Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 335 Youya: Bullshit...

So it's already this time...?

Yuya suddenly realized that, if he remembered correctly, Hyuga Neji was a year older than Hyuga Hinata. However, because Hinata was from the main family and Neji was from the branch family, Neji's status was much lower than Hinata's, even though Neji was more talented than Hinata.

But now...

Using this as an excuse, Yuya personally delivered a golden lock to Hyuga's father, Hyuga Hizashi.

Over the years, basically every time a member of an important ninja clan has a child, Yuya will give them some vulgar gold as a gift.

Of course, the other party certainly wouldn't think it's tacky; they might even think Youya is very generous. It would be best if they could give more.

When Yuya arrived at the place where Hyuga Hizashi was hosting a banquet for Neji, Hyuga Hizashi and Hyuga Hiashi were very surprised.

The two hurried to the front door to greet Youya.

Yua didn't pay much attention to the two's greeting. He just glanced at the location of Hyuga Hizashi's banquet and the few tables of guests inside. Yua frowned: "Is there only this many people?"

Hizai was a little embarrassed, but he quickly said, "The other families all sent congratulatory notes and gifts, but they didn't come in person. Now that you, Hokage-sama, have come in person, I feel more honored than all of them combined."

Yuya looked at Riza speechlessly: "You little brat, are you really that glib?"

Hiji remained silent.

He's not a child anymore.

He's past the age where he can be willful.

Hiashi, standing to the side, could only remain silent, speechless.

The problems facing the Hyuga clan are actually the same as those faced by Fugaku Uchiha.

That is the conflict between the conservative faction within their own family and the reformist faction led by the patriarch.

It's not that Youya doesn't want to get involved, but once this kind of thing starts, it will definitely be met with rejection, and may even provoke resistance from other families.

This is not impossible.

As for why...

Self-interest is the most important reason.

Fugaku Uchiha had previously consolidated some of his power after the death of the oldest clan elder.

However, he still failed to completely control the Uchiha clan.

Putting aside other things, even though Fugaku Uchiha has the right to receive the annual profits from the Uchiha clan's water and power plants, problems will still arise if the distribution is unfair.

And that's where the problem lies.

Yuya initially distributed profits among these ninja clans to secure their support in his bid to become Hokage.

That makes sense. If you don't give others benefits, they'll only support you if they've gone crazy.

For so many years, the Uchiha clan has received more than 3 billion ryo in dividends every year.

This is not a small amount of money.

So naturally, many people are eyeing this money.

Those Uchiha clan members who didn't get a share of the money have all left the clan's territory.

In other words, almost all of Fugaku Uchiha's subordinates were able to receive a share of the profits.

So here's the question.

Fugaku Uchiha wanted to integrate into the village, but he still received this money every year. What did the other clan members think of this?

It means that you, Fugaku Uchiha, want to keep all this money for yourself.

Although Fugaku Uchiha's idea was to divide this money equally among the Uchiha clan members every year, those clan members who left the clan's territory were still members of the Uchiha clan.

But the people in the family's territory definitely won't stand for it.

If they do this, each branch and each family could have received several million taels or even more every year, but now they can only receive a few hundred thousand taels. Who would be willing to do that?

Fugaku Uchiha was speechless.

Conflicts of interest are the simplest and most direct.

Meanwhile, the two brothers, Hiashi and Hizashi, who originally aspired to change the Hyuga clan's main family and branch family system, are now stuck here.

Or rather, as the head of a branch family, Hyuga Hizashi was in a slightly better situation than Hyuga Hiashi.

The Hyuga clan's Konoha Village has a super amusement park, theme park, and school facilities built with their own money and land, generating billions of yen in revenue every year.

When the family divided the money, they only got a small share of meat soup; the main family definitely took the lion's share.

Therefore, Hyuga Hizashi's desire for reform actually faces little resistance.

Because these profits are only a tiny fraction of the benefits of integrating into the inner city.

After all, once you go to the inner city, there will be all sorts of things like courier stations, hospitals, and schools there.

Although the Hyuga clan has its own school, all the teachers there are members of the Hyuga clan, and they don't teach math, physics, chemistry, or anything like that—because they don't know them either.

Therefore, those who went to the inner city of Konoha actually had a better future.

However, the main family wouldn't allow it.

Some members of the main branch felt that those who had branched out were servants of the main branch and should not be allowed to leave.

However, this idea is fading more and more over time.

This was because, on the one hand, Hiashi Hyuga did not allow such ideas, and on the other hand, it was due to the legal system of Yua's reforms.

Yua certainly wouldn't just decide to abolish the Caged Bird Seal system between the Hyuga main family and branch families on a whim. This could very well be the trigger that provokes resentment from everyone in the main family. If it's just resentment, that's fine, but Yua is afraid that these idiots might actually dare to rebel.

It's not that Yuya is afraid of their military suppression—he's not afraid of that at all. He just doesn't want the Hyuga clan to slack off, because then he'll lose a lot of ninjas who are actually doing the work.

In short, the Hyuga clan has more problems and is more troublesome than the Uchiha clan, so it's no wonder that Hiashi Hyuga has a look of utter disbelief on his face.

After entering the house, Yuya ate some wedding wine and then glanced at Neji, who was a month old.

After that, Youya prepared to leave.

However, he was warmly invited by Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Hizashi to go to a room alone for a drink.

Yuya wasn't afraid of these two plotting against him. As I said before, Yuya wasn't involved in the internal affairs of the ninja clan, so no ninja would be willing to harm him.

After all, so many people are counting on getting a share of the profits from him at the end of each year.

They chatted idly while drinking.

We talked about things inside the village, and then about things outside the village, like how that idiot Third Raikage messed up the businessmen in his own village.

As the atmosphere grew more lively, Hiashi Hyuga tentatively asked Yua, "Hokage-sama... what do you think of our Hyuga clan's Caged Bird Technique?"

Yuya paused slightly in the hand holding the wine glass, then looked at Hyuga Hiashi with a meaningful gaze.

Then, Yua looked at Hyuga Hizashi in a teasing tone: "I thought... you would be the one asking me this question."

Hyuga Hizashi remained silent.

Hiashi Hyuga quickly smoothed things over, saying, "Actually, I personally feel that this system is outdated. I just wanted to ask for your opinion, Hokage-sama."

You Ya smiled, not bothering to keep them in suspense, and said directly with a disdainful look, "My opinion?"

This damn system is utter garbage.

They say it's for protecting your white eyes, but are white eyes that important on the battlefield right now? The research institute has already successfully developed its first-generation drone, which can directly detect enemy activity ten kilometers away and even transmit images back directly. Isn't that much more useful than your white eyes?

Protecting those who roll their eyes is all bullshit.

The reason this ridiculous system is still in place is because some people in your main family want to use it to control the branch families, isn't it?

(End of this chapter)