Konoha: Uchiha Shisui's Advisor Alliance

Chapter 185 Bandit Suppression Mission
The richer a person is, the more stingy he is. Of course, he is stingy towards others. He is always generous to himself.

Nara Suzaku was immediately alerted when he heard this, but a young man in bright clothes pushed aside the others and said first: "They are just a few bandits. Usually, it would only cost 100,000 taels. This time, I am willing to pay 500,000 taels. Don't worry about them for now, and immediately arrange for someone to help my family suppress the bandits!"

The young man's aura was clearly different from the others; although they were all nobles, he spoke in a rather bossy manner.

An old man behind the boy suddenly became extremely panicked when he saw this.

The others were stunned, looked at each other strangely, and then fell silent.

Nara Suzaku lowered his eyes and looked at the man carefully. After confirming that he was not joking, he immediately lost interest and even wanted to laugh. This man seemed to think that Konoha was unaware of the inside story.

Five hundred thousand taels is not a small amount, it is enough for half an S-level mission, but it is definitely not what Konoha needs.

“Everyone, although we don’t know much about the bandits, we need to strictly review any mission involving ninjas.

If those ninjas are rebel ninjas from other major countries, then the mission to suppress the bandits may require more preparation before it can be handled.

Of course, Konoha is definitely not dissatisfied with the low money you give. It is just that the village is short-staffed and the tasks in the village are seriously piled up, so your tasks can only be postponed.

I believe that with the capabilities of the families behind you, you will have no problem protecting yourselves during this period.

Besides, if you have 500,000 ryo, you might as well try hiring ninjas from other places, maybe that will solve the problem."

After Nara Suzaku finished speaking, the leading young man's face changed. He seemed to have not expected that Konoha would dare to reject him. He was a little embarrassed and shouted, "What do you mean? My family issues so many missions in Konoha every year. How can you shirk your responsibility like this?"

Nara Suzaku rolled his eyes in his heart. He was just a small noble in a remote area. What a ridiculous mission it was.

Although he thought so in his heart, he was a noble after all, so Nara Suzaku could only calmly say: "I have already explained the reason. I am really sorry. If you have nothing else to do, I will go to sort out the tasks first and try to adjust the order for everyone."

After saying that, Nara Suzaku left in an instant. Since they were all ordinary people, they couldn't catch him and they just stood there in a daze.

"This"

"Damn it, he's just a ninja, a mere tool, and he dares not take me seriously. I'm going to go straight to the Hokage!"

The young man's face flushed with anger, and he started to run to the second floor, yelling. The others did not try to stop him, but followed him instead.

Only the old man behind the boy hurriedly rushed forward to stop him.

"Master, you can't do that. We can't offend the Hokage. The Master will blame us if he finds out."

"Go away!"

The young man didn't care, he pushed the old man down and continued to move forward.

"Stop!"

Before the boy stepped onto the stairs, an Anbu ninja appeared instantly and stopped him.

"That's the Hokage's office upstairs. No outsiders are allowed in."

"I am a noble. How dare a mere ninja stop me? Get out of here!"

The young man was furious and slapped the guarding Anbu member. The Anbu member naturally would not let him go so wild and pressed him to the ground.

With a click, the tendons and bones were dislocated.

The boy suddenly cried out in pain, his expression distorted, and tears flowing uncontrollably.

"You, mere ninjas, dare to attack me. I will kill you!"

The young man roared with a ferocious expression, his body struggling desperately like a fresh carp on a sticky board.

At this moment, the sound of footsteps of a large group was heard outside the Hokage Building. A group of ninjas wearing chain mail with the word "Police" engraved on them ran over, and the leader was Uchiha Inahimi.

After receiving the instructions, Uchiha Inahiya's eyes turned bloodshot and he immediately exuded murderous aura, which frightened the young man so much that he trembled and became speechless.

"You are trespassing in the Hokage building and disturbing public order. Come with us."

After saying that, regardless of the shocked looks from others, he had the boy handcuffed and taken away.

"Oh, Master!"

The old butler was terrified and tried desperately to explain and apologize, hoping that the police department would release the man, but Dao Huo ignored him.

"Everyone, do you want to force your way in too?"

His eyes fell on the other nobles, their faces changed drastically, and they shook their heads repeatedly, saying that they dared not.

"When you are in Konoha, you must abide by the rules of Konoha. The police department will not let go of anyone who disrupts Konoha."

