The next day, Guan Liyuan easily boarded the ship of the Tozawa Group. After all, Guan Liyuan was the "pure person" Wei Yingying admitted. Of course, "pure people" are easy to be believed!
Guan Liyuan would not admit it. One of the reasons was that Kurama had just thrown the rebel ninja hired by the Tozawa Group off the ship...
Kurama is now in the state of the two-tailed, and his strength is comparable to that of an ordinary jonin. Some of the strongest rebel ninjas are only a few chunins, and they can't even make a splash in his hands.
That's right, the Tozawa Group, like Cardo, also hired rebel ninjas. It's not that
these dog-like big households are so stingy, but because the Water Country is still closed in name, and now what they are doing is smuggling. In order to avoid diplomatic disputes, regular ninja villages will not accept tasks from the Water Country.
And these big consortiums usually have some rebel ninjas who often cooperate.
"Fortunately, we don't stop at the Land of Lightning. We can reach the north of the Land of Taki in seven days."
"Well... so what? Why are you here? And you look as if it's your due..." Guan Liyuan looked at Bai in front of him awkwardly.
"Nothing, Lord Zabuza just asked me to be your tool." Bai said expressionlessly.
"Huh?" Guan Liyuan couldn't remember when he and Heipi had such a good relationship.
What was even more puzzling was that although Bai had a blank expression on his face, he didn't look reluctant...
Guan Liyuan actually occasionally thought about letting Bai follow him. On the one hand, he admired Bai's will, and on the other hand, it was the indescribable symptoms of a 15-year-old boy... But it was just a thought, and he never mentioned it to Bai or Zabuza!
The reason is very simple. Although Guan Liyuan didn't understand or agree with Bai's idea of living completely for others, Bai was also carrying out her own will, which was also what Guan Liyuan admired about her...
A ninja without her own will... No, a person without her own will is really just a "tool"!
So in Guan Liyuan's view, twisting her will and getting a "vase" was meaningless.
But... Guan Liyuan was a little confused about the current situation.
"I don't need any 'tools', but a helper with his own judgment." Guan Liyuan said.
"My own... judgment?" Bai was a little unfamiliar with this.
"That's right, you don't live for anyone... Although being needed by others can make your life more meaningful, you can also change your way."
"Change your way? Aren't all ninjas 'tools'?"
"Then change your career to become a hero!" Guan Liyuan looked like this matter was easy to solve.
"Hero? I don't believe in heroes."
"Then have you ever expected a hero?"
Expected... a hero?
Bai's eyes were a little erratic, and she couldn't help but think of some things that she usually forced herself not to think about...
her mother who was beaten to death with sticks and farm tools, herself surrounded by vicious villagers, and bloody corpses all over the ground...
Have you ever expected a hero?
"Being 'expected' by others sounds more noble than being 'needed' by others, right?"
Bai didn't fully understand Guan Liyuan's words, but at this moment she could understand the meaning.
"Is what you said before true?" Bai suddenly asked.
"Before? What before?" Guan Liyuan didn't react for a moment.
Seeing Bai staring at him motionlessly, he remembered that it should be those words "The war in the ninja world is caused by the imbalance of military resources and material resources", right?
Guan Liyuan said after careful consideration: "...I do think so, but there may be some omissions. But look at this large triangular sailboat. Have you seen such a ship on your way to the Land of Waves?"
Guan Liyuan's words were a little jumpy. Bai looked around after hearing this. This wave of merchant ships of the Tozawa Group was mainly a three-masted triangular sailboat. The oblique triangular sail and the stern rudder allowed the triangular sailboat to sail against the wind without relying on human paddling. Although it is not
as advanced as the more advanced steamships, it is much more advanced than those human-powered ships in the Land of Waves.
