Konoha: Intentionally losing to Hinata at the start

"The reason we are here is to prevent a misunderstanding between our two villages."

Mei Terumi didn't pay much attention to this; she could naturally tell from it.

Looking at Yu Ming, he said, "Please explain this matter to us in detail."

The Kage of the Five Great Ninja Villages would not back down just because the opponent is too strong. It is simply impossible for a Kage of the Five Great Ninja Villages to be able to suppress the opponent's aura simply because the opponent is very strong.

As the Kage of the Five Great Ninja Villages, he naturally represents his village. Even if he is no match for his opponent, he will never compromise with them.

Mei Terumi speaks very politely, but her attitude is very decisive.

Yu Ming thought for a moment, then looked at Yamato and said, "Yamato-sensei, it seems we'll have to stay in Kirigakure for a while."

Yamato was also a former member of the Anbu, so he knew very well that communication between villages was not so simple.

He nodded.

With Yu Ming here, he doesn't need to worry about anything.

Meanwhile, Ao kept his Byakugan active, and Chojuro was ready to draw his twin swords at any moment.

Mei Terumi didn't take any action because she knew that if Yu Ming really wanted to attack Kirigakure, no one in Kirigakure could stop him at the moment, not even Mei Terumi herself.

The strength that Yu Ming just displayed was beyond what these Shadow-level experts could contend with.

Yu Ming, Yamato, and Naruto, whom Yamato was carrying, followed Mei Terumi into Kirigakure.

Because Yu Ming needed to explain the flying fortress to Kirigakure.

Of course, Yu Ming could choose not to explain, but that would cause misunderstandings in Kirigakure, and Yu Ming didn't want to cause trouble.

Despite having the right to remain silent, he had no intention of using force to intimidate Kirigakure.

Upon entering Kirigakure, Yu Ming could still see that Kirigakure was indeed quite backward in its development.

Whether we look at it from the perspective of the ninjas' strength or the village's various construction projects.

It's nowhere near as good as Konoha.

While Konoha's overall strength is indeed somewhat lacking, it's definitely much better than Kirigakure's...

The main reason is that the daimyo of the Land of Fire has a better relationship with Konoha.

Therefore, although they reduced military spending like other major powers and daimyo in the ninja world, the reductions were not too drastic.

Konoha's military spending is still quite substantial.

However, because the daimyo of the Land of Water was assassinated by Kisame Hoshigaki, the daimyo of the Land of Water completely distrusted Kirigakure.

To develop a ninja village, what is most needed is resource and financial support.

These all need to be provided by the daimyo of the Land of Water.

Even though the Daimyo of the Land of Wind wasn't entirely satisfied with Sunagakure, he didn't cut its military spending too drastically; at least Sunagakure's military expenditures could barely be maintained. 5.

However, for a period of time, the Daimyo of the Land of Water directly stopped funding military expenses for Kirigakure.

Furthermore, the Land of Water actually has many small ninja villages. After receiving support from the Daimyo of the Land of Water, these small ninja villages have also produced many excellent ninjas.

In addition, Kirigakure was also ravaged by Obito for a period of time, and the village's elite ninjas either died or fled.

This resulted in the combined number of ninjas from other smaller ninja villages almost matching that of Kirigakure.

Chapter 318 Ninjas and the Secular World

The daimyo of the Land of Water also delegates a large number of tasks from the Land of Water to other ninja villages. Despite being the daimyo of the Land of Water, he assigns tasks to ninja villages in other countries, which shows that the daimyo of the Land of Water has extreme distrust of Kirigakure.

It was mainly Kisame's stupid actions that were the main problem; Zabuza's assassination attempt on the Mizukage was somewhat understandable.

After all, the Mizukage was the one who caused the Blood Mist Village incident in Kirigakure.

In addition, Zabuza was a very cruel person. During the exam at the Ninja Academy, he actually killed all his classmates.

With his personality, it would be easy for him to want to assassinate the Mizukage.

However, Kisame Hoshigaki's assassination of the Daimyo of the Land of Water is the most incomprehensible.

The daimyo usually only gives 28 coins and has no connection with the ninja village. Going to assassinate him is just plain stupid.

Ultimately, although Kirigakure has opened up to the outside world and changed its original policy of the Blood Mist Village, the Daimyo of the Land of Water's financial support was insufficient, and the village even stopped developing for a period of time. This is to be expected.

After all, training a ninja requires a lot of resources and money.

Given that current productivity is not very high, the financial support from the daimyo plays a decisive role.

Although the elders of Kirigakure and the daimyo of the Land of Water have been discussing the matter for a long time, and Mei Terumi, representing Kirigakure, has also apologized to the daimyo, the daimyo of the Land of Water has now re-allocated funds.

However, it still lags far behind the military spending provided by other countries to their ninja villages.

Of course, Kirigakure could also kill the daimyo and take his place.

However, if they do this, they will definitely be condemned by the entire ninja world, and the scale of the war will certainly surpass the Ninja World War.

Because they disrupted the balance between ninjas and secular power.

It's important to understand that if ninjas hadn't achieved a balance with secular power in the past, the daimyo who controlled the most resources would have definitely trained his own ninja army. Moreover, because the daimyo controlled the most resources, his army was far stronger in battle than even mercenary-level ninja villages.

Unless a powerful figure like Hashirama Senju or Madara Uchiha can suppress an entire era of ninjas, if a daimyo were to truly use all his resources to cultivate his own ninja army, its terrifying power would far surpass that of any ninja village.

