Chapter 252 Night of the Long Knives
Haneda sat on the sofa in the luxurious hotel, looking at the servile Yanagisawa Yoshiho, and asked with a smile:
"Are you the dog-headed military advisor beside the Daimyo?"
Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu immediately knelt down and flattered:
"What a dog-headed military advisor, I am clearly your dog, Hokage-sama."
Seeing this scene, Haneda was stunned.
Is this dog-headed military advisor so shameless in order to survive?
Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa said:
"Hokage-sama, when I saw your upright, resourceful, and upright image in the Daimyo Prefecture, I couldn't help but join you!"
"I have already found out all the plots that ungrateful lord has against you, and I am about to tell you!"
"Okay, okay, your loyalty is evident." Haneda was slightly satisfied with this traitor.
But the prerequisite for satisfaction is that this guy is still useful.
Haneda took out a list and threw it in front of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu:
"Are there any people here you know? Do you know their escape route?"
Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa knew that the opportunity to demonstrate his loyalty and save his life had come.
He patted his chest and vowed:
"Let alone anything else, I know exactly where the left and right prime ministers are right now!"
"I will memorize all the secret passages in and out of the capital!"
Haneda summoned several Root ninjas and ordered:
"Let this idiot lead the way. Except for the General Zhenbei, arrest all the ministers who leave the capital!"
When Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu heard that Haneda was going to release the General Zhenbei, he immediately advised:
"Hokage-sama, you must not let him return to the North."
"This guy is planning to send weapons and food to the enemy country to counterattack our Konoha!"
"I know. I heard everything you discussed in Daimyo Prefecture." Haneda said calmly.
Upon hearing this, Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu's flattering smile suddenly froze.
He quickly explained:
"Hokage-sama, everything I said before in the Daimyo's mansion was to hide my identity so that I could report all the news to you!"
"You must understand clearly!"
Haneda glanced at Yanagisawa Yoshiho and said calmly:
"Whether you want to hide your identity or not depends on your performance."
When Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu heard this, he knew he had to sell out a few of his colleagues.
With a nervous heart, he led the Root Ninja.
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As the night deepened, the mansions of all the ministers on the list were searched by Haneda in the name of investigating a case.
Those ministers either had to side with Haneda or be forced to plead guilty.
Overnight, all political opponents of Haneda were arrested and imprisoned.
Under the guidance of the guide Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu who drew the map and led the way, except for the General Zhenbei who intended to let him go, none of the ministers who gathered in the basement of Daming Mansion for discussion escaped.
Among them, the left and right prime ministers Kawakami Hikosai and Matsunaga Hisahide were caught red-handed under the guidance of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu.
The two of them kept cursing at Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu all the way until they were in front of Haneda, then they stopped and started cursing Haneda back:
"Traitor! I will never yield to you tonight!!"
"Then drag him out and chop him off." Haneda said without raising his head while sitting on the sofa.
He had no intention of letting go of those who were loyal to the daimyo.
Kawakami Hikosai said anxiously, "Wait, shouldn't you be using torture to extract a confession, Godaime? Why do you just chop someone off without asking?!"
Matsunaga Hisahide followed up, "I don't accept it either. This doesn't conform to sentencing procedures!!"
Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu was scolded all the way and couldn't help but retort:
"So what do you want to do? Throw him into jail and wait for the beheading tomorrow? It doesn't matter whether you die sooner or later."
Kawakami Hikosai and Matsunaga Hisahide suddenly knelt down:
"Hokage-sama, if we don't suffer a little, we won't have the face to serve you!"
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Haneda was stunned for the second time today.
How come the left and right prime ministers in Daming Prefecture are as "strong-willed" as the dog-headed military advisor?
How did this daimyo appoint people?
Each one of them is so "loyal"!
Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu looked at his two colleagues. If the Hokage hadn't been sitting there, he would have cursed out loud.
The two prime ministers on the left and right were just as bad as him and they scolded him all the way.
Just to show your loyalty to the daimyo?
Then turn around and surrender to the Hokage to make himself look better?
At this time, the Root Ninja brought over a list of all those who had surrendered on the spot after being captured, or who had surrendered under torture.
Haneda took a quick look and was shocked by the officials from the daimyo prefecture.
Nearly half of them are spineless and will kneel down at the slightest pressure or torture.
Seeing the situation in the morning, he thought that the officials of Daming Prefecture were all very tough.
Unexpectedly, everyone was so afraid of death.
It seems that the family has been inherited for too long, and has lived in comfort for too long, so their backbone has long been worn away by wealth and glory.
Haneda thought for a moment and felt that leaving so many bad apples behind would be too harmful to the Fire Nation.
He glanced at Kawakami Hikosai and Matsunaga Hisahide, who were kneeling on the ground in anxiety, and Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, who was standing aside and looking a little smug.
Haneda used the Shadow Clone Technique to copy the list into two copies and threw them to San.
"You three should rate the people on this list on a five-star scale to indicate their level of corruption."
Haneda waved his hand, signaling the Root Ninjas to suppress the men one by one.
He didn't even need to think about it, he knew that the three spineless bastards in front of him were definitely the most corrupt ones.
However, Haneda only planned to kill a group of people, seize some of their property and give it back to Konoha, leaving a group of slightly better ones who would not dare to betray him at all, to control the Land of Fire.
Then we will see how they perform and whether they will be removed or promoted.
As for the three of him...
Haneda felt that these three were very sensible of the times and held the highest positions in the Fire Nation, so they could be kept as mascots to reassure those who came to him.
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The next day, Daming Prefecture.
Normally, this is the time when daimyo and officials should handle government affairs.
But less than half of the people come to Damingfu to work.
The daimyo was fully aware of the bleak scene before him.
Those who disappeared were his loyal subjects!
He was stunned until Haneda appeared with a group of ministers.
"Yanagizawa Yoshiyasu, Kawakami Hikosai, Matsunaga Hisahide, you guys..."
Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu said righteously:
"Hokage-sama spent a lot of effort to search for the real culprit of the arson case for you, but you were ungrateful and betrayed Hokage-sama!"
"I, Yanagisawa Yoshiho, am doing this for the sake of justice in my heart, abandoning the dark and joining the light!"
The left and right prime ministers appointed by the two daimyo echoed:
"That's right, Hokage-sama, for the sake of the Daimyo, worked overnight to find the murderer."
"I never thought that the one who betrayed Hokage-sama in the end would be a shameless person like you!!"
Haneda couldn't bear to listen anymore and said:
"You guys should show a little respect to the Daimyo."
"As the Hokage of Konoha, I have already found out the real culprit of the arson case at the Daimyo's mansion last night."
"I didn't expect so many people would secretly set the fire together. No wonder the huge Daming Prefecture was almost burned down."
Haneda took out the list and handed it to the military advisor beside him.
The Dog-Headed Military Advisor immediately read out the list, and his heart was broken when he heard the names.
These were all loyal retainers of his daimyo, but they were killed by the damn Uchiha Haneda!
But what he didn't know was that nearly half of the people on the list had joined Haneda halfway through.
Because he was too greedy and corrupt, he was executed in prison by Haneda.
The only thing that comforted the Daimyo was that he neither heard nor saw his General Zhenbei.
He is the daimyo's hope to break free from Haneda's control in the future.
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