Promoting the Konoha threat theory, and talking about the Hidden Mist Belt!

Moreover, he is only thirteen years old. The Second Shinobi World War has not yet started, Nagato Uzumaki is still a child, and Obito Uchiha has just been born. There is still plenty of time before the Fourth Shinobi World War.

Chapter 95 Chakra Research Institute

Governing a large country is like cooking a small fish; this applies to the Ninja Academy and the Hidden Mist Village as well.

He certainly had many ideas for changing the current state of Kirigakure.

However, taking too big a step can also lead to problems.

So all he's doing now is accumulating strength, making some preliminary preparations, and issuing some guiding orders.

The purpose of these efforts is mostly for long-term considerations, laying the foundation for sweeping reforms after taking office.

These tasks include, but are not limited to:

The ban on Kirigakure's isolation was lifted, and a separate commercial district was established outside Kirigakure to encourage various commercial activities.

They spent a lot of money to offer a reward for scientific and technological talents from all over the ninja world, and sent ninjas to the Eastern Continent to invite (×) and capture (√) scientific and technological elites.

We encourage all kinds of cultural creations that promote positive energy in Wuyin Village, are conducive to the dissemination of Wuyin Village culture, and are based on Wuyin Village or feature Wuyin Village residents as the main characters.

Those who use various means (including but not limited to kidnapping, knocking out, coercion, and enticement) to attract outstanding talents from other countries in the ninja world to Kirigakure will be rewarded handsomely based on the number of people they attract.

In addition to the above-mentioned open guidance policies, Hozuki Shingetsu also did one practical thing, which was to establish the Chakra Research Institute.

If science and technology were the primary productive force in the previous life, then in the ninja world where extraordinary powers exist, chakra is undoubtedly the primary productive force.

The primary manifestation of this productivity lies in various ninjutsu techniques, and secondly in various machine industries that use chakra as an energy source.

As a time traveler, he knew the principles behind many secret ninjutsu techniques from various ninja villages.

Even thanks to the knowledge he learned during his compulsory education in his previous life, as well as the various skills he had seen in various novels and anime, Hozuki Shingetsu was not lacking in creative ideas for developing various ninjutsu.

However, as the head of the external affairs department and principal of the Ninja Academy of Kirigakure, and the future Fourth Mizukage, he certainly wouldn't spend his precious time on these ninjutsu researches.

Therefore, there must be a group of people who can continuously conduct various experiments according to his ideas, constantly improve and refine them, and thus create truly practical ninjutsu.

In addition, the manufacture of chakra machines also requires the participation of professionals.

First of all, it is certain that chakra can be used as an energy source. This is proven by both the Grell Stone in the original work and the chakra cannon in Kumogakure.

Moreover, there are hundreds of thousands of ninjas in the entire ninja world. Among so many ninjas, there are naturally those who are good at fighting and those who are not. There are combat geniuses and there are research geniuses.

These research geniuses cannot simply be thrown onto the battlefield. We don't expect them all to be research geniuses like Orochimaru or Kabuto; it would be enough if they were close enough to combine chakra with mechanical industry.

Therefore, the Chakra Research Institute came into being under these circumstances.

The primary goal of the Chakra Research Institute is to study various ninjutsu, and only secondarily to study various chakra machines and their applications.

Adhering to the principle of zero waste, the current Chakra Research Institute is mainly composed of retired and disabled ninjas, supplemented by some mechanical researchers.

Unfortunately, Kirigakure is currently facing a severe shortage of skilled personnel.

After the Blood Mist Incident, the number of ninjas was reduced by a quarter. Including those hospitalized, the number of ninjas in Kirigakure who can still work normally is only about one-third of the original number.

With such a small number of people, they can't even complete the village's mission assignments, so where would they find extra people to conduct basic work like chakra research, which doesn't show results for several years?

After all, any basic research work is characterized by high investment, high returns, and long-term nature.

Although Hozuki Shingetsu wanted to add research-related knowledge to the ninja academy curriculum, it would ultimately take time, wouldn't it?

These elderly and disabled ninjas were not fit to fight on the battlefield, but they could still do this kind of mental work.

In addition, having been a ninja, he must have no shortage of skills in refining chakra, so he can draw chakra whenever he needs it and there is no need to worry about energy issues.

Having experienced countless battles, they possessed a deep understanding of various ninjutsu techniques and rich experience in real ninja combat. Judging whether a ninjutsu research direction was worthwhile and simulating the best use scenario for a ninjutsu was incredibly easy for them.

Having witnessed countless deaths and injuries, they wouldn't have many moral constraints regarding human experimentation, making them perfectly suited for research.

Most importantly, the village subsidies can't be given out for nothing, right?

Capitalist Hozuki Crescent Moon's main idea is to make the best use of everyone's talents and resources.

After all, even the landlords don't have surplus grain now, do they?

As for these people expressing dissatisfaction and hoping to receive an extra salary...

what?

The village, out of consideration for your past service to the village, not only provides you with subsidies every year, but also thoughtfully considers the emptiness you feel after losing your jobs. So, out of compassion, the village has given you a chance to contribute your remaining energy, and yet you still want compensation?

That's absolutely ungrateful!

At this critical moment when Kirigakure is beset by internal and external troubles and its survival is in jeopardy, you ninjas who have been blessed by the village for generations are so unambitious. Not only do you fail to consider the big picture and share the village's hardships, but you even want to ask the village for help.

You are unworthy of being a son!

Grandet of the Crescent Moon deeply abhorred this.

