Testing

After the meeting, he slowly walked out of Konoha Hospital.

Asami Masumi glanced at the blue sky above her head, then withdrew her gaze and walked towards the direction of the Hokage Building.

Although she successfully became the vice president of Konoha Hospital and has a higher position in the medical department, it also means that she will receive more attention now.

Judging from her observations in the past two months, at least two groups of secret agents began to secretly investigate some management personnel in the medical department.

Familiar faces were gone, and many new faces were replaced. In just two months, Tsunade, the new Hokage, successfully gathered almost half of the power in the medical department, including Konoha Hospital.

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Even Asami Masumi had to admit that Tsunade's prestige in the medical industry, the influence she had worked so hard to cultivate secretly for so many years, was far inferior to that of others who could rise up and speak out.

This is probably the so-called general trend.

As long as we continue step by step, Konoha will usher in a recovery trend sooner or later.

But that time might also be the most serious moment of power struggle in Konoha.

After all, this is a historical issue that sounds illusory, but is extremely cruel, and actually exists within Konoha.

Arriving at the door of the Hokage's office, Asami Masumi gathered her mood and knocked gently on the door panel.

"Come in."

What responded to her was not Tsunade's voice, but a calm and thick voice.

Pushing open the door and entering the office, Asami Masumi saw that there was only one person in the office, the Jonin squad leader Nara Shikaku, and he was the one who responded just now.

Tsunade, the Hokage, is now missing.

"Mr. Shikaku."

Asami Masumi came over with a portfolio and greeted Shikaku politely.

Shikaku was standing next to the desk, sorting the documents on it, dividing them strictly and subdivided, selecting the most valuable parts, and carefully putting them aside.

The purpose of this is to prevent the Hokage from having to deal with trivial matters all day long, which not only reduces the Hokage's work pressure, but also speeds up the development of the village and improves work efficiency as much as possible.

What Konoha needs today is to run the important departments as fast as possible and put the unimportant departments on hold for the time being, waiting for follow-up processing.

"Good afternoon, Vice President Asami, are you here to submit a proposal?"

At this time, Shikaku raised his head and glanced at the portfolio in Asami Masumi's hand.

"Yes, this is about this year's plans for the medical department and the hospital... However, it seems that Hokage-sama is not in the office. Did he go on a work inspection again? He is really busy."

Asami Masumi said intentionally or unintentionally.

Perhaps the medical department can quickly become a huge help to Tsunade according to Tsunade's development blueprint, but today's Konoha requires not only the medical department to be integrated, but also the ANBU, the unit directly under the Hokage, must undergo huge changes.

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Even in order to increase their authority, ANBU's power needs to expand.

This needs to test Tsunade's understanding of Konoha.

As a Jounin of Konoha who stayed outside for a long time before becoming Hokage, if he did not make random changes based on the political environment blocked by Konoha, then an occasional experiment... may also cost Tsunade an extremely heavy life.

cost.

As a hard-working Hokage who strives to make Konoha stronger, it is impossible not to understand these principles.

Although they talk about expanding the authority of Anbu, how will Anbu expand, how long will it take to expand the level of her satisfaction, what interests will be involved, whether the advisor will block it, what is the attitude of the ninja clan towards this, and whether the ninja clan will

To continue to create people... these are all issues that a Hokage needs to consider carefully, and they cannot be solved overnight.

If you are not careful, Tsunade's job as Hokage, who has just started to improve, will become extremely difficult.

Not to mention, the roots that were lurking in the dark have not withdrawn from the stage of Konoha. They only show weakness on the surface, but their power in the dark has not actually diminished.

Sometimes, Asami Masumi couldn't help but lament the difficult position of Konoha Hokage.

With such complex and huge interests involved, trying to balance them is no less difficult than going to the front line to direct a large-scale war.

"No, it's not a work inspection, Hokage-sama is instructing his students."

Shikaku shook his head and answered.

"Student? Speaking of which, I have indeed heard of this... I remember that student's name is Haruno Sakura."

Asami Masumi remembered something and said.

"Yes, I didn't expect that Hokage-sama would still be interested in recruiting disciples at such an old age... But overall, it can be considered a good thing. Haruno Sakura is very talented in medical ninja, and she took the lead

The proposed medical talisman is still a hot research object in the medical department. The Hokage also attaches great importance to it."

Lu Jiu touched his chin. He was also surprised when he learned about this at first.

But after thinking about it carefully, Shikaku felt that the master-disciple relationship between Tsunade and Haruno Sakura was essentially nothing to be surprised about.