"Perhaps the richer Land of Fire has more advanced ships. If everyone uses these advanced ships, how much manpower can be saved? The same is true for other industries... How many times more wealth can be created by the saved manpower? When the price of ninjas as military resources increases, the conflicts between the ninja groups will naturally ease. As long as the speed of this 'price increase' continues and is faster than the increase in the number of ninjas, peace can continue." Guan Liyuan said.
Bai was not very used to Guan Liyuan's use of theories full of the smell of money to explain how to ease conflicts...
No matter how "greedy" Zabuza is, Bai at least knows that Zabuza is laying the foundation for the power of the Hidden Mist Village, and he doesn't think Guan Liyuan is as greedy as he said.
But this does not prevent Bai from understanding some of Guan Liyuan's meaning...
In fact, Guan Liyuan is also very curious about the development of material civilization in the "Naruto World". In some places, the shadow of electrical civilization can be seen, while in some places, it is still slash-and-burn farming?
But I understood it after I thought about it, because there is no intention to enter the information civilization. In this case, the most effective way for more advanced material civilization to spread to the backward is force! However,
in the world of Naruto, the force of material civilization is weak. The strength of ninjas in force makes material civilization lack the foundation to develop firearms...
If they have the skills to make gunpowder, can't they just hire two ninjas?
On the one hand, the force of ninjas is indeed more cost-effective than the material civilization developing its own weapons. On the other hand, it also suppresses the development of the force of material civilization...
Therefore, the final result is that the advancement of material civilization has little to do with the level of force. If a real fight breaks out, it still depends on ninjas! So in terms of material civilization, this kind of development split has been created.
After all, if a high-productivity civilization cannot plunder a low-productivity civilization by force, the low-productivity civilization may not be willing to accept it actively. There are too many such examples in modern times before Guan Liyuan traveled through time. Without strong ships and artillery, would the feudal kingdoms take the initiative to reform?
In the world of Naruto, high productivity does not mean high military power. As long as there is a strong ninja village, agricultural civilization can still crush industrial civilization. Therefore, sometimes civilizations with backward productivity will push high-productivity civilizations backward, causing productivity to regress...
Moreover, from the way Nagato uses the Samsara Eye to control the Six Paths Avatar, and the fact that the major ninja villages must rely on spiritual ninjas for communication, it is very difficult for various information waves to spread under the rules of the Naruto world, and it is probably not equipped with the foundation for entering information civilization.
Therefore, Guan Liyuan does not know how the material civilization of the Naruto world can be further developed...
But Guan Liyuan does not need to know, because from the current situation, as long as the productivity of the backward areas of the Naruto world is brought closer to that of the advanced areas... The room for improvement is already very objective, and peace can be maintained for at least decades or even hundreds of years!
"I understand, Lord Liyuan, please allow me to do your work in the future... No, to follow in your footsteps!" Bai said firmly.
"With pleasure."
Seeing Bai find a new goal in life, Guan Liyuan was also very relieved.
But after a while, Guan Liyuan found that Bai immediately took a small notebook and wandered around the boat, writing down something from time to time, and asking people on the boat from time to time...
[Does this guy really understand? What we want to promote is ideas rather than specific technologies! Otherwise, how much can you remember by just writing down? 】Guan Liyuan complained in his heart, but he did not discourage her enthusiasm.
Time went back to the night before. After Guan Liyuan rested, Bai also took a hot spring bath. When he was about to take over Zabuza's guard in the lobby, Zabuza talked about letting her follow Guan Liyuan...
At first Bai refused, but in fact Zabuza had seen before that Bai was interested in Guan Liyuan's words when she was in the Land of Waves, but he suppressed this interest because he wanted to continue to be his own tool.
Zabuza did not persuade her, but just said that he would give her tool to Guan Liyuan...
Zabuza couldn't figure out what he was thinking at the time? To this day, he still doubts whether he was under an illusion at the time. Why did he give up such a useful tool?
Could it be... I am thinking about Bai?
Impossible, absolutely impossible! Well, it must be that kid who cast an illusion on me at the time! Forget it, let's not bother with him for now... Zabuza convinced himself.