[Comprehensive master Naruto] The daimyo of the country of fire is in a panic

In the courtyard in late autumn, the residual heat has completely subsided.The sky turns back and the clouds break.The drizzle is flying outside the curtain, and the west wind is drunk on the balcony.

The noisy discussion in the room was thunderous and very hypnotic. I suppressed a yawn with difficulty, my nose was sore, and I almost shed tears.

"...Xiawuyuan originally proposed to reduce the supply of saltpeter this year and pay taxes instead, but yesterday he reported that the saltpeter tribute should be paid as planned..."

Um?Saltpeter?Fire/powder raw materials?

I woke up immediately and looked at the talker with wide eyes.

Tsuda Genjiro, a Tiepao follower, raised his thick eyebrows and made a meaningful speech under the watchful eyes of everyone: "Shimogogaki also provided us with additional information. Fire Temple Kanxu is secretly manufacturing gunpowder. It is said that his disciples Teach the believers to urinate on the roots of Artemisia striata, and transparent crystals will appear on the roots, which are no different from saltpeter when used."

"What is the intention of the Fire Temple to reorganize its armaments like this?" The retainers all frowned.

Jinemon, the head of the Kanjima Honda family, looked hesitant. After a while, he seemed to have made up his mind and said to everyone: "Enzanji Hikaru is also secretly purchasing iron cannons and making saltpeter. They say that they are selling birds, pigs, and horses. Peeing on feces works better.”

Oh, what did I hear?The headquarters of the two major sects of the Fire Country have begun an arms race - are they going to fight again?

Fire Temple and Yanshan Temple belong to different sects of Buddhism, and both emphasize "clear minds and seeing one's nature." However, the former holds fewer precepts and mainly preaches to the middle and lower classes, while the latter has stricter precepts and focuses on uniting with warriors to adapt to the environment.

Don’t think that the Temple of Fire is a representative of justice and the embodiment of justice just because it “faces the middle and lower class people”.The temple itself is a big landowner and owns a large amount of land and forests. There are many farmers, monks and nuns in the temple. There are often conflicts between sects. The monks even lead the followers to fight each other and hold high the name of Buddha to physically liberate each other.

"Your Highness, we should try to confiscate the iron cannons in the temple. It is not easy for us to mine iron ore and cast firearms every year. As a result, these monks have bought so many. Doesn't our Ashigaru have no equipment to use?" someone shouted. said.

Another person immediately retorted loudly: "More than tens of thousands of dollars are spent on iron cannon casting every year? What's the result? So many iron cannons are piled up in Kurashiki and no one is using them! When has your iron cannon team been put to use? "

A mess of echoes suddenly sounded, like a hundred ducks clamoring in my ears.

"There are only a few hundred iron cannons? In fact, there is no need for so many firearms. We have simply become a weapons supplier to the monk soldiers."

There are more and more voices of support, and the "firearms are useless" theory is obviously the mainstream thinking among the retainers.Tsuda Genjiro, a Tiepao follower, looked on with cold eyes and had no intention of defending himself. He seemed to be used to this kind of quarrel.

I didn't say a word either.However, in my heart, the Ordnance Institute system is one of the few good governance legacy left to me by my father.First, the three ordnance depots are all within the direct jurisdiction of the daimyo, making them easy to control; secondly, the directors of the ordnance depots are all father's confidants and are absolutely obedient to him - this is why the retainers exclude them. One; third, the history of human weapons development has proven the necessity of improving military technology. With the foundation left by my father, I can get twice the result with half the effort.

But I have been detained for too long. I don’t know how many of the equipment manufacturing talents my father has worked so hard to recruit will be left after suffering so much rejection. Moreover, my father’s image of a prodigal is so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people that the retainers simply regard iron cannons as " They are the representative symbol of wasting money and wasting people. They were also part of the money they were forced to spend, and they felt heartbroken.

"Speaking of mining iron ore, the Kingdom of Wind hired ninjas from the Sasazawa clan to occupy the mines. We drove them away several times to no avail." Inoue Shusuke sat among several retainers from Kashiwagi and looked up at me, "Your Highness, Ishida Your Excellency believes that we should take force and not lose the opportunity."

The word "force" was like a spark that instantly detonated the explosive barrel buried among the retainers. Hundreds of ducks began to make annoying "quack quack" again, each expressing his or her own opinion and a hundred schools of thought contending, which was a bit of a stalemate. .

