Konoha: Start by unlocking the caged bird

Chapter 159 The War Begins!
The next day, when the media flocked to the scene and the small countries were eagerly waiting for some good news to be released from the Five Kage Summit, the media captured an astonishing scene.

The Raikage has already left the Land of Iron—the Rock Kage also chose to leave before the media arrived for interviews. Only the Mist Kage and the Sand Kage seem to still plan to participate in this media interview.

"Lord Rasa! Lord Sand Shadow! Could you please tell me what happened yesterday? Why did the Raikage leave?"

"Lady Terumi Mei! Did the negotiations break down?"

"Hokage-sama! Hinata Yuzuru-sama! Please look here!"

Since this was the first time to participate in a media interview in this form, and the media was also the first time to participate in such a major event, the atmosphere was so heated that everyone started to compete with each other and make loud noises.

But as Hinata Yuzuru just pressed his hand, the invisible sense of oppression spread. These ordinary reporters stopped their movements one after another as if they had a lump in their throats. When they were quiet, Hinata Yuzuru calmed down. of opening.

"Media friends, please raise your hands and wait. The person in charge will select the media one by one to be interviewed. Everyone has one and only one opportunity to ask questions. Please wait patiently and wait without confusion."

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone raised their hands. The high-ranking official from the Iron Kingdom who was in charge of Media Day extended his hand to invite a reporter from Konoha to speak first, which was considered as a special gift to Hinata Yuzuru.

"Hokage-sama! Why did the Raikage and the Iwakage leave before the media day? Did yesterday's negotiations not go well?"

Konoha's media interviewer Hinata Yuzuru looked quite familiar. I had often seen him reporting news in various places before. I still remembered that his name was Wenbo.

"At yesterday's meeting, I put forward several proposals, including the establishment of a United Nations Congress led by the five major countries, and working together with the smaller countries in the Ninja World for peace in the Ninja World, but during this period..."

Hinata Yuzuru simply and clearly explained the ideas and proposals he had expounded during his attendance at the Five Kage Conference. Flashlights were clicking and reporters were writing down every word he said. Many reporters from small countries were even ecstatic.

The fifth generation master actually wants to take us small countries out for fun. I am so touched!

Even many people from small countries who have always trusted him could not imagine at this moment that as the leader of the five major ninja countries, who can now be almost called the strongest existence in the ninja world, he is actually willing to listen to the wishes of small countries and even willing to conflict with big countries for them.

"During the meeting, the Raikage disagreed with my proposal to limit the power of ninjas and to stop the use of force and war to oppress small countries. This made me very disappointed and difficult to accept.

I firmly believe that the power of ninjas should be used to contribute to all mankind and exist to protect their families. If the power of ninjas cannot be restricted and the use of ninja power cannot be restricted by a rule that everyone can accept, then The ninja world will never achieve true peace.

Konoha has always been committed to working for peace in the ninja world, and I am unswervingly willing to make all efforts for this. My only dream is to live a peaceful and wonderful life after retirement in a truly peaceful world. .

If someone is unwilling to put down the butcher knife in his hand, and someone is unwilling to welcome a peaceful and beautiful future, and regards the use of violence, oppression, plunder, and exploitation as the law of the jungle in the ninja world, then... I am also willing to wear armor! With the power of a ninja, I will open up a path to true peace! "

Hinata Yuzuru's words were deafening. Although he did not mention the Raikage at all, it seemed as if every word was directed at the Land of Lightning. He said solemnly with a serious and confident expression: "The long war in the ninja world has caused too many tragedies to happen again and again until today!

I have personally been to the battlefield as a child, and I have also witnessed with my own eyes children of my age from other small countries being displaced and forced to wander because of disputes and wars between big countries.

Countless names that I am familiar with are still engraved on Konoha's commemorative monuments. Even to this day, there are still ninjas who sacrifice their lives for their country every year and die heroically.

I've had enough! "

Hinata Yuzuru spoke loudly and angrily: "There are millions of people in this world who are tired of war and tired of the so-called law of the jungle. Like me, they long for peace, but there are always people who believe that survival of the fittest is the only way to survive." It is natural law that only strong people have the right to speak!

Then I will show them who can set the rules in this ninja world now!

Konoha is not willing to initiate a war. In fact, since the establishment of the village more than 60 years ago, Konoha has never initiated aggression and oppression against any country, but it has never backed down from any challenge! Fear!

If someone thinks that what I say does not count, the principles I talk about do not count, and the rules I talk about and the rules that people desire do not count.
Then I am not afraid to fight with them, and prove who is righteous with strength according to the truth he believes in! "

There was no pretense in these words, and there was no concealment in the anger and confidence that came from them.

