Chapter 21: Agreement and Questioning
Therefore, at this point.
Uchiha Fugaku would not raise any objections either.
Besides, the dispatch list given by the Third Generation, from the number of jounin to the number of genin, is standard, and some important figures are almost not moved. In other words, this personnel allocation list is an order that conforms to "common sense"!
Although the number of ten jounin in it made Fugaku frown slightly.
But after considering a certain reason, Fugaku did not object much but put forward certain requirements for the Genin. At present, the Genin in the Uchiha clan are almost all young people, and quite a number of them have not opened their eyes (even in the Uchiha clan, there is a certain proportion of ninjas who have not opened their eyes).
Fugaku is naturally willing to let these young people go to the front line to experience it like Masashi.
But the number must be within a certain limit.
If there are too many.
It is easy to hurt the vitality of the Uchiha.
Sarutobi Hiruzen also seemed to have expected it a long time ago.
After a brief pause, he agreed to give in on this point. The major ninja clans joined the Hidden Leaf Village and were willing to support Konoha and contribute their strength to Konoha. Konoha also must guarantee the basic interests of these ninja clans. This is a default rule formed when the major ninja clans joined the Konoha Ninja Village when Konoha was established 49 years ago.
Even though the Uchiha clan at this time was on the blacklist of Sarutobi Hiruzen and others who were highly vigilant, some basic rules could not be ignored.
During this period, among the Konoha high-level officials, only Shimura Danzo was a little bit "crazy." The remaining three people, Sarutobi Hiruzen, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu, were still willing or wanted to solve the problems of the Uchiha clan within the rules and would never use those unconventional means easily.
In the original work, Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu only made up their minds to destroy the Uchiha clan in the end.
Sarutobi Hiruzen still held on to the last glimmer of hope to see if he could use a more stable method to deal with it. As the saying goes, it was not that Sarutobi Hiruzen was kind-hearted, but that Sarutobi Hiruzen did not want to see Konoha lose such a powerful bloodline limit.
This is also the normal thinking of a ninja village leader.
The Uchiha clan can be called the strongest clan in the ninja world today.
It's not without reason.
This is the biggest reason why Sarutobi Hiruzen has been reluctant to execute the Uchiha clan.
The real direct reason that prompted Sarutobi Hiruzen to choose or acquiesce to Shimura Danzo, Mito Kado Homura, and others instigating Uchiha Itachi to destroy the Uchiha clan was the death of Uchiha Shisui, which made Sarutobi Hiruzen think that the peaceful solution was almost annihilated.
In the subsequent actions, the symbolic meaning is always greater than the actual meaning.
In general, in the original work, the Uchiha clan was destroyed. Let's not talk about the reasons for themselves. If we only look at the four high-level people in Konoha, Shimura Danzo took at least half of the blame, and then Sarutobi Hiruzen, Mito Kado Homura, and Utatane Koharu shared the remaining half of the responsibility.
The root cause involves all aspects and is too complicated.
To put it more directly, it was Shimura Danzo's stupid act of attacking Shisui that led to the most devastating situation.
In this life, the Nine-Tails Rebellion had just ended half a year ago, and the timeline was only the first half of the 49th year of Konoha. Uchiha Shisui was still there, and there was still a certain room for easing between the Uchiha clan and the village. Sarutobi Hiruzen would naturally not easily take the initiative to break this rule.
The two parties reached an agreement more actively.
After Fugaku left, Sarutobi Hiruzen continued to contact the leaders of other ninja clans with a slightly satisfied attitude. In just less than a day, Sarutobi Hiruzen integrated the power of the entire Konohagakure Village.
The forces that can be dispatched in the initial stage include more than 1,000 Konoha Ninjas, including 80 jounins. Because there is no direct war, these forces are deployed in batches to the large and small strongholds established by Konoha in the northeastern area of the Land of Fire, close to the Land of Hot Springs. Therefore, there is no need to appoint a special commander, but only to arrange for several team leaders to lead these Konoha ninjas to fill these strongholds.
It is enough to strengthen the daily defense force.
In the past, during the non-war period, the major countries would dispatch or rotate the defense forces of the border strongholds according to the established time and situation. From the end of the Third Ninja World War to the outbreak of the Nine-tailed Rebellion in October last year, it was also such a pattern. However, the Hidden Cloud Village seemed to have discovered the weakness of the Hidden Leaf Village in the continuous border friction and probing in the next three or four months and took the initiative to take the lead in strengthening the border force.
This led to Konoha having to give corresponding countermeasures.
Otherwise, once the border outposts are eliminated one by one by the Cloud Ninja, or even go directly into the heart of the Land of Fire, that is a situation that Konoha cannot accept.
In that case, other major countries in the Ninja World will even misunderstand that Konoha is so weak that it can't even hold the border defense.
Therefore,
Regarding the personnel transfer and troop deployment this time.
Every ninja in Konohagakure Village did not express any surprise.
There was only one person who rushed to the Hokage's office as soon as he saw the personnel establishment and questioned Sarutobi Hiruzen directly in a very cold atmosphere.
"Hiruzen! Why allow the Uchiha clan to go to the front line? You should know what period it is now. Everyone in the Uchiha clan is under great suspicion. Don't you think there are not enough things in the village? Have you forgotten the teacher's teachings?"
As a direct disciple of the second-generation Hokage.
Shimura Danzo, the current second-in-command of Konohagakure, who commands hundreds of elite ninjas in the Root, is leaning on his crutches, standing in front of Sarutobi Hiruzen, and asking in an aggressive tone.
Facing the questioning of his close friend.
Sarutobi Hiruzen took a deep puff of his pipe and slowly exhaled a layer of white smoke before slowly saying, "Danzo, there's no need to be so anxious. I'm certainly very clear about the current situation, but it's precisely because of this that we need to use some conventional means to identify the Uchiha clan. I will naturally not forget the teacher's teachings, but you must also remember, Danzo, how important the Uchiha clan is. It's impossible to deal with it as easily as you said. This time, the personnel deployment is like this!"
"But you are playing with fire! Hiruzen, what if all the members of the Uchiha clan are involved!? What will you do then?"
Danzo looked at Sarutobi Hiruzen with a very gloomy expression and said in a cold tone.
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