Of course, although these demands are "reasonable, legal, but not compliant," the future Fourth Mizukage, as the village's opinion leader, the "timely rain" of Kirigakure, and the one who sacrificed himself to quell the village's internal strife, would certainly not let these meritorious people down.

Adhering to the principles of respecting science and technology and ensuring that talented people do not go hungry, Hozuki Shingetsu thoughtfully established research projects for each project and even set up a special project review committee to approve chakra-related research.

He generously stated that as long as the relevant research topic can be developed, all remaining funding for that research project will belong to the researcher!

Even if someone has already privately researched a topic, the entire research funding can be given to that person as a reward!

Of course, due to the village's current tight budget and the establishment of the research institute, there are only two research projects in the early stages, one for ninjutsu research and one for chakra machine application.

Considering that everyone has just switched careers and has no experience, we can make an exception and allow everyone to participate in these two projects to gain relevant research experience.

Thus, Hozuki Shingetsu cleverly transformed the subsidies the village originally gave them into wages, and the salaries that should have been paid into performance bonuses.

Once these two research topics are successfully completed, the next generation of graduates from the Ninja Academy will likely graduate, and it will be a good time to take over.

Of course, those civilian mechanical researchers should still be paid the money they deserve; we can't let them starve.

Moreover, these are all expedient measures, special policies for a special period.

Once true scientific research talents have emerged, Hozuki Shingetsu will inevitably need further adjustments, but that's a matter for later.

Based on the two directions established by the Chakra Research Institute—ninjutsu research and chakra application—Hozuki Shingetsu personally designed the research content for these two topics.

In terms of ninjutsu research, the research topic is very simple: to create the Seven-Day Breathing Technique!

As a taijutsu created by Shiro, a low-ranking ninja from Sunagakure in the original work, the Seven-Day Breathing Technique has a very simple principle: it increases the body's activity by absorbing a large amount of oxygen through breathing, thereby greatly improving physical fitness.

Although the creator of the Seven-Day Breathing Technique was only a genin, it is no exaggeration to say that the upper limit of the power of this taijutsu is absolutely comparable to the Eight Gates.

In the original story, in order to defeat Violet, who had activated her third active state, Lee even activated five gates, demonstrating the power of the Seven-Day Breathing Technique.

As for whether the people at the Chakra Research Institute can create it—that's a joke. Even a mere genin from Sunagakure can create a ninjutsu. With so many people from Kirigakure gathered together, knowing its principles, and with the support of a large amount of funds and resources, how could they not be able to research it?

Do you understand the value of concentrating resources to accomplish major tasks?

Even the most skilled martial arts genius has his limits, right?

Once the research is completed, no matter how difficult the Seven-Day Breathing Technique is, it shouldn't be a problem for a ninja who has trained for many years to activate the first active state, right?

When thousands of civilian ninjas are combined with the Seven-Day Breathing Technique enhanced by the first vitality, he will see who can stop him in this ninja world where the Six Paths are not found and the Kage are hard to come by!

This is what you call a true steel torrent!

The inspiration for this method came from his thoughts when he watched The Return of the Condor Heroes in his previous life—the first two levels of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill only require three or four years to obtain the power of two dragons and two elephants. If every soldier in the Song Dynasty practiced this martial art, how could they not defeat the Jin and Yuan dynasties?

It was based on these two points that he chose the Seven-Day Breathing Technique as the first ninjutsu research topic for the Chakra Research Institute.

In the research of chakra machines, Hozuki Shingetsu also proposed a project, namely a chakra energy storage device.

The development of any industry is inseparable from energy, and the rapid development of industry depends on the convenience of energy extraction and use.

Since no natural chakra ore like Grellite could be found, the only energy source for the chakra machine was to be drawn from the human body.

That's why, in the later stages when the Hidden Cloud Village was about to shatter the moon, there was a bizarre scene where many ninjas wore chakra extractors connected to chakra cannons on their heads, artificially producing energy.

However, the drawbacks of this method are obvious. Regardless of how much chakra a person can extract by working themselves to the bone, in terms of ease of use, it is impractical to have to configure several ninjas as "mobile chakra batteries" every time the machine is used.

It would be more practical to just use ninjas!

Therefore, this chakra energy storage device is the foundation for the application of chakra machines; otherwise, everything else is out of the question!

Of course, as someone from modern society who has truly experienced the power of industrial machines, Hozuki Shingetsu would not simply abandon technologies like steam and electricity.

After all, compared to the chakra machine that appears in the mirror, these tangible things are at least real and applicable.

Chapter 96 Graduate Welfare Period Credit Ladder Battle

After initially setting up two research projects for the Chakra Research Institute, Hozuki Shingetsu left them to their own devices and let them conduct their research.

After all, it was foreseeable that neither of these two tasks would yield results in the short term, and Hozuki Shingetsu had even mentally prepared himself for no progress for five or six years.

So after arranging these basic and long-term tasks, Hozuki Shingetsu's attention was still focused on the reform of the ninja academy.

There's just one week left before the next ninja school term starts, which is just enough time to implement the initial reform measures.

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After completing his work clearing the ruins for the day, ten-year-old Koji Ise was finally able to go home and rest.

It's called a home, but it's really just a small wooden cabin.

In the dimly lit and cramped room, only the crackling of the kitchen fire served as the sole source of light.

"Koji, don't finish those tasks too quickly, or you'll have to leave the village to do missions again," Koji's mother said, stirring the pot in the kitchen while looking at her son with concern.