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Chapter 154: Hokage's Small Circle
"Do you all think I'm particularly stupid?"

Minato Namikaze had stopped doing his favorite job of reviewing documents. He sat there with his head down, holding his broken pen, and spoke in a low voice. His voice was extremely dull, and one could hear that he was full of frustration.

"No, not really. Everyone knows that you just got the power and you are a little excited. This is understandable and will get better in the future. After all, you became the Hokage from an elite jonin. You have not received any administrative training at all. It is understandable that you don't understand these things."

Uchiha Shisui had some understanding of these things. To be honest, in the entire Konoha Village, only the Second Hokage was a real Hokage, and the other Hokage were not real Hokage.

All the power of the first generation Kimiyama Hashirama was controlled by his younger brother, because he was a symbolic mascot.

The second generation Senju Tobirama, that is the real Hokage, everything in Konoha was created by his hands.

Moreover, the structures of all the ninja villages in the entire ninja world were all learned from Konoha. Basically, they had everything that Konoha had, so the second generation could be said to be the teacher of the ninja villages.

As for the Third Hokage, he was appointed in a time of crisis. He could be considered a student of the Second Hokage, but he had not received any administrative training. Therefore, he directly distributed his power to his classmates, and then the entire Konoha began to decline.

If they had not been trained in the second generation, White Fang and the Three Ninjas would not have been able to win the Second and Third Wars.

Even though Minato and the Sannin are more than ten years apart in age and they are in a master-disciple relationship, in fact, in Konoha's inheritance system, Namikaze Minato is also the second-generation successor.

By the time of Kakashi Hatake and his generation, they were the true descendants trained by the Third Hokage, but this generation did not produce any elites worthy of mention.

And the most important point is that the second generation trained a large number of civilian ninjas, and many talents were born among these civilian ninjas, including several strong ones like Gu Jie!

But by the time of the Third Generation, the training of civilian ninjas had been discontinued, and the ninjutsu that had been taught in the Ninja School before had all become basic Three Body Techniques, completely cutting off the training path for civilian ninjas, and all that were trained were family ninjas.

Even if civilian ninjas wanted to receive training, they had to worship other ninjas as their teachers and receive training in the master-apprentice tradition, rather than receiving initial training in ninja schools like the second generation, and then receiving subsequent training by giving rewards based on task completion.

In short, the second generation Hokage changed the ninja training path from family training and master-apprentice training to Konoha Village training, and by the third generation, the Konoha Village training was changed to family training and master-apprentice training.

Therefore, the Sandaime era was the period when the entire Konoha began to weaken. If it weren't for the fact that the Secondaime had laid a good foundation and the Konoha Village had a good enough position, Konoha would have been destroyed long ago.

By the time of the Fourth Hokage, he was a guy who would die as soon as he showed his head. He did nothing at all. Everything was still handled by the Third Hokage. So by the late Third Hokage, which is when the story begins, the entire Konoha had been visibly weakened.

When the Fifth Hokage Tsunade came to power, she may or may not have done any training, but regardless of whether she did, the Third Hokage's direct lineage was still used in Tsunade's era. Therefore, all of Tsunade's decrees needed to follow the Third Hokage's decrees.

The sixth Hokage, Kakashi Hatake, who came after him, was just a transitional Hokage, just to make room for the seventh Hokage, Naruto Uzumaki.

As for the seventh Hokage, Uzumaki Naruto, he was just a puppet Hokage, even worse than the fourth, fifth and sixth Hokage. This guy was completely useless.

The reason for all this is that the Third Generation did not provide any training for the subsequent Hokage, because what he really wanted to train were his two sons, but unfortunately he failed.

The cause of death of the eldest son is unknown, and the second son's head was chopped off and exchanged for 3000 million, which became a famous unit of money in the ninja world and will be recorded in the history of the ninja world along with Hatake Kakashi.

The harm he left behind was even more obvious. All the successive Hokage after the third generation had never received administrative training. Therefore, when dealing with administrative affairs, each one was worse than the other, and some even wasted their own strength on administrative orders.

Moreover, the training of students in the ninja school was completely abandoned, which resulted in the fact that after the third generation came to power for the second time, the Konoha Ninja School never trained any outstanding civilian ninjas.

