Naruto Online: Hyuga Branch Family? Let's go all out!

Chapter 147 Madara's Big Plan

"The three biggest plot holes left by Tobirama are: first, the Hokage position; second, the Ninja Academy; and third, the National Guard!"

"Let's talk about the second one!"

"What's wrong with the Ninja Academy?" Madara thought for a moment and didn't see anything wrong with it!

Moreover, this policy was probably one of Tobirama's proudest achievements; once the Ninja Academy was established, other schools followed suit.

If it weren't a good policy, how could it have won the approval of all five villages?

"Ninja academies are great, but they teach too little!" Ning Yuan shook his head and said, "I did the math. Besides academic subjects, from the start of the semester to graduation, ninja academies only teach one technique: the Three Body Techniques, shuriken throwing, trap identification and construction, and one taijutsu..."

"What good can ninjas who graduate like this do on the battlefield? Isn't this just sending them to their deaths?"

"I can answer that question for you!" Madara said. "When the Ninja Academy was first established, the Senju and Uchiha clans contributed a large number of ninjutsu to the academy, hoping that students could learn some. However, we soon discovered that this idea was somewhat naive. Most students, even by graduation, didn't have enough chakra to unleash a C-rank ninjutsu. This situation wasn't limited to commoner ninjas; even some clan ninjas experienced this!"

"Not only would failing to learn ninjutsu severely damage the children's confidence, but later, all the major clans collectively opposed the decentralization of ninjutsu, so Tobirama withdrew the ninjutsu that our two families had contributed to the ninja academy's library. After that, the ninja academy stopped teaching ninjutsu!"

This isn't really a trap set by Konoha. Anyone who's watched Naruto knows that with so many people in a grade, even if they pass the exam on the Shadow Clone Technique, a large number of them still fail.

One consequence of focusing on the protagonist is that many people think learning ninjutsu is easy, since everyone has a lot of chakra.

But Naruto isn't an everyday person, and neither is Sakura Haruno.

Because of their poor performance, it was common for ninjas to be eliminated by Kakashi!

"After retracting the ninjutsu, we added a ninja team leadership system. We assign the best kids to Jonin to lead, and the more average ones to Chunin. This way, they can train under the guidance of Jonin and Chunin while learning some ninjutsu!"

At this point, Ban spread his hands: "I don't know what's wrong with this system!"

"Children start school at five and graduate at seven or eight. Isn't it normal that they can't learn ninjutsu?" Ning Yuan retorted. "Have you ever considered starting school at five and graduating at fifteen? If they can't learn it in a year, can't they learn it in ten?"

"Ah, this!" Madara was taken aback at first, and then fell silent.

"What were the criteria you used to set this minimum number of years of education?" Ning Yuan asked.

"Of course, it's the age we go to war!" Madara said. "I went to war with my father when I was five, so the original plan for the ninja academy was for students to enter at four and graduate at five. But then we thought that since there wasn't much war going on, we might as well postpone it for two years, so we changed it to seven years old to graduate!"

"Look at this, this is the problem that comes with governing a country with geniuses!" Ning Yuan said. "You, Tobirama, and Hashirama are all geniuses. You already possessed considerable strength when you were seven or eight years old. But the others aren't geniuses. Some of them couldn't even write when they were seven or eight, how could they possibly learn ninjutsu?"

Ban remained silent.

"The current situation is that children graduate at the age of eight or nine, learn the Three Body Techniques, and then start carrying out missions. Their teachers might teach them something if they're in a good mood, but if they're in a bad mood, they won't teach them anything. When war breaks out, these ninjas who only know the Three Body Techniques go to the battlefield, and then some die and others perish."

"With their deaths, this generation's efforts in raising them have been in vain. They should have lived to adulthood, married, and had children, but now all of that is gone. Thus, Konoha's potential for growth has been interrupted!"

"But other villages are the same!" Madara said. "We have ninjas who know nothing but the Three Body Techniques, and other villages have them too!"

"Have you ever considered that if we delayed graduation by two years, even just to learn a C-rank ninjutsu, their survival rate on the battlefield would be much higher? If our survival rate is higher, the enemy's survival rate will be lower. This shift in power would mean that Konoha's strength is far ahead of our opponents!"

"The difference might not be immediately apparent, but in eight or ten years, when our generation has grown up, married, and had children, the generation from the village across the street will have died on the battlefield. If another war were to break out, who do you think would win?"

