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Chapter 284 - Chapter 284: An Enticing Shortcut

The nation-founding ceremony ended after Kageyama Kogetsu finished his speech.

Following the ceremony was the release of a series of policies, such as tax reductions for various industries across the land.

Different industries, incomes, and properties had different tax reduction amounts.

Although tax reductions would mean a significant loss of fiscal revenue, with the wealth of major nobles and officials supplementing it, implementation was easy and pleasant.

The total wealth of major nobles and officials worldwide was astonishing. Compared to them, the wealth accumulated by major ninja villages was just a drop in the bucket.

In addition, there were policies promoting the No. 1 Chakra Extraction Technique and the method of manufacturing chakra currency.

Various news spread across the world through newspapers and word of mouth. As long as a place wasn't particularly isolated, it would receive the news eventually.

The scientific and technological foundation of this world wasn't bad; radio, television, and film technologies all existed.

With some time for development, based on the existing technological foundation, devices like mobile phones and computers would soon appear.

One big reason for the slow development of science and technology in the past was that traditional communication methods could meet the practical needs of human activity areas in the ninja world.

With policies promulgated, someone naturally had to execute them. Kageyama Kogetsu started holding personnel meetings all day long to fill the vacancies of imperial officials.

Ninja were naturally to be arranged, but they could only serve as supervisors. They didn't understand specific administrative affairs, so the former nobles and officials of various countries still had to be used.

Previously, the intelligence forces of major ninja villages hadn't focused on the internal affairs of various countries. Except for some important figures, they had no understanding of other nobles and officials.

This required a lot of screening work. Fortunately, ordinary people had no secrets in front of ninja; a single genjutsu was enough to ask for anything wanted.

Asking the person themselves, then asking other acquaintances for corroboration, could screen out the most suitable officials and nobles.

Kageyama Kogetsu and the others only cared about suitability, regardless of previous status or family background, directly creating a reshuffling situation.

Former minor officials might become high officials, and former high officials might be reduced to minor officials, invisibly winning over a group of capable nobles and officials.

In the past, it was very difficult for those minor officials and nobles to break through their own ceiling limitations.

Although Kageyama Kogetsu was just a small figure in his previous life, he hadn't eaten pork but had seen pigs run, knowing well that governing a country meant governing people.

Selecting the officials responsible for management and the ninja responsible for supervision well would make everything easier in the future, and vice versa.

Spending half a month on personnel work, Kageyama Kogetsu temporarily became idle.

Enough policies had been released. Releasing policies all at once could easily be counterproductive. Haste makes waste; it wouldn't be too late to release more after some were implemented.

One day, while routinely handling administrative affairs, Kageyama Kogetsu found a special document suggesting that he should get married.

Reminded by this, Kageyama Kogetsu suddenly realized he wasn't married yet...

Having cohabited for so many years, he had gotten used to it and forgotten for a moment.

Kageyama Kogetsu looked at the signature on the document and remembered the name, planning to give them a chance to see if they were worth reusing.

A few days later, the news that Kageyama Kogetsu was preparing to get married spread throughout the expanding Konoha...

The World Master's wedding was undoubtedly a big event, but there was even more important news!

It was rumored that the World Master planned to settle down and would no longer accept women into his harem after the wedding, preparing to live a peaceful life.

How could this be?

If he didn't accept women into his harem, how could they take shortcuts to success, guarantee their interests, and gain more benefits in the great changes?

For a time, those with intentions began to move...

The fastest to act were the nobles and officials who had lost their original status!

Panicked, they selected the most outstanding daughters in their families and passed the news to Kageyama Kogetsu's ears or desk through various means.

It was worth mentioning that except for the diehards, Kageyama Kogetsu didn't kill them all.

Although nobles and officials lost their original power and status, they still kept a small part of their wealth.

It was impossible to continue living their original extravagant lives, but maintaining a middle-class lifestyle for a large family for three years was still possible.

If they didn't make changes and adapt to the new era within three years, they deserved to perish.

These people should be glad they lived in a supernatural world. If it were an ordinary world, they would have been eradicated long ago.

In an ordinary world, the threat of these people's counterattack would be huge, and leniency was absolutely not allowed.

In a supernatural world, these people's counterattack wouldn't make any waves and could be suppressed by random ninja.

Wealthy merchants were not to be outdone, selecting the most outstanding daughters in their families. If there were none in the family, relatives would do.

Both groups wanted to keep their status or even improve it.

As time passed, more and more people participated, and more and more places got involved. At the same time, someone proposed a theory...

Saying that whether the World Master accepted the women sent was one thing, but not sending them was disloyalty, having opinions against the World Master and the Kyōei Empire!

How could this be?

Nobles, officials, and wealthy merchants who originally didn't want to send women for various reasons were scared and quickly followed suit.

After fermenting for a while, it gradually formed a trend, affecting ninja as well, especially those from ninja villages with no one in Kageyama Kogetsu's harem.

...

Konoha Village, no, now it should be called Konoha City, in a house in the north of the city.

Former high-ranking officials of Kumogakure, now holding various positions in the Kyōei Empire and living in Konoha City, gathered together, including the Fourth Raikage A.

Kageyama Kogetsu naturally wouldn't allow the high-ranking officials of major ninja villages to live in their original places. They could go back and visit when free, but usually, they had to live in Konoha City or their place of office.

"Have you all heard the news outside?"

The former Fourth Raikage, now Minister of Defense, Yotsuki A, said seriously.

Kageyama Kogetsu didn't mistreat the former high-ranking officials of major ninja villages; they basically held high positions.

Of course, precautions were taken. Their deputies were mostly Konoha high-ranking officials, core members, or important members.

Dodai said seriously, "Of course I heard. Beauties are sent from all over the world every day now."

"Housing in the city has become even tighter. The Ministry of Construction is now working in full swing to speed up the expansion of housing."

"Yamato, the Deputy Minister of Construction, has performed remarkably. His Wood Release is superb for building temporary housing, and the World Master personally praised him."

Yotsuki A nodded slightly. "I've heard of Yamato's name. He is indeed amazing at building houses."

"But the key point now is whether we should push some women to try. I just realized that our Kumogakure has no one by the World Master's side..."

"Terumī Mei of Kirigakure went personally, and the benefits are obvious."

"The resources allocated to the former site of Kirigakure are the most besides Konoha, comparable to Otogakure, which has always been Konoha's staunch ally."

"The treatment received by Kirigakure ninja is also relatively higher."

"Also, although Sunagakure has a bad relationship with Lady Pakura, Gaara took Lady Pakura's disciple to meet him and also received some resource inclination."

Darui said in a deep voice, "Boss, I think we can try, but there's no need to force anyone. Let's see the wishes of Samui, Mabui, Yugito, and others."

"The World Master is quite fair. Giving more resources to forces closer to Konoha is expected, but he hasn't shortchanged everyone."

"Bastard Darui, is your boss the kind of person who forces subordinates?"

"Of course it's voluntary. We just need to mention it in a letter."

Yotsuki A widened his eyes and flicked Darui's forehead.

Darui cried out in pain and fell to the ground, a bump rising on his forehead as if bitten by a bee. He quickly apologized to the boss.

"That's more like it. Leave the letter writing to Dodai. We're not good at it."

"Alright."

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