After the Land of Thunder's 8 billion bailout bond was issued, Uchiha Tokko used his own private goods to subscribe for 1 billion taels of gold yuan coupons issued by the Tokko Shogunate in the southern region of the Land of Water.
Although the Land of Thunder expressed its objections after receiving the money, Uchiha Tokko also admitted that it was a currency recognized by the Uchiha clan and could be used to purchase various materials produced in the territories under the Tokoku shogunate and the Fire Gate shogunate. .
"Including the arms that Kumogakure needs in battle, the shogunate can sell them to outsiders..."
There was a strong hint in Uchiha Tokko's words.
The Kingdom of Thunder now also understood Uchiha Tokumitsu's intention, so they left 500 million taels of gold notes and handed them to Kumogakure, and raised another 500 million Fire Country banknotes and handed them to the Tokoku shogunate as compensation.
In this way, the bond-raising funds that the Kingdom of Thunder had just received were taken back by the Tokko Shogunate even before they were warmed up. However, the consolation is that the sales progress of the 5 billion special public bonds for infrastructure issued by Yunyin is not bad. In seven days Within this period, sales reached 1.5 billion taels.
In this regard, Uchiha Tokumitsu also gave an explanation to Kumogakure. After all, Kumokakure is just a ninja village. In addition, after just suffering several defeats, the wealthy businessmen have little confidence in it; and it lacks the ability of the Thunder Country Bond to Taxes serve as a hard guarantee for the mortgage, so it is normal for the sales progress to be slightly slower.
But even so, Yunyin was very satisfied.
You know, Yunyin Ninja Village has also sold bonds on its own, but due to the lack of effective promotion and external sales channels, the cycle required to sell one-year bonds is even as long as three months. Today, 30% of the bonds are sold in seven days. Yunyin naturally Very satisfied.
Even after receiving the first batch of sales of special public bonds for infrastructure construction, Kumogakure's senior management began to discuss whether to increase the scale of bond issuance at the Minamigagawa Stock Exchange to raise more funds to deal with the powerful Kirigakure ninja army.
The Uchiha clan also made a lot of money from this wealth feast just by collecting management fees.
However, for the Tokoku shogunate, the most important thing was to use the gold yuan notes in the open market in the form of official currency, and got the acquiescence of the Kingdom of Thunder, one of the five major countries.
Although there is a high probability that the 500 million gold yuan coupons will return to the hands of the Tokko Shogunate again in the form of arms trade in the near future, the use and circulation of gold yuan coupons is equivalent to the gold yuan coupons issued without any standard support and relying on productivity. The effectiveness of the currencies of great powers.
Next, what Uchiha Tokko wants to focus on is the breadth and depth of the use of golden coupons.
But the news from Konoha interrupted Uchiha Tokumitsu's series of plans.
After the Hokage Building announced the list of candidates for the fourth generation, there was an uproar in the village, and the Uchiha clan jumped up on the spot like a pot exploding.
Clan leader Uchiha Shifang was the first to speak out within the family, summoning the family jounin to jointly submit a letter questioning the legality of the candidate nomination process.
After the Kumogakure expedition was declared over, Hatake Sakumo returned to the village to deal with the long-backlogged matters of the Jonin class, and was shocked after learning the news.
Although he was also interested in competing for the fourth generation position, he never expected to be nominated as a Hokage candidate in this way.
At the same time, he felt deeply worried.
He is very aware of the Uchiha clan's ambition for the position of Hokage. Although Uchiha Tokumitsu has never shown it, ordinary Uchiha clan members, especially the radicals, have long recognized Uchiha Tokimitsu as the leader. The next generation of Hokage.
So, after the village's resolution is promulgated, will the Uchiha clan do any drastic behavior?
But at this juncture, he couldn't immediately go to Uchiha Tokumitsu for discussion.
What's more, what else can be discussed? Even the Uchiha clan's combat jounin in the mobile unit had already begun to take advantage of them. If they showed up at this time, they would only cause gossip.
Uchiha Tokko's heart did not have too many disturbances due to this.
In his eyes, although the position of Hokage is the vision that the family has been striving for, the situation is still too small.
With the current power of the Uchiha clan, the Tokko Shogunate rules the southern islands of the Country of Water, the old land of the Country of Uzumaki, and controls island countries such as the Country of Waves; while the Fire Gate Shogunate is also based on the Country of Grass and penetrates into the southwest of the Country of Taki. , the northeastern part of the Country of Rain, plus the control of the southern part of the Country of Frost and the small buffer country between the two countries of Fire and Thunder captured in the Kumogakure conquest, etc., the Uchiha clan seems to be an independent ninja army and territory. The behemoth.