"But what if we don't let them graduate? What about the commissions the village has received?" Black Zetsu asked from the side.

There are tons of D-rank quests waiting for genin to complete in one village!

"A Class D commission is worth only a few coins, less than 30,000 taels. Even if you take on 10,000 a year, that's only 300 million. But if you win a battle, how much do you think you could earn?" Ning Yuan retorted, "I'd think losing 3 billion is too little!"

Hei Jue immediately shut up.

"And another thing, there are so many requests, like finding cats and dogs, chasing away wild boars, can't the security force do those things?" Ning Yuan asked. "The Uchiha clan, the number one ninja clan in the ninja world, with immense strength and the Sharingan, are they just using their Sharingan to arrest street vendors for obstructing business? Isn't that just ripping people off?"

"Then the Uchiha can't go looking for cats and dogs to drive away wild boars!" Madara felt wronged. Although arresting vendors who were obstructing the road was strange, driving away wild boars was just as strange!

"Do you need ninjas to find a cat or dog? Ordinary people can do this! Even the elementary school kids at Teitan Elementary School next door can help find a cat. Is your cat a ninja cat or Garfield? How hard could it be to catch?" Ning Yuan said irritably, "Expand the security force and recruit some ordinary people to do things that don't require ninjas. We don't need too many, just thirty or fifty will do. Jobs are so hard to find these days. Give them thirty thousand taels a month, and they'll be eternally grateful!"

"The Uchiha clan isn't wealthy either!" Madara said. "Besides, even the Uchiha clan has limited spots in the security forces; how can we give them to outsiders!"

"Are you stupid?!" Ning Yuan said speechlessly, "Look around, how many cities have garrisons? You can send your garrisons to other cities, announce the Uchiha clan's name, who would dare object? Then go to the nobles and ask them for funding, and you'll have the money, right?"

"In a city, we can assign three Uchiha clans and leave the rest to ordinary people. You Uchiha clans have about a thousand members, so is it really that difficult to set up hundreds of security teams?"

"Huh?" Madara's Sharingan widened, completely dumbfounded!

Yeah, what are you Uchiha doing cooped up in Konoha all day? Go out and form squads!

Tobirama Senju granted the Uchiha clan a high degree of autonomy; as long as they didn't rebel, they could do whatever they wanted.

Furthermore, although Konoha and the Daimyo have an agreement that ninjas cannot harm ordinary people or establish ninja organizations in other cities.

But are the security teammate ninjas?

Really not!

Only students of the Uchiha clan who go to the Ninja Academy are given headbands and become registered ninjas, but most members of the Guard Corps are educated within their clans and then go directly to the Guard Corps.

These people don't wear headbands at all, and they're not registered with the Hokage!

"These idiots!" Madara muttered. The Uchiha clan couldn't even see such a simple method, and they were left impoverished with only a garrison.

Many people will say that the Uchiha clan is not poor at all; they have a thousand-year-old fortune!

The man, carrying soil, helps the old lady every day!

The Uchiha clan is really not wealthy.

It's a very simple principle: if a ninja clan were wealthy, it's impossible for so many of its members to complain every day.

I have enough to eat and wear, play games and watch movies every day, and have plenty of snacks. Why would I even think about rebelling?

That must mean they're unhappy with their lives, which is why they hold clan meetings every day and want to rebel.

Madara is increasingly satisfied with Ning Yuan. Why doesn't this child have the surname Uchiha?

He now feels that just taking on apprentices is not enough. I happen to not have any children, so how about taking on an adopted son?

"The short graduation period at the Ninja Academy resulted in a large number of ninjas dying on the battlefield without learning any real skills, greatly reducing Konoha's war potential. This is a major flaw of the Ninja Academy!"

"As for the Uchiha Police Force, it makes the Uchiha clan, although living in Konoha Village, feel out of place. Moreover, the police force is a profession that involves dealing with ordinary people, but the Uchiha clan's perpetually sullen faces and haughty demeanor are very unlikable, directly causing the entire Uchiha clan's reputation in Konoha to decline!"

"If the villagers don't like the Uchiha, the Uchiha will hate the villagers, and they'll also hate the Hokage, who is their leader. They'll then think, 'We Uchiha are also the founders of Konoha, so why can't we have a Hokage?' Beset by internal and external troubles, coupled with this ideological hatred, the Uchiha will become increasingly resentful of the Hokage."

