Become the mastermind behind the Akatsuki organization

Sand Hidden Village.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, the Fourth Kazekage left the underground mine along the passage. When the Sand Ninja standing on the ground saw this, he quickly handed over salt water and a towel.

The Fourth Kazekage took the salt water, drank a few sips happily, wiped off his sweat and walked towards the Kazekage building.

After sitting down in the Kazekage's office, the Fourth Kazekage did not waste any time and immediately began to handle the affairs of Sunagakure Village.

As the leader of Sunagakure Village, he must take charge of all affairs in the village and cannot relax at all.

This is also something that can't be helped.

Although Sunagakure Village is nominally one of the five great ninja villages at the pinnacle of the ninja world, in fact, there is a huge gap compared with Konoha, Iwagakure and Kumogakure.

Not only did the number of powerful people in these three major ninja villages exceed Sunagakure, but the number of ordinary ninjas also exceeded Sunagakure.

If Sunagakure hadn't been too poor and had mastered a powerful weapon like the One-tailed Shukaku, Konoha and Iwagakure around Sunagakure would have launched an attack on Konoha long ago.

Despite this, Sunagakure still lost to Konoha in the last war and was forced to become the Konoha Alliance.

Sunagakure and Konoha are said to be allies, but in fact Sunagakure has become a vassal ninja village of Konoha. Businessmen from the Country of Fire can easily travel within the Country of Wind without paying tariffs.

The employment commission that originally belonged to the Sunagakure Village has now become the possession of the Konoha Ninja Village.

Even the daimyo of the Kingdom of Wind began to doubt the necessity of the existence of Sunagakure Village, and considered whether to abandon Sunagakure Village and let Konoha become the protector of the Kingdom of Wind, significantly reducing the military expenditure provided to Sunagakure.

All the above measures are restricting the development of Sunagakure Village and using money to limit the number of Sunagakure.

If this situation continues for another ten or twenty years, Sunagakure Village will become a second-rate ninja village and eventually die out under the wheel of history.

As a ninja who stands at the top of the ninja world and the leader of the five great ninja villages Sunagakure, Kazekage Rasa doesn't want to see this happen.

He paid a huge price to defeat his rival Ye Cang, not just to become the leader of a second-rate ninja village.

Therefore, he must shoulder the burden of the village and rely on the limited funds at hand to develop the ninja army.

If the number of students in the ninja school is not enough, elite training is carried out. Each Sunagakure student must have a strength close to that of a chunin before he can graduate from the ninja school.

The resources provided by the daimyo of the Land of Wind are not enough to support a few thousand ninjas.

Then he would go to the mine himself and use magnetic escape to pan for gold to provide funds for the village. As long as the village could maintain sufficient fighting capacity, it didn't matter even if he lay down tired every day.

After dealing with some trivial matters, the Fourth Kazekage looked at the information sent by Sunagakure Anbu, which recorded information about Konoha and Iwagakure.

The Fourth Kazekage has always paid close attention to Konoha's intelligence.

When he learned that the Nine-Tails Rebellion broke out in Konoha, although he was the first to write a letter of condolences to the Third Hokage, he actually wished that Konoha would be destroyed because of the Nine-Tails Rebellion.

When the conflict broke out between Konoha and Cloud Hidden Village, he even sent troops to support and ordered to restrict the activities of civilians from the Kingdom of Thunder in Sunagakure Village.

But all this is just because the strength of Konoha and Sunagakure Village is too disparity.

Even though the Fourth Hokage and the Nine-Tailed Jinchuuriki were lost, and Orochimaru defected and fled Konoha, the gap between Sunagakure and Konoha was still terrifying.

No matter how depressed Konoha is, there are still masters such as Sannin, Hokage, and Danzo sitting in the Ninja Village, plus the protection of the two blood successor families of Hyuga and Uchiha.

Without the interference of other ninja villages, Konoha was still able to defeat Sunagakure Village.

However, after hearing that the Konoha Uchiha clan had been annihilated and that Iwagakure Village had started a small-scale war with Konoha on the border, the Fourth Kazekage felt a little anxious.

He was considering whether to take this opportunity to backstab Konoha.

As long as enough pressure can be put on Konoha Ninja Village, even if it cannot obtain the land of the Land of Fire, Sunagakure Village can get rid of the shackles that bind it and make Sunagakure Village a normal ninja village.

It stands to reason that the ninjas living in the Kingdom of Wind are particularly fond of such high-risk and high-reward plans.

After all, for ninjas living in the desert, they may be buried in the sea of ​​sand in the next second due to a series of reasons such as sandstorms and lack of water sources.

But the Fourth Kazekage faced troubles that the other Kazekages had never encountered.

There is no elite Jonin younger than him in Sunagakure Village, which means that once something happens to him, Sunagakure Village will fall into an embarrassing situation without Kazekage.

None of the previous big bets made by Feng Ying in the past were successful.

Every time he gambled heavily, Sunagakure suffered huge losses. If he continued to lose again, there would be no shinobi village like Sunagakure.

Retracting his thoughts that were gradually diverging, the Fourth Kazekage gave up his plan to backstab Konoha. He did not want Sunagakure Village to become a victim in the battle between Konoha and Iwagakure Village.

Besides, Sunagakure Village has not yet cultivated qualified Jinchūriki and is unable to attack the Konoha Ninja Village.

After mentioning the Jinchuuriki, the Fourth Kazekage frowned and shouted into the surrounding air:

"ANBU, how is Gaara's condition? Is he still unable to control his temper and the Shukaku inside him?"

"Back to the Kazekage-sama, Gaara-sama still cannot control Shukaku..."

After a pause, Sunagakure ANBU said hesitantly:

"Kazekage-sama, is your plan to deliberately send people to provoke Gaara-sama a little inappropriate? In the past few months, Gaara-sama has accidentally killed many ninjas."

"I'm worried that Gaara-sama won't be able to withstand such stimulation, and his mind will eventually be swallowed up by Shukaku."

"Besides, even if Gaara-sama can really control Shukaku, the ninjas in the village will become hostile to Gaara because of the accidents in recent years."

"Are you teaching me how to do things?"

The Fourth Kazekage frowned and then said:

"And don't call Gaara an adult. He is the Jinchuriki of the village. The Jinchuriki is just a tool for external expansion. A tool does not need to care about other people's opinions."

"But Gaara-sama is the child of you and Garuru-sama after all..."

Sunagakure Anbu said carefully, it seemed that he really planned to persuade the Fourth Kazekage to give up testing Gaara.

The Fourth Kazekage said with a frosty expression:

"Yashamaru, since you like to speak for Gaara so much, I might as well tell you that I have lost confidence in Gaara and plan to change to a Jinchuuriki."

"You go and assassinate Gaara tonight, and tell Gaara that you hate him. If he can successfully control Shukaku's power this time, I can consider letting him continue to become a Jinchuuriki."

After saying this, the Fourth Kazekage made a sign to see off guests.

Yashamaru took a deep look at the Fourth Kazekage and slowly left the Kazekage's office. He was a little disappointed with the Fourth Kazekage.

The Fourth Kazekage may be a good Kazekage, but he is definitely not a good father or husband.