I have a bunch of relatives who want to be Hokage

The Ninja World War will eventually develop into a national act, and big countries will also compete for the important resource of allies. The five major countries not only fight on the land of small countries, but also need to draw on other countries' human, material and financial resources through these satellite countries.

Uchiha Fugaku's entire plan will be quite difficult to operate, and many things require the full cooperation of Konoha and the Daming Palace, but it is indeed feasible.

That's enough. To enter the Hokage Building, pragmatism and retreat are indispensable.

Stroking his beard, Sarutobi Hiruzen chuckled and took a leisurely puff of cigarette.

It's really interesting to have the Hokage assist in the election this term.

I hope the Sarutobi clan can also perform well.

On the stage, Uchiha Fugaku's speech continued, and the audience repeatedly asked questions, all of which were answered patiently by the candidate.

This was a very successful speech. The two previous speakers spoke from beginning to end by themselves.

This has been true throughout the ages.

This is the first time Uchiha Fugaku has experienced this.

Later, several candidates couldn't hold it in any longer and started asking questions.

Nara Shikaku asked the most questions. He no longer regarded this as a speech, and subconsciously assumed the role of an adviser.

His questions were more practical.

Uchiha Fugaku was very happy, he felt very strong recognition from Nara Shikaku's attitude.

Nara Shikaku was not nitpicking, he was discussing the feasibility of this plan with Uchiha Fugaku in a very serious manner.

"Clan Chief Fugaku, how do you plan to set the standard for welfare payment?"

"It is limited to production activities that directly promote the development of the village and people's use of public transportation. For example, transportation fares are subsidized, and production activities are mostly interest-free and low-interest loans."

"Businessmen want to make money. If they don't make money, how can we convince them to lend money to villagers?"

"Well, this involves something more complicated. Lu Jiu, you can understand that this is not a direct behavior of the investors, but an integral part of the long-term products they purchased. The funds are locked and the expiration date is not yet known. It will not be allowed to be taken back.”

"Then how can we ensure that the person operating it has no selfish motives?"

"First of all, this benefit is only enjoyed by qualified villagers, and the scale is limited. Secondly, the village and the operator are jointly managed, and the village only supervises. If someone is doing something wrong inside... Well, Shikaku, we are not businessmen, we are ninjas, there are Your own way."

"Okay...I won't ask what kind of method it is. What conditions must be met?"

"Of course, first of all, it must be a person with the qualifications of a Konoha villager, and then it must be a producer. The behavior must be directly engaged in agriculture and handicrafts. The extent of the subsidy varies depending on the specific product."

"Only production activities, not commercial activities?" Nara Shikaku put forward this point. This is the most criticized aspect of this plan.

This excludes all interest groups in the village.

Although the reputation is good, the ninja will not do things that only have a reputation.

How did Uchiha convince Hinata and Inuzuka? And how did this plan pass Uchiha's own level?

"Business is stable and profitable. The village does not have any taxes to begin with, so how can we subsidize it?" Uchiha Fugaku asked, and then continued, "Agriculture will be affected by many external factors, resulting in poor harvests and no harvests. The handicraft industry Grassroots practitioners are also very important. This group of villagers have limited earning capacity and it is difficult for them to become wealthy normally. The village must help them."

At this point, he forgot the words, so he took out his notebook and turned to the corresponding place.

"Furthermore, the prosperity of this group of villagers is based on support for business. The village's support for business activities is not to provide subsidies, but to help qualified commercial organizations and self-employed individuals obtain working capital of different periods. Of course, certain fees need to be charged. , the use of funds must also be supervised to ensure compliance.”

After putting away the small notebook, Uchiha Fugaku concluded loudly.

"There is no circle without rules. The village must not only protect everyone, but also pay attention to everyone's income and reasonably adjust the income level in order to achieve common prosperity."

"...Clan Chief Fugaku, you are very well prepared."

"Ashamed, most of them were actually suggested by Shingen."

"How humble, Chief Fugaku." Shikaku Nara smiled, "I've finished all the questions I wanted to ask."

"You are serious." Uchiha Fugaku smiled slightly and looked around, "Do you have any other questions?"

"Yes." Sarutobi Saizo spoke.

He had been silent until now and had been listening.

