A Prize of Hundreds of Billion

The words were not meant to be heard.

Koyuki-hime didn't think too much, basically just said whatever came to mind. But for Makoto, who has a wide range of ideas, just a little bit of inspiration is enough.

The problem in the Naruto world is not that there is no TV, but that the TV is not good, not to mention those who can't afford it, even the prepared viewers who can afford the TV don't want to watch it.

Most of the viewers who can afford TV in this era can also afford to spend their leisure or night time with one or even more people of the opposite sex for pleasure sports.

It's not much more pleasurable than any kind of TV watching.

You have a bad show, they just don't buy it.

The best place to watch movies is really still the movie theater, and nowadays TV shows are out of fashion, so I don't think normal humans should like to watch commercials and news broadcasts...

Makoto and can not leave the police station like Tokita Ohma everywhere, and even open their own ancestors out of the Tokita Ohma, to force the creation of demand, then... Kazehana Koyuki said that he liked to watch the fun, Makoto came to life at once.

Sports programs ah!

Especially the fighting programs in it!

Makoto had long since discovered that the people of the Naruto world had a special love for this aspect.

Aoho's two movies, one a purebred fighting movie and the other a Sword and Halberd movie, had both been extremely big sellers, becoming divine movies of the year.

If nothing unexpected happens, decades from now, there will be idle people who will rank the top ten XXX movies, and there will definitely be these two movies.

Aoho's own strength, the script is hard enough, the ninja's performance is enough to sell, etc., but the people's preference, also played an important role in it.

It's not like the luxury cast has flopped once or twice, and in the end, it's still up to the audience to decide if they like it or not.

But it's understandable, after all, in a world where war is everywhere, people instinctively revere strength.

In reality, they are a weakling, and maybe they can't change it for the rest of their lives, so can't they just YY it in the movie?

T/N: 'YY' refers to porn, smut... guess Jiraiya's Icha Icha is next

Predictably, a real ninja battle with real swords and knives will definitely arouse their considerable interest.

Those realistic fights on Earth have so many people's attention, not to mention this kind of higher level, better looking ninja battle.

-Of course, there must be some limitations, such as not moving hundreds of equal parts of the enemy that way...

That would be too unholy for kids to handle.

The more you argue, the clearer your reasoning becomes, and the more you think about logic, the smoother it becomes.

As long as the fight is good, then someone will watch. At the very least, the betting dogs should enjoy watching... Makoto knows that this kind of thing can't be helped...

But his primary goal right now is to push the TV popularity up, and some things can t be helped.

Who made those those big families so screwed up.

He didn't want to waste any more time.

As for whether it can make money or not...

A fight with a certain boxing champion on Earth was tens of millions, and it was all dollars.

Makoto didn't quite understand the thoughts of those big bosses, but if he were in his place, he could give tens of millions of dollars, and at the very least, he would have to earn more dollars to do so.

Otherwise wouldn't he be working for those boxing champions for nothing.

Things were completely feasible if you thought about it that way.

"And the contestant candidates I can relax a little bit, not just the Land of Fire, it can totally be the whole world... -

"And there's no need to be afraid of being too out of the limelight, because I can completely use the country concept to cover up the village concept. As soon as we hear that the ninja of the Land of Fire won a big victory and became the strongest ninja in the world, not only the daimyo, but even those poor workers underneath will surely be excited... -

"As for Konoha losing... how can that be, Konoha is the strongest ninjavillage, there's no doubt about that. In this kind of ring match, it's also hard to hide a killer weapon. Playing dozens of matches will surely force out the others' killer moves, and with everyone fighting with open cards, it's unlikely that they'll fall in the gutter... -

"Big deal, I'll leave myself a good backdoor. If I can't, I'll just go and mess around and force the enemy's seeded players to brush them down. Anyway, I'm Naruto and a member of Konoha... -

"As long as that Nagato guy doesn't come over to mess things up... he won't come. -

"The only problem is that those big ninja villages that have been getting slippery lately won't come over to compete... They're the ones who won't do Konoha a favor. Well, this is indeed a problem, I have to talk to Sandaime about it..."

