Bai Yun Chapter 34: The 28th Law of Konoha Village
Walking through the streets of Konoha Village, the village is quiet and serene at this time.
The last enemy, Yunyin Village, also withdrew from the war. So far, Konoha Village has no foreign troubles.
There are many people on the streets in the evening, three or two people wandering aimlessly, walking to restaurants with their shoulders hooked, young men and women go shopping together...
Retired ninjas who lost their legs were in a daze by the lake, seven or eight-year-old children rushed to deliver goods to businesses, and a sad woman in a black suit was carrying her child and didn't know where to go...
Suddenly, a three-person Uchiha garrison team walked across the street, and the sound on the street suddenly became much quieter.
The three Uchiha ninjas also discovered this phenomenon, but they looked proud and raised their heads even higher.
Zhishui frowned, knowing that this was wrong, but he didn't know how to stop it.
His identity is an ordinary Konoha ninja on the surface, and a member of the Anbu secretly, no matter which identity he has, there is no reason to take action.
Finally, Zhishui looked at Duanmu and said, "Senior Duanmu..."
Duanmu knew what Zhishui was going to say, and said aloud: "Wait, let's go to the tavern. Go to the tavern and find a booth to have a good chat."
Same said: "What about the tail behind me?"
Duanmu said:
"It should be the tail that came with Zhishui. You all have to be careful with Danzo, he dare not do anything to me, but he can do anything to you. If there is any situation, let me know as soon as possible. "
Duanmu looked at the three root ninjas who were following in the dark. The root ninja and Duanmu faced each other. Knowing that they were exposed, they immediately escaped.
Thinking about it, Duanmu continued: "Similar, let Shoujiu organize some people tomorrow, check the roots around us, and let them be honest."
Poor Tetsuyu has now become a thug for the organization, moving wherever it needs to be.
The three of them walked towards a pub together.
Along the way, they encountered several conflicts between the Uchiha garrison and the villagers. Duanmu didn't return to the village for a year. He didn't expect that the villagers' resentment towards the Uchiha clan had become so heavy.
It was so heavy that the three of them could hear it, and whenever the Uchiha garrison appeared, vicious curses would always follow.
No one can maintain a good law enforcement attitude in this situation, and the attitude of the Uchiha garrison is getting worse and worse.
Seeing three Joinin walking together, one of them belonged to their Uchiha clan, the guards deliberately avoided the three of them, not wanting to cause trouble.
It wasn't a pleasant journey, but fortunately, Konoha Village was not big, and they quickly arrived at the tavern.
In the cold winter and twelfth lunar month, a pot of hot wine comes up, and there are three or five side dishes.
The warm interior dissipated the cold air, sipping a sip of hot wine, and taking two bites of side dishes. Duanmu and Leitong have not been so comfortable for a long time.
Because of Uchiha's identity, Shishui has been confined to the village, so unlike Duanmu and Lei Tong, he can experience the enjoyment of the moment.
He just stopped talking.
After a few glasses of wine, Duanmu said:
"Shishui, Uchiha's business, one is that the village needs to make changes, and the other is that Uchiha himself needs to make changes."
"Today, let's talk about the changes that the village needs to make. If the village doesn't make changes, then all Uchiha's actions are meaningless."
"Similar, let's talk about it first. The data I mentioned earlier should be almost sorted, right?"
Similarly nodded, put down the wine glass, took out a scroll from the ninja bag, unfolded it, looked at the scroll, and said:
"According to your request, Duanmu, I have made statistics on some data of Konoha Village."
"The current population of Konoha Village is 100,000 people and about 3,110 households. Among them, the number of ninjas peaked at 20,000 people."
Similarly looked up and said:
"Take the data before the start of Ninja War as an example, Duanmu, you are right, this is the first 28 rule of Konoha Village: the ratio of the number of ninjas to civilians in Konoha Village is close to two to eight ."
"According to the archives of the Ministry of Interior of Konoha Village, 20,000 ninjas and their families hold 80% of Konoha Village's wealth."
"This is the second 28 rule of Konoha Village."
Zhi Shui has been frowning, wondering what Duanmu and Lei Tong are doing.
Same goes on to say:
"At the peak of Konoha, there were 20,000 ninjas. I believe that in five or ten years, the number of ninjas in Konoha Village will return to this level."
"Of the 20,000 ninjas, 4,000 are ninjas and 16,000 are civilians."
"This is Konoha Village's third law of twenty-eight: the ratio of ninja ninjas to civilian ninjas is two to eight."
Duanmu nodded, as he guessed.
