"What kind of important person deserves to be welcomed by Ueno-sama personally?"
"Ueno-sama attaches great importance to this greeting. Don't let it slip. If anyone does, just wait and see!"
The main road from Damingfu to the city gate was cleaned very clean, and pedestrians lined both sides of the road.
They were wearing shabby, thin cotton-padded jackets, their thin bodies were stiff from the cold, and everyone stood shivering in the snow.
They held ribbons and some flowers tightly in their hands.
I don’t know how these flowers came out in this snowy day in the cold winter.
"When will the gentleman whom Ueno-sama greets arrive? I'm so cold."
"Hey, Ueno-sama was not like this before. Why did he change after entering the capital?"
"Say a few words or you will die?!"
"Mom, I'm so cold."
"As long as my son can bear with it, it will be fine."
"But I'm really cold, and my brother is also very cold."
"well......"
...
Outside the city gate, Ueno Teru led the rebel generals who followed him to conquer the River Country. The soldiers met Qianye thirty miles outside the capital.
As the saying goes, Buddha relies on his golden clothes, and people rely on their clothes.
Many generals with rough faces looked majestic after wearing armor. The soldiers wore thick cotton uniforms, were fat and strong, and had a fierce look in their eyes.
Who would have imagined that three months ago, many of them were still farmers who were hard at work digging food in the fields and were driven to the point of desperation by petty officials from the government?
Who could have imagined that three months later, they would become the new owners of this country.
In addition to generals and soldiers, there were also nobles and wealthy businessmen standing in the team.
The nobles are well-dressed and elegant in appearance, making it impossible to find anything wrong with them.
The wealthy businessmen are also very well-dressed, but without hundreds of years of accumulation and accumulation, the shallowness of their background is highlighted when they stand with the nobles.
They successfully killed the evil dragon, and were quickly transformed into new evil dragons in the dragon's castle, and even...
It's better than it is.
Ueno Teru's success came too quickly and too easily.
Under Qianye's push, the River Country changed its flag in just three months.
Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty also won so quickly that the Han Empire turned into the Eastern Han Empire, which ruled the world alone with aristocratic families.
During the Western Han Dynasty, the glory of centralized power gradually faded away.
For this reason, Emperor Guangwu had to vigorously promote the study of prophecy (chèn) and sanctify his imperial power.
In the following years, Emperor Guangwu has been trying his best to strengthen the power of the central government, but unfortunately it has been difficult, especially in the Runan area.
After 195 years, the Han Empire still collapsed.
Back to business.
Ueno Teru is equivalent to getting Liu Xiu's script, but he himself most likely does not have Liu Xiu's ability.
It can even be said that it would be commendable if he could restrain his selfish desires.
Because Ueno Teru knew the inside story, he did not expand quickly, and strictly disciplined his blood relatives, not allowing them to be too public.
There were so many people in the Ueno family, and he really couldn't manage them.
How many times have they been said, but everyone has turned a deaf ear to their words.
I think that now that Ueno Teru has become the new master of the River Country, what will happen to their relatives who follow Zhan Zhanguang?
If one person achieves the Tao, then the chicken and the dog will ascend to heaven.
The Ueno family was in a state of chaos, and only a few smart people chose to listen to Ueno Teru's earnest advice, and did not become arrogant or gorge themselves on fish and meat.
Even if the top is like this, don't expect the people below to be any better.
Because victory is so quick, it is normal for the team to harbor evil and evil practices.
Many smart people turned to the wind and surrendered the city.
Ueno Teru had no way to deal with them, and he couldn't do anything to such a 'hero'.
Because what they used to do is what the people under him are doing now.
After they stood up, they exploited people even more excessively than the officials in the past, which was terrifying and frightening.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it does not mean that we can really sit back and relax.
That's why we need to launch an internal self-purge.
Cleanse away some of the cancers of speculation and remove some of the cancers of rapid decay and corruption.
It's a pity that the full success was not achieved.
The same is true in the current River Country.
I don’t know when it started, but the wind and snow got heavier and heavier.
The cold wind blew like a steel knife, and the group of people who had wrapped themselves tightly felt the cold.
