Naruto: Uchiha Youngjo's Konoha Spring

Chapter 115: Handle with care, dismantle the caged bird
With almost all the security team members mobilized, none of the rioters escaped, and the security department's prison was soon filled to the brim.

On the other hand, Kakashi also successfully helped Hyuga Hiashi suppress the internal rebellion.

After dealing with clan matters, although it was already late at night, Hinata Hiashi still came to the Hokage Building.

Before entering the Hokage's office, Hyuga Hiashi was still very nervous. Although he sent several children to Uchiha as soon as he realized that something was wrong with the elders of the clan, and reported the news to the elders of the Hyuga clan, but in the final analysis, it was Uchiha Tokou's Hokage line who cleaned up the mess for him, so it was impossible for Hyuga to not pay some price in this matter.

When Hinata Hiashi walked into the Hokage's office, Uchiha Douguang was leisurely maintaining his ninja sword.

Hearing the noise of Hinata Hiashi coming in, Uchiha Douguang didn't even raise his head, but just concentrated on oiling the Thunder at his desk.

Seeing this situation, Hinata Hiashi's heart tightened, but for now he could only lower his head and wait for Uchiha Douguang to speak first.

After Uchiha Douguang finished maintaining the ninja sword, he put it back into the scabbard, then stood up and put it back on the sword rack in the office, then returned to his seat and looked at Hinata Hiashi.

"It's so late, what does the Hyuga clan leader want in my office, the Hokage?"

"Lord Fifth Hokage, I failed to manage my subordinates, which led to several traitors in the family. That's why I came here to apologize." Hinata Hiashi said after bowing.

"Really? Then how did the Hyuga clan leader deal with those traitors?" asked Uchiha Douguang.

"I have sealed the chakras of the leading individuals and handed them over to the security team, awaiting Lord Hokage's decision." Hinata Hiashi said.

Uchiha Douguang looked at Hyuga Hiashi deeply, and after a long time, a smile appeared on his face. Although Hyuga Hiashi and Uchiha Fugaku could be said to be strong men of the same generation in the village, but when it came to being the patriarch of a clan, Hyuga Hiashi was much stronger than Uchiha Fugaku. At least, at this time, he could make a decision in time.

To be honest, if Uchiha Fugaku could make a decision earlier like him, whether it was to directly recruit soldiers and stockpile supplies to fight the village, or to directly deal with those radicals and surrender to Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Uchiha clan would not be in the current predicament.

"So, this time Hinata and Hui are involved just for their own ambitions, right?" Uchiha Douguang said to Hinata Hiashi.

"But they are the elders of the Hyuga clan after all..."

"Hokage-sama, you don't have to worry about this matter. If necessary, Hinata will abolish their Byakugan and remove their names from the family tree." Hinata Hiashi said without any hesitation.

Uchiha Douguang glanced at Hinata Hiashi. This old guy probably wanted to do this for a long time.

Judging from the information that Uchiha Tokou could obtain, after the death of Hyuga Hizashi, the head of the Hyuga branch family became someone from Hyuga Kazuki's line. It is not difficult to see that these Hyuga elders are also not clean in the matter of Hyuga Hizashi's death.

"Haha, the Hyuga clan leader is so considerate of the village. The Hyuga clan is indeed the backbone of the village." Uchiha Douguang said with a smile, "However, in this matter, the Hyuga clan leader should still take this as a warning. After all, in the village, if anyone can fully control a private army that only obeys their orders, it will add a lot of trouble to the management of the village, don't you think?"

"Yes." Hinata Hiashi nodded.

After hearing what Uchiha Tokou said, Hinata Hiashi felt a sinking feeling in his heart. It seemed that the Fifth Hokage was planning to take action against the family's caged bird system?
Yes, any ruler with a normal mind would not tolerate the existence of an armed force within his power whose life and death are completely in the hands of others and can be completely controlled by that person.

Previously, the Hyuga clan had never entered the upper echelons of the village due to the existence of the caged bird system. They just guarded their own piece of land, so even if the Hokage people wanted to intervene, they could not find a reason.

But this time, those idiots Hinata and Teru were completely blinded by the temptation of the Hokage position thrown by Utatane and Mitomon, and put all the reasons in the hands of the Hokage.

Hinata Hiashi also has very complicated feelings about the family's caged bird system. For Hinata Hiashi personally, this system can be said to be one of the reasons that led his fellow brother to his death.

But as the head of the Hyuga clan and the biggest beneficiary of this system, if he really had to abolish it, firstly, he didn't have the ability to do so, and secondly, he was really reluctant to do so. After all, as long as he had this thing, his position as the head of the clan would be completely unshakable unless several main family forces united to force him to abdicate like this time.

