From a Pirate to a Revolutionary Mentor

Chapter 375 Four years later, the prairie fire
To the Daimyo of the Five Great Nations, a Ninja is a blade without a handle.

When the blade of a knife reaches a certain sharpness, it will cause harm to the person holding it.

Since the Warring States Period to the Ninja Village Era, wandering ninjas and rebel ninjas have explained this situation countless times.

There were many nobles of the Land of Water, and many lower-ranking nobles who were killed by rebel ninjas due to black market bounties during the Blood Mist Village period.

Focusing hatred on the lower-ranking nobles who did the job was itself a practice that the Daimyo Prefecture had accumulated over the years of experience.

In the ninja world, sometimes strength is not everything.

The documentary records of the five major ninja villages are far from those of the daimyo. The chaos of the Warring States period even caused the various ninja clans to forget their own ancestors.

The aristocratic interest community was born before the Warring States Period.

During the Warring States Period, the various ninja clans that were formed by the disintegration of the ninja clan did not form an organized force at that time.

The surname represents everything in the ninja clan, and it also makes them not accept ordinary people, let alone ninjas with other surnames.

In such a state of disunity, the average life expectancy of ordinary people was reduced to thirty years old, the same as that of ninjas.

To the nobles, the lives of the untouchables were not worth mentioning.

But if too many casualties among ordinary people affect their interests, then this ninja clan or wandering ninjas will attract attacks from larger clans.

The exchange of interests is carried out in the form of tasks.

There are constant conflicts between ninja villages, and mission commissions have become the best traction rope, allowing them to go wherever they want.

Until...the appearance of Hashirama Senju.

The man known as the God of Ninja was the first person since ancient times to make the nobles feel fear and uneasiness.

The ninjas, who were originally scattered, actually united together under the insistence of Hashirama Senju and formed the village organization.

Konoha alone includes a series of families including the Senju, Uchiha, Hyuga, Sarutobi, Ino-Shikacho, Shimura, Kurama, etc.

The nobles would not allow such an existence.

The meeting started immediately.

But the result of this meeting did not satisfy them.

Hashirama Senju married into the Uzumaki clan, and the originally planned sealing technique did not have any effect.

On the contrary, Hashirama Senju's Wood Release made the entire ninja world realize what the power of the God of Ninja is.

During the Warring States Period, the several battles between the Senju and Uchiha, and the competition between Wood Release and Mangekyō Sharingan eye techniques, formed the reputation of the two heroes of the ninja world.

For the first time since ancient times, the noble group was powerless to prevent the formation of Konoha.

During that period, the five-party talks were held very frequently.

It was also during that time that the Battle of the Valley of the End broke out.

The formation of a village gathers a large population, and not everyone in the ninja village is necessarily a ninja. Among them, the elderly, the weak, women and children of each ninja clan are also the biggest expense.

At the same time, the number of mission commissions was suppressed, and with a shortage of funds and supplies, it seemed that Konoha could only continue to exist by plundering the entire Fire Country by force.

The position of the first Hokage is still undecided, and the Uchiha clan is being targeted by the entire ninja village because of their character and past events.

At that time, any little girl in Konoha would be scared by Uchiha Madara.

This does not mean that Uchiha Madara is ugly, but it is because of the teachings and examples in his family.

Uchiha Madara, the then head of the Uchiha clan, proposed at the Konoha Conference to conquer the Fire Country by force in order to obtain supplies to keep the village going.

But Hashirama Senju and other ninja clans opposed it.

The attitude of the common people towards ninjas is completely different from that towards the nobles.

For hundreds and thousands of years, conflicts between ninjas resulted in the deaths of civilians, which was not uncommon, and Konoha had no foundation for ruling.

This is what each ninja village saw, and this is also what Hashirama Senju saw.

After the meeting, Hashirama Senju became the first Hokage of Konoha. Uchiha Madara could see that there would still be no peace in the ninja world in the future under the ninja village system.

Uchiha Madara asked his tribesmen to leave with him, but the comfortable life in the village had made them no longer want to be displaced, nor did they want to be on guard against the enemy's night attacks all the time.

So... the whole village betrayed him.

The Battle of the Valley of the End breaks out.

Since then, the ninja clans within the five major countries.

