Daily Life of the Third Hokage

The two of them were so busy that they had to face each other.

Looking at everyone with an unbelievable look.

Sarutobi Hiruzen rolled his eyes speechlessly.

"Is it that serious? This is the basic quality of being a village leader.

Forget it, Kagami, I won't say anything about you." Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at Uchiha Kagami, then turned to Orochimaru and Hatake Sakumo.

"Orochimaru, Sakumo, listen carefully.

As the leaders and high-ranking officials of the village, you must not be too emotional. You must consider everything from the perspective of the village.

In the ninja world, what real friends and allies are there between villages?

It's all about interests.

The covenant is just a piece of paper to wipe your ass. Look at Sand Village, do they take this covenant seriously now?"

This is too...

Describing the covenant so badly actually overturned Orochimaru's understanding of the covenant. He used to think that the covenant was sacred.

Regardless of what Orochimaru thought, Sarutobi Hiruzen continued, "During the last Ninja World War, the other four villages signed an offensive and defensive alliance.

As a result, Sunagakure withdrew halfway, otherwise, our Konoha might not have been able to hold on until that time.

When I resolved the war and established the Five Kage Association, the other villages kept looking for trouble with them. As a last resort, Sunagakure and Konoha formed an alliance, and we just needed an ally to share the pressure.

So this matter came to this.

We have been allied with Sunagakure for more than 10 years, right? With our full efforts to open up trade routes, they breathed a sigh of relief. Look at them now?

Not only did they not express their gratitude to us Konoha, but they also kept doing their own little tricks.

To show our appreciation for Sunagakure's self-improvement, I There is no other way, I can only do something to him.

Their reputation of Sand Village has been ruined, and the covenant no longer has the credibility it once had.

From the perspective of Sand Village, I am definitely a bad guy.

But I am the Hokage, why should I stand in the perspective of Sand Village?

In order to ensure that the interests of Konoha are not violated, I can only consider the overall situation from the perspective of Konoha.

This is to do your job in your position. You must consider the things you are in, and you cannot tolerate the slightest selfishness.

If there is even a little selfishness in the position of Hokage, it means that the whole village is irresponsible.

Why did Hanzo send someone to contact our Konoha Village? "

Faced with Sarutobi Hiruzen's sudden question, everyone was a little confused.

Sarutobi Hiruzen did not expect them to answer, so he asked himself and answered, "He also saw clearly that Sand Village had a good few days and became arrogant.

There is a gap between us Konoha and Sand Village, and he, Hanzo, wants to replace Sand Village and become our ally (little brother)

Although there is a gap between us and Sand Village, we still cannot easily promise anything to Hanzo.

Because we have to maintain the image of our Konoha in the ninja world.

What is the image of the ninja world?

For example, Sand Village, what is your impression of them after they have torn up the alliance without reason continuously?

The impression of Sand Village is that this village is not trustworthy. They have torn up the contract twice in a row without reason.

Due to the inherent impression of the ninja world on Sand Village, which village dares to easily form an alliance with them in the future?

Even if an alliance is formed, there will definitely be more precautions in the heart.

This is the importance of the village's external image.

If we Konoha easily promise to form an alliance with the Rain Country and give the Rain Country help, If we cannot help, the impression we will give to the outside world is that we can easily abandon our allies for the sake of profit.

This is also the reason why I immediately publicly asked Danzo to retire for recuperation after he promised to help Hanzo.

Even if this matter was thrown out by the Rain Country, we have a reason to explain it, after all, we put the sub-shadow who manipulated this matter under house arrest at the first time.

In my opinion, strength plus external impression affects a village's external voice.

Think about it again, our Konoha, our external image is peace-loving, and we don't easily conflict with other villages.

This image has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that other small countries rely on us a lot, and many small countries will come to Konoha to issue tasks, which is good for Konoha's finances.

The disadvantage is that the other major ninja villages will always think that we are weak and can be bullied, and they want to tease us from time to time. Based on the external image, we have no chance to show our strength and show our muscles except for passive engagement.

Before the reform, the vast majority of Konoha's finances depended on the funding from the daimyo and the commission from the missions.

Even if there are drawbacks, it can at least bring a lot of financial income to the village, so just bear with it.

After the reform, although the funding from the daimyo and the commission from the missions still account for a large proportion of Konoha's financial sources.

But we are now financially abundant, and compared with the drawbacks, this financial benefit is dispensable. "

"Then Master, do you mean that we Konoha should change our external image now? Become aggressive?" Orochimaru asked with some trepidation and excitement.

"We need to change our external image, but we can't be aggressive.

Once the aggressive image is engraved in the ninja world, Konoha will be difficult.

The ninja world countries can tolerate a weak and powerful Konoha, but they absolutely cannot tolerate an aggressive, ambitious, and powerful Konoha.

Konoha is the strongest in the ninja world. If we continue to be aggressive, other villages will panic.

They will attack Konoha at all costs. They will be forced to work together against us by the pressure from Konoha.

Konoha does not have the strength to fight the entire ninja world yet, so we should not be so strong.

Don't think that we can be proud of Konoha's ability to fight against 4 people in the last war.

The four villages are independent and scattered, and each has its own little thoughts.

And the Sand Village withdrew early.

That's why we can fight back and forth, otherwise it would be difficult to win. "

"Then Master, how do we need to adjust the external image of Konoha?" Orochimaru thought for a while and asked.

"We need to seize every opportunity to show our strength to the outside world, while not overly oppressing them, and basically ensure a relatively fair approach.

For example, this time, it was just a test of us by the three families, and they were the first to take action.

We can use this as an excuse to forcefully cause trouble for them.

After all, our losses and expenses are not small, and the Uzushio Village has also suffered great damage.

This time we want to make them understand that there is a price to pay for doing wrong things.

This time, Orochimaru, you didn't handle it very well. I wanted to tell you about it tomorrow, but now that I'm here, I won't go into details. I'll just talk about the mistakes you made. "