Yuya had two trump cards. One was control over Konoha's economy, which went without saying. Most people in Konoha didn't even understand what the economy was.
The other was personnel appointments.
There was a saying in banking: personnel decisions meant everything.
The area you were assigned to more or less determined your future.
In truth, that saying applied to many places.
In his previous life, Yuya had worked in sales at a manufacturing plant. He'd seen far too many salespeople assigned to out-of-the-way regions, sent out to promote their products, and left with miserable results.
Those assignments were made by the boss, but they were also a form of personnel management.
Still, Yuya had never planned to use his authority over personnel.
It wasn't that transferring the clan shinobi would sour relations or anything.
Yuya wasn't afraid of falling out with them.
What he cared about was Senju Tobirama's standing.
Just because Senju Tobirama had handed over all of Konoha's affairs to him didn't mean he could do whatever he wanted—transferring this shinobi there today, moving that one to his side tomorrow...
Personnel appointments were crucial. These people had been put in their current positions by Senju Tobirama, so Yuya couldn't simply move them.
It was like working at a company where your manager was a sycophant and a fool. If you went to the boss to complain that the manager was incompetent and made the employees do all the work, the boss wouldn't think highly of you. That fool was in that position because the boss had put him there. Saying he wasn't suited for the job was saying the boss had made a bad decision.
It might be true, but you couldn't say it.
The boss was the one paying your salary. If you made things difficult for