It's not that he doesn't want to throw out dirty materials, but in Uchiha Fugaku's speech just now, he found that all the dirty materials have expired.

Not to mention that many of them are just embarrassing, there is no such thing.

After all, the Uchiha clan is very hypocritical even when it comes to loan sharking, and they only grant credit to those people or organizations that they think are relatively wealthy and powerful.

I have never done anything to bully ordinary people, and it is even more impossible to bully the poor. If someone does this under the banner of Uchiha...

Uchiha may not be good at being confidants, but they are very good at sending people home for the New Year.

Now, Uchiha is even going to help ordinary villagers.

It is said to be a loan, but what kind of loan is this? That interest rate is just a formality and cannot cover the cost of fund collection at all. Lose money and make money!

After Uchiha Fugaku finished speaking, Sarutobi Saizo's manuscript was discarded.

He actually regretted that he shouldn't have let Uchiha Fugaku go first.

Chapter 19 The Disappointed Sarutobi Hiruzen

Uchiha Fugaku turned his head and looked at Sarutobi Saizo.

"Clan Chief Caizang, what is your question?"

"If you want to do what Chief Fugaku said, I'm afraid it will cause countless troubles for the village, right?" Sarutobi Saizo asked.

This is not entirely to attack Uchiha Fugaku, but he really has this question.

"To do what you said requires a lot of money. Only nobles or large ninja families can afford this money. Once the cost cannot be recovered, abolishing the policy is a trivial matter and the village will make enemies. countless."

"Of course we will have corresponding countermeasures to avoid this. Chief Caizang, I'm afraid you have misunderstood. The fundamental purpose of this plan is not to collect funds blindly, but to send idle and dispersed funds to those in need. Go up and make full use of it.”

Uchiha Fugaku looked at the leader of the Sarutobi clan, and an inexplicable sense of superiority was born.

This feeling is so refreshing. Wait a minute, is this how Shingen saw him back then?

Good boy! Just sell my calligraphy! It turns out you were secretly laughing at me!

Uchiha Fugaku thought angrily.

But he still had a kind face.

"We ninjas undertake a variety of tasks and collect intelligence. This is what we are good at. In the past, our relationship with the Fire Country was only a military employment relationship based on national interests, but ninjas are not just able to Playing a role in the war is just like our genin. In addition to fighting for the country, they also accept employment from villagers and people outside the village to solve their problems in life. This is the same."

Uchiha Fugaku explained for Sarutobi Saizo word for word, and at the same time further explained to everyone.

What he said was relatively easy to understand, and everyone gradually understood it.

This is an objectively real situation.

The world of Naruto has a basic financial system. For example, the five major countries all use banknotes, and the issuance rights are in the hands of the Daming Palace. Depending on whether the funds in the market are too loose, the Daming Palace will also use this system to make adjustments.

But among the private sector, the financial trading market in Naruto World is very immature. Private lending is the only way, and there is a serious lack of official supervision.

Those nobles and ninjas who control large amounts of money are the main lenders in the market.

The lending channels among the Ninja clan are relatively smooth, but if they are nobles, they first need to spend high costs to investigate the borrower. If the borrower is also a noble, this kind of investigation needs to be entrusted to ninjas.

This has led to the world of Naruto where the cost and risk of borrowing are extremely high. Ordinary people can hardly afford to borrow money, and nobles dare not invest casually for fear of losing money. In fact, a large amount of wealth has not been invested in society at all, and has been left idle. Woke up.

How to use this idle wealth is also the biggest headache for Daming Mansion.

After all, Daming Mansion cannot force these nobles to contribute their wealth.

The Daming Palace cannot force, but Konoha Hidden Village has the ability to guide and benefit from it.

Relying on the deterrent power of the Ninja Army as a military body and the professional crushing of ninjas in information collection and analysis, this is a perfect fit, and all parties can benefit.

Even if there is force majeure and a breach of contract occurs, the amount of compensation that Ninja Village needs to pay for individual transactions is completely incomparable to its total income. This is pure profit.

The more Uchiha Fugaku spoke, the expressions of the four senior executives of the Hokage Building became more serious.

The Uchiha clan, which has successfully transformed its business model and accumulated a solid reputation, will occupy an absolutely dominant position in this strategy and no one can replace it.

