Uchiha's Counterattack

The capital of the Fire Nation, Daming Mansion.

After traveling for seven days and nights, Kuroizumi and Iemon finally arrived at the heavily guarded Daming Mansion. After submitting an invitation letter from Daming Mansion to the guard in charge, the guard glanced at the two of them and said coldly.

Finished sentence.

"Wait here."

When the guard spoke, he held his head high and faced the two people in a overlooking manner, with an extremely arrogant attitude. His expression showed that he did not take the famous Uchiha into consideration at all, and even had a hint of arrogance.

An inexplicable sense of superiority.

This is the most interesting thing about the world of Naruto. Although ninjas are high-level combat forces in this world, they are still nominally subject to the deployment and command of the Daming Palace. Why has it become such a twisted system? To be honest, Xia Nan

He really couldn't figure it out, but he guessed that this probably had something to do with the First Hokage. That guy was able to kowtow at the Five Kage Conference, so he would probably have a more respectful attitude towards the Daimyo of the Land of Fire.

Of course, this is just a guess, and Xia Nan is not sure whether it is related to the first generation. But Xia Nan is sure that if the Hokage was Madara Uchiha... Well, I guess the graves of the famous names would be seven feet tall.

It's too high. As for the so-called five great ninja villages, it's impossible for them to exist.

Another thing to note here is that there is a general's residence in the Daming Mansion, which is a special department responsible for mobilizing all the troops in the Land of Fire.

The Daimyo Mansion also has the right to order the Shogun Mansion. In name, both the Shogun Mansion and Konoha Village must obey the Daimyo's orders. But in fact, both have quite high autonomy.

In terms of status, the Daming Palace is higher than the Shogun Palace, and the Shogun Palace is higher than Konoha Village.

In other words, no matter which aspect you look at, Konoha Village, which should be the most powerful in combat, is ranked below a group of ordinary people. This is obviously an extremely unreasonable and twisted system, but it is so weird in this world

It exists, and no one even thinks there's anything wrong with it.

Looking at the performance of the guard in this way, we can understand it. After all, he is the gatekeeper of Daming Palace. According to our local understanding, he is the seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister. Naturally, he looks down on these old-fashioned ninjas from the "countryside".

. Even if they had not seen the invitation sent by the Daming Mansion, these soldiers would probably not bother to talk to Kuroizumi and Iemon.

"This bastard looks down on others!"

Heiquan cursed angrily. Heiquan, who was one person below ten thousand people in the family, had never been discriminated against like this. The most hateful thing was that the guard could kill everyone with just one slap, but he didn't.

I feel like I can't touch him. It's hateful. If it had been Mr. Xia Nan here, he would have burned that bastard to death!

But after all, the Daming Mansion is still the master of the entire Fire Country, and it is also the financial backer of Konoha Village for many years, so Kuroizumi cannot lose his temper randomly.

"Be patient, these nobles are like this, they are so arrogant that they look down on everyone. Only when the Hokage comes in person will they restrain themselves. As for people like us...hehe, maybe they will still discriminate against us.

Where are the wild ninjas from the countryside?"

Iemon had no choice but to comfort him, saying that in the eyes of these nobles, their ninjas are just servants who get paid to do things. As long as there is a need, just give money directly, and the ninjas will naturally take care of all the rest.

Over time, this mutually beneficial behavior seems to have deteriorated. The more money-hungry ninjas there are, the more dependent they are on the nobles. Only when the nobles understand this can they use the ninjas unscrupulously.

"Asshole, when have we Uchiha ever been wronged like this?"

Heiquan almost died of anger. The seven days and seven nights of traveling were already very hard, and his good mood was completely ruined by that soldier.

"Forget it, everyone in the Daming Palace is like this. And it's not just here. When you enter later, you will face many nobles and samurai in front of the palace. These people usually don't even have much respect for the Hokage. If it were us,

For ninjas from this family, if they don't get ridiculed in person later, it will be considered as their good words."

"Master Heiquan, you must be patient later. Although the trouble here is not very serious, the consequences will be very troublesome, so troublesome that even Master Xia Nan may have a headache."

Eemon said with a wry smile.

"Ugh—damn it! Bastard! Go to hell!"

Heiquan cursed a few words angrily and turned around angrily.

After seeing this scene, Eemon shook his head. He was much older than Kuroizumi, so naturally he had seen more.

People in Konoha Village say that the Uchiha clan is arrogant. That’s because the village is too small and many people have never seen the world. When they come out to see more of the outside world, especially the dignitaries near the Daming Mansion, these guys are called arrogant.

Well, they would beat and scold civilians at will, and even if they killed them, they would just pay a sum of money to settle the matter.

The Country of Fire is the same as other countries. Although there are not many depictions, they are all obviously feudal countries. From the daimyo of a country's leader, in descending order are the generals, the noble class, the sub-noble class, the samurai class, and the ninja class.

Finally, there is the civilian class.

The civilian class can be divided into "upper people" and "lower people".

To put it more simply, they are free people and untouchables (refugees). Free people usually become vassals of a certain noble, cultivating land for the nobles and providing monthly payments in exchange for peace. However, the untouchables are different. They have no cadastral and belong to the rootless people.

, no one will care about the life and death of this group of people, and they have no property or dignity at all.

The nobles can kill the untouchables at will without being blamed. If the free people rob the untouchables' finances and cause casualties, the free people only need to provide a "guilty money" to be released from prison on bail by the local tribune. It can be said to be bullshit.

Nothing happens. But on the contrary, no matter what the untouchables do, they are wrong. They will be beaten to death in the worst case.

Especially when there is a famine, the number of refugees will increase dramatically. At this time, do you think the Daming Prefecture will send people to provide relief? Wrong, the relief is given to the nobles who manage various places, and then the nobles give priority to the warriors, and the remaining ones will be given to the family to protect them.

of freedmen.

As for the untouchables who starved to death in droves? That was fate, and no one could save them.

Therefore, every time there is a disaster, there will be armed uprisings everywhere, and often at this time, the nobles will initially send samurai and soldiers to suppress it. If the samurai class cannot suppress it, then it is time for the ninjas to dispatch. However, ninjas are always expensive to dispatch.

The price of hiring three teams of ninjas to suppress the refugees was enough to buy a lot of food to appease the hundreds of people who couldn't survive.

But the nobles would rather spend money to hire ninjas to kill the untouchables than spend a penny more to buy even a grain of rice to help the victims.

A magical country and a weird system. Every time I look back at the history of the ninja world and its structural system, I always feel that the world must be sick somewhere. Otherwise, how could such an unreasonable and pathological system exist, and it has continued in recent times?

Thousands of years?

In fact, this time Kuroizumi is just like Eemon. In addition to coming to Damingfu to get rewards, he also has another task: to investigate the number and distribution of refugees in the Land of Fire. For this reason, Xia Nan will take the "Portable Photo"

Come out and hand it over to Heiquan. As long as Heiquan goes to more places, all kinds of information nearby will be recorded on the map.

The refugees are like maggots on their tarsus and want to crush them all to death, but Xia Nan is thirsty for them. As long as he can ensure the supply of food, he welcomes more people. After all, more people provide better destiny.

Even if the points are only 0.01 per month, it is still a large amount of income.

It's just that Xia Nan is currently busy building the infrastructure of New Konoha and can't spare the time to do this in person. It just so happens that Kuroizumi and the others are coming to the Daming Mansion, so Xia Nan simply asks Kuroizumi to do this.