[Hokage] Secrets of the Fathers [Fourth Generation Center]

Konoha 60 years

1 April

fire country

Konoha National Highway, direction to Water Country

Bustling with people

The carriages are stuck, the horses are lacking, it’s a mess

The temporary leader of the Konoha genin team, who was eager to prove that he was not a road idiot, was parked on the road with two teammates, a teacher, and a carriage with his employer in it.

Yes, had to stop, even though they were a full 24 hours behind schedule.

Uzumaki Naruto was really aggrieved. In fact, this lateness really had nothing to do with him. He really didn't read the map wrong, he really didn't make a mistake in the direction, and he didn't even take the wrong road. But he could still feel the damn thing behind him. Uchiha Sasuke's contemptuous eyes.

"Hey~ I know children are annoying. I told them when I got the assignment that they might encounter a traffic jam, so why do they dare to walk on the national highway?" I have been enjoying tea and reading novels with my employer in the carriage for the past two days. The happily irresponsible Jonin guided Kakashi without showing it on his face, but he cursed in his mind.At this time, he finally understood what regret meant.It is not the way of a mature teacher to involve oneself in order to train a newcomer.He really wanted to slap each of his three subordinates, but now he had no time. He needed to be careful to prevent his employer's bewildered old horse from stepping on the crowd or being squeezed to death by the crowd. What does it mean to be unable to advance or retreat? , right now.

"Hey, don't look at me with such strange eyes. I asked everyone when I decided to take the main road, and isn't it normal all the way?" Genin Uzumaki Naruto finally knew how to protect the carriage like a guard. .

"If there were almost no people along the way, it would be considered normal." Sasuke, who was even more confused next to him, had calmed down and tried his best to cooperate with Naruto to form a formation, although it seemed that formations had no practical meaning.

"Because they are all blocked here." Suddenly a voice came. When I looked up, I saw a boy sitting on the big tree by the roadside.The boy looked like a commoner from a nearby village. He was about seventeen or eighteen years old. He was holding a basket and giggling.

"You can tell, what's going on?" Sakura still smiled like a lady today.

"I don't know about this little ninja sister of Konoha." The young man raised his eyebrows at Sakura.

Sakura also raised her eyebrows and put her hands on her hips as usual.She could tell that the dead ghost in the tree was playing with her.Okay, okay, Sakura is going to start collecting information. How did it come about in class?

"Ouch, there's already a bunch of traffic in front of me." The young man glanced at the angry Sakura, stood up, and shook the basket in his hand.

"What's in your basket?" Leader Naruto, who had been slowly moving in the crowd all morning and had only eaten half a piece of dry food, was already hungry.

"Hey~ This little ninja brother of Konoha, does he need bean bags and tea eggs?"

Naruto listened to his stomach happily saying "yes", and at the same time he was ready to be told no by the money bag, "How much are your bean bags and tea eggs?"

"Two bean bags and one tea egg cost 5 coppers in total." The part-time vendor had already wrapped the things and handed them to Naruto, "Thank you for your patronage."

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"Hey, little brother, it's already very cheap. Pay for it."

"Thank you, big brother~ I also want 5 copies." Sakura, who had already realized the standard intelligence process, winked at Naruto, "Naruto, you are treating me."

Looking at Sakura who still wanted to count on Naruto and Naruto who reacted slowly and half-frightenedly, Sasuke couldn't bear it anymore. He raised his hand to salute and handed over the money, "Sir, I dare to ask why this place is like this."

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The vendor was stunned.

Kakashi lowered his head and said nothing. He actually wanted to look up to the sky and sigh, are these children really 12 years old? Just look at these three to know how capable genin in the peace era are.

"Here, this young master." The hawker rubbed the corners of his twitching mouth, quickly wrapped 5 pieces of food and handed them to Sakura, "Look at what you said, during the New Year, the Kingdom of Wind and the Kingdom of Fire did not issue a trade agreement together. The things in the agreement seem to be very favorable, so now businessmen from all over the world are trying to grab the limelight, but the treaty does not include this group of businessmen from the Kingdom of Water. So our officials from the Kingdom of Fire are blocking the merchants from entering. But this businessman They haven’t left yet, and the regulations haven’t been finalized yet, so they’re all stuck here.”

