Chapter 99 Pressure
Today, Takigakure Village is divided into two factions.
They are the conservative faction led by the village chief Kyousuke, and the radical faction led by the elite jonin Masakawa.
Masakawa is the second most powerful person in the village after Kyousuke, and he has always been very dissatisfied with the village's policy of not competing with the world.
Especially during the Second Ninja World War, he always hoped that the village chief would respond to Hanzo's call.
Bravely declare war on the five major ninja villages.
But the result was not as expected. In the end, Kyosuke only agreed to let Hanzo pass through to attack the Iron Kingdom.
He still insisted on his point of view on sending ninjas to assist in the war.
Finally, news of Hanzo's defeat came, and Masakawa became even more resentful of Kyosuke's inaction.
In his opinion, if the Takigakure Village had stood firmly on Hanzo's side, the outcome of the war would definitely not be like it is now.
There is a high possibility that Takigakure Village will be ranked among the top five ninja villages together with Yugakure Village.
Therefore, when Ohnoki sent someone to discuss cooperation, he was rejected by Kyosuke.
Masakawa, who was worried about how to overthrow Kyousuke, immediately sent someone to secretly contact the envoy of Iwagakure Village.
The two parties hit it off and quickly reached a cooperation agreement.
People from the Iwagakure Village were sent to help Masakawa seize power, and Masakawa promised that after becoming the village chief, he would stand on a united front with the Iwagakure Village to jointly defeat Konoha.
Ohnoki was a very smart man. He knew that even if Sarutobi Hiruzen, who was now known as the strongest Hokage, was just fat, with Konoha's foundation, no matter how much strength he accumulated, he could not shake the other party's position as the number one ninja village.
The only way to have some hope is to win over other ninja villages and form an alliance.
But those guys in the Hidden Cloud Village who have muscles in their brains are only thinking about attacking the Hidden Rock Village.
The Sand Village was devastated by Konoha in the last war and dared not even talk about expansion.
Kirigakure is completely closed, and there is no channel for contact at all.
Just when Ohnoki was worrying about how to win over these guys.
The intelligence department of Iwagakure Village gave him the news that the last batch of gold sand would be shipped out of Sand Village.
This was a godsend.
All Oonoki needs to do is tell Masakawa the news and let him take action.
After the gold sand is taken away, Konoha will definitely send people to question the Sand Village.
This will greatly deepen the conflict between the two villages.
All he needs to do is to instigate them a little and promise them some benefits, and he will definitely tie the Sand Village to the Iwagakure's chariot.
As for whether Konoha can eventually find out the identity of the perpetrator -
Even if it is investigated, it doesn't matter.
Now the actual leader of Takigakure Village is still that guy Kyousuke.
This is a good opportunity to get this old guy out of office.
......
Things turned out exactly as Ōnoki had expected.
After obtaining the route of the Konoha transport team from the Iwagakure, Masakawa sent out his trusted confidant, Xie Gu, to lead the team to ambush on the route that the Konoha ninjas must take.
Relying on a surprise attack, they successfully annihilated the transport force.
After hastily dealing with the corpse, Xie Gu and others disguised themselves, and then took everyone and Jin Sha and quietly returned to Takigakure Village.
"Brother, look, this is all gold dust!"
Xiegu came to Zhengchuan with the gold sand in his hands, with a happy face.
Seeing the golden gold sand, Zhengchuan's face showed a hint of joy.
Takikuni is a small country, and the pile of gold in front of us is equivalent to the annual fiscal allocation of the daimyo.
With this money, and the support of Iwagakure Village, Masakawa is confident that he can win over most people in the village.
The only unexpected change was the Anbu members directly under Kyousuke.
"You didn't leave any traces."
Suppressing the joy on his face, Zhengchuan asked Xiegu in front of him seriously.
"Don't worry, big brother. We have thrown the bodies in the opposite direction, the traces of the battle have been buried, and the brothers who died in the battle have been properly dealt with. Nothing will happen."
Xie Gu answered confidently.
threw?
The Iwagakure jonin Huo Guang, who had been listening in on the side, noticed something was wrong.
"Didn't I tell you that you must completely destroy the corpse?!"
The sudden question caught Xiegu off guard.
After seeing that the person asking the question was the head of the Iwagakure, he stammered and explained:
"I, I was afraid that burning it would attract patrols, so I chose to throw it in a secluded place..."
idiot!
Huoguang frowned and forced himself to swallow the curse words.
"Did you know that the Yamanaka clan of Konoha has a secret technique that can extract memories from corpses!"
Lowering his voice, Huoguang explained to them in a bad tone.
"You didn't say this either..."
Xiegu, knowing that he had gotten into trouble, looked at Zhengchuan with eyes asking for help.
Seeing the pitiful look in his subordinate's eyes, Zhengchuan patted Xiegu on the shoulder, signaled him with his eyes to be at ease, and then asked him to leave.
Only after Xiegu's figure disappeared did Zhengchuan ask the firelight nearby:
"Does the mountain tribe really have this kind of secret technique?"
"I'm not in a position to lie to you."
After receiving Huoguang's affirmative answer, Zhengchuan also felt something was wrong.
"Then what should we do?"
"How about this, I will go back to the village right now and ask Lord Tsuchikage for his opinion. You guys hold on for a while. After all, if the body is well hidden, Konoha may not find it."
Hearing that Huo Guang was about to leave, Zhengchuan immediately expressed his objection.
"No, if you leave, what if Kyousuke gets angry?"
He is not a fool. He knows that Kyousuke's strength is beyond his ability to deal with, so he has to rely on the help of the fire.
If the fire goes away and the people from Konoha arrive, won’t I be dead?
"You don't have to worry about that."
Huoguang pulled out a flare from his pocket, handed it to Zhengchuan, and began to explain.
"Once you find that something is wrong, blow the flare. We have already ambushed a team of people in Taki Country, and they will send people to help you."