Hashirama Senju Threat Theory!

A few days later.

Uchiha Makoto packed his belongings and left the Uchiha Clan alone.

That morning

Some of the clansmen even saw him off.

"This is quite a bit better than the treatment Uchiha Madara will receive in the future."

The money Uchiha Madara had given Uchiha Makoto was still tucked against his chest—a full ten million ryo.

To be fair,

Uchiha Madara had treated Uchiha Makoto well. He had been extremely generous.

According to the mission-ranking system Konoha would establish in the future, only high-difficulty S-rank missions requiring the participation of a team of elite jonin would pay commissions in the millions.

Ten million ryo was equivalent to ten S-rank missions. To Uchiha Makoto, it was a huge fortune—he had practically become rich overnight.

But it was still far from enough!

Establishing a ninja village would inevitably require funding in the hundreds of millions!

If he tried to raise such an enormous sum by following the conventional approach of taking missions and collecting money, Uchiha Makoto could work himself to death and still never earn that much.

So, after careful consideration, Uchiha Makoto realized that he needed a financier. Ahem, a generous and charitable angel investor!

Fortunately, he had a model he could copy in this regard.

In the future Ninja World, every ninja village would have an angel investor behind it, constantly pouring money into it.

The Land of Fire was Konoha's angel investor, while the Land of Wind was Sunagakure's financier, and the Land of Earth was Iwagakure's. Of course, no gift from fate came without a price. The Daimyo of each country regularly sent money to their ninja village, and in return, the village had to pledge its loyalty, protect the Daimyo's life, and safeguard his rule.

The Daimyo needed the power of ninjas.

After all, wherever there was oppression, there would be resistance. The Nobles of the ninja world had always been terrible people. Commoners on the verge of starving to death would not obediently wait to die, and uprisings by unruly peasants challenging the rule of the noble lords were not uncommon. It was just that the ninjas suppressed them every time.

"I need an angel investor!"

Uchiha Makoto decided to copy Konoha's homework, then opened the map he carried with him.

To find a financier, he had to find a major financier!

Small countries were immediately ruled out!

The Land of Wind was covered in yellow sand, sparsely populated, weak, and impoverished. Ruled out!

That miserable place was completely unsuitable for human habitation. One gust of wind and you would have a mouthful of sand. Uchiha Makoto had no intention of establishing a ninja village in the desert.

The Land of Water was too far away, with a vast stretch of sea in between. Establishing a ninja village there, far from the continent, would mean becoming nothing more than a troublemaker in the Ninja World. It would remain a backup option for now!

The Land of Earth was not bad!

The Land of Lightning was also pretty good.

The Land of Fire was the best choice.

After careful consideration, Uchiha Makoto decided to make a move on the Land of Fire before Konoha!

The Land of Fire had an exceptionally advantageous location. It lay at the center of the Ninja World and possessed the most fertile land and the cheapest—er, abundant human resources.

If he could obtain the support of the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire, that would be ideal.

As for the future Konoha—

Could such a vast Land of Fire really not accommodate two ninja villages?

Wouldn't that be an insult to the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire?

Besides, Hashirama Senju was famous for being a good-natured man. Good people were always the ones others pointed a gun at.

He just had to be a little wary of Tobirama Senju!

That was what Uchiha Makoto thought. Then he shook his head. He had been thinking far too far ahead. The first thing he needed to do was convince the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire to become his angel investor. That was the major hurdle before him.

As for how to convince the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire, Uchiha Makoto already had some ideas. He mainly needed to build his argument around one central point.

Hashirama Senju Threat Theory!

Question: "What are the Daimyo most worried about?"

Answer: "That the power of the ninjas will become too great and threaten their position of authority!"

The ninja world created by that old scoundrel Kishimoto was malformed. The ninjas who possessed military power did not hold the highest authority. Instead, they had always occupied the lowest rung of the political ladder.

What a bizarre worldview.

The ninjas were treated as tools. The ninja clans fought endlessly among themselves for the sake of missions, while the Daimyo remained behind the scenes. The rules of the ninja world had been maintained this way for a thousand years. There had occasionally been minor disturbances, but none had ever managed to cause a real upheaval.

But things were different now.

This system had encountered a tremendous challenge!

The power of Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara was simply too great—so great that either one of them could single-handedly sweep through the entire Ninja World.

Over the past thousand years, the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan had each produced incredibly powerful ninjas. But ninjas as powerful as Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara had never appeared before. The two of them should be the strongest pair among all the reincarnations of Asura and Indra. Their power had even drawn infinitely close to that of Asura and Indra themselves.

However,

If that were all, it would not have mattered.

According to the tradition maintained for a thousand years, the reincarnations of Asura and Indra should remain entangled for their entire lives, fighting one another until the very last moment of their existence. They would have no time to concern themselves with anything else in the Ninja World.

The Daimyo only needed to continue assigning missions to the Uchiha Clan and the Senju Clan as usual. But things were different now.

In this generation, the reincarnations of Asura and Indra—Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara—had temporarily broken free from their destiny. They had abandoned their thousand-year conflict and intended to join hands to build a new future, establishing a ninja village belonging to the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan.

Once such a thing happened,

How could the Daimyo sleep soundly?

The two strongest people in the Ninja World had joined forces, established a ninja village together, and even wanted to bring peace to the Ninja World.

Daimyo: "What the hell are you two planning?!"

The mere thought of such a thing would send chills down the Daimyo's spines and leave them restless in their seats.

Even if Hashirama Senju, that simple and naïve good-natured man, had never considered overthrowing the rule of the Daimyo, this was not a matter of what he wanted or did not want to do.

It was a matter of whether he could do it.

Marquis of Huaiyin, Han Xin, had been perfectly obedient back in his day and had never intended to raise an army in rebellion. Yet he was still strangled to death by people sent by Empress Lü, dying at the hands of a woman.

And the Daimyo of this Ninja World were in an even more dangerous position. They could be said to have no ability to resist whatsoever.

As long as Hashirama Senju made up his mind to remake the Ninja World, no one could stop him.

"Although this is a little like bullying an honest man, I'm sorry, Hashirama Senju!"

"I really want to get ahead!"

That was what Uchiha Makoto said as he wrote the words "Hashirama Senju Threat Theory" on the paper.