Chapter 460 External Trends
Konoha Village.
After Orochimaru promoted Sarutobi Hisashi to the position of advisor elder.
The Sarutobi clan lowered their guard.
The first batch of Sarutobi clan members to return to Konoha numbered five hundred people.
But Orochimaru didn't say anything and accepted all these people.
Because the divisions of the Hyuga clan are dead and gone.
The security force is short of men.
After Sarutobi Heng's repeated suggestions, Orochimaru stuffed all the Sarutobi clan into the police force.
However, the personal strength of the Sarutobi clan is far inferior to that of Hinata. They have neither Byakugan nor the ability to tap acupuncture points.
Quantity can only replace quality.
The police force used to be patrolled by one Hyuga clan member, but now it has five people patrolled by the Sarutobi clan.
But the staff salary is still only that much.
With the death of the third generation, the Sarutobi clan lost many sources of income.
Not to mention being stationed outside all the time.
Now that the Sarutobi clan has not returned from the outside, they have all turned to long-term tasks that are not profitable.
The Sarutobi clan members who had just returned to Konoha were walking on thin ice and did not dare to make any mistakes.
Even if the five people shared the salary of one person before, they did not dare to complain at all.
There are not that many long-term missions. In fact, there are still a large number of people from the Sarutobi clan stranded outside.
These are the 500 people who came back first. It's just a test for Orochimaru to see what Orochimaru's attitude is.
If Orochimaru accepts these people, the Sarutobi clan will continue the following actions.
Everything seems to be fine now, Orochimaru even put these tribesmen into the police force.
This means that Orochimaru still wants to rely on the Sarutobi clan.
The Hyuga clan is now basically in a state of fragmentation.
When Hyuga Rizu announced the abolition of caged birds at first, some disciples of the clan were unmoved.
But that time, the disciples of the clan used the caged bird again and were executed by Orochimaru in public.
The remaining members of the Zong family finally woke up.
They are no longer the aloof clan.
The Hyuga clan members who were separated were all grateful for Orochimaru's kindness, and began to pay allegiance to Orochimaru.
This is the reason why Orochimaru wants to keep the clan members alive and not kill them.
Its purpose is simply to win over the hearts and minds of the separated families.
Ever since Hizashi was resurrected, he felt something was different about his body.
Not in a negative way, but in a positive way.
He was already forty years old and had passed his physical prime.
It was supposed to be going downhill.
But recently he found that his physical condition was getting better and better.
The body is getting younger.
Hizashi made a special trip to Konoha Hospital for a physical examination.
The medical ninja there said that Hizashi's vitality is now very large.
Body functions are recovering in reverse.
Preliminary calculations indicate that Nizashi's physical functions will return to those of thirty years old.
Hizashi was really surprised and happy.
He could only vaguely guess whether Xia Mu had done something.
That's why his body became like this.
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After what happened last time, Hyuga Yuto has matured a lot.
Hizashi also handed over more tasks of the garrison to Yong Ren, who would wait until Yong Ren had enough qualifications.
He was ready to hand over the position of captain of the garrison to Yong Ren.
Although the Hyuga branch family no longer has the shackles of a caged bird, most of its personnel in Konoha have been reduced.
The security team was originally short of manpower, but Orochimaru quickly packed in five hundred people from the Sarutobi clan.
The number of guardsmen doubled in an instant.
Orochimaru warned Hizashi that these Sarutobi tribesmen were not strong enough to be a guard force, so they could only make up for quality with quantity.
Let Hizashi keep an eye on Sarutobi's people to see if Sarutobi's people are dishonest.
According to Orochimaru's words, Hizashi incorporated the people of the Sarutobi clan into the hands of the Hyuga clan.
Let the Hyuga clan lead these Sarutobi clan members on daily patrols.
So far, these Sarutobi tribesmen have behaved very honestly and have not done anything untoward.
Because of the body's recovery.
After Hizashi got on the right track in the mission system, he also began to take some time to practice.
The whole person's strength has quietly improved unconsciously.
Today, Hizashi came to the task hall to inspect some problematic tasks as usual.
Unexpectedly, the three people from Class 7 actually came back.
"Hizashi-sama, we are back to hand in the mission!"
Naruto said excitedly.
"So fast?"
Hizashi took the mission scroll handed over by Hinata, as well as the Wasabi family's token.
"Well, we met Natsuki-senpai. Natsuki-senpai's mission is to assassinate the enemy of the Wasabi family and the leader of the Ka clan, Kagurioku."
"With the Waga clan dead, the Wasabi family's mission no longer needs to be done."
"Chang Wasabi Jiro said that this mission will be upgraded to A level. I wonder if the news has been conveyed?"
Hizashi was speechless, no wonder Naruto and others came back so quickly.
Naruto is so honest and doesn't even know how to polish it up.
However, since it is a daily acceptance task, there is no need to go through the process for many things.
It was natural for the day difference to add an A-level mission to the resumes of the three people in Team 7.
At this time Sasuke came forward and said:
"Hizashi-sama, we have captured two rebel ninjas from Konoha and are temporarily imprisoning them."
"These two traitorous ninjas have special status. My master asked me to bring you some words."
"Oh? You said." Hizashi was a little curious.
"Master said that these two people are Midori Aoi and Morino Ida."
"Midoku Aoi ordered Morino Ida to steal the Second Hokage's Thunder God Sword."
"Now Lu Qingkui has caught it, but the Thunder God's Sword was snatched away by an unknown person."
"Ida Morino is the younger brother of Ihiki Morino."
Hizashi suddenly realized, no wonder Xiamu had to tell him specifically.
There is nothing to say about people like Lu Qingkui. If caught, they should be put in jail and killed.
Morinoida's identity can be manipulated by Orochimaru.
It should make the old-fashioned Morino talk a little more than she likes.
"Okay, I understand what Xiamu means. You go down and rest."
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Hokage's office.
Minato, who used the transformation technique to become Orochimaru, was dealing with government affairs.
Now Konoha's various ninjas are sending frequent messages.
Most of them were reporting that intelligence agents from other ninja villages were frequently active in the Land of Fire.
Konoha Village has also caught a lot of spies recently.
Konoha ninjas who are on missions outside will be harassed by some unknown forces.
Sometimes it escalates into friction.
This kind of thing happens in normal times, but after Uchiha became independent, these things suddenly started to happen more and more.
Wait until the third Hokage dies and most of the Hyuga clan has left.
There are more such things.
Minato knew that some forces were already testing Konoha.
Although Uchiha did not live in Konoha Village before, he still wore Konoha forehead protector.
It can be considered a part of Konoha.
Now that Uchiha is independent, except for some old and weak members of the clan, all the others have left Konoha.
There was a rebellion in the Hyuga clan, and the entire branch family died and disappeared, and there were far fewer branch families left.
Moreover, spies have found out that all the dead members of the Hyuga clan are elites.
There are very few jounin and special jounin of the Hyuga clan now.
Only Hizashi and Hizashi kept up the facade, and almost all the other powerful ones died.
Most of the remaining Hyuga clan members are chuunin and genin.
Although the Sarutobi clan has returned with a lot of people, there are no masters.
Once these forces test Konoha's weakness, there may be some disturbances afterwards.
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