Hanzo

After a meal of hospitality, the two of them exchange cups and glasses, and the host and guest are in harmony. 

After Kitsuchi ate a sumptuous and delicious meal, he immediately chose to leave, expressing that he would pass on the conditions offered by Kirito to Master Tsuchikage as soon as possible.

When Kirito heard this, he was very sensible and did not continue to persuade him to stay, but he sent Kitsuchi to the door of the hotel and gave him a generous gift.

Although Kitsuchi is dull, he is not pedantic and accepts everything Kirito deliberately offers to win him over.

"Hopefully it will be a good result."

Kirito watched Kitsuchi disappear into the night and sighed.

Then, he turned his head to look at an old man sitting behind the counter behind him.

The old man looked over when he saw Hattori Masanari played by Kirito.

"Boom~" sounded.

A cloud of white smoke appeared from the old man.

The white smoke disappeared, and Rain's leader Hanzo appeared in Kirito's eyes.

At the same time, some maids and attendants in the inn also changed, and they all changed back to their original appearance.

Many people in this hotel were transformed by Ame's people with the transformation technique.

"Go inside and talk."

Kirito was not surprised to see Hanzo and Ame, he said softly to Hanzo, and then walked back into the hotel without fear.

This inn was originally Rain's contact point in the border town.

It was naturally arranged by Kirito to bring Kitsuchi here, in order to send a signal to Hanzo.

Hanzo did not disappoint him and came over in person.

In fact, Kitsuchi also knew that this hotel was Rain's contact point, and he had discovered early on that many people in the hotel had been replaced, but he still came and went to the meeting alone.

This shows his sincerity in trading, how courageous he is, and how confident he is in his own strength, which is worthy of his identity as the son of Tsuchikage.

Hearing what Kirito said, Hanzo stared at Kirito with a cold face for a moment, then he nodded to Kirito, and then entered an empty private room with Kirito.

At this time, he was very dissatisfied with Hattori Masanari, played by Kirito, arbitrarily advocating a deal with Stone Village.

Although he knew that the two elite puppet masters of Sunagakure were captured by Kirito himself, and Kirito is still a traitor of Rain. Strictly speaking, this transaction has nothing to do with Rain, but he was still very angry.

The reason is that Kirito is trading with Stone Village under the banner of Rain this time, and he is also bypassing him and directly trading with Stone Village.

Even though Kirito's current trading location is in Rain's intelligence station, he was notified of the leader of Rain, but he still has a grudge in his heart.

He had already heard about the so-called ame split plan from some of his cronies. Even though he didn't think Hattori Masanari would betray the Ame village and betray Hanzo's interests, he was indeed afraid of Hattori Masanari fighting for power with him in the future.

Because of the failure of the war, the Country of Rain was shattered. His prestige in Rain has been severely damaged. There are also many voices against him in Rain, and there are even a lot of rebellious people who left Rain Village without permission.

Now Masanari Hattori has defeated two well-known elite puppet masters Shalan and Chisha, and he has privately announced that Masanari Hattori is no longer a traitor, Masanari Hattori is now only second to him in prestige in Ame Village.

Once Masanari Hattori uses two sunagakure elite puppet masters to successfully exchange a large number of resources from the Earth Village, and use them on the Ame Village to help the Ame Village through the current crisis, his reputation will inevitably rise to another level building.

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At that time, if Hattori Masanari raises his arms, maybe many amenin who are disappointed in him, the leader of Rain, will follow him.

Judging from Hattori Masanari's current actions, there are signs of this.

He Hanzo had no choice but to guard against the Village's possible splitting.

"You're afraid of me, Hanzo."

After Kirito and Hanzo entered the room, he confirmed that no one was eavesdropping, and he sneered at the serious Hanzo in front of him.

"Masaki, isn't your act of making arbitrary decisions worthy of my fear? You can make a deal with Stone Village without permission, because you captured those two people, and used them in exchange for benefits from Stone Village, I didn't give an Opinion, but you should not conduct transactions with Stone Village without authorization under the name of Rain Village.

You brought that son of Tsukage here to trade, doesn't it mean that you are now the identity of Amekage ?"

Hanzo retorted with reason, with strong anger in his voice.

"Hmph, are you still ashamed to say that the reason why I made a deal with Iwa without notifying you in advance is not because of your incompetence, I don't want to be blocked by you, to be precise, to be blocked by those Suna spies hiding beside you." 

Kirito heard the words and said his reasons with confidence.

"Kirito, what do you mean by that?" Hanzo's expression changed when he heard this, and he stared firmly into Kirito eyes, gradually showing a dangerous aura on his body. 

"What do I mean, am I not clear enough, or are you still pretending to be confused? Think about why you foolishly chose to start a war against Konoha?" Kirito said coldly. 

At the end of his sentence, he was almost roaring. 

During the period when he used his zetsu's avatar to be active in the Land of Rain, he often used the technique of spiritualization to let the avatar sneak into Rain Village to collect information. 

And compared to konoha, which has sealing barriers everywhere and even the whole village is covered by super-large sealing barriers, Rain Village, which lacks the foundation of sealing techniques, is simply a sieve, full of loopholes, and it can't stop him at all with his Spiritualization technique. 

Therefore, he collected a lot of useful information by relying on the technique of spiritualization and unknowingly obtained some unexpected secrets from some of Hanzo's cronies. 

What surprised him was that many of Hanzo's cronies had private contacts with Konoha, Suna, and Iwa, and found a way out in advance. 

Some of them are the spies sent by the three ninja villages to Rain for a long time, and most of them are spies in Suna, many of them have stolen high positions and held many important positions in Rain Village. 

In this way, he could fully imagine what it would be like for the dignified demigod Hanzo to be dragged down by these spies. 

