Naruto: With maxed-out affection, I am invincible in the ninja world.

You must see the truth!

Haneda glanced at Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa and said calmly:

Whether or not you can hide your identity depends on your performance.

Upon hearing this, Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu knew he had to betray some of his colleagues.

With a heart full of trepidation, he led the Root ninja to their doom.

…………

As night deepened, Haneda searched the mansions of all the ministers on the list under the pretext of investigating a case.

Those ministers either sided with Haneda or were forced to confess.

Overnight, all of Haneda's political enemies were arrested and imprisoned.

Under the guidance of the collaborator Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, who drew maps and led the way, none of the ministers who gathered in the basement of the Daming Prefecture escaped, except for the General of the North, who was intentionally let go.

Among them, the Left and Right Chancellors, Kawakami Gensai and Matsunaga Hisahide, were caught red-handed while being led by Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu.

They continued hurling insults at Yanagisawa Yoshiharu until they reached Haneda, at which point they stopped and began cursing at Haneda in return.

"Traitor! I will never yield to you tonight!!"

"Then drag him out and chop him up," Yu Tian said, sitting on the sofa without even looking up.

He never intended to let go of those who were loyal to the daimyo.

Kawakami Gensai said anxiously, "Wait, weren't you supposed to be using torture to extract a confession, Fifth Hokage? How can you just behead someone like that?!"

Matsunaga Hisahide added, "I disagree too! This doesn't follow proper sentencing procedures!"

After being verbally abused the whole way, Yanagisawa Yoshiho couldn't help but retort:

"So what do you want to do? Throw him in jail and have him beheaded tomorrow? It's all the same whether he dies sooner or later."

Kawakami Gensai and Matsunaga Hisahide suddenly knelt down:

"Lord Hokage, we wouldn't have the face to serve you if we didn't suffer some hardship!"

???

Haneda was stunned for the second time today.

How come the left and right prime ministers of Daming Prefecture, and the strategist are both so "bone-willed"?

How was this daimyo appointed?

They're all so "loyal"!

Looking at his two colleagues, Yanagisawa Yoshiharu would have cursed them out long ago if the Hokage hadn't been sitting there.

The two prime ministers were no better than him, and they even cursed him all the way.

Just to show his loyalty to the daimyo?

Then turn around and pledge allegiance to the Hokage, just to save face for himself?

At this moment, the Root ninja brought over a list of all those who had been captured and surrendered on the spot, or who had been tortured into submission.

Haneda glanced at them and was utterly astonished by the officials of the Daimyo Prefecture.

Nearly half of them are spineless; they kneel down at the slightest pressure or torture.

Judging from the battle that morning, he thought the officials of Daming Prefecture were all tough guys.

Unexpectedly, they were all terrified of dying.

It seems that after so long of hereditary privilege and comfort, their integrity has long been worn away by wealth and luxury.

Haneda pondered for a moment and felt that leaving so many bad apples would be too much of a threat to the Land of Fire.

He glanced at Kawakami Gensai and Matsunaga Hisahide, who were kneeling on the ground, looking uneasy, and Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, who was standing to the side looking slightly smug.

Haneda used the Shadow Clone Technique to make two copies of the list and gave them to him.

“The three of you should rate the people on this list on a five-star scale to indicate the degree of their corruption.”

Haneda waved his hand, signaling the Root ninjas to take the people down one by one.

Without even a second thought, he knew that these three traitors and spineless cowards were among the most corrupt.

However, Haneda only planned to kill a group of people, confiscate their assets to give back to Konoha, and leave behind a group of slightly better ones who would never dare to betray him, to control the Land of Fire.

Then we'll see how they perform, and decide whether to dismiss them or promote them.

As for the third one...

Haneda felt that these three were very pragmatic and held the highest official positions in the Land of Fire, so they could be kept as mascots to reassure those who had pledged allegiance to him.

…………

The next day, in Daming Prefecture.

Normally, this is the time when daimyo and officials should be handling government affairs.

However, less than half of them actually work in Daming Prefecture.

Daming was fully aware of the desolate scene before him.

Those who disappeared were all his loyal subjects!

He was dumbfounded when Haneda appeared with a group of ministers.

"Yanagizawa Yoshiyasu, Kawakami Hikosai, Matsunaga Hisahide, you all..."

Yanagisawa Yoshiharu said righteously:

"The Hokage spent a great deal of effort to find the real culprit in the arson case for you, but you are ungrateful and have betrayed the Hokage!"

"I, Yanagisawa Yoshiharu, am doing this for the sake of my principles, abandoning darkness for light!"

The two prime ministers, personally appointed by the daimyo, echoed this sentiment:

"That's right, the Hokage worked through the night to find the culprit for the sake of the Daimyo."

"I never imagined that in the end, it would be you, you shameless scoundrel, who would betray the Hokage!!"

Haneda couldn't listen anymore and said:

“You lot should show a little respect to the daimyo.”

"As the Hokage of Konoha, I identified the true culprit behind the arson attack on the Daimyo's residence last night."

"I never imagined that so many people would secretly collude to set fire to the city. No wonder the vast Daming Prefecture was almost burned to the ground."

Haneda took out the list and handed it to the strategist standing to the side.

The strategist immediately read out the names from the list, and hearing them was like a knife to his heart.

These were all loyal retainers of his daimyo, yet they were murdered by that damned Uchiha Haneda!

What he didn't know was that nearly half of the people on the list had joined Haneda halfway through their careers.

Because of his excessive greed and corruption, he was executed in prison by Haneda.

The only thing that comforted the daimyo was that he neither heard nor saw his own General Zhenbei.

He is the daimyo's only hope for breaking free from Haneda's control.

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Chapter 253 Bringing Fifty Billion Back to the Village

After dealing with the daimyo's residence, Haneda left the Flying Thunder God mark on the three number one traitors as a warning.

He then led the members of the Anbu and Root back to Konoha.

On this trip back to the village, Haneda brought with him twenty years' worth of aid funds from the Daimyo Prefecture.

It must be said that the level of corruption in the Land of Fire was beyond his imagination.

Almost everyone was wiped out; Yu Tian simply ransacked their home and took away their valuables.

Subsequently, the authorities will conduct another round of seizures of real estate, shops, and other fixed assets, and there will be another major raid.

(PS: For details, please refer to the story of a deliveryman who raided a house in Beijing at the end of the Ming Dynasty.)

Haneda walked into the Hokage's office and casually placed the ransom bill on Shikaku's desk.

"Don't you always complain about not having money?"

"Take this money and expand the Ninja Academy's enrollment. Try to double the number of students this year, no, it must be two times!"

After saying that, Haneda turned around gracefully, sat back in the comfortable Hokage chair, and took the official documents that Shikaku had completed.

Looking at the thick list of confiscated property, Lu Jiu glanced at the amount and quickly flipped through it.

When Lu Jiu saw the calculated total on the last page, he was immediately taken aback.

Five billion taels of silver, a full five billion taels of silver!

This amount of money couldn't even fit in an entire warehouse!

Enough to keep Konoha running for a full twenty years!