After the reporters were quiet for a moment, the next moment, more hands were raised desperately.

The person in charge immediately selected the next reporter.

"Are you saying that Konoha might declare war on the Land of Lightning!?"

The reporter's expression is both uneasy and excited. The uneasiness lies in the fear of war, and the excitement lies in the instinctive realization that today's interview will probably become the most record-worthy interview in his journalistic career!

The anger on Hinata Yuzuru's face subsided a little, but he said more decisively: "If peace in the ninja world requires a battle to lay the foundation, then I will do it without hesitation!"

The reporters below were in an uproar, and the next reporter immediately asked: "Lord Kirikage, what do you think?"

"The Country of Mist is willing to work firmly with Konoha to work for peace in the ninja world and stand firmly on the same front."

Terumi Mei made a difficult decision.

"Lord Sand Shadow!"

"I still need to discuss and confirm with my colleagues in the country, but I also hope for peace in the ninja world." Rasa's words were simple, but compared to Terumi Mei, it can only be said that he did not stand in line thoroughly enough.

His words only caused Hinata Yuzuru to glance at him lightly. His eyes touched, and then he pretended to be calm and looked away. However, this scene was recorded extremely clearly by the camera.

At this moment, a reporter from a small country asked, "Hokage-sama! Your actions are no different from directly starting a new Ninja World War. Wouldn't such an action be more harmful than beneficial to the peace of the Ninja World?"

"Very good. If the Land of Lightning launches an invasion on your country, I will have absolutely no objection. What do you think?" Hinata Yuzuru counterattacked sharply, and chuckled twice: "Perhaps you think that because the Land of Tea where you are only borders Konoha, you can sit back and relax and ignore the repeated occurrence of incidents like the Land of the Moon?"

The reporter was silent for a moment and wanted to say something else, but he had lost the qualification to ask questions.

After that, the reporters continued to ask questions and conduct interviews, while the three shadows continued to answer various questions. The short one-hour interview ended quickly, and the three shadows finally confirmed each other's intentions in private.

"The Godaime, have you really made up your mind to start a war with the Kingdom of Thunder?" Luosha's expression showed nothing.

Hyuga Yuzuru just stared at him calmly: "I must curb the endless oppression of small countries by big countries, and I must also restrain the power of ninjas - in fact, maybe this move also blocks your way? Then I have to say sorry in advance."

Luo Sha pursed his lips for a moment, then chuckled twice: "How is it possible? Our Sand Country is not like the Lightning Country. It's just that the Sand Country's combat power is declining now, I'm afraid it can't provide much help to Konoha!"

Hinata Yuzuru's expression remained calm: "No need."

After he finished speaking, he turned and left. Mei Terumi glanced at him and didn't talk much to him. In fact, the relationship between the two families has always been ordinary.

Mei Terumi caught up with Hinata Yuzuru and whispered, "If a war breaks out, the Kingdom of Mist is willing to participate in the battle as an ally."

"Okay." Hinata Yuzuru did not refuse, but said: "But please keep in touch for specific details."

"Yes, then I will go back first. As you know, this matter is a bit sudden." Terumi Mei sighed and said, "I am in the Land of Mist, not like you in Konoha, where your words are law."

"You are an amazing woman and an amazing Mist Shadow. I believe that the changes and efforts you have made to the Mist Country are visible to everyone." Hinata Yuzuru said a few words of comfort and went to the car. At this moment, the Konoha ninjas had entered a wartime state, each of them alert to their surroundings with a serious expression.

He reached out and gently patted Mei Mei's shoulder: "I hope this incident can become an opportunity for both of us to take a step further. The peace of the ninja world and the peace between countries are not only between you and me, but also between the people of the two countries. There is nothing deeper than the friendship accumulated by standing on the same front."

Mei Terumi understood, smiled and shook her head slightly, then reached out her hand and shook Hinata Yuzuru's hand firmly: "Wait for good news."

"Yeah." Hinata Yuzuru also smiled and shook hands with her. The reporters who were still surrounding her and reluctant to leave used their cameras to capture this scene, and named it the "Handshake of the Century" and published it in their own newspapers.

Hinata Yuzuru got into the car, and the car began to accelerate away from the Iron Kingdom.

At the same time, this media interview quickly spread throughout the ninja world as if it had wings.

For a time, prices skyrocketed. After reading the news, people in many countries took to the streets to buy food and necessities. In some small countries, there was even a refugee crisis.

They flocked to big countries such as Konoha with their families, hoping to find shelter in big countries and avoid being displaced again in small countries and encountering unprovoked disasters due to the long war that may occur later.

