Konoha's New Third Hokage

Sarutobi Hiruzen is very clear that with the current strength of Konoha Ninja Village, it is the most powerful military force in the entire Fire Country. To a certain extent, it is also the de facto strongest lord of the Fire Country. Just because of the country 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 conveniences to Konoha Ninja Village. For example, in national politics, there is no same restriction as local lords, so the daimyo cannot interfere in the internal affairs of Konoha Ninja Village. However, the disadvantage is that Konoha Ninja Village also has It is impossible to completely intervene in the internal affairs of the Country of Fire.

If it were the situation in the early days of village establishment, Sarutobi Hiruzen felt that this was not unacceptable. Konoha Ninja Village was just a pure ninja alliance, and the living environment was still that of traditional ninjas. Maintaining such an employment relationship would be beneficial to both parties. There are benefits to both. The Ninja Village sacrifices force and gains money, while the Fire Nation can use the power of Ninjas without interfering with each other.

However, after the Konoha Ninja Village entered rapid development, both the material life and ideological policies in the village began to deviate from tradition.Especially after the establishment of mercantilism and the revival of Ninja sect ideas, the large-scale development of commerce in Konoha Ninja Village, due to its scale, can no longer meet the complete needs. Markets must be sought outside, and labor and land have become targets of demand.

The revival of Ninja sect thought, through the research of Fengmori Masaki, Kana and others, began to further establish the theoretical basis in the near-utopian future of the Ninja World during the Six Paths Sage Period. According to Fengmori Masaki, it is based on science. We should pursue the establishment of the ideal society of Six Paths Immortal with a realistic and realistic attitude.

At this point, it is mentioned in the books written by Fengmori Masaki. He regarded the idea of ​​Six Paths Sage as the final form of society in the future of the ninja world. In order to sum up his experience, he divided the early, middle and late stages of Ninja Sect. The development was explained in detail and the reasons why the ninja world became what it is today were explained.

Although Fengmori Masaki's philosophy is not very obvious in the book, anyone who has studied the Ninja doctrine in depth can feel that Fengmori Masaki is very dissatisfied with the current national system. He emphasized in the book In order to respect human rights, this is also an extension of the ideas of the Six Paths Immortal. Later, Fengmori Masaki called it humanism or humanism, and the idea of ​​realizing the Six Paths Immortal's ideal society was called Ninja Socialism.

Sarutobi Hiruzen knew very well that sooner or later Masaki Fengmori would not be able to satisfy the current situation, and this was not his alone.With the rapid development of Konoha Ninja Village, conflicts with local nobles will always appear, and there are signs of that now. However, relying on the internal control of Konoha Ninja Village, there has been no complete conflict with the national nobles. maintain a stable state.

Fengmori Masaki certainly does not think that the national daimyo and local lords can fully adhere to the concept of Konoha Ninja Village. As he just said, Konoha Ninja Village must unify the power of the Fire Country, and what must be done At this point, it is necessary to make Konoha Ninja Village the supreme leader of the country.

However, this must be a very difficult road. 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.Not to mention gaining the highest power of the Fire Country, other countries may take advantage of it. Even if it barely succeeds, as a mercenary, how can it solve the problem of traditional domestic thinking?

Just thinking about it, Sarutobi Hiruzen can feel the risks involved. Fortunately, Masaki Fengmori is not such a radical person. He also expressed his intention to establish diplomatic relations with enlightened nobles on weekdays and provide business support for the Konoha Ninja Village. He also has a deep relationship with some local lords. They are nobles who the Konoha Ninja Village thinks can cooperate after detailed judgment.

It is precisely with the help of the power of those nobles that the Konoha Ninja Village has a very high influence in the government of the Land of Fire, so that the ideas of the Konoha Ninja Village can be implemented in the ninja world. To what extent it can be achieved, Fengsen Masaki cannot guarantee that, so he must let Konoha Ninja Village obtain the highest power of the Fire Country to ensure that its policies can continue to be implemented.

