After a round of discussions.
Uchiha Makoto and Senju Tobirama finally settled on the general direction of cooperation between the two sides, and the terms of cooperation were basically determined.
As for the specific details encountered during the implementation of the plan...
The two also agreed on a secret remote communication method to facilitate timely communication and exchange.
In the future, unless a major event required a meeting, there would be no need to sneak over here to contact each other.
A slight smile couldn't help but appear on Uchiha Makoto's face.
His urgent contact with Senju Tobirama this time was initially just to suppress the rapidly expanding power of the Uchiha clan in Konoha. Discussing cooperation with Senju Tobirama now was all unplanned.
Although the Akatsuki Ninja Village invested a lot, the returns received in the future would definitely be extraordinary.
So Uchiha Makoto was in a very good mood now. He couldn't help patting Senju Tobirama on the shoulder and saying: "The Uchiha clan is unworthy of great responsibility, you should encourage yourself!"
"Work hard, Tobirama, I see the potential of a Hokage in you!"
Uchiha Makoto absolutely did not intend to support an Uchiha clansman to ascend to the position of Hokage.
And the candidate for the Second Hokage was actually a choice between Uchiha Madara and Senju Tobirama.
If Uchiha Madara still chose to defect as in the original story, then Senju Tobirama would smoothly succeed as the Second Hokage of Konoha.
This matter was almost a certainty.
Of course... Senju Tobirama certainly didn't know these things now.
He didn't think Uchiha Makoto was saying anything good now, almost subconsciously treating Uchiha Makoto's words as sarcastic mockery.
After all, from the beginning, his chances of becoming the Second Hokage of Konoha were not high—there was still an Uchiha Madara standing above him. Even if Uchiha Madara did nothing in Konoha every day like Senju Hashirama, looking like a hands-off manager, Uchiha Madara was really good at fighting.
To become the Kage of a major ninja village, strength in fighting was the most important thing!
The strength of Senju Tobirama and Uchiha Madara was not on the same level at all.
As long as Uchiha Madara showed his willingness to become the Second Hokage in Konoha, Senju Hashirama would definitely raise his hand to support him, and other ninja clans large and small in Konoha might not support him, but they would definitely not dare to stand up and oppose him.
As everyone knows, on key issues, especially involving the election of the Hokage in the village, not opposing actually means supporting.
So Senju Tobirama's chances of beating Uchiha Madara were slim, so he could only find another way, maximizing his advantage in intelligence, working desperately in the Hokage's office, attempting to build Konoha into the most prosperous and powerful ninja village in the ninja world.
In this way, he would also have the opportunity to compete with Uchiha Madara on the same stage.
—It's no longer an era of fighting and killing. Governing the village requires people like me, Senju Tobirama!
Unfortunately, his governing ability, which he was most proud of, was defeated by Uchiha Makoto.
Compared to the Akatsuki Ninja Village... Konoha's development in Senju Tobirama's hands over the years could be said to be slow.
Now Senju Tobirama was forced into a corner by the Uchiha clan united with the nobles of the Land of Fire, forced to cooperate with Uchiha Makoto, this naturally evil Uchiha brat, to catch his breath. Now this bastard Uchiha Makoto patted his shoulder and said these words to him..... These words were harsh, simply too harsh!
Senju Tobirama immediately threw off Uchiha Makoto's hand on his shoulder with an unfriendly face.
"Hmph, save the sarcastic remarks!"
"Do you really think you are my brother? The selection of the next Hokage is not for you, an outsider from the Akatsuki Ninja Village, to intervene in."
"I won't compromise with you again and again just to become the Second Hokage. If you want to use the position of Hokage to make a deal with me and make me sell out Konoha's interests, Uchiha Makoto, you'd better give up this idea early."
Senju Tobirama began to hiss.
He not only thought Uchiha Makoto was being sarcastic to him but also felt that Uchiha Makoto meant something else—wanting to use the position of Hokage as a bargaining chip to make some dirty deals with him that would harm Konoha.
He would never agree to such a thing under any circumstances!
"Tch, what a glass heart, treating good intentions as malice."
"Next time you ask me for help, you won't have this face."
Uchiha Makoto curled his lips and said unhappily.
Senju Tobirama in a glass-heart state really hissed at people at the drop of a hat.... although he did have a little bit of such thoughts.
Senju Tobirama snorted coldly and raised his middle finger in response—the good feelings he had just developed for Uchiha Makoto completely dissipated.
