- I'm well aware of that, and I'm ready to take up the leadership banner if that's what it takes, ji-san," I rolled my eyes, sighing-sometimes Shenesu would go into responsibility mode when they were discussing something important and then get very boring-but I prefer to be a prepared optimist.
After looking at me for a few seconds, my uncle sighed and waved his hand - he knew my character of solving current problems today and leaving the possible ones until they arise.
- Okay, what did you prepare for Sunagakure? - I was really interested in what the Council, divided into two camps, could agree on, and even on the threshold of the imminent war.
- The most important point of the package of proposals - a small part of the orders will be available to ninja Sunagakure within ten years from the date of the alliance agreement, - my uncle dropped a bomb on me, grinning.
- Wha?" my eyes bulged.
The clans and the Hokage shared the money? The same clan leaders who were willing to cut each other's throats for the chance to increase their individual orders? Something big had died somewhere. Maybe Jubey had a stroke.
- Ahem, so who shared their share? - I couldn't help but ask him, barely out of surprise.
- All the clans, a little at a time.
- Voluntarily? - I squinted my eyes, sensing with my ass that I was being duped.
- Almost, - my uncle openly mocked, giving out stingy phrases, - each clan gave out a part of the orders agreed upon separately.
- Can I have all the information at once, not in pieces? - I folded my arms on my chest and raised my eyebrow expressively, looking at him.
- We've recently finished sorting through all the documentation of Danzo Shimura's inheritance, and it turns out that the village has a large number of documents on the ownership of various profitable businesses that Root has taken from various shadowy organizations, the total receipts of which amounted to such a substantial sum that almost no one on the Council wanted to leave them in the hands of the Hokage," he said, as if to say "you understand," and I did understand, "so, after some thought, I came up with the idea of exchanging the papers for a roughly equal portion of the clans' income.
I shook my head in surprise - it was just a classy move, which was a win-win for everyone. The clans would get increased profits guaranteed, not on a mission that the clansmen could fail without risking their people, and if managed skillfully, business revenues could increase, as opposed to a set quota.
Konoha was gaining a guaranteed ally in the person of Suna for years to come, tied by the leash of money missions going their ninja way.
Sunagakure no Sato was getting a chance to improve the financial situation the village had been driven into by the past Kazekage's inept policies, and if the Daimyo of the Wind Country didn't drop his hooves in the near future, which was unlikely, that situation wouldn't change anytime soon, in a dozen years it would be seen as natural.
And even the clanless jonins were on the plus side, knowing that we wouldn't have to fight alone again against several great villages as happened in the last world war. It was only the ordinary citizens represented on the Council who were screwed, but who would ask them?
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