The three magatama glanced at everyone, Inahori gave a cold warning, then turned and left.

Only after Daohuo left did everyone breathe a sigh of relief.

"Nara Suzaku is unwilling to help, what should we do now?"

"We can wait, but my family can't. Just pay more money. If something goes wrong, it will be too late!"

Although they came from different places and were entrusted with different mission objectives, they were all nobles and came together.

As for the difficulty of this mission, the people behind them were well aware of it. It was naturally impossible for them to fool Konoha with hundreds of thousands of taels, so they gave them enough funds early on and let them handle it.

Moreover, there were not just one or two noble families behind them, and they raised the price to two million taels right away.

"At this price, let's see how Konoha reacts."

After discussion, several people decided on the mission reward, but unexpectedly, Konoha still did not respond at all.

The task was posted in the lobby, but no one took it for two consecutive days.

"Is Konoha really short of manpower?" Several people felt uneasy and could only ask around. They stayed in the Hokage Building every day, hoping to meet Shisui or Nara Suzaku, but they were unsuccessful.

Two days later, they received urgings from their families one after another. They could no longer hold back and simply continued to add money, hoping that Konoha could deal with it as soon as possible.

After a few people added money, Shisui quickly received the message.

"Divide into three teams and go in order of price." Shisui looked at the amount of the reward and smiled slightly.

Nara Suzaku was shocked when he heard this, "Hokage-sama is wise!"

Shisui only arranged three teams, but the nobles who commissioned the task came from five regions. Who would be willing to wait in the back?

If they are one day late, it might be the family behind them that will be destroyed.

When everyone got the news, some were happy and some were sad.

"Mr. Suzaku, the situation is critical now. Can't we squeeze out some more manpower?"

"I have also sent people to investigate the situation in the past few days. Those bandits are very powerful. Ordinary ninjas would die if they went there. We must send a senior ninja to lead the team in order to solve the problem.

But the Konoha war just ended, and we lost a lot of people after so many years of fighting. Now we have to guard against surprise attacks from other countries, and we can't squeeze out more manpower. "Nara Suzaku sighed, looking very helpless. "Wait, can this order be changed again? I can pay more and put me in the front!"

Someone reacted and suddenly spoke. As soon as he said this, everyone looked at him.

"I'll join in too. Let's finish my side first!"

Others also realized that the money was paid by those families and it was not their own money, so they would not feel bad about using it.

But if they cannot deal with the bandits, their families may also be harmed by them.

Several people kept raising the price, and Nara Suzaku tried to dissuade them with a bitter face, saying, "You don't have to do this. Konoha doesn't want your money. Just wait for a while and Konoha will be able to spare some manpower to help you."

But the crowd simply ignored it. What they were competing for now was the noble background behind them.

Of course, they wouldn’t raise the price mindlessly. With that kind of money, they could just offer a reward on the black market.

After a while, everyone had reached the limit they could bear.

The nobles from Tokaido, Nankaido, and Hokuriku demanded that Konoha immediately send ninjas to wipe out the bandits in exchange for a reward of 8 million taels.

"Don't worry, I will arrange for someone to accompany you to suppress the bandits."

After receiving the money, Nara Suzaku's expression became more easy-going, and he enthusiastically took a few people to the second floor to find a room to rest.

"Then what should we do?"

The remaining two people looked at each other, feeling helpless, but Nara Suzaku had already made it clear enough, and they dared not make trouble like the young man two days ago, so they had to turn around and leave to contact their family first.

That afternoon, the three teams left Konoha at Shisui's signal.

A few days later, the result of the bandit suppression had not yet been reported, but the bandits who were driven away from a place in Xihe Road appeared near another city in Xihe Road and killed a country noble.

The local nobles sent troops to clear them out but were repelled. Then the bandits continued to plunder the manor for several days in a row. The nobles suffered heavy losses and had to hire wandering ninjas from the surrounding areas to surround and kill them.

However, they did not expect that after the bandits became famous, they gathered in the mountains and forests, gathered dozens of rebel ninjas from the three kingdoms, and surrounded the land to cause chaos. Their power was not to be underestimated, and they, the small nobles, could not deal with it at all.

They had no choice but to raise money and send people to Konoha to entrust the task.

At the same time, one of the nobles from the two places who was dragged left Konoha in a hurry, because his family was unfortunately destroyed by bandits. He was now one of the few survivors in the family, and he had to rush back to take over the real estate.

