After Yuuki made his decision, he immediately sent people to make arrangements, and by the time everything was ready, a day had passed.
Immediately, Yuuki set off, choosing to walk honestly.
It wasn't impossible to teleport, but that would be too fast.
Yuuki ultimately chose to walk, as he was hoping to encounter something.
Among the departing team, Yuuki brought two Uchiha Ninja, and the rest were Konoha Ninja.
Along the way, they didn't deliberately pursue speed, walking at a leisurely pace.
To reduce some unnecessary troubles, such as bandits and robbers.
Yuuki's team openly declared their identity, and after three days of walking, it was very peaceful.
There were no ignorant bandits or robbers who wanted to test the strength of the team that the Hokage was with.
Speaking of these bandits, Yuuki felt that they were simply an oddity, only able to exist under the peculiar system of the Ninja World.
The Land of Fire's Daimyo had his own military force, basically composed of ordinary people or samurai, and its purpose was merely to guard the Daimyo's Mansion.
The various nobles in different regions were also the same, only guarding their own mansions, and occasionally some nobles would recruit or train a small number of Ninja forces.
However, given that Ninjutsu was monopolized by the Ninja Village, the Ninja trained by those nobles almost entirely had to rely on stealth, pre-emptive strikes, ambushes, and other methods, with extremely low combat power.
As the only large military organization in the Land of Fire, Konoha Village.
It was actually a private entity, and it had also signed a long-term employment contract with the Daimyo.
Roughly, during wartime, Konoha would unconditionally fight for and protect the Land of Fire.
And in peacetime, the Land of Fire would be responsible for supporting Konoha Village.
This was very similar to certain agencies in Yuuki's previous life in the United States, such as the famous IRS, which was responsible for the entire United States' tax collection and had its own armed forces, and it was not unheard of for them to use tanks to collect taxes.
But such an awesome IRS was actually a private organization in the United States, similar to a company, and had signed a contract with the United States government.
Yuuki was shocked the first time he heard about it in his previous life.
Konoha Village was similar; it signed a contract with the Land of Fire's Daimyo, where Konoha Village recognized the Daimyo as the ruler of the Land of Fire, and the Daimyo also recognized Konoha as the leader of the Land of Fire's Ninja.
And then, all of this had nothing to do with the people of the Land of Fire.
The people of the Land of Fire paid taxes to the nobles, the nobles paid them to the Daimyo, and the Daimyo was responsible for Konoha Village's military expenses.
However, if the people of the Land of Fire were plundered by bandits and wanted Konoha Ninja to help, they had to pay to issue a mission.
For their survival, the value of each plunder by bandits and robbers would be slightly lower than the bounty for a bandit suppression mission issued by local villagers, plus the round-trip travel expenses to Konoha Village.
This meant that in most cases, after being plundered by bandits and robbers, the people of the Land of Fire would not go to Konoha to issue a mission.
And the contract signed between Konoha Village and the Daimyo also meant that Konoha Ninja could not meddle in affairs when they had not received a commission.
Thus, the Land of Fire was full of bandits.
Of course, the closer to Konoha Village, the fewer there were, as the earnings weren't much!
Yuuki had known about such a peculiar system since he was at the Ninja Academy.
The education Ninja received had always been like this: when there was no mission, never expend a single bit of extra energy.
Of course, bleeding hearts exist everywhere, including among Ninja, but after those bleeding-heart Ninja helped a Village for free.
The bandits or robbers, knowing that a Village dared to break the rules by asking Ninja for help without issuing a mission?!
The fate of those Villages was, without exception, quite tragic, with not even a single survivor.
Those bleeding-heart Ninja were superficially helping the people of the Land of Fire, but in reality, their actions were truly a hypnotic charm.
After all, if you paid to hire Ninja and they eliminated the bandits, no one would care.
Because all bandits knew that Konoha's Ninja were much more ruthless than them!
After you hired them a few times, no, after just one time, you wouldn't hire them again, and you wouldn't have the money to hire them either.
As for those who didn't follow the rules, didn't pay, and pretended to be pitiful to trick Ninja into helping for free, this was undermining the foundation of their industry.
They must be resolutely eradicated!
The reason why Konoha occasionally still received missions to eliminate bandits was either because newcomers didn't understand the rules and stole too much.
Or because they didn't completely wipe out the targets when they took action, and a survivor escaped, spending most of their life's savings to find Konoha Ninja to help them get revenge.
To the people of the Land of Fire living in dire straits, Yuuki could only apologetically say, "I'm sorry, I'm a Ninja too!"
To solve these problems, Yuuki, now that he had become Hokage, had many ways, but Yuuki stated that the lives of the people of the Land of Fire had nothing to do with him.
Yuuki had no sympathy for the plight of these people of the Land of Fire, because they themselves had never thought of resisting.
Yuuki naturally wouldn't expend his limited energy on these unrelated people; they had managed for so long, there was no reason they couldn't continue now.
These people had no connection to Yuuki, and they didn't speak Chinese, so Yuuki had no intention of helping at all.
Yuuki thought to himself, if these people spoke Chinese, they probably wouldn't need his help either, because people who speak Chinese, no matter which world they are in, never silently endure injustice; there are always those who rise up in resistance and change the world.
Not only Yuuki, but all the Ninja in the team were accustomed to this.
Hadn't the Ninja World always operated this way?
Ninja, after all, were synonymous with slaughter!
After another two days of peaceful travel, while resting at an inn in a small town, Yuuki finally waited for the person he had been waiting for.
At night, Yuuki silently came up behind a figure and slowly spoke.
"Can you send a message to the person behind you for me? I'm very interested in you all!"
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