February 1.
The First Hokage's "coronation" ceremony was held as scheduled.
On the stage stood the clan heads of the various clans, the four newly appointed elders, and the newly formed Hokage Guard. Besides them, there were the most important guests: the Daimyo of the Land of Fire, the little girl he had brought with him, and six members of the Guardian Shinobi Eighteen.
This girl isn't even ten. Could she be the Daimyo's daughter? She's quite pretty, but I'm not into little girls... Besides, the Daimyo must be fifty already, right? Masahiko thought, the corner of his mouth twitching.
There were many reasons for inviting the Daimyo, and for Konoha to align itself with the Land of Fire.
Shinobi was a special profession. Ever since the Sage of Six Paths created Ninshu, shinobi had gradually forced the samurai, who had once dominated the world, out of history.
The emergence of shinobi also marked the beginning of the thousand-year Warring States era.
It could be said that the shinobi profession represented destruction. At the same time, shinobi did not engage in production.
During the Warring States era, the major clans mainly seized and sold resources to supply their clans' shinobi with what they needed for training and daily life. The relatively weaker clans, including the Uzumaki Clan, took in ordinary people and collected rent from them to sustain their clans.
But after Konoha was established, everything changed. The clans had all been placed in the same village, and there were no longer any targets left to invade.
Thus, resources became the foremost issue. Hashirama had also come up with several solutions for it.
The first was to accept missions from civilians outside the village and collect commissions to cover the village's expenses, but that was clearly only a drop in