Naruto: Yes, Uchiha-sama.

Chapter 169 Tobirama Senju: Makoto Uchiha, what are you trying to do?! Do you really want to destroy this ninja world?
Iwagakure Village.

The First Tsuchikage sat in a chair in the intensive care unit, his eyes fixed on Mu, who lay unconscious on the bed, her body wrapped in bandages. His fists clenched involuntarily.

Then, in order to find out the ins and outs of the matter.

He was transferred to another intensive care unit.

"Tsuchikage-sama."

"I'm sorry to bother you. You should be able to rest peacefully at this time, but I need to find out everything that happened during your mission."

"It was a Kirigakure ninja with a small mustache who led an elite Kirigakure squad to ambush us, and all our mission supplies were stolen."

boom!
A large hole was punched through a wall in the intensive care unit.

Akatsuki Village.

Six o'clock in the morning.

Uchiha Makoto was grooming himself in front of the mirror in his room, putting on the Light and Shadow God Robe that Uzumaki Tsubaki Shizuku had already ironed three times.

The elders of the Uchiha clan acted swiftly in Konoha. Almost as soon as Makoto Uchiha left Konoha, they brought up the Konoha ninja study abroad program at a high-level meeting. Tobirama Senju, that inherently evil old devil, even tried to struggle and obstruct the progress of this matter at the meeting.

However, the Uchiha clan had already reached an agreement with the Konoha ninja clans in private, and Tobirama Senju was not given the time or opportunity to use his methods.

Faced with the votes of approval from the Konoha ninja clan.

He had no choice but to accept it.

Therefore, the Uchiha elders did not spend much time implementing the Konoha student study abroad plan that Uchiha Makoto had discussed in Konoha.

The exchange students from Konoha will be arriving at Akatsuki Village today, while the Uzumaki clan students will have to wait a while longer as they are traveling by boat at sea.

Makoto Uchiha put on his divine robes and left the bedroom, while Shizuku Uzumaki, as usual, was in the kitchen, carefully preparing breakfast for Makoto.

She peeled both sides of the tofu, cut each piece into eight small pieces and dried them. She then fried them in lard, sprinkled them with a little salt, added a large cup of cooking wine, eighteen dried shrimp, and a small cup of soy sauce. She rolled them once, added a pinch of sugar, rolled them again, and cut scallions about half an inch long into one hundred and twenty sections.

Slowly remove it from the pan, and the aroma is irresistible!
Uchiha Makoto smelled the fragrance as soon as he stepped out of the room.

"smell good!"

"It smells delicious, doesn't it? That's what Mito-sama taught me."

"I didn't expect Lady Mito to be such a gourmand. Hmm, it's just a pity for Lady Mito; who can she eat with at a time like this? Her son and daughter-in-law, of course."

"Makoto, you're so...so mean!"

"So, do you like it?"

"Hmm, I like it so much."

Uchiha Makoto happily ate his breakfast, not forgetting to chirp a few times behind his back.

Uzumaki Tsubaki Shizuku looked at him tenderly with affectionate eyes, but in the end she couldn't help but roll her eyes.

Even though Mito Uzumaki didn't explicitly say so, Shizuku Uzumaki knew something about the marital relationship between Mito Uzumaki and Hashirama Senju.

Because the eyes don't lie.

On the night of the New Year's Eve dinner, because Madara Uchiha was also coming, Mito Uzumaki dressed up beautifully.

Even though she was now menopausal, her appearance and figure were in no way inferior to a young girl of sixteen or seventeen. However, no matter how beautiful Mito Uzumaki was or how alluring her figure was, Hashirama Senju ignored her completely. All night long, his gaze was focused on Madara Uchiha.

Makoto Uchiha's assessment of this was—this is brotherhood! (Of course, Mito Uzumaki would probably just yell, "My brother, you motherfucker!")
While eating breakfast, Tsubaki Shizuku and Uchiha Makoto chatted, and Makoto occasionally looked out the window.

After the New Year, Akatsuki Village attracted even more wealthy merchants, investors, and wandering ninjas from all over the ninja world, as well as a huge number of talents from all walks of life.

Even the nobles who have always been at odds with the Uchiha clan are trying to take out the gold and silver ingots from their basements and invest them in the Akatsuki. They can't just leave their enormous wealth to gather dust in their basements forever; who doesn't like a little money? The Akatsuki is truly full of opportunities now.

Akatsuki Village was like an inexhaustible black hole, absorbing all of these things.

Another wave of hot money has poured into Xiaoren Village.

