The Shimada Family's Ninja Journey

Hanzo was not clear about the conversation between the four immortals in Ryūchi Cave. As the days passed, the day of Konoha Village's first high-level election finally arrived.

Speaking of which, before this, the village's senior officials could only be regarded as "temporary senior officials" in a strict sense. Even hiding the Hokage could only be called "acting Hokage".

But in the final analysis, Konoha Village was established jointly by people like them, and the villagers also recognized this, so the whole village did not delve into this matter in particular.

Including this election, if a new Hokage is elected, everyone will call him the second generation Hokage and will not regard him as the first generation Hokage.

"You are all the jounin of the village and the pillar of Konoha." In the jounin class conference hall, Hanzo stood in the center of the podium and said to the jounin of the village in front of him: "This jonin conference will be

A new Hokage will be elected for the village, and a new generation of elders will be produced. Therefore, I hope that all jounin can make a serious decision and cast their votes.

Each of your votes may determine the direction of Konoha and even the entire ninja world in the next ten years, so I hope you will be cautious."

After finishing speaking, Hanzo walked to his seat under the stage and sat down.

Unlike the last Jonin Conference that Madara convened at an impromptu meeting, in this Jounin Conference, all the seats on the rostrum were vacant.

Because all the senior executives, including Hanzo, have officially resigned by now, only after the new senior executives are appointed will those positions have their own owners.

After Hanzo stepped down, Naoko walked onto the stage. She was holding a box in her hand and said: "Next, all the jounin began to vote secretly. The candidates included Shimada Hanzo, Uchiha Madara, Senju Hashirama, and Nara.

Lu Yuan..."

Shangzi looked at the list in his hand and read out a string of names.

However, it is conceivable that the candidates in the back are most likely to highlight "democracy". The only ones who are truly competitive are Hanzo and the others.

After Naoko finished reading, the Jounin in the audience came up to the stage one by one and put their favorite Hokage candidates into the box.

Of course, Hanzo and other Hokage candidates did not move.

Once you enter the candidate list, you are giving up your vote by default, which is also the rule of the election.

But in fact, it doesn't matter how many of them vote.

Although the number of jounin in Konoha is not too many, it is not small either, with a total of one hundred and forty-four.

The influence of their seven or eight votes is indeed not that great.

After a while, after the last jounin voted, all the jounin returned to their seats.

Shangzi brought the box in front of him and said: "I promise that the names I read out next are the real names written on the ballot. If there is any fraud, I am willing to take all responsibility."

After finishing speaking, Shangzi began to count the votes one by one.

"Shimada Hanzo."

"Uchiha Madara."

"Shimada Hanzo."

"Senju Hashirama."

"Shimada Hanzo."

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As the names were read out one by one, a ninja in front of the scoreboard kept counting down the votes.

When Shangzi was halfway through reading, the whole situation was almost clear.

Hanzo topped the list of votes, with Hanzo written on more than half of the votes.

In addition to him, Madara and Hashirama also had a lot of votes, but the two of them combined were still slightly less than Hanzo. As for the remaining ones who made up the numbers, it was even more pitiful, and almost none broke single digits.

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Seeing this, Madara's face suddenly became gloomy.

He had expected that Hanzo would have more votes, but to this extent, it would be a bit abnormal.

In Madara's opinion, it is very likely that there is a mole within the Uchiha clan camp.

After all, this was a secret ballot. Even if the family asked these jounin to vote for Madara, if they secretly voted for someone else, Madara would not know who did it.

Looking at the number of votes in Hanzo's name that did not count for an increase, Madara suddenly felt a little discouraged.

As early as three years ago, he noticed that even Izumi would sit on the other side of the village sometimes, let alone other people.

What's more, the relationship between Madara and the elders in the family has never been very harmonious, and the influence of the ninjas who are close to the Uchiha clan on the jounin of the clan is also strong or weak.

In this case, how could he ask for more?

"Perhaps Hanzo should be the Hokage..." Such an idea suddenly came to Madara's mind.

In the past few years, he has never given up his ideas while practicing.

He has also been thinking about it, trying to find a way to solve the hidden dangers of the "unification theory".

Unfortunately, nothing was found.

On the contrary, Hanzo's philosophy is being steadily implemented.

As far as he knows, the domestic production of the five major countries has been growing year after year in recent years.

Especially after the fertilizers, improved farm tools, and various industrial and agricultural theories and concepts from Konoha were spread to the entire ninja world, even within Kumogakure, which had always been dominated by the martial arts sect, the radical voices became smaller and smaller.

Madara has read Konoha's internal statistics. With the current production capacity of the five major countries, it is more than enough to feed the domestic population. The excess products can also be dumped into the small countries they control to make extra money.

Moreover, as the population growth and production growth of various countries gradually become equal in the future, there will be no need to launch wars for living space for at least the next few decades.

There were many related statistics, which shocked Madara, because they proved that Hanzo's philosophy could maintain peace for at least several decades if careerists were excluded.

Can his own "unification theory" achieve this step? Madara is not sure.

"Perhaps it would be best if Hanzo continues to serve as Hokage." This thought kept lingering in Madara's mind.

Just when he was thinking wildly, Shangzi finally finished reading the last name.

She looked back at the vote count on the scoreboard, and then announced: "Hanzo Shimada scored 91 votes, exceeding the stipulated 60%. Congratulations to Hokage-sama for his successful re-election!"

As soon as Shang Zi finished speaking, the audience burst into warm applause.

Even the Jonin who voted for someone else didn't feel there was anything unacceptable after seeing the result, and some of them even breathed a sigh of relief secretly.

Because they also felt that Hanzo was the most suitable Hokage, but due to the influence of the family, they voted against their will, and felt very uneasy. Now that they saw that their votes did not affect the final result, they felt a little more at ease.

"Brother, come up quickly."

Genji next to him also pushed Hanzo, who immediately stood up and walked towards the stage.

Different from the temporary term, the normal Hokage term is ten years, which means that from today on, he will continue to serve as the Hokage of Konoha for the next ten years.

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