In fact, the "Konoha ninjas are war-weary" that Uchiha Tokumitsu said in his meeting with the Third Kazekage and Sansho Hanzo were not all excuses.
that's the truth.
However, the war-weariness is most obvious among the ninjas left over from the original Hokage line and the civilian ninjas who support the so-called "orthodox fire consciousness". These people have suffered losses and lost power due to the rise of the Uchiha clan. Naturally, He also had no intention of participating in the war to benefit the Uchiha clan and Hatake Sakumo's forces.
In addition, the Senju clan has always had some checks and balances. Although the Hyuga clan leader has also moved closer to Uchiha Tokumitsu on some occasions, his family has always maintained some of the backbone of the so-called "Konoha's third force" , the two also restrained a lot of energy of the Uchiha clan.
Therefore, in such an environment, the strength of the Konohagakure Ninja Village headquarters cannot be fully exerted, and Uchiha Tokumitsu is unwilling to plunge his shogunate ninja army into a conquest that will surely destroy the Ninja Village. Therefore, Therefore, the conclusion was made during the meeting that "the main theme of the ninja world is peace."
To put it bluntly, it is all driven by interests.
As an ancillary benefit brought by the signing of the "Joint Trade Integration Treaty" by the four countries, the United Company completely removed the obstacles to entering the Kingdom of Wind and began to strengthen its commercial presence in the Kingdom of Rain. At the same time, the shogunate's golden yuan coupons also followed the United Company's business Activities are flooding into the borders of various countries.
After removing the artificial obstacles, the legal currency issued anchored by productivity showed unparalleled flexibility. With the various price reduction promotions and high-priced purchase of raw materials marketing activities of the United Company, it quickly conquered cities and territories in various countries and won a lot of money. Pay share.
Although the ministers and nobles of the Fire Country, who still maintain a certain degree of independence, are worried about this, those ninjas who lack the necessary financial knowledge feel that the golden yuan coupon is a good business tool.
This is especially true for Sunagakure, who is relatively short of resources and once relied on the village's shadow to mine gold in the desert to subsidize the village's expenses.
In addition to maintaining the formal independence of monetary sovereignty, the national currency is still listed as the only designated legal tender for tax payment, and the gold yuan certificates were quickly accepted by Sunagakure and used to purchase the various commodities of the United Company.
As for those aristocratic officials who could see the danger behind the proliferation of gold coupons... After they signed the alliance treaty, they were thrown into prison by the Sunagakure ninjas. Instead, they were replaced by the tax collectors of the United Company one by one in various places in the Kingdom of Wind. The oasis is contracted and operated - for Sunagakure, this system recommended by Uchiha Tokko has allowed them to raise a huge amount of materials for the war in a short period of time. In addition, the joint company tax contractor also has a contracting period for the oasis. There are restrictions, so Sunagakure is not worried about being short-changed by the United Company in a short period of time.
Sunagakure has also decided that after repelling Iwagakure's invading ninja army, he will officially hang up all the nobles one by one and hang their heads to dry in order to warn the unstable elements within the Kingdom of Wind.
"We will use all means except sending troops to support Sunagakure. Before the last Sunagakure ninja dies in battle, may the stubborn Sunagakure never surrender!"
In private, Uchiha Tokumitsu said this to Hatake Sakumo.
Although the alliance treaty had just been signed, Uchiha Tokumitsu's calculations had already screwed up Sunagakure.
After Kumogakure also decided to participate in the conquest of Sunagakure to a limited extent, and with the promotion of Uchiha Tokumitsu, the Konoha Senate and House of Representatives also officially decided to support Sunagakure. Some Konoha ninjas were tasked with joint companies. He was hired to enter the Kingdom of Wind to undertake the task of guarding the tax-free oasis. At the same time, supplies like a tide flooded into Sunagakure, quickly emptying Sunagakure's treasury in a short period of time. At the same time, Sunagakure also obtained a ninja force. The most well-equipped ninja army in the village's history.
The smug Third Kazekage became even more energetic after seeing the expansion of his own strength in a short period of time. Coupled with his own vanity, he did not want to ask for reinforcements from Konoha so quickly, so he quickly sent garrison troops from various oases. All Sunagakure ninjas were recalled for pre-war joint training, and the defense was handed over to the joint company.
Sanshouyu Hanzo also once again assembled the ninja troops of the Rain Ninja Village, and under his own leadership once again entered the eastern region of Tori Country, threatening the rear general base of the Iwagakure Expeditionary Force.
Although the western part of the ninja world is clouded with war, Konoha is still prosperous and prosperous at this time.
Hatake Sakumo was sitting in Uchiha Tokumitsu's office on the top floor of the police headquarters. Seeing the view of Ninja Village outside the floor-to-ceiling window, he was filled with emotion.
"Tokuguang-kun, when it comes to strategizing, I am indeed not as good as you..."
Hatake Sakumo said sincerely: "It seems that the entire ninja world is turning with your remote control."
"You and I have a friendship forged by blood and fire. It's really inseparable~"
Uchiha Tokumitsu chuckled, "The ninjas in the village are unwilling to start another war, and the shogunate cannot support the task of conquering the two great ninja villages alone... In this case, we can only try our best to create a better one." The external environment allows the village to cultivate and recuperate.”
