Chapter 392: Ohnoki's Pressure Doubles

Since we cannot declare war on Konoha or even start a war, should we change our target?

Anyway, what Ohnoki wants is to prevent the explosion and rely on the resources plundered in war to feed back to the Iwagakure.

If Konoha cannot move and the war has to start, there is a high probability that they will choose to change their target.

Konoha can't be attacked, and the Cloud Village can't be attacked...

Then there will be fewer and fewer targets left for Onoki.

"Ma Buyi, give me the map."

"Yes, Raikage-sama."

The lady in linen, who was wearing a professional secretary outfit and high heels, quickly fetched a map of the ninja world, opened it, and spread it out on the desk.

Ai's gaze was directly locked onto the location of the Rock Village, then expanded to the entire Land of Earth, and then...

"Hahaha........"

After staring at the map for a while, Ai suddenly burst into laughter.

Ma Buyi, who was standing aside, was completely confused. She had no idea what her Lord Raikage was thinking.

Or predicted something.

"Linen clothes."

"Lord Raikage."

Ma Buyi bowed respectfully and waited for Ai's order.

"You will immediately go to Konoha with Samui in secret. Go to Konoha to meet with the Hokage assistant Uchiha Hiko and tell him that I will have a secret meeting with him in five days at the border of the Land of Fire."

"Yes."

Ai didn't explain why he wanted to have a secret meeting with Yan, and Ma Buyi didn't take the initiative to ask.

As the secretary of the Raikage, she only needs to obey every order of the Raikage. This is her duty and mission.

"Hahaha, Ohnoki, you won't succeed. I will make you pay the price."

After taking a puzzled look at the office of the Raikage that was constantly laughing, Ma Buyi didn't think much about it. He returned to his residence as quickly as possible, changed out of his secretary uniform and put on his combat uniform.

Then he sent someone to find Samui, and left the village with Samui and went to Konoha secretly.

While the Raikage Ai was laughing, Ohnoki was having a headache.

The Iwagakure can receive news that Konoha has dispatched ninja troops to guard the border, and the same can be said for the Iwagakure.

This kind of military action clearly tells you that I am targeting you, and the Iwagakure Village must take it seriously.

He felt prejudged.

As Kazuhiko analyzed, after the war between the Mist Village and the Sand Village broke out, the economy of the Rock Village was affected. Although the impact was not significant at the beginning, as time went on, problems arose when the prices of various materials began to rise due to the war.

Compared to the stingy Sand Village, the Land of Earth is also a barren place.

It is difficult to meet the needs of our own needs and we need to purchase large quantities of supplies from outside. When prices are stable, no one cares. But when war breaks out and prices of various supplies rise, some people can no longer bear it.

At times like this, Ohnoki was very envious of the Kumogakure and Konoha. These two villages were like two wealthy families, always looking like they had no shortage of money, which always made people hate them.

The prices of various materials have increased, but the Iwagakure did not have much spare money due to the overdevelopment of its military force. So the village followed the example of Konoha and Kumogakure and stockpiled large amounts of materials to stabilize the prices.

If commodity prices continue to rise and the village does not make adjustments, conflicts will break out.

Unfortunately, the village’s finances are tight, so there is no way to make adjustments.

Just when Ohnoki was having a headache about this, Konoha suddenly sent additional personnel to guard the border, and the Third Hokage led the team himself, clearly telling him, Ohnoki, that we at Konoha are guarding against your Iwagakure.

If you want to use war to ease internal conflicts, then you, Ōnoki, should forget about it. At least, you can't attack Konoha and the Land of Fire.

Otherwise I'll stab you in the face and make you bleed.

My opponent successfully predicted my prediction.

This also made Ohnoki even more uncomfortable.

"hateful!!!"

In anger, Ohnoki slammed the table hard.

At this time, the Tsuchikage's secretary ran into the office and whispered, "Tsuchikage-sama, the lords and daimyo are visiting."

"I see, let them in."

Ohnoki knew very well why the high-ranking officials and the daimyo came together.

After a while, the senior leaders and daimyo of the Iwagakure came to the Tsuchikage's office hand in hand.

After everyone sat down, Ohnoki took the lead in opening the topic: "I know what you all mean by that. In fact, I am also worried about this problem. The war between the Mist Village and the Sand Village broke out very suddenly, and the village was not prepared at all."

"Tsuchikage, now it's not just the village that's affected, it's also the Daimyo's mansion."

The Iwagakure and the Kumogakure can be regarded as the family of the village daimyo. The daimyo of Iwagakure seldom stays in the daimyo's mansion, but most of the time he is in Iwagakure and attends various meetings. The cooperation with Iwagakure is very close. It is not like the Kirigakure and the Sand Village which make people suffer, nor is it like Konoha which is so hands-off and does not care about anything except giving money.

"Also, the Ministry of Finance is under a lot of pressure. There have been complaints in the village recently. As the war continues, the prices of supplies have risen too fast. It's difficult for the village to buy from outside."

The price increase is relative to the entire ninja world, not just one place. The longer the war lasts, the crazier the price increase will be.

Not everyone has Yan's courage. I first stockpile a batch of supplies and then let the price go up. I have a lot of things stockpiled, so I just need to stabilize the price increase in the village and minimize the impact on the village as much as possible.

However, Konoha can do it, but Iwagakure cannot.

If the Iwagakure could maintain balance on its own, these high-ranking officials and daimyo would not need to come to Ōnoki.

"And Konoha suddenly sent the Sandaime Hokage to guard the border, which also had a certain impact on us. Many caravans believed that the war was inevitable, so..."

Damn it, can’t you guys in Konoha take it easy?

Why send people to guard the border when there is nothing to do?

As a result, a large number of merchant caravans believed that Konoha and Iwagakure might fight at any time, so they dared not enter the Land of Earth.

The caravans that were originally going to enter the Land of Earth and the Iwagakure to do business no longer came, which invisibly caused the pressure on the Iwagakure to double.

The already weak economy began to get worse.

"Has it become so serious?"

Ohnoki couldn't help but frown. The situation was far more serious than he had imagined.

Damn Kirigakure, damn Sand Village, why are you fighting for no reason? Damn Konoha, why are you guarding against us for no reason? Are you guarding against the economy too?

As a stubborn old man, Ohnoki would not think about why Konoha was wary of the Iwagakure. He would simply think that there was something wrong with Konoha and that only a sick person would do such a sick thing.

Now, the Iwagakure is in a state of limbo and the situation has become even worse.

If there is an internal collapse in the Iwagakure, Konoha will bear at least half the blame.

"Even a little more serious."

The daimyo's face looked unhappy, because the pressure on the daimyo's mansion was much more serious than that of the Iwagakure.