Chapter 288 Yi Chen’s Attack (Ch 728537757)

The Nine-Tails Rebellion is over, and according to the original work, the ninja world will have a relatively long period of peace.

Although the situation in this life is very different from the original work, the situation in the ninja world from one superpower and many strong nations to many strong nations competing for hegemony is still the same.

Therefore, Yi Chen guessed that there would still be peace in the ninja world for a period of time. At least under Yi Chen’s leadership, he could decide whether to fight or not in the Iwagakure Village.

What Konoha needs right now is time to lick their wounds; they will not take the initiative to start a war.

Although the Mist Ninja often does things that go against common sense, they can no longer make much waves after their strength is greatly reduced. Moreover, Orochimaru, who originally made his home in Kusagakure Village, seems to be more interested in the Land of Whirlpools this time.

I believe that with Orochimaru standing in front, the Mist Ninja will not be able to make much noise.

And as Akatsuki brought the Rain Country into its sphere of influence (this is how outsiders viewed the Rain Village incident), the Sand Ninjas became even more wary of Akatsuki. Despite the natural dangers of the desert, Luo Sha did not dare to completely ignore Akatsuki and start a war.

There is only one Fourth Raikage left, and his behavior is also uncontrollable. Yi Chen said he would not make any speculations.

But no matter what, the ninja world will most likely have a long period of peace, and Yi Chen plans to take advantage of the peace to do something.

After Ogura Saki was promoted to an elite jonin, Yi Chen took Uzumaki Riori, Atsumi Akino, and Ishino Jyousei to the capital of the Land of Earth.

Yi Chen planned to have a chat with the Daimyo. This was also the first time that Yi Chen, the Fourth Tsuchikage, officially visited the Daimyo.

The daimyo was very satisfied with Yichen, the Tsuchikage, and entertained him with great ceremony.

Lian Yichen’s three Genin disciples were also taken seriously by the daimyo’s retainers.

After the banquet, Yi Chen began to discuss the purpose of this trip with Daimyo.

“Daimyo, I wonder how the incident of the three jonin sneaking in was handled?” Yi Chen asked.

The last time Yichen’s disciples competed with Ikura’s disciples, the daimyo came to watch, but among the entourage there were three jonin of unknown origin, which made the daimyo very worried.

Afterwards, the Iwagakure and the daimyo’s guards conducted an investigation together, and the results of the investigation pointed to some high-ranking officials in the capital, and the Iwagakure no longer participated in the investigation.

“It has been completely resolved, Tsuchikage, don’t worry.” said the Daimyo.

“Yes.” Yi Chen nodded and continued, “Daimyo, the village has developed rapidly in recent years, especially in the research of various attributes of ninjas, which has made some achievements. Many shortcomings of the village have been made up.”

“So, I want to train a group of guardian ninjas for the Daimyo to prevent this kind of situation from happening again. What do you think?”

The Daimyo was stunned. This was a good thing, so he said, “I wonder how many guardian ninjas the Tsuchikage plans to train, and to what level?”

Although the daimyo was not clear about the specific strength of the ninjas, he was very clear about the distinction between jonin and chuunin, and he attached great importance to these titles.

“I heard that the Fire Country Daimyo is planning to form a group of twelve guardian ninjas, so the Daimyo cannot fall behind. So I plan to train twelve jonin for the Daimyo as well.”

The daimyo was overjoyed and asked, “What plans does the Tsuchikage have?”

Yi Chen nodded and said, “I have an idea. The growth of a ninja requires a certain amount of talent and also some luck. So we can’t just train twelve people.”

“The daimyo can select one hundred children with ninja talent and send them to the village. We will do our best to train these ninjas. Once at least two elite jonins or twelve jonins emerge from them, I will return them to the daimyo.”

The daimyo was very happy and asked, “But how do we choose a child?”

Yi Chen smiled and said, “I will send ninjas to select with the daimyo’s people, and by the way, select some ninjas with special talents for the village.”

This is Yichen’s purpose. Similar to space-time ninjutsu and gravity ninjutsu, they require too high a talent. The base that Yichen can screen is too small. If this range is expanded to the entire Land of Earth, the chance of winning will be much greater.

Moreover, the number of people Yi Chen selects will not be large, so Yi Chen believes that the daimyo will not object.

Sure enough, when the daimyo heard Yi Chen directly state the needs of the Iwagakure, he was very happy and didn’t care at all. He agreed directly and said that he would bear all the expenses of the ninja training.

With the matter of training guardian nin, the daimyo had a better impression of Yichen, so Yichen began to put forward his own ideas.

“Daimyo, I came here for another matter. Do you know what happened to the Rain Country Rain Village last time?”

“I know. I heard that Hanzo of Rain Village is dead, and the current leader of Rain Village seems to be called Akatsuki?” the daimyo replied.

Yi Chen nodded, then shook his head and said, “Hanzo is indeed dead. Now the Rain Country has been included in the sphere of influence of the Akatsuki organization. The name of the leader of the Akatsuki organization is Yahiko, and the person sent by the Akatsuki organization to the Rain Village is called Nagato.”

Yi Chen explained to the Daimyo based on the current understanding of Akatsuki by most ninjas in the ninja world.

“We, the Land of Earth, and Akatsuki were allies before. Daimyo, do you remember? During the Chunin Exams a few years ago, we allied with the Wind Country, the Rain Country, and the River Country. Akatsuki is the ninja village of the River Country.”

“Oh, it’s them. I remember there was a very cheerful ninja in the River Country, I think his name was Yahiko.” The daimyo remembered.