Although in practice, there were still quite a few problems. But Makoto felt that these problems could be solved.

So he politely bid farewell to the little princess, happily resembling a secondary fat man who was about to be summoned by the emperor, and with a brisk pace, he found Sandaime.

When he found Sandaime, he was gawking at the dismal, dismal accounts in front of him - he hadn't seen through the blackmail yet.

"Sandaime-sama!"

Makoto called out to Sandaime, who reacted with cloudy eyes.

When the wind blew, a large amount of Sandaime's already thinning hair was immediately blown away by the wind.

But even so, Sandaime didn't pay any attention to it.

...It looked like Sandaime was really worried about Konoha's finances.

...This time directly tell Sandaime that if Konoha itself has no financial problems, it will definitely be killed right...

Makoto subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of water, and re-swallowed the words that had already reached his mouth.

He took the accounts in Sandaime's hands, helped Sandaime up, and walked slowly towards the outside.

"Sandaime-sama, you're still worried about the accounts, huh?"

"Ah, before I didn't know until I looked at it, but once I looked at it it was really... I didn't even know that you were usually burdened with such a great amount of pressure. Had I known that, I wouldn't have run off to fish every day."

Sandaime lit a puff of cigarette, his expression bright and sad.

"Even if we sell those things of Tsunade's... How long will it take to fill all the mouths ah?"

Makoto had no choice but to continue to fool around.

"Sandaime-sama, it's not something you can count like that! The relationship between debts and assets is much more complicated than you think..."

"Alright, alright, no need to comfort me. I'm just a bad old man anyway, and sooner or later, these are the last few years. I just want to help you again while I can still move..."

The sweat on Makoto's head increased even more.

"Please don't say that, you still have many years to live..."

If it wasn't for Aunt Snake's Konoha collapse, Sandaime would have lived to see Boruto... if there was still Boruto in this world.

"I'm already at this age... I know all about it, you don't need to say comforting words... I'm olld... "

In any case, Makoto finally calmed Sandaime down.

He wanted to say more about making money through TV to make him happy again, but just at this time, several familiar faces appeared in front of the two.

...Were the ones who had come over to visit earlier, those enlightened people from the small country.

"His Excellency, Godaime Hokage! Huh, is His Excellency the Sandaime also here? ...That's just right, we'll just settle everything in one breath today."

"I appreciate Your Excellency's kindness in allowing us to return later. But a few of us have gone back and discussed it, and how could we slack off when Your Excellency is so gracious? So this time, we have brought over all of the previously agreed upon payments in the form of cashier's checks, please smile!"

Makoto was willing to allow them to delay the payment back, which was of course a good thing. But after a few enlightened people went back and thought about it, they still felt that it was better not to accept this favor.

There was no way, someone's reputation was too bad...

Although he has always been very credible, a few enlightened people still feel that this money is hot, give it out early and early peace of mind.

Then it was...

Facing the bank cashier's check as well as the account book handed over by the enlightened people, Makoto's movements slowly became stiff.

Sandaime's eyes, became incomparably sharp.

"Makoto, why didn't I know there was this receivable? -

"Shouldn't you explain it to me?"

... ...

It was only after being viciously chased by Sandaime as well as the second of the three ninjas for several hundred miles that the matter was considered to be completely over.

Makoto topped the three large bags on his head, smilingly looked at the angry trio in front of him, and shamelessly poured a cup of tea for each of them.

"Gentlemen, misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding... I won't dare next time."

How is it possible.

False proselytizing, day regret over, this is the basic operation of isekai society players... However, these words are impossible to tell the three people in front of them.

Who is cheated is not good, by them whack a few times, this matter is even turned over.

But if not these a few times...

Anyway, the three people are not happy to be unhappy, or finish the tea.

This matter is considered to end here, they no longer pursue.

