Chapter 096: A Millennium of Governance

Not to mention what happened with the Wind and Earth Alliance.

Over in the Land of Fire, Wang Bo had run into a small problem.

In his office, Wang Bo sipped tea and looked at the woman with a generous bosom sitting before him, feeling a bit of a headache.

This person was none other than Shizune, who had met Wang Bo a few times before and taught him chakra extraction, along with her teacher, Tsunade Senju.

Tsunade Senju and Shizune were here purely because of Konoha.

Logically speaking, Tsunade Senju should have come seeking revenge this time.

After all, Wang Bo had attacked Konoha, killed the Third Hokage, and turned all of Konoha's ninja into an army. Under Wang Bo's control, Konoha was no longer the home of ninja.

And Konoha? It was founded by her grandfather, Hashirama Senju, and the Third Hokage was her teacher. No matter how you looked at it, Tsunade had every reason to seek revenge for how Wang Bo had treated Konoha.

Even Wang Bo thought so.

But if Tsunade had come for revenge, Wang Bo wouldn't have had a headache.

Although Tsunade had once had Shizune teach Wang Bo chakra extraction, Wang Bo had paid money for it. If Tsunade had come in shouting for blood, Wang Bo naturally wouldn't have been polite.

Wang Bo might not have killed Tsunade outright, but he would have definitely defeated her and locked her up.

The problem was that Tsunade hadn't come to cause trouble this time.

She hadn't come in shouting for blood; instead, she sat in Wang Bo's office with a smile and presented him with a difficult problem that gave him a headache.

"I want to rebuild Konoha," Tsunade said.

"I never destroyed Konoha. Konoha is still there, isn't it?" Wang Bo said.

Tsunade said, "You didn't destroy Konoha, but you took away most of its ninja. Konoha's ninja became your army. Now Konoha has many residents, but it's no longer Konoha. So I want to rebuild Konoha—I mean a Konoha with ninja. So I hope you can return Konoha's ninja."

"That won't work," Wang Bo shook his head instinctively.

"Why not?" Tsunade asked.

"I have use for Konoha's ninja."

Although Wang Bo had some ninja under his command, their numbers were too small, far less useful than Konoha's ninja. These ninja, though soldiers, could play a huge role in many fields thanks to their jutsu.

Especially in infrastructure, they were irreplaceable.

In the original story, the Land of Waves spent countless manpower and resources to build a bridge, but if a ninja skilled in Earth and Water Release had done the work, it might have been completed in a few days.

For example, in desert reclamation, Hashirama Senju could use a single Forest Release to turn a desert into an oasis.

From this perspective, ninja were the best tools.

Now Tsunade wanted to take these excellent tools back—no way. Wang Bo would never agree.

If she took all of Konoha's ninja away, when would Wang Bo finish transforming the Land of Fire?

According to his plan, with the help of Konoha's ninja, he could transform the Land of Fire into a superpower in no more than a year.

If Konoha's ninja were taken away, his plan would suffer a setback.

It would be delayed by at least ten years.

Moreover, Wang Bo had built many hospitals and schools, all of which needed Konoha's ninja to shine. If they left, these facilities would be half-paralyzed.

So, for both public and private reasons, Wang Bo would not let Konoha's ninja go.

But Tsunade smiled and said, "Back then, you asked to learn chakra extraction, and I had Shizune teach you. Now I want to take Konoha's ninja away, and you make excuses. You're putting me in a difficult position."

"Come on, I'm the one in a difficult position. Besides, I paid for learning chakra extraction—a full five hundred thousand ryo—before you had Shizune teach me."

Wang Bo rolled his eyes.

Tsunade said, "But in the end, I had Shizune teach you chakra extraction when you needed it most, didn't I? So you owe me a favor."

Wang Bo sneered at this, thinking the woman had thick skin. "Alright, what do you really want?"

"To rebuild Konoha," Tsunade said seriously. "Konoha was founded by my grandfather. I can't just watch it disappear."

Wang Bo thought for a moment and said, "Fine, but after I finish transforming the Land of Fire and unify the ninja world, I'll allow Konoha's ninja to lay down their arms and return to Konoha."

"You want to unify the ninja world?" Tsunade was startled. She hadn't expected Wang Bo to have such ambition. She had thought he only wanted to become the ruler of the Land of Fire.

After all, Wang Bo had never hidden his ambition from the start.

And after ruling the Land of Fire, he hadn't expanded further but instead focused on transforming it.

Combined with Wang Bo's past experiences, Tsunade had always thought he was dissatisfied with the Land of Fire and wanted to reform it himself.

But she hadn't expected his goal to be unifying the ninja world—something even her grandfather hadn't achieved.

Wang Bo nodded and said, "That's right. The ninja world is too chaotic now, with constant fighting. Konoha was founded sixty years ago, yet it's already experienced three great ninja wars. I can't stand it anymore."

"So I plan to unify the ninja world, establish an absolute regime, eliminate all wars, and create a modern world."

"Of course, the general trend under heaven is that long division must lead to union, and long union must lead to division. Completely eliminating war is impossible."

"But I'm confident I can build a stable society that will see no war for at least a thousand years."

Even a world like Akame ga Kill! could establish a thousand-year empire. Wang Bo figured that with his and Silver Superman's abilities, establishing a thousand-year regime without war was no problem.

But thinking of the Ōtsutsuki clan in space, Wang Bo added, "Of course, even if there is war, it won't be a large-scale war that engulfs the world."

After hearing Wang Bo's words, Tsunade was dumbfounded.

Establish a stable society for a thousand years?

That was too much of a boast.

Even her grandfather, Hashirama Senju, wouldn't dare boast like that. He had established the ninja village system to end wars, but the three great ninja wars had shown everyone that the village system couldn't eliminate war either.

Instead, it made wars even larger in scale.