Every speaker will have "Your Highness" in their words, but don't think they are asking me for advice. Listen carefully. They have already named the person who is recognized as suitable to solve the problem. The debate at this time is actually Meaningless.

The rain had stopped, and I looked out the window, looking at the sun emerging from the clouds and mist, and fell into deep thought.

On the roof, a small eagle with a wingspan of less than half a meter was playing with a large cat-like furry creature.

The furball struggled to and fro to pounce on the raw meat clutched in the talons of the little eagle, but the little eagle always flapped its wings to raise its height when it was about to pounce, causing the furball to drop its mouth several times and gnaw at the mud.

After more than a month of working together, the atmosphere between Senju and Uchiha is no longer tense. They can't help each other, but they can at least keep each other safe.At this time, the daimyo was holding a morning meeting, and the protection task was relatively easy. Some ninjas from the two tribes even pointed at the two psychic beasts and whispered and laughed.

Of course, Senju Hashirama, the model of affability among the ninja clan, was already sitting next to his friend and confessed to him without any secret the contents of the letter he received from home.

"...I made a custom-made armor for Tobirama before. He wrote back and told me that it was just right. I originally wanted to make one for Tobirama, but I didn't have enough money - Tobirama taught me not to spend money randomly in the casino. But I obviously didn’t go, because the prices here in Sagayama City are too high..."

Madara stopped his thoughts with just one sentence: "Is your brother going to the battlefield?"

My sister's head was like a machine whose switch was pressed. She slowly stopped dancing, retracted her arms and hugged her head: "Yeah."

"With Uchiha?"

"……possible."

Neither of them spoke anymore.Not far away, the furball screamed angrily, trying to lower its voice to threaten, while the eaglet flew higher and higher, deliberately hovering over it.

"This year's harvest was not good, and Uchiha couldn't buy enough food for the winter." Madara took a deep breath, letting the moist air with an earthy smell after the rain pour into his lungs. "Some people even wanted to hire us to rob the food store, but we refused. ”

He looked down at the castle town: "Actually, it's not that we haven't tried to fight. Last month, the tribe helped farmers resist taxes. As a result, this month, as long as Uchiha was responsible for escorting the convoys, the tariffs would be [-]% higher than others. In the past, I never noticed, but after the Daimyo’s analysis, I suddenly discovered that those people were holding us hostage too much.”

Hashirama bent his legs and rested his chin on his arms: "Have you mentioned His Highness's analysis to...uncle?"

When Madara heard the title "uncle", he first glanced at Hashirama strangely, and then smiled a little bitterly: "Yes, I repeated it exactly as it is. Although my father was doubtful, he immediately sent someone to collect the data... His Highness's The guess is probably correct.”

"Yes, of course it is correct," Hashirama looked up at the little eagle returning in the sky, "but my father said, 'The blood feud that has been caused will not be changed because of this, and the dead will not be resurrected, they are just two The enemy just has a common enemy.'"

Unexpectedly, Madara actually laughed softly: "Ha..."

"Huh? What's wrong with you?" Monk Hashirama Joji was confused, "Is this something interesting?"

Madara laughed so hard that his eyes filled with tears, but his hands clenched into fists, and veins popped out on his neck: "My father and your father said exactly the same thing! They have never hidden each other's hearts like us, but they can say the same thing. Not bad - 'enemies'... you are truly worthy of being an 'enemy'!"

He tried his best to keep his voice down, but the adult ninjas around him noticed the abnormality here, and they all looked at him covertly.The two psychic beasts seemed to sense the psychic's emotional fluctuations and stopped fighting.

Quan Nai picked up the fur ball and ran quickly between the two of them: "Brother? Are you okay? Senju, what did you say to my brother?"

"It's nothing, Izuna." Madara stopped his younger brother from throwing tiles at Hashirama, stretched out his foot and gently kicked the shrunken Senju mushroom head: "Don't be depressed, you might as well think about what to do if you have that time, you Didn't you say, 'We need to build a village so that children don't have to kill each other'? The child who is going to fight on the battlefield now is your brother! Come up with a solution quickly!"

By the end of the sentence, Madara was already shaking Hashirama by his collar.

