Konoha: Offer your heart to the Hokage!

In theory, apart from the five major powers, all others are considered small countries.

The great powers are further divided into three upper kingdoms: Fire, Earth, and Thunder; and two lower kingdoms: Wind and Water.

Even within small countries, there are different classes and social strata.

Villages like Takigakure and Kusagakure have strong foundations and are considered strong among small countries.

In contrast, villages like Yugakure, where Hidan originated, or Otogakure, which Orochimaru later founded, were small, weak nations with little power to resist powerful ninjas.

Taking all of the above into consideration.

The most advantageous distribution method for Shen is to distribute the tailed beasts to smaller countries, while ensuring that the four major countries receive the weakest tailed beasts possible, in a way that is acceptable to them.

Therefore, the allocation plan is quite obvious.

Shen Er picked up his pen and began drawing on a map of the ninja world, devising a completely new plan.

Hidden Mist Village: One-Tailed Shukaku

Kusagakure: Matatabi the Two-Tails

Sand Hidden Village: Sanwei Isofu

Four-Tailed Son Goku

Hidden Stone Village: Five-Tails Kokuo

Yunin Village: Six-Tailed Rhinoceros

Taki Ninja Village: Nanao Shigeaki

Hidden Cloud Village: Eight-tailed Ox-Ghost

This is the distribution plan in Shen'er's mind.

Reduce the number of tailed beasts in the Lightning, Earth, and Water kingdoms to one.

Most importantly.

The Sand-tailed Beast is stolen and assigned to Kirigakure, which is in an ocean environment, while the Water-tailed Beast is assigned to Sunagakure, which is in a desert environment. In this way, the power of the One-Tailed and Three-Tailed Beasts will be weakened to the extreme due to environmental issues.

Saiken, who was skilled in Lava Release and Water Release, was assigned to the weak Yugakure village.

Such a proposal would certainly provoke opposition from the four major powers, but Shen Er had already prepared a plan to persuade them.

As for what that blackened village is...

That was the "kickback" that Shen Er kept for himself.

A method to take down a tailed beast without bloodshed.

Chapter 66: Akatsuki Village and the Drum of Liberation (Please continue reading!)

Shen Er's gaze shifted to the area above the Land of Fire.

The country directly above is the Land of Fields, where Uchiha Yan resides.

There is no officially recognized ninja village in the Land of Rice Fields to date.

Evil samurai and roguish ninja gangs are everywhere, creating chaos and disorder that constantly attracts exiles from all over the ninja world.

To ordinary people, this place is like a living hell. But to Shen'er, this unclaimed land holds an immense opportunity.

Without a legitimate ninja village, there is no established order.

Whoever has the strongest fist can establish a village and gain the approval of the Daimyo of the Land of Rice Fields, transforming from a ninja group into a legitimate regular army.

This part.

Even though he had already started planning this three years ago when he let Uchiha Yan go.

Coincidentally, Uchiha Yan is a self-proclaimed "messenger of justice." Every month, he is sent with heinous criminals.

This style of doing things leads to...

The Akatsuki, founded by Uchiha Yan, enjoyed a very good reputation in the Land of Rice Fields. Even when Jin, controlling Zero Style, was making money by practicing medicine in the capital of the Land of Rice Fields, he had heard of the Akatsuki.

Its good reputation has spread far and wide.

When Uchiha Yan reported on his work, he also mentioned that the Akatsuki had recruited a ninja who had mastered the Sound Release technique and used drumming as a means of combat.

After each battle with the Akatsuki ninja group, the nearby villagers would praise the drumbeat as the "Drum of Liberation" struck by the Akatsuki ninja group.

In the hearts of the nearby villagers, the sound of the drum is a signal of hope: whenever the drum of liberation sounds, it means that war has ended and peace and joy have arrived.

After three years of development, the Akatsuki Ninja Group has continued to expand, with its members now numbering thirty, making it one of the largest in the country.

They've gained fame and strength.

All that's missing is the Daimyo's recognition for the Akatsuki to be upgraded to the Akatsuki Village.

【Dawn Village of the Land of Rice Fields】

Only with such a reputation can one qualify as a trading partner of Konoha.

However, that's only being eligible.

Hashirama Senju's idea was to use the money from selling the Tailed Beasts as development funds for Konoha. However, the Akatsuki was so poor that they needed their boss, Jin, to personally work as a quack doctor to earn money to subsidize the organization.

This didn't stump Shen'er either; his solution was...

"installment."