Sarutobi Hiruzen supported Fengmori Masaki's idea. He himself was a member of the Konoha Ninja Village. Although he came from a powerful ninja clan, he had sympathy for both the lower-level ninjas and the people - otherwise, in the original history, Senju Tobirama will not regard Sarutobi Hiruzen as his successor - he has no objection to the current policy implemented by the village to enhance the status of civilian ninjas and maintain the respect of the ninja clan. In the future, the village will be recognized by the country. He has nothing wrong with having the highest authority. Only by having the village as the highest leader can the implementation of current policies be ensured. For him, there are naturally more benefits.

The only radical issue that needs to be worried about is that Fengmori Masaki also controls himself with good reason. He understands that no matter how rapidly the Konoha Ninja Village develops, it is impossible to control the entire country by himself.Therefore, it is necessary to unite the original noble officials, but they have to be selective, so that even if internal conflicts break out with the daimyo, the process will not be very intense - Sarutobi Hiruzen saw some in the books of Fengmori Masaki There are clues that his future idea seems to be to confine the daimyo to the high cabinet, and let the lords of the entire country serve as the agents of rule, and the Konoha Ninja Village, as the strongest lord, will inevitably be the center of it.

Sarutobi Hiruzen felt that this result might be the best. The aristocratic rule has been passed down for a long time and cannot be given up overnight. Instead of rushing to subvert the entire aristocratic system, it is better to make an intermediate transition first, and then slowly figure it out, all at once. The solution may seem pleasant, but the possibility of backlash is also very high.

Masahiro Fengsen said that society has its own laws. If the objective laws are ignored and forcibly subverted, unpredictable results will occur.The ideas of the Ninja Sect can be described as advanced, but even as powerful as the Six Paths Sage and his successors, they have not been able to make society progress to their ideal point. This is when the time has not yet come, and the advanced system may not be more backward than the backward one. It makes sense and is more suitable for the times.

Of course, these are just thoughts in their minds now, and they have not yet reached the point where they need to be implemented. Hiruzen Sarutobi and Masaki Fengmori stopped tacitly and began to talk about other things. The first thing they mentioned was Yun The deal between the Hidden Ninja Village and the Konoha Ninja Village.

"Soon, the first batch of detonating cannons will be delivered. Then you can take these to trade with the people in Kumogakure Ninja Village. They will send the theoretical results of the Thunder Explosion Talisman and a batch of finished products here. "Fengsen Zhenghui said.

Although the trading content of Konoha Ninja Village includes the production method of Thunder Explosion Talisman, it stands to reason that Konoha Ninja Village can produce and sell it by itself. However, because of the rich land of Konoha Ninja Village, it attracts a large number of powerful ninjas to concentrate on it. As a result, the escape technique components it uses are very complex, which allows it to deal with different enemies, but also creates a problem - that is, there are not enough people using certain attributes.

If you just build an organized army, there will be no problem, but you will definitely not be able to build a force with distinctive chakra attributes like other ninja villages.In other words, although Konoha Ninja Village can produce Thunder Explosion Talisman, its efficiency and output are not as good as Kumogakure Ninja Village where all members can use the thunder attribute.

Therefore, Fengmori Masaki also placed an order for a batch of Thunder Explosion Talismans to the Kumogakure Ninja Village. Naturally, there was nothing the Kumogakure Ninja Village was unwilling to do. Even the production technology of the Thunder Explosion Talisman was given away. What's the point of being stingy with ordinary finished products? Is it necessary?Since there is no problem, Kumogakure Ninja Village can get a sum of money, why not?

"Yeah." Sarutobi Hiruzen nodded, indicating that he knew about it, "However, you can't keep ordering thunder blast talismans from Kumogakure Ninja Village. Ever since the detonating cannon came out, the consumption of such things has increased. The quantity has increased rapidly. I heard that there is some shortage of supply in the Country of Grass."

