Uchiha girl, ignites a group pet war in Konoha

The cat lady far away in the ruins of the empty zone obviously overestimated Shen Yue. This guy who knew nothing about farming didn't think there was anything special about these seeds.

When Kazuko, who was surprised by the yield per mu, asked her where the high-yield rice seeds came from, Shen Yue's first reaction was to ask stupidly:

"Isn't this a normal yield?"

This farming novice, all her impressions of rice came from the pictures of the harvest she saw when browsing the Internet in her previous life. Farmers happily embraced the golden rice with abundant fruits, and their dark faces exposed to the sun showed the joy of the harvest. This gave her an illusion that all the rice in the world was so high-yielding.

But the fact is not so.

The rice cultivated in modern society is unimaginably high-yielding for people in the ninja world.

In the country where she lived in her previous life, the yield of rice per mu in two seasons has been stable at 900 to 1,000 kilograms, while hybrid rice with high yield as its advantage can reach 1,500 kilograms.

But in the ninja world, except for the Fire Country, which has suitable temperature, climate and terrain and is also implementing two crops a year, most areas are still only one crop a year, and the per-acre yield is even more terrible - even in the most fertile Fire Country, if the weather is good and the rain is good, it is already very good to have a harvest of three or four hundred kilograms a year.

Not only that, in addition to high yield, hybrid rice also has the advantages of short growth cycle, strong resistance to stress, and can resist pests, drought, low temperature, etc., while the rice in the Fire Country is extremely precious and often gets sick and worms.

As for the Wind Country with sandstorms all over the desert, uh, it is better not to mention it.

There are of course many reasons for this. For example, the hybrid rice in the most productive experimental field is quite troublesome to cultivate. Not only does it require high fertilizer and water, but it also requires manual transplanting, long-term spraying, manual weeding, and a tailor-made "formula precision fertilization method".

How can the farmers in the Ninja World who have no large machinery, pesticides, fertilizers and breeding technology, and rely on their hands and strength, and sometimes even have no oxen or farm tools, compare their production efficiency and per-acre yield with modern agriculture?

It is precisely because of this that when the tenant farmers such as Kazuko saw the incredible harvest of rice in the farmland, they almost thought they had encountered a miracle.

Having been rolling in the fields for half a lifetime, Kazuko and others certainly know better than Shenyue, a novice in farming, what kind of harvest of ordinary rice in the Land of Fire should have. And the rice that Shenyue gave them, even before it was carefully harvested and husked, these experienced farmers can already estimate that it has at least 30% to 40% higher yield than ordinary rice!

This kind of rice is of course not comparable to hybrid rice, but it has far exceeded the agricultural level of the Land of Fire.

It turns out that Grandma Cat didn't kill me? Those rice seeds are really worth so much money!

Shen Yue realized it later, and realized that something was wrong. The price of that batch of rice was so high that it made her heart ache and bleed. It was far higher than the price of other things she bought.

She originally thought that the profiteer, Cat Granny, was just ripping off regular customers, but she didn't expect that this was really a treasure!

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In the spirit of preparing for a rainy day, Shen Yue early oppressed Hayato and Yangta, two free laborers, to build a granary.

Whenever she stood in the farmland and watched the cheerful tenants happily send the processed rice into the granary, she would always feel an inexplicable sense of loss in her heart.

A nature called greed lingered in her heart, which often made her feel lost for this, and she wanted to sigh three hundred times a day-

It's a pity, I should have added more taxes at the beginning!

This is the thought that Shen Yue often had after carefully studying the various tax laws of the Fire Country. She always felt that she seemed to have lost 100 million.

To be honest, Shen Yue regretted it very much now. She found that the 30% land tax she asked for was too low.

The so-called "six public and four civilians" implemented by the Fire Country actually measured the agricultural production capacity of a piece of land in advance, and then set a number, and then asked civilians to pay. As for those who do not rely on the land to live, the same method is used. For example, fishermen living by the sea will hand in aquatic products.

At first glance, this seems to be no problem, but in fact, such a general tax can naturally derive countless routines and black box operations-

First, the tax officer said that this piece of land can grow as much as it can. If it can't grow that much, the part to be collected is actually far more than 60%, which only shows one thing:

This hateful pariah didn't work hard at all. He must have been lazy, so he didn't reach the level that the daimyo expected of him.Expectations!

As for how much grain to collect, of course, it is still in accordance with the tax officer who represents His Majesty the Daimyo.

But if you are unlucky and encounter war and natural disasters, when there are countless grains and people can't even survive, what should you do?

Of course, it is still the number agreed upon at the beginning.

If you can't pay the grain, you have to hand over other properties, houses, land and even themselves will be handed over as collateral, and if you are unlucky, you will even be caught and beheaded by the angry noble lords.

Paying taxes on time is the obligation of every citizen of the Fire Country. If you don't pay taxes, are you still a citizen of the Fire Country? If you are not a citizen of the Fire Country, then why are you still alive?

