In the Sand Village, the clones are everywhere, and the Arkham game begins

Chapter 136: The War is Over, Loulan Mission

"There are only interests between countries. I'm afraid that the fragile alliance between us and Iwagakure will soon end. The Third Kazekage also agreed to a truce with Konoha because just a few days ago, Ebizo sent a message that someone discovered Kirigakure's secret reconnaissance unit on the western border."

Chiyo sat upright in her seat and said to the group of jonin.

What Kirigakure does is, of course, to scout out where there is more wealth and where they can make a fortune.

After all, there is a vast ocean between the two countries. Only Kirigakure would be crazy to think of occupying the territory of the Wind Country.

The geographical environment of the western coastline of the Kingdom of Wind is similar to the Mediterranean climate, and it is a rare habitable area. Although its area only occupies a part of the vast territory of the Kingdom of Wind, it is one of the most important and richest regions of the Kingdom of Wind.

"In this case, it is indeed necessary to conduct naval exercises with Konoha. Under external pressure, both sides need to end the conflict as soon as possible and deter the Land of Lightning and the Land of Water."

Qingshui thought silently.

In the past, it was because Konoha was too strong, and the fierce man Hanzo put a huge pressure on Sand Village and Rock Village. The two sides could only have a chance of winning by joining forces.

But now, Sunagakure and Konoha, the two strongest military forces in the Rain Country, want a ceasefire. Hanzo, as the most formidable force in the Rain Country, also wants a ceasefire. Even if Iwagakure doesn't want to stop, it has to stop.

With the main force of Iwagakure still fighting against Kirigakure, it would be difficult for the Five-Tails Jinchuriki and the remaining forces alone to defeat Hanzo, let alone the other two countries.

What's more, both Sand Village and Iwagakure have gained the advantage and have plundered a lot of wealth and resources from the Rain Country. If the top leaders of Iwagakure can judge the situation, they will naturally stop while they are ahead.

Chiyo continued to arrange some tasks for when the situation changed again, and assigned them to each senior ninja to lead the team.

This made Shimizu realize that the war between Sand Village, Konoha and Amegakure, which had lasted for many years, was finally coming to an end.

As Konoha frees up its strength, the protracted Second Ninja World War will slowly come to an end, even if it has not yet ended.

Maybe it will only be a few months, or maybe a year or two, but the intensity of the war will slowly decrease until it ends.

Konoha was eager to negotiate, and Sunagakure also wanted to reap the benefits as soon as possible, so both sides announced a ceasefire within two days, but the garrison had not yet withdrawn immediately.

The basis of negotiation is strength. Everyone wants to gain more benefits in the negotiation, so appropriate toughness is necessary.

However, Konoha was indeed very anxious. It seemed that after some testing, it decisively gave up some of the interests that could be given up, just to maintain the bottom line. Therefore, it only took four or five days for Chiyo to complete the negotiations with Konoha.

So both sides began to withdraw their troops.

Shimizu was in the first group to evacuate, but he did not return directly to the Sand Village.

Chiyo assigned Shimizu and others a seemingly easy task, and before leaving, she sent Maki a notice of promotion to special jonin.

After Shimizu and Yekura, Maki finally mastered the nature changes of wind jutsu, and with enough accumulated military merits, he successfully joined the ranks of special jonin.

However, Ye Cang has now mastered the changes in the nature of wind escape, and has begun to seek the achievements and merits needed for promotion to a jonin, and even to explore information in preparation for the future fusion of bloodline limits.

Currently, apart from the One-Tail Jinchuriki, there are only two relatively stable ways for the Sand Village to produce Kage-level powerhouses. One is the White Secret Technique in puppetry, and the other is the magnetic escape technique that is a combination of wind escape technique and earth escape technique.

Ye Cang is neither a puppeteer nor has earth-attributed chakra, but she does have the talent to become a Kage-level warrior, so she must make plans early. If she fuses the Scorch Release in the future and trains new Scorch Release ninjas like the Third Kazekage, the Sand Village will have a third way to produce a Kage-level warrior.

As for Shimizu, with Chiyo's support, the pressure of being promoted to Jonin is not that great. He also has the knowledge of puppetry passed down from the time of Monzaemon, which can help him be promoted to Kage level stably. He has the brightest future among the three.

Back to the topic, Chiyo's task for the few people was to lead them to Loulan to discuss the future development direction of Loulan on behalf of Sunagakure and the Queen of Loulan.

This is just superficial rhetoric.

Loulan is located at the junction of the Wind Kingdom and the River Kingdom. It is a large oasis in the Gobi Desert. Previously, Konoha's sphere of influence expanded to the River Kingdom. A small country like Loulan is located at the junction of two super powers in the ninja world. In order to protect itself, it can only be a fence-sitter.

Even because Konoha is stronger, they will be more biased towards Konoha and issue tasks to Konoha more often.

But now Konoha has given up its interests in the River Country, and the River Country has become the sphere of influence of the Sand Village, so Loulan is in a very awkward situation.

Qingshui and his men went there to settle accounts with Loulan.

If the Queen of Loulan is sensible and willing to pay a certain price and cooperate with the Sand Village in the future, things will be easier for both sides.

In the future, garrison ninjas from the Sand Village will naturally enter Loulan to provide "protection" for Loulan, and officials from the daimyo will come to negotiate with the Queen of Loulan and her ministers.

If they don't know what's best for them, Qingshui and the others will have to eliminate all the power of the Queen of Loulan in Loulan, making the Queen unable to do anything and becoming a puppet.

After that, he would place someone as the new minister of Loulan and then conduct negotiations.

The results are the same. The only difference is whether Qingshui and the others have to put in more effort. There is definitely no possibility of failure in this mission.

In general, Shimizu and his team's mission is to clear away obstacles for the Sand Village to smoothly take over Loulan in the future and turn it into their own sphere of influence.

Because it was a mission between countries, this mission was rated as S-level, which meant that Chiyo had prepared an opportunity for Shimizu to complete an S-level mission relatively easily.

Feng Shang Qianlan is still the leader of this mission. This is the rule. The ninja leading an S-level mission must be at least a Jonin.

After leaving the Rain Country, the four-member team marched all the way and arrived at Loulan in five days at a leisurely pace.

"Is this Loulan? It looks like there's a lot of construction going on here."

On the streets of Loulan, Ye Cang looked at a large building under construction in the distance and asked curiously.

"The current Queen of Loulan should not be a vulgar person."

Feng Shang Qianlan looked at the surrounding scenery and said.

"Ten years ago, I came here on a mission. Back then, Loulan was just a small town that had grown up on the oasis. Now, it seems to have gradually evolved into a large city. To be able to develop this place to such a scale at the junction of two major forces, her abilities in both domestic affairs and diplomacy must be quite good."

(End of this chapter)