Naruto training king.

Chapter 212 The World is a Touch of Exquisite Gray

As a ninja, you should naturally put the mission first.

With this legitimate reason, I can finally escape from this uncomfortable atmosphere.

Hyuga Kiyomi breathed a sigh of relief, and when he turned around and was about to say something, he heard Hyuga Hinata take the initiative to say, "You go see the Hokage first, I'll go find Ino."

Ino? What do you want to see her for?
Qingmi shook off the momentary doubt in his mind and nodded: "Okay."

Hokage Building.

Jingyin led the two into the conference room, where a group of people had been waiting for a long time.

With her introduction, Hinata Kiyomi also understood the whole story.

Simply put, it is the follow-up to the "Konoha Collapse Plan". Two factions with different ideas have emerged among the Konoha high-level officials.

One is the more traditional conservative faction, whose proposition is very simple: to demand compensation from the Kingdom of Wind.

Although the benefits would not be too much, the advantage was that it was stable enough and there was no risk. After all, as a defeated country, as long as Konoha's demands were not too excessive, they had no reason to refuse.

The other is the radical faction, which has only two main members, Tsunade, the Hokage, and Danzo Shimura, the Hokage's assistant.

Tsunade's idea is to take this opportunity to annex the Wind Kingdom, bring the land of the Wind Kingdom under the rule of the Fire Kingdom, and eliminate the possible war between the Fire Kingdom and the Wind Kingdom in the future from the root.

In order to convince the top leaders of Konoha, Tsunade put in a lot of effort and made the entire Wind Kingdom into a dish, clearly marking the interests of each place to let them know what they could get by attacking the Wind Kingdom.

Conservatives actually had similar ideas, but the most they would do was pounce on it, take a bite of the meat and leave. As for annexation, they had never even thought about it.

Because this is simply not something a ninja village can do!
In this world, ninjas are the country's most important military force and the main force in war.

But the annexation of the Wind Country is fundamentally different from the traditional Ninja World War. The Fire Country needs to digest the land it has taken over, and digestion requires manpower, but the number of ninjas is totally insufficient in this regard.

Therefore, if Tsunade wants to start a war to annex the Wind Country, she needs to obtain the consent of the Daimyo of the Fire Country and let the Daimyo send a large number of samurai troops to achieve this goal. And this is without considering the movements of the other three major countries.

The difficulty is too high and the risk is too great.

Moreover, once the Fire Country shows signs of completely annexing the Wind Country, it will greatly stimulate the resistance of the Sand Village ninjas, which will increase the losses of Konoha. Therefore, under the current conditions where the "Konoha Collapse Plan" has failed, no one is willing to do this.

Except... Danzo Shimura.

Yes, it’s surprising, right? But you heard it right, it’s him.

When Hinata Qingmi heard the news, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and he subconsciously glanced at the old man.

Years of cultivating his qi and his special experience of always being the runner-up have given him a gloomy temperament. It is difficult to tell what this person is thinking from the outside.

Can't figure it out.

So Qingmi simply chose to give up.

There were more conservatives, and the two radicals had great power in Konoha, so after a fierce argument, they reached a temporary balance - they wanted to hear Temari's opinion.

Temari, Rasa's daughter, has a very important identity.

For Tsunade, she might be able to persuade the Sand Village ninjas to surrender, bring the "Imperial Army" to the Wind Country, and reduce Konoha's losses. For the conservatives, her will can also represent the Sand Village ninjas to a certain extent. If even she, a "surrenderer", disagrees with Tsunade's agenda, then it is foreseeable how strong the Sand Village ninjas' will to resist will be. At that time, the conservatives can also reject Tsunade's proposal on the grounds of "too much loss".

But... can you really get an answer by throwing a question that so many high-ranking officials in Konoha couldn't come to a conclusion to a sixteen-year-old girl?
This is totally making things difficult for her!
Qingmi's eyes narrowed, he took a half step forward to block Temari behind him, and said loudly: "Would you like to listen to me?"

As soon as he opened his mouth, all eyes in the conference room naturally focused on him.

After a brief pause, Qingmi raised two fingers and said, "There are only two things I want to say. First, I want to ask you, since the first Hokage founded Konoha, how many ninja wars have broken out?"

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone in the conference room looked at him strangely, and the atmosphere on the scene fell into an eerie silence.

