Chapter 203 Can I do it?

At noon, the Nanhe River flows slowly, and the sparkling waves under the sunlight are dazzling. Occasionally, naughty fish jump out of the water and make sounds, and the summer cicadas continue to sing.

On the road by the river, a young and beautiful woman was walking quickly with a basket in her hand. She was wearing a light green dress and her long hair was casually tied behind her head with a rope. A large sun hat provided shade to her face while also covering her features.

The woman's light footsteps awakened Ye Shan from his deep sleep. He suddenly opened his red eyes, and a cold light flashed in his eyes. But when he saw who was coming, the coldness in his eyes quietly dissipated, and surprise emerged.

"Captain Ye Shan, I didn't expect you to be here." The woman greeted gently.

Ye Shan stood up somewhat at a loss and said softly, "Long time no see, Yuura."

Yamanaka Yuura took off her sun hat, revealing her fair face, sniffed the air and asked, "Have you been drinking?"

"Uh...I drank a little."

Yamanaka Yuura casually placed her sun hat on the grass, took out a bunch of chrysanthemums from the basket, walked lightly over Ye Shan and placed it in front of the tombstone, then knelt on the ground, clasped her hands together, closed her eyes, and prayed devoutly.

After the prayer was over, Yamanaka Yuura stood up and brushed the dust off her skirt, then turned around and said seriously, "It's not a good thing for a ninja to be drunk. I remember that Captain Yeshan hates drinking the most."

Ye Shan looked absentmindedly at his former companion who had been so decisive in killing people, and muttered, "I used to hate alcohol, but in the past two years, I have often had a few drinks."

Yamanaka Yuura frowned and counted the empty bottles on the ground, with a reproachful tone in his voice: "Although I know you can drink a lot, drinking two bottles at a time is not considered a small drink. Are you facing any troubles? If possible, I'm very interested in listening."

Ye Shan took out a cigarette and was about to light it, but after thinking for a while, he resisted the urge to smoke, rubbed his face and said, "Sorry, it's a serious matter and I can't tell you, at least not now."

The fact that the Third Hokage was heading to the battlefield could not be told, otherwise it would easily cause unnecessary unrest. Besides, Yamanaka Yuura was no longer a ninja, and there was no need for her to get involved since she was far away from the disputes.

Yamanaka Yuura did not ask any further questions. He carefully took out a bowl of steaming sukiyaki from the basket with his right hand, stuffed it into Ye Shan's hand and said, "We have been teammates for several years, and I just realized that Captain Ye Shan has never eaten the food I cooked. Come and try it and see how it tastes."

Ye Shan's heart ached, staring at the Sukiyaki in his hand, he said softly: "It's amazing that you still remember Shancheng Chen's favorite food, thank you."

Yamanaka Yuura shook his head and said, "It's not difficult to remember Chen's favorite food. After all, that guy always clamors for Sukiyaki after every mission. But you, the captain, have never revealed your favorite food."

"Try it. It took me all morning to make this."

"No." Ye Shan put the sukiyaki in front of the tombstone and said, "I can eat sukiyaki anytime I want. Let Chen eat more."

"Yuro, there's no need to be so polite. Just call me Ye Shan."

"That won't do. Captain, you are a strong man in the village. I'd better respect you to avoid gossip." Yamanaka Yuura joked.

Ye Shan smiled bitterly: "How have you been lately?"

"It's pretty good. I've gained a lot of weight by arranging flowers and cooking every day."

"That's good."

Ye Shan scratched his head, not knowing what to say. Before he could think of a word, the woman opposite him whispered, "I should go back to eat."

"Um"

Yamanaka Yuura put on a sun hat, picked up the basket and walked past Ye Shan. After walking a few meters away, he said, "Captain, you have become sentimental. You used to be like a wolf foraging for food, always full of ruthlessness, but why are you so timid now?"

After saying that, the woman walked away on her own, leaving Ye Shan standing in front of the tomb in a daze.

Life is full of troubles. Ye Shan felt like a mountain was about to fall down on his shoulders, making him very uncomfortable.

Although Sarutobi Hiruzen said nothing and explained nothing last night, he expressed what he wanted to do through practical actions.

The Third Hokage, who was defined by Hayama as having more faults than merits, chose to take the lead at the most dangerous moment for Konoha.

He once led the Konohagakure from its peak to its lowest point. He appointed people based on personal connections, which led to unrest in the village. He enriched his own clan by enriching himself. He suppressed the power of his family but excluded civilian ninjas. He was full of morality but full of darkness...