Therefore, the Uchiha clan is not so much a ninja clan, but a super Concern group that is both military and political.
What's more, in Uchiha Tokko's eyes, the so-called three Hokage candidates are just targets launched by the third generation Sarutobi Hiruzen to attract attention. Instead of worrying about the justice of the Hokage candidate list, it is better to directly challenge the Hokage election system. Make sweeping changes.
Furthermore, compared to returning to the village to compete for the position of Hokage, Uchiha Tokumitsu is more willing to invest his energy in war and production, at least the benefits will be higher.
But as a social animal, human beings cannot break free from the shackles of group will.
Uchiha Tokumitsu cannot show his attitude too obviously. After all, he is not a rebellious weasel. The foundation of his power and position comes from the cultivation and support of his family, so Uchiha Tokumitsu also cooperates in a controlled manner. The family sent a question to the Hokage Building.
At the same time, Uchiha Kage was transferred from the position of head of the secret guard and appointed as the commander of the northern border defense force.
When the debate over the Hokage candidate was raging, the appointment of Uchiha Tokumitsu seemed casual and ordinary, without causing any waves.
Even the Konoha ninjas who originally belonged to the northern border defense force accepted the arrival of the new commander without any psychological burden.
After all, since the Uchiha Fire Gate reorganized the northern border defense forces, the northern ninja army has already acquiesced that the commander of the headquarters will be a ninja from the Uchiha clan.
But this still did not satisfy the Uchiha clan. Especially the police department ninjas stationed in the village were extremely angry and began to clamor to assemble the ninja army to ask the Hokage for an explanation. If the Uchiha clan could not be satisfied, then Let's start a war.
Now Hatake Sakumo couldn't sit still.
Although he and Uchiha Tokumitsu are allies, those radical Uchiha ninjas are not so easy to talk to. Although they usually maintain politeness and respect for Hatake Sakumo for Uchiha Tokumitsu's sake, this time That may not be the case at that time.
During the jounin class meeting, the Uchiha jonins, under the operation of the family elders, also jointly requested the jounin class to launch a motion to impeach the Hokage, and the momentum became louder every time. Even the superiors who stayed in the village and were close to the ninja clan All the ninjas were involved.
Seeing that the situation was about to deteriorate to an irreversible point, Hatake Sakumo had no choice but to announce the suspension of the jounin class, and went to the northern shogunate station to discuss this end with Uchiha Tokumitsu.
…
Uchiha Tokumitsu did not alienate Hatake Sakumo because he was nominated as a Hokage candidate, and still received him warmly.
After some pleasantries, the two officially got down to business.
"Tokumitsu-kun, the village cannot cause civil strife. This is the bottom line..."
Hatake Sakumo said seriously.
"What the Uchiha clan wants is fairness, that's all."
Uchiha Tokko agreed with a serious expression.
This is also the basis for formal talks and negotiations between the two.
In Hatake Sakumo's heart, it doesn't matter much who sits in the position of Hokage, as long as he can realize the new Konoha in his mind.
Of course, if you can become the next generation of Hokage, you can better fulfill your ideals, and Hatake Sakumo will naturally not be resistant to this.
However, from the perspective of the Uchiha clan, since Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama teamed up to create Konoha, the family has been in a state of continuous decline in overall strength. It was not until the rise of Uchiha Tokumitsu that there were signs of revival.
But this is not enough.
The position of Hokage has become the collective obsession of the Uchiha clan. Only by letting an Uchiha clan member put on the robe of the God can this obsession be resolved.
"...Do we really want to impeach Hokage-sama?"
Hatake Sakumo was silent for a while before he spoke.
"Otherwise, it's not enough to convince the public."
Uchiha Tokko replied simply and neatly.
Hatake Sakumo suddenly didn't know how to answer the call.
Be fair and serve the public.
A seemingly simple request is not simple at all when it comes to a wealthy family like Uchiha.
The Uchiha clan is too strong.
Hatake Sakumo is fully aware of this.
Except for the Uchiha clan, no other ninja clan or force in Konoha could start a war on their own and force a large country to surrender.
What's more, the Tokugaku shogunate still controls the three-tailed jinchūriki captured from the Kirigakure battlefield, and the bitter master Kirigakure has been inexplicably unable to recover the jinchūriki with Uchiha Tokko.
With such a huge power, coupled with the various industries and territories controlled throughout the ninja world, Hatake Sakumo did not understand why the Uchiha clan was not satisfied.