Sasuke was stunned when he saw the hawker who spoke so eloquently. He had a hunch that this guy with a playful smile was not a spy from another country.

The sensitive vendor looked at the little ninja with something wrong in his eyes, and was so frightened that he almost fell off the branch, "I didn't say anything I shouldn't have said. The notice the officials issued to the children made it very clear. .”

"Notice"

The vendor pointed out to them that they saw a few officials-looking people stepping on the roofs of various cars with the help of a small team of suspected Konoha ninjas. Each team member passed out leaflets and explained happily, and they were almost here.

"Originally I wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to make a lot of money. But I have already ordered not to go up in price. I don't want to be reprimanded by those serious guys. Anyway, now that the farm is slack, it is better to take out the flour and eggs instead of leaving them there to be eaten. Exchange some sweets for my younger brothers and sisters. If I can meet someone who sells rouge jewelry, I might coax the girl in the village to marry me tomorrow."

"Hahaha." The leader of the caravan standing next to him laughed after listening to this boy's words. "Hey, boy, you have a good business sense. My caravan is doing well in the Kingdom of Water. Do you want to come with me?" Running business.”

The young man was also happy, "Forget it, I won't be able to finish planting in spring."

Everyone laughed together, as if giving up their impatience.

So several genin looked at each other and waited for evacuation.

But the engineer Dazna, who had been in the carriage, was getting more and more anxious.The bridge must be built as soon as possible, otherwise the Land of Waves will be doomed.Outside there are a large number of smart businessmen from the Kingdom of Water, and inside there are Cardo who monopolize the sea routes.Even if we get rid of the dilemma of buying food from Cardo at high prices and selling goods to him at low prices in the future, will we still have to compete with the huge Water Kingdom? Damn it, doesn’t it mean that Water Kingdom and other countries have refused to participate in the economy? Have you cooperated?

Thinking of this, Dazna felt even more uneasy.

"You three are really useless. We have to rush. Look, aren't they coming soon?"

Kakashi and the three genin who were accustomed to the noise collectively looked at another caravan from the Kingdom of Water in the distance.Well, people carrying carriages is actually more beneficial to relieving traffic pressure.But,

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p; "Sasuke, the ninja from the Kingdom of Water passed by carrying the carriage."

"I saw Naruto."

"But that's a kunoichi~"

"I see that you have never seen Tsunade-senpai from Konoha in the market, who is the real hero among girls." Sasuke said seriously while trying his best to maintain his demeanor in the crowd.

"Hey, Naruto, Sasuke, in that case let's get started." Sakura looked admiring and had already begun to take off her sleeves.

Master Naruto and Master Sasuke consciously lost their ability to judge. Fortunately, they still remembered that ninjas are a type of work that can ask their superiors for instructions on everything, but they were destined to be hit even harder. Kakashi had already easily lifted the horse above his head, waiting for the three of them. A genin is fighting against a car.

"What about the old man who built the bridge?" Naruto rolled up his sleeves and looked for Sakura.

"Sit in the car, just don't move." Sasuke took a deep breath, stuffed the stunned old man into the car, and was speechless as he watched Kakashi take advantage of every opportunity to carry the horse and run away.He just wanted to ask his teacher about why he couldn't first find an empty place to set the coordinates of the Flying Thunder God and then fly the carriage out.

But his two idiot teammates were ready to lift the carriage and were waiting for him. Sasuke had no choice but to think, "In other words, lifting the carriage is no problem, but how to control it if three people teleport together."

Naruto and Sakura were petrified.

half an hour,

"Why should we teleport and move out bit by bit?"

"What's the difference between that and moving out bit by bit just now?"

“At least it can be faster”

"real"

"perhaps."

All in all, it’s better than doing nothing

fire country

Konoha

Naruto Office

The Fourth Hokage, Namikaze Minato, felt a wave of weakness in his heart. He had just scared away the representatives of the Wind and Fire business groups who came to see him after receiving the news.He also excused himself from asking questions from the Parliament and the Presbyterian Council. He still wanted to know what was going on.

