Although the Eastern Frontier Defense Force lifted the wartime law that "no piece of board should enter the sea", the ports in the eastern part of the Fire Nation remained deserted.

Even though the two countries have resumed customs clearance, the aristocratic merchants still have to spend time rebuilding ships, coupled with various gossip rumors, pirates in the eastern seas are everywhere, and there is also the support of the Tokuko Shogunate and the Fog Hidden Ninja Alliance, which has scared off some of the merchants who are not strong.

Jiraiya stood on the hill north of the port of Kamatsukyo Port, the largest port in the northeastern part of the Land of Fire, observing the movement of the port.

He was commissioned by Tsunade to go to the eastern region to investigate the Tokumitsu shogunate's actions.

It's just that the port is far more depressed than he expected.

Although there are a few dockyards where ships are being built, there are only a few small fishing boats at the berths, and the bustling scene of sails and boats is gone.

Although the border army did not destroy the port when the blockade was lifted, they took all the surviving large ships with them in the name of requisition.

After observing from the top of the hill for a long time, Jiraiya finally turned around and left, not choosing to go into the port area to spy on information.

Because he noticed that there were several unidentified ninjas on the high ground in the harbor.

Jiraiya felt that he was still shouldering the exploration mission entrusted by Tsunade after all, and it was not a good thing to alarm the minions of the Tokumitsu shogunate at this time.

After leaving Minato, Jiraiya bit his finger and activated his spiritism to summon a red toad.

"Kosuke, help me bring this secret letter back to the village and give it to Tsunade~"

Jiraiya took out a scroll painted with fire paint from his bosom and handed it to Kosuke, a red-covered toad.

“…… Jiraiya, something happened in Konoha, don't you know yet? ”

Kosuke Toad didn't take the scroll for the first time, but looked up and asked Jiraiya.

"What's wrong?"

Ji Lai asked puzzled.

He had been away from the village for a while at Tsunade's behalf, starting from the Kawanokuni garrisoned by the Western Border Defense Force, and his footsteps were all over the border area of the Fire Country, and the Tokumitsu Shogunate was already his last stop.

Therefore, he did not know how the village was doing recently.

"The day before yesterday, the Uchiha launched a purge again, and the intelligence frogs were all captured or killed!"

"What!"

Jiraiya was shocked.

"Oh, and the intelligence snake in the Dragon Cave has also been caught a lot."

Kosuke Toad added.

It was one of Myoki Mountain's intelligence liaison frogs in Konoha, but it only happened to be in the hot springs of the Senju clan at that time and survived.

And the so-called intelligence frog is just an ordinary frog that can be seen everywhere in Miaomu Mountain, so it doesn't have much wisdom, and it usually only acts as a consumable for high-level wisdom ninja frogs, so even if it is damaged a lot, Toad Kosuke doesn't care much.

“…… Why so suddenly? ”

Naturally, he will not feel sorry for the loss of the so-called intelligence frog, but he just feels that it is a pity that the intelligence network was destroyed in one fell swoop.

"I don't know, but it will take a while before the intelligence frog is redeployed......"

Kosuke Toad took the scroll from Jiraiya's hand, "But Konoha is getting more and more dangerous, and I can't sneak around the village like I used to......"

"The police department is fooling around like this, doesn't the teacher have an opinion?"

Jiraiya asked with a frown.

"Mr. Hizai must be very troubled right now."

Kosuke Toad replied, "The police department wanted to enter the Forest of Death to search, but it was stopped by the dark department, and it should still be in the standoff." ”

"This ......"

Zi Lai is not a fool, and naturally understands that there must be other ulterior secrets hidden in the Forest of Death, but they have only been discovered by the police department.

Even this time, the Uchiha of the police department once again set off a purge of intelligence ninja beasts, maybe it was related to some of his teacher's actions.

"Will you be able to go back to the village?"

Jiraiya asked.

"I can go back to the land of the Thousand Hands, but the rest of the village...... Don't dare to go over for the time being. ”

Toad Kosuke replied.

“…… I'm sorry for you. ”

Jiraiya sighed.

Kosuke Toad then turned into a cloud of smoke and left.

