Danzo's appointment as the Grand General of the Land of Fire was broadcasted across the globe by the Shinobi World United Newspaper.
As the first newspaper in the ninja world, the United Newspaper had gradually become the largest, fastest, and most authoritative source of information.
Whether other ninja villages liked it or not, they indeed relied on the United Newspaper for many pieces of information.
For instance, the news of "Danzo's appointment as the Grand General of the Land of Fire" was reported by the United Newspaper faster than their own spies could gather the information!
This made the United Newspaper one of the information sources that various forces in the ninja world needed to pay attention to and depend on.
Today's newspaper also featured stories such as "The Capital of the Land of Fire Under Attack," "The Third Son of the Land of Fire's Daimyo Colludes with the Remnants of the Forest Country to Rebel," and "Minato Namikaze Officially Receives His Appointment Document."
However, compared to Danzo's appointment as the Grand General, these other events seemed trivial.
"This damned Danzo, he didn't become the Hokage, but he managed to become the Grand General?"
Tsuchikage Ōnoki, who was thousands of miles away, immediately furrowed his brows.
Although the position of Grand General had been abandoned for a long time in the Five Great Nations and was considered less powerful than the Hokage in the eyes of many,
the political implications were not to be underestimated.
This meant that Danzo had successfully extended his influence to the side of the Daimyo through this maneuver.
And it was clear that the Daimyo of the Land of Fire had made some kind of compromise to allow Danzo to take on the role of Grand General.
As for the nonsense about Danzo saving the Daimyo, it might fool others, but not someone like Ōnoki, the old fox.
Did they think he was a fool?
With Danzo's strength to fight against two Kage alone, if he didn't hold back, he could easily defeat not just one, but ten Hannya Groups!
And threatening the Daimyo's life?
He would be turned to ashes from several kilometers away!
Therefore, such a possibility was never considered by Ōnoki.
What he was truly contemplating was whether to use this as an opportunity to challenge Konoha.
But thinking of the previous crushing defeat and the still missing Five-Tails, he decided against it.
However, if Danzo could do it, then perhaps he could learn from it...
Ōnoki's eyes flickered with an unusual light.
After all, once certain taboos are broken, they cease to be taboos.
Similarly, the Sand Hidden Village, which was most in need of funds, also had this thought.
Kazekage Rasa's expression was serious.
To be honest, seeing the skyrocketing military funds of Konoha, he was tempted.
Because the Daimyo of the Land of Wind had officially cut the military budget.
Now, not only was it impossible for Sunagakure to revive, but even maintaining its current ninja scale was a problem.
The financial situation of Sunagakure had deteriorated to the point where he, the Kazekage, had to personally go to the mines to use his Magnet Release to pan for gold.
If he could exert a little pressure on the Daimyo, it might alleviate Sunagakure's financial burden.
Tsuchikage Ōnoki and Kazekage Rasa both began to have ulterior motives, while only the Third Raikage was a bit better.
Due to his good relationship with the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning, he was quite disdainful of Danzo's unsavory actions.
"He is truly a rat lurking in the shadows!"
This has always been the Third Raikage's evaluation of Danzo.
He has already sent a letter to the Daimyo, hoping that the latter could visit the capital of the Land of Fire to confirm the state of the Daimyo of the Land of Fire.
If the other party is willing, the Hidden Mist Village does not mind lending some strength to that Daimyo.
If it could cause internal strife in the Land of Fire, that would be even better...
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Konoha.
Hiruzen Sarutobi was holding the intelligence report from the Anbu, and when he saw the tripled military funds mentioned in it, he almost dropped his pipe on the ground.
After a long while, he dryly said:
"Is this even possible?"
He took a hard drag on his pipe and couldn't help but sigh:
"I don't know whether this is good or bad."
There was a hint of worry in Hiruzen Sarutobi's voice.
Although Danzo had achieved great results on the surface, not only alleviating Konoha's financial crisis but also successfully expanding Konoha's influence,
the "one country, one village" system was established by the First Hokage himself.
Now it has become a consensus and tacit understanding throughout the ninja world.
Now Danzo has arbitrarily broken this understanding, and it may bring about some kind of disaster in the future.
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Back to the capital of the Land of Fire.
After successfully becoming the Grand General, Danzo immediately carried out a series of reforms on the capital's guard forces.
The professionalism of these people was really too poor.
Due to the great political significance of the capital in the ninja world, no one dared to attack it in normal times.
