How strong Minato Namikaze is is not shown much in the original plot. Most of them are Flying Thunder God adding balls to conquer the world.
But Aoba Kamikawa never underestimated Minato Namikaze. In fact, among the four dead Hokage, Aoba believed that Minato Namikaze was ranked second in strength. Second only to Hashirama Senju, it was stronger than Tobirama Senju and Hiruzen Sarutobi.
This guy is not only Flying Thunder God, he also has various other ninjutsu at his fingertips. The reason why it gives the impression that he has a unique technique is because this technique is more efficient.
He can even Eight Trigrams Sealing Style and Reaper Death Seal, not to mention other ninjutsu.
When Team 7 arrived, Minato was standing alone at Sixth Training Ground, facing the sunset in the distance, with his back to everyone.
Team 7 saw this and quickly discussed tactics. After that, Naruto rushed forward directly.
Minato heard the movement behind him, turned around and looked at Naruto, who was rushing over, with a smile on his lips.
On the other side, after Aoba and Sakura came out of the laboratory, they saw a little dispute happening outside.
Shirakumo Hayama, the captain of the institute's security department, was stopping a familiar figure.
Aoba Take a look, isn't that person Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi after resurrection?
At this time, the third generation was a little embarrassed and was stopped by Shirakumo Hayama. Although he had real registration information, the institute belonged to Konoha's top secret department.
Shirakumo Hayama noticed that he had never seen this face before, so he stopped him directly.
"Okay morning, he is one of our own. He is ANBU, a ninja who has just returned to the village on a secret mission."
"Yes, Master Aoba." Shirakumo Hayama inherited Aoba's swordsmanship and is considered half of Aoba's disciple. He is also the leader of the security department of the institute and is the direct subordinate of Aoba. He respects Aoba very much.
Seeing Aoba come forward, he immediately let Sandai leave.
After seeing Shirakumo Hayama leave, Aoba asked Sakura to go back first.
"Want to come in and take a look?" Aoba asked casually.
"No need. My current status is not suitable for knowing those highly confidential things."
The third generation was a person who had done Hokage and knew the confidentiality clause. He was just curious and stood in front of him to look at it, without thinking of going in. As a result, he was caught in the morning.
Aoba nodded, and then the two left together.
"During the day, I went to the Higher Ninja Academy, which you created. I'm curious, how did you convince the ninja clan?"
This is the point that the third generation cannot understand the most. Opening up ninjutsu and improving the strength of civilian ninjas. This thing seems simple, but in his understanding it is simply impossible.
Because restricting the strength of civilian ninjas was never just an order from Hokage. It was the result of Hokage's compromise with the major ninja clans.
This is just like China ancient aristocratic families controlled knowledge. In order to ensure their status, the ninja clan cannot allow civilian ninjas to grow without restrictions.
Those who can grow up from civilian ninjas basically have a set of unique skills that cannot be copied. Kai is one of the representatives. Shirakumo Hayama is also one, but without Aoba, the upper limit is limited.
Civilians will always be civilians, and ninjas will always be ninjas. This is the foundation of the philosophy of the three generations of rule. It is also the root of the decline of Konoha.
However, the third generation discovered that Konoha now openly teaches various advanced ninjutsu. However, there seems to be no objection within Konoha.
At least from the observation during the day, there is no problem at all.
"This issue is complex and may not be discussed in a day or night. But it can be summed up in one sentence. It is called the general trend."
"Is this the general trend?"
"Yes, it is the general trend. As long as the ninja people are aware of one problem, that is, if they do not make changes, they will be eliminated. Then they will learn to accept everything in front of them."
"Elimination? But you didn't eliminate any ninja clan. Even Sarutobi Clan..."
Hiruzen Sarutobi felt a little ashamed when he said this. He was actually ready for the Sarutobi Clan to be cleaned. But during the day, he went back and took a look.
He was surprised to find that Sarutobi Clan was only a part of the radicals who had been purged. Most of the clan members had survived. Asuma even became the clan leader.
You know, before he wanted Asuma to come back and inherit this position, but the other party was not willing to give up.
"Haha, having power in my hand and not using it are two different things than having no power in my hand. I don't need to really do anything. I just need to make them believe that I will do it. After all, it is Konoha's power. There is nothing wrong with safeguarding the interests of the tribe. There is no need to kill them all."
Hiruzen Sarutobi was hit hard again. But he probably understood the core of Aoba's approach, which was fairness.
Fairness is the most luxurious existence in the world. In other words, it has never really existed.
Even in the current Konoha, there is actually no fairness. Children of civilians go to school at the same time as children of the ninja clan. They have the same teachers and the same learning environment. Is it fair?
If the major ninja clans did not start teaching the methods of extracting chakra in advance, start Taijutsu training in advance, and start practicing family secrets in advance, then all this would be fair.
But as a result, fairness does not exist.
Even the so-called Higher Ninja Academy is only relatively fair to civilian ninjas. Because most of the ninjutsu exchanged in it are already reserved by those ninja families.
Civilian ninjas need to spend points to redeem, or use their own unique ninjutsu to redeem. But the descendants of the ninja clan can learn it from birth. Is this fair?
However, even so, this policy is still supported by countless civilian ninjas. Because even if it is not absolutely fair, they have already got an opportunity to make progress.
This is also the ultimate goal of Aoba.
There are a huge number of civilian ninjas. Although this chance is small, someone will always stand out. After that, a virtuous circle will be formed, gradually narrowing the distance between civilians and ninjas.
At the same time, in order not to be eliminated, the ninjas need to work hard to innovate and develop new things. Only in this way can healthy competition be formed.
And all of this needs to be built on a stable and strong system. Aoba promotes Konoha's various political and people's livelihood reforms to create an environment for this kind of competition. So far, initial results have been achieved. However, it is still far from the situation Aoba expected.
Hiruzen Sarutobi actually didn't fully understand it. But at least he knew one thing. That was that the young man in front of him was much better than himself in many things.
In just two years, Konoha has fully taken off. The Shirakumo Hayama. Hiruzen Sarutobi who stopped him just now has the impression that when he was in power, the opponent was just Special Jonin.
But during the confrontation just now, Hiruzen Sarutobi could even feel a hint of danger.
Even though his current body has not fully adapted yet, this is a young body at its peak. The power he can exert is only stronger than before his death.
A glimpse of the leopard shows that the current Konoha is indeed different from what it used to be.