After a while, everyone expressed their own opinions...
When everyone finished speaking, Kageyama Kogetsu nodded and said, "Everyone's words make some sense, but none of you have touched the root cause."
"I don't know if you really don't know, or if you deliberately don't want to say it. Forget it, I'll break it down for you."
Ōnoki chuckled, "I'm all ears for Lord Hokage's profound views."
Seeing this, everyone nodded.
"The root cause is historical inertia and the fact that we ninja are too obedient."
As soon as these words were spoken, most people felt confused, and only a few were thoughtful.
"By historical inertia, I mean that since the birth of ninja, we have positioned ourselves as subordinates, like samurai."
"No, even lower than samurai."
Speaking of this, Kageyama Kogetsu took out a cigarette, lit it, took a deep drag, and continued to speak eloquently.
"Cigarettes and lighters are here. Feel free to help yourselves if you're interested."
With Kageyama Kogetsu's transcendent physical fitness, even if he smoked twenty cigarettes at once and smoked non-stop all day, it wouldn't harm his body in the slightest.
"In ancient times, before chakra appeared and before there were ninja, the samurai class was also a member of the ruling class, just in a lower position."
"After ninja appeared, they gradually replaced most of the samurai's duties, but in the systems of various countries, are ninja members of the ruling class?"
"No, no, they are not."
"Although ninja villages have a cooperative relationship with the country and possess many independent powers, even being considered a state within a state, they are self-reliant."
"Who dares to say that ninja who work hard to complete missions big and small are not self-reliant?"
"Historical inertia is too powerful, so powerful that everyone is used to it and thinks everything is as it should be."
"Because it's taken for granted, coupled with the intentional or unintentional domestication by various countries, ninja have always been very obedient."
"There are exceptions, of course, but they are not worth mentioning compared to the entire ninja community."
"Merchants are a bit better. Tycoons also grew from small beginnings. Even if they have support behind them, they have to put in some effort themselves."
"Those nobles and officials are born rich generation after generation. They don't have to be self-reliant, don't have to fight to the death, yet they can obtain resources unimaginable to ordinary ninja."
Everyone gradually understood what Kageyama Kogetsu was trying to say, and most people's expressions changed...
"When we ninja fight each other, they just give money and supplies, sitting firmly on the fishing platform, calmly watching the tides rise and fall."
"Anyway, wars between ninja usually don't affect nobles and officials..."
"Once they are affected, it's like stepping on their tails. Regardless of the country, all nobles and officials will overtly or covertly use various means to exert pressure."
"They make sure the involved ninja receive the cruelest punishment to warn other ninja not to cross the line!"
"We ninja fight endlessly among ourselves, divided and won over by various means, indulging in immediate interests and unable to extricate ourselves."
"Perhaps you all know that I met the Sage of Six Paths before."
"To be honest, if he had replaced nobles and officials with ninja back then, wars would probably still exist, but ninja wouldn't be so miserable."
"Because at that time, we ninja would be the ones sitting firmly on the fishing platform, watching the tides rise and fall."
"Pah, the Sage of Six Paths committed a great crime when he spread chakra and named the chakra possessors."
"Why call it Ninshu (Shinobi Sect), and later ninja (Shinobi)? The word 'Shinobi' (Endure) is really annoying!"
"Since I started performing missions in the ninja world, I've been unhappy."
"Against ordinary people, I can easily fight one against a hundred, one against a thousand."
"Why do I have to work hard on missions, even risking my life, while they can sit at home and enjoy the fruits of my labor?"
"It's fine if they just enjoy the fruits, but their food, drink, clothes, housing, and entertainment are all better than mine?"
"Is this right?"
"Is this reasonable?"
"Is this fair?"
"Unfair!" Kabuto Yakushi shouted, his face flushed.
Everyone looked at him, and Kabuto Yakushi smiled awkwardly and lowered his head.
"That's right, it's unfair!"
"Since it's unfair, it must be changed. If we don't change it, in another thousand years, ninja will still be in this pathetic state!"