"Akimichi Choza, how did you explain to them before you came back?"

"Something will definitely happen on the border between the Land of Fire and the Land of Water recently." Ding Zuo stood at attention and replied, "If any abnormality is found, report it immediately."

"Then why were the merchants from the Kingdom of Water stopped when they were almost at the capital."

"Sir, that's a caravan."

"I know it's a caravan, not an army."

On the side, Nara Shikaku saw the Hokage slamming the table if he continued to speak, and quickly interrupted, "Forget it, sir. It's strange that businessmen seek profits and avoid disadvantages when they see such a huge market in the Land of Fire and don't want to take a bite."

"Yes, the trade announcement that responded quickly enough was only issued for half a month, so they don't have to celebrate the New Year?" Namikaze Minato looked at the calm face of his former comrade, the current Konoha field commander, Akimichi Choza, who still didn't understand why. , sighing lightly.

"What should we do now? We have asked the country's leader to issue a letter of protest to the country of water." Yamanaka Haiichi also kept sighing.

"Do you really want to stop him?" Shikaku frowned.

"No need. The cards are powerful against us." Minato held his chin in thought, "What did the Kiri Ninja say?"

"Clearly coded information." Intelligence Minister Lu Jiu had a strange look on his face and took out the note but hesitated to speak.

"Why don't you read it quickly if you have information?" Minato urged.

"I read the original text." Lu Jiu confirmed again.

"Nan." Minato glanced at Shikaku strangely.

"Ahem." Lu Jiu no longer hesitated and read loudly,

"Namikaze Minato:

We Mist Ninjas are now open for business. Of course, we will work for whoever pays us.Besides, even during times of war, there is no rule that prohibits caravans from various countries from hiring ninja bodyguards.Therefore, if businessmen from the Kingdom of Water hire our ninja bodyguards with high salaries to go to the Kingdom of Fire to do business, of course we will do it.As for the opinions of the Water Country and its leader, it has nothing to do with us Mist Ninjas.Also, you are a bit too domineering, but I like it.Terumi Mei. "

silence.

Namikaze Minato sighed, not prepared to pay attention to a group of old friends who couldn't bear to laugh. He said seriously to the Minister of Intelligence, "Call back. Your Excellency, the Fifth Mizukage:

The act of bringing goods into a sovereign country without permission when tariffs are undetermined and tax rates are unknown is called smuggling.So your employers have violated Fire Nation law.As Konoha, which has the clear authorization of the Fire Nation, has the right to detain any businessmen and ninjas who violate the laws of our country.However, given the unfinished nature of his behavior.Konoha will handle the matter as appropriate on the basis of resolving the matter as soon as possible.The Fourth Hokage. "

"Yes, sir." After finishing recording, the intelligence minister summoned his men to call back as soon as possible.

"More." Namikaze said calmly.

The intelligence minister stopped his subordinate who had just received the mission and left.

"It has nothing to do with you." Hokage stopped Shikaku, his eyes fixed on the silent Uchiha Fugaku who had been standing in the corner and smiled for no reason. "Is there anything fun that will make you forget that we are at work again?"

"Ah, Sasuke's new news mentioned Naruto. It's funny. Do you want to know?" Uchiha Fugaku had an expression on his face that said, "If you ask me, I won't tell you."

"Fugaku, you're very busy. Tell me later." Namikaze Minato felt himself getting weaker, "Everyone, please note that all the staff are working overtime today to prepare for joint negotiations. I want a reasonable tax rate for the merchants of the Water Country, as well as all water There is endless data on the beneficial effects of the country's business group joining the Economic Cooperation Organization on the two countries, Wind and Fire. No one is allowed to eat or sleep after work. 012110 Coffee."

Better than doing nothing

60 Years of Konoha, July 1

On this day, Uzumaki Naruto and his two companions suddenly discovered that besides ninjas, there were many other different people in the world.

On this day, the Mist Ninja who came to the Country of Fire suddenly discovered that casual destruction of trees and fields on the roadside would actually result in a fine.