Chapter 344: A Traitor Appears Loyal

The following Konoha, although there is no explicit ban.

But the villagers did not discuss the topic of the Fifth Hokage casually, at least not in public.

Some people who are too thick-skinned will be covered by their relatives and friends if they say this.

Public opinion, rumors, and a series of other things.

You need to have the corresponding strength to speak.

Danzo can claim that he is doing everything for Konoha.

Because he is an elder, the root has countless cold-blooded executioners for him to use.

If you are a civilian, then if this kind of thing comes out of your mouth, you are not far from death.

Everyone knows that the Sarutobi clan is not a bloodline limit family, and when the village was built many years ago, there were not many people.

The first generation Hokage, Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara, joined forces to establish Konoha, and the Sarutobi clan joined later.

It has only been more than 60 years now, and the number of Sarutobi clan members has more than doubled tenfold.

Although most of the 129 jonin are fakes, they are paid for nothing.

But Xia Mu knew that the number of ninjas of the Sarutobi clan far exceeded everyone's expectations.

There were more than a thousand Chunin alone. These Sarutobi clan members were distributed all over the Land of Fire, doing missions and never gathered together.

The Sarutobi clan exposed in this election was just the tip of the iceberg.

Xia Mu's public vote count on the stage was just to let everyone know that the third generation was a ghost.

More things have not been dug out.

The third generation was originally going to step down, and exposing these things at this time would only make the third generation lose his reputation.

Others...

You can't do much.

But Xia Mu's goal was this.

A third generation Hokage who retired with high moral character.

And a person who retired with dark politics and suspected of manipulating the Hokage election.

The right to speak is different.

At least under the pressure of many elders, the third generation Hokage must hand over the power in his hands happily.

Otherwise, the third generation will be attacked by everyone.

The reason why Xia Mu wanted to nail the third generation to death is very simple.

He wants to tear off the hypocritical mask of the Third Hokage!

The Third Hokage is a real black-bellied person.

Although Danzo has cooperated with the Third Hokage over the years, he has also secretly pitted the Third Hokage. The two have always had political confrontations.

But Danzo always does things secretly and dares not let the Third Hokage find out.

And the Third Hokage has done bad things, and you still think it has nothing to do with him.

The only place where Danzo wins may be the matter of framing the baby experiment.

And concealing the successful experiment of Tenzo.

In the past few years when the Third Hokage was in charge of Hokage, too much money has gone unaccounted for.

For example, where did the inheritance of Kushina and the Fourth Hokage go.

What is left of the huge industry of the Senju clan?

How many years has the Sarutobi clan been eating empty salaries?

Otherwise, you can't explain how the Sarutobi clan has developed so many people.

Konoha is one of the largest villages among the five major countries.

The lives of civilians are still very stable, compared to some small war-torn countries or barren places like Sand Village.

The happiness index of the villagers of Konoha can be said to be very high.

From the time the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen took office to the present.

In terms of ordinary people, the Third Hokage enjoys a high reputation.

After all, Konoha Village is happier than other villages.

As for the death of Rope Tree, Dan died, White Fang died, the Fourth Hokage died, and Kushina died.

Such things are too far away for them.

It doesn't matter much.

At most, they were sad when the Fourth Hokage died.

But more people were drowned in the grief and resentment of the Nine-Tails Rebellion.

The Third Hokage controls a large number of Anbu.

Monitor all the voices of ordinary people.

Any discord will be cut off at the first time.

Most of the villagers are ignorant and blind.

Under the control of public opinion, every day is peaceful and prosperous.

Danzo is not only not as good as the Hokage when he is alive, but also not as good as the Hokage when he is dead.

It's very simple, because he looks like a bad guy at first glance.

If he shows up in Konoha a few more times.

If there is any bad thing, it is definitely right to push it on him.

The real bad guy is like Sarutobi Hiruzen, who is a traitor who looks loyal.

He looks kind and considerate, and he always thinks of others.

The whole Konoha people trust him very much.

But as long as you dig deeper, you will find that Sarutobi Hiruzen is not as simple as he seems.

Let's not talk about the past few decades.

Recently, if Natsuki is not here, the Uchiha clan has been exterminated.

Everyone knows that the Root and Obito participated in the extermination.

But the focus is not here.

It's two years before the Uchiha clan was exterminated.

Danzo, who was afraid of the power of the Uchiha, attacked Shisui and took away Shisui's right eye.

Shisui, who escaped with injuries, found Itachi and put all the burden of preventing the extermination on Itachi, who was not mentally mature.

Then he committed suicide.

Itachi was only 11 years old at that time, and he didn't even graduate from the Ninja School during Naruto's time.

If Shisui's suicide was trapped by the situation,

Then Itachi's extermination of the Uchiha clan was completely manipulated by the Third Generation.

During the two years between Itachi's 11th and 13th years old.

His thoughts underwent a huge change.

He had accomplished nothing himself, but he began to hate his clan members.

Think that the family is useless and the clan members are stupid.

In the past two years, the relationship between Itachi and Fugaku has become increasingly strained. There is basically no communication, let alone heart-to-heart talk.

Itachi, who is arrogant and conceited, is even more disdainful of communicating with other clan members.

So why did Itachi become like this?

Because of the manipulation of Sarutobi Hiruzen and several other elders.

Regarding the conflict between the village and Uchiha, Sarutobi Hiruzen has been delaying time, and the most common thing he said is:

"I will come up with a foolproof plan."

Then.

Then in this matter, Sarutobi Hiruzen did nothing.

What Sarutobi Hiruzen did every day was to brainwash Itachi.

The point of brainwashing is very clever.

He kept telling Itachi that it was thanks to you that the village and the Uchiha clan didn't fight.

Thanks to you for providing information about the Uchiha clan, many civilians were spared from the war.

Several other elders played the villain.

Continuously weakening the impression of the Uchiha clan in Itachi's mind.

Let Itachi have a sense of superiority and arrogance that everyone else is drunk and I am the only one who is awake, thinking that only I can save the Uchiha clan.

But Itachi found that he was powerless to solve the conflict between the village and the clan in the end.

He only communicated with the top leaders of Konoha, and he had no idea that his thoughts were completely led into a dead end.

He was obviously a loser, but he refused to admit it anyway. The endless sense of mission made Itachi close to madness.

At this time, Shisui had been dead for two years, and the family's coup was imminent.

At this time, Danzo appeared. His "brilliant plan" gave Itachi, who was about to collapse due to the oppression of the sense of mission, a new idea.

"Destroy the Uchiha clan" can completely and forever solve the contradiction between the Uchiha and the village.

"Bearing the sin" by oneself can comfort one's failed and empty heart.

Immersed in the self-deception of self-sacrifice and self-touching.