Uchiha Tenxiu developed himself.
He didn't forget the people around him.
After all.
First the elites, then the next generation of elites!
Uchiha Tenxiu was a man of his word!
Uchiha Tenxiu not only taught his subordinates, who had rallied around him, what he had learned from the Uchiha Clan's elite training, but also, after experiencing the benefits of special cultivation elixirs during his elite training, he felt that these elixirs greatly enhanced his own abilities.
He couldn't monopolize it.
Although his subordinates couldn't get free elixirs, they could still purchase them with their own family's funds.
As for whether their families were willing to pay for their children, it goes without saying that no one doesn't want their child to become stronger. Even after the Uchiha Clan implemented the Elite Ninja plan, other clan members who weren't selected for the plan still spent large amounts of money to buy elixirs to strengthen their Ninja path.
Even those who were truly broke.
Uchiha Tenxiu would help them.
Of course, not by directly giving money.
But through cooperation.
Among them.
This is where Uchiha Tenxiu's small inventions come into play. After communicating with the parents of his companions, he imparted his knowledge to them in the form of shares. With the Seventh Elder as his backer, and Uchiha Tenxiu's reputation for precocious talent, there were no unexpected issues.
His companions all received financial support from their parents.
By now, his companions have generally reached the Genin stage, able to skillfully use the Three Body Technique and several low-level Ninjutsu. Next, they will continuously train their Chakra control and advance towards becoming Elite Genin.
And the profit share from those small inventions is currently Uchiha Tenxiu's best source of proof for saving money!
As for the first two inventions, the granary storage technology brought him an elite Ninja training spot, and so on, not to mention.
The remaining alcohol production.
Although he earned a huge sum of money, Uchiha Tenxiu never dared to take possession of it due to the immense amount.
He only asked Uchiha Raimon to hide it for him.
After all, several hundred million Ryo in his home would be too conspicuous; it was better to hide it first.
Speaking of alcohol sales, after entrusting this to the Seventh Elder Uchiha Raimon, both parties agreed that half, or five percent, of the profit would belong to Uchiha Tenxiu himself.
Knowing it would sell well, Uchiha Tenxiu didn't demand too much and agreed on the sales method.
Alcohol, as a crucial strategic material refined from grain, which is itself a necessity, can not only be used as a raw material to prepare various alcoholic beverages but also has a powerful sterilizing and disinfecting effect on external wounds in the medical field.
Don't underestimate this point.
Not to mention the injuries between Ninja, such as abrasions, burns from Ninjutsu, and electrical injuries. Basically, ordinary people struck by Ninjutsu would die or be crippled.
Generally, being hit by Ninjutsu meant either instant death or a slow, agonizing wait for death.
In an era where Medical Ninjutsu was not yet widespread, only a few people could master it, and even then, not very proficiently.
Even if the internal injuries of these injured Ninja were not severe, external infections were quite lethal.
The herbal knowledge that could be used was also dependent on repeated experience, lacking a definitive solution.
Some would unknowingly find their condition worsening, slowly transforming from minor injuries to severe ones that meant a direct wait for death.
Because not everyone has the Sharingan to see viruses constantly eroding their lives.
But alcohol can change this.
It directly acts on all external bacteria and viruses.
It is a very important strategic material.
Therefore, from the beginning, Elder Raimon was asked to handle it cautiously and absolutely not to leak it, especially to people like Uchiha Ming. Uchiha Raimon agreed wholeheartedly, as this Uchiha Ming was precisely one of the elders who supported Uchiha Kin, and he guaranteed not to give out any information.
As soon as Uchiha Tenxiu created this item, Uchiha Raimon began producing it continuously. After all, the external price of grain was already as low as twenty Ryo per jin, which was the price of a bowl of ramen in Konoha. Even though Konoha's prices were high, it was too worthless. The Uchiha Clan had many estates, and in the past, grain would just rot and mold.
But now, with the advent of alcohol, besides keeping some for their own use and for the next year's grain, the rest can be made into alcohol. Not only can various ratios be developed to make different alcoholic beverages to sell within the Land of Fire for profit.
It can also be made into alcohol, a strategic material, specifically sold to high-ranking officials, nobles, wealthy merchants, and samurai families.
Even selling a small amount would be enough to make a fortune!
After all, these social strata control vast wealth, and they value their lives immensely.
Facing something that could save their lives, they would definitely buy and keep it, even if it cost a fortune.
In response, Uchiha Tenxiu directly set a terrifying price of ten thousand Ryo.
And facing the selling price Uchiha Tenxiu gave at the time, Uchiha Raimon was utterly stunned, at one point thinking Uchiha Tenxiu had gone mad.
At that time.
Uchiha Raimon loudly exclaimed, "Ten thousand Ryo for a bottle of alcohol, are those Daimyo idiots? How could they possibly buy it!"
But facts proved Uchiha Tenxiu correct.
Is a mere ten thousand Ryo per bottle worth hesitating over?
Hesitation for even a second would be an insult to the ruling class of the Land of Fire!
After the initial sales were frantically snapped up.
Uchiha Raimon, while counting money until his hands cramped and laughing like a madman, immediately relocated his alcohol manufacturing factory, setting up various precise barriers, not allowing anyone to approach within 20 li along the way.
