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Chapter 296 A seemingly equal agreement

In the end, Hiruzen Sarutobi spoke for the many jounin in Konoha: "Tsunade, please lift the combat readiness status. We still focus on restoring our strength now."

What else can Tsunade say? In fact, she doesn't want to start a war with the Iwa Ninja Village at this time. However, if Konoha does nothing, then the Earth Kingdom will have a huge market, and the Iwa Ninja's strength will definitely continue.

Somewhat improved.

But apart from the threat of war, what else can Konoha do? Even the Daimyos of the Fire Country don't have much objection.

The Fire Nation's daimyo has long been coveting the Iwa Ninja's trade, but the Fire Nation has been at war, and during the rare war break, it is busy rebuilding and has no time to deal with the bandits and wandering ninjas in the country.

Now the Iwa Ninja proposes to incorporate the Fire Country into the commercial system, which means that the rare peace will last for a long time, at least the Earth Country will not take the initiative to break this peace. This makes the Daimyo very excited.

In recent years, the Daimyo has spent a lot of money because of the war. This time, the Nine-Tails Rebellion caused another big bloodshed. Even with the wealth of the Fire Country, the Daimyo felt distressed.

The Fire Nation needs a stable environment to restore its national strength, this is what the Daimyo means.

"Then agree to the Iwa Ninja Village and agree to open up trade routes." Tsunade finally made the decision.

A few days later, the Fire Country and the Earth Country signed a trade treaty.

The two sides agreed: 1. For caravans signed by the other side's name, the other side's ninjas may not block them for any reason. 2. Both sides can send a certain number of ninjas to escort the caravan into the other side's territory, and the other side's ninjas must not block it.

This agreement is fair. The conveniences and obligations that need to be fulfilled are the same between the Earth Kingdom and the Fire Kingdom, as well as the Iwa Ninja and the Konoha Ninja.

But one month after the business agreement was signed, Tsunade, Sarutobi Hiruzen and others were dumbfounded.

Intelligence showed that a large number of Iwa Ninjas entered the Country of Fire in the name of escorting caravans. Although restricted by the agreement, these Iwa Ninjas did not enter some key areas of the Fire Country, but Iwa Ninjas could be seen occasionally in most areas.

However, there are very few Konoha ninjas who have received the mission to enter the Earth Kingdom. After asking, they found out that there is no need for ninja escorts in the Earth Kingdom. There are ninjas patrolling the trade roads in the Earth Kingdom, and the Earth Kingdom is considered a full ninja.

It is the safest and most peaceful place in the world, and not many caravans are willing to spend a lot of money to hire ninja escorts.

So only at the beginning, some caravans from the Kingdom of Fire would hire Konoha ninjas to enter the Kingdom of Earth, but later there were no such exploits.

The caravans heading to the Earth Kingdom all chose to end their escort at the border between Fire and Earth. The caravans would abandon the Konoha ninjas at the border and then enter the Earth Kingdom alone. When returning, some caravans

When we were at the border, we chose Konoha ninjas, and some chose Iwa ninjas.

As a result, more and more Iwa ninjas can be seen in the Kingdom of Fire, but there are not many Konoha ninjas in the Kingdom of Earth.

In the Konoha conference room, only Tsunade and a few advisors were present at this meeting. Hiruzen Sarutobi said with a headache: "Tsunade, we have to make great efforts like the Iwa Ninja to clean up the stray ninjas in the Land of Fire.

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After turning to bed, Koharu said: "Hiruzhan, as a result, our manpower will not be enough, and once there are no more bandits and wandering ninjas in the Land of Fire, the village will have fewer escort tasks. At that time, our manpower will be reduced."

Becoming superfluous.”

Mito Kadoyan said: "How did Iwa Ninja Village do it? They have a lot of ninjas now."

Koharu went to bed and said: "The manpower left by the Iwa ninjas because they do not need to escort the Earth Kingdom caravans has two main places to go. One is to patrol the trade routes within the territory. The expenses of these ninjas are borne by the Daimyos of the Earth Kingdom."

"The other part is to go to other countries to pick up missions. The small countries surrounding the Earth Kingdom like to hire Iwa Ninjas. This gives the Iwa Ninjas a large amount of extra missions, enough to absorb the extra ninjas."

Tsunade slapped the table and said: "Then destroy the bandits and wandering ninjas, and then compete with the Iwa ninja for the small country's share of the mission."

After returning to bed, Koharu shook his head and said: "There is another problem. If we send ninjas to patrol the country like the Iwa ninja, then I am afraid that we will have to bear the mission rewards of these ninjas ourselves, and the daimyo will not bear it."

Tsunade has been the Hokage for a while, but after just a little calculation, she felt bad. This expense is not small. With Konoha's current tight finances, if she can afford such a large expense, Tsunade said: Otherwise

Let's change to Hokage.

Tsunade asked without giving up: "Why did the Daimyo of Earth Country choose to bear this expense?"

After turning to bed, Koharu sighed and said: "Because the Kingdom of Earth is the center of trade, the trade has brought huge benefits to the Daimyo of the Kingdom of Earth, and maintaining the trade is to protect this interest. The Daimyo of the Kingdom of Earth will naturally not be stingy."

"Although we, the Fire Nation, have advantages in resources and potential, in the short term, we definitely have no chance to replace the Earth Nation's position in the business world. In other words, if we do the same thing as the Iwa Ninja, we will only

You will suffer a loss."

