Chapter 264: Drinking Wine and Falling into the Ninja Village

Hearing this, Ohnoki narrowed his eyes slightly and became more interested in Bai Ye.

Due to geographical reasons, although the Iwagakure Village is one of the five largest ninja villages, it is far inferior to Konoha in the Land of Fire in terms of wealth and the number of commissions it can accept.

Among the five major ninja villages, the only one that can surpass them in terms of wealth is the Sand Village hidden in the yellow sand.

But this does not mean that the Iwagakure Village does not covet the land of the Sand Village. For the Iwagakure Village, even the smallest piece of land is useful and can solve the employment problem of the ninjas in the village.

Of course, it would be best if we could obtain the land of the Grass Country or even Konoha.

However, because Konoha had made alliances everywhere, if Iwagakure attacked any small country around it, it would be equivalent to a direct attack on Konoha, and at this time Ohnoki did not want to be dragged into the war.

Recovering his gradually scattered thoughts, Ohnoki looked at Bai Ye. He wanted to hear what Bai Ye thought of Konoha and the Sand Village, so he asked:
"Bai Ye boy, I remember that Konoha and Sunagakure didn't seem to threaten your Rain Village."

Bai Ye nodded, and then said: "It is not a threat to the Hidden Rain Village at the moment, but it may not be the case in the future. Besides, if the Hidden Rain Village wants to be among the top five ninja villages, it must fight with Konoha and Sand Village."

"Let the Hidden Rain Village become one of the top five ninja villages?"

Ohnoki repeated a few words, and then said: "I didn't expect you to have such ambitions, but your teacher, Hanzo, challenged the five major ninja villages 20 years ago, and I don't need to explain the result."

After clearing his throat, Ōnoki spoke with the tone of an experienced person:
"The reason why the five major ninja villages are called the five major ninja villages is that in addition to one or two powerful people who dominate the ninja world, they also need a large number of jonin as the backbone, and the number of chuunin and genin cannot be small either. Only in this way can the scale of the major ninja villages be supported."

"Otherwise, even if we achieve a status equal to the five great ninja villages, it will only be like a shooting star across the sky, brilliant but short-lived."

"Of course I know that history..."

After a brief pause, Bai Ye continued:

"Any small ninja village that challenges the five major ninja villages will not have a good ending. After experiencing that blow, it took the teacher more than ten years to regain his ambition and entrust the wish of joining the five major ninja villages to us young people."

"So, I came to see Tsuchikage-sama today to discuss cooperation."

"If we can join forces, we will be able to severely damage Konoha and make it lose its reputation and foundation as the number one ninja village."

"What's the plan? Tell me."

Seeing Bai Ye's confident look, Oonoki was very interested in Bai Ye's plan. If Bai Ye's plan was reasonable, he might be able to provide some funding.

Although he did not have the ambition to make Iwagakure the number one ninja village, the weakening of Konoha was also a rare good thing for Iwagakure.

Seeing that Oonoki was interested in his plan, Bai Ye did not keep him in suspense.

"Lord Tsuchikage, you should be aware of the conflict between the Senju clan and the Uchiha clan in Konohagakure. When Uchiha Madara left and attacked Konohagakure, a rift appeared between the Senju clan and the Uchiha clan..."

Ohnoki nodded. He had indeed heard about the conflict between the Senju and Uchiha.

However, no matter how big the conflict between the Senju and Uchiha is, it will not cause serious damage to Konoha's vitality. They are all ninjas in the village, and any conflicts can be resolved at high-level meetings.

For example, he and the two Jinchūriki had always been arguing because of their different ideas.

But both sides believed in the will of stone and it was impossible for them to tear each other apart. Bai Ye saw through Ohnoki's thoughts and said with a chuckle:

"Lord Tsuchikage, the situation in Konoha is more complicated than you think. As far as I know, the conflict between the Uchiha and Senju clans has reached a point where it is difficult to ease, and they are only one step away from launching a coup."

After hearing this, Ohnoki thought for a while and said, "You mean, you want me to ignite the conflict between the Senju and Uchiha? I can do that."

"If this old man makes any move against Konoha, I'm afraid Konoha will immediately unite."

Bai Ye said without hesitation: "As for how to detonate the Uchiha bomb, I have already made preparations. The Uchiha cannot unite with the Konoha high-level officials. Senior Tsuchikage only needs to put enough pressure on the border area before the plan starts."

"It doesn't matter if we take the initiative to attack the Fire Country. The Hidden Rain Village does not need the land of the Fire Country."

"You don't need the land of the Land of Fire?" Ohnoki frowned, then asked, "Then what do you need? Just to plunge Konoha into civil strife?"

"Of course not..." Bai Ye shook his head slightly, and then said: "What I want is the Uchiha bloodline limit. With the Uchiha Sharingan, the Hidden Rain Village can become stronger."

Ohnoki was stunned at first, then he looked at Bai Ye and felt inexplicably emotional.

How glorious the Uchiha clan was in those days. The clan leader Uchiha Madara could scare away most of the jonin in the ninja world with just a glance.

And now, decades later, the Uchiha have fallen to this point.

Not only did he become a tool for Byakuya to trigger civil strife in Konoha, but even his Sharingan was targeted, and he was completely reduced to a pawn.

After expressing his feelings, Ōnoki began to think carefully about how much benefit the Iwagakure Village could gain from this.

First of all, weakening Konoha would definitely be beneficial to the Iwagakure Village. He only needed to send heavy troops to guard the border to tie down Konoha's military forces and make Konoha's civil strife smoother.

The second is to gain Bai Ye, the secret ally.

Although the Iwagakure Village has not formed an alliance with the Rain Village, as long as both parties implement the plan together, he will have the upper hand over the Rain Village and can threaten the Rain Village to stand on the side of the Iwagakure Village.

The rise of the Hidden Rain Village can also effectively contain the Konoha Village and the Hidden Cloud Village, bringing new changes to the pattern of the ninja world.

As for taking over the territory of the Land of Fire, Ōnoki was not very interested.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to take over the Fire Country, but with the current strength of the Iwagakure Village, it is not suitable to start a new round of Ninja World War.

If anything happened to him during the Ninja World War, the Iwagakure Village would be left leaderless.

He had no intention of starting a large-scale war before training a qualified successor.

After collecting his gradually scattered thoughts, Ohnoki seemed to remember something and said to Bai Ye: "Bai Ye boy, why do you want to cooperate with the Iwagakure Village instead of other ninja villages?"

Bai Ye hesitated for a moment and said:

"During the last war, I had a feud with the Fourth Raikage. I also hate the bandit-like style of Kumogakure, so I excluded them from the cooperation options. As for Sand Village and Mist Village, one of them is too weak, and the other is caught up in the blood mist chaos. They are not willing to cooperate with the Rain Village at all."

(End of this chapter)