Shiraishi came out of the laboratory in his busy schedule and temporarily interrupted his research on some of the dead trees of the Sacred Tree, and for the mission jointly sent by the five major powers, he, the Minister of War of the Oni Country, still needed to meet in person.

Although the results of the morning talks were not satisfactory to all parties, Shiraishi did not expect to obtain favorable conditions in such a short time.

Presumably, the missions of the five major powers also know this.

The purpose of their joint mission to the country of ghosts this time is very simple, that is, to restrict the arms sales of the country of ghosts.

It is forbidden for the Oni Country to provide any arms supply to countries or organizations other than the Five Great Powers, and only arms are allowed to be sold to the Five Great Powers, and in other respects, they will make certain compromises with the Oni Country.

It can be said that it is a win-win outcome for all parties.

This is also a last resort, the ninja developed by the country of ghosts is no longer just a forbearance, the threshold for the use of these weapons is extremely low, even children can use it in battle if they get it in their hands and be familiar with it for a few days.

For example, if you don't have a gun, you only need to press the trigger to easily take your life.

Since the Oni Country sold a large number of such convenient and extremely lethal weapons to the surrounding small countries after defeating the Wind Country, it has already caused a certain amount of pressure on the big countries.

Although it will not hurt the muscles and bones, after a long time, no one knows what will happen if a large number of weapons continue to be transported out in this way without control.

At first, they didn't realize it, but after seeing the civil war in the Land of Rain, they realized what these convenient ninja tools developed by the Land of Ghosts meant.

After all, there are too many ambitious small countries in this ninja world, although these small countries will be destroyed every time the ninja world fights, but after the war, they will grow tenaciously and thrive, and then threaten the big countries again.

The weapons sold by the Oni Country have greatly strengthened the military power of this small country, so that they are no longer powerless in the face of large countries.

If you want to use ninjas to deal with them, ordinary middle ninjas and lower ninjas can't form an absolute suppressive force.

Only elite ninjas of the upper ninja level can cause deterrence.

Of course, there are a lot of upper ninjas in big countries, but there are definitely not many, compared to the base of middle ninja and lower ninja, upper ninja is always the most scarce ninja class. In many cases, it is used as a heavy brand of a country.

Based on this situation, it is not superfluous for them to restrict arms transactions between the country of ghosts and small countries.

Shiraishi believed that if he didn't agree to these conditions of the five great powers, the next time he would come again, it would not be the mission, but the joint pressure of the ninja villages of the five major powers.

In the case of a complete alignment of interests, these people do not mind joining forces.

Even the country of thunder, which maintained a posture of watching from the wall at the Five Shadows Conference, also intervened strongly, which shows that the five major powers are afraid and vigilant about small countries at the moment.

They won't allow a second demon kingdom to emerge.

The exception of the Oni Country has already made them anxious, and if there is a second one, whether directly or indirectly, their prestige and interests will be further reduced.

"Nagato, this guy is really good at picking the right time......"

Back in the office, Shiraishi looked at the information coming back from the Land of Rain, and was quite depressed.

He knew that Nagato would use war to make a strong impact on the elites of the Land of Rain.

Because if the internal troubles are not solved, the Land of Rain will never want to break away from the control of the great powers.

This control, not just militarily, but also on the economic and political levels.

If it was military pressure, Nagato would not be afraid. But economic and political sanctions are what Nagato is really worried about.

No matter how strong he is, he can't solve the problem of feeding everyone in the Rain Country, and he must compromise for the peace of the Rain Country.

Just like Hanzo back then, he let the great powers wreak havoc in the Land of Rain, and there was no other way but silence and patience.

And Nagato, who replaced Hanzo, became more cunning.

Under the pseudonym Payne leads Rain Hide, the civil strife in the rain is not a war of ninjas, but the nature of a popular uprising, and the dissatisfaction of the domestic elite class, a civil war was launched.

If Yuyin is directly involved, the nature will be different.

Even so, the surrounding three great powers of fire, wind, and earth are also preparing to sneak into the ninja and intervene in the war, taking the opportunity to eliminate the hidden danger of rain hidden.

It's just that because of the relationship between the country of ghosts, the nerves of the wind have become extremely sensitive to war at the moment, and they will not end easily.

The country of ghosts began to meddle in the affairs of the country of waves, and the country of fire could not sit idly by, and at the same time pay attention to the country of rain, focusing on two things and distracting.

The only one who has the ability to intervene in the civil war of the rain is the land of earth.

This is also why Shiraishi said that Nagato chose a good time.

The two great powers of fire and wind will not exert their all their strength for the time being, and only need to strictly guard against the movements of the land country.

In terms of judging the situation, Shiraishi also had to admire Nagato's vision at the moment.

