"When the time comes, you two will act according to the plan. I will go hunt some heads with high bounties first." After arriving at the Land of Hot Springs, Kakuzu said to Biwa Juzo and Musashi.
Although everyone is a formal member, there must be a leader when taking action. In this operation, Kakuzu is the leader of the trio.
Musashi felt that Pain was really crazy. It would be better for him to be the team leader instead of Kakuzu. Kakuzu would definitely skip work openly to earn extra money.
Although Kakuzu is an experienced veteran in the ninja world, he also really loves money.
As expected, as soon as they arrived in the Land of Hot Springs and before they even started planning, Kakuzu started to pass the buck to them and prepared to do the bounties himself to earn extra money.
But it was not the worst case scenario. The worst case scenario that Musashi imagined was that Kakuzu used a fight to lure him into going on a mission to hunt bounty-bearing ninjas.
At least now he is going alone and no one is dragging him along.
If Kakuzu really did that, then Musashi, who had the heart of a swordsman, would have no choice but to join the team of absentees.
Are you kidding? He came to Akatsuki to become stronger, not to shine in Akatsuki. To make Akatsuki bigger and stronger and create greater glory, of course his own growth comes first.
Biwa Juuzou frowned. As a man from the Hidden Mist Village, he took the mission very seriously. He was a little unhappy with Kakuzu's behavior of absenting himself from work before the mission even started.
"Let's at least go after the operation goes smoothly." Biwa Juzang said.
Kakuzu glanced at Biwa Juzo indifferently. Unlike Kuroki Raiga, he still liked Musashi because Musashi would help him collect bounties for free and without asking for any money.
Where can you find such a powerful tool who works for free? Of course Kakuzu likes him.
Then, because he loved Biwa Juzang, he also liked him, so Jiao didn't get angry at all and said calmly:
"The strength of the country of soup is weak. With you, we can deal with emergencies, and there are also peripheral members."
Kakuzu's meaning was very clear, he was determined to do this job, and even the Six Paths Sage couldn't stop him, he said.
Biwa Juzo subconsciously glanced at Musashi. Although he was a proud assassin, he had to admit that he could not defeat Kakuzu alone.
If Musashi, who is stronger than him, is included, then Kakuzu will definitely not be a match for their combined strength.
Musashi scratched his head and said, "It doesn't matter. Let's try it first. If it doesn't work, we can ask Kakuzu-senpai to come back and act together."
Biwa Juzo was a little speechless. How could something like a mission be so indifferent? Did you know that in the five major ninja villages, a ninja like you would be scolded to the point of committing suicide
Oh, Musashi is a samurai, and he, Biwa Juzo, is not a ninja from the five major ninja villages, so it’s okay.
Biwa Juuzou was inspired by Musashi's spirit and nodded, agreeing with Kakuzu's decision to skip work before it even started.
Seeing that the two agreed, Kakuzu nodded and left. As expected, they were people he liked and were quite flexible.
Then only Biwa Juzo and Musashi were left on the journey together.
The outer members had already arrived first, so they would arrive later.
On the way, perhaps because of the absence of Kakuzu, Biwa Juzo also started to complain about the Akatsuki's recent plans.
"Establishing a ninja village in a ninja village without a country and controlling the weak ninja village, is this what a proper ninja organization should do?" Biwa Juzo complained.
Biwa Juzo even felt that it would not be surprising if the five major countries came knocking on his door one day, and that the Akatsuki organization was definitely going to do something big.
Ordinary ninja organizations just try to make money in every possible way. If they become stronger, they can pick up some war commissions from ninja villages and make a lot of money.
The Akatsuki organization actually extended its hands to the ninja village and even the country. Who would believe that it was not some big conspiracy
"I don't quite understand. After all, I'm just a samurai and I don't really understand you ninjas." Musashi scratched his head.
After all, he was still a samurai, and actually knew nothing about the ninja village system. He only thought that ninjas were characters similar to powerful samurai.
Biwa Juzo:…
"It's just that our current actions are very dangerous." Biwa Juzang said after thinking for a while.
"There's no point in running away when you encounter danger. There's no need to risk your life for Akatsuki." Musashi said as a matter of course.
Biwa Juzo looked at Musashi with a strange look in his eyes. He couldn't help but ask, "I heard that one of the great characteristics of you samurai is loyalty. How come you..."
Biwa Juzang didn't say the rest of the words, so they can be considered good friends.
Musashi's face turned serious and he said, "A samurai should be loyal to his leader, but I never think of Payne as my leader. My real leader is only my father."