"Hokage-sama, this is the situation in the West River Road."

Nara Suzaku told Shisui the news. Shisui knew that the time was almost right and too much was as bad as too little. He did not hesitate and directly ordered: "Send out three more teams of ninjas to complete the tasks in the other two places together."

Although some families were wiped out, the bandit suppression mission was jointly commissioned by several noble families, so the mission was still valid.

"Yes."

As the Konoha ninjas set out, the bandits in these places were cleared out one after another, and the masked ninjas were also killed.

"Take a look, are these the two people?"

The Konoha team came into the city carrying two masked corpses and asked several noble family heads.

"Monkey mask, snake mask, yes, that's them, damn it, take off the mask and let me see what it is."

One person stepped forward and removed the mask, revealing two ordinary faces, which immediately attracted a burst of disgusted spitting.

"This mission is so easy, and not as difficult as the intelligence said. Could it be that our strength has become stronger again?"

The three members of the team chatted about the mission process in a relaxed manner, while their leader Jonin had a calm expression. He already knew the result before they set out, but the hidden secrets obviously could not be known to them, so he interrupted and said, "Don't be complacent, prepare to go back."

".yes!"

Several people were puzzled, but did not dare to ask more questions.

Now that the threat was lifted, the nobles relaxed and naturally would not look favorably upon the Konoha ninjas who took advantage of the situation, and they had no intention of trying to keep the four people.

On the other side, on the destroyed village, corpses were lying all over the place. Two figures walked out from the shadows, with snake masks and monkey masks on their faces.

"Let's go, the Hokuriku Road is huge, let's go to the next place."

"Haha, this way of making money is much faster than serving the nobles."

"Hahaha"

The two men joked and walked away slowly on the blood. This place was originally a bandit's lair, and the money had been sent away in advance, so they naturally had nothing to keep.

After a few more days, Shisui obtained information about the six teams through secret channels. Except for the team on West River Road which was under great pressure due to the large number of local wandering ninjas, the other teams completed their first mission smoothly.

After summarizing his experience, Shisui said to Nara Suzaku, "I plan to find another 40 calm Chunins to continue this mission. Do you think it's feasible?"

There are few jonin in number, and they also have to guard Konoha and guard against foreign enemies, so too many of them cannot be transferred away.

Nara Suzaku thought for a moment and shook his head. "Although this is very profitable, the risk is too great. Even if some small nobles in remote areas unite, their power is considerable. If there are only one or two Chunins, they will probably be wiped out by them in no time."

Shisui nodded when he heard that, forty chunins might sound like a lot, but if they were spread across the entire Land of Fire, they wouldn't even create a single ripple.

"Then form a team of four and try to avoid big cities. Let's test it out first."

"Okay."

The money came too quickly and too easily, and Nara Suzaku couldn't help but be tempted and didn't want to give it up. Unfortunately, their ninja characteristics were too obvious, so they didn't dare to participate at all and could only support it secretly.

"Hokage-sama, the money has been delivered. Should it be distributed to the various ministries?"

"As for the money, haha. Since I've already said that the village finances will be handled by Tsunetsugu and Mitomon Advisors, let them handle it."

Shisui smiled, his expression very easygoing.

Nara Suzaku's eyelids twitched. He had gradually realized that something was wrong, but he did not say anything and responded cooperatively.

The dormitory transfer consultant received the news on the same day. The money came too suddenly and she had not received any news about it in advance.

But she didn't care. Now that she was in charge of Konoha's finances, her prestige was gradually recovering and the power in her hands was constantly increasing.

"How could this wolf cub Shisui trust me so much? There must be something wrong."

Utatane Koharu is not an idiot. She can see that Shisui must have some plan. Mito Kado En keeps trying to dissuade him, but she doesn't care.

Although losing power is a matter of time, Shisui cares a lot about the Third Generation. With the Third Generation protecting her, the most she can do is retire and make as much money as she can now. As long as the family can become stronger, her status will not be low. Just like the patriarch of the Hyuga clan, even if he does not hold any position, how many people dare to disrespect him?

With this thought in mind, Koharu Utane became more determined. The next day, the money was distributed to various departments under Koharu Utane's allocation.

But these few symbolic drops of water not only failed to extinguish the anger of the various tribes, but instead made their emotions even more intense.

(End of this chapter)