"Do you need my cooperation with the Kingdom of Wind?"
Hatake Sakumo asked.
As the United Company continues to expand the scale of tax farming operations in the Kingdom of Wind, and as the Rain Ninja Village begins to gather and move into the Iwagakure Logistics Base in the Kingdom of Tori, the United Company also begins to have a certain gap in the number of hired ninjas, so the innovation will As a result, civilian ninjas have also received more long-term missions abroad. For Hatake Sakumo, who has always adopted a supportive attitude towards civilian ninjas, this is what he wants to see.
The civilian ninjas, who accounted for the largest proportion of the population, had a better life. Naturally, there were fewer slanderous words in the village. Those ninjas who chose to stay dormant naturally had no media to continue to stir up troubles in private.
"There is no serious problem with the Kingdom of Wind for the time being, and now that Sunagakure's dice has been rolled, they can only choose to launch the most violent counterattack against Iwagakure."
Uchiha Tokko said.
Compared with military aggression, the economic aggression launched by the joint company controlled by Uchiha Tokko is more covert and effective.
Although legally speaking, the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Wind is still under the control of Sunagakure, but as Sunagakure indulges in the temporary illusion of strength, coupled with the fishing style of fishing in a short period of time, the future is pre-taxed through taxation. Ten years of taxation, and under huge financial pressure, the Third Kazekage had no other choice but to launch the final battle against the Iwagakure Expeditionary Force.
——If he is not willing to go back to the era when he was the shadow of a village but still had to pan for gold in the desert.
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"Being an enemy of the shogunate is dangerous, but being an ally of the shogunate is deadly."
The first stop for Jiraiya who walked out of Mt. Miaomu and returned to the ninja world was the Kingdom of Wind. After wandering around all the oasis cities in the eastern part of the Kingdom of Wind, Jiraiya felt this.
Although in front of Toad Sennin, Jiraiya seemed to have a slight IQ, but in fact he was a very delicate ninja, and he was particularly good at exploring the dynamics from an ordinary person's perspective and deducing useful information from them.
This time, he saw something deeper than Sunagakure's Kazekage.
Everything in the shogunate is not free, but the price is cleverly hidden behind free or cheap to achieve what Uchiha Tokumitsu wants.
The scenery in the Kingdom of Wind gave him an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
Not only were the streets filled with Fire Nation merchandise, but there were also Shogunate gold coupons that were universally available and hated the most, as well as Konoha ninjas lurking in every corner of the oasis and stationed in fortifications.
Now, on the contrary, Sunagakure, who should be the master of the Wind Country, is rarely seen. It seems that the Wind Country has become a colony of Konoha.
"The one-village-one-country system seems to have been abolished in another form..."
Jiraiya, who was in a bystander state, silently made judgments based on what he saw and heard.
The Country of Wind was the first country in the ninja world to "break down rituals and music". After the Kazekage launched a coup, the original order of the shadow of the ninja village and the daimyo nobles co-ruling the country has been completely destroyed. Naturally, one village and one country The system has completely lost its foundation in the Kingdom of Wind.
"This is a dark country..."
Jiraiya was thoughtful as he saw government ninjas coming and going from a noble mansion.
When he left Miaomu Mountain this time, he also received strong support from the Great Toad Immortal.
In order to form the "Akatsuki Organization" that he believed would definitely save the ninja world in the future and to fight against Konoha's pursuit, the Mt. Myoboku lineage not only provided a large amount of material support, but also gave him several treasures from Toad Sennin.
It's just that he somewhat miscalculated.
I thought that after turning the village into a country, the Sunagakure and Wind Country would be in turmoil under the attack of Iwagakure who "upholds justice", so I listed the Wind Country as the first stop for the development organization, but I didn't expect that Konoha However, its presence in the Kingdom of Wind is so strong that after taking over and contracting oases in various parts of the Kingdom of Wind, it was managed in an orderly manner in a very short period of time.
However, the United Company's tax-free rule in the Kingdom of Wind also comes at a price. For example, Jiraiya's favorite wine shops, singers, gambling houses and other usual intelligence gathering channels have also been shut down by the United Company in the name of excessive consumption of resources. Instead, each oasis selectively grows a certain kind of crops or develops a certain kind of product production. In addition, it also implements an extremely strict floating population management system. Jiraiya's space and intelligence gathering methods are Squeezed to the extreme.
"The pornographic gambling industry has been completely wiped out, and there are no aristocrats left..."
After hiding and spying among the oases in the Land of Wind for a while, Jiraiya finally gave up after understanding the internal conditions of the Land of Wind.
After giving up the cliché method to gather information, Jiraiya subdued a Fire Country businessman through genjutsu and interrogated him about the latest information about the ninja world. He also learned from it that the nobles of the Wind Country were all captured by Sunagakure. The information about going to jail and preparing to dry and hang street lamps.
Nothing could be done. In order to avoid staying too long and leaking his information, Jiraiya stopped dragging his feet and immediately left the Country of Wind overnight.
As for his second stop, he chose the Country of Rain, which has relatively weak control over the alliance camp.
I left last night due to something else, so this chapter is updated yesterday.
Today is the last day of June. If you have monthly tickets, please give them to me~
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