Chapter 177: Yamanaka Chujiu Copies Homework

Utatane Koharu was beheaded, and Sarutobi Hiruzen's Third Hokage Group completely perished.

It was not that everyone was dead, but that the former giants had been executed for such absurd reasons, which completely destroyed the hearts of the people.

No one believed that Sarutobi Hiruzen could hold the fort, so the hearts of the people naturally scattered.

Orochimaru heard of this matter and could not help but laugh: "Good for you, Yamanaka Chujiu, you were calculating this from the very beginning."

"I was even wondering, why did you, brat, specifically leave behind the most annoying Utatane Koharu, letting her retire in peace at home instead of just killing her?"

"You bastard, no matter how much you dislike someone, is their life also something to be calculated?"

Yamanaka Chujiu glanced at his teacher: "If I didn't calculate it carefully, how could so many Konoha Rogue Ninjas jump out on their own?"

"Without using Utatane Koharu's head as an example, how could I break the influence of the twenty-year Third Hokage Group?"

"The prejudices in people's hearts are higher than mountains and deeper than the sea!"

"Besides using Utatane Koharu's head, if one wants to change the habit of the entire Konohagakure from top to bottom regarding the Third, one must either ruthlessly kill everyone related to Sarutobi Hiruzen, or slowly endure for twenty years, waiting for this generation to die and age, to be completely replaced by a new generation of ninja villagers."

Yamanaka Chujiu snorted coldly: "Where would I have so much time to play with them?"

"My time is to be used for annexing the Land of Fields and the Land of Iron!"

Orochimaru did not feel awkward either; he touched his head and laughed: "Fine, the village's affairs will be handled according to your ideas; I will go back to doing my experiments."

After the Battle of the Valley of the End, the Konoha Ninja Army raided the Land of Fire, completely eliminating all armed forces of the Anti-Snake Alliance.

With the general situation settled, the Konoha Rogue Ninjas in the alliance simply surrendered, while the most elite Iron Country Samurai were besieged and killed by Konoha Ninja and Mist Ninja, without a single prisoner being taken.

The Land of Iron completely lost its ability to resist, and Yamanaka Chujiu immediately ordered the Konoha Ninja Army to march out, occupying the Land of Iron, as well as the Land of Fields which had no ninja village.

Konohagakure officially started the annexation war, and the entire Ninja World was surprisingly quiet as a chicken; not a single person jumped out to express opposition.

Well, one cannot say not a single person.

The Daimyo of the Land of Fields was still very angry, jumping on his feet to accuse Konohagakure of violating tradition, starting a war without authorization, and destroying the order of the Ninja World, and so on.

Yamanaka Chujiu turned a blind eye to the Daimyo of the Land of Fields, but his eyes were fixed firmly on Kirigakure, Kumogakure, Iwagakure, Sunagakure, and the Daimyos of various large and small countries.

He was dying for someone to jump out and oppose, so that he could legitimately order the Konoha Ninja to pounce and directly provide a one-stop service of destroying the country, exterminating the clan, and annexation.

At this moment, the weakness of the nobility was reflected.

Not only did no Daimyo stand up to publicly oppose Konohagakure, they even turned around to persuade their own Kage not to be the first bird to stick its head out.

Thus, Konohagakure successfully ended the military annexation of one country and turned to the annexation process of two small countries.

In the eyes of traditional Daimyos and nobles, and even in the eyes of the Kage of the major ninja villages, Konohagakure had already completed the annexation.

But in the eyes of Yamanaka Chujiu, the so-called annexation had only just begun.

Ying Dada had already set the example; he only needed to copy the homework!

If he couldn't even do a good job of copying the homework, that would truly be a disgrace to his ancestors.

First is the hardware of infrastructure.

Previously, the countries of the Ninja World followed a feudal system; even within a single country, it was a scene of regional fragmentation and numerous checkpoints.

The nobles not only collected land rent and national taxes from the farmers, but also relied on checkpoints to collect road tolls and bridge taxes.

The Land of Iron, as the last paradise for samurai, pushed the feudal system to the extreme.

Every samurai had their own territory, and within that territory, they were the undisputed king, collecting taxes and making laws all on their own, and even building large and small fortresses to ensure their separatist rule.

The Land of Fields had no ninja village, but every inch of land belonged to the nobles, and the villages were scattered and transportation was blocked.

After Yamanaka Chujiu completed the military occupation, the first step was to start transportation infrastructure as a pilot project for unification.

Konohagakure drew on Earth Style ninja to form an engineering corps, tearing down the fortresses built by the Land of Iron over the generations, and building three roads running north-south and two roads running east-west, integrating the Land of Iron and the Land of Fields with the Land of Fire.

The roads were all paved using Ninjutsu solidification, so there was no need to worry about the erosion of wind, frost, rain, and snow, and they could be unobstructed all year round.

Along the roads, supporting stations, supply points, and communication stations were built to allow Konoha's political decrees, military intelligence, and supplies to be transported quickly.

At the same time, Konohagakure issued tens of thousands of road-building missions, attracting ninjas from the entire Ninja World to help build the branch road network, extending roads to every village and ending the state of rural isolation.

The work efficiency of ninjas was extremely high; in just three months, the construction of the road network was completed.

Konohagakure then discovered that wherever the roads reached, tax revenue would soar.

With the connection of roads, wealth, food, and manpower could be extracted from the most grassroots level; the efficiency was hundreds of times that of noble feudal rule, and the loss and cost dropped to one-tenth.

It would not take half a year for the cost of building the road network to be recovered by the increased tax revenue.

No one ever called Yamanaka Chujiu a road-building maniac or a madman who wasted money by scattering it on the ground again.

On the contrary, the Fourth Raikage of Kumogakure followed suit first, replicating Konohagakure's policy in the Land of Lightning and also starting a road network construction project.

The initial cost input was huge, and Kumogakure simply could not afford it.

The Fourth Raikage went directly to the nobles of the whole country, hammered them a few times, and gold coins poured out, the amount of which was enough to start the construction of the first phase of the main roads.

Kirigakure was the second to copy the homework, and they had two major advantages.

As the Land of Water, they did not need to build many roads; they mainly repaired docks and built large sea ships, and the cost was much smaller than other countries.

Secondly, the Daimyo of the Land of Water had been killed by Konohagakure in advance, so there was no extra resistance when copying the homework, and the progress was smoother than in the Land of Lightning.

Sunagakure also wanted to copy, but found that they could not copy at all.

The geographical environment of the desert was too treacherous, and the difficulty of building roads was boundless.

After finally building a little bit, a wind blew, and it was all buried under the sand dunes, leaving no trace at all.

The situation in Iwagakure was different again; their strength was the most completely preserved, so the force of opposition was also the greatest.

Even the Third Tsuchikage Onoki had no way to force the construction of the road network, and could not even carry out the planning.

Onoki could only sit in the Tsuchikage Office, watching Kumogakure thrive, Kirigakure recover rapidly, and Konohagakure advance wildly, and he was about to become depressed.

Fortunately, there was still Sunagakure accompanying Iwagakure, otherwise Onoki really could not have held on.

"No, it cannot go on like this, we must do something!"

"Otherwise, Konohagakure will definitely destroy all the ninja villages!"