The next morning, Ming Jing got up early. After washing up, he took Qingyan and Shang to the Daming Mansion to meet the Dai Ming. The Dai Ming of the Land of Fire did not let Ming Jing wait for long, and it took about a stick of incense to invite Ming Jing in.
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"Good morning, Mr. Ming Jing! By the way, sir, have you had breakfast? Do you want some?" The name was sitting in the room with several side dishes on the low table in front of him. When he saw Ming Jing, he asked happily
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"Thank you so much, I've already eaten." Ming Jing bowed his hands and said without saying a word.
"Oh oh oh, I almost forgot, the Kurama clan is the best at cooking. Okay! Sir, please sit down for a while, I'll be ready." At this point, the daimyo picked up the bowl and swallowed the porridge in a few mouthfuls.
Then he waved to the maid and took away his breakfast.
"Huh... It's hard to eat so much in one bite! Oh ho ho ho..." the daimyo unfolded his fan and said with a smile.
"Well... let's get to the point quickly!... How much budget has the Daimyo made for disaster relief?" Ming Jing sighed and asked directly.
"We didn't make a budget!" the daimyo said seriously, "after all, there is no money left in the treasury."
Ming Jing frowned. If we don’t have a budget, how can we help with the wool disaster? Does the Daimyo think that food and other things fall from the sky? He couldn’t help but ask: "Can you transfer the budget for other projects first and use it first?"
What about disaster relief?”
"No!" The daimyo shook his head and said, "Because the fee is for the Leaf Village!"
Ming Jing stared at the daimyo, and when he saw that the other person did not dodge, he felt helpless. He was from Konoha Village. In theory, Konoha Village was also his backing. How could he tear down his own backing just after he took office?
Therefore, Ming Jing thought for a while and said: "In this case, please allow me to raise funds for disaster relief on my own!"
"Oh? You can raise funds on your own... That's fine! But the current situation in the disaster area is not optimistic. I can only give Mr. Ming Jing three days to raise funds!" The daimyo narrowed his eyes and thought of provoking a fight between Ming Jing and the Leaf Village.
It’s a relationship! I didn’t expect that the other party wouldn’t fall for it, but it doesn’t matter, there’s still enough time!
"Three days are enough, thank you so much, Daimyo!" Mingjing saluted slightly and then said: "The current situation in the disaster area requires a force to maintain order. Does Daimyo have a suitable team here?"
"Team! What else do we need the troops for when we have Konoha Village?" the daimyo asked.
"I remember that there is a team to maintain law and order in the country! Please mobilize some of them to me," Ming Jing said.
"Oh, sir, what you are talking about is inspections! This is no problem, but there are not many inspections in the Fire Country, so I'm afraid we won't be able to mobilize too many!" the daimyo said with some embarrassment.
"It doesn't need to be many, four hundred people are enough." Ming Jing said confidently.
When the lord heard this, he clapped his hands happily: "That's no problem. I will gather the number of people within three days, and then I will set off with my husband."
"This couldn't be better." Ming Jing nodded, this trip was finally not in vain.
On the way back to his residence, Ming Jing said to him: "Xiao Shang, I will give you a task. Before the morning, collect the list of merchants in the royal capital who have trade relations with the Kingdom of Grass, the Kingdom of Rain, the Kingdom of River, and the Kingdom of Wind.
Me, I want to know their main business, net worth, age, and personality."
"Yes, Master!" Shang nodded fiercely, and then left quickly. The four people on the left, top, bottom, left and right were talents trained by the family as ninjas, so it was easy to collect such simple information.
Then, Ming Jing ordered Qing Yan behind him: "After we go back, prepare the invitations and entertain these people tomorrow night. By the way, contact the newspaper in the capital, we will make big news tomorrow."
"Tomorrow?" Qingyan asked with some worry: "Master, the daimyo only gave us three days. If the banquet is arranged for tomorrow, we will have no room to deal with those businessmen."
"We had no room for maneuver from the beginning." Ming Jing shook his head. If that didn't work, he wouldn't mind using illusions to seduce him.
