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Hokage Tower.

"Good day, you are here, please sit down."

Seeing Chen An coming, the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen excitedly stood up from his office chair and motioned Chen An to sit down quickly.

"This is intelligence. Take a look and see what we should do next."

After the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen handed the information in his hand to Chen An, he stared at Chen An intently, trying to see from Chen An's face whether Chen An had already anticipated the difficulty facing the Daimyo of the Land of Fire.

Chen An on the side picked up the information handed to him by the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen and began to look at it carefully.

The intelligence recorded in detail that several of Sarutobi Hiruzen's companions were constantly recruiting civilians from various small countries. When Chen An saw that Danzo Shimura actually used forced plunder to recruit a large number of civilians from the Land of Hot Water and the Land of Iron, a smile appeared on Chen An's face.

Sure enough, even if Danzo Shimura's chances of becoming the Hokage of Konoha Village were restricted, he was still the largest hawkish force in Konoha Village.

The Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, who was sitting next to him, saw that Chen An had not shown any panic or shock on his face since he got the information, but instead smiled. He immediately understood that what Shimura Danzo said, that Chen An had a plan in advance, was actually true.

The Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen couldn't understand why Chen An, Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru were all born after the establishment of Konoha Village, so his strategy was so treacherous and cunning.

After Chen An finished reading all the information, he leisurely put down the documents in his hand and looked at the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen.

"How is it? Good day. Any ideas? What should we do?"

The Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen saw Chen An put down the information and asked Chen An anxiously.

"Don't panic, Hokage-sama. Things are not that bad yet."

Chen An smiled and comforted the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen.

"Really? Then what should we do?"

Hearing Chen An's words, the anxious mood of the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen was relieved a lot. But he still looked at Chen An with burning eyes. He wanted to know what to do next?

"Since the Daimyo has cut off our subsidies, let's just terminate the employment relationship between Konoha Village and the Land of Fire. Withdraw all of Konoha Village's ninjas from the various towns and villages."

Chen An said to the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen with a smile.

"What do you mean by withdraw? Won't the people from other countries invade the Fire Nation?"

After hearing what Chen An said, the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen asked Chen An in surprise.

"Hokage, we have an employment relationship with the Fire Nation. They pay, and we work hard to protect the safety of the Fire Nation. Now that they are unwilling to pay, we can simply withdraw."

Chen An said to the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen with a smile, his tone full of confidence.

"But if we don't have the subsidy from the Fire Country Daimyo, our village will be short of funds."

The Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen spoke to Chen An with great embarrassment.

"Lack of funds? Lord Hokage, you don't have to worry about that. Aren't there many nobles in the Fire Nation? When there is a lack of funds one day, we can send a few ninjas from Konoha Village to sneak into the capital of the Fire Nation disguised as rebels. We can directly select a noble to assassinate him, plunder all his wealth, bring it back to Konoha Village, and use it for the development of our Konoha Village, right?"

Chen An looked at the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen very calmly and said to him.

"Wouldn't that be a bad idea? If we do this, we'll push the Daimyo over to other ninja villages."

After hearing what Chen An said, the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen spoke to Chen An in great embarrassment.

"Hokage, you are worrying too much. Think about it, the Daimyo of the Land of Fire does not trust our Konoha Village. Then will the Daimyo of other countries trust the ninja villages in their countries?"

"If the Fire Country Daimyo supports the ninja villages of other countries, will the ninja villages of small countries dare to do the same? If the ninja villages of big countries do this, what will the Daimyo of their own country choose?"

Chen An asked the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen with a smile.

"I see, it's true!"

After hearing what Chen An said, the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen took a breath and found that things seemed to be just as Chen An said.

"Besides, we don't have to confront the Daimyo directly. As long as we pretend to be wandering ninjas or rebel ninjas and keep attacking the officials under the Fire Country Daimyo, I don't believe that the Fire Country Daimyo dares to really tear his face with our Konoha Village."

Chen An leaned back in his chair with a sneer and said to the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen.

In Chen An's view, the Daimyo of the Land of Fire is the money bag of Konoha Village.

Isn’t there a saying like that?

My neighbors store food, and I store guns. My neighbors are my granaries.

As the most powerful ninja village in the entire ninja world, Konoha Village has developed rapidly in recent years without Shimura Danzo's internal struggle for the next Hokage.

Sometimes Chen An wondered whether he should give it a try, with Konoha Village alone fighting against the other four major ninja villages at the same time. Could he defeat four alone?

After explaining everything to the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, Chen An stood up with a smile and left the Hokage's office, leaving Sarutobi Hiruzen alone to digest what Chen An said.

Soon, the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen gave orders to several of his companions, asking them to send some ninjas to pretend to be rebels and wandering ninjas, rob the officials under the Daimyo of the Land of Fire, plunder their wealth, and secretly send them back to Konoha Village.

"Haha, I was right. This is definitely not what Sarutobi would do. The one who came up with this idea must be the little guy Hinata."

The country of soup.

After receiving the order from the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, Shimura Danzo was overjoyed and immediately sent out his family's ninjas to assassinate the Fire Country officials who were trying to stop him from bringing the civilians of the Hot Spring Country and the Iron Country back to Konoha Village.

Danzo Shimura even personally killed the cousin of a Fire Country daimyo and robbed him of all his wealth.

Under the order of the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, a large number of Konoha Village ninjas began to return to Konoha Village from various villages in the Land of Fire, no longer serving as the guardians of these villages.

The most prominent of these is the Fire Nation capital.

Originally, although the Fire Country's capital had guardian ninjas from the Fire Country's Daimyo, the defense of the Daimyo's mansion had always been the responsibility of the ninjas from Konoha Village.

Now the ninjas of Konoha Village have begun to return to Konoha Village one after another, and the Daimyo of the Land of Fire who discovered this phenomenon was suddenly in despair.

After Hashirama Senju and the Uchiha class established the ninja village, most of the ninja clans in a country all joined the ninja village. Only a very small number of individual ninjas or small ninjas would become the guardian ninjas of the Daimyo of the Land of Fire.

However, the strength of these guardian ninjas themselves is not strong, and the strength of some guardian ninjas can even be described as weak.

Except for a very small number who can become jonin, their numbers and strength cannot be compared with those of the ninjas in the ninja village.

Faced with the withdrawal of the ninjas from Konoha Village, the defense capabilities of the Fire Country Daimyo's Mansion began to decline instantly.

At the same time, clan members of the daimyo scattered throughout the Land of Fire began to appear from time to time, and news of them being attacked and plundered of their wealth began to appear from time to time.

Because of this phenomenon, even the Sand Village's Sandaikage and the Rain Country's Salamander Hanzo tacitly stopped the war and wanted to wait and see what would happen next in the Fire Country.