You Evil Old Ghost of the Senju Clan!
"Are you satisfied now?"
Tobirama Senju looked at Uchiha Nan with a gloomy face. He had actually stooped to calling an evil brat from the Uchiha Clan- Lord Hokage "!
It's truly a case of a tiger fallen into the plains being bullied by dogs.
But fortunes change every thirty years, we'll see!
"I'm fairly satisfied."
Uchiha Nan nodded, quite satisfied with Tobirama Senju's submission.
Tobirama Senju Lord Hokage's cry of "Hokage-sama!" felt like drinking ice water on a sweltering summer day to Uchiha Nan.
In all the years that Tobirama Senju has dominated the Ninja world, the only Uchiha he could compromise to this extent is himself.
Cool!
"Enough with the nonsense, what do you want me to research?"
"Do you want a forbidden technique that can kill hundreds of people in an instant, a forbidden technique to modify and strengthen your own body, or perhaps a forbidden technique like the Impure World Reincarnation that desecrates the souls of the dead?"
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Tobirama Senju Uchiha Nan. He had a wide range of knowledge about the development of forbidden techniques and even stated that he could handle all of them for Uchiha Nan as long as the funding was sufficient.
Tobirama Senju could see that Uchiha Nan went to such great lengths to Impure World Reincarnation himself using the Impure World Reincarnation technique in order to develop a powerful forbidden jutsu.
Since we're after excitement, let's go all the way. I had some ideas about these forbidden techniques during my lifetime, but for various reasons, I couldn't develop them.
What a pity!
Uchiha Nan listened to Tobirama Senju Tobirama's rambling introduction, he frowned. "Senju Tobirama, how dare you call me the evil brat of Tobirama Senju Uchiha?"
Tobirama Senju, if you're so fond of developing forbidden techniques for killing, why can't you use your research capabilities to improve the productivity of the Ninja world and benefit all Ninja world inhabitants?
"You evil old devil from the Senju Clan!"
"Who asked you to research and develop these pointless, forbidden murder techniques!"
Uchiha Nan couldn't help but curse, which startled Tobirama Senju, who was speaking eloquently.
These are my lyrics!
"What do you mean?"
Tobirama Senju Uchiha Nan's intentions. The purpose of scientific research was to develop forbidden techniques, and if ninjas weren't going to use these forbidden techniques to kill people, what else did they want to do?
"Tobirama, you have disappointed me greatly."
"But ultimately, it's not your fault. Although you were once a Hokage, you're still just a ninja at heart."
"A ninja only needs to think about killing, but Hokage has to think about many other things."
Uchiha Nan shook his head. As the Hokage, having to ask the Daimyo money and beg for favors was simply too humiliating.
"What do you mean?"
"Are you saying I'm not qualified to Hokage?"
Tobirama Senju glared at Uchiha Nan with hostility. He was the one who built Konoha from scratch.
The eldest Hashirama, only provided military intimidation. He spent his days eating, drinking, and having fun, and he and Madara Uchiha were sneaking around doing who-knows-what. Madara would often swindle money from him and then lose it at the gambling den.
He founded Konoha himself, and yet he dares to imply that he, as Hokage, is incompetent?
"Of course not. You're certainly qualified to be Hokage, but I think there's still a lot of room for improvement."
For example, regarding the issue of funding.
Uchiha Nan was implying that having multiple Daimyo above one's head was superfluous.
The Daimyo " does not refer to a specific person, but rather to a system that has been entrenched in the Ninja world for thousands of years. Uchiha Nan found the distorted and deformed technological development, backward productivity, and production relations extremely displeasing.
"Snort!"
"The Land of Fire Daimyo's funding for Konoha is the highest in the entire Ninja world!"
"I've asked for several billion more this year!"
"Let me tell you, according to my estimates, the budget for Sunagakure in the Land of Wind might be cut even further!"
Tobirama Senju felt that Uchiha Nan was nitpicking, acknowledging that during his tenure as Hokage, he had indeed overspent considerably in order to win the war.
However, it's normal for war to burn through funds!
Which ninja village isn't in debt right now?
Konoha's finances are already considered excellent, and they also have a big sponsor willing to add money to help Konoha recover!
well?
Tobirama Senju, you're quite proud of yourself?!
They've even started having a competition to see who's the worst! This damned tradition of comparing who's the worst seems to be prevalent in every world!
"Tobirama, we need to broaden our perspective. Why should we ask the Daimyo for money?"
We must learn to be self-reliant!
Uchiha Nan decided to try and comfort Tobirama Senju.
"You mean the money the ninjas get for taking on missions?"
Tobirama Senju looked at Uchiha Nan and thought Uchiha Nan had lost his mind.
The ninja village's self-reliance is basically just sending ninjas out to take on missions and then taking a cut, but at most they can only take three-tenths of the profits.
The lion's share still needs to be left to the ninjas, and they still want to take more money for Konoha. Tobirama Senju is worried about being ambushed by his own ninjas when he walks alone at night.
This amount of money is practically a drop in the ocean when it comes to war; it'll be gone in a few months.
Since the ninja village has no national support, it's fine during peacetime, but it can't be sustained for long in the event of war.
Who doesn't want to be self-reliant and stand tall? Even a hero can be brought down by a penny. Even if you work yourself to death on an S-rank mission, you still can't earn as much funding as those Daimyo.
"Of course not. I mean we can also engage in production, establish our own production methods, and then these Daimyo will become useless."
Uchiha Nan felt that it could be put more clearly: the future of ninjas might not require Daimyo, but the power of Daimyo in the Ninja world right now should not be underestimated, and this power certainly does not refer to force.
Although ninjas are powerful, their numbers are extremely small.
The scale of a single Fourth Ninja world War was nothing more than a battle between tens of thousands of ninjas, while Konoha's current ninja force has been severely reduced to the point that it can't even muster five figures.
However, the number of ordinary people in the Ninja world is far too large, measured in hundreds of millions, and ninjas have a bad reputation among the common people, often being called killing tools or executioners.
The Daimyo represents the interests of ordinary people and a group of conservatives.
Ninjas are a newer generation, an imported species, descended from the Otsutsuki. In the past, samurai were the dominant force, possessing considerable strength.
Aside from the descendants of the Otsutsuki family, ordinary ninjas start out weak and are initially ostracized by the samurai as outcasts.
However, as the Ninjutsu system continued to develop and improve, the power of ninjas became stronger and stronger, even to the point that they could kill samurai at will.
The former Daimyo were keenly aware of this and began to win over the ninjas, offering them money, women, and food.
Over countless years, the practice of ninjas serving the Daimyo and performing missions, with the Daimyo rewarding them handsomely, gradually became a tradition where everyone could continue to enjoy themselves together.
It's just a matter of the common people suffering a little more.
The pen is still in the hands of the Daimyo masters, and the ninja tool theory has stood out over a long period of time—what a treacherous world.
These various reasons make it difficult for ninjas to rise to become true rulers.
Uchiha Nan pondered inwardly, awaiting Tobirama Senju's reply.
Let me patch this up. It's really unreasonable for the Daimyo to stand so high above the ninjas. I can only try to improve the world-building with my own logic. If Esteemed Readers, feel that the explanation is not thorough enough...
That's Kishimoto's fault!!!