As for the various miscellaneous taxes added by local lords in addition to the annual tribute, and the daimyo sometimes requires that half of the taxes be paid in rice and half in money, as well as various labor services, foreign services, etc., these are of course not counted among the "six publics and four civilians".

The so-called "six officials and four civilians" is just a nice word. After layers of exploitation, the common people can get 10%, which is considered generous by the daimyo and nobles, leaving them a way to live.

As for the other four major countries and many small countries in the ninja world, uh, friends, have you heard of "seven officials and three civilians" and "eight officials and two civilians"?

After catching up on the complicated and simple tax system of the Fire Country, Shen Yue was deeply shocked by the cannibalistic face of the daimyo, and felt more annoyed and regretful. She wanted to beat the self who said "30%" out of the sky.

Since the daimyo collected so much tax, why don't I collect less!

If I can collect 50%, no, even 40% would be fine!

Shen Yue, who regretted a lot, beat her head and stamped her feet, thinking that she had given away countless benefits in vain, which was a big loss, but she forgot that a good little benefit would inevitably have a big disadvantage.

Shen Yue subconsciously overlooked one thing, that is, as a ninja, is she worthy of being compared with the daimyo?

For the common people, the high and mighty daimyo is at least a noble existence with a lofty status and a lineage that will last for thousands of years, but the ninja is just a demon in human skin who kills and burns and does all kinds of evil things. If we really talk about the status of the common people, they are not even as good as the lowest common people.

In fact, it has been less than six years since the ninja was abolished as a pariah, and six years is not enough for the world to forget their humble status for thousands of years and the evil deeds that ignited countless wars.

If they have to choose between the beast-like daimyo and the demon-like ninja, even if they are fed up with the extortion, the common people will still choose the daimyo nobles.

No matter how beastly or greedy the daimyo is, he is at least a human being like them. Even if he really can't survive, the common people can at least find a way to escape from him. Even if they are likely to die on the road of exile, this is also a way to survive.

But what can civilians do to survive under the feet of ninjas who can spit out fireballs and split mountains with one hand?

Escape, how to escape, how can ordinary people outrun ninjas and ninjutsu?

Don't forget that now that the thousand-year war has just ended, there are very few civilians who have not been affected by the war between ninja clans. Most people, like Kazuko, have a blood debt with ninjas that is difficult to repay.

Close relatives and friends were killed, the fields they depended on for survival were destroyed, the only houses and properties were burned, and sometimes even their hometowns were buried under the ninjutsu of ninjas... For civilians who already live on the tightrope, ninjas are also demons who have been trying to push them into the abyss.

If there are no sufficient benefits, why would people work for her, relying on the reputation of Uchiha?

The notorious Uchiha clan is the evil ghost among evil ghosts, the demon among demons.

What is the reputation of ninjas, what is the reputation of Uchiha, and what is the reputation of Uchiha Madara? To put it bluntly, only people with broken brains or who don't want to live at all would want to work under a group of evil ghosts.

In fact, it is precisely because of the extremely lucrative benefits and almost no taxes that Kazuko and other desperate civilians dare to risk their lives to surrender to her. When they came, they were determined to die and even prepared to be tortured by these ninjas to the point of being worse off than death.

After all, surrendering to ninjas is equivalent to directly handing over your life and the rest of your life to these ninjas.

Even though Shen Yue herself did not think of this, Kazuko and the others have already realized it.

After all, the gap in strength between the two is like a natural chasm, and their relationship is inherently unequal.

In this way, this can be regarded as a lucky coincidence.

It can be seen from this that Shen Yue is indeed an out-and-out farming idiot. Her self-proclaimed perfect farming plan is actually full of loopholes, and she will completely overturn if she is not careful!

Even if you look atHundreds of farming books still couldn't save her idiocy and ignorance.

But it was precisely because of her ignorance that she dared to take the most difficult first step, and it was this step that made her the hope in the eyes of many people and won their full help.

Without the support of Uchiha Madara, her farming plan would not be implemented at all; without the good seeds of the cat lady, she would not have such a high yield of rice seeds; without the day and night farming of the tenant farmers such as Kazuko, she would not have the current harvest; without Hayato and Yangta constantly using ninjutsu to improve production efficiency, the tenant farmers would not be able to devote themselves to farming.

Now, it is September in the sixth year of Konoha.

In this season, the rice waves are rolling, the grain fragrance is wafting, and everyone on the field has a bright smile on their face. Everyone is counting on their fingers how much they can buy after the harvest, and everyone is laughing and discussing the delicious food and good clothes that they dare not expect in the past.

It can be seen that everyone is very happy, and this kind of happiness and joy from the bottom of their hearts is definitely not fake.

The faces of these people who have suffered so much have vitality and vitality, and they seem to have finally transformed from zombies into real human beings.

Shen Yue's first crooked step can finally be taken safely, but the road she has to take in the future is still very long.