Chapter 699: Questions and Answers
"Hokage-sama, can you answer me a question before answering your question?"
Looking at Lu Jiu's nervous expression, realizing that this conversation might take a long time, Lei Luo was about to signal Lu Jiu to make a long story short, but at this moment, the smell left over from the battle with Guanghui came to the tip of his nose......
"Let's talk about it in another place."
Beckoning to Lu Jiu casually, thinking that he hadn't visited the capital for so long, Lei Luo took the lead in walking towards the Daimyo's Mansion, and Lu Jiu saw this, so he had to hold back his restless mood and hurriedly followed.
At half past eight in the evening, the sky had completely darkened, and the sky above the capital of the Fire Nation was gradually shrouded in night, and the hazy moonlight cast down, covering the world with a faint veil.
In this slightly bustling city, it is obvious that half past eight is not the time to rest, especially the first Congress held today, so that the people of the Fire Nation have not been able to recover from their excitement for a long time.
Daimyo, Hokage, high-ranking officials, big merchants, parliamentarians, prime ministers and prime ministers, officials and nobles, generals and ninjas......
Historically unattainable personalities have come together to fight for the future of the country, and to win the support of these paltry civilians......
The most important thing is that the choice of the prime minister and the ruler is really determined by the votes cast in their hands, this unprecedented scene, this kind of fierce ideological impact, simply makes everyone living in the capital faintly shaken their three views.
It also made them realize ...... What is the Constitution.
There is no doubt that the sky in the Land of Fire has changed, and all levels of society are aware of this, including the Konoha ninjas who participated in the Congress and witnessed the entire meeting.
Everywhere you can see people gathering in groups and chatting on the brightly lit streets, and the atmosphere of slaughter caused by the coup d'état a week ago no longer exists, and almost everyone in the capital of the Fire Nation today is excited about the advent of a new era.
In the semi-open-air spacious Maruko shop, the wind chimes rang at the beams of the back room, and Lu Jiu felt the autumn night breeze blowing on his cheeks, only to feel cool, and his restless thoughts were also calmed down a lot unconsciously.
Glancing at the plate of three-color balls on the table, and then at the street outside the store, the pedestrians who came and went eagerly discussing something, Lu Jiu finally turned around, looked at Lei Luo, who had just finished chatting with the shopkeeper, and said with a smile:
"Hokage-sama, it seems that the people's sense of the new deal is very good, and the weather in the capital today is really different from a week ago."
Raising his hand, he picked up a string of balls and stuffed them into his mouth, Lei Luo chewed for a moment, frowned slightly, and then put down the wooden skewer with two balls left.
"What the hell, it's so sweet."
Adhering to the principle of not wasting food, Lei Luo quickly swallowed the sweets in his mouth, and noticed the faint smile on Lu Jiu's face, he wiped his mouth, and responded to the other party's previous words without being salty:
"Giving the people some of the power to appoint personnel can make them deeply feel the power of the Constitution, and the time when the country cannot be established and the law is unstable if it is not just, and the era of aristocratic officials wantonly oppressing the common people is over."
"This era belongs to the era of capital, belongs to the era of development, and is also the ......" paused slightly, and found that Lu Jiu was listening carefully, the corners of Lei Luo's mouth rose slightly, revealing a heartfelt smile, and slowly said the last sentence:
"It's an era of expansion."
Hearing the subtext of Lei Luo's words, Lu Jiu's eyes flickered slightly, and at this moment, the young Nara patriarch sensed the power of Hokage-sama, which was different from strength, and it was also different from the previous generations of Hokage, the kind of power that united people's hearts.
If you have to say it, this kind of power may be called courage......
Or maybe it's called, pattern.
Lu Jiu stared at Lei Luo's confident and firm smile, feeling the other party's majestic momentum of treating the whole world as a chessboard, all levels of society as chess pieces, and the changes of the times like a chess game, and his heart involuntarily rippled violently.
After a moment of silence, all kinds of thoughts surging in his heart condensed into one at this moment, which made Lu Jiu bite his lip tightly, and after a while, he cast his blazing gaze over, and asked in a hoarse voice:
"Hokage-sama, what position will we ninjas be in this era?"
glanced at Lu Jiu in surprise, and noticed that the other party's expression was full of expectation, but also uneasy, very complicated, Lei Luo did not answer in a hurry, Lu Jiu is a smart person, he doesn't think that the other party will ignore the content of the constitution, about ninjas.
That is, what is the question that is really being asked......
"When the peaceful evolution plan is over and the world is unified, all the Naruto ninja in the future generations, including me, will be loyal to the constitution and obey the leadership of the cabinet and the Diet."
This sentence, Lei Luo said very calmly, but Lu Jiu seemed to have been violently impacted, he subconsciously raised his hand, and accidentally knocked over the plate on the table, and the three-color pills were scattered on the ground, but they couldn't attract the slightest attention.
"That is to say......" The tone trembled slightly, and the question that had been lingering in my heart for the past few days was finally asked by Lu Jiu, who had plucked up all his courage, at this time:
"When the world is united, will you completely return power to Congress, to the parliamentarians?"
Konoha's position, the country's position, was entangled in Lu Jiu's mind, and Lei Luo once again saw the deep meaning of the other party's question from his expression, and replied calmly and slowly:
"That's right, at that time, I will no longer interfere in the decision-making of the Diet, nor will I interfere in the operation of the cabinet, and the Hokage, Konoha Ninja, will be directly led by the prime minister and prime minister, and the indirect leader will be the parliamentarian."
The prime minister is voted by the parliament, the prime minister is decided by the people, and most importantly, both positions have a term of office, not some nonsense for life, and the courage of Lei Luo to say such things now is simply imaginable.
And Lu Jiu also got his own answer.
From this, the next question arises:
"Hokage-sama, I want to know, what do you ...... me"
Lu Jiu has already raised more than one question, and the fundamental intention of its progressive and serial temptations is also reflected in the last half of the sentence, Lei Luo smiled slightly, and replied word by word:
"Lujiu, you are a councilor of the Fire Country, as long as you abide by the provisions of the Constitution, then no one can force you to do anything, this is my guarantee to you."
"But I only have one request......" Lei Luo paused, looking at Lu Jiu's solemn expression, he was also a little more serious, and said in an accentuated tone:
"No matter when you are, no matter where you are, don't forget that you are a ninja and that you represent more than just yourself."
The seven members of the Secretariat, who were then sent to the National Assembly, were a means for him to influence the formulation of national bills and prevent certain things from getting out of control.
But these ninja councillors, who themselves have the ability to think independently, suddenly have the power to interfere in national legislation, even if they know who they should listen to, they will inevitably want to go further.