Of course, the rewards were also the lowest, ranging from 5,000 to 50,000 ryo.
When taking on missions as a team, the leading Chunin would take half of the payment. The remaining half would be divided among the three Genin in the team based on their contributions.
If they used an equal distribution principle, completing the lowest level D-rank mission would net around 800 ryo.
Well, in a world where a bowl of ramen cost 40 to 50 ryo, that was enough for about twenty bowls.
C-rank missions had rewards between 30,000 and 100,000 ryo. This was also the highest level of mission that Li Anshi could currently access.
If Li Anshi and his teammates took on a C-rank mission, assuming a reward of 50,000 ryo each time, he would get around 8,000 ryo.
Li Anshi would have to complete hundreds of C-rank missions to earn the amount of money Tsunade had just placed on his table.
Even with his own shop, the daily sales of his wood carvings amounted to around 3,000 ryo. On good days, it could reach 5,000 ryo.
However, looking at the large sum of money on the table, Li Anshi's face was clouded with gloom.
"You... won all of this?"
"Of course!"
Tsunade was currently immersed in the joy of her winnings and didn't notice anything unusual about Li Anshi.
"Anshi, you're my lucky star!"
Tsunade patted Li Anshi's shoulder and laughed. "I had already lost all the money I had this morning, but after getting money from you, I suddenly became a killing machine at the casino and won all of this."
"Alright, I'll leave this money with you for now. I'll take it from you next time I want to go to the casino."
Without waiting for Li Anshi to refuse, Tsunade skipped happily out of his shop.
Looking at the several million ryo in front of him, Li Anshi let out a sigh.
"Sigh, what was coming, has come..."
Li Anshi was no stranger to the world of Naruto.
After all, in his previous life, it was one of the famously known "Big Three" manga. Even those who hadn't watched the anime knew some of the standout characters, let alone a veteran manga fan like Li Anshi.
Tsunade Senju, like her grandfather, the First Hokage Hashirama Senju, was addicted to gambling.
She had a resounding nickname in the casino – "The Legendary Sucker"!
As the name suggested, Tsunade almost never won at the gambling table.
The reason it was "almost" was because Tsunade had won a few times.
But every time Tsunade won, something very bad would happen to her.
Li Anshi suspected that Tsunade had inherited this trait from her grandfather, the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju.
However, the biggest difference between the two was that Hashirama Senju was the God of Shinobi. While he was alive, no one could harm those he cared about.
Therefore, Hashirama Senju never won at the gambling table.
As a small cog in the machine of Konoha, Li Anshi didn't know the intelligence of the higher-ups.
But, from Tsunade's winnings today, Li Anshi could tell that perhaps today was the day the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, was ambushed and killed by the Cloud ninjas.
"Fortunately, I've already mastered the Little Li Flying Dagger technique, so I have some ability to protect myself..."
"Coincidentally, I can use these three million ryo Tsunade brought to go to the blacksmith shop and have Boss Tsugami make me some more flying daggers..."
...
As Li Anshi expected, the next day, the Second Hokage Tobirama Senju's six disciples – Hiruzen Sarutobi, Danzo Shimura, Koharu Utatane, Homura Mitokado, Torifu Akimichi, and Kagami Uchiha – returned to the village, bringing the news of the Second Hokage's death.
In addition, there was news of ninjas from the Cloud Village, the Stone Village, and the Sand Village attacking the Land of Fire.
This sent the villagers of Konoha into an uproar.
They had never imagined that the death of the Hokage would lead to such a crisis for Konoha.
However, after the ninjas explained, the villagers learned that ever since the death of the First Hokage, the other ninja villages had been eyeing Konoha covetously, constantly sending ninjas to attack the Land of Fire.
It was the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, who, with his "Flying Thunder God Technique," traveled to various battlefields, keeping all those ninjas from the other villages outside the Land of Fire.
Because of this, the villagers of Konoha had been able to enjoy peace.
Now, the Second Hokage had been ambushed by the Cloud ninjas and had died staying behind to buy time for his disciples to escape. Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others did not have the Second Hokage's ability to instantly travel to various battlefields, so they could only return to Konoha to gather the village's ninjas to prepare for the attacks from the ninja villages of the Land of Lightning, the Land of Earth, and the Land of Wind.
Even students like Li Anshi, who had been eliminated for failing the graduation exam, received a conscription order and a Konoha forehead protector.
His first mission was to go to the front of the Hokage Building and assist other ninjas in maintaining order.
Li Anshi had anticipated this and was not surprised.
After all, those like him, who had completed their graduation two years ago, were still okay. In a little while, even the third and fourth-year students in the Ninja Academy would probably be "graduated" and become ninjas, entering the battlefield.
It could be said that after the deaths of Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, the "Will of Fire" would gradually become a tool for the Konoha higher-ups to stabilize their own rule, deviating from the First Hokage's initial goal of "world peace" and the Second Hokage's goal of "not letting children go to war."
Tying the forehead protector to his head, Li Anshi casually locked the door and headed towards the Hokage Building.
When Li Anshi arrived at the Hokage Building, most of the villagers of Konoha had already gathered there.
"Captain Hatake."
Li Anshi quickly found his superior. It was his classmate from the Ninja Academy, and also the top student of the first Ninja Academy class, Sakumo Hatake!
Two years had passed, and fourteen-year-old Sakumo Hatake was already wearing the green ninja flak jacket.
Among the five great ninja villages, only ninjas of Chunin rank and above were qualified to wear the ninja flak jacket.
"Anshi, you're here."
Sakumo Hatake nodded to Li Anshi. "From now on, you will follow behind me and help me maintain order."
"Yes!"
With a reply, Li Anshi and the Genin beside him formed a human wall, keeping the people of Konoha ten meters away from the Hokage Building.
"Where Konoha's leaves dance, the fire also burns brightly..."
"I'm sorry, everyone."
"In order to allow us, his incompetent disciples, to survive, Lord Tobirama stayed behind alone..."
"Rumble..."
"Pitter-patter..."
During Hiruzen Sarutobi's eulogy, the sky above Konoha was filled with thunderclouds, and large drops of rain began to fall, as if joining the villagers of Konoha in mourning the passing of the Second Hokage.