-After all, he had deliberately let them beat him up.

"But why did you make so much trouble before?"

"Because it makes money."

So all three of the big guys were oh-so-awesome.

This is also a stereotype advantage.

It would be very troublesome to really explain, and there are some things that cannot be said.

When Makoto told them about controlling public opinion and accomplishing their goals, they wouldn't understand.

But he told them that this thing can make money, they will be able to understand instantly.

Anyway, the main impression Makoto gave was that of a super treacherous businessman who had fallen into the eyes of money.

They didn't expect Makoto to explain anything to them-after all, the things he came up with were all new tricks that they basically couldn't understand beforehand. It had been so many times that they had more or less gotten used to it.

"If it makes money, then I have no problem with it. You're already doing well, just take care of yourself."

Sandaime painfully touched his hair, which had been thinning more and more lately - it was all because of Makoto, the grandson thief, causing him to have trouble sleeping every day. If this continued, he would have to go out every day wearing a wig.

"Thank you Sandaime-sama for your trust!"

"But it seems like you had something you wanted to say to me before..."

Makoto immediately seized the opportunity to speak out his idea of a fighting convention.

"A fighting convention? ...If the fights are really good, there should be a lot of people willing to watch. -

"But if it's just this village fighting, it's obviously not much fun. And if we invite the four greatninja villages... they will be willing to make faces for us?"

Sandaime and Makoto had the same concern.

If it was really going to be held, it would definitely be in Konoha's territory. The Four Great Hidden Villages already had little advantage, and if it was still held in Konoha's place, then they would basically lose.

They weren't going to humiliate themselves.

"Regarding this, I already have a more reliable idea. It's just that it's a bit troublesome to execute... Anyway, they should come."

"As for those small ninja villages and idle ninja... I've decided to start a small target to attract them over."

Sandaime took a slow drag on his cigarette.

"You're talking about the Champion's Prize?"

"Yes - to be precise, there's a huge prize for making it to the top one hundred and twenty-eight."

"If that's the case... I know you must have calculated that you earn more than you put out right... How much are you probably prepared to put out? Ten million ryo?"

"One hundred billion for the winner, and decreasing thereafter. I'll have to do some actuarial calculations if I'm looking at the exact number, but my goal is that even if it's the last place, it should still be a million - that's the reward for an S-ranked mission."

When Makoto said this, Sandaime was smoking a cigarette and Jiraiya was drinking tea.

As a result, Sandaime almost got Parkinson's and didn't even squeeze the bong.

And Jiraiya even sprayed a mouthful of water on Tsunade, and was held down by her for a blast.

"How... how much?"

"One hundred billion."

Sandaime wasn't shaking with one hand anymore, but with both of them he could barely keep his hands steady.

"You bastard, do you know how much it cost us to fight at full strength for a year before... Are you trying to piss me off! -

"Enma!"

"Sandaime-sama, please calm down! The current Konoha can afford to give that kind of money! Please calm down! Listen to my explanation!"

... ...

The bags on Makoto's head were as many as six.

This time, Sandaime was not listening to any explanation, and directly reduced the championship prize to one billion. Even so, he was still upset and couldn't wait to kill Makoto as a loser - for any ninja, this was an astronomical amount that he could give up everything.

Konoha's number one laborer, Jiraiya, not counting his draft fees, had earned just over 600 million ryo from pure missions in his lifetime.

However, it was impossible for him to stockpile so much cash because he had a lot of income and a lot of expenses - such as healing his wounds, purchasing information, buying ninjutsu, and so on.

Makoto also knew that a billion prize was enough to drive people crazy, but wasn't he doing this to open up the situation first?

Think about it, when the gimmick of a hundred billion prize came out, who wouldn't be fucking confused.

For a lot of powerful ninjas with low loyalty, they would probably prefer to rebel against the village to go and fight this fight - as long as they win, it really is literally freedom of wealth ah.

