The Little Mine Owner's Management Philosophy

How to get the entire Uchiha clan—both ninja and non-ninja—to start grinding?

This was Fucheng's primary concern.

The Uchiha Contribution Points he established were universally applicable for exchanging ninjutsu, secret techniques, and resources.

The resource exchange category included high-end ninja tools, ryo, Uchiha real estate rentals, specialized medicine, and emergency medical treatment.

These were all areas covered by the [Uchiha Points] exchange system.

In particular, ninjas eager to improve their strength could use points to exchange for learning opportunities for ninjutsu at the Escape Pavilion, qualify for secret Sharingan techniques, or even trade for high-end training courses like Hatake Sakumo's swordsmanship or Uchiha Fucheng's Sharingan training.

Once this policy was announced, the Uchiha ninjas, who usually had nothing to do but slack off in the Police Force, had their eyes turn red with eagerness!

In recent days, they were either completing clan missions within the compound or frantically copying down the ninjutsu scrolls they had mastered, running to exchange them for points several times a day.

A group of Uchiha workers, suffering yet happy.

Even their Sharingan were spinning with the intensity of the grind.

This left several Uchiha elders astonished by the effectiveness of Uchiha Fucheng's reforms.

Take Obito's family, for example; this year, because they had given birth to a new Uchiha heir, they were awarded 1,500 points by the clan for "eugenics and quality upbringing."

Uchiha Obito's father, a jonin, was so happy he danced with joy, immediately using the points to exchange for his dream ninja tools.

"My Obito is truly worth a fortune!"

The Hundred-Refined Odachi he had been reluctant to buy for so long was now finally in his possession.

"Uncle Obito" looked at his son with a grin, "Is 'Obito' too plain a name? Maybe we should change it to 'Fortune' or 'Treasure'."

Obito's father was so delighted that he wanted to get intimate with his wife that very night. If Obito hadn't still been a baby, his father would have wanted to add another "Uchiha Wealth" to the family.

Fucheng did not just exert effort within the clan; he also adjusted the Uchiha clan's overall external policy in response to the general public opinion in Konoha.

Within the Police Force, he established a [Foreign Auxiliary Police System] to handle crimes committed by ordinary civilians.

Ever since the founding of Konoha, the Uchiha clan had managed the village's security, a job that could be described as "thankless labor"!

Moreover, many villagers shifted their complaints about trivial daily matters and their resentment from neighborhood disputes onto the Uchiha.

Uchiha Fucheng would not repeat this mistake.

Since Tobirama used open schemes to trap the Uchiha, he shouldn't blame Fucheng for using open schemes to dismantle his.

Under his reforms, the Police Force directly recruited ninjas from small Konoha clans, absorbing them as auxiliary members of the Police Force.

The auxiliary police received decent pay and were tasked with handling ordinary police cases caused by "non-ninjas in the village."

In the future, whenever there was neighborhood resentment or inexplicable disputes, a "temporary auxiliary officer" would be enough to shut many people up.

In addition to reforming the police personnel, Fucheng simultaneously established the [Konoha Civil Dispute Mediation Center].

Although it could not fully replicate the mediation functions of a community neighborhood committee or grid workers, acting as a judicial mediation office could still resolve many issues.

Fucheng sincerely hoped that minor frictions, simple accidents, neighborhood disputes, and civil cases caused by villagers could all be placed within the mediation center to resolve ordinary conflicts.

After the [Dispute Mediation Center] was established, Fucheng also set up a [Konoha Villager Open Day] for the Police Force, allowing for public tours.

This kind of government transparency through [Open Days] further avoided the "suspicion" and estrangement between the Uchiha clan and the Konoha villagers.

It could not be denied that some Uchiha clansmen, especially the elders, possessed the arrogance typical of bloodline clans.

Throughout this series of reforms, a few conservative voices claiming that "the laws of the ancestors cannot be broken" would always pop up.

However, given that Uchiha Fucheng was exceptionally powerful and his Mangekyo Sharingan exerted a strong suppressive force over the ordinary Uchiha clansmen, these dissenting voices did not stir up much trouble.