Over the years, ninjas have been employed by daimyo of various countries, and the daimyo have spent resources to maintain the strength of the ninja villages, which has created a balance. If this balance is broken, then it will not be a ninja war, but a world war.

Kirigakure will definitely be attacked by the other four great ninja villages.

This has nothing to do with the Land of Water, but rather it's because the daimyo of the other four great nations would absolutely not allow such a thing to happen.

Similarly, the ninja villages of the other four great nations were even less willing to see this happen than the daimyo.

The reason why each war between ninjas is called the 177th Shinobi World War is because it generally does not involve civilians, unless they are cannon fodder like the Land of Rain, which is used as a battlefield for several major powers to fight, and thus may be affected.

Moreover, judging from Yu Ming's impression, most of the civilians in the Land of Rain were not affected by the Ninja World War at all.

Even though many ninjas participated in the war in the Land of Rain, they were required not to harm civilians.

This is the division between secular power and the ninja world.

Because aside from the top-tier ninja strength, such as Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, other levels, such as genin, chunin, jonin, and even kage, can be trained with sufficient resources and funds.

Chapter 319 Yu Ming's Explanation

Moreover, if they were trained to the standards of a regular army from the beginning, the resulting ninja army would be far more powerful than any village ninja.

Even Yu Ming, who possesses the world's most outstanding strength, is well aware of this.

If ninjas can be trained, then for a daimyo, it's only a matter of time before he can train his own regular army.

Moreover, with the development of technology, ninjas below the Kage level can be replaced by various scientific ninja tools.

Therefore, Kirigakure is not so brain-dead that they could kill the Daimyo of the Land of Water, but they still cannot replace him.

After all, in the secular world, they are separated from ordinary people; the ninja world and the ordinary people's world are completely different.

Therefore, under Mei Terumi's open policy, Kirigakure is moving towards restoring its original strength.

However, the speed is not very fast.

Unfortunately, even if Kirigakure were to reopen, without the financial support of the Daimyo of the Land of Water, the funds obtained would be far from sufficient.

However, Mei Terumi was not discouraged. With her abilities, she was fully confident that she could build a powerful Kirigakure.

At least in the future, he can obtain the daimyo's complete forgiveness.

The daimyo of each country actually have a very harmonious relationship with the various ninja villages, and some families in many ninja villages have even formed marriage alliances with the daimyo's family.

The Senju clan once formed a marriage alliance with the daimyo of the Land of Fire.

So Tsunade and the Daimyo of the Land of Fire are actually related.

This time, however, Kisame Hoshigaki directly brought the relationship between Kirigakure and the Daimyo of the Land of Water to a freezing point.

Walking along the road, Yu Ming could also see that many ninjas in Kirigakure still retained some of their ferocity.

Fortunately, they did not attack Yu Ming.

It was clear that Mei Terumi used her strength to suppress everyone.

After all, Kirigakure is different from other ninja villages; it is stipulated that the Mizukage be the strongest person in Kirigakure.

If one lacks political ability, then the administration of state affairs should be entrusted to the elders.

Therefore, in Kirigakure, the highest authority is often not held by the Mizukage, but by the elders.

Of course, if the Mizukage felt he was fully capable of handling government affairs, the elders would naturally not dare to wield power.

Therefore, Mei Terumi was definitely the strongest ninja in Kirigakure at that time.

Yu Ming and Yamato were invited into Kirigakure, and the group went to the Mizukage Building together.

Mei Terumi said, "Please...sit down."

Yu Ming and Yamato sat on the sofa in the Water Shadow Room.

Yamato was a little nervous. After all, as an Anbu member, he had been to Kirigakure before, but that was a long time ago, and he had only taken a quick look at the outskirts of Kirigakure before leaving.

At that time, Kirigakure was still in the era of the Fourth Mizukage.

Mei Terumi kept looking at Yu Ming, thinking to herself, "If this guy is really angered, he might destroy the village. But luckily, he seems to be quite easy to talk to."

Actually, when Mei Terumi first invited Yu Ming to Kirigakure, she also faced a lot of pressure.

Unexpectedly, Yu Ming was surprisingly easy to get along with.

It lacks the aloof arrogance of the strong.

Mei Terumi, sitting in her seat, looked at Yu Ming, who had a calm expression, and asked, "Mr. Yu Ming, you said that flying fortress belongs to the Hidden Sky Village? Wasn't the Hidden Sky Village destroyed decades ago? And it was destroyed by your Konoha Village."

Yamato was momentarily embarrassed.

Yu Ming calmly said, "That was the leader of Kongyin Village, a ninja who used some kind of secret technique to live for a long time, preserved some of Kongyin Village's ninjas, and created a monster, which was the giant python-like monster in the battle just now."

"The reason I am here is because he captured the ninjas from our village and extracted the Nine-Tails' chakra to provide energy."

"To avoid misunderstandings between Kirigakure and Konoha, the Hokage sent me here to deal with this person."

"Actually, he attacked Konoha before, but he failed that time. Who knew he would come to the Land of Water?"

Chapter 320 Living in Kirigakure

Mei Terumi looked at Yu Ming for a while, then thought for a moment and smiled, "I believe you, but some of the older folks in the village don't quite believe you. So, if Mr. Yu Ming is willing, would you like to stay in our Kirigakure for a few days? There are some really fun places in our Kirigakure."