Konoha's New Third Hokage

Chapter 329 The Survival Rule of the Ninja Family in the New Era
Hiruzaru Sarutobi knew very well that with the current strength of Konoha Ninja Village, it is already the most powerful military force in the entire Kingdom of Fire. To a certain extent, it can also be regarded as the strongest lord in the Kingdom of Fire. The relationship between employers and mercenaries means that Konoha Ninja Village does not have the same rights as local lords.

This has indeed brought a lot of convenience to Konoha Ninja Village. For example, there are no restrictions on national politics as local lords, so that no daimyo can interfere in the internal affairs of Konoha Ninja Village. It is impossible to completely intervene in the internal affairs of the Fire Nation.

If it was the situation in the early days of the establishment of the village, Hiruzaru Sarutobi felt that this is not unacceptable. Konoha Ninja Village is just a pure ninja alliance, and the living environment is still the same as that of traditional ninjas. Maintaining such an employment relationship is harmful to both parties. Both are beneficial, the ninja village pays force and gains money, and the country of fire can use the power of ninjas without interfering with each other.

However, after Konoha Ninja Village entered into rapid development, both the village's material life and ideological policy began to deviate from the tradition.Especially after the establishment of mercantilism and the revival of Ninja Buddhism, the large-scale development of commerce in Konoha Ninja Village, due to its scale, can no longer meet the complete needs. It must look to the outside market, and labor and land have become the targets of demand.

The revival of Ninja thought, after the research of Fengmori Masaki, Kana and others, began to further establish the theoretical basis in the ninja future that was close to utopianism during the Six Paths Sage period. According to Fengmori Masaki, it is based on science. Seek the establishment of the ideal society of the Immortals of the Six Paths with a realistic and realistic attitude.

On this point, it is mentioned in the books written by Feng Mori Masaki. He regards the idea of ​​​​Senren of the Six Paths as the final form of the future society of the ninja world. The development process is explained in detail, and the reasons are explained, why today's ninja world will become what it is today.

Although Masaki Fengmori's philosophy in the book is not very obvious, anyone who has studied the theory of ninja sect can feel that Masaki Fengmori is very dissatisfied with the current national system. He emphasizes in the book that In addition to the respect for human rights, this is also an extension of Sage of the Six Paths thought. Later, Masaki Fumori called it humanism or humanitarianism, and the idea of ​​realizing the ideal society of Sage of the Six Paths was called Ninjaism.

Hiruzaru Sarutobi knew very well in his heart that sooner or later Masaki Kazemori would not be able to satisfy the current situation, and this was not his own demand.With the rapid development of Konoha Ninja Village, conflicts with local nobles will always appear, and now there are signs of that, and relying on the internal control of Konoha Ninja Village, no conflicts with the national nobles have completely broken out, and it has just been maintained. in a stable state.

Masaki Fengmori certainly does not think that the national daimyo and local lords can fully uphold the concept of Konoha Ninja Village, as he just said, it is necessary to unify Konoha Ninja Village with the power of the country of fire, and to do At this point, Konoha Ninja Village must become the supreme leader of the country.

However, this must be a very difficult path. Although the strength of Konoha Ninja Village is strong, it is impossible to directly subvert it by force. It will only set off an unprecedented civil war.At that time, not to mention gaining the supreme power of the Nation of Fire, other countries may also take advantage of it. Even if it barely succeeds, as a mercenary, how will it solve the problem of domestic traditional thinking?

Just thinking about it, Hiruzaru Sarutobi can feel the risks involved. Fortunately, Masaki Kazemori is not such a radical person. He also said on weekdays that he would establish diplomatic relations with enlightened nobles, and the commercial support of Konoha Ninja Village It also has a deep relationship with certain local lords, who are nobles who Konoha Ninja Village thinks can cooperate after a detailed judgment.

And it is with the help of those nobles that Konoha Ninja Village has a very high influence in the government of the country of fire, so that Konoha Ninja Village’s proposition can be implemented in the ninja world. To what extent can it go, Feng Mori Zhenghui can't guarantee it, so he must let Konoha Ninja Village have the highest power in the country of fire in order to ensure that its policies can be continuously implemented.

