Konoha: Rebuild the glory of the Uchiha!

No! !

Mom, I just really want to see you!

However, Madara Uchiha was just too disappointing. Black Zetsu felt that there was no use in following Madara Uchiha anymore. Anyway, Madara Uchiha now lived a very regular life. Dormitory, factory, canteen, a three-point line!

It's time to put Madara Uchiha aside for a while. I can't keep wasting time following him. There are still plenty of leeks waiting to be discovered in the Uchiha clan. Maybe I'll strike it rich.

Black Zetsu made up his mind to stop treating Uchiha Madara as his precious treasure and would no longer follow him. He would instead follow another Uchiha.

I, Black Zetsu, am transforming back into a wolf-licking wolf starting today!

Black Zetsu stared at Madara Uchiha for a moment, then turned and left without looking back, heading towards the Uchiha clan compound.

next day

Uchiha Nan did not skip work this morning and went to work as usual. He sat in his office drinking goji berry tea while listening to Nara Shikato's report.

"Lord Hokage, the envoys from the Land of Iron and the Hidden Rain Village agreed to everything yesterday. The Land of Iron agreed to Konoha's conditions, and the Hidden Rain Village, after being intimidated by me, has agreed to withdraw its troops."

"It's just that the speed at which Amegakure is developing is too fast. They are attacking everywhere and plundering wealth to strengthen Amegakure. We must be on guard. In time, Amegakure will surely become a major threat to Konoha."

Nara Shikahara spoke with deep concern, expressing his profound fear of Amegakure. Amegakure's leader, Hanzo, harbored great ambitions, but due to Amegakure's insufficient strength, he was temporarily suppressed by Konoha and had no choice but to retreat.

Given time, and with some development, the Hidden Rain Village will inevitably bare its fangs against the Hidden Leaf Village. The Land of Iron is so far away from the Hidden Rain Village, yet they still managed to send ninjas to attack it.

The Land of Fire and the Land of Rain are adjacent to each other!

“You’re right. We really can’t let Amegakure expand so recklessly.”

Uchiha Nan nodded after listening to Nara Shikamaru's words. In another four or five years, when Amegakure truly grows stronger, it will really stir up trouble in the surrounding area. Little by little friction will lead to incidents, provoking the surrounding ninja villages, and eventually escalating into the Second Shinobi World War.

The Second Shinobi World War didn't start suddenly; it developed from small, localized skirmishes. After several years of provocation, Konoha finally got angry and joined forces with Sunagakure and Iwagakure to launch a joint attack on Amegakure. However, the situation later spiraled out of control, and Konoha ended up fighting Sunagakure and Iwagakure again.

Uchiha Nan pondered that Konoha couldn't personally intervene right now.

Proxy warfare seems like a good approach.

My wisdom tooth is inflamed, and it hurt all night until 3 AM before I could finally sleep. I'm so upset! My updates have been a bit inconsistent lately... Please forgive me, dear readers.

Chapter 139 Uchiha Nan: Tobirama, Uchiha Madara is attacking!

Who should be chosen? First, it must border Amegakure, have a certain level of combat power, and be able to be controlled by Konoha. If a traitor is raised, that's not what Uchiha Nan wants to see.

Uchiha Nan sat in his chair, his fingers tapping rhythmically on the table, making a ticking sound. He thought carefully for a moment. It seemed that there was only one ninja village that met these conditions—the Grass Ninja Village!

The Hidden Grass Village, true to its name, is a fence-sitter. It's so chaotic that it hasn't even chosen a leader who can command respect. One faction is friendly to Konoha, so it might be worth supporting this faction and then eliminating the rest.

The Grass Village was not like the Rain Village. The Rain Village had a powerful leader, Hanzo, who cleansed up the infested areas within the country and sent ninjas to plunder and pillage everywhere. The entire country and the ninja village were united by Hanzo and were on the rise. However, in the last few years, his ambition became too great, which made him lose his mind. He offended the three great ninja villages and was directly crushed by their alliance.

Konoha could easily handle a Grass Village in internal chaos without expending much effort.

"Lu Yuan, what do you think of our idea of ​​Konoha supporting Kusagakure to contain Amegakure's development?"

"Grass Ninja Village?"

"As far as I know, the Grass Village is in chaos with numerous factions fighting their own battles. Such a village is clearly not enough to restrain the Rain Village."

