When he learned from Karura about Kiyomizu developing the Bloodline Limit of Dust Release and the various details of his sparring with the Third Kazekage in the training grounds, he suddenly realized that Kiyomizu's growth rate was much faster than he had imagined.
The current Kiyomizu is definitely not inferior to him in strength.
This is no longer a future competitor, but a direct opponent with the ability to directly enter the game!
With his strength difficult to improve further, Rasa spent his time every day, besides normal training, on mining.
He had to prove to the Third Kazekage that he could make more contributions, create more wealth for the village, and have higher value!
In the past, for such important matters, the Third Kazekage would only call upon Chiyo and Ebizo, the true core figures among the Sand elders, to discuss, but now he had called him and Kiyomizu over.
In Rasa's view, this was the Third Kazekage indicating that the future core of the village would definitely include the two of them, and the Fourth Kazekage would be born from the winner between them.
The intelligence document from the capital quickly passed through Kiyomizu, Rasa, and Chiyo.
Ebizo didn't look at it, because he was the one who sent someone to submit this document to the Third Kazekage.
"Let's all talk about it. Although the village's finances are much richer than in the past, the military expenses allocated by the Daimyo are still an important part of the village's fiscal revenue. Although it's not to the point that we can't survive without this money, we absolutely can't be without it, nor can it be reduced. You are all the current or future core of the village, so you should all be aware of how much can be done with so much money."
"And more important than money is the new Daimyo, and the attitude of the nobles in the capital towards the village. For the future situation of the Land of Wind and Sunagakure, this status quo must be changed."
The Third Kazekage waited for them to finish reading the document before speaking in a deep voice.
Kiyomizu, Chiyo, and Ebizo didn't rush to answer, but sat in their seats and slowly pondered.
On the contrary, Rasa, eager to perform, was somewhat impatient.
"Third Master, it seems that this newly appointed Daimyo is very wary of the village, believing that the village's current strength will escape control, so he wants to use finances as a rein to control the village. I think, why not send someone in disguise to assassinate him and warn this new Daimyo?"
Chiyo and Ebizo exchanged speechless glances.
Kiyomizu remained expressionless, still looking like he was seriously thinking.
Rasa's answer…
It wasn't unexpected, and it was very much in line with his style.
This guy even used such a stupid method as assassination to test his youngest son, Gaara, who was a Jinchuriki.
Even in the Konoha Crush plan, the initial plan was to assassinate the Third Hokage together with Orochimaru during the competition, only to be tricked to death by Orochimaru.
It's as if assassination is the most effective political means.
But assassination is actually just a quick and low-cost political means. It is indeed very useful in specific situations and is an important way for the weak to overcome the strong.
But assassination often has extremely high risks.
This risk refers not only to the success rate of the assassination, but also to the price that needs to be paid after the act of assassination is recognized.
In most cases, for an official force, assassination must have absolute concealment and deniability.
Unless the two sides have already torn their faces, or have decided to tear their faces, assassination will absolutely not be carried out if possible.
Not to mention that this assassination in Rasa's words does not mean to take the Daimyo's life.
"Inappropriate."
The direct relationship between the Kage and the Daimyo is somewhat similar to the relationship between the Shogunate and the Emperor, and also somewhat like the relationship between the King and the domestic military nobles in some regions of medieval Europe.
It's just that the power wielded by the Daimyo is stronger than the Emperor, not just symbolic. The Kage is not just a single military noble, but equivalent to the spokesperson of a political group composed of all domestic military nobles, and even more so, can be considered the head of state along with the Daimyo.
The former needs the latter's powerful force to guarantee their position, and the latter needs to use the former's symbolic meaning and financial appropriations to maintain and strengthen their power.
As Rasa said, finance is the Daimyo's rein to restrict the ninja village.
Even if the ninja village has a high degree of autonomy, and the Daimyo has no power to command the ninja of the ninja village, if the ninja village wants to support a strong military force, it must have financial support from the Daimyo. Losing this most important financial income for the ninja village will quickly weaken the ninja village, no matter how strong its military strength is.
This is also the most important card that the Daimyo uses to control the ninja village.
It's just that the current Sunagakure seems to have traces of breaking free from the reins.
Rasa fell silent.
He couldn't think of any other way.
As for killing the Daimyo and replacing him with a new Daimyo, he didn't dare to do such a thing.
Kiyomizu did want to replace the Daimyo with a new puppet, but such a conspiracy must not be too crude, and there are no suitable conditions now.
At least, he definitely couldn't simply assassinate the Daimyo and directly support a puppet to take the stage.
That way, everyone would see it, and other countries would definitely take this opportunity to join hands to interfere in the internal affairs of the Land of Wind.
The best strategy is to attack the mind, the next best is to attack alliances, the next is to attack soldiers.
Direct use of force is the worst strategy, and the Daimyo of other countries will definitely not want to see this kind of ninja threatening the Daimyo's life and challenging the Daimyo's authority. This is no longer a matter of one country's internal affairs, but represents the ninja class challenging the Daimyo's authority. At that time, they will definitely demand that the ninja villages under their command send troops.
And those ninja villages are happy to defeat the increasingly powerful Sunagakure.
Although the current Sunagakure is like Konoha, a super ninja village in the strongest tier, it cannot withstand a joint attack from four ninja villages.
If you want to change the current situation, you must first weaken the Daimyo's power, and then have an arrow shot at the Daimyo.
Just like the arrow that Zheng general Zhu Dan shot and scattered the sacred halo of the Zhou Emperor.
And this arrow definitely cannot be shot by someone from Sunagakure, at least it cannot be thought to be shot by Sunagakure.
While Kiyomizu was secretly calculating the feasibility of various plans, Chiyo and Ebizo also expressed their respective views to the Third Kazekage.
