DC New Krypton.

Chapter 1456: Naruto and Shimura Danzo

Inside the Hokage's office.

The Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen wore the robe of the Third Hokage and a Hokage hat. Under the hat was a weather-beaten face with wrinkles that showed his hard work. He sat at the Hokage's desk with a calm expression, smoking his pipe, and opening each document one by one. He had the calmness and majesty of a supreme leader handling documents.

In the middle of the Hokage's office, Danzo Shimura was thin, wearing a black and gray kimono, with brown hair and neat sideburns, his head and right eye were wrapped in bandages, and his other elongated left eye had a gloomy and deep gaze, and there was a fork-shaped scar on his chin.

Shimura Danzo's face was slightly gloomy, with deep wrinkles, always giving people a sinister and scheming feeling.

Danzo Shimura, who served as a member of the elite guard force of the Second Hokage when he was young, was the man who competed with the Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen for the position of Hokage.

After failing to succeed the Hokage because he was a second late, Shimura Danzo became the founder and leader of the "Root" in the "Anbu" team directly under the Hokage. He has a team of ninjas who only obey his will and control the "darkness" of Konoha.

He is extremely suspicious, cautious, insidious, and tough. He does not trust others, and even assassinated his old friend Sarutobi Hiruzen. When dealing with the many families of Konoha, he always adopts a tough attitude of suppression and strong suppression, which makes many families in Konoha fear him.

"Huruzen..." Danzo Shimura took a sip of tea and vaguely planned to say what he had planned. He planned to persuade Sarutobi Hiruzen with both emotional and logical appeal.

No matter how the Root developed, Danzo Shimura felt it was not enough.

"No!" Without waiting for Shimura Danzo to say anything, Shimura Danzo's old friend Sarutobi Hiruzen refused outright.

As an old friend who had grown up together, Sarutobi Hiruzen felt that he knew Shimura Danzo too well.

"The Uchiha clan is very ambitious. The various clans in Konoha seem to have always been keeping to their duties, but as long as there is a chance, they will keep trying and reach out to seize more nutrients from Konoha.

The Hyuga clan is like this." Shimura Danzo snorted coldly.

He was talking about the fact that Hyuga Hiashi handed over Hyuga Hizashi's body to Kumogakure, not that Sarutobi Hiruzen had been warning the Hyuga clan. The Hyuga clan had long wanted to seize more power and benefits.

It's just that the Hyuga clan lost the game to Hyuga Hizashi on the surface this time, but in fact they lost everything, but Shimura Danzo still felt that it was not enough.

However, the Hyuga clan was more difficult to deal with than a turtle when they were in retreat, and Danzo Shimura had no other choice but to plunder the combat power of other clans and consume other clans in order to mainly target the Uchiha clan.

Danzo Shimura felt that he also made great contributions.

If we don't let the elite talents of these families contribute and enter the roots, these families will definitely want to explore more and gain more power and benefits as their families grow stronger.

Konoha is so small, and there are so many interests to be divided. It is also in a truce period, and everyone is recuperating and having more offspring. If we don't suppress them, they will grow very fast, and by then they won't be able to share the benefits of Konoha, and it will be another difficult political game.

  At that time, we can only start a new round of manpower consumption plan—war!

It is okay to start a war, and Danzo Shimura doesn't mind, but at least we have to wait until the Uchiha clan, Konoha's internal threat, is eliminated, or all the Uchiha clan members are killed on the battlefield.

But no matter which one is more difficult, it is still relatively easy to draw elite disciples from other families into the Root to deal with the Uchiha clan. It can achieve the best of both worlds, weakening other families and enhancing one's own strength. The most important thing is to use the lives of people from other families to deal with the Uchiha clan, which is really the best of both worlds.

"Hmm..." Sarutobi Hiruzen narrowed his eyes, puffed out the smoke from his pipe, and thought indecisively.

The Hyuga clan is a large clan, and if they are not careful, the head family will think that they have paid a lot and should get more, and it is easy for them to lose control, so they are often beaten by Sarutobi Hiruzen.

This is the case with Hyuga Hiashi. He has been the clan leader for so many years and has always been law-abiding. Then after a war, he thought that the Hyuga clan was irreplaceable in Konoha and thought he could make the Hyuga clan go further. As a result, he was caught by Sarutobi Hiruzen by mistake and he directly killed the leader of the branch clan, his own brother Hyuga Hizashi, to make up for his mistake.

Especially since the Hyuga clan manages the family by dividing the main family and using caged birds to control the clones. No one can interfere with the strategic weapon like the Byakugan. Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzo don't even dare to take any member of the Hyuga branch family as their confidant.

It has to be said that this is an extremely wasteful thing.

The advantage of having clear eyes is so great, but we end up trapping ourselves in a cage.

This way of the Hyuga family is too "united".

No ruler would be happy with the Hyuga clan's twisted ways, so at the slightest sign of this, the Hyuga clan would be punished to make them see clearly who owns Konoha.

Sarutobi Hiruzen thought that he had been very magnanimous and appropriate in his handling of the Hyuga clan.

But what Shimura Danzo said didn't make sense.

In a period without war, for the sake of peace within Konoha, it is indeed necessary to have a good balance and pay attention to the number of new elite disciples in each family to prevent them from having different ideas, which would lead to the destruction of the hard-won peace in Konoha Village.

Since the establishment of Konoha Village, the invisible disputes between civilian ninjas and family ninjas have never been truly eliminated.

Even if the Senju clan took the lead and integrated into the civilian population.

But the embarrassing thing is that the Senju clan took the lead in blending into the civilian population, and they wanted other ninja clans to follow their example. However, no ninja clan followed their lead, and they all ignored them.

  This made even the not-so-intelligent Hashirama Senju helpless.

Everyone followed me to establish Konoha, why didn't they do the same as me and integrate their families into the civilian population?

The ideal situation is that there are no families in Konoha, everyone is a commoner, and Konoha is one big family.

But this is just Hashirama Senju's ideal.

Danzo Shimura is too familiar with this old friend of his who no longer has the glory he once had. He has been the Hokage for too long and has sat in this position for too long, becoming a person who will only compromise for the overall situation and sacrifice everything else.

Sarutobi Hiruzen exhaled a puff of smoke from his pipe, which hazily enveloped the wrinkled face of the old man: "Each family is part of Konoha Village. We cannot let them feel disheartened."