"So what exactly do you mean by this, Hokage?" the Third Raikage asked with a frown.
"Everyone, I'm sure you've all had your grievances with the daimyō," Uchiha Yi said, his gaze deepening. "To some extent, the daimyō were behind both the First Shinobi World War and the Second Shinobi World War.
"To the daimyō, we ninja are nothing more than tools.
"They fear our strength, so they use war to weaken us.
"They also restrict our growth by controlling our resources. They look down on me, and I imagine they look down on all of you too."
"Are you planning to move against the daimyō?" the Third Raikage asked gruffly.
"The daimyō won't be so easy to deal with." The Third Kazekage was somewhat tempted. After the Second Shinobi World War ended, the daimyō had cut funding, forcing Sunagakure to tighten its belt.
The Third Kazekage had found that hard to accept.
It wasn't that he had never considered moving against the daimyō, but how could the daimyō be that easy to deal with?
If the daimyō were truly useless and had no trump cards at all, they could never have risen to their positions or amassed so much wealth.
Did people really think the daimyō considered ninja a threat?
And there weren't just the ninja in the villages. There were missing-nin too.
The daimyō also had many ninja trained in secret. Those ninja were utterly loyal, and even the village chiefs knew nothing about them.
How could moving against the daimyō be easy?
Even an Elite Jōnin might fail to assassinate one.
One wrong move could bring disaster down on an entire village.
"Why wouldn't they be easy to deal with? They're just ordinary people." Uchiha Yi shook his head slightly. "Granted, the daimyō may have some trump