While breathing in the air-conditioning, they stamped their feet on the spot and discussed in low voices who had the honor to allow their daimyo to travel thirty miles out of the city to greet him.
Some people guessed that he was the name of the Fire Country, some people guessed that he was the envoy of the Fire Country, but no one would think of it as a ninja.
In the ninja world, the transmission of information is slow.
Because the River Kingdom fell into civil war earlier, everyone was in a fight, and the intelligence information from the outside world was even slower and lagging behind.
They still don't know that the Fire Nation has changed.
They also don't know that this war is a proxy war.
The Ueno Teru they were following was an agent introduced by Uchiha Qianye in River Country!
While everyone was looking forward to it, five figures appeared.
After these five figures appeared, black shadows also flashed quickly in the windy and snowy sky, appearing at the front of the team.
The senior management behind Teru Ueno had a look in his eyes. Only ninjas can jump around like this!
After they stopped moving, the black shadow revealed its true appearance.
Sure enough, he is a ninja.
They wore white warm cloaks with simple but not crude red flame patterns on the hem of the cloak. The flame patterns danced wildly in the biting cold wind, like blazing flames burning in the snow.
Under the cloak is a military green vest uniform. He has an iron-blooded temperament and cold eyes. He is as quiet as a death army from the depths of hell.
After being tempered by the Fire Kingdom and the River Kingdom, they are no longer the simple tools they used to be.
They have their own new mission, and their swords no longer follow the orders of the nobles.
Now, they will only act according to one person's will.
That person is Uchiha Qianye, their belief.
The moment these Konoha ninjas saw Qianye's figure, their cold and expressionless faces showed violent fluctuations for the first time.
The nobles of the River Kingdom found their expressions of enthusiasm, as if devout believers had seen the gods they served.
"How come a good ninja appears here?"
"They should be here to greet someone important. Who from Konoha could it be?"
"Could it be that Lord from Konoha?!"
I don't know when, Qianye's name has become taboo among the nobles.
"Isn't it possible? Will that adult have time to come to the Kingdom of the River?"
"If it wasn't that person, how could Nara Shikakukaku come out to greet him? That's the only person in the entire ninja world who can cause Nara Shikakukaku to treat him like this, right?"
"Hey, what do you think this adult wants to do when he comes to us?"
"Could it be..." A noble's face turned pale and he trembled: "Could it be that they are here to eliminate us?!"
The faces of all the nobles suddenly became extremely ugly.
How could an ordinary little nobleman like Teru Ueno have so much money to hire so many Konoha ninjas?
They had already vaguely guessed who the person standing behind Ueno Teru was, but they still had a sense of luck and speculation in their hearts.
What if, what if these Konoha ninjas were really hired by Teru Ueno?
At this moment, this lucky mentality was shattered.
The cold wind was howling and the snow was falling, but they were sweating profusely.
It’s not that it’s hot, it’s just that I’m scared!
The shadow of a person, the name of a tree.
Qianye is the most terrifying nightmare for the nobles of the ninja world.
Don't blame them for being cowardly, Qianye's achievements are really too 'dazzling'.
The noble ninja world of the Fire Country was uprooted by him, and even the great names in the country became his puppets.
In their mouths, Qianye seemed to have turned into a monster with a green face, fangs, and a bloody mouth that ate humans alive every day.
If a child cries in a noble family, the adults will say: 'If you cry again, Uchiha Senya will come and take you away.'
This sentence is very powerful. After saying it, keeping it can make a child stop crying.
Now, such a monster might appear in the River Kingdom, and just thinking about it would make them pee in fear.
As Qianye approached, the nobles felt that their knees were inexplicably weak, and their backs felt as if they were carrying a huge boulder weighing a thousand kilograms.
They plopped down and knelt down on the ground, like ostriches with their heads buried in the sand. They raised their buttocks high and buried their heads in the snow.
Ueno Teru, who had become the actual ruler of the River Country, walked forward with exaggerated knees, dragging two long 'roads' in the icy snow.
"My subordinate Teru Ueno pays homage to Hokage-sama. May your glory shine forever in the ninja world."
boom!
