Chapter 223 How About We Talk Again? (Subscribe)

Konoha regretfully refused to support the Sand Village's request for help.

Konoha Village also has little combat power available, and there is no possibility of dividing it to support other villages.

In addition to external threats, they seem to be prepared for internal threats as well.

But unfortunately, Ryosuke knows very well that Hyuga has no such thoughts at all.

After all, they are from the same village who have lived together for decades. Although Hyuga has independent thoughts, they will never take control of Konoha by force.

The best strategy is to destroy the enemy's strategy, the next best is to destroy the enemy's alliance, the next best is to destroy the enemy's soldiers, and the worst is to attack the city.

Force is never the best means to gain power. If not, there would be no disagreement between Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama.

Using armed force to directly clean up the situation, destroy the existing high-level forces of Konoha, and make all opponents speechless. Of course, Hyuga can do such a thing now.

But after doing so, Konoha, which is under the flames of war and internal consumption of hatred, will no longer be Konoha.

By then, except for Hyuga, the combat power level of its own village may not even be comparable to that of a small ninja village. The result of suppressing with absolute force is not as good as parting amicably and cooperating with each other.

However, the top leaders of Hyuga understand this, but Konoha is not clear.

Or maybe they know, but they dare not bet whether Hyuga has other thoughts.

"The surveillance will stop in the near future, don't worry."

When Shanks came back again and complained about being monitored every time he went out, Ryosuke gave a direct answer, "A force has appeared in the ninja world, breaking the original stable situation and capturing tailed beasts everywhere."

"As long as this news spreads, Konoha will no longer have the energy to care about you, an "ordinary person."

Perhaps under the instigation of Black Zetsu, the action of Akatsuki Organization started ahead of time.

Although it is not known what means he used, it is at least carried out in the direction expected by Ryosuke.

After Shukaku of Sand Village was captured, news of other tailed beasts being captured was sent back through Hyuga's intelligence agency in the following days.

First, the two-tailed Matatabi of Kumogakure Village, and then the five-tailed Mu-oh of Iwakage Village. As long as these news and intelligence spread, Konoha's next days will not be so easy, and there will be no time to focus on Shanks.

"Tailed beast?"

Sitting on the corridor, Shanks squinted his eyes, "Is there going to be a war? Then can I see it?"

He also understood what kind of existence the tailed beasts were in this world.

Since there is a dispute about the tailed beasts, perhaps he can take this opportunity to feel the true power of this world more intuitively?

He now knows that this ninja world is not as peaceful as he imagined.

"Mr. Shanks, we Hyuga have no right to interfere with your freedom."

In the courtyard,

While filling the tea cup for Nozomi Saki who was sitting across the stone table, Ryosuke chuckled and replied, "You want to see the power of the tailed beasts, of course you can."

"But you have to catch up. These people won't announce to the world what tailed beasts they are going to catch before they take action."

As he said that, he turned his gaze to Nozomi Saki in the courtyard, "Master Saki, the situation in the ninja world may be very chaotic in the future. If your Saki family will conduct business involving overseas, then I suggest you pay more money and hire more people."

Nozomi Saki nodded calmly, "I'll consider it."

Every time Ryosuke received reports from his clansmen, he would never avoid him. Over time, he got used to the strength of the Hyuga intelligence agency.

Nozomi Saki could probably guess that this might be the Hyuga showing him its ability, hoping that he could devote more resources, and he was indeed somewhat tempted.

But how to give these resources is another matter.

Things that are easily given away are certainly not as memorable as icing on the cake or timely assistance.

Nozomi Saki no longer has any hope of cooperating with Hyuga.

With the other party's strength, there is no need for them to cooperate with their ordinary noble family to do something.

Nozomi Saki now only wants to befriend Hyuga, hoping that when Hyuga becomes successful in the future, they can share a piece of meat with them, or at least... when doing something dangerous, don't consider their Saki family.

"But even the intelligence chain of your clan can't analyze the time and place of their actions in advance?"

Shanks was a little puzzled, paused and said, "I need the assistance of your Hyuga intelligence agency. As a condition, I can help you identify every devil fruit you find as a reward."

According to his previous contacts with Hyuga, he felt that his efforts were not enough.

"I'm sorry, it's not about the reward, but this matter is really beyond our expectations."

But Ryosuke still shook his head, "I know that in your understanding, the existence of the tailed beasts is the kind of powerful giant beasts that can destroy the world and fight against thousands of people."

"But in fact, there are specialties, even giant beasts, there are ways to seal them."