As soon as Hinata Yuzuru got into the car, his cell phone started ringing frantically.

Countless daimyos of small countries or leaders of ninja villages tried to establish contact with him and confirm the situation through various channels and methods.

Hinata Yuzuru remained calm and asked the Konoha ninjas to reply one by one.

In the past, the Ninja War was just a battle between the five major nations.

Small countries either allow themselves to be bullied without resistance, or suffer miserably from the misfortune and be caught in the middle and feel suffocated.

But this time, the battle launched by Hyuga Yuzuru will affect far more than just a few major countries.

Shortly after the media interview ended, the leader of the Moon Kingdom, which had long suffered from the oppression of the Lightning Kingdom, accepted the interview with the ninja without hesitation and stated loudly: "If the Lightning Kingdom cannot stop its oppression of the Moon Kingdom, I am willing to accept the declaration of war from the Lightning Kingdom together with Konoha." There is only a two-word difference between accepting the declaration of war and declaring war, but it is enough to fully demonstrate his attitude.

Affected by this, many small countries began to respond accordingly.

Some simply condemned the Kingdom of Thunder for being irresponsible as a major country.

Some stood firmly behind Konoha.

Others firmly stood on the same front with the Iwakage and the Raikage, resisting Hyuga Yuzuru's behavior of single-handedly starting a war in the Ninja World, and believed that his voice this time was an extremely selfish "tyranny".

It is an act of forcibly interfering in the internal affairs of another country with unwarranted reasons and intimidating it with the threat of force. It seriously infringes on the interests of the Land of Lightning and tramples on the ideas of freedom and peace that Hyuga Yuzuru personally advocates.

Mixed opinions, praise and criticism, were flying everywhere under the media's propaganda.

However, after returning to Konoha, Hyuga Yuzuru received various documents from various regions in just three days.

The battle has begun!

In today's situation, the first shot in a battle is often not fired by ninjas, but by trade.

Almost immediately after Hyuga Yuzuru spoke in front of the media, the Kingdom of Thunder began to quickly restrict and cut various resources, trade, and commercial activities. In just three days, a number of companies and products related to Konoha were launched one after another. Sanctioned.

Konoha's backhand doubled, and the sanctions came even more swiftly and unreasonably. You must know that 70% of the communication network market in the Kingdom of Thunder is now guaranteed to be maintained by Konoha!

Not only that, a large number of low-priced foods were out of stock and prices in the country of Thunder were skyrocketing. It was not until this moment that Lei Ying Ai realized the seriousness of the problem.

In the past, he thought that what Konoha did was just to occupy the domestic market of the Land of Lightning to a certain extent, but it was not until the battle between the two sides started that he suddenly realized it.

In years of competition, due to Konoha's leadership in many key areas, such as food and production raw materials, good money drives out bad money, resulting in a large number of Thunder Kingdom businessmen being forced to transform and explore and develop other blank markets. .

Now that Konoha has suddenly withdrawn, a large number of goods in the Land of Lightning have been incompletely supplied, and factories are out of stock of raw materials. Although there are reserves of basic materials such as food, they are still extremely insufficient given that Konoha accounts for 70% of the world's agricultural trade output, which indirectly led to a surge in prices.

There was nothing that could be done about it! Konoha's agricultural products were extremely advanced due to the technology used to improve crops. Their yield, taste, and price were beyond the reach of farmers in most other countries many years ago.

Either join the Konoha Farmers Association to obtain assistance, or else they can only rely on domestic agricultural support projects, maintain a low-efficiency and low-yield model, anxiously wait for the upgrade of domestic agricultural products, and rely on domestic protective purchase prices to survive.

There are more than one or two similar things.

This immediately made the people of the Kingdom of Thunder live a difficult life.

The prices of consumer goods that were cheap in the past suddenly skyrocketed, and the prices of domestic products that were much inferior to Konoha's products continued to reach new highs.

It would have been fine if things had just become more expensive, but due to sanctions from both sides, a large number of factories were forced to shut down, many companies began to close indefinitely, and workers and employees lost their jobs one after another.

Many industries that Konoha invested in or used Konoha's key technologies were forced to shut down because they lost Konoha's raw materials and technical support.

With a large number of unemployed people, coupled with the skyrocketing prices, a large number of "refugees" began to appear in the Kingdom of Thunder, walking on the streets, and they could only rely on the Kingdom of Thunder's relief funds and relief food to survive.

The Kingdom of Mist also responded quickly and began imposing sanctions.

The small countries that were dependent on the two countries also began to draw a clear line between themselves and the Kingdom of Thunder.