Of course, the reform of the Police Force also benefited from the cooperative efforts of his own brother, Uchiha Fugaku.

As the captain of the Police Force, Fugaku's full support made things much easier for Uchiha Fucheng.

After handling the Police Force, Fucheng also spearheaded the establishment of the [Clan Industry Management Center].

He directly transferred the Third Elder, who currently managed the Uchiha clan's commercial assets; Mikoto's mother, the "famous Konoha entrepreneur" Uchiha Meiling; and Uchiha Baijing, the father of Uchiha Hezi from the Second Elder's faction.

These three would coordinate the asset and commercial operations of the Uchiha clan.

Only with abundant clan industry revenue could the Uchiha clan rely less on ninja mission bounties.

And continue the clan in a more independent and self-reliant manner.

As it stood, this bundled management of assets and commerce was a very successful plan.

Many idle real estate properties that only existed on ledgers, farmland outside the village that hadn't been managed reasonably, and vacant commercial shops owned by the Uchiha clan were all successfully revitalized after the establishment of the [Clan Industry Management Center].

Utilizing some of the idle land and manors outside the village, Uchiha Fucheng launched a protection and adoption program for war orphans.

During the last "Konoha vs. Sand Ninja" war, at least a hundred children in Konoha had become war orphans who lost their parents.

And in the areas surrounding Konoha, the number of war orphans who had fled there reached nearly a thousand.

In Fucheng's memory, a portion of these orphans were taken in by the Sarutobi and Shimura clans to become their peripheral forces.

A large portion of the rest were used by Shimura Danzō for ninja training and secret human experiments in Root.

Yamato, Shin, Sai, and other Root ninja who appeared in the manga all seemed to originate from war orphans.

Not to mention that in Fucheng's hands, there was also someone like Yakushi Nonō, who was originally the capable director of the Konoha Orphanage.

In Fucheng's view, the Uchiha clan did not have a large population, so absorbing some war orphans as an external vassal force was definitely a wise move.

Some of the younger war orphans could even be organized and utilized to develop a foundational newspaper propaganda network covering all of Konoha, as well as an internal intelligence system.

It was now the thirty-seventh year of Konoha.

Hashirama's wife, Uzumaki Mito, was already frail and elderly.

As the Senju clan gradually abandoned their surname to integrate into Konoha, intermarrying with ordinary villagers, the Senju clan had become the easiest ninja bloodline resource to target.

The Uchiha clan could also take this opportunity to bask in the glory of the Senju bloodline.

One major advantage of the Senju bloodline was that it was "very pleasing to the eye"!

It was pleasing to the eyes of the Uchiha.

Appropriately absorbing members with Senju blood, and attracting them to marry into the Uchiha clan, was the thing Fucheng—an outsider without narrow-minded prejudices—wanted to accomplish most.

As things stood, the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, held very stable power within the village.

With the support of the Sannin and numerous clans, there was little room for a coup d'état.

In the short term, Uchiha Fucheng only wanted to kill Danzō and had no intention of vying for immediate gains against Sarutobi Hiruzen.

The Uchiha clan of the present had no need to fight the powers-that-be in the village for additional political rights.

The position of Hokage, the village chief of Konoha, might have some use in uniting hearts and minds, but to be honest, the title of Hokage was not as useful as everyone imagined.

On matters of great principle, especially under the looming war clouds currently stirring in the Land of Rain, Uchiha Fucheng had firmly established his stance.

He had stated on multiple public occasions:

He firmly supported the war decisions of the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen!

He firmly resisted the provocations and aggression of other ninja villages against Konoha!

He also pledged on behalf of the Uchiha clan that, as a heroic clan of Konoha, the Uchiha would contribute even greater strength in the ninja war in the Land of Rain.

This political bearing and sense of the big picture made both Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzō look at this peculiar Uchiha in a new light.

"Since when did these red-eyed Uchiha start talking in such a smooth, practiced manner?" The old brothers Hiruzen and Danzō looked at each other, both somewhat bewildered.