If the Hokage Building wants to implement this strategy, then Uchiha Fugaku must enter the Hokage Building.

He must become Hokage's assistant.

The Uchiha clan has put a multiple-choice question in front of them, with only two options.

Either we can do well together, or everyone can't do well and continue to roll.

The Hokage Building cannot refuse this. To maintain a military organization of the size of Konoha Hidden Village, financial strength is one of the most important factors.

The Fire Country has been invaded again and again. Although it has not been invaded into the mainland, it has also weakened the Fire Country's blood-sucking ability against neighboring countries, while Yunyin Village, which was the initiator of the two wars, is constantly strengthening.

The blood-sucking ability has weakened, and the gap between rich and poor in the Fire Country has also begun to increase. For this reason, the Daming Mansion has to spend a large amount of money every year to maintain social stability and production, and the acting officials in various places are extremely busy.

For example, a series of infrastructure projects will be carried out to provide jobs for the hungry people at the bottom and subsidize their lives. In order to prevent people who fall into extreme poverty from abandoning their babies, Daming Prefecture also has a child support pension system.

The Fire Nation's national power is still the strongest, but its ability to invest in ninja villages has been weakened.

This ebb and flow situation has also directly affected the financial resources of Konoha Hidden Village and Kumo Hidden Village, creating different development conditions and village management strategies.

In the original time and space, Cloud Hidden Village became the richest village in the ninja world in the next ten years. The village had strong cohesion and strong military power, while the military power of Konoha Hidden Village shrank to only half of its peak. Its strategy is also extremely conservative and has many internal problems.

The genocide of the Uchiha clan in the original time and space was one of the worst consequences that occurred in the context of Konoha's deteriorating financial resources, shrinking military power, and intensified involution of the various clans in the village.

In this time and space, this kind of thing will never happen, but if the Hokage Building still intends to keep Uchiha out of the circle, it can be expected that in the face of gradually tightening financial resources, at least the reduction of military strength is absolute.

The decline of Konoha Hidden Village is absolutely unacceptable to Namikaze Minato.

When he was born, Konoha was on the rise and everything was prosperous.

It is also unbearable for every ninja clan.

This is equivalent to saying that all previous sacrifices have been in vain.

People died in vain.

When Uchiha Fugaku put this bloody reality in front of everyone, the balance of people's hearts began to tilt.

Everyone has long forgotten that they came to watch a play.

Sarutobi Saizou couldn't even say a word.

Everything is a joke at this time.

If Sarutobi falls, Konoha Village may not be able to do anything, but if Konoha Village is in trouble, Sarutobi will definitely not be able to recover. What the heck is this all-or-nothing?

Uchiha Fugaku was not only posing multiple-choice questions for the Hokage Building, but also posing multiple-choice questions for the Sarutobi clan.

The solution is right in front of you, do you still want to do it?

He was numb, his mood was extremely tangled, and his previous determination had disappeared.

"Chief Saizo, do you have any questions?" Uchiha Fugaku asked again.

"I..." Sarutobi opened his mouth, but he was really speechless.

He looked around and everyone was looking at him.

Sarutobi Saizou felt it in everyone's eyes. It was a slightly impatient look, as if to say - are you stupid or bad?

What really made him despair was that there were people from the Sarutobi clan among them.

The Sarutobi clan also has a large number of ordinary people, who also belong to the category of "villagers".

"I have no doubts..." Sarutobi Saizo lowered his head, "However, I support Nara Shikaku's political strategy."

Nara Shikaku looked at Sazo Sarutobi, wanting to curse.

It’s none of his business! Even his manuscripts are improvised clichés, okay! ?

This damn old man will die if he surrenders! ?

"Saizou-sama." Namikaze Minato suddenly said, "You can prepare your speech."

"No, Hokage-sama, I give up." Sarutobi said dullly.

He knew Sarutobi Hiruzen was looking at him, and he felt the disappointed look in his eyes.

But there was nothing he could do.

The two sides are not in the same rank at all, and now they are not qualified to fight hard.

"Really, I understand..." Namikaze Minato turned to look at Sarutobi Hiruzen, "Sandaime, what do you think?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen took a puff of cigarette and retracted his gaze from Sarutobi Saizo.

Caizang is really not suitable for doing this kind of thing...