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

"Yes, we must find ways to increase production in the future and adopt more convenient and faster production methods." Masaki Fengmori understands that after the emergence of semi-automatic ninja tools such as detonating cannons, traditional manual production will gradually fall behind and cannot keep up. Increasing supply 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. As a result, the number of low-level ninjas who learn fire escape and put into production will also increase. If it were in the past, allowing the production market of detonating talismans to others would definitely harm the interests of the Sarutobi family.However, Sarutobi Hiruzen understood that the detonating talisman market after the emergence of detonating cannons could not be occupied by one or two ninja families. As long as they could become the big player, that would be the best result.

Although Sarutobi Hiruzen was burdened with the interests of the Sarutobi family, as the successor that Senju Tobirama should have favored, he was willing to give up some unnecessary greed and leave room for promotion of civilian ninjas.In the rapid changes in Konoha Ninja Village, he has realized that the traditional way of life is no longer suitable for the Ninja clan. If the Ninja clan wants to have a stable life in the village in the future, they must learn to change. In this case, they cannot Don’t worry about immediate short-term benefits, but look further ahead.

Sarutobi Hiruzen firmly believed that even if the status of a civilian ninja rose, the Sarutobi family's heritage, its loyal and reliable character, and past military exploits would still be able to maintain a very high status in the village. There was no need to compete with the village's Fighting with big goals, some people may not understand this, but Hiruzen Sarutobi will try his best to establish this idea in his lifetime.

This method of treating the ninja clan is what Fengmori Masaki wants. Fengmori Masaki understands that it is impossible to completely keep the status of the ninja clan in line with that of civilian ninjas. It is the ultimate society that only belongs to the ideal of the Six Paths Sage, and At present, this is an extravagant hope that cannot be realized for a century.

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, which makes the ninja family who are stronger and pay more and the civilian ninjas Putting them on completely equal footing, it seems fair, but in fact it is the greatest unfairness.

Masaki Fengmori is committed to ending the traditional monopoly policy of the ninja family, and also hopes to improve the status of civilian ninjas. As the price of the ninja family's sacrifice, he will make up for them in other ways, such as allowing the official support of the ninja family in the village In the enterprise, making up for losses from economic benefits is one of the goals. As for others, there are also some compensation plans.

As for the current situation, basically all ninja families have no complaints. Even the most unsociable Uchiha family is under the joint management of Fengmori Masaki and Uchiha Kagami. Most of the people After accepting the village's proposal, only a small number of people complained behind the scenes.

Originally, it would take a long time for the rising civilian ninja to get close to the family ninja - in the original work, although there was a civilian ninja like Namikaze Minato who shocked an era, in the final analysis, he was still a person, and at that time, he was not far away from the family ninja. It has been 60 years since the establishment of Ye Ninja Village - therefore, although the Ninja Family has lost some of its profits, it has completely ignored the past under other compensation.

Fengmori Masaki felt that this was the best result. The ninja family had a very deep foundation and was connected by family blood. The gap between the large number of civilian ninjas who were not closely connected could not be easily bridged.When classes cannot be completely eliminated, we can only hope to interrupt the traditional monopoly and separatism, so that the legal status of the ninja family and civilian ninjas will be equal, and there will no longer be the barriers as in the past. It is a fair method to determine status based on merit.

"If you want to increase production, you have to start working on the dragon veins of the Loulan Kingdom. The focus of fully automated ninja tools in the future will definitely be among them. In other words, the village must gain an advantage in the Battle of the Kingdom of Sichuan and defeat the Loulan Kingdom. All countries including this are under control, and the task of transferring dragon veins has begun." Fengmori Masaki said.

"Having said that, it's not an easy task, especially when carrying out the task of transferring dragon veins during a war. It's easy to be targeted by the opponent." Sarutobi Hiruzen said.

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

"It is true that you won't get anything good from defeating the Water Country, but no matter what, I will definitely settle the score. Just wait for the good news." Sarutobi Hiruzen said with a smile.