The Speechless Uchiha Fugaku: Does Anyone Here Stand a Chance Against a Five-Year-Old?

Uchiha Fugaku sat in a side hall of the Naka Shrine, with a thick stack of household registers, tax accounts, and military reorganization rosters, just delivered from the three islands, spread out in front of him, almost filling half the table.

He had been sitting in front of these things for the entire afternoon, and the more he looked at them, the more his brows furrowed.

It wasn't a problem with the accounts—Kei, Tekka, and Yashiro had done their jobs cleanly and efficiently, meticulously preparing the handover documents, population statistics, and supply lists for the three islands.

What really gave him a headache was how to manage things going forward.

Nearly a million people is not a small number.

The Uchiha clan only has 13,000 people. If you put that number of people into a population of a million, they wouldn't even make a Flower Capital.

But if they continued using the original aristocratic and bureaucratic system, what was the point of them going through all that trouble to conquer it?

Are we just going to repackage and continue supporting those parasites who leech off the Celestial Dragons?

He put down his quill pen and tapped his fingertips lightly three times on the table.

This was a habit he developed in Konoha; before making any important decisions, he would always tap his head a few times, as if to clear away the noise in his mind.

Then he picked up his pen and wrote a psychic letter to Natsu.

The letter was not lengthy; it simply listed the basic information about the three islands, their population, the results of the military reorganization, and his concerns about the existing aristocratic bureaucratic system.

After finishing writing, he folded the letter, stuffed it into the letter tube on the summoning beast's leg, and patted the Ninja Hawk's head.

The Ninja Hawk spread its wings, transformed into a black shadow, and disappeared into the western horizon.

Natsu's reply came sooner than he had expected.

When the Ninja Hawk landed back on the shrine window, the setting sun had just sunk below the horizon, with a faint, dark red afterglow still lingering on the horizon.

Fugaku untied the letter tube, unfolded the letter, and read it line by line by candlelight.

Then he fell silent.

The handwriting on the letter was familiar to him— Natsu's handwriting was never particularly beautiful, the strokes were hard as if carved with a knife, but each character was written very steadily, without the slightest hesitation.

Abolish all nobles.

Except for the Uchiha Clan, everyone within the territory is treated equally.

The resources of the three islands were integrated and divided into a three-tiered supply system: Tier 1 prioritizes all resources for members of the Uchiha clan who possess complete ninja skills;

Level Two: There are currently no members of the Uchiha clan with outstanding ninja talent.

The third tier consists of reorganized soldiers from the former kingdom.

Fugaku put down the letter, leaned back in his chair, and stared at the flickering candlelight for a long time.

He thought of Konoha.

I recall the oath the Senju Clan and Uchiha Clan took when they built that village side by side, and the days when the Uchiha were ostracized to the edge of the village, monitored by the Anbu, and suspected by the higher-ups.

Konoha also chants "Will of Fire," "Equality and Protection," but what is the reality?

The Hokage lineage will always be the core, Uchiha will always be a threat.

They've heard the lie of equality for half their lives; they're sick of it.

But the "equality" that Natsu wrote about is different from the kind that Konoha shouted.

Konoha's concept of equality meant that the Uchiha had to give up their own interests to fill the holes left by others.

Natsu's equality, on the other hand, involves uprooting the old aristocracy and making the Uchiha the sole order-setter, then giving everyone a fair starting point within this order.

It's not about equalizing wealth, but about allocating resources according to ability.

The strong gain more, but not because of their background, but because of their abilities.

In this way, the liberated commoners would not hate the Uchiha, because the Uchiha did not steal their things, but instead overthrow the nobles who were oppressing them;

The soldiers who were reorganized wouldn't hate the Uchiha, because as long as they were strong enough, they could get more resources.

Fugaku's lips curled up slightly, a small movement, but clearly visible in the candlelight.

He picked up his quill and wrote a single word at the end of Natsu's reply, "Okay."

Things proceeded much more smoothly than expected—or rather, the resistance was so little that he was somewhat unaccustomed to it.

The decree abolishing the nobility was posted in every town on the three islands within three days.

After kneeling, the lord of Rukan Island wisely led his men to publicly burn the noble deeds and debt documents in the square in front of the lord's castle.

The lord of Seraya Island surrendered voluntarily, so there is naturally no objection to that;

Only the commander of Balin Island remained silent for a long time after the Genjutsu was broken. Finally, he removed his rank insignia, said, "I've lived a life that wasn't even human, and I don't want to be a dog for the rest of my life," and turned to walk into the ranks of the organized soldiers.

The nobles' resistance was far less significant than anticipated.

A few old nobles, unwilling to accept their fate, pooled their money and attempted to hire pirates to reclaim their territory.

Before the pirates' ship even reached the shore, they were stopped by well-trained soldiers patrolling the harbor.

The squad leader was the young hunter promoted by the Yashiro. He slammed the pirate captain's head against the stone pier of the dock in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, then looked up and asked Uchiha Kei, who had come to inspect the area, "Lord Kei, what should we do with this man?"

Qi glanced at the pirate captain, then at the dilapidated pirate ship on the distant sea. "Seize the ship, send the men to the iron mine."

"Yes," the young hunter replied, dragging the pirate captain by the ankle and heading towards the mine. His movements were swift and decisive, without even turning his head.

Uchiha Tetsuka was in charge of resource integration.

He inventoried and cataloged all the grain depots, armories, mines, and port taxes on the three islands, and reorganized them according to Natsu's three-tiered system.

The first-tier supplies are prioritized for the ninjas within the Uchiha clan—from Soldier Pills and Shuriken to the maintenance of Chakra arrays in the Training Ground, all strategic resources are being directed towards these 1,400 people.

Fugaku signed the first batch of supplies list without hesitation. He knew very well that these 1,400 people were the foundation for the Uchiha's survival on this sea. Every bit of improvement in their strength would strengthen the clan's survival guarantee.

The second level of supplies was provided to non-ninja members of the Uchiha clan.

Although these people lack talent and their Chakra cultivation speed is much slower than that of ninjas, they are also inheritors of the Uchiha bloodline and the foundation of the clan.

Fugaku added an item to the second-tier supplies list: all non-ninja members must participate in basic Taijutsu training for no less than three days a week.

The third level of supplies was provided to the 11,000 fully-equipped soldiers.

The quantity isn't large, but it's more than enough to ensure basic temperature and saturation and weapon maintenance.

More importantly, Fugaku added a strict rule to the configuration of this level - the first-level Uchiha Jonin Elite Jonin take turns serving as instructors, responsible for the physical training, swordsmanship instruction and combat exercises of the organized soldiers.