Namikaze Minato sighed, "What should I do now? You guys obviously know everything, why don't you tell me?"

"People can't teach people. If we tell you, will you believe us? You just took back the power from the Third Hokage. If we tell you that you need to let go of the power, will you believe it? You see, now things can teach people, and they can learn it once they are taught. Haven't you already found that you are a little overwhelmed?"

Uchiha Shisui knew very well how busy Namikaze Minato was now. All matters were now handled by Namikaze Minato alone, even the lowest-level D-level tasks were his responsibility.

Although it seemed that the Third Hokage did the same thing as him, he just wrote a sentence "I know" on most of the things and was not responsible for anything else.

They had ruled Konoha for decades, and the Third Hokage knew exactly how the entire Konoha Village was run during these decades, so he was not worried about any problems with his handling of the matter.

Therefore, no matter how big the matter is, he just needs to write a sentence saying "I know", and he doesn't need to deal with the rest. The entire administrative system will handle all these matters.

What the Third Hokage really cared about were the small matters, like the missions of the newly graduated Genin. These were the things he was truly responsible for, because he wanted all the young ninjas to see how great and glorious he was.

It is very important to let all the young ninjas know that he is a good person. It is important enough to make some of the younger generation obey the orders of the Third Generation. Even if the order is to deal with their own family and kill their father and mother, they will do it!

There doesn't need to be many people like this in Konoha, just a few are enough!

Even at the critical moment, one is enough! After Uchiha Shisui told all these things, Namikaze Minato was a little dumbfounded. He never thought that his own Konoha Village would have so many problems.
Namikaze Minato smiled with a twisted expression, and it looked like he was forcing the corners of his mouth, "Uchiha Shisui, are you kidding me?"

At this time, Minato Namikaze no longer called Shisui, but called him by his full name.

"No, I was never kidding! In my opinion, the entire Konoha is now a makeshift team, especially you, the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, you are not qualified at all. You don't even know what you should do to be correct. You are just repeating what the Third Hokage asked you to do, and the Third Hokage is also doing what the Second Hokage asked him to do. But you don't understand that these things don't belong to you. You are all doing the most basic administrative work. These things have nothing to do with you!"

Uchiha Shisui looked at Namikaze Minato. He didn't think there was anything wrong with these jobs before. In other words, the entire Konoha, the entire ninja world, and all the Kages of the ninja villages worked in this way, with one person taking on all the work.

But in fact, these jobs have nothing to do with them!

It's just that they are all reckless men who only have muscles but no brains. They don't understand the subtleties of politics at all. They all think that it is right to take all the work into their own hands.

Namikaze Minato was just like that. He didn't think he did anything wrong. "Uchiha Shisui, you said I'm not qualified at all, then tell me where I'm not qualified!"

Minato Namikaze patted his desk, which was full of documents sent by various departments. Each item had to be signed and decided by the Hokage, and Minato Namikaze carefully checked and analyzed each document in detail, and then wrote down his own decision. Minato Namikaze could guarantee that he had not been lazy at all, and he had conducted the most detailed analysis of all matters in Konoha.

"You really want me to say that you are unqualified?"

Shisui put his hand on the head of the Chinchilla and stopped moving. Then he looked at Minato Namikaze. Shisui didn't believe in these power-hungry animals at all.

Anyone who points out my faults to my face will be rewarded!
It's enough to just listen to this kind of words. If you really believe them, then go crazy. In history, all those who were able to successfully give advice were of high status.

Zou Ji's Advice to King Qi is a good article, but who is Zou Ji?

This man was the Prime Minister of Qi State. Moreover, when Zou Ji advised the King of Qi to accept advice, there was Chunyu Kun behind him. Not many people knew the name Chunyu Kun, but it is not important.

What’s important is that he was one of the most influential scholars in the Jixia Academy at that time, and behind him was the Jixia Academy!

This is very important. The Jixia Academy was the largest political group in Qi State. Many high-ranking officials in Qi State had their own family positions there. The voice coming from here could be regarded as the voice of the entire high-ranking officials in Qi State. King Wei of Qi could not help but listen!
That's why Zou Ji advised King Qi to accept advice!
This is just the same as Wei Zheng representing the Hedong family. All the prestigious and loyal ministers have supporters behind them, and this cannot be changed.

