The Spring Wind of Reform Blows into the Village

"Brother Fucheng, how should we handle this person who looks exactly like me?" Mikoto asked, looking at the hooded girl beside them with some unease.

She leaned a little closer to Uchiha Fucheng, looking slightly nervous.

Uchiha Fucheng smiled and said, "Don't worry, this is a clone assimilated by you; she obeys you completely.

Now that she has been fully assimilated according to your appearance and abilities, she possesses some of your memories and skills. Her overall combat level, however, should be quite a bit lower than yours.

Although she has independent thought, she will completely follow your will. You can treat them as Shadow Clones that don't require active control."

Mikoto was usually carefree and as straightforward as a boy, but seeing the Misaka Sisters, who looked exactly like her, still felt strange.

Fortunately, Clone 0001 of the Misaka Network could also use the Three Basic Ninja Techniques. As long as she used the Transformation Technique to look different from Mikoto in daily life, it wouldn't be so awkward.

On the way back to the clan grounds.

Two people shopping on the street caught Uchiha Fucheng's attention.

The male ninja by the roadside, with diamond-shaped face paint, was supporting a heavily pregnant woman, picking out fruit with a smile on his face.

"The Nohara Clan?" Two names suddenly surfaced in Uchiha Fucheng's mind.

Nohara Hiroshi, Nohara Misae.

The first time he heard these names, it had given Uchiha Fucheng quite a start.

But later, he realized it was just a coincidence of names, and he felt relieved.

Nohara Hiroshi, an active ninja of Konoha, was an elite Chunin in terms of strength.

The Nohara Clan could be considered an outer branch of the Senju Clan and had produced many well-known ninjas, though there weren't many experts within the clan.

The reason Fucheng paid attention to this Nohara Hiroshi was also because this Chunin Hiroshi used a double-headed long-handled spear that could ignite at both ends.

Although Nohara Hiroshi was only a Chunin, he was considered an exceptionally skilled taijutsu user among his peers.

Fucheng had even sent people to specifically investigate the Nohara family.

He was very certain that the child being carried by Nohara Misae was likely the "white moonlight" in the lives of Kakashi and Obito, the protagonist whose Kamui could not hide his tears, and the student of the Fourth Hokage Minato: Nohara Rin.

Perhaps because he saw Nohara Rin's parents, Uchiha Fucheng couldn't help but think of some characters he had almost forgotten.

Kakashi, Nohara Rin, and Obito were all born in the same year!

Since Obito was older than both Nohara Rin and Kakashi, didn't that mean he had already been born?

Fucheng checked, and it was indeed so.

There were quite a few members of the Uchiha Clan born this year.

This month, Uchiha Tekka had just been born. Uchiha Tekka, who had a mole between his eyebrows, was considered a prominent Uchiha elite Jonin in the original story.

Although he later died in the Uchiha Massacre, he was a core pillar of the clan who would make a name for himself in the future.

Adding in Uchiha Obito, Uchiha Hayate, and others born in the first half of the year, the number of new additions to the Uchiha Clan this year was far higher than in previous years, even during wartime.

Uchiha Obito's parents were actually still alive.

Considering the upcoming Ninja War in the Land of Rain and the arrangement of dangerous missions within the clan, Uchiha Fucheng highly suspected:

These parents of Obito would likely die in the special incident involving the suppression of the Chinoike Clan.

Uchiha Fucheng couldn't even be bothered to complain about this dangerous mission involving the Ketsuryūgan clan.

It was purely a brain-dead decision made by the Uchiha higher-ups.

What did the trashy palace intrigue and hatred of the Land of Lightning have to do with their Uchiha?

They actually came up with the idea of hiring the Uchiha, who also possessed scarlet eyes, to suppress the Chinoike bloodline clan.

And the Uchiha clan leaders and elders at the time actually agreed to it happily.

In Fucheng's view, "The risk and reward of this mission are clearly not proportional!"

The Uchiha Clan might have truly sacrificed their entire collective intelligence for the sake of Kekkei Genkai.

