"Hokage-sama, before answering your question, can you answer my question first?"
Looking at Lu Jiu's nervous expression, realizing that this conversation might take a long time, Lei Luo was about to tell Lu Jiu to keep the story short, but at this moment, the residual smell after the battle with Guang Hui came to the tip of his nose...
"Let's talk somewhere else."
He waved to Lu Jiu as if nothing had happened. Thinking that he had not visited the capital in such a long time, Lei Luo headed towards Daming Mansion first. Seeing this, Lu Jiu had no choice but to hold back his restless mood and quickly followed.
At half past eight in the evening, the sky had completely darkened, and the sky above the capital of the Fire Country was gradually shrouded in night. The hazy moonlight cast down, covering the world with a thin veil.
In this slightly prosperous city, it is obviously not time to rest at 8:30, especially since the first Congress was held today, the people of the Fire Nation have not been able to recover from their excitement for a long time.
Daimyo, Hokage, high-ranking officials, big businessmen, parliamentarians, prime ministers and prime ministers, officials and nobles, generals and ninjas...
Big figures who were out of reach in the past gathered together to work hard for the future development of this country, and fought passionately to gain the support of their insignificant civilians...
The most important thing is that the candidates for the cabinet prime minister and the ruler are really determined by the votes they cast. This unprecedented sight, this extremely intense ideological impact, simply made everyone living in the capital three-dimensional.
Everyone was slightly shaken by this.
It also made them realize... what the constitution is.
There is no doubt that things have changed in the Land of Fire. All levels of society are aware of this, which naturally includes those Konoha ninjas who participated in the Congress and witnessed the entire meeting.
On the brightly lit streets, citizens can be seen chatting together in twos and threes everywhere. The chilling atmosphere caused by the coup a week ago no longer exists. Now in the capital of the Kingdom of Fire, almost everyone is excited about the new era.
Come and feel excited.
In the spacious and semi-open-air meatball shop, the sound of wind chimes rang from the beams of the back room. Shikaku felt the autumn night wind blowing on his cheeks. He felt cool and his restless thoughts calmed down a lot unconsciously.
Glancing at the plate of three-color meatballs on the table, and then looking at the pedestrians on the street outside the store who were discussing something eagerly, Shikaku finally turned around and looked at the man who had just finished chatting with the store owner.
Lei Luo said with a smile:
"Hokage-sama, it seems that the people have a good sense of the new policy. The weather in the capital today is really different from a week ago."
Raising his hand, he picked up a bunch of meatballs and stuffed them into his mouth. Lei Luo chewed for a moment, frowned slightly, and then put down the wooden skewer with two meatballs left.
"What the hell is this? It's so sweet."
Adhering to the principle of not wasting food, Lei Luo quickly swallowed the sweets in his mouth and noticed the faint smile on Lu Jiu's face. He wiped his mouth and responded to the other person's previous words in a neither salty nor bland manner:
"Releasing part of the power of personnel appointment to the people will allow them to deeply feel the power of the constitution. If the country is lawless, it will not be established. If the law is unjust, it will be unstable. The era when aristocratic officials wantonly squeezed the common people has passed."
"This era is an era of capital, an era of development, and also..." After a slight pause, realizing that Lu Jiu was listening carefully, Lei Luo raised the corners of his mouth slightly, showed a sincere smile, and slowly said the last sentence:
"It belongs to the era of expansion."
Hearing the subtext in Lei Luo's words, Shikaku's eyes flickered slightly. At this moment, the young Nara clan leader noticed the power in Lord Hokage. It was different from strength, and it was also different from the power that united people's hearts in the past Hokages.
The power is different.
If I had to say it, this kind of power might be called courage...
It may also be called pattern.
Lu Jiu stared at Lei Luo's confident and firm smile, feeling the majestic momentum of the other person who regarded the entire world as a chessboard, all social strata as chess pieces, and the changes of the times as a chess game, and his mind was involuntarily rippling.
After a moment of silence, all the thoughts surging in his mind condensed into one at this moment, making Lu Jiu bite his lips tightly. After a long while, he cast his bright eyes over and asked in a hoarse voice:
"Hokage-sama, what position will we ninjas be in in this era?"
Lu Jiu glanced at Lu Jiu in surprise, and noticed that the other person's expression was full of expectation and uneasiness, which was very complicated. Lei Luo did not answer in a hurry. Lu Jiu was a smart man, and he did not think that the other party would ignore the information about ninjas in the constitution.
The content of this section.
In other words, what this question really wants to ask is...
"When the peaceful evolution plan is over and the world is declared unified, all the ninjas of the past generations of Hokage, including me, will be loyal to the Constitution and obey the leadership of the cabinet and Congress."
Lei Luo said this very calmly, but Lu Jiu seemed to have been violently shocked. He subconsciously raised his hand and accidentally knocked over the plate on the table. The three-color meatballs were scattered on the ground, but they could not attract any attention.
Pay no attention at all.
"That is to say..." The tone trembled slightly, and the question that had been lingering in his heart for the past few days was finally asked by Lu Jiu who mustered up all his courage:
"When the world is unified, will you completely return power to Congress and the members?"
Konoha's position and the country's position were entangled in Yu Shikaku's mind. Lei Luo once again saw the deeper meaning of the other party's question from his expression, and answered slowly and calmly:
"That's right, by then, I will no longer interfere with parliamentary decisions, nor will I interfere with the operation of the cabinet. In the future, the direct leaders of Hokage and Konoha ninjas will be the prime minister and prime minister, and the indirect leaders will be the parliamentarians."
The prime minister is decided by a vote of the parliament, and the prime minister is decided by a national vote. The most important thing is that these two positions have terms. They are not some nonsense lifetime tenure. The courage Lei Luo can say now is incredible.
And know.
And Lu Jiu also got his answer.
From this, the next question arises:
"Hokage-sama, I want to know, what do you think of me..."
Lu Jiu had already asked more than one question, and the fundamental intention of its progressive and serial testing was also reflected in the last half of the sentence. Lei Luo smiled slightly and answered word by word:
"Shikaku, you are a member of the Fire Nation. As long as you abide by the provisions of the constitution, no one can force you to do anything. This is my guarantee to you."
"But I only have one request..." Lei Luo paused, looking at Lu Jiu's solemn expression, he became more serious and said in a more serious tone:
"No matter when or where you are, don't forget that you are a ninja and you represent more than just yourself."
Those seven members who came from the Secretariat and were then sent to Congress by Lei Luo were his means to directly influence the formulation of national bills and prevent certain things from getting out of control.
However, these ninja congressmen also have the ability to think independently and are suddenly given the power to interfere in national legislation. Even if they know who they should listen to, they still inevitably want to go further.