Similarly according to the data on the scroll, continue to say:
"As for the wealth of ninjas, it also follows Duanmu's law of 28, but it's the other way around."
"Ninja ninja, who account for 20% of the number of ninjas, own 80% of the total wealth of Konoha Village."
"The civilian ninja, who account for 80% of the number of ninjas, only own 20% of the total wealth!"
"This is Konoha's fourth law of twenty-eight."
Shishui felt shocked for a while. Is the gap between the ninja and the commoners so obvious?
He is a member of the wealthy Uchiha clan, and he has never felt deeply about this. He always thought that all ninjas were similar to him.
Same goes on to say:
"There is an even more terrifying fifth law of twenty-eight!"
"The quest released by the village, after the ninja completes the quest, the village will take 11%... No, it's already 12% tax."
"For the task issued by the client, the village takes 30% of the commission, plus 12% of the personal income tax from the remaining 70%, which is a total of 38.4% of the tax."
"Eighty percent of the annual financial revenue of Konoha Village comes from the tax collected after the ninjas do their missions!"
"The remaining 20% is the business tax, business tax, land tax, etc. of the entire village."
"This is Konoha's fifth law of twenty-eight!"
"This most terrifying law of twenty-eight directly caused us ninjas to be born and die, but their lives were not very good."
Duanmu took a sip of sake and sighed heavily.
It's the same everywhere, the largest number of ordinary people, but only a few resources. The top floor with a small number of people occupies the vast majority of resources. The statistical rule of sociology discovered by Pareto is always two to eight.
He and Shishui said:
"Shishui, no matter how hard you Uchiha clan try, you won't let the people of Konoha Village have a good impression of you."
"Because everyone's life is very hard, this kind of hardship and anger of the whole village needs an outlet."
"This outlet happens to be your Uchiha clan."
"No, it's not 'just right', it was chosen artificially by the top to be your Uchiha clan."
"Otherwise, I can't explain why the Uchiha clan is being targeted by high-level officials and other ninjas everywhere."
"If you don't do this villain, who will be the villain? The Sarutobi clan? Or the Nara clan?"
"Actually, did you Uchiha clan really do any wicked things?"
"No, not really. It's a structural problem that caused the villagers' anger."
Zhi Shui remained silent. This was the first time he thought about these issues.
Duanmu continued:
"The law of twenty-eight, also known as the law of the critical minority, also known as the law of the unimportant majority, also known as the principle of imbalance."
"The ninja is the critical minority, and the commoners are the unimportant majority."
“Wealth is greedy, and so are those who possess it. Driven by greed, wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few.”
"Ultimately, in most organizations, this 28 rule will form."
"The five 28 laws of Konoha determine that Konoha's distribution system is extremely unreasonable."
"The ninja who own 80% of the wealth, but only pay 20% of the tax."
"The post-war construction of Konoha requires money and resources. The mission rewards in the war have not been fulfilled until now."
"Today, we just passed a proposal to increase Ninja's personal income tax by 1 percentage point."
"However, during the entire Shangnin class meeting, did any proposals for business tax, land tax, etc. come up?"
"Not at all!"
"Could it be that the senior executives of Konoha don't know about commercial and local taxes, can they effectively solve the current financial difficulties?"
"They know, they know better than we do!"
"Just because the ninjas have been occupying Konoha's authority, they won't make policies against them."
"There is only one voice in the top of Konoha, and that is the voice of the ninja."
Duanmu recalls the memory of his previous life, how much this resembles the Ming Dynasty when Chongzhen was hanged.
The gentry controlled the court and did not allow the levy of business taxes, saying it was shameful to compete with the people for profits, so they could collect taxes on the worst farmers.
When paying taxes, the gentry all shouted that they were poor, and they couldn't get two hundred taels. Houjin's knife rests on his neck, is 20 million taels enough? not enough? Give me a chance, I can still come up with 20 million taels!
At this time, Lei Tong spoke again:
"Actually, when the second-generation Hokage-sama was in power, he was already acutely aware of this problem."
"At that time, the largest ninja clan in Konoha Village was the Qianshou clan. During the 20 years of the second generation of Lord's reign, the proportion of the wealth of the thousand-handed clan has been continuously weakened."
"The Senju clan began to intermarry with other ninjas or commoners, and the second generation did not require that the descendants of Qianshou must be surnamed Qianshou. Therefore, the number of the Senju clan is constantly decreasing."
"At the same time, the huge wealth of the Qianshou family was also distributed through this frequent intermarriage."
"This is definitely the right attempt."
