Uchiha's personal opinion

After Hatake Sakumo left, Uchiha Tokumitsu's face immediately turned gloomy.

The appointment of Sakumo Hatake as the so-called peace ambassador clearly shows that someone is deliberately using him as a pawn!

Moreover, it wasn't just the daimyo and nobles who united; even the Hokage faction got involved!

Subsequently, Uchiha Tokumitsu immediately summoned the Uchiha ninja in charge of intelligence.

"Has there been any unusual developments in the village recently?"

"...No special circumstances at present."

The Uchiha ninja from the intelligence department was taken aback at first, then quickly searched his mind and found nothing unusual recently.

"Has the police department not found anything unusual either?"

Uchiha Tokumitsu's expression turned even more grim.

After he left the shogunate, his intelligence department and the Konoha police department maintained intelligence exchanges. However, the clan did not receive any prior information about Hatake Sakumo's inspection of the border troops. Uchiha Tokumitsu only learned about this through a notification from the Reform Society.

"...Nothing at the moment."

Sweat began to bead on the Uchiha ninja's forehead.

"Give the order to have the police thoroughly investigate every corner of the village under the guise of strengthening security and eliminating spies!"

Uchiha Tokumitsu said coldly, "Sarutobi has already colluded with the Daimyo! And those insects are still trying to cover up the truth!"

"As ordered!"

The Uchiha ninja felt as if he had been granted a pardon and immediately accepted the order to leave.

……

In fact, after Uchiha Tokumitsu and Uchiha Himon were both awarded the title of Shogun, the Uchiha clan members who remained in Konoha began to become increasingly complacent under the halo of glory.

This is only natural; after all, no one can stay on high alert and vigilant about everything around them all the time.

The Uchiha clan's complacency came far too quickly...

……

"Complacency and arrogance have brought disaster upon yourselves!"

Under the orders of Uchiha Tokumitsu, the police department, like mad dogs unleashed from their cages, turned Konoha upside down in a single day, and then compiled all sorts of unusual information that had previously gone unnoticed.

The clan head, Uchiha Yomo, who was in charge of the police department, immediately sensed something was wrong and personally went to the Tokugawa Shogunate headquarters with intelligence.

After reviewing the intelligence documents, Uchiha Tokumitsu felt his blood pressure soaring uncontrollably.

The Forest of Death is too dangerous and has been completely sealed off from entry. Advisor Elder Mitokado Yan has been frequently leaving the village. The Anbu has expanded the scale of its base. Caravans from the Daimyo Prefecture have been continuously transporting goods to the Sarutobi clan's territory. The number of able-bodied young people in the Ino-Shika-Cho clans has suddenly decreased. The Shimura clan has had no ninjas active in the village. The Eastern District Police Station has repeatedly discovered traces of ninja snakes...

Every single detail could be analyzed to reveal some clues, yet the police department had failed to notice anything unusual, which was what infuriated Uchiha Tokumitsu the most.

"The clansmen in the police department are still living too comfortably..."

Uchiha Tokumitsu said coldly.

Under intense emotional stimulation, his eyes couldn't help but transform into the Mangekyou Sharingan.

Although Uchiha Yomo was an elder, he could only barely maintain his composure under the pressure of the Mangekyou Sharingan's power.

"Your Excellency, the personnel structure of the police department still needs to be adjusted. What do you think?"

Uchiha Tokumitsu threw the document onto his desk and asked in a cold tone.

Although it was a question, Uchiha Tokumitsu's tone left no room for doubt.

"That makes sense..."

As the clan leader, Uchiha Yomo felt that he had lost face by being so rudely reprimanded by his juniors.

However, there was nothing they could do. The Uchiha clan was a clan that relied on strength, and ordinary three-tomoe Sharingan was no match for the Mangekyou Sharingan.

"First, the police department must launch a sanitation and environmental cleanup campaign in the village to eliminate all potentially harmful species such as toads, snakes, and slugs!"

After Mito Uzumaki's death, the relationship between the two clans, which had been reconciled through her mediation, began to cool down. This became even more strained after Tokumitsu Uchiha led his troops to threaten the daimyo. After Tsunade reorganized the Senju clan, the two sides completely severed ties.

Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya, besides being all disciples of the Third Hokage, are also contractors of the three great summoning beast holy sites.

The three holy lands of the summoning beasts have incredibly strange methods. Besides fighting, their most common method is to use their own species for secret surveillance and reconnaissance.

Although he didn't know if the three disciples of the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, were still of one mind with him, Tokumitsu Uchiha decided to eliminate all possible risks.

"Understood……"

After a moment's thought, Uchiha Yomotsu understood Uchiha Tokuko's intention.

"Secondly, we should instruct the ninja cat clan to increase their deployment of intelligence cat agents within the village!"

After eliminating any potential spies from the three sacred sites, the next step is to have intelligence ninja beasts belonging to the Uchiha clan infiltrate the village and replace them.

The Uchiha clan also had no objections.

"Third, the ninjas at the Police Headquarters are rotated, with clansmen stationed in the two shogunates being replaced regularly!"