……

And far away in the Daimyo's Mansion in the Land of Fire.

Recently, the most discussed between the ministers and nobles in the open and secret is not the commercial and trade issues after the switch of various countries, nor the gathering of people to condemn Uchiha Tokumitsu as in the past, but how to deal with the seemingly harmless Hazumaki shogunate.

Mimura Hamaki and the shogunate he established in the country of Kawanokuni became a thorn in the side of the daimyo nobles in a very short time.

And the reason for all this comes from a collection record sent to Tsunade by Jiraiya.

“…… The shogunate set up by Mimura Hamaki Shinobu recruited some of the Kawanokuni refugees to reclaim the land, and the fields were initially opened up by the ninjas, and the surrounding beasts and bandits were cleared, and the refugees who came to take refuge could get hundreds of acres of new fields, although the new reclamation land was relatively barren, but the shogunate distributed rations to the homeless, so the homeless people of the Kawanokuni heard the news and flocked to the shogunate's castle......"

“…… The Hamaki shogunate collected eleven taxes from the homeless, and if they were willing to serve the shogunate, they could also deduct part of the field tax; In addition, the shogunate allowed the homeless to trade their own handicrafts and stationed ninja squads in the market for protection, making the shogunate-controlled area more vibrant than other areas that had been left out by war. ”

And these words that seem to be complimentary, in the eyes of the daimyo nobles, feel more uncomfortable than killing them.

It's not that I feel uncomfortable because of the gap in governance capacity, but because the Hamaki shogunate's move really shook the foundation of the one-country-one-village system.

Ninja village ninjas do not produce and specialize in mission battles, and the daimyo nobles rule the people and provide for the ninja village.

This is the core foundation of the one-country-one-village system.

And the actions of the Hamaki shogunate undermined this system from the foundation.

"If the ninjas find out that they can also govern the people, then we have no need and no value to exist!"

"Mimura Hamaki is a national thief!"

"There are other shogunates who are all rebels! It's a chaotic party that violates the covenant between Lord Tsuruma and the Daimyo family! ”

The private remarks of the ministers and nobles of the Daimyo Mansion became more radical than the other, but no one dared to ask the Daimyo to invite them to go and order the Hamaki Shogunate to "set things right".

Because after experiencing the Uchiha Tokumitsu coercion Daimyo, the nobles found that those vulgar and unliterate ninjas were provoked and would really kill!

……

The standoff between the Police Department and the Shadow Ministry on the outer edge of the Forest of Death has intensified, and the confrontation force has grown in size.

In addition to the main force of the North District Police Station, the Uchiha Quartet also transferred all the combat operation teams in the Eastern and Western Districts, plus the assault forces directly under the police headquarters, a total of more than 200 Uchiha participated in the confrontation.

The dark department also didn't care about the deployment of other areas, and also gathered more than forty elite dark departments, plus a part of the family ninjas led by Mito Menyan and the ninjas of the police department to confront each other.

Mito Menyan also gave a death order, even if he died, he couldn't let the Uchiha of the Ministry of Police step into the death forest before the transfer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs base was completed!

After learning of the confrontation, Uchiha Tokumitsu also prepared to lead his troops back to the village.

With the sweep held by the police department in Konoha Village, the original hidden plan is gradually exposed.

In addition, after the ninja cat clan learned about the huge amount of money between the Daimyo Mansion and the Sarutobi clan from the black market, Uchiha Tokumitsu could already conclude that the daimyo had colluded with Sarutobi Hichi.

"Anyway...... What if Konoha also set up an ICAC? ”

Uchiha Tokumitsu said casually to the guard ninja beside him.

"Huh?"

The guard ninja was puzzled.

Although the confrontation between the police department and the dark department is quite big, the three generations of apes have not come forward, but the action teams of the three major police departments are still on the front line and continue to communicate with the dark ninjas, and the advisor elder Mito Menyan strongly advocates that the forest is a secret base of the dark department, and refuses the police department's investigation on this ground.

But the police department is not a fool, if it is really a dark base, naturally the minister of the dark department came to communicate, and it is impossible for Mito Menyan to come forward, so they believe that there must be an ulterior secret in the dead forest!