Before Tsunade returned to the village, Haruno Sakura's evaluation in the medical department was already very high, and she was favored by many medical ninjas. They also affirmed her professional abilities and believed that she had basically reached the level of the new generation of medical ninjas.

the apex of.

Thanks to such comments and her joy after seeing it with her own eyes, Tsunade's sudden decision to accept a disciple became excusable.

Even from a more utilitarian interest perspective, such a decision is defensible.

Because in this way, making announcements in the name of their master and apprentice will not only promote communication between Tsunade and the new generation of ninjas, but also bring the relationship closer between the two, and also get a student with excellent talents...

…It can be said that it has the effect of killing multiple birds with one stone.

Although from Shikaku's point of view, Tsunade's move was more likely due to her own emotions rather than purely from a profit and political perspective.

But from an outsider's perspective, there must be political factors.

The position of Hokage itself means that recruiting disciples must have some kind of political purpose. Even if it is not the case, it will be stereotyped by outsiders as such.

"So, there will soon be another outstanding medical ninja in the village."

Asami Masumi sighed with emotion.

Shikaku didn't comment on this. He took the file bag from Asami Masumi and took out the documents inside.

I glanced at the expense report at the top and couldn't help but twitch the corner of my mouth.

"Vice President Asami, is the amount of funding requested by your medical department this year a little too high?"

As he spoke, Shikaku struggled to move his eyes away from the amount of funds on the paper, and smiled helplessly at Asami Masumi.

Is it true that money is no longer money?

Although the Daming Prefecture's capital investment in Konoha is indeed increasing year by year, it cannot be consumed by the medical department so uncontrollably.

"Mr. Shikaku, I just made a reasonable request for funding based on Hokage-sama's new proposal for Konoha's medical industry years ago and the management meeting. To put it bluntly, this amount of funding is far from enough.

To meet Konoha's supply in the medical field this year, this is already a budget report produced after extreme internal cuts."

Asami Masumi said to Shikaku sternly.

Lu Jiu sighed and did not answer immediately. Instead, he put his eyes back on the paper in his hand, flipping through the pages and scanning the contents.

After reading the entire document, he raised his head and considered his words:

"Children and adult mental health clinics... I remember that this was a medical project that the Kingdom of Ghosts once established in its own country. Such a project appeared on the funding report of the plan. Are you planning to put it into construction this year?"

The content of the document is very simple. Compared with the funds requested in previous years, the medical department this year has more funding costs to build children and adult mental health institutions. As a result, this year's medical department and even Konoha Hospital have become a money-grubber.

Behemoth.

As far as Shikaku knows, among the countries in the ninja world, only Demon Country has actually practiced so-called mental medical institutions in its own country.

Konoha has never paid attention to such a thing in the past. It was built from scratch, so the initial investment alone made Shikaku feel numb.

However, Shikaku also knows that the impact of such a mental medical institution once it is built cannot be simply measured in terms of money. It will be of great significance to Konoha now and even in the future.

Although the atmosphere among ninjas often says that "ninjas are tools", in many cases, ninjas are willing to use themselves as tools.

However, such behavior itself is contrary to human nature itself. Although this kind of policy improves the efficiency of executing tasks, it also subjectively releases the ninja's rationality to the maximum, putting the task first, and all factors other than the task are ignored.

strangle.

But ninjas are human beings, and there is human nature. Things that are contrary to human nature can be violated for a while, but they cannot be violated for a lifetime. Especially the work content of ninjas, who are often exposed to the bloody and cruel side of the world, can easily catalyze the inner emotions of ninjas, and also

It's the extreme dark side.

In other words, ninjas also have human nature. Once their negative emotions are suppressed to the limit by rational thinking, and then experience something one day and cause them to burst out, it will directly cause the ninja's spirit to suffer a huge setback, resulting in frustration, or

Going to extreme violence will not only cause the loss of talent, but will even endanger the safety of the village and the villagers.

Especially during wars, such examples are not uncommon.

Many ninjas have been impacted by a very cruel and bloody world view. Coupled with years of suppressed emotional mechanisms, and using the war as a point to explode the darkness they suppressed in their hearts, resulting in extremely unstable mental conditions. In order to avoid this part

The risks that ninjas face will eventually lead to them being imprisoned in Konoha's torture chamber and subjected to violent suppression.

But doing so is only treating the symptoms rather than the root cause. As long as a reasonable solution is not found, such mental problems will still trouble the ninja's heart.

This kind of problem is not only reflected in adults. Young ninjas who have not yet formed a mature world view are actually more likely to be affected by the bloody battlefield.

Many ninjas with mental problems who are imprisoned in Konoha's torture chamber have mental problems that have accumulated since childhood, rather than appearing suddenly in their youth and adulthood.
To be continued...