Uchiha Tokumitsu gritted his teeth and said, "The war has only been over for a short time, and they're already so lax! If Sarutobi were to raise his sword one day, would they even be able to react in time?"

Although the Uchiha clan did not believe that the Hokage lineage would dare to attack the powerful Uchiha clan, they still did not reject Uchiha Tokumitsu's order.

After all, as the clan head and chief of police, he didn't need to be rotated out to govern the shogunate.

"Fourth, we must thoroughly investigate all suspicious aspects of the intelligence, no matter what obstacles we encounter!"

Uchiha Tokuko's crimson Mangekyou Sharingan stared intently at Uchiha Sifang, putting immense pressure on the latter. "You must be prepared to eliminate all hidden dangers at all costs and be ready to fight Sarutobi monkey at any time!"

"Do you understand?"

"understand……"

Under the terrifying pressure of the Mangekyou Sharingan, Uchiha Yomo answered with difficulty.

Chapter 181 The Undercurrents Behind Peace

Although the eastern border defense forces abolished the wartime law that "not a single plank may enter the sea," the ports in the eastern part of the Land of Fire remained desolate and deserted.

Even though the two countries have resumed customs clearance, nobles and wealthy merchants still need to spend time rebuilding their ships. In addition, various rumors are circulating that pirates are rampant in the eastern seas, and these pirates are supported by the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Kirigakure Ninja Clan Alliance, which has scared away some of the weaker merchants.

Jiraiya stood on a hill north of the Karuzukyo Port, the largest port in the northeastern part of the Land of Fire, observing the port's activity and stillness.

He was sent to the eastern region by Tsunade to investigate the Tokuko Shogunate's activities.

However, the port's desolation far exceeded his expectations.

Although several docks were bustling with activity as ships were being built, only a few small fishing boats were moored at the berths. The once vibrant and bustling scene of masts and ships standing side by side before the war was no more.

When the border troops lifted the blockade, they did not destroy the port, but they took away all the surviving large ships under the pretext of requisition.

After observing from the hilltop for a long time, Jiraiya finally turned and left, choosing not to go into the port to gather intelligence.

He noticed that several unidentified ninjas were on guard at various high points in the port.

Jiraiya felt that he still had the task of reconnaissance entrusted to him by Tsunade, and it would not be a good thing to alert the Tokugawa Shogunate's henchmen at this time.

After leaving the port, Jiraiya bit his finger and used a summoning jutsu to summon a red toad.

"Kosuke, please take this secret document back to the village and give it to Tsunade."

Jiraiya pulled a scroll coated with sealing wax from his pocket and handed it to the toad, Kosuke, whose body was completely red.

"...Jiraiya, something has happened in Konoha, don't you know?"

Instead of immediately taking the scroll, Gamabunta Kosuke looked up at Jiraiya and asked.

"what happened?"

Jiraiya asked, puzzled.

He had been away from the village for some time, having accepted Tsunade's request. Starting from the Land of Rivers, where the western border defense forces were stationed, his footsteps covered the border regions of the Land of Fire, and the Tokugawa Shogunate was his last stop.

Therefore, he was not very clear about the recent situation in the village.

"The day before yesterday, the Uchiha launched another purge, and the intelligence frogs were all captured or killed!"

"what!"

Jiraiya was greatly alarmed.

"Oh, and quite a few intelligence spies from Ryuchi Cave have also been captured."

Kosuke Gama added another sentence.

It was one of the intelligence liaison frogs of Mount Myōboku in Konoha, but it was fortunately soaking in a hot spring in the Senju clan's territory at the time, which saved it from being killed.

The so-called intelligence frogs are just ordinary frogs that can be found everywhere in Mount Myōboku. They don't have much intelligence and usually just serve as expendable resources for the highly intelligent ninja frogs. So even though many were lost, Gamabunta Kosuke didn't care much.

"...Why so suddenly?"

Jiraiya naturally didn't feel sorry for the loss of the so-called intelligence frogs; he just felt it was a pity that the intelligence network had been destroyed in one fell swoop.

"I'm not sure either, but it will take some time before we can redeploy the intelligence frogs..."

Gamabunta Kosuke then took the scroll from Jiraiya's hand. "But Konoha is becoming increasingly dangerous. I can no longer sneak around the village like before..."

"With the police department doing this haphazardly, don't the teachers have any objections?"

Jiraiya asked, frowning.

"Mr. Hiruzen must be very troubled right now."

Kosuke Gama replied, "The police department wanted to enter the Death Forest to search, but they were stopped by the Dark Guard. They are probably still in a standoff."

"This……"

Jiraiya wasn't stupid; he naturally understood that there must be other unspeakable secrets hidden in the Forest of Death, but the police department had just discovered them.

Even the fact that the Uchiha clan of the police department launched another crackdown on intelligence ninja beasts might be related to some of his teacher's actions.

"Then will you still be able to go back to the village?"

Jiraiya asked.

"I can return to the Senju clan's territory, but as for other parts of the village... I dare not go there for the time being."

"It's a toad," Kousuke replied.

"...Thank you for your help."