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  Minato felt a growing distaween himself and Gojo Kaigetsu, a sehat they were from different eras.

  Perhaps even the closest friendships could be strained by differing perspectives. Determio maintain their bond, Minato pressed for details on Gojo's "ideas."

  "First, there's the lottery."

  "Gambling—everyone dabbles. But most people, due to financial straints or rationality, keep it under trol. Others—aren't so restrained."

  "Tsunade is—a prime example."

  Minato nodded, somewhat unfortably. "And then?"

  "We'll set the price low—ten to a hundred Ryō per ticket. The grand prize for a ten Ryō ticket will be—one million Ryō. For a hundred Ryō ticket, a tenfold return. Smaller prizes will be scaled accly."

  "With Konoha's bag, we won't just sell tickets in the vilge. We'll even add ten Ryō to the price of [Ik and include a lottery ticket with each issue, selling them throughout the Shinobi world!"

  "Excluding essential costs, we could make tens of millions of Ryō each cycle. And if we expand to the entire Shinobi world—hundreds of millions!"

  "Of course, we'll invite representatives from other nations to—withe drawings, to ensure—fairness."

  Minato felt a chill. He wasn't a gambler, but he uood its allure.

  Ten Ryō—for a ce at a million? They'd sell like—hotcakes!

  It ractically—free money. People would go—crazy for it.

  He could almost—feel the Ryō flowing into the Hokage Tower's coffers. A billion Ryō a month? It was—unimaginable.

  "And the—bonds? Stocks? Futures?"

  "Stocks and futures—they're plicated. We'll ime and—experts. ilot them. Bonds, though—war bonds."

  "Konoha en million Ryō for military procurement, to equip our Shinobi, to—secure our borders. We've already—liberated three in the Land of Snow, geing at least twenty million Ryō in—transit fees. It's a—profitable venture."

  "Before we even—start, we issue war bonds. We'll promise a—ten pert return. Minato, how many s, how mahy merts will—jump at the ce to—i? To share the—burden?"

  Minato took another sharp breath. His heart—pounded.

  Military spending was a major expense. And this—war bond scheme…

  With Konoha's strength aation, no one would doubt their ability to—repay. It ractically—free money. And if it was offered to the public…

  There might even be—scalpers, reselling the bonds at a premium.

  A bond was—a loan, backed by the vilge's—credibility. And Konoha's credit—it was—unimpeachable.

  It was—the safest iment in the Shinobi world.

  And the colteral? The Minato administration, and Konoha's—invincible military.

  Minato felt—tempted. He could—pre-order a few bonds himself.

  He suddenly uood Gojo Kaigetsu's other—ideas.

  Development bonds, stocks, and futures—they were all—simir, ways to—leverage future earnings to fund current projects, to accelerate Konoha's growth.

  "Brilliant—simply brilliant," Minato murmured.

  Shinobi relied on—physical bor, on pleting missions. They couldn't imagine—making money without—lifting a finger.

  But this—this was different.

  Of course, it required—a strong vilge.

  If Gojo Kaigetsu had suggested this earlier, Danzo and Homura would have—objected, acg him of—warm.

  Back then, a war with Kumogakure would have been—uain. War bonds would have been—worthless.

  "Kaigetsu-kun—if we issue war bonds and development bonds, how much could we—raise? What's the—purchasing power of our vilgers?"

  "Not just Konoha's vilgers, Minato," Gojo Kaigetsu corrected him. "Imagine—we decre war on Iwagakure. We sell war bonds in Sunagakure and Kumogakure. How many would buy them?"

  "And if we decre war on Kirigakure, how many in Iwagakure would buy?"

  "Perhaps—even those we're fighting would—i."

  Minato couldn't help but stand up, and start to think about tasking people to design the new bonds for Konoha.

  "Wait, if we print bonds, won't that cause problems with our paper supply?"Minato's face suddenly ged, if he remembered correctly, the various printing houses in Konoha had reported to him that the current paper produ had reached its limit, and the ption was basically in bance.

  Konoha's paper ption, pced in the Shinobi world, is definitely worthy of being number one.

  Even adding up the paper ption of the other four major tries, it is not as much as that of Konoha.

  There is a lot of produ and a lot of use, and even Konoha sometimes has a she of paper.