He is Ye Shan's imaginary enemy, the object of curse in countless sleepless nights.

However, after careful consideration, Ye Shan discovered that he had no valid reasons to reprimand him.

Blame him for not accepting me? Blame him for not nurturing me? Blame him for killing Hatake Sakumo?

This is what Ye Shan thought when he was eighteen years old, but now that Ye Shan has matured and he has really stood at the top of the village, he finds that the other party's actions were not too excessive.

In the end, Ye Shan chose to let go, so he came to the place where Shan Chengchen was buried to apologize.

There is a saying that a young dragon slayer will eventually become a dragon, there is another saying that the butt determines the head, and finally there is a saying that if you want to get something, you must give up something.

Sarutobi Hiruzen is the supreme commander of Konoha Village and the de facto leader of the Land of Fire. It is a bit one-sided to evaluate him only from Yeshan's perspective.

A person is complex, and a person who holds great power is even more complex. In the final analysis, Sarutobi Hiruzen may not be a good Hokage, but he is a qualified successor.

It has been more than forty years since the establishment of Konoha Village. No one can remember the original intention of establishing this village, and no one remembers the lifelong wish of the Second Hokage.

The original intention of establishing the village was to avoid years of fighting among large and small ninja clans, and to prevent three-year-old children from taking up weapons to fight; the lifelong wish of the second generation Hokage was to break the monopoly of family ninjas, eliminate village barriers, and truly form a collective that is fair and just to each other.

Some people may ask, doesn't the establishment of a ninja village intensify the scale of war? Doesn't suppressing family ninjas weaken the strength of the village?

Yes, they are right. The ninja village intensified the scale of the war, and the demise of the ninja clan weakened the overall strength of Konoha. But we can't always focus on the bad side, we must look at the problem comprehensively.

The wisdom of the predecessors is not something that ordinary people can comprehend. The ninja village system founded by Hashirama Senju concentrated the flames of war on the ninja group, and the civilians were freed from the suffering of war; Senju Tobirama's centralized policy weakened the strength of the village, but he really did benefit the civilian ninjas.

According to the design of the Senju brothers, within a few decades the village will become an ideal society where you and I are interdependent, and war will really disappear from the ninja community.

So why did they fail?

Ye Shan believes that the loopholes in their initial system design led to inevitable failure.

The one country, one village system is certainly a groundbreaking design, but it overlooks one point, that is, there are many one country, one village in the ninja world. Where there are people, there are conflicts, not to mention clearly distinguished communities of interest.

After Sarutobi Hiruzen became Hokage, he faithfully carried out the will of the previous Hokage and turned Konoha into a cage of power. If there were no external enemies to interfere, Konoha Village would have been glorious for at least a hundred years.

Just think about it, a group of people who possess the world's highest military power are concentrated at one point, while ordinary people can farm and recuperate in peace. Isn't this the paradise we imagine?

So far, whether it is Sarutobi Hiruzen or any other village leader, they have never thought of really annexing a country, at most they would like to take some small advantages.

Judging from Ye Shanshao's poor historical knowledge, the current ninja world's thinking remains in the Spring and Autumn Period of the previous life. They respect the use of force and annex small countries one after another, but choose to restrain themselves against strong opponents. When there are only a few forces left in the world, they will start to test each other and weaken each other to ensure that the other party has no strength to annex them, and then continue to be their own king in the territory.

The question is, how long will this stalemate last? The answer from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period is six hundred years!

The thought of six hundred years of war and attacks made Ye Shan's hair stand on end.

If you really want to stay away from war, you have to start a war. There is no other way.

Peace will come when there is only one country in the world, until the system can no longer be maintained, a new war breaks out, and then a new system is established, and peace comes again.

History is a circle. No one can turn it into a straight line. All people can do is try to make the circle bigger.

Now, there are five big circles and dozens of small circles in the ninja world, and these circles are intertwined with each other, so the war will not stop.

Ye Shan felt that the only thing he could do was to draw a big circle, big enough to cover the entire ninja world.

So the question is, when a person realizes what he wants to do, and that it is something that has never been done before, how does he feel?

Ye Shan can tell you that there is no so-called excitement, nor any lofty ambitions. What remains in his heart and on his shoulders is only an unbearable weight and strong doubts.

"Can someone like me really do this?"

On the banks of the Nanhe River in summer, Ye Shan's mind was filled with such doubts.