Chapter 260 It’s me!

“Ok?”

As if he had sensed something, Sawara Kiri, who was sitting at the conference table, suddenly raised his head, looked toward the sky with a puzzled look, and suddenly spread his perception all over.

Noticing his action, the meeting that was in progress stopped silently. Everyone present fell silent and looked in his direction silently.

Finally, Kakashi, who was standing aside, patted his shoulder and asked in a low voice:
“Mr. Wu?”

Sawara Kiri finally came out of that state of full perception, and said to the people around him with a smile:
“Nothing, the meeting continues.”

Everyone present was relieved and continued with the previous meeting topic.

They couldn’t help but be careless.

Ever since the internal meeting of the War Supervision Department ended a few days ago, this young man, who usually looks like a kind and gentle person, has found various excuses to severely rectify the internal discipline and requirements of the Konoha occupation army of the Wind Country. In half a month, the military court executed nearly a hundred people, all of whom were middle and senior military officers, including some senior ninjas.

After this series of drastic measures were implemented, the military discipline of the Konoha occupation army was indeed raised to a higher level, but the views on Sawara Kiri began to become somewhat complicated.

In recent times, many people have been cautious even when reporting to him.

In fact, this is also the result of Sawara Kiri’s long-term lack of power in Konoha’s high-level leadership.

The respect that most Konoha ninjas had for Sawara Kiri was more about their admiration for his unparalleled strength, which could bring them huge advantages on the battlefield that were unimaginable in the past.

However, when the war was over and this power was sheathed again, many people habitually ignored it.

The reason why those officers had the courage to challenge Sawara Kiri in the conference room a few days ago was because of this inertial thinking.

This is not because Sawara Kiri himself is so kind and tolerant, but because when he was in the village, the power he now possessed traditionally only belonged to the position of ‘Hokage’.

In order to prevent Tsunade from being really sidelined, and to prevent her own effective working hours from increasing from one hour to more than eight hours, Sawara Kiri was always happy to be so relaxed.

Unfortunately, since coming to the Kingdom of Wind and starting to take over all places, Sawara Kiri has had to start getting busy and turning his invincible power into the sword of Damocles for internal supervision, and even slashed down with a heavy blow.

Then, many people realized it.

Although the sky is high, the emperor is not far away.

However, this was indeed a helpless move for Sawara Kiri. He had no desire to be an official and had always been a dissolute person who would not care about anything if he could.

The reason why they began to tighten controls was because being the governor of an entire country was not something that an ordinary person could do.

The end of the war against the Wind Kingdom is just the beginning.

In order to unify the ninja world, Sawara Kiri’s work plan completely regards all places as his own property.

Therefore, as early as after he basically completed the occupation of the Wind Kingdom, he began to clear out the remaining troops in various places while building the Wind Kingdom.

The remnant troops are the garrison troops left behind in various places by Sunagakure.

After the war, many of them had not even come into contact with the enemy, but when they woke up, the news of the village’s surrender spread throughout the Wind Kingdom through the radio. Naturally, they did not accept this result.

Thus, in the boundless deserts and oases of the Kingdom of Wind, there were groups of rampant wandering ninja bandits, who were even more ruthless to the merchant caravans of the Kingdom of Wind than ordinary bandits, and regarded them as “sand traitors” and “traitors” who surrendered and sold out their country. Whenever they encountered them, they would basically kill the entire team, which annoyed the occupying forces in various parts of Konoha.

Construction is intended to change the overall natural environment of the Kingdom of Wind.

Sawara Kiri had heard similar plans from many Naruto fans in his previous life. For example, the Rain Country and the Wind Country were separated by mountains and the monsoon was restricted, so he had to break through the geographical barriers between the two countries, find water for the Wind Country, open up a way to survive, and benefit the people of both countries.

But it is easy to talk about it, but it is much more difficult to actually do it.

The current meeting is to discuss the first phase of the Wind and Rain Monsoon Project.

“.According to the exploration results, if we want to penetrate the entire Yura Mountains, introduce the Thunder Bay monsoon from the north, and completely change the existing environment of the Wind Country, it is expected that we will need to clear a wide belt of more than 300 kilometers from north to south, with a total length of more than 2,000 kilometers, and pass through the three countries of Field, Grass, and Rain.”

“With Konoha’s current engineering capabilities, it is not possible to complete it. However, as an alternative, the Engineering Department has come up with an advance plan to open a north-south wedge-shaped opening, use the terrain height difference to bring in water from the Rain Country, dredge the canal, and connect the three major oases in the Wind Country. The total time is about three to five years.”