“Yes, it’s him. Yahiko is a very nice person. He and I have been friends for many years. This time, the Akatsuki organization gave part of the land of the Rain Country to our Earth Country.” Yi Chen said as he took out a map and began to explain to the daimyo.

The daimyo looked at the small, narrow piece of land pointed out by Yichen, and was a little dazed. The senior officials around the daimyo were also whispering.

Since the Warring States period, the territory of the ninja world has not changed for a long time, and the territory of the Rock Village has never increased or decreased. Yi Chen suddenly did this, leaving everyone a little stunned.

Before they could come back to their senses, Yi Chen continued, “Daimyo, we have a good relationship with the Akatsuki organization, but if we get too close, there will be conflicts between the two sides. So, I plan to trade this piece of land with the Grass Country for another piece of land.

The Daimyo was stunned for a moment, then nodded, it didn’t matter, and then asked curiously: “I wonder where the Tsuchikage plans to be transferred to?”

Yi Chen pointed to the border between the Grass Kingdom and the Taki Kingdom and said, “Change this location and open up a communication channel with the Fire Kingdom.”

“Hiss~~” Even if the Daimyo was slow-witted, he now understood that Yi Chen had set his sights on the Fire Nation.

No, all the Tsuchikage, well, all the Tsuchikage, Kazekage, Raikage, and Mizukage have set their sights on the Fire Nation, but Yi Chen, the fourth Tsuchikage, is the most radical. He is going to take action and attack the Fire Nation’s territory directly, instead of just targeting war reparations as before.

The Daimyo thought for a moment and said, “Tsuchikage, are you sure?”

Yi Chen shook his head and said, “I don’t intend to go to war. I intend to do business with the Fire Nation.”

“Although our strength has been much closer to that of the Fire Nation in recent years, the Fire Nation is too big for us to take on. Moreover, the Wind Nation and the Lightning Nation are also strong now, and they will not watch us grow stronger.”

“What I want is business. I will make it convenient for business and take the initiative to propose reasons for not stationing troops, so as not to overly provoke Konoha. Konoha is now seriously injured. If we don’t take the initiative to start a war, they will at most make a few noises, but they won’t do anything serious.”

“Compared to the Fire Nation, our only advantage is the trade route. We have a trade route that runs through the entire Earth Nation, and we also have fixed trade routes with almost all the surrounding countries. We also have a water trade route with the Lightning Nation.”

“The Fire Nation has been at war for many years, and there are many bandits and wandering ninjas running rampant. They are definitely no match for us in this regard. We can plunder the Fire Nation economically.”

Daming could understand Yi Chen’s meaning. Because of Yi Chen, Daming had long felt the benefits brought by the business path.

After thinking about it, since Yi Chen said that Konoha was afraid to fight, then let’s give it a try. At worst, I can just change it back.

With the endorsement of the daimyo, the next step became easy. The daimyo simply sent a minor official to the Grass Country and reached an exchange agreement with the daimyo of the Grass Country.

The Daimyo of the Land of Grass was not only not dissatisfied, but very happy. Sandwiched between the two great powers and always serving as the main battlefield of the Ninja World War, the Land of Grass had long been suffering.

Now the Land of Earth wants to avoid direct contact with the Land of Grass and the Land of Fire, which is the best news. Moreover, the Land of Earth did not take anything by force, but exchanged it in equal amounts, so the Land of Grass did not lose anything.

As a result, the situation in the ninja world was once again in turmoil because of Yi Chen’s actions.

Luo Sha and Ye Yue Ai both thought that the Rock Ninja were going to go to war with Konoha, and they both began to prepare for battle.

Konoha even held more than a dozen high-level meetings in succession. If the Rock Ninjas were to learn from the Mist Ninjas and go crazy, the balance that Sarutobi Hiruzen had predicted would no longer exist.

This made the Konoha high-level officials feel like a disaster was about to happen.

However, the Konoha high-ranking officials did not wait for the Iwagakure army, but instead received a handwritten letter from the Daimyo of the Land of Fire.

“Yi Chen wants to trade with us, and promised that the road between the Land of Grass and the Land of Taki is only a trade route. The Rock Ninja will not station a large army there. Let’s talk about what you think.”

At the general meeting of all the jonin in Konoha Village, Tsunade told the jonin about the latest situation.

Normally, she could have decided on this kind of thing by discussing it with a few old guys, but the situation was different this time.

Because Yi Chen’s previous actions made Konoha mistakenly believe that a war was about to break out, Konoha mobilized for war early, and all the senior ninjas were informed of the Iwagakure’s abnormal behavior.

So now the Rock Ninja suddenly made a big reversal, and Tsunade had to explain to all the jonin.

Many jonin looked at each other, not knowing how to start, but many people noticed that there was a hint of relief in everyone’s eyes.

Seeing this look, Tsunade sighed. She knew that the war could not be fought, at least not if Konoha took the initiative.

If Yi Chen had explained the situation at the beginning, the Konoha high-level officials could have exposed Yi Chen’s ambitions and mobilized everyone to take the initiative to attack, or at least they could have staged a large-scale military confrontation and forced the Rock Ninja to make concessions.

But the situation is different now. People are not very dissatisfied with the current situation. At least it is much better than the full-scale invasion of the Rock Ninja.

Since the Iwa Ninja hasn’t attacked us yet, we shouldn’t take the initiative to attack them.

This is what most ninjas think. Although they didn’t say it, Tsunade and other high-level officials could feel it.