Chapter 82: The Proper Way To Use Multiple Shadow Clones
Capital City of the Land of Bears.
This city with a population of only 120,000, after experiencing brief turmoil, has now fully restored production and daily life order. Even because of the implementation of new policies and the absence of noble exploitation, it is radiating unprecedented vitality.
In that coup privately called the ‘Long Blade Operation’ by the Land of Bears and Star Ninjas, the noble class and Daimyo of the Land of Bears were completely eradicated, and a brand-new organization led by ‘Lord Shura’ is being born in the Land of Bears.
On a vast plain in the western part of the Capital City of the Land of Bears, farmers who rented land from the government are engaged in fervent labor, reclaiming new farmland. People’s enthusiasm for farming has reached an all-time high, hoping to plant the last crop of winter wheat before the arrival of winter.
In order to harvest early next year and repay the debts for seeds and farming tools as soon as possible, they now have hope for the future.
Meanwhile, the villagers and Star Ninjas of Hoshigakure have also relocated to an area in the eastern part of the capital city for construction.
This place was originally a hunting ground belonging to the Daimyo, where ordinary people were prohibited from entering, preserving a relatively intact wild environment.
“With this Ghost River as the boundary, plan the eastern part as the military zone, administrative zone, and experiment zone, and the western part as the residential area and commercial zone.” At the top of the Daimyo’s Mansion in the Land of Bears, Menma pointed to a river on the map, discussing the capital city’s construction with Uzumaki Kushina, Kado, and others.
Among his many subordinates, only Uzumaki Kushina, Kado, and Yoruya had some administrative abilities.
Now, several days have passed since the battle with Obito, who calls himself ‘Uchiha Madara’.
The relocation work of Hoshigakure has basically been completed, and a brand-new city is under construction.
“Winter is coming soon. Prepare more supplies for keeping warm. After the farming season ends, organize the people to develop this plain, build water conservancy facilities and infrastructure.” Menma deeply understood the importance of basic construction and agricultural construction.
Currently, the military power of the Land of Bears is based on Hoshigakure, with Menma and others as the top combat forces. There should be no need to worry about attacks from other countries in the short term.
The surrounding small and medium-sized countries, such as the Land of Shadows, Land of Demons, and Land of Birds, all lack ninja villages.
In the war five years ago, the Rock Village sent 10,000 ninja troops to besiege the Third Raiden, resulting in countless casualties, and they temporarily have no desire for foreign wars.
After the Third Kazekage of the Sand Village disappeared, it triggered the Third Great Ninja War. Now their strength has been greatly damaged, and the Daimyo of the Land of Wind has continuously reduced funding support to the Sand Village, so there is a possibility of the Sand Village launching a war, but with the strength of the Sand Ninja Village, there is really nothing to worry about.
Therefore, Menma is now focusing mainly on the construction of the Land of Bears.
“Lord, the surrounding countries have now imposed a blockade on us, prohibiting merchant caravans from entering. The national finances are already somewhat tight.” Kado stated the recent international situation with some concern.
Regarding the so-called blockades by various countries, Menma was not worried: “Merchants seek profit. The Land of Bears is located between the Land of Wind and the Land of Earth, serving as an important trade route for commerce between these two great nations and several countries in the western part of the Ninja Continent. As long as we maintain stable and fair commercial tax rates and create a good business environment, these merchants will find their own ways to come in.”
Much of the technology in the Ninja World is quite primitive. Except for ninja villages that have some near-modern technological levels, most other regions are at feudal or early modern living standards.
Commercial exchanges mainly rely on horse carriages on roads, and sea transport ships are mostly wooden vessels.
The blockade orders issued by the Daimyo mean too many smuggling methods for profit-seeking merchants.
As for dispatching ninjas to patrol the border?
Please, hiring ninjas is very expensive, and the Daimyo can’t bear to spend that money.
Moreover, merchants can also hire ninjas for protection.
In short, this is a chaotic world.
Menma assigned Kado and Yoruya to mainly handle city construction and economic construction.
Uzumaki Kushina formed a government processing team, gradually taking charge of the entire country’s administrative affairs.
At the same time, Menma also dispatched many shadow clones, mainly active in various cities and departments of the Land of Bears, maintaining the operation of the entire state apparatus during the transition period.
Thanks to the ‘Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu’, Menma’s shadow clones are spread across the grassroots level, spreading ideas and education, cultivating administrative talents, and accumulating grassroots administrative forces for this country’s new government.
After the meeting ended, Menma came to the laboratory located underground in the Daimyo’s Mansion.
This was once the underground vault and warehouse of the Land of Bears’ Daimyo, but it has now been improved.
Before the new experiment zone is built and put into use, this is Menma’s temporary experimental base.
Over a dozen shadow clones wearing white lab coats are conducting research on various projects, including research on Hashirama Cells, on the Iburi Clan’s bloodline limit, on White Zetsu Cells, on Wood Release, on various ninjutsu, and on scientific ninja tools.
Only because Menma is of the Uzumaki Clan, possessing vast chakra and vitality, plus the Dark Nine-Tails continuously providing chakra, can he alone produce two thousand shadow clones engaged in various activities and research.
Moreover, these two thousand shadow clones are just for currently maintaining the state apparatus and various research, not the upper limit of the ‘Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu’, let alone the chakra limit of the Dark Nine-Tails.
“Lord Shura!” Menma arrived at a medical room, where the beautiful woman with long red hair, Natsuhi, stood up from the bedside and respectfully saluted Menma.
On the hospital bed lay a gaunt man, who was her husband Hotaru.
“Feeling better?” Menma nodded to Natsuhi, walked to the bedside, placed his hand on Hotaru’s wrist, injected chakra into his body, and checked the residual radiation situation inside him.
“Much better already, thank you, Lord.” Natsuhi forced a smile.
Both were jonin of Hoshigakure. After discovering that cultivating with the meteorite would erode the body with radiation leading to death, they tried to steal the meteorite. Later, they were persuaded by the ‘Third Star Shadow’ Yoruya to fake their deaths and live around Hell Valley, secretly monitoring the situation in Hoshigakure.
When Yoruya found them, Hotaru’s body was already on the verge of collapse. Natsuhi had been taking care of her husband recently, so she hadn’t noticed the abnormalities in Hoshigakure.
Menma used Kagura Shingan and Malice Perception to question and probe them, confirming that they knew nothing about the situation in Hoshigakure and were not leakers, so he did not make things difficult for them.
Moreover, Hotaru’s condition of being eroded by meteorite radiation was perfect as a research subject, so for the past few days, he has been receiving treatment and cooperating with research in this medical laboratory.
Since the suspicions of Natsuhi and Hotaru as internal spies have been ruled out, the real internal spy should be among those captured Star Ninjas.
Menma looked at Natsuhi with her red hair. If he remembered correctly, in the plot, the few traitors from the Star Ninjas seemed to be led by that one called Akaboshi.