At this time, those listening to the report in the conference room were not only the high-ranking officials of the Konoha occupation forces, but also representatives of the Wind Country who had been temporarily nominated from various places in recent times. Many of them were of noble birth, and one of them was even a relative of the former daimyo of the Wind Country.

Now they were sitting in their seats, listening to Meicun Yejuan’s report, and their eyes, which had just been somewhat bleak, were almost shining.

This is an extreme large-scale project in human history. The Wind Country and the Sand Village have never even thought about doing it, let alone doing it. But now that Konoha’s talents have just moved into local offices, they have been given a big satellite.

If this project is successful, regardless of what will happen to the entire Wind Kingdom, these nobles who use several major oases as the fulcrum of their families will definitely be able to prosper.

Even if the people of Konoha are bragging, they can only complete half or even one-third of this project, which will bring countless benefits to the locals of the Wind Country.

After all, it is water.

In the Rain Kingdom adjacent to the Wind Kingdom, there is so much water that people are fed up with it, and there are not even a few sunny days in the whole year. The culprit is “water”. However, in this country surrounded by deserts, it is an important resource that is more precious than gold. The extreme predicament of water shortage has resulted in the entire Wind Kingdom occupying a land area almost equivalent to that of the Fire Kingdom, but with a population only one-tenth of that of the other.

The hardships there are beyond the understanding of ordinary people.

If someone could bring them water, let alone occupying the Wind Kingdom, even if someone shit on their heads, they would probably open their mouths with joy and wait for it.

It was precisely because he saw through this that Sawara Kiri rushed to launch such a huge engineering project not long after occupying the Wind Kingdom.

The results are also quite significant.

“Thank you so much, Lord Sawara.”

After the meeting, the young man named Kawahara, who claimed to be a relative of the former daimyo of Wind Country within three generations, but was actually his second son, excitedly shook Sawara Kiri’s hand and said sincerely: “As long as this project can be successful, my Wind Clan can accept any price.”

“We will definitely cooperate with all your actions!”

“Please make sure to push it forward.”

Sawara Kiri was still as warm and gentle as usual, and said kindly: “Please rest assured about this. Now that the war is over, we are no longer enemies. This kind of project that can benefit the Wind Country is actually helping ourselves.”

“It’s just that the Fourth-sama submitted the matter of dividing the country and establishing provinces to the Daimyo-sama a few days ago. I hope you will consider it carefully.”

“The change in the situation in the ninja world does not depend on Konoha alone, but on you gentlemen.”

“Since the trend of unification is unstoppable, then you should consider your own families, right?”

The young man opposite him froze with excitement for a moment, then smiled and said, “Lord Sawara is right, but the difficulty in implementing this matter lies not only with my father, but also with the Senate. I am powerless. Alas.”

Noticing the hint of evasion in his expression, Sawara Kiri paused and decided to give him a little more information:

“Lord Kawahara, as the second son of a concubine, must know the difficulties of life. Throughout the generations of daimyo families, people like adults are usually sent to various places to handle miscellaneous affairs after the age of 30, and have nothing to do with national affairs.”

“But after the division of the country into provinces, things are different.”

“Tsunade-sama understands the difficulties faced by the illegitimate children of various clans, so she has set up the Council of Advisors in each province. Although the nobles of the previous generation have lost the power of their territories, they have gained a seat as a councilor to discuss politics. From now on, there will be more people to rely on for various affairs in the province, which can not only pacify the various places as soon as possible, but also promote the unification of many countries.”

“Lord Kawahara, you must seize the opportunity.”

Almost at the moment of hearing these words, Kawahara, who had been trying to evade the question just now, was startled and stared at Sawara Kiri, his expression suddenly changed. Sawara Kiri just smiled knowingly in response.

Conspiracy, push the order of grace.

This was the stability plan Konoha discussed before conquering the Kingdom of Wind.

Different from what ordinary people think.

The biggest resistance that the Fire Nation faces in conquering other countries is actually not the military strength of the ninja villages in various countries, but rather the daimyos and nobles from various countries who firmly support the ninja villages and provide them with economic supplements.

War is the continuation of politics, and this does not change no matter where it is.

If the daimyos of various countries still want to continue fighting, they can actually continue to support the second or third ninja village to resist Konoha’s rule.

Don’t think that the ninja village is so great. Even Orochimaru, with money, could build it up by himself in a small country in a few years. In essence, it is just a mercenary organization that kills people for money. At most, the strength of the organization varies.

On the contrary, there are very few ninja villages like Konoha, which has relied on the economic and educational reforms promoted by Sawara Kiri to transform itself into an independent kingdom like an iron barrel.

Therefore, they naturally have to prescribe the right medicine.

as predicted.

After hearing this, Kawahara was silent for a long time, and even the excitement he pretended to have at the beginning gradually became unsustainable. Finally, he said helplessly:
“Lady Tsunade, you are truly brilliant.”