Even in the future, as long as he doesn't make any big mistakes, the position of head of the family will continue to be passed down among his descendants, just as he took over the position of head of the family from his father.

But now, Uchiha Douguang's intention is obviously to take action against the family's caged bird system.

"Elder Hyuga, according to tradition, each generation of Hokage will personally accept a team of three as disciples. Before I took office as Hokage, I had already accepted the second son of Elder Fugaku as a disciple, so I plan to choose the other two from his peers." Uchiha Toukou said, "I think Neji is a talented kid, so I plan to choose a day to accept him as my disciple. What does the Hyuga clan leader think?" Hyuga Hiashi's pupils shrank, and he almost instantly understood the deep meaning of Uchiha Toukou. Uchiha Toukou's move was much more cruel than directly ordering the Hyuga clan to abolish the caged bird system.

Although the Hyuga clan now has something in the hands of the other party, the Hokage's forced interference in the internal affairs of the village ninja clan will itself leave room for gossip.

But now, Uchiha Tokou suddenly proposed to take Neji as his apprentice, which made it impossible for anyone to find fault with it.

After all, the tradition of the Hokage accepting talented young people in the village as disciples has been going on since the Shodaime and the Nidaime accepted six disciples including the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen.

The Third Hokage also continued this tradition and accepted the former Three Ninjas as his disciples. Although the Fourth Hokage died early, he also accepted a team of three people as his personal disciples before taking office. Now that Uchiha Douguang mentioned and took the initiative to continue this tradition, there seems to be nothing wrong with it.

But the problem is that there is another unspoken rule under this tradition, that is, the disciples accepted by the Hokage are eligible to inherit part of the teacher's political assets. In other words, if you become a disciple of the Hokage, you will be qualified to become the Hokage in the future.

This is also the reason why, when Sarutobi Hiruzen wanted to force Jiraiya to take the throne some time ago, he did not encounter much obstacles in the process.

Logically speaking, it would be a good thing for Hyuga if Uchiha Tokugawa accepted a child from the Hyuga family as his disciple, but the problem was that the person chosen by Uchiha Tokugawa was a member of a branch family.

Once you become the Hokage's disciple, you have the possibility of becoming the Hokage. Don't worry about whether he can become the Hokage or not. This position itself has certain political significance.

Once Neji becomes Uchiha Tokou's disciple, the caged bird above his head will no longer exist.

Otherwise, what does your position as the head of the Hyuga clan mean to outsiders? Holding the future Hokage's life in your hands, are you trying to become the village's emperor? By then, the Hyuga clan would likely be in an even more troublesome situation than the Uchiha clan before.

However, even if Neji was released from the caged position and was promoted to the head of the family as an exception, it would still be difficult for the Hyuga clan to accept.

After all, the Hyuga clan had never had a precedent of releasing the caged birds from the branch families. Even in the Warring States Period, when the main family was short of manpower, they would only select talented children from the descendants of the branch families who had not yet been caged to join the main family.

Once a caged bird, always a caged bird, which is why this system has survived to this day.

Now that this precedent has been set, will the other branch families still be so obedient and follow the orders of the main family?

More importantly, once Ningji becomes the head of the clan, he can easily win over a large number of branch clan members by using the removal of the caged bird as a condition. It will probably not be long before the caged bird will be in name only.

It can be said that Uchiha Douguang quietly placed two poisonous cakes in front of the Hyuga clan.

Hinata Hiashi was already sweating coldly. While hesitating, he was also glad that he had sent the children to Uchiha as soon as possible to clear himself of the relationship. Otherwise, with Uchiha Douguang's means, it would not take much effort to kill the Hyuga clan.

As for directly rejecting Uchiha Tokou's proposal to accept him as a disciple, if this incident had not happened, Hyuga Hiashi would still have this option, but now, the Hyuga clan was involved in a coup, and it was already a mercy for the Hokage to let him go lightly. If they still wanted to reject the Hokage's kindness in accepting him as a disciple, that would be like an old man eating arsenic - seeking death.

【Never mind, just consider it as compensation for the daily difference.】

Hinata Hiashi sighed deeply and nodded, "In that case, I will thank the Hokage for his kindness on behalf of that child Neji."

"Don't say that, Clan Leader Hiashi." Uchiha Douguang chuckled, "Guiding the talented children in the village and letting them walk on the path of the Will of Fire is also the responsibility of the Hokage, isn't it?"

"Hokage-sama is right," said Hinata Hiashi.

"I have always believed that Patriarch Hiashi is a wise man. However, I still want to remind Elder Hyuga that I don't want my disciples to have any messy things when they become his disciples." Uchiha Douguang stared at Hyuga Hiashi, "Do you understand?"

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(End of this chapter)