This led to another wave of expansion for the Akatsuki Village.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Uchiha Makoto was making industrial layouts in various industries such as steel, textiles, and food. During the period of economic dividends, as long as you make layouts in advance and form industrial advantages, it is easy to become a dominant player. Even if a dark horse emerges later, Uchiha Makoto is not worried.

Those with good technical quality are not as cheap as those from Akatsuki Village. If they are cheaper than those from Akatsuki Village, they won't make any money, thus blocking the path for newcomers.

And as villagers of Akatsuki Village in this great era.
Nowadays, as long as the villagers of Xiaoren Village don't act recklessly, they can basically make money and reap all the benefits of this era.

When everyone can make money, they will naturally be more willing to work hard and strive for success.

Even though it's only six in the morning, Uchiha Makoto could see that the streets were already bustling with people.

The workers ate the cheap breakfast offered by Akatsuki Village and went to work in the factory as the sun rose. The shops on both sides of the street opened their doors early to welcome customers. Merchants from all over the ninja world brought cartloads of goods to and from Akatsuki Village. Everywhere was a vibrant scene of life and everything thriving!

"very nice."

Looking at the lively scene before him, Uchiha Makoto sighed softly.

This improved his already good mood, even though the work today was still endless and he would have to work in the office with a clone of himself at night.

But ultimately, this is his village.

Under his rule, the village prospered, making all the hard work worthwhile.

"Son, stay in Mommy's tummy and don't make a fuss. Your dad has gone to conquer the world for you."

After breakfast.

Makoto Uchiha gently stroked Shizuku Uzumaki's slightly protruding belly, gave her some instructions, and then walked out of the house under her watchful gaze.

It didn't take long.

Students from Konoha arrived near Akatsuki Village.

Because the incident happened so suddenly, they were sent from the village to Akatsuki Village for a two-year training program with almost no preparation.

They felt incredibly excited and curious about Akatsuki Village, a village that was both familiar and unfamiliar to them.

They were truly shocked when they actually entered Akatsuki Village.

Konoha is also a major ninja village, and was once even considered by the ninja world to be the elder brother of Akatsuki. Now, although it has proven its strength.

However, the Konoha ninjas still harbored pride. Even if the Akatsuki were powerful, they were certainly inferior to Konoha. But now they realized how incredibly ignorant they had been.
The overall combat strength between the two villages is still overwhelmingly weak, after all, Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju, those two superhuman guys, were able to sweep through the ninja world.

However, compared to its economic prosperity, Konoha was far behind Akatsuki.

Not only was the gap between the two sides too large, but while Akatsuki was embracing the new era with ease and striding forward, Konoha remained stagnant in the burden of traditional ninjas, hesitant to move forward and struggling to stay behind.

It is foreseeable that the gap between the two sides will widen further in the future. Just from the appearance of the village, the students of Konoha already have a feeling that the way of the ninja has been shattered.

"This is Akatsuki Village?! That's ridiculous!"

"How can there be so many people?"

"Haven't you noticed that this road is different from the one in Konoha? It's wider and flatter."
"What are those poles by the roadside for? They seem to be electrified."

"I could even smell a sweetness in the air. Oh, so this is where they sell cotton candy."

"Marshmallows are so delicious!"

"We'll be living here for the next two years, and I'm kind of looking forward to it."

Uchiha Makoto prepared a grand welcoming ceremony for the students of Konoha, and then took them for a stroll through the village streets.

The students from Konoha chattered incessantly along the way, which was exactly what Uchiha Makoto wanted to see.

Uchiha Makoto wanted to cultivate a new generation of ninjas in Konoha to reduce the obstacles he would face in the future. He also wanted to cultivate a group of public intellectuals belonging to Akatsuki.

seeing is believing.

The village's grand narrative was no match for the bombardment of capitalism; in just a few days, they would begin to question the economically backwardness of Konoha. When people are poor, everything they say is wrong.

Arrange for these students from Konoha.

Makoto Uchiha returned to his office of light and shadow.

There's still a ton of stuff waiting for him, this guy in the light and shadow, to do today.

Inside the office.
For several hours, Uchiha Makoto was busy with Akatsuki's next strategy, just like always.

Just then, ninjas from the Akatsuki Village's Anbu urgently knocked on the office door.

So Uchiha Makoto immediately let him in.

"What happened? Why are you in such a hurry?"

"Lord Light and Shadow, a major conflict has recently occurred between Iwagakure and Kirigakure. The specific details are still unclear; we've only gathered information so far."