"Akatsuki is not a team with a large number of people. They follow the route of single elites. There are only a dozen formal members, and there are only these dozen people who will participate in the capture of the tailed beasts."

He felt that Shanks should regard the tailed beasts as those monsters in the Ultraman world, and that it would take millions of ninja troops to fight a large-scale war.

"...I see."

Shanks was stunned for a moment, and then nodded suddenly.

At first, he thought that the battle involved a large number of people. If there were only a few, it would be difficult to grasp their exact intelligence.

Next, Shanks did not speak again, and Ryosuke did not talk much. He silently sipped tea and played chess with Nozomi Saki.

He has been so leisurely during this period, but he did not deliberately waste time.

After his strength was raised to another level, he reached a bottleneck period again, and he needed some opportunities to break through.

However, although Ryosuke did not go out during this period, the news channels all over the world have transmitted most of the major events in the countries to Hyuga, allowing him to easily and clearly understand the changes in the situation in the ninja world.

Even Konoha still doesn't know about the news that the tailed beasts of Kumogakure and Iwakage are missing.

Just like the incident of Kirigakure invading Konoha has not spread in the ninja world,

Each country and each village has a very strict blockade of internal information. Unless there is an alliance with interests, major military events, whether good or bad, will basically not be synchronized with each other.

Only a country like the Rain Country that has directly lost the protection of its own ninja village will be unprepared to be obtained by spies from various countries.

As for why Hyuga can obtain information that even Konoha cannot get,

On the one hand, it is because of the unique bloodline advantage of Hyuga that allows them to perceive, infiltrate, and explore well,

On the other hand, it is also Ryosuke's one-handed operation.

No matter which world, intelligence information is always a direction that needs to be paid attention to when there is no absolute power, so Ryosuke will certainly not lack the cultivation of Hyuga's internal intelligence chain.

As early as when Hyuga Hiashi gave him the authority to mobilize and check the Hyuga intelligence agency, he had been arranging Hyuga personnel to expand the scope of intelligence exploration and expand different information channels through various methods.

From the beginning,

Ryosuke could only get most of the intelligence information from Konoha Village,

and later, the Fire Country team got on the way of Tokugawa Daimyo, with the operation of Hyuga Souji, the Hyuga intelligence agency began to expand outside the village and expand to the scope of the Fire Country.

Then, with the assistance of the Cardo Chamber of Commerce, overseas channels were obtained,

Now, unknowingly, Hyuga's intelligence chain has spread throughout the ninja world, and the news of various countries and villages can be transmitted at any time through the information channels of wandering ninjas, samurai, or even ordinary people.

"Speaking of which... Master Saki, I wonder if your Saki family has any idea to move the whole family to another country?"

Suddenly, in the originally quiet courtyard, Ryosuke suddenly asked a question, breaking the peace.

Sitting opposite him, Nozomi Saki paused with her chess piece...

"Mr. Kusanagi, I wonder if your country's proposal some time ago to apply to join the Allied Nations on the condition of unconditionally selling many materials including mineral resources at a price 30% lower than the market price is true?"

After being destroyed by Pain, the Hidden Rain Village in the core area of ​​the Rain Country was quickly rebuilt as a temporary capital.

The Rain Country is no longer as chaotic as it was a few months ago. After the arrival of the allied countries headed by Konoha, all forces except the allied countries were cleared out of the country, including people from the Hidden Cloud Village and Rock Shadow Village.

At this time, representatives of the allied countries were gathering in a temporary tent, and they were discussing the matter of the Rain Country joining the Allied Nations.

In fact, such meetings have been held several times after the end of the clearing operation, but each time they had to be stopped because the tug of war over interests was too intense.

This talk lasted for more than a month.

After more than a month, the major forces in the alliance finally divided the Rain Country clearly.

Each piece of cake was carefully carved, and it would never exceed the share that its own forces should occupy.

But even so, they were still stuck with the last problem, that is, the friendly price of the resources sold by the Rain Country to the allies, which was rejected by the Wind Country.

The representatives of various countries also knew the reason - the main production resources of the Rain Country overlapped with those of the Wind Country,

and if the prices were high and low, then naturally no one would trade with the Wind Country with a high price.

With this reason, although the Wind Country's refusal was reasonable, it was inevitable that other countries would have some grudges.

But the Wind Country was the second largest force in the alliance after all, and their votes against it were still very important, so this formal joining agreement was stuck here and could not be signed and confirmed.

But now, the tailed beasts of the Sand Village were captured by the Akatsuki organization. They were too busy to stay here to negotiate the joining of the Rain Country.