"Either the police department will enter the forest to search, or Hokage-sama will issue a notice paper!"

At the entrance to the Death Grove, the Uchiha Quartet pulled out his sword and pointed it at Mito Menyan.

He didn't have the patience to continue the confrontation any longer.

In the past few days, he has also continuously sent his clansmen to try to infiltrate the depths of the forest through other directions to investigate, but they have all been stopped by the shadows.

Coupled with the constant pressure exerted by Uchiha Tokumitsu, who was far away in the country of Vortex, his spirit became more and more nervous, and he couldn't bear it anymore until this time.

Mito Menit's face was also gloomy.

It's okay for Uchiha Tokumitsu to be rude to him, after all, Kaleidoscope Sharingan really can't be provoked; But the Uchiha Quartet, the so-called head of the ninja clan who was just a puppet in his eyes, dared to be so arrogant in front of him.

If Danzou is still there......

At this time, Mito Menyan is the same as Sarutobi Sun, and his heart is extremely nostalgic for the dead ghost Tuanzang.

“…… Hokage-sama has issued a notice to enclose the Death Forest as a special defense area in the shadows, and no other unrelated people are allowed to enter! ”

Seeing that the momentum was not good, Mito Menyan reluctantly took out a stamped but undated proclamation from his bosom.

After the confrontation broke out, the third generation of the ape Flying Sun ordered him to go to the Death Forest to delay time, and quickly arranged for the Ministry of Internal Affairs personnel to carry out an emergency evacuation.

At the same time, just in case, an undated proclamation was specially issued to prevent accidents.

It's just that as soon as this proclamation came out, it was completely confirmed that there must be a special secret hidden in the Death Forest!

Otherwise, I wouldn't have gone out of my way to prevent others from entering the Death Grove!

"Good!"

Uchiha's face immediately turned cloudy and clear, and after putting away the blade, he beckoned everyone from the police department to evacuate.

"It seems that Hokage-sama no longer takes the decision of the upper ninja class on the confirmation of the power of the Konoha tribes in his eyes! Then get ready to wait for impeachment! ”

The Uchiha Quartet threw down a cruel word and led his troops away, and Mito Gate Yanmu Ran stood motionless.

After the failure of the "Tokumitsu Elimination Plan", the main forces of Danzo and Neto were hunted down by Uchiha Tokumitsu and Hachiki Sakushige, and the two led the ninja army to garrison outside the village, forcing the Hokage to bow his head and compromise.

In order to resolve the crisis, one of the reconciliation conditions proposed by Mito Menyan as the envoy at that time was that "the village will no longer set up an internal ninja organization".

Now, the Hokage's proclamation of the enclosure of the Dead Forest is a sign that another root-like tissue has surfaced in Konoha.

What would Uchiha Tokumitsu and Hachiki Sakushige think?

What do you think when you go to a shinobi class?

What will the other Konoha ninjas who celebrate the destruction of their roots think?

Mito Menyan didn't dare to think about it anymore......

Konoha ...... It's getting torn!

……

After learning the information from the Uchiha Quartet, Uchiha Tokumitsu prepares to return to the village to contact Hachiki Shuo Shigeru to launch a large-scale impeachment, and even if he can't pull the Hokage off the horse, he vows to take this opportunity to keep the Hokage's power in a cage!

As for whether there are any secrets hidden in the Death Grove, or whether the Hokage family has formed a secret organization again, it doesn't matter!

All Uchiha Tokumitsu had to do was make Sakushige Hagi and the other members of the Shinobi class and the members of the Innovation Council feel that the higher-ups were targeting them.

However, a bad news from the fog disrupted Uchiha Tokumitsu's plan - two days ago, when the three clans of Ghost Lantern, Mizuno Moon, and Kaguya were plotting, the three generations of Mizukage led the Misty Shadow to launch a surprise attack, annihilating the leaders of the three ninja clans in one fell swoop, and hunting and killing the three major ninja clansmen in the area of the fog and even the land of water.

Today's update (1/2), Chapter 2 is delayed

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