With this gimmick, Konoha's attention is bound to skyrocket, and before the match even starts, it'll go straight to the top of the Hot 100 kind of thing.

Along with that, the sales of TV sets will also go up like crazy.

Everyone likes to watch the action, especially the big action.

For many people, the current television is too chicken ribs, belonging to the can buy but not buy. But now there is a big hustle and bustle to watch, if they didn't watch it, it would be equivalent to being eliminated by the times, and that would be a big loss.

For the others, this amount of money can really be crushed to death just by the numbers alone.

However for Konoha... a few months of tobacco revenue is just that.

Today Konoha controls several large companies are all dominant cash cows, this amount of money is still affordable.

And... maybe before the money is out, you can earn it all back...

The banks love a very bad Konoha anyway.

The worse Konoha is, the more the banks like it.

What's more... even if the worst case scenario occurs, as long as the winner is locked in as a Konoha ninja, wouldn't the money be equivalent to not having spent it... such as the final winner being Konoha's Godaime Hokage?

Based on this, he even had a couple of very interesting plans.

This is much more interesting than blasting small countries.

Unfortunately... Sandaime and the two big brothers did not accept it.

Dead or alive, they won't accept it.

These three people did not agree, then Makoto's plan was definitely no way to carry it out.

Unless he now give the Nidaime Edo Tensei - it can't be the Shodaime either, he will be beaten by the Shodaime.

Shodaime had probably never lost this much money in his entire life.

All in all, after a good deal of talking, the last few people locked the champion's prize at one billion, with the next decreasing in order.

"But even if it's a billion, that's a high enough value, when I was younger, it was enough for everyone to fight a small war."

Sandaime's teeth still ached at the mention of the figure.

"We'll have to arrange a little more details before we can do that..."

While this was the first time in the world that there had been such a rewarding fighting tournament, it was always just that, a tournament. The crowd made up for it as quickly as you could.

It was just that Sandaime was still a bit uneasy.

That is, until Makoto added two final words.

"I think that if the seniors also go down, the scene will be troublesome and undignified... How about this, how about we lock the age of the contestants, to nineteen?"

"We have to give the younger people a chance too."

Nineteen years old?

Up to this point, the three people then did not have any dissenting views.

... ...

After finally convincing the three seniors, Makoto began his next actions.

The first thing to accomplish was not to get the four major ninja villages to agree to join this tournament, but rather, he had to get the broadcasting link done.

-At the very least, he had to sell the broadcasting rights first.

Otherwise, Sandaime would be too distressed, and I'm afraid it wouldn't be too good.

...Seriously speaking, this is considered the first real commercial sports event in the Naruto world, right?

Those big bosses who invested in the TV station, will they recognize the goods?

It is not that it can not be sold, even if it is simply to give him face, it can also be sold.

It's just that if the selling price is not good, it's not interesting...

There is really no intelligence in this regard.

Makoto thought about it, and in order to show his sincerity, he ended up personally visiting the president of a certain small TV station.

He was prepared to see his reaction so that he could have a bottom in his heart before going to negotiate with those bigwigs.

"Two billion ryo, five years of broadcasting rights, what does Your Excellency think?"

With so many people, it was naturally not possible to have just one fight, but to split it into many.

And also divided into pro tournaments and invitational tournaments and so on, a whole lot of mess.

Makoto knew that this price was actually on the low side.

But now the popularity of TV is low, the TV station earnings are actually not that high...

But he also knows very well in his heart, if this program can really make it, it is certainly the head program, even if it is just inserted a few advertisements in the future, it will be a pot of money.

With the progress of productivity, people will pay more and more attention to advertisements.

At this time, it is the time to test the courage of the president.

But who knows that he just opened his mouth, and the other party agreed to all of it.

"Hey... really don't think about it anymore?"

The president was trembling, and his eyes contained tears.

"Your Excellency, as long as you don't move my wife and children and don't destroy my foundation, you can just say a number..."

...I'm a decent person, okay! Don't make me sound like a terrorist!