Before, in the stage of preparing for the Five Shadows Conference of the Five Great Powers, he secretly received the four-tailed human pillar force of Yanyin Village, so that Yanyin is still anxious about this matter, looking for the whereabouts of the four-tailed human pillar force Lao Zi.

Now taking advantage of the turmoil in the Land of Wind and the distraction of the Land of Fire, he did not hesitate to lead the civil war in the Rain Kingdom.

It can be said that the eyes are quite sharp.

Compared to the previous leader, Yahiko, he is more decisive and ruthless.

"However, the civil war in the rain is also relatively relieved for the country of waves."

The effects are relative.

The Land of Fire distracts from the Land of Rain because of the Land of Waves, but isn't the Land of Rain a puppet stake that shares the firepower of the Land of Fire for the Land of Waves?

It's just that Nagato has now turned from dark to semi-bright, which still makes Shiraishi vigilant.

I'm afraid that after the end of the civil war in the rain, Xiao's operation to capture the tailed beast will officially begin.

That was the real beginning of the contest between the two sides.

Therefore, there is still a need for a certain compromise on the side of the five major powers.

The prohibition of arms sales to small countries can be negotiated, but it is necessary to give the country of ghosts a suitable price.

With such a huge loss of benefits, it is impossible to expose it lightly in a word, even if the country of ghosts is not bad at this profit.

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Asma, who came to the Land of Oni with the Fire Country Mission, was temporarily separated from the Fire Country Mission after coming to Shion City, the capital of the Oni Country.

Before the Fire Nation Mission negotiated with the high-ranking officials of the Oni Country, Asma was a free person. As long as he doesn't cause trouble in the country of ghosts, it's also his father of the three generations of Hokage, who acquiesces to him.

Being in a foreign country, the experience of Asma is still relatively novel, although I have been to many countries in the past, but because of the mission of the ninja, I have never had any leisure to calm down and slowly enjoy the unusual scenery of a foreign country.

That's what most ninjas do.

Carrying out tasks is the goal of life, and stopping and resting for a while is a luxury for ninjas who are busy all year round.

Even Asma, who is the son of the Hokage, has not had much time to stop and rest since she was a child.

Because he was born in a chaotic era, not long after graduation, he went to the battlefield of the ninja world and witnessed the brutal war.

After that, the concept deviated from Hokage's father and joined the Daimyo of the Fire Nation, becoming one of the Twelve Guardian Ninja.

In the end, his companions killed each other, and he returned to Konoha in discouragement, losing his purpose in life.

Now that I'm relaxed, it's a different taste.

I can't breathe freely, a feeling I haven't experienced in a long time.

The last time I experienced it, I felt this way when I was in a ninja school.

Because he is the son of the Hokage, he must work hard and become an elite ninja in order to be worthy of his status as the son of the Hokage.

Thinking of her father's day slash, Asma couldn't help but sigh again.

The father with the tall back of the past is no longer there, and the current father is just a rotten old man who is about to fall into the ground.

It is because of this that Konoha has repeatedly declined.

Not wanting to worry about these worries anymore, Asma relaxed her mood and began to wander aimlessly around Aster City.

After all, he was a newcomer, and he didn't know the situation in Ziyuan City, so he just went to a place, just took a look, took a turn, and bought it with money when he encountered something new and interesting.

When I returned to the hotel, I found that my hands were full of shopping bags.

This made Asma wonder, just take a casual stroll, has he bought so many things unconsciously?

And a lot of things are meaningless to ninjas, Asma, who is a ninja, can restrain most of the boring desires in his heart, and now he buys so many things at once, which can only mean that many things here are because he hasn't seen them, so he can't help but buy them.

Even if you can't use it, you can take it back and study it slowly to pass the time.

Rather, entering the land of ghosts from another country is like entering two worlds.

This is especially evident here in Aster City.

It's hard to imagine that the prosperity here surpasses that of the capital of the Fire Country.

Whether it is a residential area or a commercial area, it is neatly classified.

There are also signs along the way, so even first-time visitors can find where they want to go.

A country of abundance and stability, this may be the scene of prosperity that countless Konoha ancestors are extremely eager for.

Asma couldn't help but sigh when she remembered that she was in the Konoha Ninja School in the past and read about the glorious deeds of the previous Hokage.

Because the prosperity of the country of ghosts is not a city or a village, but the entire country is running in an orderly manner like a stable machine.

Communication and transportation, including commercial prosperity, even if Asma does not want to recognize, must recognize the country, in many ways, has surpassed the land of fire.

These are things that can be seen everywhere in the country of ghosts, and there is no need to hide them, he graduated from the Konoha Ninja School with honors, but he is not only a ninja with excellent talents, he has followed the daimyo for so many years, and many things can be seen at a glance with his eyes.

And this has become a place where Asma is very puzzled.

He was sure that before the Third Shinobi War, there would never be such a prosperous scene in the country of Oni.

