Tsunade, you're really drunk!

The dark brown mountain that once blocked the trade route between the village and the Land of Birds was removed by the Iwagakure Village rebel ninja Deidara not long ago.

And now, a new gate of Iwagakure Village has appeared here, and groups of merchants enter from here, or Iwagakure, in order to seize the wave of the opening of new trade routes and make as much money as possible.

Inside the Iwakage Building, the desk was filled with densely packed documents. Even Oonoki's figure could not be seen, but the sound of seals being tapped on the table could be heard from time to time.

"There are so many documents. How long will it take me to finish them?"

Even though Ohnoki was complaining like this, he couldn't hide the smile on his face.

This is all money. Every time a stamp is stamped, the village can earn more tariffs on the import and export of goods. This is a timely relief for the village that has just built the headquarters of the Ninja Association - Iwagakure Village. It is a good opportunity to fill the fiscal deficit gap caused by the cost of building materials and labor.

"Boom boom boom!"

The hurried knock on the door made Oonoki's mouth curl up a little more.

"It looks like another batch of caravan documents has arrived."

"come in!"

The door opened and the person who came in was Ohnoki's son Huangtu. As Ohnoki expected, Huangtu held a large pile of documents and placed them on the temporary table next to him. Then he took out a reddish-brown scroll from his chest and handed it to Ohnoki.

"Old man, this is the news from the secret agent lurking in Kumogakure."

"It says that after Qianye and the Konoha delegation arrived at Kumogakure, they did not take on the main mission of this visit to Kumogakure."

"Jiraiya seems to be discussing something with the head of Nadeshiko Village, Nadeshiko Teika."

"You should first look at the information on the scroll before continuing to process these documents."

At first, Ohnoki was planning to ask Huangtu to put the scroll aside and look at it later, but when he heard Qianye's name, he floated up from the chair, came to Huangtu's side, and snatched the scroll away.

"Go and help me process the documents. I'll go see what Qianye has done."

Huang Tu looked at his father silently and shook his head.

Since the establishment of the Ninja Association, once he got any information related to Qianye, no matter what he was doing, he would check it immediately and issue a few orders. He would even get up in the middle of the night to see what was going on.

Ohnoki opened the scroll and read the information on it word for word. As he read, his thick white eyebrows, which were originally relaxed and flat, gradually twisted together, and were almost connected to his big nose.

It was not until more than ten minutes later that he destroyed the scroll with Dust Release, and with a serious face, he anxiously asked Huang Tu.

"Huangtu, besides visiting Kumogakure, has Konoha taken any other actions recently?"

"Snapped!"

Huang Tu put the seal on the table, stopped what he was doing, stood up and walked in front of Oonoki.

"In Konoha, according to the information from the ninjas hiding in the caravan and the intelligence department."

"It's the same as before. The first Hokage Hashirama returned to the village two months ago and set out again for Sunagakure. The latest information came from two days ago. A caravan passed by an oasis and vaguely saw a ninja performing a large-scale wood escape technique to plant trees. Judging from the scale of the ninjutsu, it should be Hashirama himself."

"Over at Kirigakure, according to the information from the Iwagakure workers who are building the Kirigakure Cross-Sea Bridge in Konoha, Uchiha Itachi, Uchiha Fugaku, and Akimichi Choza are helping to build the bridge. There is also a guy who looks like Zabuza's brother. However, we haven't seen Mei Terumi in the past few days, so we don't know what exactly she is doing."

"The new finance minister of the Hidden Rain Village in the Land of Rain is Kakuzu, the once famous bounty hunter in the ninja world. He made drastic changes to tariffs and trade policies as soon as he took office. This is the news reported by the village's trade department."

"As for the Ninja Association, Akagi has responded. Konoha has rescinded the Akatsuki organization's wanted list. I don't know what happened."

"There was also a ninja team that was carrying out a transportation mission for the Ninja Association. When they were returning from the Fire Country, they saw a volcano in the southern part of the border between the Fire Country and the Earth Country suddenly erupted for some reason. There was a natural phenomenon and a huge black shadow appeared."

After saying that, Huangtu pointed to several scrolls piled in an inconspicuous corner of a temporary desk next to him.

"This information should have been reported..." Before Huangtu finished his words, Ohnoki appeared there directly, opened the scrolls one by one, and quickly browsed through the contents. The more he read, the gloomier his face became. He turned his neck stiffly and looked at Huangtu.

"Such important information, why didn't you let me check it earlier when you sent the document?" Ohnoki spoke word by word, and Huangtu felt that something was wrong.

“Didn’t you say it has nothing to do with Qianye and there’s no need to rush to watch it…” Huang Tu scratched the back of his head naively, feeling a little helpless.

Ohnoki was speechless for a moment, and quickly came to the desk, took out a scroll from the drawer, quickly wrote a long paragraph on it, then closed it and carefully put it into Huangtu's hand.

“Quick! Immediately, have someone deliver this scroll to Qianye… No!”

"If we send it to Kumogakure, those damned fools will definitely try their best to delay it. Send it to Konoha, into Tsunade's hands!"

"You yourself...you let Heitu go!"

It was the first time that Huang Tu saw his father so anxious, but considering that his daughter Hei Tu had recently been in conflict with the old man because of Deidara's disappointment in leaving the village after returning, he spoke up and told the old man about his plan to go into seclusion for half a year.

"Heitu is in a bad mood recently. Didn't she say she wants to go into seclusion..."

"Shut up! So what if she's my granddaughter!?"

"Now that you've become a ninja, you can't let your personal emotions sway you! The interests of the village come first!"

"I don't care what method you use, immediately, let Kurotsuchi carry out this mission! An S-level mission!"

After saying that, Ohnoki angrily kicked Huangtu out of the door. He sat alone at the desk in the office, looking at the documents on the table. The joy he had previously felt from stamping them was gone, and his face was filled with worry.

"You are so good, Ai, you are so good, Raikage, you actually let Samui receive Qianye, you want to use the beauty trap to get the bloodline that you can't get."

"Nadeshiko Village and Jiraiya...it looks like Konoha is going to start taking action against the smaller villages as well, and try to bring them into the Ninja Association."

"The pie will only get smaller and smaller. It seems that we must convince the nobles of the Land of Earth as soon as possible. It is useless to rely on the consent of the daimyo alone. We can't delay any longer."

"Among the five great nations, only Iwagakure and Konoha have not reached close ties and cooperation. We must speed up, otherwise, we won't even be able to get a sip of soup, and we may even be reduced to competing for interests with those small villages and small countries!"

"Not allowed. I will never allow such a situation to happen!!!"