"I agree with the Hokage's proposal!"
Mitokado Homura immediately stood up and agreed with Gu Sheng's proposal. Tsunade was not Jiraiya, but she had also been absent from the village for a long time. Although she was Nawaki's sister, she was, in some ways, easier to deal with than Nawaki. More importantly, there was Gu Sheng's position.
He had not chosen Nawaki, which showed that he had no intention of wiping out the two advisors in one stroke. For the two of them, this could not have been better.
"There's one more matter. The Advisory Elders will be abolished, and the Council of Advisors will be established. Apart from the leaders of the various shinobi clans and combatants above the level of Elite Jonin in the village, the council will also include Jonin who are deeply supported by the villagers..."
Gu Sheng's next words seemed to cast him into an even deeper abyss. Abolishing the Advisory Elders meant that he would never again possess a position above the rest in Konoha. Although he could still become a council member, he would no longer be able to check the Hokage or exert much influence over him.
The original Advisory Elders had indeed been a tremendous help to Sarutobi Hiruzen in the early days, but later they became a major constraint on the Hokage. In the original story, after Tsunade became Hokage, she was bullied terribly by those old men. Danzo was especially troublesome. Even after the Third Hokage's death, he continued receiving funding for Root, while Tsunade could not find any way to control him.
Now Gu Sheng had made this move. Once the council was established, the Hokage would only need to win over part of its power to achieve absolute authority. The leaders of the shinobi clans, the village's