Tsunade, you're really drunk!

"Everyone, special emergency jonin meetings like today have only happened three times in Iwagakure Village since the village was founded."

"These three times, without exception, were all crossroads for the village's future. Even though I am the Tsuchikage, at times like these, I am just a member of the Iwagakure ninja community, just like all of you. There is no difference."

"Because I know clearly that only the path chosen by everyone with one heart and one mind is the right path."

"This emergency meeting is held. Although the Ninja World is now in a relatively stable and peaceful state, Uchiha Obito and his accomplices are still lurking in the dark corners of the Ninja World, and they may cause a fatal blow to the Ninja World and our Iwagakure Village at any time!"

"Therefore, the Hidden Rock Village must take advantage of the current peace and seize every minute and every second to continuously strengthen itself. Only in this way can it protect itself in future crises and even surpass the Hidden Cloud Village!"

Ohnoki's words immediately aroused the passion in the hearts of the senior ninjas sitting below. At this moment, they felt that the will of stone in their hearts was unprecedentedly high, and their eyes were bloodshot.

Love for the village, the desire to protect family and companions, as well as disgust for Obito, the most wanted traitor in the ninja world today, or hatred and rejection of the Hidden Cloud Village.

Maybe everyone has different thoughts in their hearts, but without exception, their inner emotions are aroused at this moment.

But the only person sitting in the same row as Ohnoki but at the other end was Lao Zi, who frowned, looked down on Ohnoki's words that stirred up the inner emotions of the ninjas, and snorted coldly.

"Ohnoki, put away your smooth talk and old fox attitude, just say what you have to say."

"I hate your righteous face the most."

After Lao Zi's words were spoken, the atmosphere in the conference room became solemn. Among the jonin below, a small number of them also regained consciousness at this moment. After all, to be able to reach the level of jonin, their minds had already matured, and it was not difficult for them to hear the implication of Lao Zi's words.

It is a satire on the fact that Ohnoki always likes to magnify the inner emotions of the ninjas in order to confuse their judgment and make them "blindly follow" Ohnoki's guidance under the influence of emotions.

Ohnoki's face turned dark. He didn't expect that Lao Zi would not give him face in such a situation. It would be fine if they had disagreements in private, but at this time he even tried to sabotage him. He suddenly felt furious.

But for the sake of the overall situation, I still suppressed my anger.

"Old Zi, I know you don't like my style, but everyone here is the elite of the village, all jonin. Do you think they are all children who can't distinguish right from wrong?"

"If you really have any opinions, you might as well listen to what I have to say before you refute them."

"As long as you can explain your reasons and make sense, and gain everyone's approval, why not listen to you?"

Oonoki's prompt counterattack forced Lao Zi to remain silent temporarily.

After hearing what Ōnoki said, the pride and arrogance in the hearts of the senior ninjas in the audience also increased a little.

After all, their identities as jonin are not fake. Which one of them is not an elite among ninjas?

After all, no one dislikes hearing nice words, and no one finds them annoying.

"Just now, I was talking with Uchiha Chiye, and he rejected my request to continue expanding the scale of business in Iwagakure Village."

As soon as these words were spoken, there was an uproar in the audience. Many of the jonin showed anger on their faces and started to denounce loudly, filled with righteous indignation and hatred.

"Iwagakure has already joined the Ninja Association. Konoha can build bridges with Kirigakure, expand trade routes with Kumogakure, and even bring the Shodaime Hokage back from the dead to plant trees in Sandgakure. Why won't they cooperate further with us, Iwagakure!?"

"Isn't this bullying an honest person!?"

"Just because we are honest people in the Hidden Rock Village, do we deserve to suffer? Are we unwilling to continue to develop with us? Could it be that the Ninja Association is forming a small group and excluding our Hidden Rock Village!?"

"How much material did we spend to build the Ninja Association? Now that the association is built, you want to kick us out of Iwagakure and not play with us anymore? This Uchiha Qianye is a complete bastard!?"

You shout, I shout, seeing the ninjas' eyes and faces becoming increasingly red, Huang Tu shouted loudly, and finally suppressed the voices of the crowd.

"Wait until Tsuchikage-sama has finished speaking before you voice your own views and opinions!"

"Don't you even listen to what the Tsuchikage-sama says!?"

The scene calmed down again, and Ohnoki looked at the yellow earth beside him, nodded, feeling slightly relieved.

It seems that his son has finally made some progress in accepting the Tsuchikage. He is much better than before, honest and simple. At least he is now more dignified and knows how to control the right to speak.

"Although Uchiha Qianye rejected our Iwagakure's proposal, it is not without reason."

"Among the five great nations, only our Land of Earth has the most inconvenient transportation. Even the Land of Wind has camels that can be used as a means of transport to pull goods."

"But the roads in our Land of Earth are dangerous, and only a few roads are open to trade. This results in merchants rarely being willing to come to the Land of Earth to trade."

"But right now, the construction of the village's new commercial district and the Ninja Association has consumed too much financial resources, and it is now difficult for the village to continue allocating funds for road construction."

"Therefore, Qianye proposed to entrust the war commission of Fushiko Village to us to alleviate the current financial pressure of the village."

Hearing this, Lao Zi on the side could only sneer, thinking it was extremely ridiculous.

"Ohnoki, I think you are really old and confused. Although Nadeshiko Village is not well-known in the ninja world, its strength is comparable to that of Takigakure Village."

"Konoha is willing to give us such a good job? You are too old to distinguish between reality and fantasy, and you are blinded by money."

Lao Zi just felt that such a magical thing could never happen. How could Konoha be willing to hand over such a big piece of fat meat to others?

I saw that a smile finally appeared on Ōnoki's face, as if the old fox's conspiracy had succeeded, and he saw Lao Zi step into the trap with his own eyes.

"Under normal circumstances, it certainly wouldn't happen."

"Even if it was the old man Sarutobi Hiruzen, he wouldn't do that either."

"Although the Uchiha are indeed the strongest in the ninja world today, they are still a little immature compared to an old man like me who has experienced decades of hardships as a Tsuchikage."

"Konoha's current cooperation with various villages requires a lot of manpower, material resources, and financial resources. We may not lack everything, but the only thing we don't have is people."

"Expanding the village, building a bridge, expanding the caravan, helping the Rain Country control floods, which one doesn't require a large population?"

"Not to mention that for the sake of efficiency, Konoha has also mobilized a large number of ninjas. If it weren't for maintaining the stability of the Ninja Association, how could he be willing to give up the commission of Nadeshiko Village, this piece of fat meat?"

"If the Ninja Association doesn't play with us Iwagakure today, then tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, they might not play with Kumogakure, Kirigakure, or Sandgakure!"

"It's such a simple truth, I think people from other villages will understand it~ This piece of cake is Konoha's fear of our Iwagakure Village. We won it with our own strength! It's not Konoha's charity!"

"Old Zi, do you understand!?"

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