"However, Tobirama Senju didn't set standards for the Hokage position, which might give rise to some unusual thoughts among the Uchiha clan. For example, if a super genius were to emerge from the Uchiha clan one day, the Uchiha might be able to muster the courage to rebel."

"Ah, this..." Madara was speechless. But based on his understanding of the Uchiha clan, such a thing could actually happen.

"However, the Uchiha clan has enjoyed peace for so long that they haven't been on the battlefield much. Their combat skills have probably deteriorated considerably. How can they possibly compete with Konoha, which fought in World War I and World War II? The result of a rebellion would probably be the annihilation of the entire clan!" Ning Yuan shook his head: "This is a trap left by Tobirama. It will kill the Uchiha clan, but who knows, it might be something Tobirama deliberately planned!"

"He definitely did it on purpose!" Madara concluded without even thinking.

Even if the Uchiha clan coughed early in the morning, it was Tobirama's Water Release that caused it, not to mention that this plan would lead to the extermination of the Uchiha clan.

"That treacherous scoundrel is absolutely capable of doing something like this!"

Ning Yuan shrugged; he still believed that this was not Tobirama's intention.

It was created by Konoha, and there was no precedent for many departments to follow. It is normal for the powers and responsibilities to be unclear and the system to be imperfect.

No matter how strong Tobirama was, he could never have imagined that decades after his death, the Uchiha clan would be wiped out because of his own system.

Even Zhuge Liang couldn't have predicted that far ahead.

However, Madara's hatred for Tobirama was deeply rooted, so let him say what he wanted; there was no need to specifically refute him.

"You've studied Konoha so deeply, so your dream is to become Hokage?" Madara asked.

Although he was not physically present in Konoha, he knew a great deal about the village and was aware that many young people dreamed of becoming Hokage.

And if you don't want to be Hokage, why do you know so much? This is something a non-Hokage should be thinking about.

"It's not that profound, it's just that I'm knowledgeable and have seen a lot, so I can understand many things at a glance!" Ning Yuan said with a smile.

"Knowledgeable and worldly-wise?" Ban chuckled. "You're only seven years old. How much could you possibly know?"

"Some people live to seventy and still live in a daze, understanding nothing, while others, though only seven, can already perceive the truths of the world!" Ning Yuan laughed. "This has nothing to do with age, it has to do with intelligence!"

"Is that so!" Madara was actually starting to believe it, but he was still unconvinced.

"By the way, it seems you haven't finished telling your story yet!" Ning Yuan asked.

"Huh?" Ban was taken aback. After listening to Ning Yuan talk so much, he had almost forgotten that the beginning of this topic was his story!

However, having said that, he had lost interest in telling the story.

But after thinking about it, I still spoke up.

"I was going to explain in detail, but since you say you're smart, I won't go into too much detail!" Madara said. "In short, although Hashirama and I created the village for peace, I later discovered that although Konoha was established, the ninja world was still not at peace. Although no one dared to attack Konoha, they were constantly fighting each other. Even when we intervened to mediate, they would continue fighting as before after we left!"

"At this point, my beliefs diverged from Hashirama's."

"I believed that only by defeating all enemies and unifying the world could we achieve lasting peace. But he didn't think so, so we fought in the Valley of the End. In the end, he died, and I was seriously injured, lying on the ground for decades to recover!!"

"And then?"

"Later, after I recovered from my injuries, I traveled around the world, trying to find a way to bring peace to the world!"

"Didn't you just mention that world unification brings peace?" Ning Yuan asked.

"So I've lost to Hashirama!" Madara shrugged. "To be defeated proves my ideals are wrong, so I need to find a new way to bring peace to the world!"

"What reason is that?" Ning Yuan asked, bewildered. "You lost because your strength was inferior to theirs. How can you bring up your beliefs?"

"You're still young, you might not know, but although this is a contest of strength, what sustains our fight is our respective ninja way!" Madara replied matter-of-factly, "My defeat means my ninja way has failed!"

Ning Yuan remained silent, but instead of continuing the argument, he asked, "So, did you find it?"

"Found it!" Spot nodded. In fact, he had already found it before his battle with Hashirama.

That is, to fuse with the Senju Uchiha clan and obtain the power of all things in the universe!

However, changing the order here would better highlight his great image as a champion of peace.

"What is it?" Ning Yuan asked curiously.

"It's a magnificent plan!" Madara proclaimed. "I call it, Infinite Tsukuyomi!"

(End of this chapter)