"At the end of the second generation's reign, Konoha was at its most brilliant."
"The genius of Konoha is endless, Konoha Baiya, Sannin, Kato Dan, etc., are all shadow-level powerhouses who grew up at that time."
"But..."
Duanmu knew that it was hard to say anything about the same, so he took over the conversation and said:
"However, after the third generation came to power, this good form came to an abrupt end."
"The ninja tribe united tightly around Sandaimu, forming the so-called 'Yu Liujia'."
"All resources are tilted towards Yuliujia."
"In the past few decades, not only has there been only one shadow-level powerhouse in the fourth generation, but also Konoha Baiya committed suicide, Kato died, and even Sannin is not involved in village affairs now."
"In addition to the shadow ninja, Konoha's overall strength is also rapidly declining."
"In the Second Ninja World War, although the second generation died, Konoha never let others hit the entrance of the village."
"In the third Ninja World War, Konoha became more and more difficult to fight. Not only was he beaten to the entrance of the village by Shayin Village, but he also confronted Yunyin Village, a Ninja village, at the border for many years."
"All in all, due to the uneven distribution of wealth and the solidification of classes, Konoha Village is dead and has lost its vitality, and its overall strength is also rapidly declining."
"If you want to solve these problems, you need to fundamentally solve the distribution model."
"We want to carry out a revolution, not writing articles, not painting and embroidering, not so elegant, so calm, so gentle, courteous and thrifty."
"Inviting guests to dinner should not make the ninja spit out interests that do not belong to them."
"Next, there may be a short-term terrorist phenomenon, otherwise, the activities of the ninja must not be suppressed."
"Several ninjas had to be knocked to the ground, even with their feet."
"You must overcorrect, but you can't correct it!"
Zhi Shui and Lei Tong's eyes were filled with agitated light, and they were full of energy.
Duanmu continued to speak:
"Shishui, I will tell Sandaimu that I will transfer you to the office of the Shangnin class. Like Lei, I will be in charge of some things in the Shangnin class."
"Our ultimate goal is to make the distribution of Konoha a little fairer."
"Uchiha's predicament is largely due to the hostility in the village."
"Eighty percent of people have a bad life, so how can they not be hostile."
"We also want to prevent your Uchiha clan from becoming an outlet for that wrath."
Zhi Shui nodded, he has gained a lot today and said:
"Then please bear with Duanmu seniors and Leitong seniors!"
"I thought that ninja affairs should be solved in the way of ninjas. Fighting and death are the ultimate destination of ninjas. I didn't expect that there are so many complicated reasons and laws for ninja affairs."
Duanmu said with a smile: "This is also the reason why the ninja can stabilize us. They have a long history, they have seen a lot of things, and they have summed up a lot of effective rules."
Finally, Duanmu and the two said:
"Similar, Shishui, in the days to come, you should pay attention to one thing."
Lei Tong and Zhi Shui both straightened up and listened carefully.
Duanmu said:
"The breakthrough of the Yuliu clan lies in the Nara clan."
"Nara Shikama died on the battlefield of the fog ninja, Nara Shikisa died on the cloud ninja battlefield, and most of the elites of the Nara clan died along with their two chiefs."
"The Nara family is at its weakest, and the old Nara Masajo will not make any waves."
"This is a rare opportunity for decades. We should take the Nara clan as a guide, and gradually disintegrate, no, if we do it properly, we can even disintegrate the power of the six families in a very short period of time. "
The day after he became the monitor of the Shangnin class, Duanmu went to the second floor of the Hokage Building.
There is an office here, which belongs to Duanmu.
The office of the Shangnin class is located here, and Duanmu also works here.
While passing through the aisle on the second floor, Duanmu found that Nara Shikahisa's photo had also been hung on the wall.
Oh, it's really fast.
I hope Nara Shikamaru doesn't have a chance to hang on the wall. I hope that when Nara Shikamaru grows up, the status of the Nara family has been matched with wealth.
After entering the office, Duanmu found that Duantong had already arrived.
With Lei, there were two other young men, wearing Chunin vests.
Sit behind his desk and listen to Duan Tong say:
"Duanmu, these are two young men from my former team, Izumo Shenyue and Gang Zitie."
"I recommend the two of them to join the Shangninban office as well."
Isn't this the gatekeeper duo after Konoha?
Duanmu was overjoyed and said:
"This is great! With the addition of two Wolong and Fengchu, our Ninja class office is even more powerful!"
The two newcomers were a little embarrassed. They didn't know what the squad leader was talking about, but they felt the joy of the squad leader.