Chapter 154 Back Garden Plan

"Hmm! Comfortable~"

In a hotel in the Mountain Country, Yahiko's body was lying in the hot spring, with only his head floating on the water.

His tense nerves gradually relaxed, and he felt like he was about to melt. He just wanted to take a comfortable bath.

However, after quietly and honestly soaking for a few minutes, Yahiko's thoughts drifted back from the paradise, and he couldn't help but think of the purpose of this trip.

He looked up at the other side of the hot spring, and the figure looming in the mist, and said worriedly: "Boss, it's not easy to get here. Is it okay not to meet the people of Yangyan Village?"

The bathrobe was folded and placed on the clothes stand beside him. Yunchuan squinted his eyes and soaked in the hot spring. There were fine water droplets everywhere, and the shoulders looked round and full.

"It doesn't matter, the time has not come yet."

He looked up at the twinkling stars in the sky in the open air of the hot spring. They were dense and bright, and they were completely different from the rainy country that was always covered by rain.

"It's just a mountain, but the difference in environment is so obvious." Yunchuan sighed, "It's really suitable to be used as a 'back garden'."

The Mountain Country is located in the area bordering the Grass Country and the Rain Country.

It is precisely because of the special terrain of this country with many mountains that the Grass Country, which is also a plain terrain, does not have a harsh environment like the Rain Country, and even allows them to have food planting conditions that are only inferior to the Fire Country.

Now the still immature Dawn can barely achieve self-sufficiency in the Rain Country with the improved technology of soilless cultivation.

But with the gradual expansion of power, soilless cultivation is not the best policy after all.

Therefore, the two small plain countries adjacent to the Rain Country, the Bird Country and the Grass Country, are undoubtedly the best choice as "grain depots".

The southern part of the Rain Country now belongs to Hanzo's territory. Now both sides are facing a common enemy and are still in a temporary honeymoon period, so the River Country adjacent to the south is excluded.

Moreover, the environment of the River Country is mostly dense jungle, which is more suitable for planting cash crops such as rubber, but obviously not suitable for planting food crops, so it can be temporarily let go.

The Bird Country, which is adjacent to the Rain Country in the west, is also simple. It is just a small country with a small territory and low strength.

This small country with no ninja village and at the bottom of the ninja world will be the first to bear the brunt of the war. If they are lucky, they can survive. If they are unlucky, the country will be destroyed and the family will be ruined.

This is not alarmist. After the Warring States Period, the number of countries has become fewer and fewer, and there has been no emerging countries.

In the era of one country and one village, the power of the big country has become increasingly important and unmatched. There has never been a case of a small country turning into a big country in the past few decades.

"Boss, we are going to fight against Taki Country this time, right?" Yahiko asked suddenly, "Are they very strong?"

"... Maybe."

Kumukawa's thoughts turned back, and he smiled noncommittally: "After all, it is the only ninja village that legally owns tailed beast weapons besides the five major ninja villages."

If we don't count the artificial tailed beast "Zero Tail·Nothingness" on the air fortress hidden in the sky above Rain Country.

"Huh?"

Yahiko's surprised voice came: "The village hidden by the waterfall? I heard that because of its remote geographical environment, it is rarely affected by the war of the five major countries. They actually have tailed beasts?"

Although he has made up a lot of book knowledge, he still doesn't know enough about this aspect.

"It's not just the five great nations that have tailed beasts. At the first Five Kage Conference, Hashirama Senju gave a tailed beast to Takigakure, a village not belonging to the five great nations."

Yunchuan explained calmly, "In addition to the tailed beasts, that ninja village also has something called Hero's Water. After a ninja takes it, his chakra can be greatly increased."

"There is such a magical thing." Yahiko's eyes lit up, but when he thought of his ninjutsu talent, he immediately fell into depression.

"It doesn't have much strategic significance." Yunchuan shook his head, "The amplification ability of Hero's Water is indeed very strong, but it will devour the user's vitality. Although the amplification ability is strong, the side effects are also very obvious."

Of course, having said that, the interest still exists.

It is also completely feasible to find an opportunity to borrow some Hero's Water for research.

Thinking about it this way, the former Takigakure may be very close to a great power. Takigakure is one of the few ninja villages in the small countries besides the five great powers.

Unfortunately, they still couldn't resist the targeting of the five major countries, and the brains of the top leaders of Takigakure must be a little sick.

This can be seen from the fact that Kakuzu was asked to assassinate Hashirama Senju.

Judging from the fact that Kakuzu was able to steal the "Earth Grudge" and kill all his superiors before his defection, he was at least considered a strong man in Takigakure.

As a result, because of the failure of an assassination mission that was absolutely impossible to complete, such high-end combat power was severely punished.

You can punish, but the form is more important than the meaning. Reason and law should be balanced, at least it should not make people feel disappointed.

For loyal ninjas who are ready to give up their lives to fight for the village, it is too inhumane to punish them without mercy. It would be strange if the ninjas in the village did not feel hatred and dissatisfaction.

In that situation, killing the high-ranking officials who treated him unfairly and then taking away the forbidden technique ‘Earth Grudge’ in the village was the only path Kakuzu could choose.

However, Kakuzu who failed in the assassination mission was severely punished and almost died in prison. It is also possible that he was involved in the power struggle between the high-ranking officials of Takigakure Village and was treated unfairly.

After all, that was Hashirama Senju... Anyone with a normal mind would know that it was an impossible task.

If the assassination was really successful, the strongest ninja village now would not be Konoha, but Takigakure Village.

Facts have also proved that Takigakure Village, which was once powerful, has now declined and does not even have a decent and powerful ninja.

Even a small country like Takigakure, which has a strong ninja armed force, fell tragically on the road to a big country, let alone the Bird Country.

It has almost become a tacit fact that the status of a big country is becoming more stable and the small country is becoming more barren.

Therefore, when the relationship between the Land of Earth and the Land of Wind is slightly provoked in the future, the Land of Birds, which is sandwiched between the two and has insufficient military strength, will be in trouble.

At that time, it will be easy to pull it into its own camp and gradually assimilate it into its territory by providing humanitarian assistance as a small country.

The really difficult one should be the Grass Country with a special status.

This small country, like a fence-sitter, is particularly good at national diplomacy, to put it nicely, and to put it bluntly, it is a playboy and a follower of the trend.

It just so happens that this country also has the relatively complete military force of the Grass Village, and also has the "Ghost Lantern City" which is used to imprison prisoners from various countries.

It is indeed more troublesome to deal with it than the Land of Birds.

Of course, Yunchuan feels troublesome not referring to the military strength of the Grass Country and the Grass Village.

Rather, how to incorporate the Grass Country into his territory without attracting attention and make the Grass Country his "back garden".

Now it may be possible to expose the strength and existence of Dawn, but it would be too early to expose the purpose of annexing small countries.

The reason why Dawn lived so peacefully and peacefully in the past few years was because the Hidden Rain Village was in the open, and they always lurked in the dark and developed quietly.

However, with the gradual expansion of strength, and the fact that he appeared in front of everyone in the Hidden Rain Village and cooperated with Hanzo to attack the Hidden Sand Village, it is estimated that the information about him and Dawn has now been delivered to the desks of the five Kages.

"Actually, it's okay." Yunchuan exhaled a white mist and said to himself, "Isn't this what I want?"

Since he can't hide anymore, then stand out openly instead of hiding in the dark sewer like a rat.

Of course, the premise is that the purpose of annexing small countries cannot be exposed.

So, he set his sights on the Mountain Country between the Rain Country and the Grass Country.