What Uzumaki Cheng said seemed to make sense, but Lei Luo had an intuition that the other party's motives for working so hard and making suggestions to stabilize the situation in the Kingdom of Wind were anything but simple.
"Uzumaki Makoto, tell me the truth, do you want to manage the territory of Sunagakure Village?"
Lei Luo narrowed his eyes and stared at Uzumaki Cheng. Out of his understanding of this guy, he directly expressed his guess at this moment, but Uzumaki Cheng didn't mean to hide it, and nodded calmly:
"The Kingdom of Wind does have more development potential than the Kingdom of Sichuan. I'm a little tired of that second village. Lei Luo, you can either appoint another branch Hokage to take over."
"Sunagakure Village, I am confident that after all Sunagakure ninjas leave, we will develop it into our third village in Konoha and win the recognition of the people of the Land of Wind."
Uzumaki Cheng obviously knew very well that Lei Luo would not stay in a remote place like the Country of Wind for a long time. After all, the other party's pursuit was not completed yet.
Now the Fire Country has only conquered the territory of the two countries, Rain and Wind. There are many big and small countries waiting in line to deal with them in the future. Lei Luo is destined not to stop moving forward.
In this case, the seat under Makoto Uzumaki's butt should also be moved to a higher place. How can the Kingdom of Sichuan be compared with the Kingdom of Wind?
In particular, the Daimyo of the Kingdom of Wind is a die-hard who has not changed since ancient times. His family has been bloodbathed by Lei Luo and others. A regime composed of cabinet officials sent from the Kingdom of Fire cannot restrain his military boss Uzumaki Makoto.
There is no need to form a small parliament for the territory that has been seriously conquered. The small parliament members of the Kingdom of Sichuan cannot be replicated in the Kingdom of Wind.
"Uzumaki Makoto... you..."
Seeing Uzumaki Makoto's behavior, Lei Luo was rarely speechless. He frowned and pondered for a while, turned his head and winked at Fugaku, and asked after the other party came over:
"Fugaku, do you want to be the second village Hokage after the war? Or continue to be the root leader?"
Under the current situation, the subsequent series of policy formulations of the Kingdom of Wind will need to rely on the power of Uzumaki Makoto. This Sunagakure Village will most likely evolve into the third village of Konoha in the future.
Uzumaki should be the Hokage of the third village, both emotionally and logically. Lei Luo had no other choice but to find a qualified Hokage from a group of capable subordinates to take over the position of Hokage of the second village.
Hearing this, Fugaku was a little confused for a moment, as if he didn't expect the title of Hokage to hit him on the head, but he quickly realized it and did not answer in a hurry, but asked tentatively:
"Hokage-sama, what do you mean?"
Fugaku's performance could be described as cautious, to the extreme, but Lei Luo didn't have that much time to talk nonsense and said bluntly:
"You have accomplished a lot of meritorious deeds now. I, Lei Luo, am not the kind of person who is mean to meritorious officials. Fugaku, whether you want to be the second village Hokage or not depends entirely on your personal wishes."
A pie fell from the sky, but Fugaku didn't dare to pick it up. He noticed the impatience in Lei Luo's eyes, and his brain started spinning rapidly, weighing all kinds of thoughts. He gave an answer after more than ten seconds:
"Hokage-sama, I think the root leader is quite suitable for me. As for the second village Hokage, please choose another talented person to take up the post. I'm really sorry."
After saying that, Fugaku smiled shyly. Seeing the other party's polite refusal, Lei Luo did not continue to persuade him. He glanced at Lu Jiu on the other side and saw that he had no desire to speak, so he had to spit out his dirty breath and tell everyone
Wave:
"Forget it, let's talk about this later, let's go."
Lei Luo walked forward first. Shikaku glanced at Fugaku meaningfully, said nothing, and quickly followed.
Uzumaki Makoto smiled and leaned into Fugaku's ear, whispered a word, and left quickly as well.
Fugaku was the only one left, and he froze on the spot for a moment. It took him a long time to realize that Lei Luo and the others were walking away, and he quickly jogged a few steps to follow them.
'Have you become more capable? Uzumaki Makoto is... praising me?'
His eyes stopped on the fiery red figure in front of him. Fugaku's expression did not change, and he was thinking silently in his heart, wondering whether there was anything wrong with his response just now.
Although there are various reasons for rejecting the position of Hokage of the Second Village and insisting on being the leader of the root, when taken together, one conclusion can be drawn: the value of the leader of the root is much greater than that of the Hokage of the Second Village, especially...
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Now that the Unification War has gradually entered a fever pitch, the Wind and Rain countries have successively been incorporated into the territory of the Fire Nation.
After Fugaku's experience as a root leader in the past few years, although his political wisdom is far different from that of an old man like Uzumaki Makoto, and even compared to his junior Shikaku, his vision is indeed much higher than before.
It is foreseeable that as the Fire Nation's army sweeps into more and more countries, there will probably be Hokages from the fourth and fifth villages popping up like bamboo shoots after a rain.
With more Hokages, they naturally become less valuable. Even if that position is strictly speaking, it still belongs to the feudal official in the traditional concept, but it belongs to the judicial system and has the power to supervise the Congress...
Undoubtedly, it represents the will of the central government.
The buds of the empire are growing vigorously, and the borders of the Fire Country are constantly expanding outwards. In such a huge country that has never been seen in ancient times, it is self-evident what the word "center" means.
Roots, unknowingly, have almost become part of the power center of the Fire Country, especially this department has Guanghui as its backer...
As long as Lei Luo doesn't fall, Lei Luo still cares about Guanghui, and Guanghui doesn't fall, then the root will never fall, and it will never be kicked out by anyone.
And will Lei Luo fall? Will Guanghui, who is about to give birth to Lei Luo's first child, fall? Obviously impossible.
All the above factors are all Fugaku's intuition, and they are also the fundamental reason why he rejected the second village Hokage - this sweet potato.
Step by step, we have reached today, and we have witnessed Lei Luo gradually approaching the goal of world unification step by step. Naturally, the pattern in Fugaku's heart will no longer be as small as before.
The second village Hokage?
Even if he is Konoha's native Hokage, he doesn't plan to change!
Hearing the sound coming from his ears, Fugaku came back to his senses and noticed that Lei Luo and the others stopped. He also stopped and looked up at a closed door in front of him. There was a seal-like seal on the door.
thing.
"Uzumaki Makoto."
Raising his hand casually forward, Uzumaki Makoto nodded, forming seals as he walked forward, and soon touched the seal on the door with his palm, and suddenly, circles of cyan light bloomed.
The sealing spell is being lifted quickly.
Lei Luo watched Uzumaki Cheng use the method he got from Luo Sha to unlock the seal, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart:
After so many days, he came to collect Sunagakure's ninjutsu information. This kind of slack behavior was really inappropriate.
In fact, if Luo Sha hadn't happened to mention this matter after Luo Sha surrendered today, he would have been unable to remember it.
It's all his fault that the remnants of Sunagakure from the Kingdom of Wind, the so-called guerrilla ninjas, really made him miserable. I just hope that Luo Sha's follow-up efforts to persuade him to surrender can go smoothly...
Otherwise, the National Defense Force of the Country of Fire will remain in the quagmire of war in the Country of Wind for who knows how long.