Overnight, the earth-bending ninja who was originally at the bottom of Konoha's despised chain suddenly came to life and became a highly sought after favorite.
In the past, ninjas who specialized in earth escape had little status in Konoha. Among the ninjas who were proficient in earth escape, there were few representative figures except Orochimaru. Although Orochimaru was not good at earth escape, It is said that Konoha is the best, but its strength system is by no means just earth escape, so the earth escape series of ninjas have always had little status.
The bottom line is that there are relatively few inheritances of earth escape ninjutsu in Konoha, and high-level ninjutsu are all spread within the Hokage line. Ordinary Konoha ninjas have no access to them, and even those with talent are buried.
Furthermore, compared with ninjutsu with attributes such as fire escape and wind escape, the attack power of earth escape is relatively inferior; and Konoha cannot mobilize a large number of earth escape ninjas to form an army alone to exert combat effectiveness like Iwagakure; therefore, The Ninjutsu genre of Earth Release is absolutely weak and lowly in Konoha.
But the development of Konoha's new area has changed the situation of earth escape ninjas!
The construction of a Ninja Village is completely different from ordinary civilians building a house on their own.
As a military organization, Ninja Village not only needs to provide residential and commercial space, but more importantly, it must be equipped with various defensive measures and military buildings, and this requires the participation of ninjas, especially ninjas with superb earth escape skills.
Because in Konoha today, even the Senju clan does not have Wooden ninjas, and there is no way for Senju Hashirama to build the general framework of the village just by clapping his hands like when the village was first built. Therefore, the development of new areas now requires A famous earth escape ninja used ninjutsu to tamp the ground, and used chakra to cast stone bricks as strong as steel, and then used them as the basis to build the functional area outline and defense system of Konoha's new area.
"It is said that Lord Hashirama clasped his hands on Shadow Rock, then slapped the ground, and then the village's infrastructure was completed..."
Hatake Sakumo sighed: "What a great power this is..."
"Now Wood Escape has become the last song."
With a stroke of his pen, Uchiha Tokumitsu signed his name on the village investment company's first infrastructure investment, and then handed the document to Hatake Sakumo, "So, it's better to select talents carefully and slowly. , train the team, and build a thousand-year quality project..."
"The stone bricks condensed by the first batch of earth escape ninjas who participated in the test were seriously unqualified. Either the compression strength was insufficient or the size did not meet the requirements. Moreover, many of the stone bricks collapsed soon after the chakra dissipated..."
Hatake Sakumo said casually: "Should we lower our standards?"
"No hurry, no rush..."
Uchiha Tokumitsu said with a smile: "Then take your time. After all, it is a new area of the village. As a model for the ninja world, you must have high standards and high requirements~"
"That makes sense~"
Hatake Sakumo nodded, deeply convinced.
As for Orochimaru, who was the strongest earth escape ninjutsu in Konoha, the two of them had a tacit understanding and did not mention his existence.
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At the same time, Konoha's mission centers and the shops of various families put up advertisements for recruiting earth-bending ninjas. The purpose was to recruit suitable earth-bending ninjas as soon as possible in order to take some advantage in the development of new areas.
Nowadays, various ninja clans are now open.
The future revenue share of the new area is forbidden to the village and the Uchiha clan. Other families can only lick some leftovers, especially the ninja clan of the former Hokage family, who can't even keep up with the heat.
But it’s not like there’s no turning around——
For example, according to the No. 1 construction announcement issued by the Village Investment Company, it was clearly announced that earth escape ninjas or groups would be recruited to undertake part of the construction tasks in the form of "bidding" in the form of paid remuneration. Although the requirements for "bidding" are high, The rewards given are also quite generous.
In addition, in order to protect the interests of Konoha ninjas and ensure that the construction of the village investment company can benefit every Konoha ninja, the bidding announcement also specifically stipulates the employment principle of "Konoha ninjas have absolute priority", blocking the recruitment of outsiders. Murato's way to escape from the ninja.
Therefore, the earth-bending ninjas who were in a pinch were overjoyed and went to the village investment company to apply for jobs one after another, while the less powerful ones were recruited by various ninjas.
Although ordinary Earth Release ninjas cannot completely rely on their own strength to use chakra to cast a stone brick that meets the requirements of size and strength, the knowledgeable ninjas quickly developed a method that can create a stone brick that is not inferior to chakra. The secret technique of combining fused stone bricks.
For example, the Senju clan developed a combination of water and earth ninjutsu named "Concrete Jutsu" based on their knowledge of earth escape and water escape ninjutsu, which allows their own middle and low-level ninjas to participate in the new area. The development is under construction.
Based on the advantage of fire escape, the Uchiha clan, under the guidance of Uchiha Tokumitsu, created a material called "fire brick", which also met the building material requirements for the development of the new area.
As for other ninja clans, they have also used their own talents to come up with many similar materials or technologies, and successfully obtained the bidding qualifications of the village investment company; only the so-called "third force" headed by the Hyuga clan and the secret art ninja clan , because either they are blood-successor ninjas who have lost their physical skills, or they are ninjas who practice secret arts. They are unable to do these chores, so they have to pay a high price to recruit earth-bending ninjas to join their camp.
"How about this... how about we invest in acquiring those small ninja teams and set up a construction company?"
The Hyuga clan leader said to the leaders of Aburame and Inuzuka.
"In this case, it's not impossible..."
The two ninja leaders looked at each other and nodded in agreement.
Although Aburame and Inuzuka don't have much spare money, the Hyuga clan has a lot of money, so it's okay for everyone to save some and enjoy the dividends.