A series of strange policies in the country of ghosts began to be born in the country of ghosts not long after the three of Chiba Shiraishi betrayed Konoha.

It can be determined that the rise of the country of ghosts is no accident, and there is a faint shadow of Chiba Shiraishi and others behind it, and it took more than ten years to govern the country in an orderly manner.

Even the previous Hokage may not be able to do this.

This made Asma very confused.

Why was Chiba Shiraishi, who was a traitor, able to do all this, but instead accepted the orthodox ideas of the Hokage, Konoha Ninja, who couldn't make the Land of Fire a prosperous paradise like the Land of Ghosts?

What's missing?

As a traitor, why did he do this?

The other party who turned the country of ghosts into a paradise undoubtedly possessed the ability of the ideal Hokage, but he turned his back on Konoha and transferred to the country of ghosts...... The more Asma thought about it, the more incredible it became, and the more she thought about it, the more incomprehensible it became.

From a personal point of view, he hates Chiba Shiraishi who killed his brother and sister-in-law, but from the point of view of governing the country, the other party's ability is likely to be above that of the previous Hokage.

Because the Hokage of Konoha does not have the concept of 'country'.

He didn't know the previous Hokage, but he knew that his father, the third generation Hokage, did not have the concept of 'country'.

In his eyes, there is only 'Konoha' in the world.

The Hokage is also the master of the world.

But this kind of world, in Asma's view, is undoubtedly narrow and selfish.

The more he read the deeds of the first Hokage, the more he thought that the original intention of the first Hokage to establish Konoha was not to achieve peace in one village, but to make the whole world peaceful, and he wanted to end all the wars in the world as a leader.

It's just that the original Hokage didn't break through the concept of 'Hokage' in the end, nor did it break through the concept of 'Konoha'.

The 'jade' of Konoha, the 'jade' of the land of fire, or ......

The more she thought about it, the more confused Asma became.

In the end, he could only sigh, if his father heard this thought, the other party would start to teach him again.

He also knows very well that this kind of thinking of his is not tolerated by Konoha.

But he just followed the original concept of the first Hokage and wanted to protect the bigger 'jade', not just Konoha's 'jade', is this kind of self really wrong?

Or, it's not himself who is at fault, it's his father, who is the Hokage.

Without questioning and criticism, how can progress come from?

Now Konoha is as quiet as a dead man's grave, dead and silent, without the slightest vitality to move forward.

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The word "muddy" to describe Asma's current state is undoubtedly the most appropriate word.

He came to the country of ghosts to relax, but after seeing the ecology of the people in these countries, the enthusiastic smiles on the faces of the people who yearn for life are not surviving, and he finds that his heart is even more chaotic.

What is this? The person who inherited the Hokage's true thinking, is it the renegade who turned his back on Konoha?

In the past few days, Asma has been wandering around Aster City, carefully observing the dynamics of life here, and more and more self-deprecating and mocking herself, or ridiculing Konoha who was born by herself.

What the previous Hokage couldn't break through until he died, it took a group of rebels more than ten years to complete.

It's not funny at all.

Asma stands at the edge of the park at the top of the hill, and from here you can see the whole of Aster City.

It's almost dusk at the moment, and the huge city under the beautiful sunset looks extremely peaceful and beautiful.

The more Asma admired the scenery here, the more he could feel the gap between Konoha and the Land of Fire and here.

If it weren't for the fact that he was a Konoha ninja, he would have a plan to settle here.

Factors such as stable public order, people living and working in peace and contentment, convenient transportation, etc., once you get used to life here and return to Konoha again, you may become unaccustomed to it because of the inconvenience of life.

People are lazy.

Asma is no exception.

"Speaking of which, in the past four generations, Mizumon-sama and Mr. Kaku, because of Tsunade-sama's travels to the country of ghosts, it seems that they have proposed to partially emulate the policy of the country of ghosts......"

Asma suddenly remembered something.

I remember that it was eight or nine years ago, and it was not long after the fourth generation of Hokage Wave Feng Shui Gate had just ascended to power.

It is said that at the Shangnin meeting, there was a lot of turmoil, but in the end, the matter was settled.

With the death of the four generations of Hokage, no one mentions it even more.

The new policies of the four generations of Hokage who were alive were almost all overturned by his father, the third generation Hokage, for the sake of his so-called balancing strategy, to stabilize the balance between the ninja clan.

So, what about civilian ninjas?

Asma looked at the crowd of beings below, and suddenly had a feeling, but her heart was more dazed and puzzled.

Just when he was suspicious of this, footsteps suddenly sounded behind him.

Asma, who was a ninja, naturally became alert, turned to look at the person, and suddenly his face was stunned, and then he became cold, and the strong killing intent was faintly beating in his eyes.

Asma, who clenched her fists, tried her best to restrain the hatred in her heart.

