When Danzo Shimura received the order, he was completely at a loss.
The official order was to assist in the defense of the Daming Mansion, but didn't the connotation mean that he was to monitor the Daiming's every move?
This is treason!
If you don't handle it well, you'll be singled out as a scapegoat!
What does that old friend think of him, a trash can? All the dirty work and taking the blame are thrown to him? Is this what a Hokage should do?
He really thought Danzo Shimura had no temper!
The old man leaned on his ninja sword, glanced gloomily at his old friend in the Hokage's position, and shook his head gently: "Monkey, you can just give me a handwritten message and kill the daimyo, and you will be relieved.
Konoha’s worries are gone…”
"Stop testing, Danzo..." Hiruzen Sarutobi played with the matches in his hand and looked at him sideways: "No daimyo in the Land of Fire will fall into civil strife. This is never allowed."
"Do you think that after the Fourth Kazekage of Sunagakure Village usurps the throne, Konoha can still live in peace with the daimyo?" Danzo Shimura closed one of his exposed eyes and continued softly: "However, I did think of a way.
…”
"That's not something you should be thinking about."
The Sandaime Hokage raised his head and sat on his chair, blowing out a smoke ring leisurely: "I don't want to hear it either, you just need to execute the order..."
"..."
Commander Danzo Shimura took a breath and tightened the ninja sword in his hand!
Don't be too bullying!
"Okay, okay, I won't tease you anymore..." Hiruzen Sarutobi chuckled a few times, symbolically stretched out his hand to comfort him and said, "Jiraiya and Tsunade are indeed younger, what's so good about you?
Any idea?"
Danzo Shimura is indeed very good at doing these shameful things sometimes. His ideas are always very unique and can be said to be unconstrained. Although it will leave some consequences, it can also achieve some miraculous results.
With such a thorny problem in the Fire Country, maybe Shimura Danzo really has some special solution? It's better than them just sitting back and waiting for death!
"hostage…"
Shimura Danzo stood up slowly and stood in front of Sarutobi Hiruzen's desk: "By taking the Hokage candidate as a hostage, we can temporarily gain the trust of the daimyo... To stabilize the situation in the Country of Fire, we can make arrangements calmly, regardless of the offensive style.
The country should attack...the country of earth."
Well, his carefully thought out plan.
During the Warring States Period, there was a country that sent important figures as hostages to enemy countries to ensure peace. Danzo-sama's idea was very simple. He sent the Hokage of Konoha there. This method would definitely not be approved by the Hokage himself...
Then let Sarutobi Hiruzen designate the next Hokage candidate and send that Hokage candidate to the Daming Mansion. He won't be able to come back alive anyway!
In this way, he can solve a stumbling block to the position of Hokage!
"Are you asking me to appoint the Fifth Hokage of Konoha?"
Sarutobi Hiruzen stared at his old friend's one eye and said word by word: "But what will happen if the Hokage candidate goes wrong in the Daming Mansion?"
"Wouldn't that be just right..."
Konoha Dark Cloud calmly sat back in his seat and continued lightly: "We have a name to deal with the daimyo, at least the village will not have any objections... isn't it, monkey?"
Sarutobi Hiruzen: "..."
What this guy said actually makes sense!
If the Hokage candidate encounters any unfair treatment in the Daming Mansion or is even assassinated by the Daiming Mansion, it will just give Konoha an excuse to march into the Daming Mansion. At that time, whether it is to abolish the Daimyo or to establish a new candidate...
Moreover, there is a problem with the Hokage candidate, that is, he is insulting the entire Konoha Village. Not only will the Konoha ninjas not have any opinions on the Hokage's decision, but they will share the same hatred...
The most critical issue here is that the ninja who is selected as the Hokage candidate will basically be designated as the Fifth Hokage of Konoha.
The Third Hokage glanced at Danzo, waved to summon an ANBU, and whispered: "Notify me, I want to convene a Jonin meeting!"
He chose to adopt Shimura Danzo's opinion.
Because the situation in the ninja world has indeed reached a critical period, if the next Hokage is appointed in advance, he can still help take care of it for a while...
As for sending the Hokage candidates as hostages in the Daming Mansion, these are all minor problems. There are two teams of ninjas stationed there all year round. What else can go wrong?
Sarutobi Hiruzen actually felt a little pleased with his old friend. Sometimes, he really couldn't underestimate the wisdom of Darkness of the Leaf!
This kind of idea can also be thought of!
"Of these people in the village, who do you think is the most suitable to become the fifth generation?" The Third Hokage smiled kindly, looked at his old friend and continued: "I think the most suitable people at the moment should be Jiraiya and Tsunade.
Come on!"
"If you think your disciple can endure the life of a hostage, I have no objection!" Danzo Shimura snorted coldly and continued: "That guy Jiraiya, I'm afraid he will cause some trouble in Daming Mansion soon.
Bar!"
"If you want peace between Konoha and the Daimyo, you'd better think about it carefully. This incident will also test how the future Hokage of Konoha can get along with the Daimyo!"
In all of Konoha, apart from the Uchiha clan, the ones he disliked the most were Hiruzen Sarutobi and Jiraiya! Two men with bad habits, they had no awareness of being a ninja!
More importantly, once Jiraiya becomes Hokage, it basically means that Jiraiya's young disciple Uchiha Itachi is also qualified to compete for Hokage...
Moreover, Uchiha Itachi is currently Jiraiya's only disciple in Konoha Village... This is something Danzo never wants to see!
From the current point of view, it is no longer allowed to set off a wave of purges of Uchiha within Konoha, but the evil clan cannot be allowed to continue to grow...
Now that Uchiha Fugaku is targeting him everywhere, sending people to assassinate him when nothing happens. When his son becomes the Hokage's only disciple, won't that guy Fugaku become even more arrogant?
But anyway, the Hokage candidate they are going to select now is going to the Daming Mansion to die. After Hiruzen Sarutobi sends the hostages out, he plans to find a way to get rid of him!
If something happens to Jiraiya in the Daming Mansion, wouldn't it completely cut off the Uchiha clan's attempt to ascend to the position of Hokage?
Thinking of this, Shimura Danzo coughed a few times and suddenly said: "After all the calculations, Jiraiya is indeed the most suitable person, and he was originally a candidate for the fourth generation..."
"…Um?"
The Third Hokage gave him a strange look and suddenly said: "I thought you would say that you are the most suitable person!"
Shimura Danzo: "..."
It seems so!
He is a disciple of the Second Hokage and a fellow disciple of the Third Hokage, and he also has some prestige within Konoha!
If he is designated as the Hokage candidate by Konoha's top management in the jounin class meeting, as long as nothing unexpected happens, and he is a daimyo on the outside and a ninja clan on the inside, wouldn't he be a proper fifth generation Hokage!
Why didn't this old guy Sarutobi Hiruzen tell me earlier?
He should have proposed himself just now! In order to eliminate the best candidate for the next generation of Hokage, he almost forgot that this was a great opportunity to legitimately inherit the position of Hokage!
"Ahem, I'm joking..." The Third Hokage glanced at Danzo's face, chuckled a few times in his heart, and said seriously: "Our generation is getting old, and we should give more opportunities to young people..."