In ten years, the Fire Nation has grown faster than anyone could have imagined.

A peaceful and stable environment, an increasingly well-developed infrastructure, a less timely but fair judiciary, and a wide enough avenue for advancement.

Ten years of prosperity and prosperity make people's eyes red, but the strength of Konoha can calm people's heads.

The ninja world Shura Uchiha Madara fought all over the ninja world, and he leveled the mountains everywhere in the land of fire, and transformed the terrain, all of which were not things that people could do.

Although the god of ninjas, Thousand Hands Pillar, has not done such evil things as destroying Ninja Village, he used ninjutsu to transform the entire Fire Country into a large forest, and the prestige of the god spreads far and wide when he thinks that the entire country is the realm of Mu Dun.

Not counting the two ninjas beyond the scope of human understanding, Konoha still has 20,000 ninjas from the Ministry of Defense, 100 ninjas from the Ministry of Taxation, 6,000 ninjas from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and 12,000 ninjas from the Ninja Army Department who specialize in combat.

There are nearly 40,000 professional ninjas, and the four major ninja villages tied together can't make up so many mobile forces.

In fact, Konoha still has 26,000 infrastructure ninjas from the Ministry of Transportation, but these ninjas who pave roads and build bridges, fill holes and dig holes, and open rivers and dams all day long are despised in the eyes of most people in the ninja world.

However, the eighth master doesn't think so, history has long been clear, whether it is the engineer of the rabbit or the combat engineer of the German cat, they are all first-class elites, and they are the power to come when called, to fight, and to win in battle.

Except for the ninja army, who specializes in combat, no other ninja is qualified to be compared to the infrastructure ninja.

In the face of such a powerful and rich Fire Country, small countries feel that it doesn't matter, just to be able to hitch a ride on the Fire Country and enjoy a wave of economic dividends.

But it is impossible for the great powers not to care, and they have studied how the Fire Nation has become powerful and rich.

The Fire Nation's distinctive political structure naturally attracted the attention of the Four Great Powers, who followed the Fire Nation's systems and policies.

The magnates naturally refused to give up their privileges, and the imitation of the Fire Nation was naturally superficial, basically copying some departments and institutions such as the Shangnin Council, of course, none of the Ministry of Taxation was left behind.

As the saying goes, those who learn from me live, and those who are like me die.

The four great powers copied a nondescript copy, and they soon felt all kinds of discomfort, and even caused a lot of chaos.

The Ministry of Taxation, in particular, which is very powerful, quickly became extremely complicated, with seven or eight deputy ministers or supervisors and so on under the minister.

These deputy ministers each have their own subordinates, and they compete with each other for power and profit, and after a series of open and secret battles, backstage fighting, and turf division, they finally stabilized after a long time.

However, the top-level centralized department of the Ministry of Taxation has been tossed into a feudal feudal system, and the ministers are the people who have the most subordinates and the largest tax territory, but he cannot control the deputy ministers, because they also have a group of subordinates, each with a piece of tax territory.

Even to this extent, the tax department also has the departmental attributes of a centralized empire, and the taxes they collect are several times more than those collected under the management of the nobles in the past, so the daimyo and the shadow are very satisfied.

Of course, they don't care about this kind of stitching monster tax department, and the oppression of the bottom is more professional and powerful than that of the feudal aristocracy, and once it is corrupted, it will be more cruel.

However, now it is not their turn to worry about any corruption, and the Fire Country Konoha Village does not intend to let them continue to exist and unify the ninja world into one country.

The Thousand Hands Pillar asked, "Which great country is our first target?"

Seeing that everyone, including Mito, was looking at him, Tsuruma scratched his head and said, "What do you see me doing?"

Madara Uchiha laughed for a while, and said, "Tsuruma, you don't talk about peace and balance now?"

"I am not blind, the goal of peace is to stop war, but the fundamental purpose of stopping war is to let the world live a dignified life."

"Ten years ago, I didn't think so, but today the people of the Fire Nation and the people of other countries are ......, and they are already people from two worlds." The Thousand Hands Pillar said with great emotion, "They are still struggling in the Infernal Hell, they shouldn't

That way, they should not come to hell on earth."

The eighth master looked at the thousand hands between the pillars, and a little admiration couldn't help but appear in his eyes, this person has a sincere heart from the heart, he must not have learned the truth of the Mo family, but he can follow the Mo family and love the first righteousness.