Once again, people witnessed the power that could change the terrain.

Hashirama Senju had a conversation with the Daimyo of the Land of Fire and proposed that the relationship between the village and the country be determined.

Based on this, the daimyo of each country developed the current way of dealing with the situation.

The powers that be gave in and allowed two jades to appear in name only in one country.

However, the succession of the Kage requires the consent of the daimyo.

Once there is a possibility of a coup in one of the ninja villages, the villages under the other four countries will unite to wipe out this village.

Of course, a country without military power naturally has no meaning of existence.

Like a ring, a closed loop is formed here, allowing the ninja village system to continue to this day.

……

Four years later, Konoha Ninja School.

"Wherever leaves flutter, fire will burn. The shadow of the fire will illuminate the village and make new leaves sprout..."

"You represent the leaves that have just sprouted. The birth of new life also represents new possibilities for the world."

“You are the future of the village, but also the future of the world. Where the world will go in the future depends on your choices.”

After the opening remarks, Kevin divided a stack of white paper into four parts and passed them from front to back among the four groups.

"Before I tell you about the past of this world, I want you to write down your dreams."

At this time, a child with golden hair raised his hand.

"Naruto."

"Teacher, I want to be the Hokage! I want everyone to know that I'm not just the Hokage's son!"

Kevin laughed dumbly: "If you shout like that, the whole class will know. But... you don't have any special privileges with me, and your father didn't have any either."

Naruto was embarrassed when he heard this.

He looked around and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he realized that Sakura was not looking at him because she was staring at Sasuke.

After sitting down, Naruto touched Sasuke's arm and asked, "What is your dream?"

Sasuke crossed his fingers and rested his chin on them, with a very confident attitude: "I want to be a strong ninja like my brother."

The girls on the side exclaimed and said things like, "He's so handsome."

Then, blank sheets of paper were handed to them.

Naruto and Sasuke wrote down their dreams, Hyuga Hinata hesitated and didn't start writing, Inuzuka Kiba glanced at Akamaru, and Aburame Shino wrote about improving her sense of existence...

The new generation of Konoha are now looking forward to their future.

Meanwhile, in the Hokage Building, Minato Namikaze negotiated with the envoys of the Land of Fire Daimyo for the twelfth time this year. "The history classes in Konoha have become a serious threat to the existence of the Daimyo. This kind of class that teaches dangerous ideas must be stopped immediately!"

"I have said many times that history classes are only to tell newborns about the heroic stories of Konoha's past. From the difficulties of the first Hokage in founding Konoha to the heroes of the village under the memorial stone, these can enhance the cohesion of the village."

It's an old excuse, but it doesn't seem to work this time.

The envoy from Daimyo Prefecture was very determined and even interrupted Minato Namikaze's words directly.

You know, Ying is also nominally a Jade from the Fire Nation.

"The Fourth Hokage!"

"To teach the realities of Konoha's heroes of the past, there is no need to talk to students about class antagonism!"

Fujiwara no Oya stepped forward and looked directly at Minato Namikaze: "The Rain Country's academy has spread further again, and the invasion of the Wind Country and the Fire Country is the most serious. What do you want to do?"

The words were almost coercive, but they did not make Minato Namikaze lose his composure.

His attitude remained mild: "The history class in the Ninja School has existed for four years. At the beginning, the Daimyo Prefecture did not object. And now, this course cannot be stopped."

Can't...stop!
Such an answer made Fujiwara no Oya hold his breath.

Because this is the answer that the Daimyo Prefecture is most unwilling to receive, and it is also the answer that the Daimyo Lord fears the most.

Four years later, they discovered they were wrong.

He originally wanted to obtain that special power and end the daimyo's reliance on ninjas for military force, but the efforts of nearly four years were all wasted overnight.

They were still cautious enough, and everyone sent to schools in various places was actually a noble.

No one would betray their class; this was the conclusion they had reached over the past thousands of years.

Some of these people were never able to awaken that power, while others awakened the so-called domineering power within two or three years.

This group of people also passed a lot of information to the Daming Prefecture over the past four years, including a phased training schedule.

The noble warriors of the daimyo prefecture began to try to practice in this way, but apart from becoming a little stronger, none of them awakened the so-called domineering power.

