The first daimyo was a peerless hero, and of course he understood the truth that power came out of the barrel of a gun. Although countries have a plan to use advanced technological weapons to defeat the ninja class, this plan will take a long time, and with the level of modern science and technology, it is still unable to compete with ninjutsu, and ninjas are the most powerful force.

Therefore, in order to ensure his right to rule, the first daimyo formed a private direct army called the "Guardian Ninja Twelve".

Although there are only 12 members of this private army, the strength is very strong, and each member is an elite shinobi, with a waist cloth with the word "fire" tied around his waist as a symbol.

The first daimyo wanted to use the power of the ninjas, but they were full of fear of the ninja class, fearing that their dominance would be threatened, so they could not train a large number of ninja troops, but chose to take the elite route.

I have to admit that this hero's wrist is very clever, and the structure of the "Guardian Ninja Twelve Guards" perfectly solves all concerns.

The elite upper ninja is the top first-class master in the entire ninja world, and most of the patriarchs of the major ninja families in Konoha are at this stage of strength, and the patriarchs of some families can't even meet the standard. And the top elite Shangnin also has another title, that is, "Quasi-Shadow"! Every elite ninja is an existence that can threaten the shadow-level powerhouse, and if there are enough of them, they can even win the battle!

Even in the heyday of Konoha now, the number of elite shinobi did not exceed 100, and the "Guardian Ninja Twelve" had a full twelve, which shows how strong its strength is.

This top-level force was able to guarantee the Daimyo's position of power, and because of its scarcity, it was impossible to pose a threat to the Daimyo's regime.

This alone shows the attitude and policy of the ordinary rulers towards the ninja class.

That is to cut and limit the number of ninjas, and use a small number of elites as weapons of war, so that it is easy to control and reduce resource consumption.

In the original book, the countries successfully implemented this policy by controlling the source of funds, and by the time of the four major wars, there were many ninja masters, but the total population had dropped a lot, and after more than ten years, the ninja was completely declining, and the former first ninja village Konoha even had to face the fate of breaking and demolishing.

Rope Tree's plan is completely contrary to this policy, he believes that the ninja class is not enough to thrive on a few strong people, and must have a large population base, so he tries to increase the number of ninjas.

In order to ensure the number and balance, the members of the "Guardian Ninja Twelve" formed by the daimyo are somewhat complicated, including ninjas from Konoha, monks from the Temple of Fire, small ninja families and wandering ninjas recruited by the daimyo during the Warring States period, and local ninjas trained by themselves.

However, with the hands of the first daimyo, these people have been completely controlled, making all of them the most loyal supporters of the daimyo.

However, the "Guardian Ninja Twelve" was only loyal to the Daimyo, and did not ask anything else, so when the Daimyo was seriously ill, they were still guarding the Daimyo Palace, and the prince had not yet succeeded to the throne, and there was no allegiance to the "Guardian Ninja Twelve", otherwise the assassination would not be so easy to carry out. After that, Chiyo fought each other for the position of Daimyo, and they did not intervene in it.

Now that the political situation in the Fire Nation has settled, the "Guardian Ninja Twelve" is all loyal to the three-year-old Daimyo, and the Great Shogun's Mansion of the Rope Tree does not have any authority to command them.

Although the "Guardian Ninja Twelve" does not interfere in government affairs because of the regulations, it is not completely devoid of its own position and thoughts.

Due to their different identities, they have different ideas and ideas, and are roughly divided into moderate and radical.

Among them, the moderate faction is led by Konoha ninjas, as well as members of the Temple of Fire and wandering ninjas. Their idea is simple: maintain the status quo.

The radical faction is made up of small ninja families cultivated by the Daimyo, these people are the real descendants of the Daimyo, they believe that the Hokage does not need to exist, and all ninjas should be controlled by the Daimyo!

This kind of thinking is actually very strange, he is obviously a powerful ninja, but he thinks that the ninja class with absolute power should accept the rule of ordinary people, and completely deviates from his own position.

Could it be that these people have been brainwashed by the daimyo and have developed a servile nature?

In fact, this is not the case, these radical factions are either Warring States ninjas or ninja families cultivated by civilians, due to their origins, they have always regarded ordinary people as equal to ninjas, and regarded ninjas as a special profession, believing that ordinary people are no different from ninjas, and should abide by secular rules, or even simply treat themselves as members of ordinary people.

However, since the establishment of the ninja village, the ninja class has been isolated from ordinary people, and people either worship or fear, and regard ninjas as aliens no matter what.

This and the estrangement and exclusion made the radicals who were bent on integrating into the human and the world at a loss, but the contradiction between ordinary people and ninjas could not be resolved, so they blamed everything on the Hokage, believing that as long as the existence of the Hokage was eliminated, then the ninjas would reintegrate with ordinary people as they did during the Warring States period. For this reason, even if it is to submit all ninjas to the rule of the Daimyo!

So the radicals are not really stupidly loyal to the daimyo, but to realize their own concept of integration!

And this concept is also very much in line with the needs of the first daimyos, so the two hit it off and use each other.

However, this concept is very dangerous and has this fundamental contradiction with the moderate faction and Konoha, the first daimyo can be reconciled with his own extraordinary means when he is alive, but he cannot control it after his successor takes the throne.

According to the original plot, the name of the successor should be the prince, and this person's character is forbearance and is a king, so he is more inclined to the moderate school in thought, and he has no idea of controlling Konoha at all. This led to more and more dissatisfaction with the radicals led by Kazuma, in order to realize their ideals, they first intended to assassinate the daimyo and change their partners, and after the failure, they frantically attacked Konoha, which can be said to be a group of fighters with firm beliefs.

However, today's "Guardian Ninja Twelve", whether it is a moderate faction or a radical faction, is very dissatisfied with Rope Tree and the Shogunate.

Because a series of measures by Rope Tree are not stable, they have also had an impact on the ideas of the radicals.

However, due to the fact that they were not allowed to interfere in government affairs, they could only hope that the daimyo, who was only three years old, and while uniting with the courtiers loyal to the daimyo against the shogunate, they tried to keep the daimyo in power as much as possible, and at the same time tried to instill their own ideas in the daimyo in the hope that he would support their side when he grew up.

Although these people can't change the overall situation, the plan for the rope tree is a trouble and hidden danger, so the rope tree must solve this problem.