Turning the World Upside Down! A Vicious Scheme to Kill with a Borrowed Knife and Leave No Heirs!

Tsunade looked at him.

"Since your decrees require Konoha's military strength to be enforced, you shouldn't rely on Konoha on one hand while treating missions as charity on the other—much less threaten the Hokage by cutting back on missions."

"In the past, the Daimyo Court controlled the source of missions, and Konoha had to rely on you to keep operating. That was why you grew accustomed to using missions to restrain Konoha."

"Now, the volume of missions provided by the Uchiha Clan has completely replaced those of the Daimyo Court."

"If you refuse to cooperate with Konoha, Konoha can still function normally."

"But if Konoha refuses to cooperate with you, can you still sit here as securely as you did in the past?"

As her final sentence fell, everyone in the council chamber fell silent.

Only now did they realize that the positions of the two sides had completely reversed.

In the past, Konoha feared losing the Daimyo Court's missions.

Now, they feared losing Konoha's protection.

That hundred-billion agreement had directly severed the rope the Daimyo and nobles had kept around Konoha's neck for nearly a century.

As Tsunade watched their ever-changing expressions, she could not help recalling the conversation she had had with Tobirama not long ago.

The person who had proposed temporarily suspending the employment relationship had not been Lumen.

It had been Tobirama Senju.

After reading the agreement signed between the Uchiha Clan and Konoha, the Second Hokage, who had personally established Konoha's systems, understood that this was Konoha's best chance to break free of the Daimyo Court's mission-based restraint.

At the beginning of the One Country, One Village System, Konoha had no stable industries, insufficient land, and no adequate tax revenue. It could only sustain the village by accepting commissions from the Daimyo, nobles, and merchants.