"The First Tsuchikage is furious and plans to attack Kirigakure, which could very well escalate into war."

Since the last time the First Tsuchikage of Iwagakure suddenly intervened in the war against Kumogakure with Iwagakure ninja, he caught Uchiha Makoto completely off guard and almost ruined the advantageous situation that Akatsuki had worked so hard to create.

After that, Makoto Uchiha consciously planted more intelligence spies in Iwagakure.

Now it has finally come in handy.

Although the information obtained by the Akatsuki ninjas was incomplete, Makoto Uchiha could guess the whole story simply by hearing the name of the Iwagakure ninja "Mu" and the fact that the matter involved Kirigakure.

"Even its own butterfly effect couldn't stop these two arch-rivals."

Uchiha Makoto sighed with emotion. From his time travel to the establishment of Akatsuki Village, he had caused quite a few butterfly effects. But some things still happened in the end—the future Second Mizukage of Kirigakure and the future Second Tsuchikage of Iwagakure had a major battle!

Such a thing also happened in the original storyline, and based on the existing information, the current reality should be almost identical to the original storyline.

The result of the great battle between the Second Tsuchikage and the Second Mizukage was that the Second Tsuchikage suffered severe burns all over his body, and could only live the rest of his life as a living mummy, his entire body wrapped in bandages, barely clinging to life.

And what happened next?
Wu Ke was the Tsuchikage's chosen successor, but now he is severely burned all over his body and wrapped up like a mummy. This matter is definitely not going to end easily, and it may turn into a new battle between the two villages.

However, based on the original plot...

The battle between these two villages should be limited to a certain extent under the constraints of both sides' shadows, and at most it can only be described as a local war.

"The ninja world is about to descend into chaos again!"

"A bit of chaos is fine, it's really boring to always be so calm. Anyway, it doesn't affect the Land of Fire, but perhaps the Akatsuki can operate from behind the scenes."

Uchiha Makoto silently analyzed the situation in the ninja world.

Although the battle between Iwagakure and Kirigakure had nothing to do with Akatsuki, Uchiha Makoto vaguely felt that this was an opportunity.

After all, Akatsuki Village now needs to resolve the fishing grounds issue with the Land of Water, as well as acquire those bird droppings islands filled with phosphate mines.

Under normal circumstances, resolving these two issues perfectly would be extremely difficult, inevitably requiring some wrangling and negotiations with the Land of Water.
However, if Akatsuki were to instigate behind the scenes and escalate the conflict between Iwagakure and Kirigakure, completely muddying the waters, it would be easier to resolve these two issues during this opportunity.

The more Uchiha Makoto thought about it, the more feasible it seemed, and he immediately took action.

The first secret to stirring up trouble is to make sure everyone knows about it!

Akatsuki Village, with practiced ease, contacted friends in the media, demanding extensive coverage of the incident, and insisting that it be exaggerated.

"The genius ninja of Iwagakure, the successor to the Second Tsuchikage on whom the First Tsuchikage placed his hopes, has fallen."

"Hold Mist Shadow accountable!!"

"Following the example of Akatsuki, the ninjas of Iwagakure absolutely cannot... They must hand over the culprit, and the Mizukage must personally apologize, or war will ensue!!"

"The Hidden Mist Sect vehemently rejected the claim, asserting it was slander."

"If you want war, then let's fight!"

One time
Such news was flying around all over the ninja world.

At Makoto Uchiha's behest, the ninja world's news media focused on linking the conflict between Kirigakure and Iwagakure with Akatsuki and Kumogakure.

Both incidents stemmed from friction during missions, resulting in significant casualties.

The deaths in Iwagakure were not just a few Chunin; among them were a Jonin, several Chunin, and even Mu, an Iwagakure ninja who was highly regarded by the First Tsuchikage and was expected to become the Second Tsuchikage, almost died in this mission.

So how did Akatsuki do it?

The entire ninja world has witnessed that if the Hidden Cloud Village doesn't give the Akatsuki a satisfactory answer, then let's fight! War!

Makoto Uchiha's near-perfect answer and victory in foreign wars made him incredibly popular in the ninja world, and now the same question has been posed to Iwagakure.

Public opinion quickly escalated.

The entire ninja world is awaiting Iwagakure's response; a moment's inattention could lead to another large-scale ninja village war.

And in Konoha.

Tobirama Senju observed the inexplicably shifting atmosphere of the ninja world.

This is very wrong!

Such a familiar method.
Public opinion offensive
What the hell!
Uchiha Makoto, is it you again?
(End of this chapter)