Over time, these guards had become a bunch of lazy, good-for-nothing drunkards.
They spent all day flattering the nobles, kissing up and bullying down.
No one cared about them anyway.
So, Danzo directly let Shisui give them a good overhaul.
The specific method was to beat them up first and eliminate those who were too weak.
Then he selected a batch of new candidates from the common people in the capital for training.
Subsequently, he promulgated a new decree.
It strictly prohibited the nobles from driving around the streets at will, hitting people, and bullying the commoners.
Naturally, the nobles were very unhappy with such a decree.
But thinking of their peers who perished in the fire, they could only endure for a while longer.
They told themselves that they would endure until Danzo left.
For a while, the streets of the capital became much clearer.
The noble young masters who usually liked to drive around for fun all obediently hid at home to avoid the wind, and no one dared to provoke Danzo's anger at this time.
Thus, the Darkness of Shinobi's reputation suffered.
The entire capital's citizens called him 'Clear Soup Lord,' and no one even mentioned the name Darkness of Shinobi anymore!
Of course, this also brought Danzo one benefit.
That was his skill points successfully reached 33,000 points.
The next stage of 50,000 points was no longer far away.
The entire process took Danzo about ten days.
Due to the busy affairs of Root and the need for Minato to hurry back to take office as Hokage, they could not stay away for too long.
When Danzo announced that he was about to return to Konoha, the capital's noble lords were all moved to tears.
Each of them reluctantly gave Danzo a parting gift, hoping that he would not come back after leaving this time.
Unfortunately, after Danzo accepted all the gifts with a smile, he said something that broke their hearts.
"Rest assured, everyone. Once I return to Konoha, I will send several Root ninja to the capital to ensure your safety."
"As the Grand General of the Land of Fire, I will definitely protect the safety of the capital!"
Danzo, holding his cane, solemnly promised.
The nobles had no choice but to smile on their faces while cursing in their hearts.
"That's right, with the protection of General Danzo, the capital will surely be safe and sound."
After handing over all the gifts to Kakuzu for sorting out, Danzo officially set off to return to Konoha!
Unlike the three people who came, Danzo brought a large convoy back to the village this time.
In addition to transporting a large amount of military funds and supplies, Danzo had also collected a large number of talents from various industries in the capital over these days.
For example, various types of engineers, electricians, iron smelters, and so on.
In fact, the level of technology in the ninja world was much more advanced than Danzo had imagined.
At least steam engines had been introduced a long time ago, and power plants and steel mills were also of considerable scale.
Even in the original story, there was no shortage of refrigerators, color TVs, computers, and so on.
As for why people did not see trains, cars, airplanes, and the like at present, Danzo believed it was still a matter of insufficient demand.
After all, in this era, those who could master these advanced physical knowledge were basically nobles.
And the lives of the nobles were already very comfortable, and they had no motivation to make technological breakthroughs.
For example, among the industrial talents that Danzo had collected this time, there were quite a few who were of noble birth.
Or they were servants, companions, and so on in noble families.
Under Danzo's strong invitation, they finally agreed to return to Konoha with Danzo and contribute their own strength to the construction and development of the Land of Fire.
Of course, with the help of the Six Paths: Asura Path ability,
Danzo's current level of industry had already approached the top level of the ninja world.
He could even use his impressions from his previous life to come up with a large number of bizarre design drawings by hand.
It was just that there was no one to take charge of implementing them.
After recruiting these talents, it was expected that it would greatly accelerate his Industrial Revolution Plan.
Imagining the future prospects, Danzo's mood became slightly more pleasant.
Similarly feeling cheerful was Kakuzu, who was in charge of counting the finances along the way.
He was wearing the Ox mask and was sitting on a cargo-carrying carriage, counting the military funds allocated to Konoha by the Daimyo one by one.
Seeing the white banknotes in front of him, Kakuzu couldn't help but sparkle his eyes.
If he had known that following Leader Danzo would involve counting so much money, he actually could have not resisted at that time.
Especially when Danzo indicated that the finances of Root could be entrusted to him in the future, he felt even more that he had met a wise ruler!
Minato was also sitting in the carriage.
Unlike Kakuzu, who was obsessed with counting money, he was diligently studying various materials.
After all, he was about to take office as Hokage as soon as he returned to the village this time, and he had to make up for all the relevant knowledge!
As for Shisui, under Danzo's assignment, he led a small team of Root ninja straight to the territory of the Land of Rice to eliminate the remnants.
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