Naruto: This Uchiha is a businessman Chapter 168

“My lord, we…”

Shikaku still wanted to explain something, but the Daimyo’s face showed a hint of impatience:

“Enough, let Hiruzen Sarutobi come over and explain it to me himself. I don’t want to hear you anymore. Tell him, if he doesn’t explain it clearly, then just wait for the troops from other countries to attack. At that time, I will also be like the Daimyo of the Sand Village, no longer providing any supplies to Konoha. That’s it.”

With that, he stood up directly and walked out of the main gate with the help of his attendants.

Looking at the departing Daimyo and the opened main gate, a hint of killing intent flashed in Shikaku’s eyes. As a ninja who wielded power, when had he ever suffered such humiliation? In the Warring States period, it was these nobles who begged them for protection.

Why was it that now, they had to look at the faces of these guys?!

For a moment, he also had some doubts about the era created by the First Hokage. Could it be that the decision of this God of Shinobi was wrong?

If Lu Lin knew, he would definitely laugh out loud. Of course, it was wrong.

In the Warring States period, although it was more chaotic and wars were more frequent, the casualties were not as great as they are now.

The wars at that time were just struggles between families. Even if an entire family died, the casualties would be at most a thousand people, and that was for the largest families.

Unlike now, with systematic training, many commoners also had the opportunity to learn ninjutsu, and the number of ninjas greatly increased, directly enabling tens of thousands of ninjas to besiege one person.

Who had ever heard of any family in the Warring States period that could field tens of thousands of people at once?

Not to mention tens of thousands of ninjas, they couldn’t even field tens of thousands of people.

Permanent peace is unrealistic, unless your power can always suppress the people you govern, otherwise, there will always be one or two people with strong power and rebellious intentions.

In response, Shikaku could only shake his head, stand up, leave the Daimyo’s mansion, walk out of the Land of Fire’s capital, and head towards Konoha.

……

“My lord, we found the child you mentioned?”

Lu Lin, who had crawled out of bed because he couldn’t stand the hunger, was a little slow to react when he heard his subordinate’s report:

“What child?”

“It’s the child you mentioned, the one who can’t control some of his emotions and sometimes wants to kill, the one who was locked up. We found him.”

After thinking for a long time, Lu Lin finally remembered that this was when Yahiko wanted to improve his strength and came to Lu Lin, hoping he could think of a way, which was when he thought of natural energy.

Then he dispatched most of his subordinates to search the four corners of the ninja world for the three Sage Regions, possible locations of Sage Regions in the ocean, and the child with a cursed seal on his body that could absorb natural energy.

“Where is that child? Did you bring him?”

Lu Lin was very interested in the cursed seal on his body. If he remembered correctly, a certain Otsutsuki who appeared later also seemed to have a cursed seal, and his cursed seal could absorb any energy-based attacks, so his opponents could only engage in close combat.

“We have brought him out of the place where he lived.”

The subordinate said that when they found the child, it was the adults in that place who led them there, and they found him in a cell.

They said they wanted to take the child away, and those people readily agreed, because they all believed that the child was cursed and would suddenly go berserk and kill people for no reason.

“Then bring him up and let me see him.”

He was hungry right now, so he wouldn’t go to see him. It would be better to have the other party come directly.

Soon, the subordinate brought in a child with a full head of orange hair and orange pupils. Looking at his age, he was about the same age as Kimimaro.

After filling his stomach halfway, Lu Lin slowly wiped his mouth:

“Child, what’s your name?”

The child just silently looked at Lu Lin and didn’t speak.

“My lord, this child may have been locked up for a long time and doesn’t speak much.”

The subordinate pulled the child to face him:

“Don’t worry, our lord is not a bad person. As long as you cooperate well, you won’t be locked up in a cell again, understand?”

Hearing that he wouldn’t be locked up again, the child’s eyes finally showed some fluctuation. He pursed his lips, turned his head to look at Lu Lin:

“My name is Jugo.”

Lu Lin nodded. The name was correct, and upon closer inspection, there was indeed a faint, almost imperceptible flow of natural energy slowly entering Jugo’s body.

One must know that this was land, and natural energy was already close to depletion, but the other party’s body could still capture a trace of natural energy and absorb it into his body.

If he could master and control that cursed seal, would he be able to use natural energy at will without fear of depletion?

There was too little natural energy on land, and Lu Lin found it difficult to absorb the faint natural energy floating in the air into his body.

Therefore, after exhausting his natural energy, Lu Lin could only choose to go to the deep sea to replenish it. He couldn’t even recover slowly on land.

Thinking of this, a glimmer of light appeared in Lu Lin’s eyes, and his gaze towards Jugo became even more enthusiastic.

Just as he was about to say something, two figures suddenly walked in from outside the door.

“Uncle, why didn’t you take me and Kimimaro when you were defending the Land of Tea? We both have the strength to defend the country.”

Before he could even see the figures clearly, the voices had already arrived. Lu Lin didn’t even need to turn his head to know it was Itachi and Kimimaro.

A chubby Itachi glared at Lu Lin, huffing and puffing. Even his father could go to the battlefield, so why couldn’t he?

“You?”

Looking at the two little ones, Lu Lin found it a bit amusing, but on second thought, in the ninja world, Itachi and their age on the battlefield didn’t seem too young, did they?

But naturally, he couldn’t just say what they wanted:

“I think you just don’t want to go to school. Did you skip class again today?”

Itachi’s angry little expression, which had been exposed, instantly disappeared, replaced by a hint of embarrassment:

“How could that be? Kimimaro and I just want to defend the country…”

What do such young children know about a country?

Kimimaro stood by the side, expressionless, looking cool.

Jugo looked at the two who entered, with a hint of envy on his face. Perhaps, he also wanted to be as free as Itachi and Kimimaro.

Ignoring Itachi, Lu Lin looked at Jugo, who was secretly watching Itachi and Kimimaro with curious and envious eyes, and immediately had a plan in mind. Jugo was too young right now, and he wasn’t in a hurry to research the cursed seal. It would be better to let him grow up for a while first.

Then he could call Orochimaru and see if they could thoroughly research the cursed seal. In the original work, Orochimaru also created many strange cursed seals because of Jugo.