Biwa Juzo was shocked and felt that there was a generation gap between samurai and ninja.
In fact, he didn't care much about these things, because in his opinion, that's what a ninja is, and a ninja's mission is to complete missions, so even if the Akatsuki organization sends a dangerous mission, Biwa Juzo will not refuse.
If he died during a mission one day, Biwa Juzo would not resent anything.
This is the fate of ninjas.
If he doesn't die during the mission, where else would he die
However, Biwa Juzo was still quite interested in the father that Musashi mentioned.
Maybe because Biwa Juzo often accompanied him in training, Musashi never told other people in Akatsuki about his father, and only told Biwa Juzo.
He just told Biwa Juzo that his father was a very powerful samurai, who once destroyed the Rain Village with just one sword and one punch, and the demigod Hanzo also died in his hands.
"Didn't Hanzo die at the hands of Pain? Now it is our Akatsuki that controls the Rain Village." asked Biwa Juzo.
Musashi shook his head and said, "No, Pain was just a lucky guy. He was also there at the time, but I can't say if he had the ability to kill Hanzo.
Hanzo was indeed killed by Dad. I saw it with my own eyes. After killing Hanzo, Dad consumed a lot of his physical strength and was poisoned by Hanzo. Then a mysterious masked man took the opportunity to attack Dad. Later, Dad sent me away because I was not strong enough. I dragged my exhausted body to fight the mysterious masked man alone. "
Musashi did not mention what happened to his father, and Biwa Juzo thought it was unnecessary to say either, because in this situation, the only outcome was death.
Musashi attaches so much importance to strength and likes to fight to improve his strength. I guess he also wants to find that mysterious masked man and take revenge.
It's no wonder that he doesn't care about the affairs of Akatsuki. After all, Akatsuki may have an unknown relationship with the mysterious masked man who has a grudge against Musashi.
What Biwa Juzo couldn't understand was that not only did Pain forcibly recruit these rebellious ninjas, but he even recruited someone like Musashi who had a grudge against him. Wasn't he afraid of being stabbed in the back
Could it be that he is so skilled and bold that he thinks he is invincible and is not afraid of being backstabbed
Biwa Juzo didn't quite understand, and just stopped thinking about it. Who cares? If a fight broke out, he would just help Musashi kill people.
The plan carried out by Akatsuki in the Land of Hot Springs is similar to that in the Land of Rice.
First of all, the main reason for the decline in the power of the Ninja Village of Yu Country is that the Daimyo of Yu Country no longer gives money.
The relationship between the ninja village and the daimyo is a contractual one, without a strict hierarchy. It seems that the daimyo is higher than the kage, but in fact they are similar.
Although the selection of Hokage is always conducted by the daimyo, officials from the Land of Fire, and high-level officials from Konoha together.
But in fact, it is the Konoha high-level officials who truly hold the power to choose the Hokage, not the Fire Country Daimyo who can choose anyone to be the Hokage.
However, since Daimyo is the financial sponsor, we have to give him some face and ask him to give us a letter of appointment or something as part of the process.
To put it simply, the daimyo pays the money, the ninja village does the work, and everyone does their part.
But the daimyo of Yu-no-kuni was a man of groundbreaking thinking.
In the Ninja World War, the ninja village of their Hot Spring Country was completely useless. The Lightning Country and the Fire Country should be fought on their own land.
The Daimyo of the Land of Hot Springs thought, when I didn't have a ninja village, they were all over my territory and bullied me at will. Now I have a ninja village, and I spend so much money on funding for the ninja village every year, but when a war breaks out, it still becomes a battlefield for big countries and I get bullied.
Then wouldn’t it be a waste to build this ninja village, and wouldn’t it be a waste of so much money
Therefore, the Daimyo of Yu-no-Kuni drastically cut the funding for the ninja village, just to maintain a level that would not allow the ninja village to disappear directly.
After all, in addition to the big countries, there are also wandering ninjas from small countries that need to be guarded against. We can't just let the ninja village disappear, we have to preserve some strength.
Although it looked like cutting off one's own limbs, the Daimyo of Yu Country's actions not only did not bring disaster to Yu Country, but instead made the economy more prosperous.
Why is this? Because above the Kingdom of Soup is a small country called the Kingdom of the Moon. It is so small that it cannot pose a threat to the Kingdom of Soup, and above that is the Kingdom of Thunder.
If the Land of Lightning has any ideas about them, no matter how much funding is given to the Ninja Village, it will be useless because they cannot defeat them. They simply cannot defeat them.
The same goes for the Fire Nation in the south, where resistance is useless.