So the day after the Sand Village and the Wind Country team left, they arranged another meeting early to confirm this extremely favorable condition for them.

"... Unfortunately, while everyone was hesitating during this period, I have been confirming with other people in the country. In fact, our Rain Country may not be able to accept this condition now."

But unfortunately, in the expectant eyes of representatives from various countries, Kusanagi, the new leader of the Rain Country, apologized and rejected this proposal.

"What do you mean?"

The first person to express dissatisfaction was Koharu Utatane of Konoha. She frowned and was very annoyed. "This condition was proposed by your Rain Country at the beginning. We have discussed it for several days. Now you change your mind again?"

"Integrity is one of the criteria for whether a country can join the Allied Nations. If your Rain Country does not even have the most basic integrity, then we may also need to consider your application."

The Iron Country also expressed dissatisfaction.

People from other forces in the Allied Powers also expressed their opinions, using words to pressure Kusanagi, trying to make him return to his previous humble attitude.

"I'm really sorry."

However, Kusanagi seemed very calm, "In fact, regarding the demarcation of some lands that we had agreed on before, we have re-discussed it and decided to renegotiate with you."

After that, he took the initiative to stand up and apologize to everyone, "Although this will waste your time, please rest assured that our Rain Country is still very sincere about joining the Allied Powers."

"What?!"

Tanane Koharu's face was full of anger, and he slapped the table, "Mr. Kusanagi, do you know what you are talking about? Do you mean to overturn all the previous proposals and discuss them again?!"

"Sorry! I may not have that much time. I have already wasted a lot of time here."

The Snow Country's Fenghua Nutao stood up directly, indicating that he was leaving.

"I don't have that much time here. If Mr. Kusagi has this attitude, then forget about your country's application to join the Allies!"

As the matchmaker of the alliance, the representative of the Cardo Chamber of Commerce also stood up.

Afterwards, several representatives of other forces pretended to leave, but they just stood up without taking a step.

"Mr. Kusagi, I need to remind you that you should know what the situation in the Rain Country was like in the past few months, right?"

On the contrary, the person who was still sitting in the tent was Koharu Utatane, who had just shown the most irritability.

She was frowning at Kusagi at this time, "In fact, our Allies can completely ignore this matter. You should also know this, right?"

"Of course, of course I know that if it weren't for your help, the Rain Country might still be in a situation of war, burning, killing and looting."

With a gentle smile on his face, Kusagi was very friendly, "But please be patient, be patient."

Raising his palm, he kept lowering his hand to indicate that he wanted to suppress the irritability of others with his palm.

"There is a reason why our Rain Country wants to negotiate joining the Allied Nations from the beginning."

Kusagi looked at everyone with a smile, "It's like this, at this stage there is a relatively famous ninja family in the ninja world that plans to settle in our Rain Country."

"And they are very dissatisfied with the various conditions for joining that we negotiated before, so at their strong request, I apologize to everyone here and hope to renegotiate the corresponding conditions."

"Ninja family?"

Instantly, all the major forces in the tent were stunned.

"Mr. Kusagi Akeboshi, don't you think... just the joining of a ninja family can maintain the stability and peace of your Rain Country?"

Feng Hana Nutao said sarcastically, "We have gathered here the top forces in the ninja world."

"Let's not talk about anything else, just Konoha. Every family in their village was famous during the Warring States Period. Do you really think that the family that joined your country is qualified to compare with us? Is it qualified to be your backer and come to negotiate with us?"

Not only him, but other people present also had a mocking look on their faces.

I thought it was some kind of confidence that supported Kusagi Akeboshi's request to re-issue the topic, but I didn't expect... it was just a ninja family?

"Indeed, I agree with what the Lord of Kazehana said."

As for the ridicule on everyone's face, Kusanagi Akebono seemed not to notice it, and kept a friendly smile on his face, "As the former number one force in the ninja world, any family that came out of Konoha is famous and influential. I absolutely agree with this."

After a pause, he looked at Utane Koharu who was still sitting, "So... I proposed the idea of ​​revisiting the topic."

Kusanagi Akebono's attitude and gaze made Utane Koharu stunned,

Because she had been talking a lot recently, her old mind started to glow and heat up, turning very fast.

Suddenly, she had a bad idea.

At this time, the curtain of the tent was pulled open, and a figure familiar to everyone present walked in.

"Everyone, let me introduce myself again. My name is Hyuga Iroha. I have been authorized by the head of the Hyuga family to assist Mr. Kusanagi in participating in this meeting."