Hiruza Sarutobi supports Masaki Fengmori's idea. He is a member of Konoha Ninja Village. Although he comes from a powerful ninja clan, he has sympathy for the bottom ninjas and the people—otherwise, in the original history, Senshou Tobima will not regard Hiruzaru Sarutobi as a successor—he has no opinion on the current policy of promoting the status of civilian ninjas in the village and maintaining the respect of ninjas. He doesn't feel bad about the supreme power. Only the village as the supreme leader can ensure the implementation of the current policy. For him, the benefits are naturally more.

The only radical issue that needs to be worried, Feng Mori Masaki also controlled himself with good reason. He understood that no matter how fast Konoha Ninja Village develops, it is impossible to control the entire country by himself.Therefore, it is necessary to unite with the original aristocratic officials, but it is necessary to make a choice, so that even if internal conflicts break out with the daimyo, the process will not be very intense - Hiruzaru Sarutobi read some in Masaki Kazemori's book According to the clues, his future idea seems to be to put the daimyo on the shelf, and let the lord of the whole country be the representative of the rule, and Konoha Ninja Village, as the strongest lord, will inevitably be the center of it.

Hiruzaru Sarutobi felt that such a result might be the best. The aristocratic rule has been passed down for a long time, and it cannot be abandoned overnight. Instead of aiming at subverting the entire aristocratic system, it is better to make a transition in the middle, and then gradually plan it, all at once. The solution seems to be happy, but the possibility of backlash is also very high.

Masaki Fengmori said that society has its own laws. If we ignore the objective laws and forcibly subvert them, it will lead to unpredictable results.The thought of Ninja sect can be described as advanced, but even if it is as powerful as the Sage of the Six Paths and its successors, they have not been able to make the society progress to their ideal level. Reasonable and more appropriate to the times.

Of course, these are just thinking in their hearts now, and they haven't reached the point where they need to be implemented. Hiruzaru Sarutobi and Masaki Fengmori tacitly stopped, and began to talk about other things. The transaction between Hidden Ninja Village and Konoha Ninja Village.

"Shortly after, the first batch of detonators will be delivered. At that time, you can take these to trade with the people in Yunyin Ninja Village. They will send here the theoretical results of the Thunderbolt Talisman and a batch of finished products. "Feng Mori Masaki said.

Although the trading content of Konoha Ninja Village includes the production method of Thunderbolt Talisman, it stands to reason that Konoha Ninja Village can produce and sell it by itself. However, because of its rich land, Konoha Ninja Village attracts a large number of powerful ninjas to concentrate Therefore, the escapism components it uses are very complicated, which allows it to deal with different enemies, but also causes a problem-that is, the number of people who use a certain attribute is insufficient.

If you just build up troops, there is still no problem, but it is certainly impossible to build troops with distinct Chakra attributes like other ninja villages.In other words, although Konoha Ninja Village can produce Thunderbolt Talismans, it is not as efficient or productive as Yunyin Ninja Village, where all members can use thunder attributes.

Therefore, Masaki Fengsen also ordered a batch of Thunderbolt Talismans to Yunyin Ninja Village. Naturally, Yunyin Ninja Village has nothing to be unwilling to do. Even the production technology of Thunderbolt Talismans has been given away. How can ordinary finished products be stingy? Is it necessary?Since there is no problem, Yunyin Ninja Village can get a sum of money, why not do it?

"Yeah." Hiruzaru Sarutobi nodded, indicating that he knew about it, "However, you can't keep ordering Thunderbolt Talismans from Yunyin Ninja Village, since the detonator came out, the consumption of such things The quantity increased rapidly. I heard that there is a shortage of supply in the country of grass."

The Sarutobi family is a family that traditionally uses fire escape and earth escape. They have always been skilled craftsmen in making detonating talismans. After the appearance of detonating talismans, the Sarutobi family, Uchiha family and other fire escape families took on the order task of detonating talismans. , and some are in short supply.

"Yes, in the future, we must find ways to increase production and adopt more convenient and faster production methods." Masaki Fengmori understands that after the emergence of semi-automatic ninja tools such as detonators, traditional manual production will gradually fall behind. This is the inevitable trend towards industrialization. "Now we can only find ways to improve efficiency, so that more people can learn fire escape and put it into production."