Nara Shikahara frowned, and after thinking it over carefully, he felt that the Grass Ninja Village was not of much use.

During the First Shinobi World War, Nara Shikato wandered around, not only stealing ninjutsu from various ninja villages but also selling war intelligence everywhere. The intelligence was often a mix of truth and falsehood, and Nara Shikato clearly had no good impression of such trash.

However, Konoha has always pursued peace and has been very tolerant of ninja villages like Kusagakure, which are indecisive and beg for food everywhere. As long as they don't join other ninja villages in launching a war against Konoha, they let them be.

"The internal chaos in the Grass Village could give the Leaf Village an opportunity. If the Grass Village were as united as the Rain Village, the Leaf Village would have to think twice before taking action against the Grass Village."

"Take this opportunity to support the forces of Kusagakure that are aligned with us, then eliminate all other miscellaneous forces, unite Kusagakure into one force, and make it a complete vassal of Konoha."

"The location of Kusagakure is extremely important. Controlling this area is essential for Konoha."

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Uchiha Nan explained his reasoning: the geographical location of Kusagakure was simply too delicate. Amegakure, Iwagakure, and Konoha all bordered it. Kusagakure was already chaotic with numerous internal factions, and its geographical location was so important that there were countless spies from those three villages within it.

Taking advantage of the fact that the First Shinobi World War had just ended and Iwagakure was still recovering and had little energy to deal with Kusagakure, Konoha seized this golden opportunity to take down Kusagakure. Once Iwagakure recovered in a year or two, it would be much more difficult to attack Kusagakure again.

"Now that the Hokage has made his decision, what reason will Konoha have to interfere with Kusagakure?"

"Should we just send ninjas to eliminate the opposing forces?"

Nara Shikawon agreed with Uchiha Nan's view that the geographical location of Kusagakure determined that it was bound to be a chaotic ninja village, but if Konoha completely took over Kusagakure and turned it into a loyal vassal of Konoha, the benefits would be undeniable.

But Konoha is the embodiment of peace and justice. What kind of reputation would it make if word got out that they directly sent troops to interfere in the internal affairs of Kusagakure?

"Who said we were going to send troops directly?"

"We, Konoha, are the embodiment of justice and fairness!"

Uchiha Nan shook his head. All he thought about all day was fighting and killing, and he would spend money to solve anything if he could.

The entire Kusagakure village is nothing more than a bunch of poor bastards who dream of eating bananas every day and meat occasionally.

Both the Hidden Grass Village and the Land of Grass have always been poor. The Hidden Grass Village is so poor that it even killed its own wet nurse!

For example, Karin's mother was sucked to death.

As a ninja, if there is a healer in the team, everyone will be overjoyed and will definitely treat the healer like a treasure.

The Grass Village would rather let Karin's mother die from being sucked alive than use her sustainably. Of course, this cannot be entirely blamed on the Grass Village being inhumane. Everyone knows that a hen can lay eggs, but people who are about to starve to death will not care about such things. The poverty of the Grass Village is evident.

For anything that can be solved with money, just spend the money. After all, Konoha isn't without its benefits, like the bananas that are a specialty of Kusagakure!

Bananas, like other fruits, spoil quickly once ripe. Considering the difficulties of road transportation and storage, it's currently very hard to sell bananas in Kusagakure. Even if they're eaten by themselves, three or four out of ten are wasted. Bananas can be eaten as both fruit and staple food, and there's no shortage of market for them in Konoha. They're a bargain for the cattle and horses in the factories, and the canteen has another staple food option.

Konoha can provide technology and markets to help the Land of Grass escape poverty and become wealthy. Those Grass Ninja who are so poor they can even sell their chakra are no different from who they serve as dogs for. If they can kneel down and serve Konoha as dogs and get enough to eat, they probably won't mind.

"The Hokage is truly kind-hearted; he can't bear to see ordinary people suffer poverty."

"But this speed is a bit too slow, Hokage-sama."

Nara Shikamaru casually flattered Uchiha Nan, using the same old formula and flavor: using economic means to control a ninja village and even a country.

It's just a bit slow. It will take at least a year or two to see results. Right now, we need to resolve the hostile forces quickly and decisively, otherwise the Grass Country will be in chaos, and the business environment will be a big problem. It's hard to do something well, but it's too easy to stir up trouble.

