Naruto: The village was on the verge of bankruptcy, and I struck oil.

He found a stool and sat down.

Ye Gui stood beside him.

Jiraiya bowed and said, "Greetings, Lord Kazekage."

Naruto: "Greetings, Kazekage-san."

After exchanging greetings, the two sat down.

Mu Feng asked, "What brings you here?"

Jiraiya: "Hokage Tsunade wants to hold a meeting between the two Kage to resolve the dispute between our two villages, so she specially sent us to ask the Kazekage for his opinion."

Yes, the plot hasn't changed.

Tsunade became Hokage.

Mu Feng's lips curled up slightly.

"So what is Konoha's opinion?"

Jiraiya abandoned his usual carefree and irreverent demeanor.

He is now the Konoha Messenger.

Jiraiya looked very serious.

"This attack on Konoha by the Sand Village and Sound Village caused immense damage to our village, even resulting in the death of the Third Hokage. We hope that the Sand Village will take responsibility for this."

"Take responsibility?" Mu Feng chuckled. "May I ask what responsibility we are required to take?"

"Punish war criminals and compensate for losses."

Hahaha.

Mu Feng laughed loudly.

Even Jiraiya didn't understand why.

Mu Feng glared at Jiraiya with fierce eyes.

Jiraiya suddenly felt an increased pressure on his shoulders.

I felt like a toad being stared at by a tiger.

Jiraiya quickly relented: "Of course, we also know that your village was deceived, and the Fourth Kazekage was assassinated. So the compensation doesn't need to be too much."

Since Sunagakure was such a poor village, Konoha didn't expect them to provide any compensation.

This was something that Tsunade and a group of high-ranking officials discussed at the time.

By using economic pressure to force the Sand Village to submit and renew the alliance, Konoha used its economic power to control a portion of the Sand Village's finances.

“We know that your village has some conflicts with the daimyo of the Land of Wind. We can help you negotiate with the daimyo to get him to assign more missions to your village.”

Mu Feng joked, "Should we issue more tasks to find cats and dogs?"

"Of course not, we will..."

Before Jiraiya could finish speaking, Mufeng waved his hand.

"Alright, I let you stay in the village for a few days, thinking you should have some understanding of the current state of the Sand Village. I never expected you to know nothing at all. Or rather, you knowingly came here to humiliate me."

Jiraiya quickly apologized: "You flatter me, sir! I didn't mean that!"

"Don't you know that our Sand Village has decided to stop accepting missions?"

Mu Feng pointed at Jiraiya.

“Our Sand Village will be different from your Konoha or other villages in the future.”

"We are no longer the ones receiving missions, but the ones issuing them,"

"Are you trying to humiliate us by talking to me about giving us more tasks?"

Mu Feng was furious.

Anomalies in the magnetic field.

The whole house started shaking.

The metal objects inside the room were constantly swaying and making metallic clanging sounds.

Jiraiya cursed himself inwardly.

Depend on.

You're really not cut out for diplomacy.

I should have brought Nara Shikaku.

Jiraiya shouted, "I, Jiraiya, had no such intention. Please accept my apology."

Jiraiya was a hero who didn't care about trivial matters.

He has his own way of doing things.

He very readily bowed and apologized.

They have no idol burden like the Legendary Sannin of Konoha.

This is a mission I asked Tsunade for myself, so I can't mess it up.

Jiraiya bowed his head.

Naruto also shouted, "Uncle Mufeng, we really are here to negotiate."

Seeing this, Mu Feng could only quell his anger.

"Hmph, fine."

Jiraiya became smarter.

"Then, Lord Kazekage, what are your conditions?"

Mu Feng's first condition left Jiraiya and Naruto completely bewildered.

"First, Konoha should compensate Sunagakure."

The perpetrator demands compensation from the victim.

Even with Jiraiya's magnanimity, he could not accept these conditions.

He angrily said, "This time it was the Sand Ninja who launched a sneak attack on Konoha, and it was Konoha that suffered the damage. Why should Konoha compensate the Sand Ninja? Lord Kazekage, don't distort the truth!"

Mu Feng asked a question.

"source."

"The source?"

What was the source of this incident?

"Haven't you thought about this?"

Chapter 49 "Economic and Trade Treaty?" Jiraiya wondered.

source?!

What is the source?

Jiraiya has been away from the village for many years, spending his days gathering material, writing novels, and living a carefree life.

He had never thought about this kind of problem.

He was completely bewildered.

Naruto's eyes darted around.

This question is too profound.

"Didn't you think about that?" Mu Feng asked.

Jiraiya nodded.

Mu Feng: "Hmph, Konoha is really arrogant. When problems arise, they always push the blame onto others but never think about what their own problems might be."

"May I ask, sir, what is the problem with Konoha?" Jiraiya was unconvinced.

"Then let me ask you why the Hidden Mist Village, Hidden Stone Village, and Hidden Cloud Village didn't participate in your cause?"

Jiraiya: ? ? ?

"That's because they have no direct conflict of interest with you, and they are not directly oppressed by your Konoha!"

Jiraiya quickly explained, "Our Konoha has always maintained a policy of good neighborliness and friendship with the surrounding villages."

Mu Feng scoffed, "Jiraiya, you also participated in the Fourth Shinobi World War. Don't you find it ridiculous to say that? Hasn't Konoha started enough wars?"

Jiraiya: "But we have also enjoyed thirteen years of peace."

"In the past thirteen years, has Konoha ever relaxed its suppression of Sunagakure?"

Mu Feng's aura surged, and he stared intently at Zi Lai.

"The Daimyo has been misled by your Konoha, constantly reducing the military budget and assigning missions that should have been given to the Sand Village to your Konoha."

"Your Konoha did not launch a direct war against the Sand Village."

"You are waging an economic war."

"You are using the invisible rope of economics to strangle the Sand Village and keep tightening it."

"Isn't it right for Sunagakure to launch a counterattack when the village is struggling to survive, its people are facing hunger, and its ninjas are unemployed?"

"Should our Sunagakure village just wait to die?"

The Sand Village was so poor that it didn't even have many decent ninjas.

If it weren't for the One-Tailed Beast and the fact that no one was interested in the desert wasteland, it would probably have been wiped out of the ninja village long ago. (Immortal Book Pavilion)

Jiraiya was so pressed with questions that sweat beaded on his forehead.

He wanted to open his mouth but couldn't say a word.

He had also heard about these things.