Chiba Shiraishi.

Although the image has changed from the Konoha period, he still remembers this face clearly.

The culprit who killed his brother and sister-in-law!

An S-class felony who discredits the Land of Fire and Konoha with face!

Even if his wanted warrant has been revoked by Konoha now, many ninjas in Konoha still regard him as an extremely vicious S-class traitor.

The trauma that the other party directly and indirectly gave to Konoha made many Konoha ninjas hold grudges.

Asma is one of them.

The brother and sister-in-law who I have always respected and admired the most died at the hands of the other party.

It can be said that the enmity between them is as deep as the sea.

"When I saw a familiar figure here, I thought it was someone, but I didn't expect it to be the son of the Hokage. Did you come with the Fire Nation Mission? ”

Shiraishi glanced at Asma with a surprised smile.

The last time I saw Asma in person was when I was in Konoha and I was in office.

Because the other party is the second son of the three generations of Hokage, when the other party was studying at the ninja school, Shiraishi also paid a little attention to him.

Later, I also heard the rumors of the other party, because of differences in ideas, I quarreled with my father, the third generation of Hokage, ran away from the village, joined the fire country daimyo, and formed the Guardian Ninja Twelve.

It can be said that he is a rather rebellious Konoha ninja.

"Hmph, you're here specifically for me, aren't you?"

Asma didn't answer the rhetorical question, and smiled coldly.

Shiraishi didn't care about the coldness in Asma's eyes, and nodded with a smile, there was nothing to hide.

"I'm just interested in the rumored rebellious Hokage's son, so I'm here to take a look."

"Are you such a boring person?"

Asma asked with a frown.

"You're more interesting than I thought, how can you say it's boring? Leaving behind the future destined for glory and wealth, questioning the correctness of Konoha and the Hokage, if you weren't the Hokage's son, you'd now be saddled with the name of the traitorous shinobi like me. ”

Shiraishi told the truth.

Asma was silent.

He knew that Shiraishi was not wrong.

He used to vehemently oppose Konoha's 'Jade', and in the strict sense of the word, he was an uneasy person who undermined Konoha's stability and should have been imprisoned for reform, or defected to Konoha.

But because his father is the Hokage, he has nothing to do in Konoha.

At the daimyo's place, the other party also took good care of him and did not neglect him in the slightest.

The son of the Hokage, although he didn't like it, he finally enjoyed the various benefits and benefits that this status brings.

"I said, it's a lot of fun. In my opinion, it's the biggest shame for you, as the son of the Hokage, to have such an alternative idea. ”

"So you're here to see us Konoha having fun, aren't you?"

Asma took a deep breath and looked at Shiraishi with a cold gaze.

Shiraishi still chuckled and walked forward, until he reached Asma's side, and then he stood slightly, looking at the cityscape Asma had just seen.

"It doesn't matter what it does. I'm just interested in you as a person. We're all rebels against the will of fire, but I can see that you're confused right now. Panic and uneasiness were all written on his face. ”

Shiraishi said softly.

Asma pulled a little distance to the side.

"As the intelligence says, you are an incomparably dangerous man. I will not be deceived by your rhetoric. In the past, you deceived Hokage-sama too, right? ”

Asma said this, her face solemn.

"There's nothing to deceive or not to deceive, at that time, I was just fulfilling the obligations of the Konoha ninja, and your father, the third generation, believed me, that's all."

"Qubble."

Deception is deception, but to say such beautiful words, Asma feels that this man is quibbling from head to toe for his defection.

"Whatever you want. Don't be so bitter and hateful, I came to you just to have a casual chat with you. Aside from Tsunade-sensei, I rarely chat with Konoha ninjas calmly. After all, people like Jiraiya always talk about prophecy and prophecy or something, and I don't think it's necessary to negotiate with him. ”

Shiraishi said with a helpless smile.

Really, what a stupid person would believe that if he was destroyed, peace would be restored to the ninja world.

He didn't know that his survival could be related to the peace and security of the ninja world.

Even if there is no he's an outlier, the truth has always been there, and sooner or later it will be opened, it's just a matter of speed.

If you really believe the other party, Akatsuki's former leader, Yahiko, is a role model.

Xiaozao has already used the history of blood and tears of its own development to prove that the path proposed by Zilai is worthless.

The best wish is to bring the former Xiao to hell.

Because of this, Nagato took a very different path.

"Chat?"

Asma was somewhat stunned.

Looking at Asma's stunned expression, Shiraishi continued to smile: "Yes, I'm more interested in your deviant ideas, although I am a rebel of Konoha, but we are both rebels, maybe we have a common topic. Because what the first Hokage couldn't do when he was alive has been realized in my hands, you must be curious to know what the answer is, right? ”

Seeing Asma's continued stunned expression, the smile on Shiraishi's face became even stronger.