"This is indeed a problem. No matter how we go around in circles, we still need to clean up the inside of Kusagakure first. We must find an excuse to get rid of these scum."

"A reason? Ah, I've got it!"

"The Land of Grass possesses laundry detergent... uh, no, weapons of mass destruction!"

Uchiha Nan thought of the Box of Elysium, a Six Paths Ninja Tool that appeared in the Naruto movie. It is said to be able to grant any wish of the person who opens it, comparable to the Dragon Balls. Of course, this is all boasting. Whether the Box of Elysium actually exists in the Land of Grass is another matter.

But that doesn't matter. Uchiha Nan said that the Land of Grass exists, so it does.

"But... the Hokage's weapons of mass destruction, can that really be used as a reason to send troops?"

"The other four major ninja villages all possess weapons of mass destruction, such as tailed beasts."

Nara Shika was somewhat puzzled; using such a lame excuse as a pretext for military service was simply terrible.

"Shika-Yuan, the reason why Kusagakure was attacked is because they didn't have weapons of mass destruction!"

"If it exists, Konoha will not bother with it."

"Oh, Hokage-sama, I understand!"

Nara Shikahara suddenly realized, "The Hokage is truly filthy, no, truly wise!"

That's how the ninja world is; weak ninja villages are born lambs to the slaughter.

Now that we've found a reason, all that's left is to find ninjas from the Grass Village who are willing to be dogs for the Leaf Village, and then eliminate the ninjas who are unwilling to be dogs by working together from the inside and outside.

In the long run, with the Land of Grass now allied with Konoha, the lives of ordinary people will definitely be much better than they are now.

"If some people want to be dignified, let them be dignified; if they don't want to be dignified, then we can only send them to meet the Sage of Six Paths."

"Our Konoha has always loved peace and wanted ordinary people in the ninja world to live a good life where they can have enough to eat. Those ungrateful and extremely evil people should be completely eliminated."

Uchiha Nan spoke righteously, saying that if some people died in the process of achieving the goal of enabling ordinary people in the Land of Grass to live a good life, it would be nothing more than a little hardship.

When that day comes, a great scholar will surely come to debate the scriptures for Konoha!

"You handle Lu Yuan's matter. If you need manpower, I will have Tomita assist you."

"Yes, Hokage." Nara Shikano nodded. The burden on his shoulders had become heavier again. Oh well, he was used to it. He would continue to stay up all night working on the plan.

What did the Hokage say again? Working late into the night is a blessing, and you can earn a lot of overtime pay!

Nara Shika walked out of the office, leaving Uchiha Nan alone again.

Slacking off

"Welcome. Oh, it's you, sir. Ready to redeem your reward?"

The owner of the card shop was sitting idly in a chair drinking tea when he saw Uchiha Madara arrive, and immediately stood up.

"Yes, I plan to bring a child with me when I meet the Hokage. Is that alright?"

The shop owner looked troubled. According to Uchiha Nan's instructions, only the person who collected all the cards could meet him. He didn't know if he could bring one more person to meet Uchiha Nan. He was just an employee and wasn't qualified to make decisions about the big boss behind the scenes, especially since the big boss behind the scenes was the Hokage of Konoha.

"In principle, it's not possible, but I can speak to the Hokage on your behalf. If it's not possible, please forgive me."

The shop owner neither directly refused nor directly agreed.

"I understand. I believe the Hokage will agree."

Madara Uchiha didn't make things difficult for the shop owner; in principle, it wouldn't work, haha, if Nan Uchiha dared to refuse.

Madara Uchiha will find an opportunity to let Nan Uchiha know who really holds the reins of power. The old man is itching to spar with his outstanding junior. What's wrong with that?

It's just that I'll be a little heavier!

office

Uchiha Nan was leisurely slacking off when there was a knock on his office door. After receiving permission from Uchiha Nan, the shop owner went in.

"Lord Hokage!"

"It's you! Why aren't you doing business in your shop? What are you doing here? Has someone already collected all the cards?"

"Yes, Hokage-sama."

"Someone collected all the cards just yesterday."

Uchiha Nan became interested after hearing this. This set of cards was designed by him personally, and it would cost a lot of money to collect them all. Just to see him once and get his autograph, he would spend so much money. He must be a die-hard fan of his.

"Then let's follow the rules. Have the person who has collected all the cards come this afternoon. I will make time to receive him this afternoon."