“I already know.”

Obviously, the second son of the Wind Country, who was sent in the first batch to contact Konoha, saw through Konoha’s true purpose at a glance.

But the reason why an open conspiracy is an open conspiracy is that it is open and aboveboard and irresistible.

When he returns, what awaits the nobles of the Kingdom of Wind will most likely be a bloody storm in the political arena.

However, this has nothing to do with Sawara Kiri.

All he wants is the Kingdom of Wind.

As for who rules the Kingdom of Wind, he doesn’t care.

The only thing that made him feel regretful was that the ninja world itself remained in the feudal era. If it were any capitalist country, he would have the courage to take a leap forward.

Fortunately, he still has a long life.

After this step was taken, Konoha’s ruling position was initially stabilized.

Watching Kawahara walk away, Sawara Kiri returned to the empty conference table and thought about the follow-up work.

Hatake Kakashi followed quietly, listening to every word of the conversation between Sawara Kiri and Kawahara. His still young face showed a thoughtful look.

He has learned a lot in recent times.

However, their business had just finished, and Ebisu, who had been waiting outside the door for a while, immediately walked into the room quickly with a serious expression:
“Lord Sahara.”

“The Fourth Raikage has arrived at the front line.”

In the north, the front line between Fire and Thunder.

The tall and sturdy coniferous forests spread like fog on the black soil covered with humus, and the condensed air makes people seem to feel the coolness entering their lungs with every breath.

Although it was autumn, the climate in the Land of Lightning was almost completely different from that in the Land of Wind, which made Minato Namikaze, who had just returned from the front line in the Land of Wind, feel a little uncomfortable.

He followed Jiraiya closely, and behind them were a group of military personnel. Even Uzumaki Kushina wore a mask and followed the crowd. The group of people jumped up and down on the huge trees as fast as birds and meteors.

The results of the victory on the Wind Country’s side came too quickly and were too unusual, so much so that the Fire and Thunder sides on their side, who were still testing each other like in the previous round of war, seemed a little unnaturally slow in comparison. However, the actual progress was already quite rapid compared to the previous two wars.

In just one month, the two sides of Fire and Thunder gradually turned from initial engagements to mutual surprise attacks. The intensity of the battles became higher and higher. There was no trade at all on the long border between the two countries. Sudden explosions and fireworks could be seen everywhere, and melees involving hundreds of people were quite common.

However, the news of the sudden destruction of the Wind Country obviously disrupted the battlefield rhythm of the Thunder Country. From last month to now, the opponent’s offensive has been obviously several times more intense than usual.

However, the Raikage obviously had not lost his mind, nor did he arrogantly regard himself as Sawara Kiri, abandoning the army and attacking alone regardless of the consequences. The battle lines of both sides were intertwined from east to west. Both the Raikage and Jiraiya’s command could be described as very steady.

It’s a pity that there is a huge variable in this era.

“Shh-“

Just as Minato Namikaze was thinking about this, he saw Jiraiya in front of him suddenly stop, fall to the ground from the treetop, pick up a handful of black soil naturally, and lie on the ground to observe the traces around him.

“teacher?”

Minato Namikaze looked at the ground beneath his feet and could only perceive a very shallow trace, like the animal trails commonly seen in the mountains and forests.

“Aburame. Who is that?”

“Let’s see how many types of chakra traces there are.”

Jiraiya ignored the questions from his disciples behind him and turned to greet another tall masked man in the command center.

“Yes.”

Aburame Shiguro leaned down without saying a word, and several small black bugs of peculiar shapes quickly emerged from his sleeves, flying around to collect the remaining information in the traces.

“It should be the Kumogakure Anbu, or the elite of a small branch. The traces were very shallow, but I still found them.” Jiraiya looked at the surprised expression on Minato’s face and patted his shoulder with a smug look on his face, “Boy, you still have a lot to learn from the teacher!”

Hearing this, Namikaze Minato couldn’t help but smile: “As expected of Jiraiya-sensei, you are a well-deserved master of intelligence.”

“That’s natural.”

However, while they were smiling, Aburame Shiguro’s expression suddenly changed.

An insect in front of it suddenly made a “buzzing” sound as if it had lost control, and then suddenly exploded.

Everyone around was startled, only Aburame Shiguro looked anxious and said loudly:

“Master Jiraiya, it’s a tailed beast.”

The next moment, there was a heavy roar.

A figure as tall as an iron tower suddenly fell from the sky, creating a huge pit in front of everyone. His body was wrapped in lightning like a demon, and every strand of his hair stood still.

The Fourth Raikage looked ahead and smiled.

“It’s me!!”

(End of this chapter)