DC New Krypton.

Chapter 1542 Your Heart is Too Narrow

"I want to ask you, Jiraiya, why did Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha join forces to establish Konoha Village sixty years ago?" asked Neji Hyuga.

"To bring peace to the ninja world," Jiraiya responded solemnly, "and to prevent children from going to war and to end the Warring States Period."

"Is the one-country-one-village system established by Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha more peaceful than the Warring States Period?" Hyuga Neji asked again.

“Although I have never experienced the Warring States Period, I can imagine how cruel it was when even four-year-old children had to go to the battlefield just to survive.

The first Hokage established Konoha Village and ended the Warring States Period, which indeed brought peace." Jiraiya said in a magnetic and deep voice.

"Hashirama Senju established the Konoha Village and ended the fact that children on average at the age of four had to go to the battlefield during the Warring States Period, thus extending the age for children to go to the battlefield to twelve years old. Am I right in saying this?" Hyuga Neji said calmly.

Jiraiya wanted to retort that the original intention of the first Hokage was to bring peace to the ninja world and to prevent children from going to the battlefield.

But that is just an ideal after all; whether it can be achieved is another matter.

In fact, this was not possible. After the death of Hashirama Senju, the First Ninja World War broke out immediately, and the age of going to the battlefield at the age of four in the Warring States Period was only extended to about twelve years old.

But it is undeniable that with his thoughts and wisdom, Hashirama Senju did almost the best he could.

For an illiterate person, it was already outstanding enough that Hashirama Senju achieved this and created a system of an era.

Although this system is broken and continues the war in another way and makes the war larger in scale, it is better than nothing.

"Hmm..." Jiraiya replied dully. In fact, it was indeed a change from going to the cruel environment of the battlefield at the age of four to going to war at the age of twelve. Sometimes, when the Ninja World War started, some students of the ninja school would graduate early and be sent to the battlefield before they were twelve years old.

"Hyuga Neji, what are you talking about? Are you saying bad things about my grandfather?" Tsunade got angry when she saw Hyuga Neji, and raised her eyebrows angrily, "If you want to say something, just say it directly!"

"Tsunade, you misunderstood. I had no intention of slandering Hashirama Senju." Hyuga Neji answered gently and calmly.

"Hurry up and speak!" Tsunade's forehead was full of angry blue veins. She glared at Hyuga Neji. She felt that this slow and gentle Hyuga Neji was particularly irritating to her.

He was not at all as powerful and oppressive as he was in battle, and his words sounded like a riddle.

"What I mean is that Hashirama Senju extended the time for four-year-old children to go to the battlefield to twelve years old, but twelve years old is just a child, and what I am implementing is also a system that will last for an era.

Just like the system of one country and one village created by Hashirama Senju, which extended the time for four-year-old children to go to the battlefield to twelve years old, the system I created will directly extend the time for twelve children to go to the battlefield to eighteen years old when they become adults." Hyuga Neji said.

"I don't see any 'peace'. In this system built on endless wars and constant fighting, it is impossible for a child to live to the age of eighteen. All I see is your ambition to conquer the ninja world." Jiraiya said in a deep voice with gloomy eyes.

"It seems that my display of power still makes you think that the ninja villages of various countries are capable of dealing with me, but this is less than one-third of my strength." Hyuga Neji replied calmly: "Your vision is severely constrained by this world, and you have become a frog in the well."

"Has there been no war since the one-country-one-village system was established?" Hyuga Neji asked back.

“·····” Jiraiya remained silent.

How could there not be a war? The first, second, and third Ninja World Wars, each time they were fought, they would rest and recuperate before the next Ninja World War.

In just forty or fifty years, the Ninja World War broke out, affecting the entire ninja world. It was a war that caused devastation to all lives. By the end, the lingering hatred was almost difficult to dissipate, and too many people died.

"Then if I use my power now, with absolute strength and the fastest speed, to unify the ninja world before the Fourth Ninja World War begins, don't you think there will be fewer deaths than if the Fourth Ninja World War begins?" Hyuga Neji asked back, "Do you think I would be so stupid as to get stuck in the quagmire of procrastination with the various ninja villages?"

Hyuga Neji felt that he could not understand Jiraiya's thinking.

Under the influence of this ninja world, his thoughts have long established a set of self-conversational sayings, as if life in the ninja world should be about self-cultivation, and then Konoha would be invaded, and then the Ninja World War would be fought, and the cycle would repeat over and over again.

He was deeply trapped in this cycle of war, not only in his actions but also in his thoughts. Even when Hyuga Neji proposed a system that could transcend this mode, he thought it was difficult to achieve.

"You ordered Danzo Shimura to kill the daimyo and nobles of the Wind Country and forcibly seize the Wind Country. This will only bring endless wars to the Ninja World. Without the daimyo and nobles to manage the various countries, the Ninja World will become more chaotic and devastated. When other countries see you killing nobles of other countries, they will do everything they can to deal with Konoha. The real Fourth Ninja World War began the moment you gave the order." Jiraiya shook his head, deeply lost in his own thoughts.

In Jiraiya's view, the country has been ruled by daimyo nobles since ancient times. This system has existed for a long time and he never thought there was anything wrong with it.

On the contrary, the problem lies with Hyuga Neji, who wants to overthrow the daimyo nobles.

  How could there be anyone among the common people who disagree with the legitimacy and dignity of the daimyo nobles?

It's always been like this.

  But... has it always been correct?

"What is the foundation of the country?" asked Hyuga Neji.

"Of course..." Jiraiya opened his mouth, wanting to say directly that of course it was the daimyo and the nobles, because the daimyo and the nobles govern the people.

But when he wanted to speak, he couldn't.

Are daimyo and nobles really important?

  Are daimyo and nobles really the foundation of a country?

Jiraiya frowned, not daring to answer.

"It seems you have figured it out." Hyuga Neji said, "The foundation of a country is people, not daimyo and nobles."

"The daimyo and nobles have long ruled over ordinary people, which has imprisoned your thoughts. You firmly believe that only daimyo and nobles are qualified to rule ordinary people, and that this is the orthodox rule.

But daimyo and nobles are also human beings. It does not mean that if we lose daimyo and nobles, people will die, fall into chaos, kill each other, and never recover. "

"Your mind is too narrow, Jiraiya."

Hyuga Neji gave orders to Jiraiya as the Hokage:

"Jiraiya, go find Orochimaru and tell him that I can make him immortal. I can do all the ninjutsu and immortality techniques for him. Then go with Orochimaru to persuade him to surrender or wipe out all the ninjas in the Sand Village.

The Sand Village ninjas who are willing to surrender will be incorporated into Konoha, and those who are unwilling will be killed directly. "