Watching Senju Tobirama begin drafting the official notice, Xingzhuo asked, "So should I announce to the village now that we're entering a state of war?"
Senju Tobirama paused for a moment, then reluctantly agreed. "Sigh... Go ahead and announce it."
Once a state of war was declared, all of Konoha's registered shinobi would have to follow orders.
The village would also stop accepting mission requests.
For an ordinary shinobi village, that would be a devastating blow.
But to Xingzhuo, it was simply a necessary sacrifice before a revolution.
He had already decided: through this war, he would completely change how Konoha operated.
As shinobi who wielded extraordinary power, why did they always limit themselves to fighting and killing, living a life with their heads on the line?
Wouldn't it be better to use that power to increase productivity?
Xingzhuo believed the reason shinobi were so constrained was that ordinary people in the daimyo class had indoctrinated the shinobi class.
Now that the daimyos of every country had been overthrown, one way or another, by their respective shinobi villages, all that remained was to create a peaceful environment. Then Konoha could undergo a reform.
And creating a peaceful environment would take fighting.
As someone who knew the original story, he had long known that the other shinobi villages would choose to start a war after Senju Hashirama's death.
If that was the case, then he'd give them a war!
At the end of Year 16 of Konoha, the Hokage Office announced that the Land of Fire was entering a state of war.
Soon afterward, the Hokage convened a meeting of the Jonin.
More than six hundred registered Konoha Jonin gathered in the Ninja Academy's large conference hall.
As Hokage, Senju Tobirama first explained the situation the village was facing and the