When the two returned to their residence, Asma came over and asked how the situation was. Ming Jing sighed and told him what he had experienced and his plans.
Asuma frowned and said, "The victims are in difficult conditions now. You have to temporarily divert the funds allocated to Konoha for disaster relief. The Third Hokage should understand!"
"Konoha Village is not just for the Third Hokage, but also for villagers like you and me. Some people may not be so big-hearted and compassionate." Ming Jing explained: "And you have to fight to misappropriate Konoha's money.
, to persuade businessmen to donate money, you have to argue. I would rather argue with businessmen than let myself be publicized as a traitor to Konoha by people with ulterior motives."
"Hey, hey, what Mingjing said is a bit too much, isn't it? How can there be such a person in Konoha Village?" Asuma said with some dissatisfaction.
"So, how does the captain plan to explain to me about Uzumaki Naruto?" Ming Jing smiled slightly, turned around and left after saying this.
After lunch, he walked in with a roll of information, handed it to Ming Jing and said: "Young Master, there are a total of thirty merchants in the royal capital doing business with the Kingdom of Grass, the Kingdom of Rain, the Kingdom of River, and the Kingdom of Wind.
Seven people, two of them are worth over 100 million, 11 are worth tens of millions, and the rest are worth millions."
"Thank you for your hard work, let's go down and rest!" Ming took the information and opened it to read. The two men worth over 100 million are named Masao Kosaka and Yasu Fukuda. Masao Kosaka is engaged in mining and has multiple mines in the Kingdom of Wind. Yasu Fukuda is engaged in mining.
Transportation industry, has its own port in the River Country.
"Mining and transportation industries, God is helping me!" Ming Jing breathed a sigh of relief. These two guys will be the focus of attention tomorrow. The remaining small fish must not be let go, and they can be knocked as many as they can.
"Monthly interest rate, what is the price of food outside now?" Ming Jing put down the information in his hand and asked.
"The price of a pound of rice today is 1.5 yuan, which is 0.1 yuan higher than yesterday." Yuexi replied.
If the disaster-stricken population is calculated as 50,000 people, the monthly ration for an adult is about 18 kilograms. If the disaster area suffers a little hardship, even if it is 15 kilograms per month, the monthly ration for 50,000 people will be 1,125,000 yuan.
However, Mingjing's plan cannot be completed within one month. He conservatively estimated that it would take five months. In other words, the rations alone would cost at least 5.62 million yuan, not counting shipping costs. If additional
Oil, salt, vegetables and meat, medicines, temporary tents, etc., it is conservatively estimated to cost 60 million yuan! This is assuming that the price of food does not increase.
Some young men in the Leaf Village may be angry. The cost of preparing clothes for Hinata is almost one-fifth of that. The Kurama clan is so stingy and cold-blooded in order to provide disaster relief.
In fact, with the financial resources of the Kurama clan, it is not that they cannot afford this amount. But there is a reason why Ming Jing did not do this. People are lazy. This time the Kurama clan is fully responsible, but what about next time? Later in Shippuden
Even if the Kurama clan's wealth multiplied by ten could not compensate for the damage caused by that big tree!
Moreover, there is an article called "Zigong redeems people" by flower growers, which comes from "Lu Shi Chun Qiu - Xian Shi Lan - Cha Wei Pian".
That is to say, there is a law in the State of Lu. People from the State of Lu have become slaves abroad. If someone can redeem them, they can go to the national treasury to reimburse the ransom. Once, Zigong (Duanmuci), a disciple of Confucius, redeemed a person from the State of Lu abroad and returned home.
Later, he refused to accept the state compensation. When Confucius found out, he said: "Zigong did something wrong. From now on, the people of Lu will not redeem slaves from other countries."
The meaning of the saint is very simple. A person who has done a good deed with his own money should be regarded as a moral model, but the mistake is that this person has elevated the moral standards that everyone can achieve to a height that is difficult for most people to reach.
This makes many people shy away from charity, and such unnatural and rebellious morality is the most evil thing in the world.
Therefore, different perspectives lead to different ways of dealing with problems.