Hashirama let him shake, his mind racing.He has always understood that although his strength has surpassed that of an adult, he still cannot convince everyone with force - force has never been able to truly convince people.What's more, he was his father and a member of his clan, so how could he do anything to them?But how can we stop them from taking over the mission for their brothers if they don't take action?He couldn't be with the children all the time.Declaring war on the nobles and samurai?They have their own force, and they will hire other ninjas who don't know what they are doing. A mere Senju has no chance of winning, and rash actions will make more enemies.

"...Will Your Highness..." He remembered the unforgettable conversation a few days ago.

The two of them looked down at their feet. Across the roof, the current leader of the Fire Nation was sitting below them.

"Our strength is too weak." Hashirama lowered his head.

"His Highness has been hijacked... a lot more than us." Bantuo relaxed his shoulders forcefully.

"Wouldn't it be nice if Your Highness hired your brother to come here? It also solves the problem of eating." Quan Nai said casually, stroking her fur ball.

It seems to be the case.

Reading time.

The low table was piled with books, like the Nine Palaces and Bagua array arranged by Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, or a miniature version of the Salisbury stone circle.

I told Shanxian that I wanted to learn world geography. He said that he didn’t understand what I was saying. I said that the world is very big and I wanted to see it. If he didn’t let me see it on paper, I ran away from home. He second God immediately airdropped five loads of books to me.

I don't need to learn from Fu Wu, especially the quality of his books varies greatly, and there are many things that are fabricated out of thin air at first glance. How about playing fantasy world with me in a fantasy world?Can you give me some real and accurate information?Do you have the ability to master the entire Middle Earth map?

Reading ancient texts was too boring, so I put down the dusty album: "Hashirama, Madara, I want to ask you something."

The little ninjas lowered their heads and moved closer, and the little tailed Izuna also came over and sat behind her brother. The three of them quickly raised their eyes and glanced at me, and found that after I looked directly at them, they all looked away as if they had been burned. .

Ever since the day my grandmother arrived, the atmosphere between us had had the tension of an underground joint.

I subconsciously tapped my thigh with my fingers, recalling the settings of the ninjas’ beliefs in the original book: “Can you tell me about your religious beliefs?”

The three of them were confused for a moment: "The ancestors are enshrined in the shrine...does it count?"

After all, your common ancestor was indeed a goddess.

"The Senju family also believes in Buddhism?" The patriarch called "Buddha".

"Yes, but the temple we often visit has nothing to do with big temples such as Fire Temple and Enzan Temple. It is just a small independent temple." Hashirama said.

I decided to believe him, and I couldn’t show my dissatisfaction with these big temples now. Not to mention Oda Nobunaga’s past mistakes, the Canaanite lay disciple of Yanzan Temple was still here, and I didn’t want to argue with him about Buddhism.

So the topic continued: "Where are the other ninjas?"

"not sure."

Therefore, Senju does not seem to have an obvious tendency to believe in Buddhism, while Uchiha is closer to Shintoism, which worships nature and ancestors. The original work does show that both tribes have shrines. In the theatrical version, a shrine maiden Shion appears and The prince was a bit ambiguous.

Now that Buddhism is prevalent, Shintoism's living space has been squeezed out a lot.However, the relationship between the two religions has never been a life-or-death relationship. Instead, they have integrated and absorbed each other. There is absolutely no problem with the anti-bone behavior of turning around and kneeling to Amaterasu after worshiping the Great Sun Tathagata. Everyone upholds a tolerant attitude and asks for whatever is efficacious.The conflicts between religions are not even as sharp as those between Buddhist sects. The relatively weak Shinto will always avoid the sharp edges.

Huh, they are both extremely wealthy landowners, there is no difference in essence.

According to neon history, after the rise of the "Abolition of Buddha and Destruction of Buddhist Interpretations" movement in the early Meiji period, the state forced the worship of Shintoism to become a civil obligation, used faith to strengthen authority, and established the entire people's absolute worship of the "Son of God". Only then did Shintoism Finally achieved a complete victory in the religious war.

Absolute worship of the "Son of God"...

"Second question, where did your weapons come from?" I looked at the ninja sword on Brother Tuanshan's waist.

"There are regular suppliers, and there is also a weapons shop within the clan." They answered in a satisfactory manner.

In other words, the Ninja clan itself does not own minerals or professional weapon craftsmen.

"It's okay, okay." I lowered my head.The younger ones are all here, and I don’t want to talk too much in front of them.

"Your Highness..." The ninjas did not move, but someone spoke hesitantly.