Even students who haven't graduated from the Ninja School can ask this question, let alone them.

So the silence at this moment was not because they didn't know, but because they were too lazy to answer, or they didn't know what Qingmi wanted to do, so they would rather wait and see.

"Three times." Tsunade said suddenly.

Seeing someone warming up the crowd, Qingmi paused and continued, "It is now the 61st year of Konoha, which means that on average, every 20 years or so, a war involving all countries will break out in the ninja world."

"The war started with your grandfathers. When they finished fighting, it was your fathers' turn. When your fathers finished fighting, it was your turn. And now, the upcoming Fourth Shinobi World War is our turn to fight. And we, your children, that is, your sons and daughters, will soon step onto the battlefield."

After saying this, Qingmi stopped and glanced at the people sitting there.

There was a hint of scrutiny in his eyes, which made the high-ranking ninjas who were in high positions and strictly adhered to the hierarchy feel a little uncomfortable.

Shimura Danzo tapped his cane lightly and said, "To be a ninja is to be accompanied by sacrifice and death. Are you afraid of death and afraid of going to the battlefield?"

The old man's words were too harsh.

Whenever he heard this, Qingmi would think of the time in his previous life when he sat in front of the computer and played Battlefield V. As the character in the game shouted "Black card, load!", he would sit up straight and stare at the screen, as if he had a fearless spirit of sacrifice. Then with a "boom", he showed a sunny and cheerful smile in front of the computer screen.

He can laugh because the game can be played again.

The ninja, or the ninja represented by Shimura Danzo, holds the same idea as the "Bushido spirit". In their view, sacrificing for a certain goal, such as the "Will of Fire", is a behavior worthy of praise and encouragement.

It seems to make sense at first glance, but if not, how could such a thing brainwash so many people?
It is true that sacrificing for a lofty ideal is worthy of praise, but the "will of fire" mentioned by Danzo has long become a fig leaf for ambition and a disguise for another kind of extreme thinking.

But fortunately... this is Konoha.

Qingmi turned his head slightly and looked at the Shadow Rock outside the window, and stopped for a while on the Face Rock of Senju Hashirama.

If it were any other village, he would not have wasted his time and energy talking here.

"I'm not afraid of sacrifice or death. I just want to remind you..." Qingmi swept his eyes over everyone and said slowly, "Do you still remember the original intention of the first Hokage to establish Konoha Village?"

The moment the words fell, everyone in the conference room lowered their heads in thought, and then turned their eyes to Tsunade.

No one is better suited to answer this question than Tsunade.

She pondered for a moment and replied in a slightly serious tone: "It is to prevent our children, our next generation, from having to go to the battlefield again."

"But what is the truth?" Qing Mi pressed on, questioning everyone aggressively. This time, the ninjas who claimed to be in high positions in the conference room finally lowered their noble heads.

"Twenty years is exactly the time it takes for a group of children to grow up and become consumables for war. Our ancestors, our parents, us, our descendants... the war will continue in a cycle, from generation to generation, without end!"

"Isn't this ninja world desperate and dark enough?"

Whenever you want to mobilize the emotions of a person or a group of people, suppressing them first and then praising them is a tried and tested method.

Seeing that the atmosphere in the conference room had become almost depressing, Tsunade took the initiative to speak up: "What is the second thing you want to say?"

Qingmi took a deep breath and said, "The second thing I want to ask is, do you remember what the first Hokage did?"

"End the troubled times and establish Konoha." The speaker was the current head of the Uchiha clan, Uchiha Mikoto.

At this moment, her eyes were shining with a mother's radiance and determination.

Perhaps Kiyomi's words just now touched Mikoto's soft spot, causing the Uchiha clan leader who had always kept a low profile in all matters of Konoha to stand up.

"Then I want to ask everyone, what kind of chaos did the first Hokage put an end to?"

Qingmi didn't give them a chance to answer after saying this.

"It ended a chaotic world where five-year-olds had to go to the battlefield. In that world, the consumables of war didn't even have time to grow. So the first Hokage unified the entire Land of Fire and established a one-country-one-village system, which gave everyone in this world twenty years of breathing time."

"If, I mean if..."

"The chaos during the Warring States period focused on the chaos within the entire Land of Fire. Now, if we turn our attention to the entire ninja world, is this world also a kind of chaos?"

