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"Teacher Kitazawa, we're leaving too. See you next time."
After saying goodbye, Bai returned to the Konoha Orphanage with Jugo, Kaguya Kimimaro, and Tayuya.
In the end, only Hinata Hyuga remained.
Neji Hyuga consciously went ahead with Tenten, Rock Lee, and the others.
"How's your archery practice going?"
Kitazawa looked at Hinata Hyuga and asked.
"It's already as fast as throwing kunai or shuriken."
Hinata Hyuga thought for a moment and then answered.
"Your eye roll is really impressive, and you've worked very hard too."
Kitazawa paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "After the New Year, I'll give you a bow as a birthday present."
Among the Konoha 12, Hinata Hyuga has the latest birthday, on December 27th.
"Thank you, Kitazawa-sensei!"
Hinata Hyuga nodded and said happily.
"I'll take you back."
Kitazawa reached out and patted the snow off her head, then casually waved his hand away.
Chakra surged forth, forming an invisible barrier above their heads.
Chapter 329 Sasuke: I'm invincible after activating the Three Tomoe!
December 28th.
Konoha Village entered the New Year holiday, and even the Anbu ninjas were given a break, leaving only a few people on duty.
After having breakfast, Kitazawa arrived at the Anbu base.
"Kitazawa".
Xiao Nan was still waiting for him in the office.
"Here, take this."
Kitazawa took out a document and handed it to her.
"A promotional plan for silver jewelry?"
Xiao Nan subconsciously read out the title on the document cover.
“Your silver jewelry targets the lower-tier market, and the Chinese New Year is a great time when everyone is free.”
Kitazawa smiled and said.
"I understand. I'll go and inform them to open for business."
Xiao Nan felt a little excited upon hearing this.
After preparing for so long, the time has finally come to put their plans into practice, or rather, to make money.
"Promote the business before opening."
Kitazawa pointed to the promotional plan with his finger and said.
Xiao Nan nodded and opened the promotional plan to read it.
The promotional plan contains a lot of information, but in summary, it can be divided into roughly four types of promotion.
First, various media promotions, such as television, movies, and newspapers.
Although it sounds incredible, all three media exist in the ninja world.
After a while, once we've made some money, we can directly produce movies and TV series and hire celebrities to promote them.
Second, provide financial sponsorship, such as to shrines and various small shops.
Unless they are direct competitors, they will not refuse such a offer of money.
Furthermore, many small shops can form a network, such as gift shops and matchmaking agencies.
Third, hold a New Year's Eve party with a beauty pageant as the main program.
The Akatsuki organization currently only has three silver jewelry stores, located in the metropolis of the Land of Earth and Iwagakure.
The highlight is naturally the metropolis of the Land of Earth.
Now that it's the Lunar New Year, Konan could easily use the Akatsuki's connections and money to put on a New Year's Eve party.
The reason why beauty pageants are the main program is quite simple.
The gimmick is enough to attract viewers.
Those who participate in the beauty pageant must wear their silver jewelry.
Fourth, for New Year's promotions, first raise prices to market levels, then offer discounts.
There will always be people who buy things that are cheap and good-looking.
The silver jewelry sold in Akatsuki's silver jewelry store all comes from Kitazawa's designs, or rather, classic designs from his previous life.
In terms of aesthetics, it far surpasses other silver jewelry.
Offering discounts on top of that will result in good sales.
Kitazawa dared to offer such a discount because Akatsuki's silver jewelry had lower or no cost.
Their mines came from the Land of Rain; they didn't spend any money.
Mining in Kakuzu doesn't require labor costs.
The transportation was handled by the spirit beast, saving on transportation costs.
The only thing that needs to be paid is the wages of the residents of the Rain Country who work in the processing plant.
The inhabitants of the Land of Rain are very poor, so wages are generally low.
In fact, if Xiao Nan were ruthless, she wouldn't even have to pay.
After all, the Land of Rain is controlled by the Akatsuki organization.
If we were to be even more ruthless, we could have made Kakuzu and the others use the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, or have a large number of White Zetsu do the work.
After reading it, Xiao Nan was stunned.
This propaganda campaign had a great impact on her, or rather, it greatly impacted her traditional ninja mindset.
She had never seen most of the promotional methods mentioned above.
However, you can't blame her; not only had she never seen it before, but the other merchants hadn't either.
Apart from the ninja villages, the ninja world is essentially a feudal society, and its propaganda methods are still very outdated.
Kitazawa's promotional methods were common in his previous life, but they are rarely seen in the ninja world.
Xiao Nan increasingly felt that the Akatsuki organization's reliance on bounties and missions for income was too narrow-minded.
"You should go back to Akatsuki today."
Kitazawa reminded him, "Hurry up, lest we miss the best opportunity for promotion."
"Thank you."
Xiao Nan carefully put away the promotional plan.
"It's nothing, after all, I'm also your advisor."
Kitazawa said nonchalantly, "I really hope you guys make a lot of money."
"But without you, we wouldn't be able to make this much money."
Xiao Nan shook her head and said.
"We haven't even started making money yet."
Kitazawa said with a smile, "Let's not thank you so much."
Xiao Nan paused for a moment, her lips curving slightly upward, but she quickly returned to normal.
She said goodbye to Kitazawa and left Konoha Village.
Konan looked back and saw that Konoha Village was in a peaceful state.
She felt a pang of envy, wondering when the Land of Rain would become as prosperous as Konoha.
As Xiao Nan pondered, she thought of Kitazawa again.
The longer you spend with him, the more he reveals things that make him seem unlike a ninja.
Two days passed in the blink of an eye.
December 31st is the last day of the year.
Early in the morning, the snow that had fallen all night stopped, and the sky cleared up for once.
Kitazawa stood on the open ground in front of the house, activating his Yang Release chakra.
He felt like he was suddenly woken up in the middle of the night to attend a bonfire party.
My whole body woke up, and my cells became very active.
I don't know how much time passed before the door was opened.
When did you get up?
Kurenai yawned and asked.
"Same as usual, seven o'clock."
Kitazawa answered casually.
"abnormal!"
Kurenai couldn't help but complain.
She was referring to Kitazawa's body.
Even though they had used up the same amount of energy the day before, Kitazawa was still full of energy the next day.
But she was different; she was extremely tired and drowsy, and it took her three extra hours to wake up.
Kurenai Yuhi felt that if things continued like this, even she, as a Jonin, wouldn't be able to hold on.
"Thank you for the compliment."
Bei Ze stopped cultivating and said, "After breakfast, let's go shopping."
"Let's just go out for breakfast."
Kurenai stretched and said, "It's so late, I'm too lazy to cook."
"That's fine too."
Kitazawa nodded.
Although it was the New Year holiday, many shops remained open.
After all, the New Year brings the largest number of visitors.
Are you going out?
The mute sound came on.
"Happy New Year, Kitazawa-sensei!"
Karin said with a big smile.
Here's a red envelope for you.
Kitazawa casually took out a red envelope and handed it to her.
"what about me?"
A fair, white hand was extended in front of him.