This kind of tactic, whether in wars fought by noble samurai or wars fought by ninja,
had never occurred to anyone before!
Before the era of the hidden villages, samurai simply occupied land. They had no such demands.
But after the era of the hidden villages began,
wars were fought by ninja.
However, when a hidden village emerged victorious, it would merely demand some money from the defeated side,
then gain a little prestige and claim a larger share of missions. After that, nothing else came of it!
There had never been anything like the treaty, which allowed the victors to bleed the defeated side dry and leave them utterly unable to rise again!
But Ōnoki, as the Tsuchikage, knew very well why things had been that way!
After all, ninja were mercenaries, plain and simple. Most of them survived on mission fees.
It was impossible for the daimyo's funding to go directly to individual ninja!
That money was meant to keep a hidden village running and ensure its various departments could function, allowing it to bring out the full strength of its military. There was no way it would be handed out to individual ninja.
Aside from the Kage and senior elders, who needed to remain in the village and direct its affairs, only those people could draw on those funds.
All the other ninja,
even his son Kitsuchi, as well as those two Jinchuriki who gave him no end of trouble, had to rely on mission fees to support their families!
But now, this treaty had burst onto the scene like something that had opened up a whole new world.
As the Kage of Iwagakure, Ōnoki felt that he had found a new source of funding for the village.
Bleeding the defeated side dry!
"Konoha really is Konoha.