A week ago...

The Daimyo of the Land of Wind met with the Fourth Kazekage and got the answer of the seed.

Afterwards, the daimyo's staff began to look up historical records and compared them with the brief words of the Six Paths Sage that granted people chakra in the early days of the Ninja Sect.

seed……

Without being granted the seed, the power called Haki cannot be awakened.

The strength of the will that grants the seed also determines the intensity of the domineering power.

At the same time, internal intelligence from the Rain Country shows that the changes in this country in four years can be said to be earth-shaking.

This is why the Fourth Kazekage of the Sand Village urgently had to talk with the Daimyo of the Wind Country.

"You should know what you are talking about! The Fourth Hokage... Minato Namikaze!"

Fujiwara no Ya said sternly: "If Lord Hokage has such an attitude, then we will immediately notify all the major countries, and no mission commissions will be given to Konoha anymore."

"At the same time, without the protection of the Fire Nation, the other four nations will also order their respective ninja villages to begin encircling Konoha."

"The Fourth Hokage was born a commoner, so he may not believe what I said. Perhaps you can ask the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen. This is the restriction imposed by the Daimyo of each country on the Ninja Village after the establishment of the Ninja Village system."

Hearing this, Minato Namikaze raised his head slightly.

After becoming Hokage, many things that I didn't understand in the past, I will eventually understand.

The responsibility that comes with power makes people grow.

but……

"Perhaps you didn't understand what I meant."

Namikaze Minato paused, then continued: "Four years have passed, and you have lost a lot of opportunities. Among the five major ninja villages, can you really command the other four?"

Hearing this, Fujiwara no Oya took two steps back and sat down on the ground.

The other party... knows.

At the same time, this also verifies a problem. The thoughts of Konoha, Sunagakure, and Kirigakure may have been changed by the school organization in the Rain Country.

Among the three great nations, there is the Golden Flash, an existence feared by the Daimyo Prefecture.

Space-time ninjutsu shouldn't appear in this world!
Minato stood up and walked over to Fujiwara no Oya who was sitting on the ground.

The voice no longer had the gentleness it had before.

"The Rain Country has made great progress in technology, and they are also able to use the energy in the Wind Country. High-quality crop seeds and fertilizers appeared four years ago, but the Fire Country still has not fully promoted them."

"What are you afraid of?"

"Use ninja clans to control ninja clans, use ninja villages to control ninja villages, and use the economic lifeline to control ninjas as tools. When there are too many people, wars will begin, forcing resource-poor villages like Sunagakure to provoke wars."

"What are you afraid of?"

"Before the Warring States Period, you people were already sitting high in the daimyo's palace, controlling the resources of this world generation after generation."

"Tell me, what are you afraid of now?"

As soon as he finished speaking, streaks of red lightning spread across Minato Namikaze's body.

The power of the domineering aura made the envoy from the Fire Nation in front of him faint.

Four years ago, he was still thinking about putting on a play. Although it didn't happen in the end, the situation is very different compared to today.

The spark had already started during the Third Shinobi World War, and now it has spread like wildfire.

Those who used to sit on the throne are now in panic, but they have no other means.

Ohnoki of the Iwagakure Village is no fool. With his temperament, if he knew for the first time that it was a two-on-three situation, or even a two-on-two situation, he would definitely not gamble the fate of the Iwagakure directly.

Although the Fourth Raikage of Kumogakure has a bad temper, he is not a stupid guy.

On the contrary, after succeeding the Raikage, a series of issues concerning the country and the village may have made him feel depressed for so many years.

"Comrade Hokage."

Shikaku frowned and glanced at the envoy from the Daimyo Prefecture who was slumped on the ground.

"Isn't it too early in this case?"

Minato shook his head slightly, "They haven't been forced into a corner yet. Even though the balance has been broken, they will still compromise."

Shikaku nodded.

For thousands of years since the Warring States Period, those who hold the pinnacle of power in this world will not be willing to fight to the death.

And he still fought hard even though he knew he couldn't win.

"But it is inevitable that the number of missions entrusted to us will decrease. If we don't break up, they will have other plans."

"I know, but these are no longer binding, are they?"

……

(End of this chapter)