Uchiha Makoto also raised his middle finger at Senju Tobirama as a return gesture, and then he quickly left the private room without looking back, leaving a sentence:
"Remember to pay for this breakfast!"
"Bastard, Uchiha Makoto, didn't you say you were treating?"
"My treat doesn't mean I pay!"
At this moment, only Uchiha Makoto's responding voice and Senju Tobirama gnashing his teeth remained in the room.
Senju Tobirama felt that he had re-acquainted himself with Uchiha Makoto's extremely bad personality today..... but he still chose to obediently take out money to pay the bill and leave.
.....
After returning to the Akatsuki Ninja Village.
Uchiha Makoto came to the Akatsuki Ninja Village Ninja Academy as planned. He gathered all the students from Konoha into a meeting room.
"Lord Kōkage!"
"Lord Kōkage.... you're here!"
"Lord Makoto!!"
"....."
Many Konoha students burst into enthusiastic cheers as soon as they saw Uchiha Makoto.
Their eyes were bright, their faces full of excitement, and their expressions flashed with nothing but admiration for Uchiha Makoto.
This group of Konoha students had lived in the Akatsuki Ninja Village for a long time. Compared to the almost harsh campus life of the local civilian ninjas in the Akatsuki Ninja Village—living in collective dormitories upon enrollment, being instilled with the concepts of collective supremacy, Akatsuki Ninja Village supremacy, and Kōkage supremacy day and night, with a study intensity so high that it almost squeezed out every bit of energy and physical strength, and only one day of holiday per month for respite.
Their lives as exchange students from Konoha were obviously much more relaxed.
The Akatsuki Ninja Village did not impose strict school gate restrictions on them. Usually, if they had free time after class, they could freely enter and leave the campus and move within the safe areas designated by the Akatsuki Ninja Village; they could even enjoy two full days of holiday every week, enough for them to tread every street and alley of the Akatsuki Ninja Village.
This was naturally Uchiha Makoto's deliberate doing.
Students detached from production naturally had a strong petty-bourgeois tendency. Once they saw the prosperous scene of the Akatsuki Ninja Village, as well as the welfare benefits and income of the Akatsuki ninjas, coupled with Uchiha Makoto's carefully prepared ideology, their values would easily be completely subverted.
Usually, what they liked most was to compare various matters of the Akatsuki Ninja Village with Konoha.... They really couldn't help but compare. They were from Konoha, and Konoha was, after all, a top-level large ninja village in the ninja world.
The result was self-evident.
Konoha was now just a small city, relatively closed commercially, with slow personnel flow and a purely militarized organizational model... While the changes in the Akatsuki Ninja Village could be considered rapid, with a larger urban scale, developed economy, and a continuous influx of population into the Akatsuki Ninja Village. Given a few more years, the capital of the Land of Fire would be eclipsed.
—A wave of large capital transfer had already appeared in the Land of Fire, and their target was the Akatsuki Ninja Village.
In short... such a comparison was simply like an adult beating up a child.
So it was almost visible to the naked eye that the thoughts of this group of people turned to the Akatsuki Ninja Village extremely smoothly.
The moon in the Akatsuki Ninja Village was rounder than in Konoha!
If they were from an unknown small ninja village, they would have put on the forehead protector belonging to the Akatsuki Ninja Village on the spot long ago. But they happened to be from the Konoha ninja clans, from a large ninja village—in a large ninja village, once a ninja defected from the village, the outcome would be quite miserable.
And this mentality was very subtle.
Out of loyalty to Konoha, they couldn't blatantly express thoughts that overly belittled Konoha, but once they returned to Konoha and encountered a little setback or life didn't go smoothly, it would be easy for them to become village-haters, blaming all their unsmoothness on Konoha, and then couldn't help but start fantasizing.... If I were born an Akatsuki ninja, I would definitely become a great ninja. It's Konoha that delayed my future!
Enthusiastic cheers resounded in the room.
Several brats from the Uchiha clan deliberately didn't call "Lord Kōkage," but addressed Uchiha Makoto as "Lord Makoto" to show their identity.
—We are Lord Makoto's clansmen, a cut above the rest!
Uchiha Makoto greeted them with a smile, looking amiable.
"Everyone, you have been studying in the Akatsuki Ninja Village for some time. Do you miss Konoha?"
"Lord Kōkage, I want to study in the Akatsuki Ninja Village more..."
"Lord Kōkage, I haven't been back for a long time indeed... I don't know how Konoha is now.."
"Lord Makoto, the elders in the family said to let us study in the Akatsuki Ninja Village with peace of mind!"
"....."
