Chapter 228 Intervention

Not to mention that their Takigakure Village had just experienced a rebellion, and the leader was an experienced Takigakure ninja like Shuiyan, and their leader's personality has always been soft and gentle. Even if it seems to have changed recently, Ah Jun still feels that he must be more careful than before and treat everything more vigilantly.

Of course, these can only be kept in his heart, and must not be revealed on the surface. It is not conducive to the stability of the village. Moreover, Menma still owes a favor to their Takigakure Village, and he is still the daimyo who represents the Land of Fire (this is still an identity that Ah Jun misunderstood. At this stage, the only two people in Takigakure Village who can know Menma's true identity are still Shibuki and Fu.)

"Hehe, I have rested enough, and my family is almost settled. It is not appropriate to continue sitting at home. I should also fulfill my duties."

Menma smiled lightly and replied.

"You are too kind, Yifang-san."

Ajun smiled casually, but at that moment, there was a hint of suspicion in his eyes.

He always felt that Menma was so active and enthusiastic, was there some other intention?

But then Ajun shook his head in his heart and threw this idea out of his mind. He could be vigilant, but it was inappropriate to doubt others without limit and reason. After all, they were endorsed by Elder Wu and allowed by Chief Shibuki to join. He still needed to be cautious in his attitude and should not make random guesses or doubts.

"Since Yifang-san is interested, this is the scope of work that Yifang-san needs to be responsible for. Yifang-san should familiarize himself with it first."

Ajun took out a part of the documents from the pile on the left and handed it to Menma, and then pointed to the pile of scrolls on another table and said softly.

There are many important government affairs in a ninja village.

But among these political affairs, the defense of the village is definitely the one that ranks first. A ninja village, a powerful group, cannot even guarantee its own safety, and this power cannot have any cohesion.

The reason why the power scale of the ninja village appears is to allow people to better unite and protect each other. This is the case with the five major ninja villages, and the same is true for Takigakure Village.

Unlike the five major ninja villages, which can almost extend their sphere of influence to the entire national border and the scale of defense within the surrounding small countries.

The defense of other small countries' ninja villages is generally limited to the vicinity of the ninja village.

Ninja villages with slightly stronger power, such as Takigakure Village, Kusagakure Village, and Yugakure Village, can extend a little more, but there are also many restrictions. The five major countries do not allow other ninja villages to cover too many areas. This is not in their interests.

Therefore, the area that Takigakure can get involved in is the interior of Takigakure, close to the important borders of several major countries, where ninjas from Konoha, Iwagakure, and Kumogakure are stationed. In the past few decades, when the three Ninja World Wars broke out, these places became the places where the three major countries competed for each other, that is, the location of Takigakure is relatively far back, not like Kusagakure and Yugakure, which are almost in the core position of the struggle between several major countries.

Takigakure can still have more autonomy and self-protection capabilities.

But that's all.

The situation of small countries is so difficult.

As the main person in charge of the garrison squad, Ajun is in charge of the garrison work of the entire Takigakure Village in a broad sense, but basically he is responsible for the security around the ninja village. The garrison allocation of Takigakure ninjas at the border is basically inquired and arranged by the leader himself.

And now the garrison affairs that Ajun has handed over to Menma to handle are the summary and arrangement of different information sent by the garrison personnel every day.

This task is very important, and it is indeed very important.

But for the overall defense work, it is a less important part.

When Menma came to his seat and looked through the contents recorded in the scroll, he could roughly understand Ajun's intention.

However, this is also a very normal development. Any outsider must go through such a process after entering a group. Even if the charm attribute is full, it is impossible to directly gain the recognition and trust of everyone right from the start.

The kingly aura is raised, and everyone bows down?

That is not reality, but a fairy tale.

Therefore, Menma is very satisfied with the current progress. You have to eat one bite at a time and walk one step at a time.

At least at this stage, Menma is not qualified and has no idea to carry out any power grabbing behavior. Even the basic prestige and trust have not been established, so how can you talk about power grabbing?

Someone has to believe in you before you can proceed to the next step.

So

For Menma, the most important thing to do now is to strengthen his presence in the village and gain as much recognition and trust as possible from people like Jun in Takigakure Village.

The most direct way is to bring benefits to Takigakure Village and bring visible development and changes to Takigakure Village.

As it happens, Menma has many other ideas in this regard, most of which are just on paper or in the preparation stage.

But there is an idea that can be put into practice directly.

That is related to the defense of the village.

Of course, Menma still needs to see how to implement it in practice to avoid any misunderstandings.

"Ajunsang, can I check the defense layout of our village? There is also the issue of personnel configuration."

After spending more than an hour browsing through the information stored on his desktop, Menma looked up directly at Ajun in the top position when he didn't see the information he wanted to obtain. Asked.

There is no question of being presumptuous or not.

As the deputy squad leader of the garrison squad arranged by Shibaki himself, Menma had such authority, but normally a person who had just joined the village would not easily ask about such sensitive content at the beginning.

Even within the authority.

I will also wait for a while and do it again after I become more familiar with it.

It was brought up directly on the first day.

It is easy to make others suspicious.

Obviously, Ajun's expression paused slightly when he heard Menma's request, but only after that moment.

Shibuki's previous confession also appeared in Ajun's mind. He took a deep breath and swallowed back the words of evasion that he wanted to blurt out at first. He looked back at Menma, nodded with a smile and said, "Well, no problem. I originally planned to let Yifang Sang get familiar with it later, after all, I will need Yifang Sang to lead the team to carry out corresponding defense work in the future. "

As he spoke, he also took out another scroll from the drawer below and threw it in the direction of Menma.

Then catch this scroll with your backhand.