Sarutobi Hiruzen nodded slightly. In this way, there will be more people at the bottom of the ninja who learn fire escape and go into production. If it was in the past, it would definitely harm the interests of the Sarutobi family to let other people make the detonator.However, Hiruza Sarutobi understands that after the appearance of the detonator cannon, the detonator market cannot be eaten by one or two ninja families. As long as they can become the leader among them, it will be the best result.

Although Hiruzaru Sarutobi is burdened with the interest demands of the Sarutobi family, as the heir that Senju Tomonama should have favored, he is willing to give up some unnecessary greed and leave room for commoner ninjas to advance.In the rapid transformation of Konoha Ninja Village, he has realized that the traditional way of life is no longer suitable for ninjas. If ninjas want to have a stable life in the village in the future, they must learn to change. Don't care about the short-term interests in front of you, but look in a further direction.

Hiruzaru Sarutobi firmly believes that even if the status of commoner ninjas rises, with the heritage of the Sarutobi family, its loyal and reliable character, and past military exploits, it can still maintain a very high status in the village. Some people may not be able to understand these things, but Sarutobi Hiruzen will try his best to establish such ideas in his lifetime.

And this way of treating ninjas is what Masaki Fengmori thought. Masaki Fengmori knew that it was impossible to keep the status of ninjas completely consistent with that of ordinary ninjas. From the current point of view, this is a luxury that cannot be realized in a hundred years.

If you blindly promote civilian ninjas without giving any compensation to the ninja family, it will only cause the fire of rebellion. Moreover, there is a power gap between people, so that the stronger and more devoted ninja family and civilian ninja Putting them on the same footing may seem fair, but in fact it is the greatest injustice.

Masaki Fengmori is committed to ending the traditional monopoly policy of the ninja family, and also hopes to enhance the status of civilian ninjas. As the price for the sacrifice of the ninja family, he will make up for them in other ways, for example, let the ninja family support in the village. It is involved in the enterprise, and making up for losses from economic benefits is one of the policies. As for the others, there are also some compensation plans.

As far as the current situation is concerned, basically all ninja families have no complaints. Even the most out-of-group Uchiha family is under the joint management of Kazemori Masaki and Uchiha Mirror. Accepting the village's proposal, only a small number of people are still complaining behind their backs.

Originally, it would take a long time for the rising commoner ninjas to get close to the family ninjas—in the original book, although there was a commoner ninja like Namikaze Minato who shocked an era, he was still a person in the final analysis, and at that time the distance from the wood It has been 60 years since the establishment of Ye Ninja Village - therefore, although the ninja family lost part of their interests, they completely ignored the past with other compensations.

Masaki Fengmori feels that this is the best result. The ninja family has a very deep heritage and is connected by family blood. The gap between the large number of civilian ninjas who are not closely connected cannot be easily bridged.In the case where the class cannot be completely eliminated, we can only hope to stop the traditional monopoly and separatism, so that the legal status of the ninja family and the civilian ninja can be equal, and there is no longer a gap as in the past. To win respect, according to the paid It is already a very fair method to determine status based on credit.

"If you want to increase production, you have to start with the dragon veins of the Loulan Kingdom. The focus of fully automated ninja tools in the future must be in it. In other words, the village must gain an advantage in the Battle of the Kingdom of Sichuan, and the Loulan Kingdom All countries including China have been brought under control, and the task of transferring dragon veins has begun," said Masaki Fengmori.

"Although I say that, it's not an easy task, especially in times of war, when carrying out the task of transferring dragon veins, it's easy to be targeted by the opponent." Sarutobi Hiruzen said.

"Yes. I'm afraid the battlefield on your side will fall into a stalemate. If you lose, you will definitely not lose. You and the people from Yunyin Ninja Village are here. Therefore, the focus of the next battle will be on the western front." Feng Sen Zhenghui replied.

"It's true that you won't get any good things if you win the Kingdom of Water, but no matter what, I will definitely pay the bill. Just wait for the good news." Hiruzaru Sarutobi said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)