To the west is the weak Tian Kingdom, also a small country with little power, and to the south is the endless ocean.
Even if the Yu-Yuk Village weakens, the Land of Hot Springs will not be afraid of the Land of Rice and the Land of the Moon, and it will be useless even if the Land of Fire and the Land of Lightning are afraid.
The weakening of ninja power also led many people in the ninja world to believe that it was safer and would not be affected by crises. In addition, the Land of Hot Springs had beautiful scenery and many natural hot springs, so it suddenly became a tourist destination.
The daimyo of Tian Country wanted to keep the money for himself, while the daimyo of Tang Country felt that the ninja village was of no use.
Therefore, the Akatsuki organization in the Land of Hot Springs also chose to first capture the ministers of the Land of Hot Springs.
It was the same method as before, collecting the ministers' evidence and threatening them, thus controlling some of the ministers.
Then he used the power of the ministers to recommend them to the Yugumi Village, and used the powerful forces of Musashi and Biwa Juzo to directly take over the Yugumi Village.
This is relatively simple, because the world of ninja is based on strength, and Musashi and Biwa Juzo can crush them.
Moreover, he was recommended by the ministers, so there was no internal strife or anything, it just caused some dissatisfaction within the Tang Ninja Village.
That’s nothing, they are even more dissatisfied with the daimyo.
No one would be happy if he had fought to the death on the battlefield and then found his funding cut to pieces after returning.
Can being abused by the five major ninja villages be called abuse? This is a crime not caused by war.
It would be strange if we won.
To expand, you need money. What Akatsuki wants is not a half-dead ninja village.
Although there is a lot of money in the Akatsuki organization's treasury, it certainly cannot be used to supply Yu-no-Kuni Village, so they have to make money on their own and get money from the Daimyo of Yu-no-Kuni.
In terms of making money, the Akatsuki organization can replicate the operations of the Hikari Ninja Village. However, if they want to make money from the Daimyo of the Land of Hot Springs, they have to put in some effort. This Daimyo was the one who almost destroyed the Hot Spring Ninja Village due to budget cuts.
Nagato had the ninjas of the Hikari Village conduct military exercises on the border of the Land of Rice and the Land of Hot Springs. A total of more than two thousand ninjas were dispatched, known as the Three Thousand Ninja Force.
The Daimyo of Yu Country felt bad instantly, as his weak neighbor had become so wealthy that he even dared to threaten him.
Military exercises on the border line are not a threat. What else can we do? Exercises cannot be conducted anywhere else. Why must they be conducted on the border
The Daimyo of the Land of Hot Springs was really scared, because there were three thousand ninjas. Even if there were not the claimed three thousand, there should be more than two thousand.
There are only more than 200 ninjas in the current Yugen Village, and some of them have no combat power.
In other words, if a fight breaks out, the people from the Yugen Village will have to fight at least one against ten.
The Daimyo of the Land of Hot Springs did not think that his own Hot Spring Ninja Village had such powerful people that each person could defeat ten.
So he decisively approved the request of Yugen Village to increase funds to expand the ninja village.
Although the Daimyo of Yu-no-Kuni felt distressed, there was nothing he could do. Times had changed. Even a poor place like Tian-no-Kuni had a ninja village.
And it was done with great fanfare, with so many ninjas participating, including a 3,000-strong ninja army.
Three thousand ninja troops are not a small number. At the peak of the Yugen Village, there were only more than 1,500 ninjas.
The Daimyo of Yunokuni couldn't figure out how the man named Yahiko did it no matter how hard he tried. Given the economic situation of Yunokuni, it was impossible for him to have so much money to spend.
This is a miracle that only Nagato and his companions can create, because other people simply do not have so many secret ninjutsu techniques to use.
Of course, this is not without disadvantages. It will create a certain amount of chaos. After all, the secret techniques or unique ninjutsu in the past were all controlled by the ninja families. Ninjas without a foundation can only practice the most common things.
In the current situation, Nagato is eager for chaos, so he doesn't take this side effect seriously. He just hopes that the plan can be carried out quickly.
With the funding from the daimyo, Musashi and his men replicated the actions of the Hikari Ninja Village as planned, and built a library with a large number of ninjutsu secrets in the Yukari Ninja Village. They promoted it extensively to attract Yukari Ninjas to join.
I have to say, as long as you don't go offline and don't care about the consequences, you can develop very quickly.
As time went by, the Tang Ninja Village quickly turned around. Not only did the original Tang Ninjas return, but many new people also joined.
In just a few months, the strength of Tang Ninja surpassed its former peak, and the number of ninjas reached two thousand.
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