"Konoha is the Konoha of all Konoha ninjas, and the Uchiha clan is also a member of the Konoha ninjas."
Uchiha Tokumitsu took the initiative and said: "The first and second generations were decided by the Senju clan, and the Uchiha clan had no choice but to recognize them for the sake of their strength; when the third generation came to the throne, there was a war, so the Uchiha clan had no choice but to endure it."
"But this time... Hokage-sama seems to have very little respect for Uchiha, who is the strongest ninja!"
"Sakumo-kun, according to Konoha's system, who should decide on the election of the position of Hokage? And what kind of process needs to be followed?"
"...a vote of confidence from the Jonin Class Conference."
Hatake Sakumo opened his mouth to defend, but in the end he answered directly.
"It seems that the supervisory and audit power of the Jonin class is not enough for Hokage-sama..."
Uchiha Tokumitsu leaned back in his chair and said faintly: "Then can I think that after Danzo's ambush failed, the agreement we reached with Lord Hokage became a bunch of useless words?"
"...That's not the case."
Having said that, Hatake Sakumo still felt a headache.
This is what worries him the most.
Because as the leader of the Jonin class, he actually knew nothing about the list of Hokage candidates created by the Third Generation Sarutobi Hiruzen beforehand. This was also his problem.
At the same time, it was precisely because of the suddenness of the candidate nomination that Sakumo Hatake was placed in a dilemma.
"I got you."
Uchiha Tokumitsu said: "But things that should be changed still need to be changed. The impeachment of the jounin class is the legal right of all Konoha jonins. It is reasonable and reasonable for the family to express their demands, and the Hokage Building also needs to give advice on this An appropriate reply; but don’t worry, as long as I’m here, the family won’t go to war with the village.”
"That's good!"
Hatake Sakumo immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.
"but……"
Uchiha Tokumitsu changed the subject, and Hatake Sakumo's heart rose to his throat again.
"From now on, the troops directly under the shogunate will no longer use the village's forehead protectors."
Uchiha Tokumitsu took out the special forehead protector he wore during the signing ceremony of the armistice agreement with Kumogakure last time from his arms, and solemnly put it on his forehead.
On the forehead protector is engraved the Uchiha clan's Uchiha fan logo.
In this regard, Hatake Sakumo could only sigh.
He wanted to stop it, but couldn't find a suitable reason.
As the power of the Uchiha clan expanded rapidly, the conflicts between the Uchiha clan and the Hokage clan became more and more frequent, which was irreversible.
Fortunately, Uchiha Tokumitsu was quite restrained and only limited his costume changes to the troops directly under the shogunate.
But Hatake Sakumo did not relax. In his impression, Uchiha Tokumitsu was not such an easy person to talk to.
"anything else?"
Hatake Sakumo sighed, "Just tell me, as long as there is no direct conflict with the village, I will try my best to help mediate..."
"The Uchiha clan will all use gold yuan coupons for all external arms transactions in the future, even for village purchases."
Uchiha Tokumitsu continued: "By the way, all industries under the United Company will also implement golden yuan coupons."
This is monetary policy…
Hatake Sakumo didn't know much about finance. He hadn't even figured out the key pros and cons of the Minamigagawa Stock Exchange created by Uchiha Tokumitsu, so he didn't think anything of it.
"Only this?"
Hatake Sakumo asked tentatively.
As soon as I finished speaking, I immediately regretted it.
Doesn't this remind Uchiha Tokko to make more demands?
"The rest has little to do with the village."
Uchiha Tokumitsu touched his chin and said: "For example, establishing a joint settlement bank, organizing a joint reserve committee, etc...."
"These matters are the internal affairs of the family and the various allied ninja clans, and the village has nothing to do with them."
"I see……"
Hatake Sakumo breathed a sigh of relief.
"I will also return to the village after handling the affairs in the north. As for the family, I will ask them to exercise restraint."
Uchiha Tokko said.
"That's good……"
Hatake Sakumo nodded.
He originally wanted to invite Uchiha Tokumitsu to return to the village with him, but for some reason, the words reached his throat but he couldn't say it out, so he took his leave.
After Hatake Sakumo left, Uchiha Tokumitsu sat silently in the living room for a long time.
"that power……"
Suddenly, a cold light flashed in the room.
All kinds of furniture arranged in the living room were immediately smashed to pieces by Uchiha Tokumitsu's sword.
"How ridiculous!"
With a cold snort, Uchiha Tokumitsu walked out of the ruined living room and ordered to summon all the Jonin under his command.
Today is a special day, and I don’t know what to say, so I just wish all book friends a happy **~
(End of chapter)