The elders actually let the Uchiha family lose quite a few young ninjas just to earn this measly, troublesome mission reward.

Looking at the clan's secret files, the Chinoike Clan would riot almost every few years after accumulating strength.

Yet, the previous Uchiha leaders actually gave up on rooting out the Ketsuryūgan clan simply because the mission rewards were generous and the requirement was only to suppress, not to exterminate.

Fucheng wanted to curse.

For Fucheng, who had climbed up from the grassroots as a coal boss, this kind of thinking from the Uchiha elders was truly a "brain-dead" existence that his logic couldn't comprehend.

It was just speechless!

Any Chinese child who had gone through nine years of compulsory education wouldn't make such a brain-dead decision.

In Uchiha Fucheng's logic, either you completely break the spine of the Chinoike Clan, tame them, and keep them as dogs, or you concentrate on a single mission and threaten the nobles who hired the Uchiha to make them pay a heavy price.

He threatened and bribed them on the spot, threatening to unleash the Chinoike Clan to wipe out these nobles if they didn't pay up, only to find a way to root them out completely once the money was collected.

As it turned out, the decision-makers of the Uchiha Clan had made the worst possible choice.

Every few years, they would collect some mercenary fees and carry out a superficial suppression.

After forging such deep-seated hatred, they kept the Ketsuryūgan ninjas around like a dungeon to be farmed; they really didn't take ninjas seriously enough.

Were they fostering enemies to justify their own importance?

Even then, that wasn't how they played the game.

The Uchiha who died because of the Ketsuryūgan, while not high-ranking or powerful within the clan, were still promising youths with families to support.

If Obito's parents hadn't died early, perhaps this bastard who turned love into hatred and triggered the Uchiha massacre wouldn't have been created.

"Sigh, it really doesn't bear thinking about," Uchiha Fucheng lamented. "The logic of the Uchiha Clan seems to have a bug."

Although they weren't like the Kaguya Kimimaro clan, where the entire group was brainless thugs, they weren't much better.

No wonder someone as indecisive as Fugaku could be considered a manager with outstanding political intelligence within the clan.

Now that Uchiha Fucheng had become the clan head, he naturally couldn't just give up and let things fall apart.

He was still counting on the Uchiha Clan to grow and thrive to reach new heights; his own Recognition Points depended on this whole family of Uchihas.

Fucheng felt as if he had returned to the days of his wild, unbridled growth in the mining area.

He utilized almost all the effective methods from when he first built his fortune.

The first phase was to cultivate the clan's own power, support the training of ninjas with Kekkei Genkai, and increase the number of vassal families derived from the clan.

Then, he expanded the scale of the industries managed by the clan and further increased investment in certain areas, such as propaganda.

The first thing implemented internally was the establishment of the [Uchiha Escape Pavilion].

The [Escape Pavilion] could be described as the Uchiha Clan's library for escape techniques.

Fucheng consolidated the three Uchiha jonin in the clan most skilled at copying ninjutsu and organized all the common wind, fire, lightning, and water ninjutsu skills from across the ninja world that they were familiar with.

On this foundation, Fucheng also opened the clan's secret vault, granting the Three-Tomoe jonin access to Sharingan genjutsu, Sharingan secret techniques, and knowledge regarding Sharingan cultivation.

These resources, along with the establishment of the Escape Pavilion, naturally came with conditions.

That was the core of the Uchiha Clan's reform: [Uchiha Contribution Points].

"The system evaluates my Recognition Points, so I will evaluate the Uchiha Clan with [Contribution Points]. By delegating this KPI performance assessment, things will naturally become much easier."

In addition to standard mission rewards and clan bonuses, [Uchiha Contribution Points] could be earned by completing specific village missions, war missions, and Police Force duties.

Furthermore, civilian Uchiha members who were not ninjas could also earn contribution points through their contributions to economic activities and clan affairs.

And the biggest prize of all was the super bonus for encouraging childbirth.

This news absolutely delighted the members of the Uchiha Clan!