The Fifth village Hokage:Uchiha Douhuan

Chapter 232: Arrogant Before, Humble After, a Laughable Sight

Hearing this news, a smile appeared on the corner of Uchiha Douhuan's mouth. It seemed that either A or Killer Bee had woken up.

"Does your esteemed country need to send two waves of envoys to discuss the same matter?" Uchiha Douhuan said with a half-smile, looking at the arrogant Land of Lightning envoys in the great hall.

"This does fit our stereotype of your esteemed country being fickle," Miura Kazuo added supportively from the side.

All the civil officials in the great hall began to laugh. The hall was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

Even Minamoto Miyuki on the throne couldn't hold back his laughter.

The faces of the previously arrogant Land of Lightning envoys instantly turned red and then white.

After laughing for a while, Uchiha Douhuan finally spoke, "Let these envoys come in as well. Let's see what profound opinions they might have."

Soon, the second batch of envoys from the Land of Lightning walked into the great hall. If the state of the first batch of Black envoys was like the West Coast natives from Uchiha Douhuan's previous life who were so high they didn't know their own names, then the expressions on the faces of this second batch of Black envoys were exactly the same as when they had their hands on a police car.

After the second delegation from the Land of Lightning entered the great hall, they panicked upon seeing the state of the first delegation.

[They didn't say something they shouldn't have, did they? They didn't already hand over that document, did they?]

They were sent only after A woke up and the Daimyō learned what had actually happened on the front line. To save time, they had been rushed to the border by ninjas all the way, then headed straight for Konoha without even catching a breath. But despite rushing, they were still a step too late.

"Greetings to His Highness the Daimyō of the Land of Fire, greetings to Your Excellency the Grand Minister," the leader of the later envoys first respectfully bowed to Minamoto Miyuki and Uchiha Douhuan, then braced himself and asked, "Regarding the truce agreement between our two countries, I wonder how far the discussions have progressed?"

"That..." Uchiha Douhuan raised an eyebrow. "You've come at the right time. His Highness our Daimyō was just about to have these reckless fools beheaded to consecrate our war banner and then declare war on you. You can take their heads and our declaration of war back with you in a moment."

"Please calm your anger, Your Highness the Daimyō and Your Excellency the Grand Minister," upon hearing Uchiha Douhuan's words, cold sweat instantly broke out on the foreheads of this second batch of arriving envoys. "They are not the envoys of our Land of Lightning, but a few traitors who vainly attempted to sow discord in the friendly relations between our two countries."

"Cameron! What are you talking about!" The leader of the first group of envoys flew into a rage after being branded a traitor.

But just then, Cameron came to his side and whispered a few words in his ear.

In the next instant, the Land of Lightning envoy, who had been so defiant just moments before, went completely limp, his face filled with terror.

He had never imagined that their Land of Lightning's battle on the front line would be such a disastrous defeat!

If the situation on the front line had been as the ministers of their Land of Lightning had speculated, with both the Cloud and the Leaf suffering heavy losses, then their coming to pressure the Land of Fire this time, whether the Land of Fire cowardly signed the contract or flew into a rage and declared war, conveniently beheading them to consecrate the war banner, they would all be recorded as heroes in the annals of the Land of Lightning.

But now, the situation on the battlefield was that their Land of Lightning had unilaterally suffered heavy losses and had its vitality greatly damaged. Before the Land of Lightning recovered its strength, facing a fully equipped Konoha, they had no chance of victory.

If Konoha were provoked by their actions into declaring war on the Land of Lightning, then they would be the sinners of the entire Land of Lightning!

For these civil officials, death was not scary. What was scary was being reviled as a sinner of the entire nation for ten thousand years after death!

"Uh, this... that..., Your Highness the Daimyō, Your Excellency the Grand Minister, what happened just now was just a small joke we made. Please don't take it seriously..." Under the pressure of those four words—"reviled for ten thousand years"—they had already begun to speak incoherently.

"Heh heh, why were you so arrogant before and so humble now? It is laughable to behold!" Miura Kazuo laughed heartily at this moment. In the great hall, piercing laughter rose and fell, but at this moment, they could only endure it. The second batch of envoys who had come in could only offer awkward, apologetic smiles.

"Speaking of which, I still prefer your defiant look from earlier. Could you perhaps restore it?" Uchiha Douhuan said with a smile after the laughter had temporarily subsided.

