Ninja at the top of the food chain

Chapter 740 Combat Strength
To remind Minato a little bit, Lei Luo felt that with the IQ of his cheap apprentice, he should be able to distinguish the stakes, so he simply stopped talking.

Turning his eyes away, he looked at the Second Village Hokage Uzumaki Makoto who was puffing out smoke with a cigar in his face, Lei Luo suddenly felt a little strange, wondering when did this guy like smoking?
"The combat power of the second village, Uzumaki, please report."

In front of everyone, Lei Luo greeted him with a tepid tone and no expression fluctuations on his face, but in the opinion of Orochimaru who knew Lei Luo quite well, Mr. Prime Minister must be in a bad mood at the moment.

Don't like smoking secondhand smoke?still is……

Whirlpool opened his half-closed eyes, glanced at Lei Luo's face from the corner of his eye, and hurriedly sat upright, and saw that he first took out a pair of delicate scissors from his arms, cut off the head of the cigar, Squeeze out the drifting smoke.

Then, putting on a calm look, he smiled confidently and said:
"The second village now has a total of 360 and eight Genin, 740 and four Zhongren, and 220 and one Shangren. In the past two years of development, the country of Chuanzhi has provided us with a lot of soldiers."

Perhaps because he couldn't see Uzumaki's complacent look, Hyuga Huan snorted softly, then continued the conversation coldly:
"What's the big deal? The Fire Nation has five times as many troops as your Sichuan Nation today. If we want to win the war, we still have to rely on the strength of our Konoha land and various military regions."

Makoto Uzumaki didn't pay any attention to Hinata Huan's deliberate upsetting, and didn't even change his smile. He just turned his eyes to Lei Luo. The feeling in his eyes seemed to be waiting for the latter's praise?
Lei Luo knew the situation in the country of Chuan, and the reason why Uzumaki was asked to speak out was to let the senior officials present understand their own strength and build up a strong sense of self-confidence.

"Nearly [-] combat ninjas... well, Makoto Uzumaki, you did a good job. How many people are producing ninjas? How many people have passed the technician exams at all levels?"

Lei Luo simply praised Uzumaki, then asked the next question, and Uzumaki blurted out without any thought:
"Sichuan Country is a small country after all. It is already the limit to be able to mobilize so many ninjas. Therefore, production ninjas and combat ninjas overlap in many places. There are not a few ninjas with two sets of titles. If we talk about pure production ninjas..."

Draw out five fingers and continue:

"Probably around 5000 people."

Lei Luo knew Uzumaki quite well, and he knew that the 5000 people were probably a little watery. After all, the number of fighting ninjas was so clear. How could it be possible to produce ninjas?
However, although it was stated that there were not many serious production ninjas in Shirakawa's country, and fighting and production were almost indistinguishable, Lei Luo didn't mean to expose Makoto Uzumaki.

What Makoto Uzumaki said before is correct. After all, the country of Chuanzhi is a small country with a total population of just over 30. No matter how you incite the people to become ninjas, there are only a few people who have the conditions and desire to buy chakra reagents.

To be honest, Makoto Uzumaki’s ability to produce nearly [-] ninjas is already very strong, and the mobilization ratio has almost reached one-tenth. For a country that has just transitioned from a feudal system to a capital system...

Indeed, it is not easy.

If you just look at the mobilization ratio, the Nation of Fire is inferior to the Nation of Sichuan. Lei Luo affirmed Uzumaki's achievements from the bottom of his heart.

After talking about the second village, Lei Luo turned to look at Lu Jiu again:
"The statistical results from the cabinet should have come out, right? Tell me, how many ninjas are there in the Land of Fire?"

Perhaps under the influence of Uzumaki, Lu Jiu subconsciously straightened his back, also without any memory of thinking, fluent sentences came from his mouth:

"There are a total of 3000 ninjas in each military region, including 8000 lower ninjas, 4000 middle ninjas, and 330 five upper ninjas."

"There are more than 500 ninjas in Konoha, including 700 lower ninjas, 670 middle ninjas, and [-] upper ninjas."

"In addition, there are more than 1 full-time production ninjas, 6000 junior technicians, 4000 intermediate technicians, and [-] senior technicians."

After silently listening to Lu Jiu's speech, Lei Luo hadn't spoken yet, but Uzumaki spoke first. He didn't know whether he was mocking or teasing and said something to Hinata Huan:

"It's more than 8, which is less than five times? Huan, next time you argue with me, can you please learn math well before you come back?"

Hinata Huan's face darkened, but he didn't expect Uzumaki to remember what he said just now, and wanted to spray back, but seeing Lei Luo turning his head and giving him a wink, he had no choice but to swallow his sullen anger.

Glancing at the friendly interaction between Uzumaki Makoto and Hinata Huan, Lei Luo looked away, noticing that Lu Jiu and others were waiting for his response, he thought for a while and said:
"Counting the combat strength of the local area, the second village, and the military region, the number of ninjas in the Land of Fire has exceeded [-]. This is a good proof of the achievements of the reform."

"But I want to remind everyone that although we have crushed any of the Great Ninja Villages in terms of number of people, even the sum of the ninjas of the Four Great Ninja Villages is slightly inferior to our Ninja of Fire, but this does not mean that , we can sit back and relax and wait for victory.”

First, he affirmed the dazzling achievements of various departments in the past two years after some reforms, and then changed the subject, his expression became much more serious, and he listened to Lei Luo's serious analysis:

"Compared to other ninjas from Ninja Village, most of the fighting ninjas in our country of fire are from ordinary civilians. With the experience of blood, the combat ability is actually extremely worrying."

"For example, there are more than 1000 ninjas in total. The promotion channels for these ninjas are different from those before the reform."

"Many of them just have enough chakra, physical fitness, ability to use some high-level ninjutsu, and finally barely passed the strength test. If they really let them fight one-on-one ? Going to fight to the death?"

Shaking his head with regret, Lei Luo sighed and continued:
"Although I don't want to admit it, I think that is courting death."

There are advantages and disadvantages to developing too fast. The advantage is that the number of ninjas can expand rapidly, and the disadvantage may be that the number has increased, but the quality has decreased, right?
Lei Luo, who seized the power of the Nation of Fire, and the alliance of capital forces and ninja forces who initiated the reform and reform actions undoubtedly have the human and financial resources to vigorously promote the implementation of various policies.

However, after this set of procedures, although the military strength has increased by nearly five times compared with two years ago, reaching a terrifying number of more than [-] ninjas, it has made the ninja group of the Nation of Fire more and more bloated.

No matter how you look at it, today's Nation of Fire is completely two extremes compared to Shinobi Village, where the average number of ninjas is only in the early [-]s, like Sagakure and Kirigakure.

(End of this chapter)