Chapter 60: Anshi Hall
Seeing Yoshida Jin's reaction, Ryuya nodded in satisfaction.
"Uncle Yoshida Jin, I asked you here today because I want to discuss something with you. For you, it's a small matter—and also a good one."
The reason Ryuya dared to directly reveal Pakura's identity was to intimidate Yoshida Jin.
After all, Sunagakure would never voluntarily expose Pakura's status or circumstances. Using Sunagakure's name as a deterrent carried no real risk of being exposed.
And once his strength truly grew, even being exposed wouldn't matter.
Sure enough, Yoshida Jin didn't dare refuse and immediately nodded.
"Go on. Tell me."
Ryuya looked at Yoshida Jin steadily and said slowly,
"Here's the situation. Konohagakure and Sunagakure are now allies. The higher-ups of both villages are preparing to establish a secret outpost in the Land of Rice Fields. She will be the one directly in charge of the outpost, while I'll mainly be responsible for coordinating and helping set it up in the early stages.
"To avoid drawing attention, this outpost will operate under a brand-new name. Neither Konoha nor Sunagakure will openly provide support.
"So in the early stages, we'll have to rely on ourselves. And right now, what we lack the most… is funding."
Yoshida Jin finally understood Ryuya's meaning. He pointed at himself uncertainly.
"You're saying you want me to put up the money to help build this outpost?"
Ryuya nodded.
"Exactly."
"…Can I refuse?"
At those words, Yoshida Jin completely deflated.
He had come this time hoping to squeeze some benefits out of Ryuya. Instead, before he could gain anything, he was about to bleed money first.
A huge loss!
From the moment Ryuya spoke, Yoshida Jin knew there was no way he could wriggle out of this.
He understood very clearly that with the strength of two Great Hidden Villages, the moment he refused, they would have countless ways to quietly erase him.
Seeing his reaction, Ryuya patted Yoshida Jin on the shoulder and said with a smile,
"Uncle Yoshida Jin, don't look so miserable. Rest assured—this won't make you suffer a loss. Recently, I've been researching a medicine that can increase life energy. It should be finished soon. Once it's successful, I'll hand it over to you to operate. How about that?"
Joy immediately returned to Yoshida Jin's face as he looked at Ryuya in shock.
"Really?"
He had personally experienced the benefits of enhanced bodily energy before. If there truly was a pill that could directly increase life energy, it would be an unimaginably profitable business.
At once, Yoshida Jin no longer cared about his earlier complaints. Full of energy, he began discussing the details of establishing the outpost with Ryuya.
More than an hour later, Yoshida Jin left, brimming with motivation.
"Is he really reliable? You just told him everything about us,"
Pakura asked calmly as she stood by the second-floor window, watching Yoshida Jin and his men leave.
Ryuya nodded lightly in reassurance.
"Don't worry. Businessmen like him are the most calculating. He knows exactly what should be said—and what should be done."
Pakura was less optimistic.
"I hope so. My situation can't stay hidden forever."
Ryuya smiled confidently.
"Trust me. Before that time comes, we'll already have enough strength to protect ourselves. At the very least, no one will be able to mess with us so easily."
The next day, Ryuya and Pakura moved into Yoshida Jin's estate.
However, to avoid drawing attention, both of them entered under new identities after disguising themselves.
Ryuya posed as a medical practitioner, while Pakura took the role of a wandering ninja.
Once inside the estate, Ryuya immediately shut himself away, spending every day in a small laboratory Yoshida Jin had prepared for him. There, he analyzed and experimented nonstop, attempting to combine the Akimichi Clan's Three-Colored Pills formula with the Seal of Glutony Suppression to create a new medicine capable of greatly increasing life energy.
This was the condition under which Yoshida Jin agreed to fully cooperate with their plans.
Fortunately, over the past month or two, Ryuya had been continuously analyzing data with the help of his biological chip and had already made significant progress. What he lacked now was experimental data to refine and correct his work.
That was also the true source of Ryuya's confidence in launching his plans in the Land of Rice Fields.
During this period, Pakura acted as the estate's guard ninja.
More than twenty days later, Yoshida Jin—the top merchant of the Land of Rice Fields—made a major move.
A series of announcements sent shockwaves through the capital.
First, Yoshida Jin began purchasing a vast stretch of land on the outskirts of the capital under his own name and started large-scale construction.
At the main gate of the site, a sign bearing the name Anshi Hall was erected.
The enclosed area of Anshi Hall spanned tens of thousands of mu—almost the size of a small town—and employed a massive workforce for construction.
Anshi Hall was the name Ryuya had chosen for his first enterprise.
In his previous world, Ryuya remembered a pharmaceutical company with the same name. This was his way of honoring those past memories.
While the Anshi Hall industrial park was still being built at full speed, Yoshida Jin released a second announcement.
That was an open recruitment—across all nations of the shinobi world—for over one hundred medical ninja and pharmacists.
This was another bombshell.
In the shinobi world, medical ninja were notoriously difficult to cultivate. Every single one required immense resources and time. Even the Five Great Hidden Villages possessed only a limited number of them.
In Konoha, top-tier medical experts were mostly affiliated with major clans. The Akimichi Clan, capable of producing the clan's secret Three-Colored Pills, was one such example.
Now, Anshi Hall was recruiting over a hundred medical experts at once—an astonishing move that naturally raised suspicion.
Yoshida Jin had initially opposed this plan vehemently.
However, once Ryuya produced the first batch of pills and handed them over for him to try, Yoshida Jin immediately dropped all objections.
There was only one reason.
The effects were simply too good.
These pills, capable of greatly increasing life energy, could be used not only to heal injuries, but also to significantly benefit healthy individuals.
For wealthy merchants like Yoshida Jin, they were worth any price to improve their bodies.
Judging from the effects of Ryuya's new medicine, it was guaranteed to give rise to a massive, extremely profitable industry.
With that level of revenue, supporting over a hundred medical ninja would be no problem at all.
Moreover, Ryuya's reasoning was sound.
The medicine's effects were too powerful, and the gains it represented was enormous. Without the cover of Anshi Hall and a large body of medical staff, its origins and formula would inevitably attract envy and become a target of powerful forces.
With Anshi Hall and numerous medical experts as camouflage, the medicine's origin would no longer become the focus of external suspicion.
To avoid making a wedding dress for others, Ryuya planned to initially release only a simplified version of the new medicine.
Its effectiveness would be just one-third of the final product, its price would be significantly increased, and its production deliberately restricted.
In this way, both Anshi Hall and the medicine could avoid becoming targets of major powers.
At the same time, the large number of recruited medical experts could form a massive research team, using the laboratories provided by Anshi Hall to develop various other medicines and diversify its product line.
Once Anshi Hall truly grew strong in the future, all these problems would naturally be resolved.
As for the simplified version of the medicine, Ryuya even gave it a fitting name.
Six-Flavor Rehmannia Pill.
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