  In terms of paper produ, the produ tools are backward. Nowadays, the method of paper produ is still in a very primitive way, requiring printing workers to sell their blood and sweat to print it out; ordinary lumberjacks are too slow to cut down trees, and issions are required.

  The famous Shinobi cut dowo get the cost—The Shinobi world is still iraditional manual produode and has not transitioo the mae produode.

  In terms of paper ption...

  Gojo Kaigetsu wrote an article "A Vilge That Relies on Reading tthen the Vilge", although it is not as exaggerated as what is written in it, Konoha is indeed moving in that dire now.

  The per capita book ownership rate is the highest in the world, and bookstores are often overcrowded.

  All kinds of books, except for banned books like "Intimate Paradise" and "Boy Shinobi", which are still very popur, all kinds of literary works and various ninjutsu tutorial books are stantly emerging.

  This is an era of double blossoming of material and spirit!

  Taking Konoha's spiritual world as the Star Dome Railway train, the massive amount of paper is the inal stone, which stantly pushes the train to gallop...

  In addition to this, the first thing Gojo Kaigetsu did when he became an Elder Advisor was to design 'Soft white paper' that could be used to wipe the butt.

  O was unched, it led the trend.

  Rarely, even the old farts like Mitokado Homaru and Utatane Koharu, did not raise any objes to this matter. Perhaps the soft toilet paper also severely hit the weakest part of their bodies.

  In short, this paper is not enough! If we want to maintain and promote the use of paper for lottery tickets, stocks, and futures, we must expand the paper produ !

  ...

  "To implement these pns—we o expand paper produ. That's—more expenses," Minato said, his voice filled with—resignation. The more mohey made, the more they—spent.

  "And Don't worry, Minato. We might not eveo—spend anything."

  "What do you mean?"

  "Though the lottery is backed by the Hokage Tower, the drawings must be—transparent. We need—iional observers."

  "This means—there may indeed be someone who got lucky and wotery, and came to the Hokage Building with the lottery ticket to ask us for the prize!"

  "Huh? Isn't this a matter of course?"

  Minato looked fused. Winning the lottery and receiving the prize is a matter of course! I'm afraid even the Six Paths Sage would nod in approval.

  "Of course there is a problem!" Gojo Kaigetsu said as a matter of course: "We are doing this lottery busio make money, how we pay out millions or tens of millions of prizes?"

  Even if it is really necessary to accept the prize, the winner must wear a headgear a our internal staff pretend to be the winner and go on stage to accept the prize.

  "Even if a time traveler who knows the winning numbers es, he won't be able to take away the grand prize from me!"

  Gojo Kaigetsu showed a mysterious smile.

  In a er that Minato didn't know, Konan had already infiltrated the Land of Fire, and had even already entered Konoha.

  With this master paper maker here, the effid cost trol of printing paper in Konoha will be greatly improved.

  As for when the prize is drawher it is to manipute gravity and attra to ge the winning number, or Konan use paper to separate it from a distand let the person who came to cim the prize on the way.

  In short, outsiders don't want to take a single grain of rice from the Hokage Building's pocket!

  'You get small prizes, but you want big prizes? Go dream your Spring and Autumn Dream!'

  Gojo Kaigetsu has made up his mind. At least before Konoha uhe Shinobi world and everyone bees a Konoha citizen, he will not give any moo outsiders.

  Before the unification of the Shinobi world, lottery tickets only be used as a tool for the Hokage Building to collect money.

  Lottery tickets are lottery tickets—it has her past nor future.

  This kind of thing is the same as when a college student is in css. The main course is to escape first, and the elective course is to escape.

  Putting the formu otery ticket means that outsiders will definitely not be able to redeem the prize, and the vilgers will choose to redeem the prize.

  ...

  "Kaigetsu-kun, you're speaking in riddles again," Minato sighed. "So you'll rig the lottery? They're just—paying us for the—privilege?"

  "Exactly"

  "And you mean, there is o expand the paper produ line?"

  "That's right! There's no need. I have my own pns for this. Soon there will be free bor ing to our door."

  Regarding the existence of Konan, Gojo Kaigetsu chose to keep it a secret.

  Of course—After Minato knew about Konan's dangerous identity, he would iably have tue with him for a while.

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