Uchiha Shisui looked at Namikaze Minato and asked him whether he could point out where Namikaze Minato was not qualified. In fact, this can be seen as an inquiry, asking Namikaze Minato whether his family can join the political circle of Hokage.

Minato Namikaze had some understanding of these things, so for a moment he didn't know what to say!

The Uchiha clan's relationship with him was good, and their relationship with Konoha was also good, but that was another matter than joining the Hokage's political circle.

The political circle of Hokage is qualified to inherit the position of Hokage. No matter what, the position of Hokage must be passed down in the master-disciple way. This is determined by the second generation. Except for the Hokage, no one else is qualified to change it. However, the successive Hokage will not change it because this rule is beneficial to them.

The Third Hokage wanted his son to take over, so he never changed it. He even used this rule as an excuse to directly recruit the Ino, Shika, and Chou families and made the people from these three families become disciples of his son Asuma Sarutobi. This was actually telling the Ino, Shika, and Chou families to take sides, but he didn't play it right, and Asuma Sarutobi became a famous unit of measurement in the ninja world!
However, the next generation of Hokage returned to the master-disciple order. Whether it was the fifth generation Tsunade, the sixth generation Kakashi, or the seventh generation Naruto, they were all disciples of the previous generation Hokage. This determined the political circle of Hokage.

Now Uchiha Shisui's question is to inquire whether his own people are qualified to join this circle!
Minato Namikaze didn't know what to say, because in his generation, the Uchiha clan did have a chance to become Hokage. Hatake Kakashi and Uchiha Obito were both disciples of Minato Namikaze, and both of them were qualified to become Hokage, but it didn't happen in the end, otherwise the Uchiha clan would not have perished in the plot!
This is also the dilemma faced by Minato Namikaze. If he was not yet the Hokage, he could accept members of the Uchiha clan as his disciples. At that time, the other party would naturally have the right to inherit the Hokage and enter the political circle of the Hokage.

But now he is the Hokage, and the Hokage cannot accept disciples. If a Hokage accepts a disciple, he will be directly given the right to inherit the Hokage. This is not a big deal in other villages, because other villages are small, and this way of playing can ensure that the talents in their village receive the best training.

But Konoha can't do that. Konoha has a big plate and many big fish in the pond. In their pond, there are many top geniuses, and how to arrange these geniuses is very particular.

It doesn't mean that if a person is talented enough, the Hokage will accept him as his disciple.

If the Hokage wants to accept a disciple, it depends on the political structure of Konoha Village, and he just needs to make a variety of choices.

Just like Kakashi Hatake, who was able to become Minato Namikaze's disciple after his father's death, that was completely a compensation to Sakumo Hatake.

This is what the Hokage series owed to Hatake Sakumo, and they must pay compensation, so from the very beginning Hatake Kakashi was trained to be the Fifth Hokage.

If the Fourth Hokage had not died early and the Third Hokage had not died too early, and Kakashi Hatake had not grown into a Kage-level master at that time, Kakashi Hatake should have become the Fifth Hokage.

This matter was decided from the beginning.

If they don't do this, after Hatake Sakumo's death, his family and the forces behind him will be in chaos. Hatake Sakumo's family is not big and has a small population, which is similar to a civilian ninja family.

But because of this, Hatake Sakumo was placed in the position of spokesperson by the civilian ninjas during that period. He possessed the Hokage half-sleeves and had the same status as the Hokage among the daimyo. Therefore, Hatake Sakumo's suicide completely angered those ninjas who supported Hatake Sakumo!
If this matter is not dealt with, Konoha will be gone before the Third World War!
It was also because of this that Namikaze Minato had the opportunity to accept Hatake Kakashi as his disciple, and this signal of accepting a disciple was to tell everyone that Namikaze Minato would become the fourth Hokage, and Hatake Kakashi would become the successor to the Hokage, or even the only successor!
Because Uchiha Obito is from the prefabricated clan, letting him join the Hokage's political circle is just sending a signal. As for Nohara Rin, she was born as a civilian ninja and also joined the Hokage's political circle as a political signal, and she is not the heir.

So the moment Hatake Kakashi became the disciple of Namikaze Minato, he became the only successor to Hokage!
(End of this chapter)