"Setsuna! Don't go too far!"

The ninjas present were very confused as to why the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen was so angry.

At this moment, Yamanaka Inoichi, who was hiding behind Nara Shikaku, showed a look of understanding. This change in expression was noticed by Hinata Hiashi, who had very good eyesight, and he immediately cast a questioning look at him.

Yamanaka Inichi is the director of the Intelligence Department, so naturally he has more information than Hinata Hiashi.

In response to Hiashi's question, Yamanaka Inoichi still answered very politely and whispered to Hinata Hiashi.

"I have seen a report on the Hokage's son, Asuma Sarutobi."

"The bounty on Asuma Sarutobi's head in the underground bounty office is exactly 3500 million ryo."

Yamanaka Inoichi did lower his voice when he spoke, but whether he lowered his voice or not had almost no effect on the ninjas present, but Yamanaka Inoichi's attitude was still revealed.

Hinata Hiashi nodded when he heard this: "I see."

The others also showed understanding looks and understood why the Third Hokage was so furious.

The Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, had only two sons.

The eldest son and daughter-in-law died together, leaving behind only a newborn child.

Now, almost all of the expectations of the third generation Sarutobi Hiruzen are placed on his second son, Sarutobi Asuma.

Because of the death of his eldest son, Sarutobi Hiruzen cared more about his second son. At this time, when Uchiha Setsuna said in front of him that he would kill his son to pay back the money, anyone would be furious.

However, after a glimmer of understanding flashed across the eyes of the patriarchs of the major families, they immediately looked at the patriarchs of other families with →_→suspicion.

The eyes of the patriarchs of each family met in the air for a moment, and then immediately looked away, with no emotion changing on their faces.

What the third generation Sarutobi Hiruzen thought was no secret to the patriarchs of the major families.

In the 50th year of Konoha, the Fourth Hokage died in the Nine-Tails Rebellion.

Logically speaking, the election for the Fifth Hokage should have been started immediately, but the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen did not start it. Instead, he acted as the Third Hokage and exercised the power of Hokage.

This temporary agency lasted until the 57th year of Konoha.

Konoha’s talent is dwindling?

Super Shadow Ninja: Jiraiya the Toad Sage and Tsunade the Thousand Hands Princess.

The Third Generation could always call Orochimaru back to take over if he wanted to. As for the crime? He only needed to say that he was carrying out a special mission, and he could immediately fool ordinary people.

Elite jonin: Hyuga Hiashi, Hyuga Hizashi, Hatake Kakashi, Aburame Shiwei, Aburame Shikuro, Akimichi Choza...

To put it bluntly, Sarutobi Hiruzen is not satisfied with any of these candidates, and the one he really wants to pass the throne to is his eldest son.

then……

His eldest son and his wife died together for unknown reasons, and they died in peacetime.

Any smart person can see that Sarutobi Hiruzen's next thought is simply to pass the title of Hokage to his second son.

It is precisely because of this that Asuma Sarutobi's bounty is so high.

3500 million taels is not a lot, but Asuma Sarutobi himself is not worth that much money.

Asuma Sarutobi's strength is just that of an ordinary jonin.

The elite jonin is called jonin, but in fact he has the strength of Kage. He is not called Kage just to avoid suspicion with the Kage of a village.

Asuma Sarutobi has no Kekkei Genkai, nor has he developed any special secret techniques, nor has he made any modifications to his body.

More importantly, he did not inherit Sarutobi Hiruzen's summoning beast, Monkey King.

His strength is okay among the jonin, but it is totally not good enough among the Kage level.

Don't think that he is at the Kage level just because he can fight with Feidan back and forth.

Judging from Hidan's physical skills alone, he is probably not even at the level of a jonin. His Kage-level strength is due to his immortality and the evil god ritual. The bounty on Sarutobi Asuma is more or less contributed by the major ninja clans present.

No one wants to see another Hokage from the Sarutobi family appear in Konoha.

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Although Uchiha Tiehuo was willing to carry out the order Wang Ming had just issued, he still had some resistance in his heart. But when he heard Yamanaka Inoichi say that the 3500 million bounty was for Sarutobi Asuma's head, he immediately said excitedly: "Grand Elder! I'll go right away."

But just as he took a step forward, the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen's Anbu immediately blocked Uchiha Tetsuka's way.

How could Sarutobi Hiruzen not know how capable his son is!

Letting Uchiha Tetsuka kill Sarutobi Asuma, isn't that just picking up money?
Uchiha Tetsuka's family died tonight, and he was already filled with hatred. Because of Wang Ming's power, he could temporarily suppress his anger, but that didn't mean he could continue to tolerate the Third Hokage.

He immediately opened the kaleidoscope and started again.

But he was suddenly slapped on the head, which made him stunned. He subconsciously wanted to attack, but was slapped again.

"Are you stupid!"

"Aren't you stupid!"

"You've opened a kaleidoscope, but you don't use your brain anymore, right?"

“Is there only one way out of the village?”

Uchiha Tiehuo looked carefully and saw that it was the Great Elder who hit him. He immediately calmed down, then looked around and said depressedly: "But there are ANBU in every direction!"

Then he got slapped again.

"You don't know how to summon the Ninja Cat, so you can let the Ninja Cat summon you back?"

Uchiha Tiehuo nodded immediately: "Yes!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen roared, "Setsuna! You want to start a war!"

Uchiha Tiehuo: "You old bastard, let's fight, come on!"

After experiencing the night of genocide, the Uchiha no longer regarded Sarutobi Hiruzen as Hokage, but as his enemy. If he had not been afraid of Sarutobi's strength, he would have stabbed him in the back long ago.

Sarutobi Hiruzen took a deep breath to calm his anger, then looked at the person who had been looking at him with a teasing look: "Setsuna! There's no need to implicate the innocent!"

Wang Ming, wearing a Setsuna vest, pointed his sword in the direction of the Uchiha clan territory and said, "Involving the innocent!"

"Is it appropriate for you to say this?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen was speechless. The Uchiha family was a large family with thousands of ordinary people and ninjas in total. However, after one night, only about five hundred people survived, and they were covered in injuries. It could be said that it was a tragic event to the extreme.

Konoha Village is actually a force established by a group of ninja clans. The Hokage is just the leader of the village. The real masters of the village are the major ninja clans.

Therefore, no matter how big a mistake the ninja clan makes, the Hokage cannot punish the entire clan.

Even if it is confirmed that the Uchiha family wants to stage a coup, at most all the ninjas would be killed, but the Uchiha civilians must not be touched. This is the bottom line.

Tonight, without any surprise, the Hokage series touched this bottom line.

"It's just not my order tonight."

"At the same time, the person who attacked the elderly, the weak, women and children was not my man, but the young patriarch of your Uchiha family, Uchiha Itachi."

"You are the Mangekyo yourself. You should understand that the person who opened the Mangekyo is not normal." Sarutobi Hiruzen started to pass the buck as usual.

Shimura Danzo drooped his eyelids and showed no intention of refutation. He looked like, "I did it, what can you do to me?"

He knew very well that he had to take the blame now. Only if Sarutobi was saved could he be saved.

"but!"

"Since all this is a tragedy caused by the village's mistakes, the village will try its best to meet all your requests within a reasonable range." (End of this chapter)