As a result, Hyuga Construction, the third corporate organization within Konoha after the United Company and the Village Investment Company, was established. With the strong financial capabilities of the Hyuga clan, several small ninja clans were tinkered to prepare to undertake the construction of the new area. The engineering team quickly obeyed the call of the heart and became one of the many construction teams under its company.
With the help of the huge financial resources of the Hyuga clan, the construction team started the renovation project on the Hyuga clan's land before the bidding for the construction of the new area was opened, and under the precise measurement and control of the Hyuga Byakugan ninja, it was delivered as quickly as possible. It has produced excellent construction products, and the Hyuga clan land renovation project has been listed as its first good start and regarded as a "model project" by Hyuga Construction.
Then the Senju clan immediately followed suit and established a corporate organization named "Senju House" within the family; some people within the Uchiha clan also began to petition Uchiha Tokko to form a similar company.
"...What a weird world!"
Uchiha Tokumitsu accompanied a group of researchers at Konoha Research Institute to process the ninja frog captured by the anti-terrorist force before taking time to deal with the backlog of affairs. After learning about the recent developments in the village, even if As a time traveler, he was also extremely surprised.
Although he single-handedly pushed forward the trend of change in Konoha and even the ninja world, the windmill in Konoha also turned too fast.
Uchiha Tokumitsu even felt that if the people from Hyuga Construction and Senju House were allowed to participate in the bidding a few more times, they would even be able to master various bid-rigging techniques without any teachers.
——This can only be said that under the temptation of interests, the "subjective initiative" of the ninjas has been infinitely magnified.
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Naturally, Iwagakure and Kumogakure also noticed the recent movements in Konoha.
In particular, the establishment of the Konoha New Area and the establishment of the Village Investment Company were both open to the public. Even if there were no spies, relevant information could be obtained through businessmen.
"Konoha has begun to expand its armaments aggressively again!"
The Third Raikage said so.
Due to the intervention of the anti-terrorist forces, Kumogakure failed to redeem the southwest occupied area for the Kingdom of Thunder as he wished. Coupled with the burden of compensation for the defeat, Kumogakure Ninja Village has been in a state of being unable to make ends meet.
All Kumogakure senior officials deeply agreed with Raikage's judgment and condemned Konoha's measures to wantonly expand the military and undermine peace.
"Therefore, we must also speed up the pace of arms expansion and be fully prepared to face the final decisive battle!"
The Third Raikage made his own decision: "Ai! You should go to the Daming Mansion immediately to see His Highness tomorrow and ask him to increase military support again! The village must speed up the process of preparing the ninja army!"
"Otherwise, when the time comes, the gold judgment that the daimyo keeps in the treasury will be regarded as compensation again!"
Finally, the Third Raikage added another sentence.
Whether to invest the funds in military expansion or keep them as compensation, the Third Raikage believed that the Daimyo of the Land of Thunder could make a rational decision.
In the direction of Iwakaku, Onoki was also at a loss after receiving the information sent back to the village by the intelligence personnel.
Although his first reaction was the same as that of Raikage, thinking that Konoha was just expanding the ninja army, but according to his understanding of Konoha, even if the army was expanding, it would not involve building a new village!
There will definitely be conflicts of interest between the new village and the old village. Even in Iwagakure, which is known for its unity, the lower and upper villages are full of conflicts, not to mention Konoha, where there are many ninjas.
"I don't understand..."
Onoki sighed and asked his ANBU to transfer the documents to Assistant Tsuchikage's office for his son Yellow Earth to handle the judgment.
After dealing with the setbacks in dealing with the Frost Kingdom front army and the Southwest Occupied Area of the Thunder Kingdom, Loess seemed to have matured a lot overnight, and his methods of dealing with things were a bit softer. Although it still seemed a little immature in Ohnoki's eyes, it was different from the original Compared to when I first took over, I have made a lot of progress.
"This brat can be considered promising..."
Onoki was mumbling as he continued to work on the documents.
Although the relationship between father and son became quite estranged after the old high-level officials supported Huang Tu in forcing him to seize power, in any case, Huang Tu was the eldest son of Ohnoki after all, and his growth was always something his old father liked to see.
"At least I can bear it..."
Ohnoki conveniently signed his name on the order to deal with a senior elder who once supported Loess.
Although his son, now Iwagakure Tsuchikage's assistant and Jonin squad leader, Huang Tu, knew that the Tsuchikage and his father planned to get rid of the old senior officials who supported him, he remained indifferent, with neither a violent reaction nor a secret arrangement. Instead, he sat back and watched as the old senior officials who once supported him were eliminated one by one, and one by one he took over the subordinate forces that annexed the old senior officials.
This also made Onoki feel relieved but also a little chilly - his son seemed to be growing up too fast or even too much.
"...What a troubled time!"
Thinking of this, Onoki dropped the pen in his hand, rubbed his sore eyes, and sighed.
Annexing the branches of this faction and striving to knead the forces together is what Iwagakure has always called "unity" - as long as what's yours becomes mine, then we will be a family from now on!
This is the truth behind united Iwagakure!
Ohnoki looked out the office window at the wild stone hills, which were also a symbol of Iwakaku's unity.
The unity of Iwagakure is not achieved overnight, it is the result of the persistence of the Tsuchikage throughout the generations. Behind the unity, there is naturally a side of disunity, but those disunited Iwagakure have already laid down in the rock formations and passed away.
"...Kumogakure is expanding his army?"
After Ohnoki rested for a while, he picked up the documents on the table and read them again. When he saw the information about Kumogakure, he couldn't help but frown.
The pace of Kumogakure's recovery was much faster and bolder than he imagined.
"Send a letter to the Daimyo asking for increased military spending!"
Ohnoki immediately wrote down his opinion on the document.
But then he hesitated, erased the original handling opinions, and wrote again:
"Transfer to the ninja class to handle this matter!"
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