The judgments of the various nations' upper echelons had been entirely correct. After the war ended, Nawaki presented the Land of Water's Daimyo government with the demands he had long planned.
Once they learned that surrender would allow them to retain their positions and property, the vast majority of officials and nobles immediately submitted. The only ones unwilling to accept it were the Land of Water's Daimyo clan, as Konoha's terms would cost them the most.
However, considering that refusal would likely result in their entire family "dying suddenly of illness," leaving behind only a young child to serve as a puppet, the Daimyo ultimately agreed to Nawaki's conditions after much hesitation.
"At least the Land of Water didn't perish under my rule!" The Land of Water's Daimyo could only console himself with that reasoning in the end.
The reason Nawaki still offered terms of surrender despite his overwhelming victory was precisely as the upper echelons of the other nations had analyzed: to stabilize the hearts of the Land of Water's people and swiftly take control of the country through conciliatory measures. For that, he had even resisted the temptation of the prestige that would come from destroying a nation.
After the announcement was issued, Konoha soon formally signed a surrender agreement with the Land of Water's Daimyo.
Immediately afterward, Nawaki ordered the eighty thousand Mist Ninja from the clans that had originally defected to Konoha, as well as the seventy thousand Mist Ninja who had joined the Senju Branch Family, to each leave half their forces behind and establish a new ninja village branch on the former site of Kirigakure.
With the original Kirigakure as its foundation, the new ninja village underwent virtually no changes. There was no need to build facilities or recruit residents.
Furthermore, the village's core