"If ninja replace the status of nobles and officials, and every ninja has sufficient resources, why would everyone fight to the death?"
"So we have to grab, no, take back everything we deserve!"
"Regardless of what you think, I plan to lead the Konoha ninja to do it."
"The armed forces of the Land of Fire will never be a match for Konoha. Moreover, dealing with them doesn't require a frontal war. Just send elite ninja to control all nobles, officials, and their families."
"What do you all think?"
Kageyama Kogetsu beamed, his tone like the whisper of a devil, carrying immense seductive power!
"Otogakure is in!" Orochimaru said without hesitation.
Hehe, endless research funding in the future.
"Sunagakure is in!" Temari shouted, her face flushed.
Sunagakure had always been plagued by financial problems. Temari had had enough, and under the incitement, she directly overstepped her bounds.
"Cough, Gaara, sorry." Coming back to her senses, Temari looked apologetic.
"It's okay. I agree to do it too." Gaara, whose face was flushed, showed a faint smile.
One doesn't know the cost of daily necessities until one manages the household. As the Kazekage, his biggest headache every day was money, money, money. He had had enough!
"Amegakure agrees."
Konan's confidant followed instructions: no matter what the decision, just follow the Hokage of Konoha.
"Kusagakure agrees."
"Takigakure agrees."
"Kirigakure agrees."
"Iwagakure agrees."
"Kumogakure agrees."
"Can the Land of Iron agree?" Mifune asked, outwardly calm but inwardly apprehensive.
Mifune was a little panicked. He never expected that attending a meeting would lead to such a major event that could overturn the entire ninja world, no, the entire world structure!
He couldn't disagree with this kind of thing. If he disagreed, he might be killed on the spot.
Moreover, as a samurai, he was equally unhappy about being abandoned by nobles and officials back then!
As soon as ninja appeared, samurai began to be abandoned. It was simply using people when needed and discarding them when not.
In the end, mainstream samurai were forced to learn chakra and establish an independent country in the barren northern land, struggling to survive.
It was time for the traditional art of Gekokujō (the lower ruling the higher)!
Seizing the opportunity, they might stand on the heads of nobles and officials in the future, exactly reversing their previous status!
Kageyama Kogetsu beamed. "Of course. The Land of Iron is an ally of ninja. Broadly speaking, samurai are also allies of ninja."
"Leaving aside combat power, ninja and samurai joining forces to overthrow nobles and officials from social status and other aspects is a Gekokujō!"
With the help of the samurai class, dealing with the nobles and officials of various countries would be easier.
Ordinary soldiers would be very sensible in the face of absolute power. After all, they didn't get paid much a month; it wasn't worth risking their lives.
"Cough, Lord Hokage, we won't kill all the nobles and officials, right?"
"The officials of the Land of Lightning supported Kumogakure before. I can't be too ruthless," the Fourth Raikage, A, said with some difficulty.
Kageyama Kogetsu smiled. "No, except for the diehards, we can keep them."
"My goal is to replace ninja and samurai with nobles, officials, and merchants, and have them serve us."
"If we kill them all, there aren't that many talents among ninja and samurai who are good at governing the country."
"At least not in our generation."
"In the next generation, those who aren't capable can be thrown into governing the country and engaging in various professional things, such as scientific research. Anyway, they can't be idle. Idleness only breeds useless people."
"Those who are capable should cultivate well. We need to establish a trial system to improve their combat strength and combat literacy through trials of various levels."
"Because with the growth of the ninja population and the ordinary population, the world's resources will sooner or later be insufficient."
"Internal austerity is too cruel and short-sighted, so we need to plan ahead and try every means to set off for the stars and the universe."
"The resources of the stars and the universe are endless. As long as we replenish them in time, theoretically, we can develop infinitely!"
Hearing this, everyone praised Kageyama Kogetsu for his foresight and long-term planning.
Kageyama Kogetsu let everyone laugh for a while, because soon they wouldn't be able to laugh.
He wasn't running a charity. How could he only give and not receive?
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