Chapter 429: Utatane Koharu: Thinking of ending here? Absolutely impossible

Fortunately, the questioning of the Third Raikage was unsuccessful, because Konoha had already taken the initiative to send the news that the village was selecting ninjas to fight, and within a few days, the ninja army would be able to leave Konoha and rush to the front line.

The Third Raikage finally felt relieved after seeing the message from Konoha.

Although the Cloud Village can hold on in the current situation, being one against two for too long is not favorable for the Cloud Village.

The main enemy that the Cloud Village is currently guarding against is still the Iwagakure.

As for the Mist Village, due to the limited number of warships, the manpower sent by both sides is limited, and fighting on the sea is also subject to many restrictions. Therefore, the war between the Mist Village and the Cloud Village has been in a lukewarm state.

The two sides continue to fight, but there is no sign of the scale expanding.

Such a stable situation just meets the expectations of the Third Raikage. As long as there is no unrest in the Mist Village, he can concentrate on dealing with the old man Ohnoki.

Compared to the small number of troops from the Mist Village wandering around on the sea, the ones from the Rock Village are the most deadly.

Transportation at sea is difficult and it is difficult to expand the scale of battle, but it is different on land.

Troops and supplies can be continuously sent to the front line through the Iwagakure.

"I hope Konoha and the Sand Village can bring some good news."

The Third Raikage did not expect Konoha and the Sand Village to fight desperately with the Iwagakure, but as long as they could hold back some of the Iwagakure's troops, it would be a great help.

Even though they were allies with Konoha, and even though they provided Konoha with money and supplies, the Third Raikage could not ask Konoha to fight a desperate battle with the Iwagakure.

Not to mention the Sand Village. Without the relationship with Konoha, even if you give money and supplies, other Sand Villages may not help you.

The matter of the Third Hokage embezzling the village's financial funds became a bigger and bigger issue in the village.

The exposure of this incident dealt a heavy blow to the reputation of the Third Hokage. Even though the village sent a group of ninjas to the front line, they failed to attract much attention.

The vast majority of villagers and grassroots ninjas still do not agree with the village's participation in this war.

In the past, whenever there was a war, even if there were conflicts, everyone would put aside their internal conflicts first, unite against external enemies, and discuss everything after the war was over.

This time, the opposite happened.

The hole dug by the Third Hokage was too big.

Although the villagers and grassroots ninjas who were violently driven away did not gather together to surround the Hokage's office building, everyone hoped that the Hokage's office would disclose the expenditure of financial funds.

This undoubtedly posed a big problem for the Third Hokage.

The villagers won't give up unless he announces it. If he does, his position as Hokage will basically be over.

Because the amount of funds embezzled by the Third Hokage was really huge.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for small families like Sarutobi and Shimura to surpass old families like Uchiha and Hyuga.

All of this was achieved with money.

One can imagine how much money it would cost to develop several families that are not at the bottom but not outstanding into ninja families that are stronger than the old families.

This is also why the Third Hokage has always had a tight grip on the Ministry of Finance.

This is because the Ministry of Finance's financial expenditure is a huge bomb. Once it explodes, it will surely blow a group of senior officials to pieces.

In the Hokage's office, an emergency internal meeting was held.

The Third Hokage looked tired, and Utane Koharu wasn't much better. As for Mito Kado En, he no longer needed to worry about these things.

Because he was leading the ninja troops to the Land of Grass to meet up with the ninja troops from the Sand Village.

Both sides will launch an attack on the Land of Earth from the direction of the Land of Grass.

As for why they chose the Land of Grass, it was the suggestion of the Sand Village. The Land of Grass has been quite erratic in recent years and has caused a lot of weird things. Konoha, the Sand Village, and the Iwagakure Village have all been disgusted by them in turn.

The last one that dared to disgust and threaten the five major ninja villages was the Rain Village, but after a huge battle, the Rain Country was directly destroyed.

So the Grass Kingdom became the first to stand out.

So at the suggestion of the Sand Village, Konoha accepted it, and the Land of Grass will then become a battlefield between the three major ninja villages.

"Jingyi, is there any new progress on the Anbu side?"

Glancing at the exhausted and mentally ill Third Hokage, Jingyi smiled and said calmly, "One thing, what about other departments?"

Utane Koharu forced out a smile that was uglier than crying: "There hasn't been much progress from the Hokage Guards and the Police Department. The clues have been broken."

The Third Hokage did not give up tracking down the source of the information.

Unfortunately, the other party came prepared, and the Anbu was not under the direct jurisdiction of the Hokage's Office, which led to the loss of time and opportunity. Even if the Hokage Guard and the Police Department joined forces, they were still worried.

It is really hard to trace the source of this kind of outsourcing and silencing.

Unless enough time is given to gradually investigate and collect new clues, but the Third Hokage's order is to investigate it thoroughly in a short period of time, this is a bit embarrassing.

Many ninjas have good intelligence gathering capabilities, but intelligence gathering and analysis also takes time.

There was no progress on the part of the Hokage Guard, and the Third Hokage was somewhat disappointed.

Fortunately, the Anbu has some clues.

This gave him some psychological comfort.

"Who did it?"

Tsunade asked immediately.

She and Jingyi have been busy these days. They rarely go home and have little communication. Tsunade doesn't know the progress of the investigation.

"That's it for now."

After taking a look at Tsunade who was full of curiosity and the Third Hokage who was beginning to grit his teeth, Shizue shook her head.

That's it?

What do you mean?

After making such a big fuss, you told us to stop here!!

is it possible?

"Impossible, absolutely impossible,"

After finally finding a clue, Koharu Utane refused to give up:

"This matter must be investigated further, and the villagers must be given an explanation."

I think you want an explanation?

What the villagers want is not these, but the expenditure accounts of the Ministry of Finance. But do you dare to give it to them?

Can't the person who did this be offended?

Tsunade couldn't help but frown. In the entire Konoha, and even in the entire Fire Country and the Ninja World, who is the one that Konoha can't afford to offend?

and many more! !

Tsunade seemed to have thought of something.

Because the Third Hokage had said before that this might have been done by someone close to him, and it would not be easy for the enemy to investigate these things.

Jingyi told them to stop here, which meant that continuing the investigation would be bad for everyone.

Could it be that Daming Prefecture did it?

Tsunade guessed it, and the Third Hokage was almost the same.