The corners of Menma's mouth also raised a slight arc.

‘It seems to be much better than expected! ’

Originally, Menma was mentally prepared to be politely rejected by Ajun-san.

The defense layout and staffing of a Ninja Village are basically top secrets. Generally speaking, once foreign enemies learn about it, the entire Ninja Village will be in a very dangerous situation.

Not to mention a special ninja village like Takigakure.

In the entire Ninja Village, only Shibaki, Ajun, the recently deceased Elder Mizuno Satoru and the executed Shisha were eligible to learn about it.

It's understandable that Ajun won't tell himself for the time being.

Menma wanted to find a way to learn from Shibaki. He didn't have any other malicious intentions, but wanted to improve the village's defense by understanding this aspect. But Menma didn't say it directly. One wanted to see if his intention could be realized to avoid problems, and the other was to test how much Ajun trusted him.

Now it seems that it is not bad.

At least it's much stronger than expected.

One day my identity will eventually be exposed. Before that, I need to reveal it bit by bit in a small area. I can't always keep the false identity of 'Accelerator'!

Ajun is obviously the most suitable and qualified third person in Longyin Village to learn his true identity.

Now that Ajun's trust in himself is higher than expected, the next step can be carried out faster.

The defense information scroll I received.

After looking at it carefully.

Combining the previous information, Menma also had a general understanding of the defense of Takigakure Village. It must be said that the decline of Takigakure Village is not unjust at all. It is a degradation in all aspects, as far as the defensive configuration and strength are concerned. , it really can’t match the existence that was almost known as the sixth largest ninja village decades ago.

Just as Menma passed, especially after learning some information from Orochimaru, during the period when Takigakure was at its strongest, although it was still far from the weakest Sunagakure and Kirigakure at that time, in the face of other In the Ninja Village, it was definitely a crushing advantage.

Otherwise, why would Takigakure Village get the allocated share of a tailed beast and not Amegakure Village? Tangyin Village? Grass Hidden Village?

During that period, being able to obtain tailed beasts was a manifestation of strength in itself.

Don't forget what the original intention of the first Hokage was in assigning tailed beasts.

Isn't it to allow the most powerful ninja villages in the ninja world to gain enough power to check each other, and then bring peace to the entire ninja world?

If Takigakure Village is really weak, Senju Hashirama will never assign Nanao to Takigakure Village!

It's not a matter of money.

Not to mention, under the special system of Ninja-Ninja Village, having money itself represents powerful power!

A weak ninja and a weak ninja village are not worthy of and cannot obtain huge wealth.

To put it bluntly, at that time, if Takigakure Village tried harder and took another step forward to rival Konoha, it would indeed be impossible, but it would still be no problem to touch the chrysanthemums of Sunagakure Village.

All we need is to produce a top Kage-level powerhouse and improve the quality and quantity of Takigakure. Takigakure Village can become the sixth largest country, and the leader of Takigakure Village can be called Takikage!

It's a pity that there is no if.

Over the decades.

After the initial internal rebellion in Takigakure, which resulted in the tragic death of more than half of the backbone, it has been in a straight line of decline over the years. From the point where you can see the backs of the five major ninja villages, it was barely able to keep up, and it has been directly weakened to the point where it is worse than Kusagakure. To the extent that Yugakure Village, Amegakure Village, and Yugakure Village are stronger, this 'strength' is still for the sake of the Nanao Jinchuuriki.

if not.

With the rise of Sanshouyu Hanzo, Amegakure Village can defeat Takigakure Village.

Because of this, at a time when the overall strength is weakening, the defense of Takigakure Village is becoming more and more disturbing.

The Otogakure Village under Orochimaru's command is more decent than the Takigakure Village.

‘It’s still a bit awkward. ’

Menma looked at it and shook his head silently.

"Huh? Have you finished reading? You should also understand the defense mode of our village, right? I plan to let Fifang Sang you in the next work..."

When he saw Menma put down the scroll and raised his head again, Ajun, who had been paying attention to Menma for a long time, spoke in advance.

Although I was a little dissatisfied with Menma's overly proactive 'presumptuous' behavior.

But after all, Ajun still treats Menma as a companion.

In order to better maintain this relationship, Ajun planned to take the initiative to give more power to Menma. Of course, the main body still had to be in his own hands. Ajun really didn't want accidents like hookah to happen again.

He also hoped that Menma could understand the meaning of his words.

Menma did understand, but it was obvious that Ajun had misjudged Menma's intentions, so he hadn't finished speaking yet.

"Oh, there's no rush, Ah Jun-sang. I'm still in the familiarization stage, so it's better not to rashly participate in the overall defense of the village. Besides, I'm not familiar with other colleagues. Let's talk about it after a while."

Menma said with a smile and waved his hand.

This shows an attitude.

It also made Ajun slightly stunned.

I still don't understand what Menma's intention is. Isn't it because I came here early today to fight for my own power?

Ah Jun didn't think this was so abominable. At most, he felt that Menma was a little impatient. But now it seems that he made a wrong judgment?

There was a hint of confusion in the depths of Ajun's pupils.

‘Then what is he doing here today? ’

"Well, that's fine. It's really appropriate to get more familiar with it."

If you can’t understand it, then don’t think about it.

Ajun also coughed lightly and still said with a smile.

"But regarding the defense of our village, I do have some immature suggestions."

After Menma paused for a moment, he spoke next.

The next second.

Ajun's brows wrinkled.

But he didn't wait for Ajun to say anything.

"For example, our Takigakure Village has not arranged the most important peripheral perception barrier. This is a very important issue for the security of the Ninja Village, right? Ajun-san."

Menma raised his head and looked directly at Ajun, and said with a very serious expression.