"I'm glad you have this confidence," Ian said, looking at Tsunade, "But you should not underestimate the difficulties before you. Today, Empire has controlled more than a hundred star systems and thousands of planets, hundreds of which are pregnant with life. The total population of the Empire has now exceeded one million billion."
"Therefore, it is not an easy task to be the head of any department, because the competition is extremely fierce. Although I have the right to appoint you to this position, whether you can secure this position is another matter." Ian added seriously, "In addition, if you perform poorly during your tenure, according to the Empire's laws, the people have the right to remove you."
Tsunade was silent for a moment and nodded solemnly. As the former Hokage, she knew very well the principle of "the capable will live in the place". She decided to put away her past pride and face this challenge with a more correct attitude, and never let down this opportunity.
Ian then had a long talk with her and gave her some substantive suggestions: including who can be trusted, how to consolidate her position, and who will be her potential competitors.
He particularly emphasized that Tsunade needs to train her own team, such as her talented apprentice Sakura. If she can further her studies in the medical field, Sakura will become her most powerful help.
Ian even suggested that Tsunade follow his own example and teach at Hogwarts and Bones Advanced Magic School to discover and cultivate the strength to be loyal to himself from the younger generation.
After dealing with Tsunade's matter, Ian came to another Subspace in the laboratory. As soon as he appeared, a figure quietly appeared in front of him.
"Your Majesty."
"Itachi, how's the progress?" Ian asked.
"The preliminary training has been completed. However, the specific results still need to be tested through the first actual combat mission."
Before leaving, Ian appointed Itachi Uchiha as the deputy director of "Shadow Squad", responsible for leading a special force composed of the Empire elite spies and assassins. Originally Ian planned to start training after returning to China, but Itachi insisted and even requested to use Time Acceleration and Time Dilation Technology to start training in advance.
Ian knows Itachi's thoughts very well - the genius of the Uchiha Clan wants to take advantage of this time difference to ensure that ninjas occupy the majority of seats in this new department. This is Itachi's way of fighting for status and voice after the ninja group returns to the Empire.
At the same time, through this method, he can grasp as much real power as possible before the future director arrives and avoid becoming an empty puppet.
Although this behavior can be interpreted as "privately cultivating power" to a certain extent, Ian doesn't mind. He has taken control of Itachi's soul, and Itachi has shown absolute loyalty.
To him, this is more like a test for the future director: if the future leader cannot conquer this ninja-dominated force, it can only mean that he is not capable enough and is not worthy of sitting in that position.
Under the leadership of Itachi, Ian saw the troops being trained. To his surprise, Kakashi and Jiraiya were also present.
"I can understand Kakashi being here, but why are you here, lustful fairy? Shouldn't you be peeping somewhere?" Ian teased.
Jiraiya laughed awkwardly. In fact, since peeping is illegal in the Empire, and he could easily be caught by the ubiquitous Golem, without Tsunade's intervention, he would have stayed in the cell for several days and paid a huge fine.
Itachi explained that he invited these two to assist in the development of the team's specialized training courses. This force currently has about ten thousand ninjas, each of whom has received rigorous training in stealth, Space Magic, Genjutsu, Mental Magic, as well as various assassination and intelligence analysis techniques.
They even started working on a shield Sealing Arts for "Divination", although progress was slow.
After observing the training, Ian pointed out that the current Shadow Squad has a fatal shortcoming: the number of people is too small.
"Your missions will be spread throughout Milky Way Galaxy. Once the war against Guznader is over, you will be sent throughout the universe, across multiple planes and even parallel timelines."
Itachi fell into silence. The population base of ninjas is indeed too small. The entire planet has a population of less than 500 million, and ninjas can't even account for one percent of them, let alone select the elite.
Itachi proposed to select new members from the population that Machine Clan brought back from the multiverse. But Ian frowned and refused. He explained that those populations that Machine Clan discovered were mostly "variants" of the residents of the current timeline, that is, copies with only slight differences.
Bringing back these variants will not only make the relationship extremely complicated, but more importantly, it will easily expose the fact that Empire has mastered "Multiverse Technology".
"If the news that Empire is related to the multiverse is leaked, all forces in our plan will become public enemies." Ian warned seriously.
For those Tenth Tier gods who aspire to be promoted to the Eleventh Tier position, the knowledge of the multiverse is the key to their dreams. Once they learn the news, they will fall into crazy plunder.
In order to make up for the lack of manpower, Ian decided to incorporate "Metamorphmagus Bureau" into Itachi's team. These natural transformation experts can perfectly disguise themselves as any race in the universe. Although they are still very immature at the moment, they have great potential.
Finally, Itachi showed off a new Golem designed by Orochimaru, hoping to use it as a "consumable" in missions to reduce casualties.
Ian examined it and commented. "Orochimaru is indeed a genius who can achieve such results in a short period of time. But his design has too many flaws and manufacturing process problems. Empire has designed an exclusive special Golem for your team, just use that one."
As the plan continues to advance, this sharp blade hidden in the shadows is gradually revealing its edge that makes the world tremble.