Hashirama was ultimately a loyal idealist who loved money, but acquired it ethically.

I value peace more than money.

As long as the Akatsuki village plays the victim a bit, adopts an attitude of extreme desire for peace and full support for Konoha's peace policy, and promises to pay in installments, obtaining the Four-Tails from Hashirama shouldn't be a problem.

We can just find anyone to act as a human jinchūriki, and we don't expect them to last long.

If he can survive until Hashirama dies, he can quietly transfer the Four-Tails to himself.

They acquired a powerful tailed beast without shedding a drop of blood by paying in installments.

Thinking of this, he even felt pleased with his own calculations.

The Four-Tails is not weak; it possesses the Lava Release bloodline limit, allowing it to manipulate magma, and its destructive power is among the best of the tailed beasts.

Currently, research on tailed beasts in the major ninja villages is practically nonexistent. No one has ever explored the power of tailed beasts, which has led to a lack of understanding of their power among people in this era. They simply believe that the more tails a tailed beast has, the stronger it is.

Shen'er originally thought so too.

Only after witnessing the battle at the Valley of the End did he realize that he had fallen into a misconception.

The strength of a tailed beast does not depend entirely on the number of its tails.

For example, although Shukaku, the One-Tailed Beast, has never used the Tailed Beast Ball and doesn't have much chakra, he knows Wind Release, Magnet Release, sealing techniques, and Sand Healing Techniques without hand seals... He has a rich tactical reserve and is considered one of the strongest among the Tailed Beasts.

If it were left to Sunagakure, it would be difficult to deal with.

The power of the One-Tailed Jinchuriki would be greatly weakened if the area were surrounded by water.

This series of designs resulted in...

Once Hashirama dies, he can retrieve the Four-Tails from Akatsuki at any time. Afterwards, the Two-Tails, Six-Tails, and Seven-Tails were assigned to Kusagakure, Yugakure, and Takigakure respectively. These ninja villages were too weak to effectively protect their Jinchūriki.

The remaining One-Tailed and Three-Tailed creatures are not strong due to environmental factors.

In the later stages of the Iwagakure arc, they will likely continue to let the Jinchuriki roam freely, which will leave the Five-Tails alone and make it easier for them to be hunted.

With Kurama in Konoha, it would be easier to wait for Mizuichigo to die...

The only one that was slightly more troublesome was the Eight-Tails that was assigned to Kumogakure.

That place might become like the White House in Resident Evil, the last line of defense for the ninja world against him.

Rounding it off, he has already taken out loans to collect all nine tailed beasts.

"Hehe, you're thinking too far ahead. It's better to be down-to-earth."

Shen Er leisurely finished organizing the documents and prepared to leave work.

The first thing he did after becoming an elder of Konoha was to collude with his shell company to stage a case of embezzlement by transferring money from one hand to the other.

...

Shen Er had dinner with his family after a long absence.

During this time, Shinobu appeared very apologetic: "Chiri, I'm sorry. It's almost the end of the year, and I haven't made any progress in my research on Primal Chakra."

"fine."

“This is the bloodline curse I’ve always carried. It would be selfish of me to make you, Shen, share this burden.” Zhili appeared quite composed. “Besides, the village doesn’t need me to be in charge of the fighting now, and my condition is relatively stable.”

“I will continue my research until the curse is broken.”

"During this time, Zhili, you continue to accumulate original chakra using the Yin Seal. Perhaps one day the research will make progress and a large amount will be needed at once."

"it is good."

Shen Er slurped up a mouthful of noodles.

He was not satisfied with the status quo, and naturally, the more of the Kaleidoscope bloodline, the better.

The next test subject planned is Uchiha Bin.

And then...

Uchiha Kagami, Uchiha Kenji, Uchiha Sosuke—these young geniuses of the Uchiha clan, won't they grow old eventually? Won't they eventually need to awaken their Sharingan?

All of them were his best materials.

After the meal.

After bidding farewell to Uchiha Chiri, he returned to the meditation room of the Zen temple.

He clapped his hands, transferring his five senses to Zero-Shiki in the Land of Fields, and soon saw Uchiha Yan. He immediately informed her of the arrangements for this operation.

Upon hearing this, Uchiha Yan was incredibly surprised: "Me? Establish a ninja village?"

"Diavolo, are you serious?"

Shen Er spoke calmly: "You already possess the strongest Heavenly Eye, capable of seeing through the three realms, and are only one step away from becoming a demigod ninja. What, you don't even have the resolve to establish a ninja village?"

"The shadow is just your starting point..."