All workers were permitted entry but not exit, only allowed to stay within the manufacturing factory.
Uchiha Raimon himself was stationed there year-round, constantly having his trusted subordinates spread throughout, and conducting rotating inspections of the personnel to prevent the appearance of spies and the leakage of the alcohol production process.
This was not Uchiha Raimon overreacting.
The truth was that alcohol sold for 10,000 ryo per bottle, with each bottle being only one-tenth of a jin, meaning one jin of alcohol was worth 100,000 ryo.
Even if the alcohol manufacturing process was crude, resulting in twenty jin of grain producing one jin of alcohol, it was still a five-hundred-fold profit.
What kind of concept was this?
It was like sitting on a mountain of gold and silver.
As long as the Uchiha Clan mastered this skill, they would never have to worry about going bankrupt.
Given such a terrifying matter, Uchiha Raimon naturally entrusted full control to his trusted subordinates, completely preventing others from interfering, and moved all production processes to his own estate, only allowing villagers from his ancestral Uchiha-affiliated Villages to work.
Furthermore, to conceal the alcohol manufacturing process, a large number of expensive medicinal ingredients were purchased, creating the illusion for outsiders that while the alcohol was expensive, its raw materials were also quite precious.
Even now, the entire Uchiha Clan only knew that Elder Uchiha Raimon “invented” alcohol, which required grain and various rare medicinal ingredients to produce, but that alcohol was very profitable, with a rumored five-fold profit according to what was circulated publicly.
And both the elders of the Uchiha Clan and the high-ranking officials of other major families in Konoha constantly speculated that the true profit of alcohol must be much higher, likely seven or eight times, or even close to ten times the massive profit.
However, no matter how they guessed, they probably couldn't imagine that the profit of alcohol was not just seven or eight times or ten times, but a terrifying 500 times.
Otherwise, even Senju Hashirama would likely have transformed this industry of the Uchiha into a Village industry.
Now, with only 5 to 10 times the profit, although the major families were still somewhat greedy, they would not attach so much importance to it that they would necessarily unite to seize this industry.
This was because other families' industries also included many highly profitable ventures, some even reaching several times the profit.
For example, the Nara Clan's deer antler and rare medicinal herbs could achieve at least 5 to 20 times the profit, even after deducting labor costs, it would still fluctuate within this range.
Not to mention the Akimichi Clan's meat farms, the Senju Clan's mines and fruit cultivation, the Aburame Clan's...
And so on.
Each had their own methods of making money.
But without exception, other families interfering in established industries were implicitly understood to avoid encroaching on each other's domains.
Otherwise, covert infighting would be inevitable!
And now, with the Uchiha Clan having seized control of the alcohol business, it was basically tacitly accepted by the various clans that this type of business would henceforth belong exclusively to the Uchiha Clan.
After all, it was something that had never appeared before, developed by the Uchiha Clan.
If other families were to interfere, it would inevitably invite covert attacks from the Uchiha Clan.
Aside from the Senju Clan, no other family could withstand such a blow.
And now, the other families of Konoha absolutely dared not openly target them in this way.
Even the Senju Clan would not do such a taboo thing.
Perhaps Senju Tobirama would even be happier to see the Uchiha Clan engrossed in business.
The reason these families could be so easily deceived by Uchiha Raimon must be attributed to the fake ledgers created by Uchiha Tenxiu.
After being personally trained by Uchiha Raimon's disciple, Uchiha Tenxiu also took on the responsibility of arranging the account books for these alcohol sales, directly concealing over 90% of the profit.
After further deducting workers' wages, subsidies, and various daily maintenance and repairs, a profit of five to ten times was derived.
As for the remaining portion, according to convention, half would first be extracted by Elder Uchiha Raimon, who managed the grain, and the rest would belong to the clan.
After all, these inventions were Uchiha Raimon's exclusive property, and the clan extracted half because the grain belonged to Uchiha; otherwise, they could only extract a quarter.
Even so, the enormous profits still made the other elders of the Uchiha Clan envious, and they continuously probed.
However, Uchiha Raimon kept the important information tightly under wraps, not allowing any of it to leak out.
Currently, only Uchiha Tenxiu and Uchiha Raimon knew the crucial details.
Even the workers were merely divided into different processes like an assembly line, and had to perform some inexplicable medicinal production steps.
The final blending and distillation techniques were carried out underground in the factory by Uchiha Raimon's loyalists.
Furthermore, each worker was subjected to restrictions and genjutsu hypnosis, so there would be no exposure in the short term!
Both of them also faced trouble due to making too much money.
Uchiha Raimon, as an Elder, was fine; he had enough places to spend money, whether it was recruiting personnel, expanding his influence, or other aspects.
But Uchiha Tenxiu was different; he was still in a state of concealment, and even more so to distance himself from this enormous profit.
Until now, Uchiha Tenxiu had not taken any funds into his own hands, fearing external suspicion about the origin and implications of the money.
After all, Ninja are inherently very suspicious creatures.
At this moment, all the money Uchiha Tenxiu earned from the alcohol sales was still being kept by Elder Uchiha Raimon.
As for why Uchiha Raimon didn't embezzle the money and silence Uchiha Tenxiu, or why Uchiha Tenxiu trusted Elder Uchiha Raimon so much, there were naturally deeper reasons!