissipation of the massecuite is uneven, the sugar embryos will be brittle and cracked due to uneven heat dissipation.Adding trouble to plasticity.and cause unnecessary trouble.

The sugar paste gradually turned into sugar embryos through this same process in Junko's hands.

The final step of turning the sugar embryo into sugar in the previous life could be done by stamping equipment, but Junko didn't have this equipment and could only knead it into a cylinder and then further knead it into a long stick of equal length and about the thickness of a thumb.

Finally, use a spatula to cut the sugar into small pieces.

"I hope I won't do too badly this time..."

Chapter 53 Suppliers

"Is this the candy you made for Danzo?" Sandai closed his eyes.

I have to say that it is completely different from the imagined feeling of being so sweet that you might spit it out after taking one bite!If it weren't for the news of ANBU's report, the third generation would never have imagined that the candy he was eating was actually made from sugar that is usually used for seasoning!

The third generation did not directly go to the scene to observe, but according to the report from the Anbu, the girl made it after boiling the sugar.

When he thought about how much sugar had been concentrated, Sandai's only thought was that this thing must be incredibly sweet!It is almost made of pure sugar as the main ingredient. Can it not be sweet? !Of course sweet is sweet, after all, can something made from sugar not be sweet?No one dislikes sweetness, but overly sweetness is another matter.

The thought of a lot of sugar being melted and boiled gave Sandai a feeling of goosebumps all over his body.

So he refused the first batch of candies sent by Junko.

Such a thing, he, an old man, doesn't just eat what he says.But it’s not good to reject it directly, so it’s just like reluctantly picking it up and trying to show off, taking a bite and then spitting it out without leaving a trace and complimenting it in passing.

I went to eat with reluctance, but found...

So delicious! ! ! ! ! !

Although it feels like it will be extremely sweet, when you actually eat it, you will find that it has a completely different taste.

It's more refreshing than sweet. As the emerald green sugar pill slowly dissolved in his mouth, Sandai didn't expect that the sweetness would become a supporting role, slightly sour but unusually refreshing, with a rather strange feeling. The cooling feeling.

I thought the purpose of its existence was to add a sweet touch to this strange candy.

What really gives him is the refreshing taste, which is the main theme of this candy.

It's refreshing, even if you close your eyes, you can feel the breeze blowing across your face, bringing you a sense of coolness in this hot summer.When you open your mouth and breathe, you feel like you can smell the fragrance coming from the distant grasslands and mountains.This taste, this feeling, goes straight to the heart, every breath is like this...this, this, this!This is simply awesome!Great!This is simply an unprecedented feeling.

"How did you do it?" Sandai opened his eyes and asked, "This tastes like this."

"Use this as an important auxiliary ingredient." Junko spread her hands, and a small green leaf appeared on her palm and said, "I have used this as an auxiliary ingredient before, and this time the main auxiliary ingredient is this thing .”

"Mint, I remember the villagers in Konoha called it 'strange-smelling grass'."

This is just one of the names. Villagers have many names for mint.Konoha is specially cultivated, but the purpose of cultivation is for medicinal purposes.The natural conditions of Konoha Village seem to be very suitable for the growth of mint, and many wild mints can be found in the wild.But for villagers, the taste of mint may be a bit strange and not very popular.

But some people like it, so there are some people selling it at the farmers market, but not many.

"First make mint syrup, which is made from mint and lemon juice. People in the village mainly sell lemons to some families for meat. They use lemons to remove the fishy smell of the meat and make it fresh."

Junko explained: "I use lemon juice here to blend the taste. The sweet and sour taste you taste comes from here."

"What you eat is called mint candy. Of course, in addition to being used as a sweet, this candy can also be used as a kind of medicine." Junko said: "Because the auxiliary ingredients are pure mint, this candy can dissipate wind and heat. It clears the head and throat and soothes the throat. Moreover, it contains oil menthol, which can achieve a certain effect of soothing the liver and relieving depression."

"It's a very good candy for an old smoker like you."

"Hehehe~ That's it." The third generation suddenly felt a little embarrassed and said, "Then I will shamelessly buy these mint candies."

"Just keep it, I can make this again." Junko didn't mind Sandai taking these candies.

And these were originally meant for the third generation, so the amount of candy shipped at one time was quite a lot.It can meet Danzo's needs and can also be used by others to maintain customers.

"Um..." Junko touched her head and asked tentatively with a silly smile: "Sandaime-sama...I think...that..."

"I wonder if I could get in touch with the suppliers that provide supplies to Konoha?"

Supplier of Konoha Village?Konoha Village still has a rationing system so far, and the sources of supplies are provided by the Country of Fire and its own ordinary civilians.

Originally, these materials, including those produced by ordinary civilians in Konoha Village, would all be centralized and distributed uniformly.

The assigned levels are 'leadership', 'family', 'ninja' and finally 'civilian'.In this distribution order, ninjas are a watershed. Ninjas and above have priority in distribution and receive the most abundant materials. At the same time, they can obtain some luxury resources that ordinary civilians cannot obtain, such as some of the earlier unpalatable but still manageable ones. snacks and the like.

Ninjas are generally rich, probably richer than civilians, and can occasionally get some luxuries based on their military merit.

As for ordinary civilians, they just need to be hungry and have the strength to work.

There may not be much to say about this set of laws during war. After all, due to the lack of resources, centralized distribution can ensure that the vast majority of people survive and have combat effectiveness.

This set of distribution physiques has certainly helped Konoha overcome many difficulties.

But as time passed and Konoha stabilized and productivity began to rise steadily, it naturally became inappropriate.The Third Generation was not stupid, so he naturally first cut down on the surplus material collection system for ordinary civilians in Konoha Village, so that ordinary civilians began to have rich materials and could trade them.Later, he strictly controlled the material rationing of the noble clans and ninjas, and resold the wealthy materials to ordinary people for circulation in Konoha's market.

This is why Konoha Village, which basically still implements the rationing system, has shown signs of a market economy.

But Junko didn't want to rely on such a primary market that was in its infancy, incomplete, and not rich in materials.Initially, the quantity I made myself was only small, and secondly, the auxiliary materials required were not particularly abundant.In the future, she will only need more and more accessories, and the demand will not be small.

Such a small market simply couldn't support Junko's consumption. She had already shorted out the sugar on the market.

This is not to mention other excipients that are not on the market.

The reason why I didn't mention it before was because the third generation didn't explicitly say that it wanted to abolish the rationing system and introduce market dominance, so Junko didn't ask and didn't dare to ask.Now that the relationship feels almost complete, and the third generation has clearly stated that a market economy will be introduced, Junko feels that the time is ripe, and she can ask this question a little bit.

The third generation was not in a hurry to answer Junko's question. He closed his eyes and carefully considered the pros and cons.

This question doesn't seem like such a difficult one, just say no.Material supply is one of the core foundations of Konoha Village. If the material supply is broken, it will be of no use against the strong combat power.To put it bluntly, people have to eat, and supplies are also very important to unite people from all walks of life.

As a little girl with no success selling snacks, it would be impossible for her to skip the rationing process and talk directly to the supplier!