Travel through Konoha and open treasure chests

Chapter 383 Changes in Konoha

Leaf Village.

Hokage Building.

The Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, who was sitting at his desk, put down a pile of documents he had just finished reviewing, and rubbed his eyebrows a few times with his fingers. His wrinkled face was full of exhaustion.

"As expected, I am getting older and my energy is getting weaker and weaker."

He picked up the pipe next to him and took a few heavy puffs, exhaling a puff of white smoke. A self-deprecating smile appeared on Sandai's face.

As an old man who is nearly seventy years old, even the powerful Ninja hero in the past has to bow to the years.

A year or two have passed since Danzo's death. Over the past year or so, the third generation has felt more and more unable to handle government affairs, and has even had the idea of ​​​​finding a successor to succeed him more than once. However, Konoha is still in a period of drought, and the oldest one has even thought of finding a successor to succeed him. Among the generation of ninjas, the two most suitable to be the Fifth Hokage are now wandering around. The younger generation has not yet fully grown up due to their age and seniority. The third generation has to continue dragging their old bodies in the position of Hokage. Use the remaining heat.

Without Danzo as an assistant, many of the tasks originally assigned to the Anbu were now completed by the ANBU directly under the Hokage. The increase in workload and the accompanying huge pressure made the third generation mentally and physically exhausted.

"Perhaps it's time to find some time to select a few candidates with Hokage talents from the next generation."

Thinking of this, the third generation turned his head and glanced at the jounin roster on the side of the table, and was about to take it over and read through it again.

A knock on the door suddenly sounded.

"Come in."

The door to the Hokage's office opened from the outside.

A black-haired boy wearing a dark green Konoha Jounin vest and a security armband on his right arm walked in. There were two decree lines on his face. He stopped in front of the desk, leaned slightly, and put a scroll in his hand. Passed it to the table: "Third Generation Sir, the reorganization of the security force has been basically completed. This is the final list of members of the security force. Please take a look."

"Is it"

The third generation put down his pipe, opened the scroll and took a look at it. At the same time, he said with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work, Itachi."

"No, I still have to thank the Third Generation for trusting me and the Uchiha clan."

Itachi bowed slightly, his face calm.

The reconstruction work of the Uchiha clan was actually completed half a year ago.

After losing a large number of clan members, especially more than half of the elite ninjas in the security force, the number of Uchiha clan members shrank sharply, and the area of ​​the Uchiha clan was reduced accordingly. However, the village mobilized Konoha and other families and villagers to lend a helping hand to Uchiha's reconstruction work, and issued a series of appeasement policies. Coupled with Shisui and Itachi's activities in the middle, Uchiha and other Konoha families The relationship between them has somewhat eased.

However, the problem of the security forces has not been resolved for a long time.

Due to the reduction in the number of ninjas in the Uchiha clan, it has become an inevitable choice to recruit people from other families into the security force. However, in terms of personnel selection, it has not been finalized.

The third generation needs to arrange for their trusted subordinates to join the security force, and Itachi and Shisui also hope to use this method to promote exchanges between the Uchiha clan and other families, and to resolve the barriers that have been established between them over the years, so as to avoid The situation of complacency appears again. However, if omissions are made in the selection of personnel and then taken advantage of by people with malicious intentions, instead of being able to resolve the estrangement, it may have the opposite effect and intensify more conflicts.

Therefore, after temporarily reorganizing the security force, Konoha and Uchiha observed and screened for more than half a year before finally determining the final list of members.

Sandai has long understood this.

After a cursory glance, he flipped the scroll to the bottom and stamped it with the Hokage's personal seal.

"Is there anything else to report?"

"some."

Itachi took out a few pieces of white paper from his arms and placed them on the table:

"This piece of paper is a list of Uchiha students who will graduate from the Ninja School in the near future, as well as a list of Uchiha people who have applied to enter the Medical Department, Torture Department, Intelligence Analysis Department, and Ninja School Teacher Department.

In addition, these five Uchiha clan members, including Uchiha Yoshiki, are outstanding ninjas carefully selected by Shisui and I from the clan. Their talents, minds, and loyalty to the village are enough to take on the responsibility of the village. He will serve as the leader of the team, but the specific details will be decided by the Third Generation. "

"Are you leading the Jonin team?"

Three generations frowned slightly.

In order to calm down the aftermath of the Uchiha genocide, allowing Uchiha people to join various departments in the village like ninjas from other families in the village was one of the appeasement policies set by Konoha. There are other similar measures, such as encouraging Uchiha clan ninjas to marry young men and women from other clans.

Including the Uchiha clan, most families with bloodline boundaries will choose to marry within the clan in order to maintain the purity of their bloodline.

Even if there are a few exceptions occasionally, the result is usually that the woman gets married, or the man gets married.

However, the current Uchiha clan, after experiencing the genocide more than a year ago, the ratio of men to women in the Uchiha clan has been seriously imbalanced. The vast majority of surviving ninjas are men, and most of them are in their twenties. Young people, the problem of marriage must be solved sooner or later. And intermarriage with foreign races is also a way to close the distance between Uchiha and other families in Konoha.

However, although the policy has been set, it is still difficult to implement it.

You must know that many Uchiha tribesmen who have high self-esteem do not look at women outside their own tribe, let alone marry women from other families or even civilian families. Instead of doing this, they would rather stay single for the rest of their lives.

of course

From another perspective, this phenomenon is not a bad thing for Konoha. After all, the bloodline talent of the Uchiha clan is too strong. A smaller number of clan members can make people feel at ease. Once they spread out and get involved in various departments of the village, it will be difficult for ninjas from other families to compete with them. In that case , year after year, it is almost inevitable that the core of power will shift to the Uchiha clan.

Sandai could also foresee some of this.

Therefore, the Uchiha clan is particularly cautious when it comes to selecting personnel for other departments.

Departments like the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education are okay.

However, the profession of leading a Jonin team involves fundamental issues related to the growth of the next generation of the village, and must be done with great caution.

Therefore, Itachi and Shisui spent more than a year and only selected five suitable candidates from within the clan.