"The Grand Minister jests... Please forgive my previous rudeness..." The man who spoke had fine beads of sweat on his shiny black head, which, under the sunlight filtering through the window, looked very much like a freshly cooked braised egg.

This scene made Uchiha Douhuan, who had just finished cleaning up the mess caused by his disobedient disciple, feel much better. However, Uchiha Douhuan had no intention of letting these few people off the hook.

Uchiha Douhuan's eyes narrowed slightly. He looked at the few envoys from the second wave and asked unhurriedly, "Mr. Envoy of the Land of Lightning, if I remember correctly, what did you call these few people just now?"

As Uchiha Douhuan's voice fell, the legs of the few envoys from the first group immediately began to tremble like sieves.

Hearing Uchiha Douhuan's words, a trace of reluctance also appeared on the face of the later envoy. But now, with them being the fish and the other side being the knife, in order to gain a chance to breathe, they could only give up on the others at this moment.

"Replying to Your Excellency the Grand Minister, they are all... traitors who intended to destroy the unity between our two countries," the later envoy said through gritted teeth after some hesitation.

The first batch of envoys, upon hearing this, collapsed directly onto the floor. They knew that for the future of their country, they had been abandoned.

"So they're traitors," Uchiha Douhuan said meaningfully. "I was just saying that the high-level officials of the Land of Lightning couldn't be so brainless. However, since they are traitors who want to sow discord in the relationship between our two countries, then how about our Land of Fire helps your esteemed country deal with them?"

"Your Excellency the Grand Minister, we wouldn't dare trouble you with this. On this day of friendly negotiation between our two countries, it's best not to see blood. How about we leave these few people for our Land of Lightning to handle? Please rest assured, for their offense against you and His Highness the Daimyō, our Land of Lightning will definitely give an account."

"Friendly negotiation?" Uchiha Douhuan's face changed. "But I don't think there is any room for friendly negotiation between our two countries on this matter!"

"For this joint Chunin Exam, our Konoha received your country's visit with the highest standards. I dare say our Konoha has done nothing to offend your Cloud Village. But your Raikage, before leaving, kidnapped the grandson of our Konoha's Third Hokage. Since your Raikage has shown such blatant provocation without any regard for the relationship between our two countries, this act is not only a provocation against our Konoha, but a complete trampling and humiliation of our Konoha's Will of Fire! Do you think there is still any friendliness to speak of between our two countries?"

"Teacher, stop wasting your breath on them! I say we just cut them all down to consecrate the war banner, then send that group of prisoners to plant cotton, and just declare war on the Land of Lightning!" At this time, Minamoto Miyuki spoke up from the throne.

Uchiha Douhuan turned his head and glared at this boy. Minamoto Miyuki timidly shrunk his neck and stuck out his tongue.

However, although this boy was causing trouble at this time, he had inadvertently put immense pressure on the other party.

"Grand Minister, please reconsider. This matter was indeed a great mistake made by our country's Raikage on impulse. Our Land of Lightning is willing to make compensation for this."

"Compensation? With three hundred million worth of mineral garbage as compensation?" Uchiha Douhuan said with a cold laugh.

"Regarding this issue, perhaps Your Excellency the Grand Minister could make a decision after looking at our Land of Lightning's formal document," Cameron, the Land of Lightning's envoy, was now sweating profusely in his anxiety. He hurriedly took out a document from his robes and respectfully handed it to Uchiha Douhuan.

After Uchiha Douhuan took the document, he glanced at it. Hmm, this document was much more sincere.

Firstly, in name, the Daimyō of the Land of Lightning acknowledged that the cause of this military conflict was Raikage A's irrational behavior and promised in the document to punish A.

Then came the compensation. Compared to the previous compensation that treated Uchiha Douhuan as a fool, using 300 million ryō worth of mineral garbage to pay off a 10 billion ryō debt, the price offered by the Land of Lightning this time was 40 billion ryō, to be repaid in cash over ten years.

And regarding those prisoners, the Land of Lightning also offered a ransom of 50 million ryō for Jonin, 30 million ryō for Special Jonin, 10 million ryō for Chunin, and 5 million ryō for Genin. The total ransom was about 26 billion ryō, to be paid along with the compensation over ten years.

