Chapter 305 Luo Sha and Yashamaru

Sand Village.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, the Fourth Kazekage walked along the passage and left the underground mine. After seeing this, the Sand Ninja standing on the ground quickly handed over salt water and a towel.

The Fourth Kazekage took the salt water, drank a few mouthfuls happily, wiped the sweat off and walked towards the Kazekage building.

After sitting down in the Kazekage's office, the Fourth Kazekage did not waste any time and immediately began to deal with the affairs of the Sand Village.

As the leader of the Sand Village, he must take control of all the affairs of the village and cannot relax at all.

There is no way around it.

Although the Sand Village is nominally one of the five major ninja villages at the top of the ninja world, in fact, there is a huge gap compared to Konoha, Iwagakure and Kumogakure.

These three ninja villages not only have more strong people than Sand Village, but also more ordinary ninjas than Sand Village.

If Sand Village was not too poor and had not mastered a powerful weapon like Shukaku, the Konoha and Iwagakure around Sand Village would have launched an attack on Konoha long ago.

Even so, Sand Village lost to Konoha in the last war and was forced to become an ally of Konoha.

Although Sand Village and Konoha are allies, in fact, Sand Village has become a vassal ninja village of Konoha. Merchants from the Land of Fire can easily pass through the Land of Wind without paying tariffs.

The employment commissions that originally belonged to Sand Village have now become the property of Konoha Village.

Even the daimyo of the Land of Wind began to doubt the necessity of the existence of Sand Village, considering whether to abandon Sand Village and let Konoha become the protector of the Land of Wind, and greatly reduced the military expenditure provided to Sand Village.

All of the above measures are restricting the development of Sand Village and limiting the number of Sand Ninjas with money.

If this situation continues for another ten or twenty years, Sand Village will become a second-rate ninja village and eventually die under the wheel of history.

As a ninja standing at the top of the ninja world and the leader of the five major ninja villages, Kazekage Rasa is unwilling to see this happen.

He paid a huge price to defeat his rival Ye Cang, and it was definitely not to be the leader of a second-rate ninja village.

Therefore, he had to shoulder the burden of the village and develop the ninja army with limited funds.

If the number of students in the ninja school is not enough, elite training will be carried out. Each student of Sand Village must have the strength close to that of a Chunin to graduate from the ninja school.

The resources provided by the daimyo of the Wind Country are not enough to support the scale of several thousand ninjas.

Then he will go to the mine in person and use magnetic escape to pan for gold to provide funds for the village. As long as the village can maintain sufficient combat effectiveness, it doesn't matter even if he is tired and falls down every day.

After dealing with some trivial matters, the fourth generation Kazekage looked at the information sent by the Sand Village Anbu, which recorded the information of Konoha and Iwagakure.

All along, the fourth generation Kazekage has been very concerned about the information of Konoha.

When he learned that the Nine-Tails Rebellion broke out in Konoha, although he first wrote a letter to comfort the third generation Hokage, he actually hoped that Konoha would be destroyed because of the Nine-Tails Rebellion.

When the conflict broke out between Konoha and the Cloud Village, he even sent troops to support and ordered to restrict the activities of civilians from the Lightning Country in the Sand Village.

But all this is just because the strength of Konoha and Sand Village is too different.

Even if the four generations of Hokage and Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, two Kage-level combat forces, were lost, and Orochimaru defected from Konoha, the gap between Sand Village and Konoha is still very terrifying.

No matter how down and out Konoha is, there are still masters such as the three ninjas, the Hokage, and Danzo in its ninja village, plus the two blood succession families of Hyuga and Uchiha to escort it.

Without the interference of other ninja villages, Konoha can still beat Sand Village.

However, after hearing that the Uchiha clan of Konoha was brutally exterminated and the Iwagakure Village had a small-scale war with Konoha on the border, the four generations of Kazekage were a little eager to move.

He was considering whether to take this opportunity to stab Konoha in the back.

As long as Konoha Ninja Village can put enough pressure on it, even if it cannot obtain the land of the Land of Fire, it can also let Sand Village get rid of the shackles that bind it and make Sand Village a normal ninja village.

In theory, ninjas living in the Land of Wind are particularly fond of this kind of high-risk and high-return plan.

After all, for ninjas living in the desert, they may be buried in the sea of ​​sand in the next second due to a series of reasons such as sandstorms and lack of water sources.

But the Fourth Kazekage faced troubles that other Kazekage had never encountered.

There was no younger elite jonin in Sand Village, which meant that if something happened to him, Sand Village would fall into the embarrassing situation of having no Kazekage.

None of the previous gambles of the previous Kazekage succeeded.

Every gamble made Sand Village lose a lot, and if it continued to lose, there would be no Sand Village.

Retracting his gradually divergent thoughts, the Fourth Kazekage gave up the plan to backstab Konoha. He didn't want Sand Village to become a victim in the battle between Konoha and Rock Village.

Besides, Sand Village has not cultivated a qualified Jinchuriki and has no ability to attack Konoha Ninja Village.

After mentioning the Jinchūriki, the Fourth Kazekage frowned and shouted to the air around him:

"Anbu, how is Gaara? Is he still unable to control his temper and the Shukaku in his body?"

"Replying to Master Kazekage, Master Gaara still cannot control Shukaku..."

After a pause, the Sunagakure Anbu said hesitantly:

"Master Kazekage, your plan to deliberately send someone to provoke Master Gaara is not a bit inappropriate. In the past few months, Master Gaara has accidentally killed many ninjas."

"I am worried that Lord Gaara can't stand such stimulation and will eventually be devoured by Shukaku."

"Besides, even if Lord Gaara can really control Shukaku, the ninjas in the village will be hostile to Gaara because of the accidents in recent years."

"Are you teaching me how to do things?"

The Fourth Kazekage frowned and then said:

"Also, don't call Gaara "sir". He is the village's Jinchūriki. Jinchūriki is just a tool for external expansion. Tools don't need to care about other people's opinions."

"But Lord Gaara is the child of you and Lord Karuura after all..."

The Sunagakure Anbu said cautiously. He seemed to really intend to persuade the Fourth Kazekage to give up the temptation of Gaara.

The Fourth Kazekage said with a frosty face:

"Yashamaru, since you like to speak for Gaara so much, I might as well tell you that I have lost confidence in Gaara and plan to change a Jinchūriki."

"You go to assassinate Gaara tonight and tell Gaara that you hate him. If he can successfully control Shukaku's power this time, I can consider letting him continue to be a Jinchūriki."

After saying this, the Fourth Kazekage made a gesture to send him away.

Yashamaru looked deeply at the Fourth Kazekage and slowly left the Kazekage's office. He was a little disappointed with the Fourth Kazekage.

The Fourth Kazekage might be a good Kazekage, but he is definitely not a good father or a good husband.