Starting the fourth generation Hokage

This small request that Danzo said calmly shocked everyone present.

As we all know, the guardian shinobi of the Fire Country are the daimyo's personal armed forces.

This organization arose after the First Ninja World War. Because some ninja villages who did not respect martial ethics became interested in the enemy's daimyo during the war. After that, the daimyo of each major country began to pay attention to themselves. security issues come.

The first ninja war also allowed the entire ninja world to see what a war between ninja villages in a great country was like.

The age of ninja was officially established in this war.

As the ruling class daimyo who supported the Ninja Village financially, he began to replace all the bodyguards around him with elite ninjas.

In the earliest days, there were only a few daimyo guards.

With the development of the times, this very elite small ninja organization finally became an organizational structure and transformed into a private armed force directly under the daimyo known as the guardian ninja.

The reason why everyone at the conference table was surprised was because before this, when the daimyo of the Fire Country had the most number of guardian ninja around them, there would be no more than six or seven people. After all, the power of the guardian is more valuable than the elite.

But now it has to be expanded to twelve people, and people from Konoha are needed...

This is no small matter.

"Is this a quid pro quo for the daimyo?"

Mito Monoyan frowned, and then he seemed to understand something, and suddenly objected: "This matter cannot be agreed to easily. I think it is necessary to negotiate again."

"That's right, with the sudden increase to twelve warriors, the number of guards around the daimyo seems a bit excessive, right?"

Xiaochun, who moved to bed, also held objections.

However, she obviously had other concerns, and then she complained softly in a dissatisfied tone: "When the elites of Konoha join the Guardian Ninja, doesn't it mean that they have lost their talents in vain..."

After all, it is a private armed force, directly under the daimyo.

Ninjas who are qualified to join the Guardian Ninja must of course be the elite among the elite. Under normal conditions, they must be elite chunin or above. Therefore, the daimyo's move is undoubtedly to recruit talents from Konoha...

At the corner of the conference table, Nara Shikaku seemed to be invisible throughout the whole process. After his eyes flickered for a while, he also expressed his opinion and said: "The two consultants are right."

"According to the practice of the past few decades, the Guardian Ninja really shouldn't need so many people."

"After all... Under the Daming Mansion, in addition to the elite organization of guardian ninja, there are also directly-controlled armed forces such as the Fire Temple. If it continues to expand, it may have an impact on Konoha's status in the Land of Fire... "

As we all know, Ninja Village is the gathering place of military power in a big country.

The daimyo provided financial support to the shinobi villages and thus relied on this military power. The two parties are mutually dependent and have a special cooperative-employment relationship. Once the number of elite ninjas under them is too large, it may cause many entrusted tasks to be solved without the help of the powerful organization of the Ninja Village. They can only rely on the subordinates they support. .

Therefore, the impact of the expansion of the Guardian Ninja on Konoha is not insignificant...

Seeing that everyone was opposed, Shimura Danzo's face suddenly turned ugly. This was the exchange condition that he had finally negotiated after going to Daming Mansion. How could he let all his efforts go to waste? As for the impact of the expansion, of course he has thought about it, but as a hawk, this impact is not within his consideration.

"Ahem..."

After Danzo looked at everyone, he suddenly cleared his throat, and then his words shocked everyone again: "It seems that I need to add something more. I have already agreed to the expansion, and there is no room for any slowdown. Already..."

"This is all a compromise made in order to cope with the difficulties at this time and to allow Konoha to defeat the Iwa Ninja."

"As long as the war can be won, the compensation received will be nothing compared to this."

Wow.

At the conference table, Danzo caused an uproar as soon as he finished speaking.

"Danzo..., you actually decided on such an important matter privately?" Mito Kadoyan couldn't help but scolded the case, and the eyes he looked at the former were full of dissatisfaction.

"You are short-sighted!

The expansion of the Guardian Ninja will have a long-term impact on Konoha, which cannot be offset by the compensation received after winning the war. Such a rash decision is really inconsistent with your position as the Hokage's Assistant! ! "

What I didn't expect was that Xiaochun's words would be even more intense.

He actually directly accused Danzo of dereliction of duty...

On the other side, Nara Shikaku saw that the advisory team and Danzo were about to quarrel, but he smiled bitterly in his heart, and then chose to return to silence. Even though he was a staff officer, the matter was basically a done deal, so in his opinion, there was no point in arguing and blaming.

In his peripheral vision, he couldn't help but catch a glimpse of Minato Namikaze, who had not spoken from the beginning to the end. He seemed to be deep in thought about something at this time, and he suddenly felt strange.

Ever since the Kyuubi incident, he felt that Namikaze Minato was very different from before.

The previous Yondaime was responsible for supporting and governing, and almost did everything by hand. He looks like he wants to be a diligent and competent Hokage, but he doesn't even see much of his training.

But now it is completely the opposite. The focus is not only on cultivation, but also almost all ordinary affairs can be handed over to others, and then handed over to subordinate departments to complete. Even office work is done using shadow clones...

Even so, the strange thing is that every decision made is convincing.

Therefore, the Yondaime Hokage, who is difficult for him to see through, must have a reason for his silent attitude at this time. Maybe he will come up with a solution that can properly solve the Guardian Ninja expansion incident in a while...

But in reality?

Although there was an argument at the conference table, Namikaze Minato's mind was not here. He was actually using up his brain cells to recall the memories of the Twelve Guardian Ninja...

He really couldn't remember this plot. He could only remember that it existed in the original work of Twelve Scholars, but ended in internal division.

Logically speaking, seeing Danzo being unanimously contradicted and criticized should be something worth appreciating.

But after experiencing many high-level meetings, Namikaze Minato was no longer tired of the scene. Danzo was tough and made radical decisions, while the advisory duo made conservative decisions and was even a bit pedantic. It was really not interesting for these old people to quarrel.

Namikaze Minato had no choice but to give up after he couldn't recall any information about the memories related to the Twelve Guardian Ninja Warriors.

After coming back to his senses, he found that the conference table was already noisy.

"All this is for the village, this is a necessary sacrifice!!"

As if he had lost his patience, Danzo Shimura suddenly skipped the topic and said coldly: "I have already decided on the ninja who will be chosen from Konoha to protect the ninja."

"For the newly established Twelve Scholars, Konoha only needs one elite."

"In addition, the five new candidates after the expansion are said to have been decided by themselves long ago..."

Unexpectedly, Danzo had already decided on the candidate, which made the advisory duo feel dissatisfied again. You've already decided everything, why are you asking us to discuss it?

Regarding Danzo's arbitrary actions, the advisory duo and Nara Shikaku finally had to look at Namikaze Minato at this time.

As the Fourth Hokage, he is the one who can make the final decision on this matter.

"I agree with the expansion of the Guardian Ninja."

After noticing everyone's gazes on him, Namikaze Minato thought for a moment, then suddenly raised the corners of his mouth slightly, expressing his approval.

Without waiting for everyone to be surprised, he quickly added: "But there is no need for Danzo-sama to worry about the candidate to protect the ninja. It is up to me to decide."