About Money
Three days later, at Lin Ke's home.
[Are you Kado, who died in the Land of Waves?]
[I think I am.]
After Lin Ke confirmed with this "Kado who died in the Land of Waves," he used the Summoning Jutsu's inability to lie and abruptly asked: [Where are the money and assets you hid before you died?]
[In the basement of the villa near the Redwood Forest in the Land of Waves.]
By the time Kado realized it, his mind had automatically blurted out the location. [You little brat—]
Lin Ke skillfully blacklisted the guy and then wrote down the address in code in his notebook.
Anyway, the dead have no use for money. He specifically looked for notorious merchants who died tragically in newspapers and magazines. He used the broadcast of their place of death + name to filter out ordinary spirits who came to him, and used the characteristics of the Summoning Jutsu to trick them. If he succeeded, he would profit.
If he didn't succeed, it didn't matter. Not being easily tricked was also a kind of screening.
He certainly didn't intend to really fulfill the wishes of these villainous rich merchants. It wasn't a transaction at all; it should be called the circulation of hidden assets.
[That should be enough,] Lin Ke thought, looking at the dozens of place names in his notebook. From small countries like the Land of Waves, the Land of Rivers, and the Land of Rain, to large countries like the Land of Lightning, the Land of Earth, and the Land of Fire, the coverage was quite comprehensive.
The closest one, hmm, should be Tanzaku Street. A merchant who died at the hands of a ninja from the Land of Rain had deposited an anonymous sum of gambling money in a casino on Tanzaku Street. As long as the corresponding code was provided, it could be retrieved. It was originally intended as a birthday gift for his lover, but he died not long after depositing it.
There were 500,000 ryo inside, not much, but the difficulty of obtaining it was low.
There were several similar cases, but the troublesome problem was that not all the money could be used. This involved a huge issue—
The difference in currencies.
The Land of Fire has its own currency, which is paper money and coins with the Konoha symbol on them. It can circulate in the surrounding countries and is the Land of Fire Bank Note issued by the Land of Fire Bank. Konoha Village, as the center of the Land of Fire and a ninja village, anchors the value of the currency.
Because in order to place a request in Konoha Village, you need to use the currency of the Land of Fire. In this way, the currency of the great power has an anchor. No matter how much it is issued, it can eventually be turned into concrete objects owned through the labor of ninjas.
Similarly, other countries all have their own currencies, with their own ninja villages as anchors.
Ninjas perform tasks, create value, and money flows into the hands of ninjas through tasks. The precarious ninjas spend money lavishly, promoting the circulation and operation of the social economy.
For the countries in the Naruto World, ninjas are the undisputed core.
Even if the ninja system is strict and inhumane, the status of ninjas is here. If there is a conflict or disagreement, the ninja village, rather than the Daimyo or dignitaries and ministers, can actually make decisions.
At the First Kage Summit, the First Hokage, who had just established the village, said: "You are the leaders of the five great powers."
This is not an exaggeration; ninjas themselves have such a status.
The nominal equality between ninja villages and Daimyo, decided by Senju Hashirama at that time, was only nominal.
Returning to the currency, the difference in currencies between countries leads to the fact that not only can the currency not circulate freely, but even tasks cannot be transferred.
Underground Money Exchanges not only provide rewards for certain people, but also have the function of exchanging money.
That's why it's called "Money Exchange."
Not every country has a ninja village, and not every ninja village has a certain value. Therefore, there are situations where small countries use the currency of large countries, and small countries lack resources, causing no ninjas to be willing to stay.
Once there is no currency of their own, or the issuance of currency cannot be circulated with ninjas as the anchor, then the situation of the Land of Waves will occur.
No money, no ninjas, no ninjas, can be easily bullied and controlled.
In order not to be bullied and controlled, and to form their own cycle, there is Kakashi's saying that "most countries have their own ninja villages, large or small."
Derived from this, different currencies are issued using ninja villages as anchors—
Various small countries are precarious, and the types of currencies are simply impossible to count. Even if they need to be exchanged for the currency of a large country abroad, they still need to use their own country's currency when they return home.
Otherwise, how can you issue tasks to the ninjas of your own country? You can't ask ninja villages in other countries to do production and life tasks such as cultivating land, planting fields, harvesting, and driving away beasts, right?
The money spent on cross-border missions is much higher than that of an ordinary low-level production mission, which is completely cost-effective.
Lin Ke used to live in Konoha Village and consume in Konoha Village. The farthest he had been was the Land of Wind, and that was for a mission. He didn't have time to play or consume, so naturally he didn't need the currency of the Land of Wind.
The situation in the Land of Rivers is special. Due to internal strife + low national credibility, the currency of the Land of Fire is more useful there than the local currency.
It's like many countries on Earth in his previous life could use US dollars.
Now he has information in his hands from all over the world. The currency of large countries is easy to handle; just exchange it through the Money Exchange. Even if a handling fee is charged, it's not much. He can completely accept the free money.
The money from some small countries would require a headache to figure out how to cash out. If absolutely necessary, he'd just use it as material for the Body Binding Technique.
There was also a lot of defunct money from countries that had been destroyed. He wouldn't even use it to wipe his ass, it was no different from fake money and couldn't be used for the Body Binding Technique at all.
I wonder if the Body Binding Technique would still recognize usable currency if the country suddenly went bankrupt?
Lin Ke seriously pondered this. It really was a good question. Based on his understanding of his own Ninjutsu, there was a high probability that if he didn't know the country had been destroyed, it would work, but if he did know, it would probably be useless.
Forget it, forget it, I'll choose a target in Tanzaku Street for the next mission, it's worth at least 500,000.
He circled this information, stuffed the notebook into his Waist Pouch, and then opened the Scroll in front of him, reading it with a heavy expression.
The Flying Thunder God Technique was much more difficult than he had imagined.
So difficult that he couldn't understand it at all.
Like most people's first thought when encountering this secret technique, the complexity inside made it impossible to learn. What he was reading now was just one of the notes and materials left by the Second Hokage about the development process of the technique.
There was a whole box of similar Scrolls, with only one Scroll containing the real secret technique, but since he couldn't even understand it, he could only slowly chew on the development materials.
This was much more difficult than the Medical Ninjutsu materials. A lot of the Medical Ninjutsu materials contained information about human anatomy and the like, which he had been exposed to in his previous life, but the Flying Thunder God Technique involved all sorts of unfamiliar tadpole characters and a large amount of unprecedented knowledge.
Learning it was like torturing himself.
Maybe I should consider Plan B.
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