Danzo quickly ended the meeting with his men, on the surface, he looked light-hearted, but on the inside, he had already started a huge storm.
According to the information that his men had just reported, Negi was now being targeted, and there were signs that the black hand behind the scene was most likely the Kirigakure.
"If it's the Kirigakure, then it's not good to continue recovering the wealth on the side of the Land of Wave, on the sea, it's still the world of this group of guys who have been living overseas for a long time."
Danzo's mood gradually worsened.
In recent times, Root was having a hard time, and the reason was the lack of money.
A certain great nobleman of the Fire Country who had secretly financed Root was struck down in his bedroom, and then a great deal of incriminating evidence of corruption and intent to plot against him was revealed.
And Root's approach in this matter can only be described as very Danzo-like.
After receiving the news of the murder of the great noble, Danzo did not think of avenging this great noble, but rather cut himself off from this great noble at the first opportunity, silencing all those within Root's inner circle who had come into contact with him, and not giving Sandaime and the Daimyo the chance to find evidence to show that he was colluding with this great noble.
This cold and ruthless approach of his, naturally caused several other great nobles of the Fire Country who had secretly financed Root to die in vain, causing them to be strongly dissatisfied.
As a result, these great nobles drastically cut down or even cut off their financial support to Root, and instead went to support other powerful forces in Konoha.
Danzo didn't care much at first, believing that the members of the Root could not possibly shake their belief in guarding Konoha for a mere pecuniary object, nor would they betray the Root, but it turned out to be a slap in the face.
The loss of adequate paychecks, a drastic drop in the level of job benefits, the defection of a large number of outer members who hadn't planted curse seals, and even if they hadn't defected, their personal motivation was greatly diminished.
Even many of Root's internal members' motivation was affected, and grudges were born against him.
Since then, Danzo had his first profound experience of the power of the thing of money, and never dared to underestimate it again.
Losing the funding from the great nobles of the Fire Country, Danzo had no choice but to intensify the plundering of wealth from the merchants under his control and try to control more merchants to serve Root as a means of relieving the pressure of losing the financial support from the great nobles of the Fire Country.
But before Root's new plan to develop sources of funding could bear fruit, word came that the goods of those few merchants in the Land of Wave controlled by his men had been seized by pirates, resulting in heavy losses, and that several large merchants from smaller countries who had secretly worked closely with Root had also been killed by unknown forces.
The two major arteries of the Root's source of funds were hit hard, and the Root's financial chain was cut to pieces, so the welfare level of the Root's members naturally dropped further.
As a result, the chain reaction was that more members of the Root Division defected, and their motivation further decreased, ultimately leading to the Root Division's overall strength and executive power being hit hard.
Obviously, the giant beast in the shadows of the Root Division was not as obedient as Danzo had thought, and it would not work obediently without being fed with enough money.
Even if the Root had lofty beliefs as a bond of connection, in the end it was ultimately a collection of interests.
Within the Root, there were countless speculators, and there were even more ambitious people than just Danzo.
In case of a huge internal crisis, such as not having enough bread to share, it was almost inevitable that the starving behemoth would fall into chaos or even split up.
How could Danzo, the head of the Root Division, not be aware of the seriousness of the problems within the Root Division, and he decisively dispatched his loyal and competent men to suppress the voices of internal discord, and sent his men to hunt down and kill the traitors, to deter those who were thinking of defecting, and to speed up the progress of the new fund development program.
In recent times, Danzo's mind was almost entirely focused on dealing with Root's internal problems, and he didn't even have the time or energy to engage in scheming and digging holes to trap other people.
After all, the root is his life in Konoha, if he loses control of the root, then he is really not far from death.
However, Danzo still did not relax his surveillance of the Uchiha clan and Kirito.
The Uchiha clan was fine, as usual, not acting out of the ordinary, but on Kirin's side, the loss of Yamanaka Yun, the central hidden mole placed in the hospital, had caused him to lose most of his surveillance power over the hospital, and he was unable to follow Kirito's every move as closely as he had been before.
This bad situation got worse after Yamanaka Yun's defection.
"Could this Yamanaka Yun guy have sensed something and actually betrayed me at this time."
Danzo cursed in his heart.
In the script he had written, the main core executor of this matter of assassinating Kirito was Yamanaka Yun, who knew that this main actor had suddenly betrayed him, causing the subsequent plan of assassinating Kirito to be dead before it had even begun.
Not only that, Yamanaka Yun's betrayal further weakened his surveillance power over the hospital's inner circle.
Not all of the members within the Root were loyal to him alone; he only controlled a portion of the core members of it, and then commanded the people under them through those core members.
The Root power in the hospital was basically developed by Yamanaka Yun, so naturally, the members of the Root in the hospital only listened to Yamanaka Yun's mobilization alone, and Danzo himself did not even know who the true identities of these people were.
If he wanted to continue to obtain the surveillance power in the hospital, he might only have to have those Root Division members developed by Yamanaka Yun come to him of their own accord.
However, nowadays, the dark forces in the hospital still hadn't been transferred, especially after Hyuga Shan, Kirin's Taijutsu teacher, had become the head of the hospital's guards, the internal investigation into the mole hadn't been weakened, and anyone who dared to contact him now was asking for their own death.
Yamanaka Yun.
Danzo was truly surprised that this person would betray him, or at a time like this.
He concluded that Yamanaka Yun must have discovered something, but who gave him the clue?
The first person Danzo suspected was Kirito, since the biggest beneficiary of the whole thing was Kirito.
But this idea was quickly dismissed by him.
Because he knew too well the power that Kirito now held, although his strength was good, but there was no intelligence power around him that could help him, it was impossible to track down the top secret information about Yamanaka Yun.
Relying on the intelligence power of the Senju clan.
Don't be ridiculous.
Danzo was not looking down on the Senju clan, but the fact was that the Senju clan did not have any available talents or advantages in the field of intelligence, and most of the people of this clan were relatively straightforward, lacking in mindfulness, and did not specialize in Yin Release Ninjutsu, which was not suitable for an intelligence officer.
Moreover, the thing that could make Yamanaka Yun choose to betray him without hesitation was a top secret matter.
He did it very carefully back then, and the only person who still knows about it is him, and in order to completely control Yamanaka Yun as an important pawn, the rest of the people who know about it have long been cleaned up by him personally.
Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for Kirito to know that he was the one who designed the death of Yamanaka Yun's fiancée.
Danzo had this confidence.
"If it wasn't this kid, then who could it be? It seems that after I stepped down, all sorts of cowards and demons thought that I had lost my power and could not possibly rise again, and could not help but strike at me."
Danzo thought darkly, eventually targeting the interior of Negi.
If it wasn't Kirito, then only one of their own could have done it.
And only one of their own could have known about that incident.
As for the purpose, of course, it was someone who had developed an unwarranted ambition that he was not worthy of continuing to be the head of the Root Division and wanted to replace him.
"Just who could that be? It seems I need to find a chance to go out and check on my 'loyal' subordinates to see if the curse marks are still on them."
Danzo took a sip of his hot tea with a calm expression, his mind racing with thoughts.
Finally, his gaze fell on top of a newly delivered piece of information that his old colleague, Utatane Koharu, had secretly sent to him, and it contained Sandaime's next final decision on Ame-Nin's surrender.
"Stupid Hiruzen, you will regret this."
Danzo finally had a small smile on his face after reading the contents of the intelligence.