It is a tragedy that he was born in the ninja world and has no one to guide him on how to practice such morality.

Of course, the eighth master's fall from the sky changed his fate, and under the guidance of this old rabbit, the eyes of the thousand hands between the pillars could see farther, and at the same time, they could see the creatures at the bottom.

Moreover, how well the Fire Country is built now, and how happy the people are, but other countries have become that bad, and the Thousand Hands Pillar naturally has a tendency in his heart.

It's all about love, and once Senjutsu felt that the Uchiha Madara was an eyesore, but now he naturally felt that those countries and nobles were in the way.

Senju Tsuruma is a true idealist, and he can even stab his beloved Madara to death with his own hands for the sake of his ideals, not to mention the foreign nobles, daimyos, and ninjas who he hates when he looks at them, and kills them without blinking an eye.

Hachito nodded and said, "What the Hokage said is right, it should be unified, and the people of the ninja world should be allowed to enjoy peace, stability, happiness, and live a life of hope."

"The first thing we have to do, though, is not to choose a target, but to ...... Change the Hokage."

"What?!"

This sentence can frighten everyone, could it be that the Thousand Hands Pillar has done something wrong?

"My eldest brother ......" stood up with a thousand hands, and as soon as he opened his mouth to speak, he was suppressed by another louder voice.

Madara Uchiha asked in the loudest voice in an unbelievable tone, "Why? The Hokage between the pillars is doing a good job, why should he change the Hokage?"

The eighth master raised his index and middle fingers and said, "Two reasons."

"First, the next thing is the war, even if it is a war of unification, the whole country of the Fire Country has to change its style, what is most needed in the early days of the village is the Hokage who can bond the country and the village, and the pillars are doing a good job, but his character is not suitable for the war."

"Second, for the sake of the national system, I believe in Pillar and Madara, and I also believe in all of you here, but I can't trust the descendants of all of you here, whether it is your disciples or your children."

"The Hokage's term of office, which I talked about ten years ago, must be set up this year, and when we are all gone, the rules of this term can be unchangeable."

"Originally, my idea was just to hold a vote of confidence in the term of office and let Pillar Ma be re-elected one more time, but the Fire Nation is developing too fast, and the time for the Unification War has actually come, so Pillar is not suitable to continue to be the Hokage for the next ten years."

The eighth master said with a smile, "Since the time has arrived, let's use this time to strengthen the rules of the term."

The Thousand Hands Pillar patted his thigh and said, "Okay, what the Eighth Master said is very right, my character is indeed not suitable to rule the Fire Country during the war, in order to unify the ninja world, and for the future of the Fire Country, I accept the Eighth Master's suggestion."

"But......" Senju Tsuruma looked at Madara Uchiha and asked hesitantly, "Who will be the next Hokage?"

"Naturally, it's Madara Uchiha." The eighth master said with a smile, "I don't need your recommendation, Madara is the most suitable candidate for the second Hokage, let those guys know that we are going to start, and you decide what to do for yourself."

Madara Uchiha's face was slightly red with excitement, and he clenched his right fist with his left palm, and said loudly, "That's exactly what I dreamed of! I'll do it to the second Hokage!"

Senju smacked his lips and didn't say anything, he was also persuaded by the eighth master, but he had a grudge against the Uchiha clan in his heart, and he was a little unhappy when he saw that Madara Uchiha was about to become the Hokage.

In the past ten years, everyone knows that while serving as the head of the Hokage's dark department, Senju has been concentrating on developing various ninjutsu and showing his talent to the fullest.

But what are those ninjutsu things: the technique of dark walking, the art of reincarnation of filthy earth, the technique of flying thunder god, the technique of flying thunder god slash, and the mutual multiplication detonation sigil, as long as you look at the effect, you will know that it is either for the writing wheel eye, or for the needle

I developed to Susa Neng.

is full of malice, coupled with the fact that he is obviously proficient in the five kinds of escape techniques, but he uses the greatest energy to study the water escape, and he plays the water escape that wins by quantity.

If you say that this guy is not targeting the Uchiha's world-famous fire escape ninjutsu, the ghost won't believe it.

No way, this guy's personality is like this, and he can't change it in this life.

So Senju and Izuna Uchiha haven't reconciled for ten years, and they are still angry and hostile, just like children.

Madara Uchiha asked, "Hachiha, if I become the Hokage, who will the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Taxation hand over?" Or am I going to do it?"

