Uchiha Madara and Hashirama had different ideals.
He had seen the flaws in Hashirama's one-country, one-village system from the very beginning. Once he and Hashirama were gone, war would undoubtedly break out in the Ninja World again, and it would be even more brutal than the Warring States Period, with an even higher death toll.
The so-called Tailed Beast deterrence plan was complete bullshit.
Who could those Tailed Beasts possibly scare?
Tobirama had vehemently opposed distributing Tailed Beasts to the other ninja villages to create some supposed balance of power.
But Hashirama had vetoed his objections outright.
Xuanye gave Tobirama a strange look. "You don't honestly think the position of Hokage is worth that much, do you?"
"What matters is everyone's trust, not some title."
"Back then, the ninja clans didn't even unite to establish Konoha out of respect for the Senju Clan. They did it purely out of respect for Hashirama. As long as Hashirama was alive, he could have appointed a dog to that position."
"They'd finally enjoyed a few peaceful years. If Uchiha Madara wanted to start a war, even the Uchiha of that time wouldn't necessarily have supported him."
"With Hashirama alive, what would have been the big deal about making Uchiha Madara Hokage? Have Hashirama drag him out every day to drink tea, fish, and take their pet birds for walks. Keep the two of them comfortably retired in the village, and wouldn't that have prevented everything that happened afterward?"
Tobirama would still have been the de facto Hokage. The position would merely have belonged to Uchiha Madara in name.
Besides, even if Tobirama became Hokage, as long as Hashirama was alive, Tobirama couldn't force him to do anything he didn't want to do.
In other words, Tobirama had treated the political promises of their