Although the Land of Rock quickly began to respond to and support each other with the Land of Lightning, and jointly sanctioned the Konoha Alliance.

However, due to Konoha's unique advantages and the well-prepared material reserves and strategic support, the impact on it is completely different!

Although people in Konoha also feel that prices have increased a bit, there is no pressure on basic living necessities.

When it comes to work, the people of Konoha are by no means as dependent on foreign investment as other countries. Even though exports have plummeted in the current situation, causing difficulties for some businesses, Konoha is wealthy and powerful, and will not let them go bankrupt. If they cannot afford to pay the workers' salaries, they will make up for it with subsidies.

The ninjas' amazing mobility and supervision strictly prevent all kinds of incidents from happening. The entire Konoha is like a machine linked by countless precision gears, rumbling at this moment, baring its teeth ferociously to the surrounding countries. .

Although there are still people in the country holding high the anti-war banner, they are just a drop in the ocean. The overall environment is extremely fanatical - the people of Konoha firmly believe that there is only one winner in this battle. At this time in the situation, not only does no one complain, but many people spontaneously organize and take to the streets, calling on people to cut back on food and clothing and rush to help Konoha.

We must fight! We must win!

We want peace! We want peace in the ninja world!
We must win! We must win completely!
As the deafening slogans spread out of Konoha, we were in a brief stalemate for about a few months. Winter came again, and the Land of Lightning, which was short of food, was finally unable to withstand the various internal conflicts that continued to arise under the economic blockade.

New and old grudges, and ideological differences made the Raikage make the most important decision of his life.

"Today is the sixty-seventh year of Konoha, December 3rd, 10:12 pm.

The Land of Lightning officially declares war on Konoha!

Raikage Ai said in front of the media: "If we don't fight, we will die, but if we fight, we may not die!"

'Reject Konoha's hegemony! The Land of Lightning will fight for freedom!'

It is reported that the Kingdom of Thunder has sent a vanguard army of about five thousand ninjas to attack Konoha from the direction of the Moon Kingdom!

At the same time, the Rock Country also declared war on Konoha, and 7,200 Rock Ninja troops are currently gathering at the border.
A Konoha spokesperson stated that all Konoha ninjas had already prepared for battle. The head of the Kakashi West team, Hatake Kakashi, stated in an interview that the Moon's National Defense Line was indestructible!

Our reporter Wen Bo will continue to report all the information about this war to you in real time. The next scene will be transferred to the reporter in the border area of ​​​​Iwa Country."

Hyuga Yuzuru was wearing a god robe, sitting in the office, staring at the night view outside the floor-to-ceiling window in a daze.

Behind her, Hinata Kaoru was tapping the keyboard quickly with a serious expression. On her desk, several screens displayed timely intelligence and information from various departments.

Konoha's black technology is developing extremely rapidly. Just like the Internet, which jumped from 2G to 4G in half a year after its emergence, computers have also developed rapidly in just one year.
Today's technological level is even better than that of the modern era.

Even some high technologies based on chakra have even reached the level of science fiction.

"Master Yuzuru, can't you really consider the plan in the war room? With our current capabilities, even if you don't take action, we have more than 70% chance of winning and can defeat the Rock and Thunder Coalition."

Hinata Yuzuru came back to his senses after hearing this, turned his head and looked at Hinata Xun. She was worried, and paused for a moment when she saw the slightly gray stone color on his face, hesitantly, and whispered: "Your body now."

"Don't worry, it's just because the natural energy in your body is too strong. Fighting to vent it will make you feel better."

Hinata Yuzuru spoke slowly, he stretched out his hand, one of his fingers had turned stone-like in color, stiff and unable to move, but he just applied a little force and there was a crackling sound on his hand, the 'stone chips' on the surface of his finger shattered to the ground, revealing his white fingers.

"I know what I'm doing. This battle started with me, and it should end with me. If the ninjas were to bear it, at least thousands of people would die. Just follow my plan. Isn't it already agreed?"

Hinata Yuzuru said softly.

Hinata Xun was silent for a moment, tapped quickly on the keyboard for a while, took a deep breath, turned off the screen, and stared at him seriously: "This time, it's the first time I refute you"

"I have made up my mind." Hinata Yuzuru just stared at him calmly and said softly: "If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight."

"Kaoru, I'm the Hokage."

After he finished speaking, Xun fell silent and was unable to speak.

In the end, I could only get up, walk to him, hug him tightly, and say nothing.

Hinata Yuzuru patted her on the back: "If you don't even trust me..."

"I believe you. I'm just worried. I'm just. scared."

she whispered.

Hinata Yuzuru just spoke softly.

"God"

"Won't fail."

(End of this chapter)