Seeing Uchiha Douhuan start to read the treaty, Cameron asked tentatively, "I wonder, Your Excellency the Grand Minister, what do you think of this price? Our Land of Lightning has absolutely come to negotiate peace with your esteemed country with the utmost sincerity."

"The amount of compensation can stay as it is, but I will only give you three years to pay it off," Uchiha Douhuan said. "In addition, the ransom for the prisoners must be increased by another thirty percent, and installment payments will not be accepted. We will release the prisoners when you have paid the ransom in full. Also, all expenses incurred during the prisoners' detention will also be borne by you."

"This... Your Excellency the Grand Minister, isn't this a bit too much? Our Land of Lightning's finances really can't afford to produce so much money at once," Cameron said with a bitter smile. If they were to follow what Uchiha Douhuan said, to get all these prisoners back, they would have to give out nearly 50 billion ryō in cash in the first year. But their Land of Lightning's annual fiscal revenue was only just over 100 billion.

"That's your own business," Uchiha Douhuan said with a cold laugh. Pay it off in 10 years? Where's such a good deal? In ten years, it's still uncertain what the surname of the Land of Lightning will be. Moreover, if he didn't put some economic pressure on the other party, given the nature of these barbarians from the Land of Lightning, they would probably go on a military buildup spree to seek revenge after returning. Uchiha Douhuan naturally wouldn't give them this opportunity.

Under this huge financial pressure, the Land of Lightning and the Cloud Village only had two choices: either cut military spending to pay off Konoha's debt first, or further squeeze the common people to restore their strength.

In this way, no matter what choice they made, only Konoha would benefit. The former naturally goes without saying. If the Land of Lightning chose the latter path, then when Konoha's heavenly soldiers entered the Land of Lightning, they would be in the position of liberators.

As for the possibility of the Land of Lightning uniting as a whole under these internal and external troubles, Uchiha Douhuan indicated that there was this possibility before rap culture became popular in the Land of Lightning. Now, the Black and white people in the Land of Lightning were almost at each other's throats. Especially after this defeat caused by the actions of the Land of Lightning's Black high-level officials, the Land of Lightning's white people, who were already extremely dissatisfied with the Black administration, would definitely take some action.

"In addition, your military conflict this time did not only cause losses to our Konoha. The war you instigated on the border of the Land of Hot Water has also deeply hurt the feelings of the people of the Land of Hot Water. As an ally of the Land of Hot Water, I feel our Land of Fire has an obligation to seek justice for them," Uchiha Douhuan said.

"I wonder how Your Excellency the Grand Minister thinks we should compensate for the losses of the Land of Hot Water?" Cameron said with a sigh. The situation was already very clear now: Konoha was making an exorbitant demand, and he would have to ask for instructions from the Land of Lightning's Daimyō before haggling over the price. The conditions Uchiha Douhuan had just given were already beyond his authority to agree to. So, he simply planned to listen to all of Uchiha Douhuan's conditions before making a plan.

"I remember that during the Second Great Ninja War, your country forcibly occupied nearly ten thousand square kilometers of land from the Land of Hot Water, including their northern port. I think you might as well return this piece of land to its original owner," Uchiha Douhuan said.

"This... I'm afraid our Daimyō will find it difficult to agree," Cameron's face also showed a troubled expression upon hearing Uchiha Douhuan's words.

The territory was secondary. This port, located at the junction of the Land of Lightning and the Land of Hot Water, was extremely important to the Land of Lightning. Although the Land of Lightning had a large coastline on the east coast, there were only a few areas suitable as ports. And most of them were located further north in latitude. In winter, the entire port would be frozen. And the port Uchiha Douhuan mentioned, which they had forcibly seized during the Second Great Ninja War, was their only ice-free port within their territory.

"In that case, I don't think your Land of Lightning has much sincerity," Uchiha Douhuan said with a cold laugh. "Or does your Land of Lightning think that the losses of a small country like the Land of Hot Water are insignificant? Then I must tell you, the Land of Hot Water is now a loyal ally of our Konoha. Their business is our Konoha's business! And the Land of Fire, as a responsible great power in the ninja world, has a responsibility to stop your Land of Lightning's hegemonic behavior!"

"That's right!"

"The Grand Minister's words are absolutely correct!"

After Uchiha Douhuan's voice fell, the civil officials in the great hall echoed their support one after another.

(End of chapter)

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