"Think beautifully." The eighth master smiled, "You'll know when you look back, as the Hokage in charge, you don't have time to care about these little things."

"I suggest that the Ministry of Defense be handed over to Senju Tsuruma, the Ministry of Taxation will be handed over to Senju Kakuma, and Madara will find someone you can trust to be the head of the Dark Department."

After thinking about it, everyone thought it was appropriate, so they didn't object.

Uzumaki Mito looked left and right, and then said, "Since everyone has no opinion on Hachima's proposal, I will convene a meeting of the upper ninja to determine the matter of the Hokage's replacement. Do you want to blow the wind on the ninjas as well about the war?"

Madara Uchiha waved his hand arrogantly and said loudly, "I suggest that you don't need to blow the wind and announce it directly, and the unification war doesn't need to be sudden."

Thousand Hands objected, "But the four ninja villages will unite when they know the news, and increase our war losses out of thin air."

Madara Uchiha sneered and said, "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if they join forces, Konoha's ninja army will crush them together, and the unity of the ninja world is unstoppable."

Senju was furious: "But this will kill a lot of Konoha ninjas for nothing, how can you be the Hokage?"

Senjutsu couldn't help frowning when he heard this, but he didn't object to it, but looked at Hachima, only to find that Hachiha Madara had no reaction to Madara Uchiha's words.

"Eighth Master, do you think Madara is doing the right thing?"

"Well, yes."

The Thousand Hands Pillar was devastated, and blurted out: "Why is this, those are all ninjas of Konoha, how can they be like this......

The eighth master said helplessly, "Tsuruma, that's why I suggested replacing Madara Uchiha as the Hokage, your personality is really not suitable for the United War."

Recalling the ups and downs, experiences and lessons experienced in the process of reunification, the only truly unified country in the previous life, the eighth master said with emotion: "I said ten years ago that reunification is not simply to kill all opponents, but must be able to completely control the land and manage the people on the land."

Madara Uchiha smiled maliciously, "So we spent ten years training a large number of ninjas and more 'village chiefs', hehe, they stared at the number of ninjas, but they didn't notice that we now have five village chiefs in each village."

The eighth master also smiled, and then continued, "But is it enough to just beat it down and control it? Of course not."

"Reunification is not only to complete the occupation by force, but more importantly, to complete the occupation "in the heart", so that everyone will be convinced of us and dare not resist our rule."

"In this way, they can maintain control at the minimum cost, and smoothly implement the new policies that they are not familiar with, ensure that the new policies are not distorted, and bring more benefits and convenience to the local people."

"In the end, after a long run-in, everyone accepted the concept of 'we are one', and this is the true unity."

The eighth master looked at the Thousand Hands Pillar and the Thousand Hands Pillar, and said solemnly: "Attention, the premise of everything is that everyone who is beaten is "convinced", and the best way is for them to be able to do everything they have done, and be crushed by us head-on when they are the strongest."

Thousand Hands pondered and said, "What if they don't obey?"

The eighth master sighed and said, "If you don't accept it, you will be in trouble, they will help us on the surface, but secretly oppose us, pass information to those hostile ninjas, and cover the activities of the ninjas.

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"And these ninjas will be very difficult to hunt and kill with intelligence and cover, but they can use the intelligence to accurately kill our village chiefs and those who accept our management, and constantly create terror."

"Such a tactic is almost incomprehensible, we have to invest tenfold, twenty, or even hundredfold ninjas, playing hide and seek with them for many years, and after a long time, people will not trust our rule, and the people of the Fire Nation will not be able to accept the results of their hard work."

"The result is that the War of Unification will be won, but a unified nation will not be established, and we will suffer the most terrible defeat, even implicating the Fire Nation itself."

The eighth master looked into Pillar's eyes and said, "Pillar, the ninjas who died in the unification war, the Imperial ninja who died, and the people who died in the war, they all died in vain."

The eighth master's words were so heavy, and he stopped talking between the Thousand Hands and the Thousand Hands Pillars, and thought silently.

Madara Uchiha also felt a heavy pressure, and after reflecting on it, he suddenly felt that he was too naïve, and the reason for fearlessness was just the habitual pursuit of the greatest glory, how could this support his fearless progress?

But Madara Uchiha has a tenacity like no other, and he quickly collected his mood and consciously asked from the Hokage's point of view, "Back to the original topic, which one do we choose first?"