Chapter 187 Believing in Minato
Small ninja villages are far inferior to the five great ninja villages, and the same goes for small daimyo.
They simply cannot recruit a few powerful ninjas to protect them.
Not to mention Kage-level ninjas like Sasori and Kakuzu, even Yahiko and his two companions, with their combat strength that is close to the threshold of Jonin, could easily handle this matter.
Some of these small daimyo chose to put up a stubborn resistance, while others, seeing that the situation was hopeless, absconded with their treasures.
However, the consequences of such actions were either house arrest or living in secrecy, which meant that their lives and their descendants were completely ruined.
As a result, a few people tried to negotiate, offering to voluntarily relinquish their daimyo status in exchange for certain preferential treatment.
Regardless of their motives, these people did something sensible, so the Souji granted them their wishes and arranged for them to retire gracefully.
For example, they were not required to be placed under house arrest like the daimyo of the five great nations, they could retain a certain percentage of their wealth, and they were granted the honorary title of 'master'.
This title of "famous scholar" naturally carries no real power or benefit; it's merely a name, serving as a fig leaf for them.
Furthermore, by treating a small number of daimyo in this way, the hostility of those ninjas with traditional values can be reduced to some extent.
Some people are stubborn and believe that ninjas should serve the daimyo as their lord, and that what the Souji did was insubordination and treason.
Moreover, there are quite a few such people, so we need to be more lenient with them.
Meanwhile, Souji, in his capacity as the Fourth Hokage, was also busy making a series of new arrangements in Konoha.
For example, like other ninja villages, they should take over the various powers originally controlled by the daimyo as soon as possible, make proper arrangements for the daimyo's retainers, keep those who can be used, and dismiss those who cannot.
This is still quite difficult.
Although those daimyo's retainers are just ordinary people with no ability to resist, the handover of various affairs cannot be accomplished simply by replacing them with new people.
They also need to have the ability to manage the affairs of this position well.
Ninjas were originally just professional warriors.
Before they were promoted to Jonin, they had almost only received combat training and their other abilities were extremely limited.
Therefore, it was a very difficult thing to find someone with such abilities among the ninjas.
It can be said that Konoha only has about a hundred Jonin who are truly usable.
There are many ordinary Chunin, but apart from knowing how to use a few ninjutsu, their other abilities are really no different from those of ordinary civilians.
They can't do any of the slightly more professional jobs.
Therefore, anyone with even a little talent was treated like a beast of burden by Souji during this period.
Minato, in particular, was the person who did the most work during this period, as Souji had determined that Minato would be the next Hokage, and this was not far off.
Shocked by the sheer volume of work and the various problems he had never encountered as an ordinary ninja, Minato was completely bewildered.
He had to work overtime at the Hokage Building every day, and his sleep time was mostly less than four hours.
In addition to physical fatigue, there is also a lot of mental stress.
Even a Kage-level powerhouse couldn't withstand such a lifestyle, and Minato visibly became haggard in a short period of time.
It probably affected even more people's lives, as Kushina couldn't help but come to Souji to complain that Minato was being used too much.
"Minato's dream is to become Hokage.
He's currently training his abilities to become Hokage and fighting for his dream!
Kushina, you should support him."
Upon hearing Souji's report, even Minato's face instantly darkened, and Kushina cursed incessantly, but Souji pretended not to hear.
It's normal to encounter hardships and difficulties when first entering a completely unfamiliar field.
Minato has high emotional intelligence and good management skills.
Young people should gain more experience, which is for his own good.
Even though Kushina misunderstood him, Souji didn't take it seriously.
Anyway, given the physique of a Mizukage-level powerhouse, it's impossible for working overtime to affect the birth of Naruto.
Souji trusts Minato.
In addition to taking over various affairs of the Land of Fire, there are also many arrangements within Konoha.
Most importantly, it popularized the training of chakra and ninjutsu.
The ratio of ninjas to ordinary people is more than tenfold.
Even though many adults would find it difficult to achieve anything significant, basic instruction and training are still necessary, in addition to the children and teenagers who are primarily taught.
These people are several times larger than the entire population of Konoha, and a great many ninjutsu teachers are needed.
The current preparation phase involves training enough ninjutsu instructors to meet the demand.
Fortunately, ninjutsu instructors don't need to be too strong.
In Konoha, it has always been a position with low requirements.
Having the strength of a standard Chunin is enough.
The main requirements are solid theoretical knowledge, patience, emotional intelligence, and teaching ability.
There were far more people who met these requirements than Jonin, so the process went quite smoothly.
Although the idea was to stop ninjas from fighting and instead have them make a living through other means, in the very early stages before the development of ninjutsu, it wasn't easy for ninjas to enter various professions.
It's estimated that ninjutsu education itself may have been the early form of the ninja industry.
Another major industry might be the research and development of ninjutsu.
Ninjutsu that can be applied to all aspects of life is very rare now, but it is extremely important.
However, unlike basic ninjutsu education, ninjutsu research is the opposite path.
It is a very high-level field. Not only does an individual need to be strong enough, with Jonin being just the starting point, but also requires a very deep understanding of the various principles of ninjutsu.
In addition, it also requires rich imagination and creative inspiration.
People capable of developing ninjutsu are extremely rare.
When it comes to the development of ninjutsu, the most outstanding people in Konoha are naturally the Second Hokage Tobirama Senju and Orochimaru.
Orochimaru remains missing to this day.
He's dead... That's unlikely.
With Orochimaru's Kage-level strength, there aren't many people who could kill him.
Everyone's attention has been focused on the major events in the ninja world lately, so who would bother to kill Orochimaru?
Given Orochimaru's style, he's definitely hiding somewhere, secretly doing bad things.
In the original timeline, Orochimaru should have started conducting various human experiments after the Third Shinobi World War.
At that point in time, he should have been quite well-behaved and still thinking about becoming Hokage.
Did his series of actions also affect Orochimaru's trajectory...?
I wonder what Orochimaru is doing hiding there.
Souji wasn't really concerned about what evil Orochimaru wanted to do; what he cared about was whether Orochimaru actually did it, and whether what he did was so evil as to be unforgivable.
If we exclude Tobirama, a ninjutsu development talent of Orochimaru's caliber would likely be the best in the entire ninja world today.
If possible, he would prefer to keep Orochimaru alive so that he could contribute to the new era of the ninja world by becoming a great ninja researcher.
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