The attitudes of the answers varied.
Some missed Konoha, and some wanted to stay in the Akatsuki Ninja Village.
Uchiha Makoto observed carefully. Combined with the intelligence he had always mastered, he discovered several interesting phenomena.
The Akatsuki Ninja Village was actually preparing in secret, planning to promote the implementation of the "Akatsuki Ninja Village Green Card" and "Dual Ninja Citizenship" system.
Due to the strict management of ninjas by ninja villages, the resistance to such a plan would definitely be great. For those weak ninja villages, the Akatsuki Ninja Village could of course absorb the outstanding ninjas within their villages unscrupulously, but for those large ninja villages, it would not be easy.
However, Konoha had a close relationship with the Akatsuki Ninja Village. Compared to other large ninja villages, it would be easier to promote—this was actually killing the familiar!
And such news had been spread to the ears of this group of students, giving them a reasonable and legal idea to stay in the Akatsuki Ninja Village.
Students from small ninja clans, a considerable proportion of them showed a fanatical attitude towards the Akatsuki Ninja Village.
Obviously, they knew very well that finding a way to stay in the Akatsuki Ninja Village would definitely bring more opportunities and a better life, while returning to Konoha... their future life would probably be seen to the end at a glance!
A lifetime of probably just muddling along to become a Chunin, working themselves to death relying on traditional missions to support their families, and then dying in some unknown mission. While in the Akatsuki Ninja Village, not only was the treatment of ninjas much higher than in Konoha, but although traditional missions were still the mainstream, the channels for ninjas to make money had begun to diversify. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the times, making a fortune and directly enjoying retirement life was not impossible.
And those students from large ninja clans were not as fanatical as those from small ninja clans.
This was actually easy to understand.
Large ninja clans always had substantial family backgrounds. After these students returned to Konoha, their lives wouldn't be much worse.
Of course, there was a more interesting phenomenon.
That is, students from large ninja clans who extremely rejected returning to Konoha.
They were students from the Hyuga clan. They were all members of the Hyuga branch family, and without exception, the Caged Bird seal was carved on their heads.
This time, the blame really had to be placed on their original family background.
Returning to Konoha, returning to the family, their identity would immediately become "servants" of the main family members. While in the Akatsuki Ninja Village, they were free, no longer bound by strict and deformed family rules, briefly showing the youthful spirit that this age should have.
Uchiha Makoto took their performance into his eyes.
Students from small families naturally needed to be won over to a certain extent, and those with excellent talents could be invested with more resources.
Those with ordinary talents were not needed. They were destined to have a hard time making a name for themselves in Konoha, and their values had been subverted. In the future, they would likely bring their own dog food to blow the trumpet for the Akatsuki Ninja Village, trying every means to come to their spiritual hometown, the Akatsuki Ninja Village. Inclining too many resources to them was purely a waste.
And for those students from large ninja clans, capital had to be invested, especially children from ninja clans like the Senju clan, Ino-Shika-Cho...
As for these students from the Uchiha clan, Uchiha Makoto had already spent a lot of money on them. Moreover, due to Uchiha Makoto's own identity, this group of students had a natural intimacy with the Akatsuki Ninja Village and had no resistance to joining the Akatsuki Ninja Village.
—Konoha was created by the Uchiha clan, and the Akatsuki Ninja Village was also created by the Uchiha clan. The Akatsuki Ninja Village and Konoha were also close allies. Both sides were the warmest homes, it's just that the home here in the Akatsuki Ninja Village was more luxurious, warmer, and more charming.
As for the students from the Hyuga branch family, it was quite difficult to handle.
Due to the abnormal and deformed family system of the Hyuga clan, although they wanted to join the Akatsuki Ninja Village very much, the Caged Bird on their foreheads made them cut off this thought from the beginning in the depths of their hearts.
The Hyuga clan, where the customs of the Warring States period still existed, now even engaged in "arranged distribution" for the marriage partners of the branch family!
So much so that the handsome men and beautiful women sent by Uchiha Makoto before, specially used to win over this group of students from the Hyuga branch family, all returned in failure.
If it really didn't work, knock out one or two male students from the Hyuga branch family, then artificially collect their seeds, and then.... Uchiha Makoto didn't want to do this from the bottom of his heart because it was really too despicable!
Various thoughts lingered in Uchiha Makoto's mind...
But he quickly came back to his senses.
Now was not the time to consider these things. It was time to do serious business—Lord Kōkage wanted to give them another spiritual baptism, making them Konoha's public intellectuals!
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