Chapter 121 The Beginning of Change

After Sunagakure and Konoha formed an alliance, the entire ninja world entered a state of high alert.

Especially Sand Village and Kumogakure. These two places were the most nervous because of my evil intentions.

According to their intelligence, although the battle caused a lot of damage to Konoha, it was not serious enough to cause serious damage.

After the war, Sunagakure paid a large amount of compensation. At the same time, the two sides also signed a military mutual assistance treaty.

This made the other two villages even more nervous. They even stopped trying to trip each other up and focused on guarding against Konoha's counterattack.

They knew one thing very clearly. Tsunade was different from Sarutobi Hiruzen. This woman had a hot temper and her ambition was not comparable to Sarutobi Hiruzen's. Her rise to power would not be a good thing for the surrounding ninja villages.

However, the failure of the Raikage last time made the Cloud Village and the Iwagakure not dare to act rashly.

Konoha's Kamikawa Aoba's bounty at the gold exchange has now reached 200 million taels. But so far no one has been able to get it. Not even a few people dare to take it.

I don't know anything else, but the last time the Raikage fought him, he not only lost an arm, but also directly killed hundreds of elite soldiers. It is said that his trusted subordinate Xi died in that battle.

After that battle, Konoha made a decision that was unbelievable to the entire ninja world.

They collected the bodies of all the Kumogakure ninjas, and then took those with bounties on them to the exchange office to exchange for money.

This operation completely subverted the image of Konoha as a good guy during the reign of Sarutobi Hiruzen. He showed an arrogant and domineering attitude.

Although he had been the boss of Konoha for many years and had been overbearing before, during the later period of Sarutobi Hiruzen's reign, he had become a thorough good guy.

But that operation directly deterred all the surrounding forces that were ready to make a move. Konoha may have declined, but that was compared to the Konoha of the past. They are still the strongest force in the ninja world.

Of course, the most important feedback from this incident is that Kumogakure acted as a "good guy" and did not say a word about Konoha's provocation.

There was no way, the Raikage knew it very well. This time, Kamikawa Aoba did not take any shortcuts. The opponent defeated him head-on.

From tactics to strength, he had absolutely suppressed me. The broken left arm had caused me severe damage.

If there weren't two Jinchuriki in Kumogakure, Ōnoki might have come to Kumogakure to extort money.

Although the Raikage was reckless, he was not stupid. He knew that Konoha could not be taken advantage of for the time being. And it was not just a matter of not being able to take advantage of it. After Tsunade came to power, Konoha's governing style had obviously changed dramatically. He now needed to be wary of Konoha's revenge.

Not only him, Ohnoki also had the same idea. Both ninja villages were on full alert. But in the end, nothing happened.

There is no revenge, nor any foreign policy. Although Konoha's style has changed greatly under Tsunade's rule, it has no intention of external expansion.

On the contrary, Konoha entered a state of focusing on development and construction.

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Konoha Research Institute.

This is a new department that Konoha has established in recent months. One of the Hokage's assistants, Kamikawa Aoba, serves as the deputy director here, and the Hokage himself is the nominal director.

In fact, scientific research is something that most people in the ninja world are unfamiliar with, and even most ninjas can't get involved.

This is due to the severe lack of cultural education in the ninja world.

Take a look at their cultural subjects for the Chunin Exam. The requirement is actually to examine cheating methods.

For a ninja, this is understandable. After all, this is a means of collecting intelligence. However, under this education system, it is impossible to produce the scientific researchers that Aoba wants.

In this class, only Haruno Sakura was qualified. The rest were trained as weapons of war.

In fact, only the children of a very small number of large families can receive enough cultural education. It is already very difficult for civilian ninjas to learn the courses of ninja schools.

If Orochimaru had not been a disciple of the Third Hokage, he would never have achieved his current success. In this era, you cannot research all kinds of forbidden techniques out of thin air.

Even the Senju Tobirama did not create all kinds of ninjutsu out of thin air. Don't forget that they had experienced the Warring States Period.

The Senju family has destroyed countless ninja villages and clans, and has accumulated countless different ninjutsu materials.

It was only after integrating countless different kinds of information that Tobirama Senju was able to make up for his shortcomings and create his own forbidden techniques.

Ordinary people have absolutely no access to these resources. Only after becoming a disciple of the Hokage was Orochimaru able to obtain more information, complete his original knowledge reserves, and lay the foundation for his later development of forbidden techniques.

The big clans also have some similar information. But civilian ninjas who want to learn the five elements of ninjutsu have to exchange points by completing tasks.

Don't even think about this information.

Therefore, after getting Tsunade's support, Aoba made a lot of reforms to Konoha.

Reform is never an easy thing. However, the resistance Qingye encountered was not as great as he had imagined.

First of all, Konoha is very rich.

The Fire Nation occupies the best land on this continent, and Konoha is located at the core of the transportation route. Various missions and resources controlled by Konoha can bring Konoha a steady stream of cash flow.

With money, many obstacles are no longer obstacles.

Secondly, Aoba is very strong. As the best ninja in Konoha. That's right, most of the ninjas in Konoha now believe that Kamikawa Aoba is the strongest ninja in Konoha.

Even Hokage Tsunade may not be his opponent.

Of course, Tsunade's position in Konoha is also unshakable. As I said before, she is the strongest medical ninja in Konoha. In the previous war, she has accumulated too many connections. Coupled with the advantage of her own identity, her position as Hokage is as stable as Mount Tai.

And this Hokage, who is as steady as a rock, is a supporter of Kamikawa Aoba, which makes Aoba's various plans easier to advance.

In fact, the first new department created by Aoba was not the Konoha Research Institute, but a school that taught cultural courses.

Not everyone has the qualifications to be a ninja. It can even be said that only a few people can become ninjas. Most people in this world are just ordinary people. And ordinary people theoretically have no chance to go to school.

These children are the source of Qingye's students.

At the same time, Konoha has a large number of students who cannot graduate every year. Most of them will return to school to repeat their studies. However, there are also many students with particularly poor qualifications who choose to leave school. After all, going to school is also a burden for ordinary families.

Kamikawa Aoba sorted out a group of children who could not become ninjas, and then arranged a series of tests for them.

That's right, he didn't teach without discrimination. Instead, he screened everyone from the beginning.

This is a very helpless fact. That is, the cultural school is free. Although Konoha is rich, it cannot support all children to go to school for free.

Aoba's ultimate goal is universal education. But this can only be a long-term goal. The current political, economic, and cultural environment of the entire ninja world does not support this operation.

Therefore, he could only screen in advance and select the best children to enter the cultural school.

These children can't actually play any role in the short term, but they are the cornerstone of Qingye's change of the world.