Konoha: This Uchiha just wants to lie down.

Chapter 362 Daming: He slandered me!

The joint delegation has just left the castle tower.

Rumors are one step ahead.

[Shocked, the daimyo assassinated his subordinates, is this a distortion of human nature or a loss of morality! ]

[The daimyo wanted to crush the castle tower into ashes!]

[Suppress the new forces. The Fire Nation will never allow any forces that disobey! ]

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It's almost like this kind of clickbait title.

In order to spread the rumor quickly, pharmacist Nono was specially transferred back from the Tea Kingdom.

Get started first!
Once these rumors take root in the minds of the people of the Fire Nation, no matter how the daimyo and nobles spread them later, people will have preconceived ideas.

In addition, several territories that rebelled against the daimyo were mysteriously wiped out.

As a result, the rumor that the daimyo wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to deal with the forces that did not obey him also spread rapidly.

that's it.

Before the Fire Nation Daimyo could react, several blames had already been put on his head.

Although the messenger used a carrier pigeon to deliver the message in advance after leaving the castle tower, for some unknown reason, the pigeon "disappeared" halfway.

In addition to publicity and small moves, the castle tower also began to gather fighting forces.

The Tea Kingdom has now completely turned into a castle tower, and does not need so many people to be stationed there. Uchiha Sho, the quasi-shadow, and the ninjas can be withdrawn.

Just send a few teams to "protect" the Daimyo of the Tea Country.

Now the key to solving the problem no longer lies with him, but with the castle tower.

Without taking over the castle tower, no one can take back the Tea Kingdom from them. In addition, most of the joint envoys died in the castle tower (out of more than a dozen envoys, only one survived), so the Fire Kingdom Daimyo must give an "explanation" to the other daimyos.

Even if it's just for this reason, we must build a castle tower.

Except for the Tea Kingdom, the River Kingdom of the castle tower, the Wind Kingdom mining area... and other areas, only a small number of troops were left, and all other ninjas began to retreat.

This time the castle tower also seized a good opportunity to launch an attack.

The Kingdom of Wind and the Kingdom of Water are busy with other things, so they won't be able to help much even if the messenger dies.

After all, the envoys sent out were just to make up the numbers. If they die, they die. They will not really take action regardless of their own situation.

Only the Fire Nation has nowhere to retreat.

After all, you are the leader of the joint mission. Now that so many people have died, if you, as the leader, don't step up, how will your younger brothers see you?

Now, even if we say that the castle tower was not responsible, no one will believe it, and no one is willing to believe it.

There are many people who want to see the Fire Country in trouble, at least all the daimyos in the joint delegation do so. They are secretly fanning the flames, fearing that a fight will break out between the daimyos and the castle tower.

The Fire Country is so rich that people are drooling at its riches, but due to the existence of Konoha, they have been unable to achieve their goals time and time again.

Now that they have a chance to witness the internal strife in the Land of Fire, they are eager to cheer for the castle tower.

Of course, this is just a secret thought.

On the surface, they naturally support the Fire Nation. After all, they are all nobles and naturally cannot betray their own class.

The Fire Country Daimyo only learned everything after the envoy rushed back to Kyoto.

After knowing that all the envoys from the daimyo had died except for the one he sent, he immediately put the blame on the castle tower.

But before he could publicly accuse the castle tower, he found that the news that he had sent people to 'assassinate' the other party had spread throughout the Fire Country.

Even more than that, several guys he disliked in the past also died.

The problem is that the crime was pinned on such a famous person.

Although he was indeed happy that those guys were dead, he was very dissatisfied that the crime was put on his head.

"Damn it!"

"How dare these untouchables spread such rumors!"

“They slandered me!”

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The daimyo was not even in the mood to drink and have fun.

angry!
So angry!

As the supreme being of the Land of Fire, he had never been treated like this before. Even Konoha had to be extremely respectful to him, and even the promotion to the position of Hokage required his permission (formally). Now he was being blamed for several things, how could he not be angry?

Once the daimyo gets angry, the consequences can be imagined.

So, the plan that had been prepared was immediately implemented, and it turned out to be much bigger than planned.

Fire temples, guardian ninjas, ninja villages (small family forms), wild ninjas... and the like began to gather.

At the same time, a large number of foot soldiers and samurai also took action.

After all, the castle tower is located in the territory of the Land of Fire, so these ordinary troops can also be put to use, even if they are used for transportation and as cannon fodder to consume the enemy's kunai and detonating tags.

The daimyo also announced that the castle tower would be arrested and taken to Kyoto for trial because they had killed the envoys of the joint delegation.

As for Konoha, it remained neutral and did not help either side.

Even though Konoha is the military agency of the Fire Nation and has funding from the Daimyo, the relationship is not as good as advertised.

Double jade!

But this is the consensus of the Fire Nation.

That is, the status of the Hokage is the same as that of the Daimyo, and neither side is satisfied with this.

The radical faction among the guardian ninjas felt that the Fire Nation did not need two jades, and only the Daimyo's jade was enough.

Therefore, the Daimyo of the Land of Fire would naturally not let Konoha take action.

He felt that he could easily deal with a "insignificant" Konoha-affiliated force.

As the number of ninja troops exceeded two thousand, the daimyo felt that taking down the castle tower, which had less than a few hundred ninjas (according to his intelligence), would be a piece of cake.

This time, he wanted to make these lowly ninjas understand a truth.

Nobles cannot be humiliated, and ninjas can only survive in the ninja world by obediently serving them as dogs.

Yes, in the eyes of the nobles, ninjas are just their dogs.

As for the civilians?

In the eyes of the nobles, they are not even living beings, but just production tools and consumables, even worse than ninjas.

All I can say is that the nobles in the ninja world are even more "Celestial Dragons" than the "Celestial Dragons".

If they could do something as a human being, they would not do nothing at all.

More than two thousand ninjas, tens of thousands of foot soldiers and samurai!
This formation attracted the attention of the entire ninja world.

Unfortunately, in response to the actions of the Fire Nation, the castle tower simply quietly built fortresses and defense lines outside the castle tower.

It was not built too far, only extending outward by about a hundred kilometers.

A Genin could cross the gap using the Flickering Technique in less than two hours, while a Jonin might only need a few dozen minutes.

The area covered by the defense line is approximately tens of thousands of square kilometers, which is equivalent to one-tenth of the area occupied by United Fruit in the River Kingdom.

However, most of the land over there cannot be used, while the land in the Fire Nation can all be used as long as it can be developed, and there will be no waste at all.

And the area is not small.

The Grass Kingdom is only a few hundred thousand square kilometers in size. If the castle tower occupies this area, it can be called a "country within a country."

Although this kind of thing is common for nobles, it is very different for ninjas.

Just like in Konoha Village, apart from the village land, the land outside strictly speaking belongs to the Fire Country, and the development potential has long been locked.

That is why the village covets the hundreds of thousands of acres of arable land near the castle tower.

This is something that can completely belong to the ninja. Once obtained, they can reduce their dependence on the nobles.

Konoha now relies heavily on the Fire Nation for all kinds of supplies, especially food.

Not to mention other aspects, as long as the Fire Nation cuts off their food supply, Konoha will be short of food in an instant, and it will take too many means to deal with them.

If it is a castle tower, the style of painting will be different.

Since they did not ask for help from the Fire Nation in any aspect, they were no longer dependent on it and had autonomy.

He simply doesn't care about his reputation, which is what makes the village leaders envious.

If you ask them to develop the wilderness, they certainly can't do it. But if you ask them to seize the achievements of others, they not only have the courage to do so, but they are also very brave.

Being neutral now is also for future planning.

(End of this chapter)