Then, Kiyomi took a deep breath and looked at Tsunade: "If we pacify the chaos in the entire ninja world under the leadership of the granddaughter of the first generation, then will our descendants still need to go to the battlefield?"

The ninja world is a dark, realistic and cruel world.

But ninjas also have a "naive" side. Thanks to the special inheritance of bloodline limit, most ninjas are superstitious that the glory and power of their ancestors will be inherited in their blood.

Therefore, Hinata Kiyomi repeatedly emphasized Tsunade's identity when he was speaking just now, just to remind them that what Tsunade wants to accomplish is the same as what the first generation Hokage had done!

A life mentor once said: The world is neither black nor white, but a delicate gray.

Simply emphasizing interests will turn the world into a cold place and ignore the human heart; and simply emphasizing the romance of idealism will be nothing but castles in the air if it is divorced from the support of reality.

So, when Tsunade and these Konoha high-ranking officials finished talking about interests, it was Hinata Kiyomi's turn to talk about ideals and great causes.

Only by combining the two, this [gray] is [refined] enough

After Hirata Kiyomi explained these two things, some people in the conference room were inevitably moved. They might not change their stance immediately, but at least their resistance would be weakened a lot.

Next, all it takes is a suitable opportunity to open up the new era, and everyone will be pushed forward by the tide of the times.

But now, they still needed time to think, so Tsunade decisively announced the end of the meeting.

Just as she stood up, Danzo Shimura also stood up and left the meeting room, leaving a group of conservative ninjas here to discuss and think.

"Tuk, Tuk, Tuk..."

The sound of the cane hitting the ground echoed rhythmically in the corridor. After leaving the Hokage building, Yamanaka Feng couldn't help but shout, "Master Danzo."

Yamanaka Feng, as Danzo's most important confidant, not only obtained the right to retain his name in the Root, but he was even able to stand and listen in on the high-level meeting just now.

"explain."

"I want to know why Lord Danzo supports the Hokage's decision and even goes so far as to send the Root as the vanguard."

Before Hinata Kiyomizu entered the conference room, the reason why most of the senior executives opposed Tsunade's agenda was actually very simple.

We have already won a battle and it's time to eat meat, why should we continue fighting?

So what Hinata Kiyomi did was very simple, which was to find a reason for them to be willing to pay the price and continue fighting - as long as our generation finishes the war, the next generation will not have to fight anymore.

"That kid is quite smart, but still a little too naive." Danzo said calmly, "Both he and Tsunade think that annexing a country is too easy."

Shan Zhongfeng hesitated for a moment and continued to ask: "Danzo-sama didn't think the Hokage's proposal would succeed from the beginning?"

"Of course."

"Then why do you still..."

Danzo paused slightly, placed his cane on the ground, and looked up at Shadow Rock.

"In the Konoha Collapse Plan, the Root did not take action in order to preserve its strength, which naturally caused dissatisfaction among the Hokage and other ninjas. In order to quell their meaningless anger as quickly as possible, the Root naturally had to pay a certain price."

"Although I don't know how Tsunade plans to arrange it, it's not good news for the Root. Instead of waiting for her to settle the score, why don't we take the initiative to shoulder this responsibility, and taking on the responsibility of [War Vanguard] is naturally very suitable."

As for why it is [War Vanguard]?
Of course, the earlier you drink, the more you can eat.

At this moment, the Kingdom of Wind is like an ancient tomb with a lot of treasures. The first one to enter will definitely gain the most. However, the ancient tomb is full of traps and dangers. As a pathfinder, the roots must pay a heavy price.

But the sacrifice of ninjas was a price that Danzo Shimura had never considered.

Looking at Kageyama, Danzo's eyes flashed with desire, then he retracted his gaze and continued to walk towards the Root base: "If this war is successful, the benefits that the Root can gain naturally need no further explanation. But if it fails, then Tsunade will have to make the same decision as Hiruzen."

He paused for a long while before uttering four words in a cold voice: "Resign."

　I'm so worried!
　　I would like to advise everyone that if an elder in your family gets sick, do not take it lightly, and do not prescribe medicine based on your own feelings.

　　It was originally just a cold, but now it has turned into a serious case of white lung.

　　It’s not that he cannot be cured, but the old man is of the mindset of living as long as he can, and no one can persuade him.

　　What can I do to give her hope of life?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)