Uchiha Kyu looked over it for a while and felt his head swelling. The densely packed numbers made him dizzy; he simply was not cut out for this sort of thing.
So he decisively stopped looking, putting on an expression of complete trust. "You've always handled financial matters. I've always believed that if I doubt someone, I won't employ them; if I employ them, I won't doubt them."
"If you have something to say, just say it."
Hyuga Hiashi was deeply moved. He placed both hands on his knees and bowed deeply. "Thank you for your trust."
Having never been trusted so thoroughly by a Hokage before, Hyuga Hiashi truly felt, in that instant, that he wanted to give Uchiha Kyu his all.
After raising his head, Hyuga Hiashi's expression turned grave as he said in a deep voice, "Our finances can no longer support us continuing like this."
"At most, we have only a year before we exhaust all our resources."
"Ah?" Uchiha Kyu was quite startled. "Then what do we do? The benefits I've distributed can't be taken back."
"These are all basic benefits. It can only be said that the previous Hokage's benefits were far too harsh, causing our finances to become unsustainable all at once."
Uchiha Kyu spread his hands as though he had given up. "Anyway, the benefits are absolutely not being canceled."
The greatest beneficiaries of those benefits were the Uchiha Clan. Uchiha Kyu would only increase them, never reduce them.
If it really came down to it, they could just seize what they needed.
"Then there is only one way: a way to increase our income in the short term."
Hyuga Hiashi cautiously uttered two words.
—War.
War was the easiest time to make money. The Third Hokage and Shimura Danzō had made