Their suspicions were confirmed, the person coming was really Uchiha Qianye, the cruel devil from Konoha!
Nobles, businessmen, and generals rushed to kneel down and said: "My lord... pay homage to Hokage-sama. May your glory shine forever in the ninja world."
This group of the most noble people in the River Kingdom knelt in the snow and respectfully welcomed Qianye's arrival.
For those who didn’t know, I thought Qianye was the famous name of the River Country.
Standing next to Qianye, Sana's fair face flushed with excitement, and she quietly clenched her fists:
'The teacher is so strong!'
She has a concept of the Country of the River, and her mother also mentioned the Country of Crossing the River to her before she was alive.
For Loulan, this country definitely belongs to a big country.
However, now the country's ruling class all knelt on the ground to welcome her teacher.
"This is Sana's teacher!" A strong sense of pride arose in Sana's heart, and she felt honored.
The Konoha ninjas showed no signs of reaction to the collective kneeling of the ruling class of the River Country.
For them, this is a matter of course.
After the Great Purge of the Fire Nation, their mentality has completely changed.
They no longer regard themselves as tools under the hands of nobles, but as masters of a country.
There is only one person in this world who can drive them, and that is their Fifth Generation Hokage!
If these nobles dare to show off to their Hokage-sama, they don't mind using the kunai in their hands to teach these nobles what respect is.
Now it seems that these insects in the River Kingdom are very sensible, which is good.
"Hui-kun, thank you for your hard work. You led the working people of the River Country to overthrow the brutal rule of the Daimyo of the River Country. I am very happy about this."
"It was not Hui's credit that he was able to overthrow the brutal rule of the Daimyo of River Country. Without Hui, there would have been others standing in Hui's position.
In my heart, you are the real leader who leads the working people of the River Country to overthrow the brutal rule of the Daimyo of the River Country, and you are the savior of the River Country!"
When Ueno Teru said this, his eyes were red and tears were streaming down his face.
How much of it is true and how much of it is false depends on the benevolent and the wise.
Qianye didn't care whether Ueno Teru was acting or showing his true feelings.
In the conversation just now, Ueno Teru made his thoughts clear to him——
I am still your loyal hawk and dog.
that's enough.
A gentle smile appeared on Qianye's face, he leaned over to help Ueno Teru up, and reached out to pat the snow on his shoulders:
"Huijun, I'm serious. I only provided a small and insignificant help. I can't be said to be the savior of the River Kingdom. Do you have any ideas about governing the River Kingdom?"
"Hokage-sama, please forgive me, the Ninja world is in turmoil now. Although our River Country is a large food-producing country, it does not have enough ability to protect itself. The original government of the Daimyo of River Country was in a state of decay and could not see the general trend of the Ninja world at all.
The Six Nations talks have been delayed again and again.
Now, I beg you, Hokage-sama, to allow us, the River Country, to become a strategic partner of the Fire Country through the Pan-Central Cooperation Pact, so that we can jointly deal with the turbulent situation in the shinobi world."
As soon as Ueno Teru came up, he gave Qianye a big gift.
The progress of the six-nation talks has been bumpy and not particularly smooth.
Qianye was able to cleanse the nobles and ninja temples in the Country of Fire before because he played the card of the great name of the Country of Fire.
The daimyo of the Fire Country ordered him to do this.
Regardless of whether the outside world believes it or not, Qianye is famous as a master of rules.
But this kind of operation is not feasible in other countries.
Blindly killing and killing will only force all countries to oppose Konoha and leave Konoha isolated and helpless.
Even after winning the final victory in the war, Qianye inherited a dilapidated and declining ninja world.
Just like the Three Kingdoms period, the warlords' melee resulted in ten rooms and nine empty houses.
Therefore, Qianye cannot use such a simple and crude method for the five 'quasi' allied vassals.
The ruling classes of these five countries did not know whose advice they received, and they suddenly reached a seemingly fragile but very strong alliance.
They advanced and retreated together, and put forward harsh conditions. For such unreasonable demands, the people on Qianye's side were naturally unwilling to agree. They were also limited by objective factors and could not use unconventional means, which made the progress of the negotiation work slow and unsustainable.