Chapter 118: Governing a Country with Clones is So Awesome
With the support of Team 7, who had annihilated Kazahana Dotō, and with Kazahana Koyuki as the legitimate heir in a high position, they quickly gained the recognition of the entire Land of Snow.
The process was very simple. Kazahana Koyuki basically didn't do anything—most of the specific tasks were completed by Team 7.
It was nothing more than announcing to those below that Kazahana Dotō had been defeated by her, his corpse hung from a lamppost, and that if they knew what was good for them, they should just obediently listen and go back to doing what they were supposed to be doing!
In addition, the remaining remnants of Kazahana Dotō's faction who had not yet switched sides were all either arrested, purged, or dismissed as necessary.
As for the Snow Ninja who had fled, most of them returned to the Snow Ninja base after receiving the order—apart from the residences of Kazahana Dotō and other high-ranking officials, which had been affected in the battle, the rest of the castle was still relatively intact and could still be lived in after some repairs.
There was also a small half who, holding onto a sliver of hope, had fled, and were then captured and brought back by Sasuke and Naruto. Of course, the place they lived in was not the Snow Ninja base, but a dark dungeon.
Most of the policies of the new government followed those of its predecessor. Of course, those militaristic orders were abolished. The Land of Snow did not need such a large number of Snow Ninja as before, nor could it afford to support so many of them.
So now, the group of people living in the Snow Ninja base was giving Kazahana Koyuki a bit of a headache. The Land of Snow did not have enough mission requests to support this group of people, and they were once Kazahana Dotō's henchmen, so they were not easy to use... She could only slowly identify them, keeping the useful ones, and dismissing and expelling those who were not. Those who had committed many evil deeds were thrown into prison, and those whose crimes were heinous were directly hung from the lampposts.
Sakura discovered that ninja had a huge advantage in governing a country.
In government work, ninja had a huge advantage in conveying orders and inspecting the grassroots, especially in a small country like the Land of Snow. Sakura could even create hundreds of ice clones at once, directly delivering the orders of the provisional government to the lowest levels, achieving a completely flat government design.
If she were a little more hardworking, she could even create more clones and even take over the grassroots work, achieving the myth of a one-person government... What Sakura didn't know was that, in fact, in the ending of Naruto, Naruto had a tendency to do this. This was the reason why the dumb and cute Naruto could become a qualified Hokage—no matter how stupid a leader is, as long as he is always willing to go down to the most grassroots level, then he is more qualified than ninety-nine percent of other leaders...
This sounded very fantastical, but since the Naruto world had chakra, had ninjutsu, had something as fantastical as the Clone Jutsu, then if it still behaved very similarly to Sakura's previous life, that would be the fantastical thing.
In fact, the clones created by ninja basically all have the most basic logical abilities, which is why clones can be used in battle to deal with complex battlefield situations, rather than just being one-to-one life-sized figurines with only an outer appearance. The more advanced the clone, the stronger its thinking ability. Naruto's shadow clones could work together to complete very complex tactics, and could even fight with the original over the toilet...
If a ninja and his clones were seen as a team, then the cohesion and centripetal force of this team should surpass any team organization in human history. To be used to form a company or something would definitely be much better than Alibaba and its eighteen founding members. Dealing with the political affairs of the Land of Snow was, of course, no problem.
Sakura's ice clones, of course, also had their own thinking ability. Although not as intelligent as the original, they could easily surpass Naruto without much pressure. She used a mix of combat-type and reconnaissance-type clones: combat-type clones did not feed back experience and only consumed chakra, not causing a burden on the original's mind, so they were mass-produced and used for various tedious tasks. Reconnaissance-types were used for those important tasks that required timely feedback. They could disperse themselves the moment they discovered a situation and feed the information back to the original. This type of clone was only produced in small numbers, to prevent Sakura from tiring herself out.
As for the original?
Naturally, she was sitting in the daimyo's mansion, drinking afternoon tea with the daimyo, chatting and joking... ahem, reporting on her work and studying state affairs.
"Clones are so useful~!" This girl sat leisurely on her knees before a low table, flipping through documents. From time to time, an ice clone would present her with a new document that it had preliminarily processed. Because it was submitted by a combat clone, she still had to read it again, and then pick out the important ones to hand over to Kazahana Koyuki for processing.
But overall, the work was still relatively easy—apart from being a little tired from creating so many ice clones at once.
So the girl still had the leisure to feel emotional. She even began to chat idly with Kazahana Koyuki about why ninja, with such a powerful tool as clones, didn't just become daimyo or high officials themselves.
"Of course, it's because the Land of Snow and you are both special cases!" Kazahana Koyuki said with disdain. She sat behind Sakura, lazily watching the girl read her the submitted work reports, and then casually wrote down the daimyo's important instructions.
What she said also made sense. Although the Land of Snow was called a country, its actual population was probably about the same as a small administrative district in the Land of Fire, and it was dirt poor. Even if those below wanted to cause trouble, they couldn't make much of a splash. If it weren't for the current transitional state after overthrowing Kazahana Dotō, the whole country wouldn't have much political affairs to deal with.
And there weren't many ninja like Sakura who could casually create several hundred clones for long-term use. A large number of clones often meant poor quality. For battle, a large number of low-combat-power clones was not as good as a small number of clones that could fight and endure. So basically no one would research such a ninjutsu.
In addition, ninja were not patient enough to do this kind of thing, including Sakura. Her current status in the Land of Snow was, in legend, second to one and above ten thousand, but the girl did not feel the beauty of so-called power at all. On the contrary, she felt that this kind of work every day was extremely tiring, and she would rather go and play with a few ninjutsu!
In short, the work of the provisional government was basically going smoothly. The ice clones directly transmitted the orders to the lowest levels, so no one dared to play tricks, such as deceiving their superiors.
Sometimes, the clones could also listen to public opinion on the side, and pull out the bureaucrats or local gentry who were doing a poor job or even oppressing the common people, to beat the local tyrants and divide up the land... ahem, I misspoke, to hold a public trial.
"Confiscate their property! Confiscate their property!" As soon as she saw such a report, Kazahana Koyuki would get excited. "Throw the men in jail, and sell the women to the red-light district!"
However, the Land of Snow did not have such a large prison to house so many prisoners, nor was its economy developed enough to have such high-class brothels as red-light districts.
Sakura just rolled her eyes at her. "Can't you be a little more reliable? Act like a daimyo for me!" Koyuki grinned sheepishly. "Then let's just follow the old rules."
Don't be fooled by Koyuki's appearance. She was not merciful at all when dealing with these people. Anyway, all the unsightly and troublesome guys could just be branded as "remnants of Kazahana Dotō's faction" and be completely purged. With the clones around, there was no need to worry about those below making false accusations or causing trouble.
As for the hatred drawn by doing so... after the new Land of Snow daimyo's office was established, the blame could just be thrown on the provisional government.
This girl's shamelessness was that of a natural politician.
Of course, the consequence of such willfulness was that the mid-to-high levels of the Land of Snow were completely hollowed out... but Sakura and Koyuki said it was just right. Anyway, these former running dogs of Kazahana Dotō were all going to be purged once, and then new people would be promoted from below to reconstruct the entire regime. These would all become Kazahana Koyuki's direct line.
After this series of actions, the entire Land of Snow, from top to bottom, was completely obedient—those who were not were either hanging from lampposts or eating prison food.
The entire Land of Snow could now be said to be peaceful and politically clear, completely under their control.
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