After finishing the revolutionary organizational arrangements in the Land of Whirlpools and the oasis in the Land of Wind, Uchiha Ying Yue finally returned to Konoha.
He had always kept a close eye on the turbulent situation in the shinobi world. As the aggression and expansion among the major shinobi villages grew increasingly intense, Ying Yue had already sensed that war was about to break out.
Although Ying Yue foresaw the coming war, he had no intention of stopping it.
To Ying Yue, war was cruel, but it was also part of what drove history forward.
As someone who could see the future, he knew well that fundamental contradictions which peace could not resolve would eventually erupt in the form of war.
Ying Yue firmly believed that only when the ruling classes of various nations were struck by war, and ordinary people suffered deeply amid the chaos, could the public's opposition to war be completely awakened.
At the same time, he saw that war would raise the shinobi world's productive capacity, especially through the development of new weapons such as the firearms he had introduced.
Ying Yue understood very clearly that the development of productive forces determined changes in relations of production.
When a society's productive forces no longer matched its existing relations of production and social system, revolution and social transformation would inevitably follow.
He believed that amid the quagmire of war, the sparks of revolution would be ignited. Uprisings and resistance would emerge one after another, ultimately driving the shinobi world into a new era that was fairer and more progressive.
He thought calmly, *"When the ambitions of the ruling class collide with the suffering of ordinary people, the aggressive expansion of every nation will ultimately backfire. In the end, the shinobi world's structure will be completely changed