Konoha: Rebuild the glory of the Uchiha

Chapter 64 You evil old devil of the Senju family!

"Are you satisfied now?"

Tobirama Senju looked at Uchiha Nan with a gloomy face. He had actually been reduced to calling an evil brat from the Uchiha clan "Hokage-sama"!

It's truly a case of a tiger fallen into the plains being bullied by dogs.

But fortunes change every thirty years, so let's wait and see!

"I'm fairly satisfied."

Uchiha Nan nodded, quite satisfied with Senju Tobirama's submission.

Tobirama Senju's cry of "Hokage-sama!" made Uchiha Nan feel as refreshed as drinking ice water on a sweltering summer day.

In all the years that Tobirama Senju has dominated the ninja world, the only Uchiha he could compromise to this extent is himself.

Cool!

"Enough with the nonsense, what do you want me to research?"

"Do you want a forbidden technique that can kill hundreds of people in an instant, a forbidden technique that can modify and strengthen your own body, or a forbidden technique like the Impure World Reincarnation that desecrates the souls of the dead?"

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Tobirama Senju launched into a long explanation of his forbidden techniques to Uchiha Nan. He had extensive knowledge of the development of forbidden techniques and even stated that he could handle all of them for Uchiha Nan as long as the funding was sufficient.

Even a fool could see that Uchiha Kusanagi went to such great lengths to resurrect himself using the Impure World Reincarnation technique in order to develop a powerful forbidden jutsu.

Since we're after excitement, let's go all the way. I had some ideas about these forbidden techniques during my lifetime, but for various reasons, I was unable to develop them.

What a pity.

As Uchiha Nan listened to Tobirama Senju's rambling introduction, he frowned. "Tobirama Senju, how dare you call me the evil brat of the Uchiha clan?"

Tobirama Senju, you really enjoy developing forbidden techniques for killing, so why can't you use your research capabilities to improve the productivity of the ninja world and benefit all the people of the ninja world?

"You evil old devil from the Senju family!"

"Who asked you to research and develop these pointless, forbidden murder techniques!"

Uchiha Nan couldn't help but curse, which startled Tobirama Senju, who was speaking eloquently.

These are my lyrics!

"What do you mean?"

Tobirama Senju was a little confused about Uchiha Nan's intentions. Isn't the purpose of scientific research to develop forbidden techniques? If ninjas don't use forbidden techniques to kill people, what else do they want to do?

"Tobirama, you have disappointed me greatly."

"But in the end, it's not your fault. Even though you were once a Hokage, you're still just a ninja at heart."

"A ninja only needs to think about killing, but a Hokage has to think about many other things."

Uchiha Nan shook his head. As the Hokage, having to ask the Daimyo for money and beg for help was simply too humiliating.

"What do you mean?"

"Are you saying I'm unqualified to be Hokage?"

Tobirama Senju glared at Uchiha Nan with hostility. He was the one who built Konoha from scratch.

The eldest brother, Hashirama, only provided military intimidation. He spent his days eating, drinking, and having fun, while Madara Uchiha was sneaking around doing who-knows-what. Madara would often swindle money from him and then lose it at the gambling den.

He founded Konoha himself, yet he dares to imply that he, as Hokage, is unqualified?

"Of course not. You are certainly qualified to be Hokage, but I think there is still a lot of room for improvement."

"For example, regarding the issue of funding."

Uchiha Nan was implying that having multiple daimyo above one's head was superfluous.

The term "Daimyo" does not refer to a specific person, but rather to a system that has been entrenched in the ninja world for thousands of years. Uchiha Nan found the distorted and deformed technological development, backward productivity, and production relations extremely displeasing.

"snort!"

"The Fire Country Daimyo provides the highest funding for Konoha in the entire ninja world!"

"I asked for several billion more this year!"

"Let me tell you, according to my estimates, the budget for Sunagakure in the Land of Wind might be cut even further!"

Tobirama Senju felt that Uchiha Nan was nitpicking, and that he had indeed overspent a lot during his tenure as Hokage in order to win the war.

However, it's not normal for war to burn through funds!

Which ninja village isn't in debt right now?

Konoha's finances are already considered excellent, and they also have a big sponsor who is willing to give Konoha extra money to help them recover!

Ugh?

Tobirama Senju, you're quite proud of yourself?!

They've even started comparing how bad things are! This damned tradition of comparing how bad things are seems to be prevalent in every world!

"Tobirama, we need to broaden our perspective. Why should we ask the daimyo for money?"

"We must learn to be self-reliant!"

Uchiha Nan decided to try to comfort Tobirama Senju.

"You mean the money the ninjas get for taking on missions?"

Tobirama Senju looked at Uchiha Nan and thought Uchiha Nan had lost his mind.

The self-sufficiency of ninja villages is simply sending ninjas out to take on missions and taking a cut, but at most they can only take three-tenths of the profits.

The lion's share still needs to be left to the ninjas, and they still want to take more money for Konoha. Tobirama Senju is worried that he might be ambushed by his own ninjas when he walks at night.

This amount of money is basically a drop in the ocean when it comes to war; it will be gone in a few months.

Since the ninja village has no national support, it's okay in peacetime, but it can't be sustained for long in the event of war.

Who doesn't want to be self-reliant and stand tall? Even a hero can be brought down by a penny. Even if you work yourself to death on an S-rank mission, you still can't earn as much funding as those daimyo.

"Of course not. I mean we can also engage in production, establish our own production methods, and then these powerful names will become useless."

Uchiha Nan felt that it could be put more clearly that ninjas might not need daimyo in the future, but the power of daimyo in the ninja world right now should not be underestimated, and this power certainly does not refer to force.

Although ninjas are powerful, their numbers are extremely small.

The scale of a single Fourth Shinobi World War was only a battle of tens of thousands of ninjas, while Konoha's current ninja force has been severely reduced to the point that it can't even muster five figures.

However, the number of ordinary people in the ninja world is far too large, measured in hundreds of millions. Moreover, ninjas have a bad reputation among the common people, being called killing tools, executioners, and all sorts of other derogatory terms.

The name represents the interests of ordinary people and a group of conservatives.

Ninjas are a newer generation, an imported species, originating from the Otsutsuki clan. In the past, samurai were the dominant force, possessing considerable strength.

Aside from the descendants of the Otsutsuki family, ordinary ninjas start out weak and are initially ostracized by the samurai as outcasts.

However, as the ninjutsu system continued to develop and improve, the power of ninjas became stronger and stronger, even to the point that they could kill samurai at will.

The former daimyo were keenly aware of this and began to win over the ninjas, offering them money, women, and food.

Over countless years, the practice of ninjas serving the daimyo and receiving generous rewards in return gradually became a tradition, allowing everyone to continue enjoying themselves together.

It's just a matter of making the common people suffer a little more.

The penholder is still in the hands of the daimyo, and the ninja tool theory has emerged over a long period of time. What a mess!

These various reasons make it difficult for ninjas to rise to become true rulers.

Uchiha Nan pondered inwardly, awaiting Tobirama Senju's reply.

Let me patch this up. It's really unreasonable for the Daimyo to stand so high above the ninjas. I can only try to improve the world-building with my own logic. If you, the readers, feel that the explanation is not thorough enough...

That's all Kishimoto's fault!!!

(End of this chapter)