Tsunade frowned and said: "If you suffer a loss, you will suffer a loss. Doesn't the Daimyo know the benefits that the trade path can bring to us in the future?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen continued: "The situation in the ninja world is constantly changing. Who can guarantee that we can maintain peace until the business world benefits."

Tsunade was stunned for a while, and then concluded: "Is it because of the performance of the Iwa Ninja in the third and fourth wars that gave them credibility? Those businessmen believe in the Land of Earth and the Iwa Ninja?"

As a senior gambler, Tsunade, who has borrowed money from many ninja circles, still knows the importance of credibility. It is precisely because Tsunade never robs, steals, or uses ninja methods that those casinos welcome Tsunade

.

The money Tsunade owes will eventually be repaid by treating the nobles, so Tsunade can always borrow money.

It just takes a battle of wits and courage to get Tsunade to pay back the money.

Sarutobi Hiruzen nodded in agreement with Tsunade's words.

Tsunade thought for a while, and it seemed that no matter what she did, it was not good. Being too aggressive in suppressing bandits was a waste of manpower. The redeployment of already tense manpower would increase the chances of Iwa Ninja entering the Land of Fire to perform escort missions.

If nothing is taken care of and the Iwa ninja can come and go in the Fire Country at will, the hidden dangers will be too great.

While Tsunade was still thinking about countermeasures, Danzo spoke: "The Fifth Generation, send ANBU and Gen into the small country to assassinate the Iwa Ninja and make the Iwa Ninja lose their credibility. Or enter the Earth Kingdom and destroy the business roads."

Danzo didn't say much, but his meaning was very clear. Since he couldn't benefit from the caravan, no one else would have a better time.

Sarutobi Hiruzen expressed his opposition before Tsunade: "We can't conflict with the Iwa nin now. If we want to regain our strength, we have to wait until the new girl with the inheritance of the will of fire has fully grown up."

Danzo wanted to continue to object, but considering that the main target now was the Uchiha clan and he needed to get the Sharingan of the Uchiha clan, he finally chose to shut up.

The high-level meeting in Konoha ended without any resolution, and Tsunade acquiesced to the Iwa ninja wandering around the Land of Fire.

Danzo returned to the root base and came to a secret laboratory in the root: "C, how is the progress of the experiment?"

"Master Danzo, Orochimaru's research direction should be right. The Sharingan can indeed suppress the first-generation cells. But to achieve this we need a large number of Sharingan. If there are only one or two, they will be easily swallowed by the first-generation cells."

"Furthermore, our research on first-generation cells is not as good as Orochimaru's. Even if we obtain a large number of Sharingan, it is impossible to develop first-generation cells that can be transplanted in a short time."

Danzo's face was very ugly. After hesitating for a moment, he said to C: "You go contact Orochimaru and see if Orochimaru needs anything. If so, I will cooperate with Orochimaru."

"Yes." C responded immediately, and then quickly left the root base.

Danzo is not the only person who wants to get in touch with Orochimaru, for example, Nagato is attracted by Orochimaru.

It’s just different from the original work. In the original work, in order to recruit rebellious ninjas, the gate leader often left the rain ninja village with Xiaonan. But in this life, neither Nagato nor Xiaonan were willing to leave Yahiko, so the task of recruiting Orochimaru to join the gang could only be assigned to those who had already joined.

The organization's Loquat Juzo, Scorpion and another unknown supporting actor.

In order to ensure the success rate of the mission, Nagato also contacted Yichen, hoping that Yichen would be able to help Loquat Juzo and the others.

Everyone in the Ninja world knows about Yichen's cooperation with the Akatsuki organization, but few people in the Ninja world know about Yichen's personal participation in An Xiao.

Yichen didn't want to be exposed, even in front of other members of the Akatsuki organization. Yichen didn't want to leak information. Yichen had told Nagato and the others about this before.

Because Yichen was afraid that Obito would find out about him joining Dark Dawn early and then do something against him.

So after receiving Nagato's request, Yichen made a set of black windbreaker and mask. The whole set of equipment was also painted with sealing techniques to prevent Byakugan from prying eyes.

However, before leaving, Yichen still needs the approval of the advisory group.

This matter is actually not easy. The Akatsuki organization has grown too fast, and Onoki and the others have become more and more wary of the Akatsuki organization.

Counting Xiaonan and Xia, the Akatsuki organization already has four Kage-level members. Fortunately, Ohnoki and the others have not yet treated Xia as a Kage-level person.

In this life, the Scorpion fell into the hands of Yichen twice, and even the three generations of Kazekage puppets were lost. This made the ninja world less afraid of the so-called Red Sand Scorpion.

But if the Akatsuki organization wants to recruit an S-class rebellious nin like Orochimaru who is actually a Kage-level, Ohnoki and others will definitely be wary.

This kind of thing cannot be uncovered just because Yichen has a good relationship with the Akatsuki organization.

Sooner or later, the growth of the Akatsuki organization will collide head-on with the five major ninja villages. Now that Konoha is no longer a superpower, Onoki and others occasionally think about problems by replacing the Iwa ninja village as the overlord of the ninja world.

With this mindset, the Akatsuki organization is an out-and-out threat.

"How to convince the advisory group?" Yichen had a headache.

After a while, the advisory group who received Yichen's notice gathered at the Tsuchikage office again.

Onoki and others knew Yichen's thoughts from Yichen's dress as soon as they entered the door. This restless Tsuchikage was going out to cause trouble again.

Ohnoki and the others, who had countless experiences, looked at each other, and then all looked at Yichen in silence.

(End of chapter)