It's strange that Rain Village can even win against Konoha in the war.

If it weren't for the fact that Hanzo was truly powerful in the Land of Rain, and relied on himself to support the rain Village, Ame would have been defeated long ago.

No wonder Hanzo in the future has been hiding behind the scenes and never took the initiative to show himself. There are many guards around him, and it is difficult for these guards to see him. On the one hand, his strength has declined significantly, and he fears death; on the other hand, he is wary of spies from other Ninja Villages.

As soon as Kirito mentioned him launching a war against Konoha, Hanzo's aura instantly weakened.

He looked at Kirito's eyes showing resentment and subconsciously avoided Kirito's gaze, feeling a deep sense of guilt in his heart.

Launching a war against Konoha without self-control, causing heavy losses to Hidden Rain Village and the Land of Rain, was the biggest mistake he made in his life.

In fact, after the war ended, he had a good introspection. He knew that it was because of his blind arrogance at the time. He mistakenly believed that the Kingdom of Rain could become the sixth largest country with the strength of himself and ame at that time, and he was foolish to wage war on Konoha.

The result was a crushing defeat.

But he thought about it afterward, the reason why he was so inflated at the beginning, so blind to challenge the most powerful Konoha in the ninja world, had a lot to do with the constant advocacy of those cronies around him at that time.

In the beginning, it was his cronies who kept encouraging him to launch a war against Konoha in private.

"It seems that you are not naive enough, and you have already noticed that there is a problem with the people around you. Recently, has someone been encouraging you to trade captives with Suna? Regarding this captive trade, what is the current trend of public opinion in the village? You know it best in your heart. Do you still think I should have told you about my deal with Iwa in advance?"

Seeing that Hanzo didn't dare to look directly at him, Kirito continued.

Hanzo remained silent, acquiescing to Kirito's words.

Ever since Kirito captured the two Sand Hidden puppet masters, the voice of Sand Hidden's threat quickly spread throughout the village.

Because of such remarks, Ame Village, which had finally broken out of the quagmire of war, is now in a state of panic, fearing that another war will break out in the Land of Rain.

As a result, some people kept persuading him to order Hattori Masanari to return the two puppet masters to the Sand village, and some even suggested that they should be handed back to Suna unconditionally. Afterward, Hattori Masanari should be punished for destroying the friendship between Ame and Suna, a most severe punishment.

If Kirito had notified him in advance that he would make a deal with Iwagakure, there would have been immediate and fierce opposition within the village, which would probably have led to the failure of the deal.

"Then why not with Konoha? To maximize profits, shouldn't we trade with Konoha? Konoha must be able to offer a higher price than iwa," Hanzo asked, puzzled.

He can now understand the reason why Kirito acted first and explained later, but he doesn't understand why Kirito chose to make a deal with Iwa.

When Kirito heard this, he certainly couldn't reveal that this was a ploy he used to deepen the conflict between Iwa and Suna.

Now Konoha is surrounded by enemies, in this case, he wants to alienate the relationship between these enemies as much as possible.

Handing over the two Sand elite puppet masters, Chisha and Shalan, to Iwa will undoubtedly greatly stimulate the nerves of Suna, which is already very hostile to Iwa.

At that time, there will likely be another war on the border between Iwa and Suna.

In this way, the pressure on Konoha against Sand and Rock can be greatly reduced.

Kirito thought for a while, decided to mislead Hanzo, and asked, "Hanzo, do you know what the core industry of our Land of Rain is?"

Hanzo was silent for a moment, then seemed to remember something, and suddenly realized: "It's industry."

"That's right. Because of the special climate in our Land of Rain, agriculture can't develop, so we have to concentrate on developing industry, and our industry is mainly heavy industry of metal refining and processing. The Land of Earth has always been our primary exporter of mineral resources, but due to the poor relationship between you and Iwa, normal trade between the two countries has been severely damaged. Mineral resources from the Land of Earth cannot be transported in. Many factories in the Land of Rain have closed down, and many people have lost their jobs. Now that the Land of Rain is waiting to be rebuilt, the most important thing at present is to let the common people have food and work so that people's lives can be improved. Therefore, it is necessary for us to re-establish normal trade with the Land of Earth. This time, I used those two puppet masters with different identities to trade with Iwa to repair the relationship between us and Iwa."

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Kirito nodded and explained with reason.

He now has a relatively deep understanding of Hanzo.

As a ninja, this opponent is undoubtedly very powerful, and there are not many people in the ninja world who can defeat him.

As a leader, the opponent is also quite competent and has gained a large number of followers by the personal bravery shown by him.

But as a politician, Hanzo is not good.

His internal affairs ability is a mess; otherwise, he would not have cut off normal trade between the two countries because of the feud between Ame and Iwa and closed the country. He has no idea what serious consequences this will bring to the economy of the Land of Rain.

Now that the Land of Rain has become like this, on the one hand, it is naturally related to the war, and on the other hand, it is also related to Hanzo's policy of closing the country.

Many people lost their jobs and had no money to buy food, and even those who had money could not buy enough food because the food from outside could not come in. Social chaos naturally appeared.

In short, Hanzo is a crude martial artist with amazing combat power. It is good to let him kill and set fires, but it is impossible to let him engage in internal affairs.

Hanzo's internal affairs ability is insufficient, but his understanding ability is still not a problem.

When he heard about the closed-door policy he implemented to prevent Iwagakure spies from entering in, which caused many people in the country to lose their jobs, his face suddenly darkened.

He was too blind and conceited back then. Facing Iwa Village's wooing, Iwa Village hoped that Ame could accept their support and agree to their request to restrain Suna.

He completely dismissed them and satirized Ohnoki as infatuated with dreams, not thinking about the consequences for him and the Village, which caused conflicts between Iwa and Ame.