This ninja in Naruto is unscientific

The seventh day since Konoha Express officially opened for business.

Inside the office of the Vice Minister of Finance.

Kazushima, holding a pale yellow letter in his hand, knocked on the door and came in, his movements very soft, as if he were holding not a piece of paper but an explosive tag.

"Vice Minister, here is a complaint letter that requires your personal review."

Nishikawa Tetsu looked up from the pile of reports and rubbed his sore eyes.

"A complaint letter? Who submitted it?"

Ichishima gently placed the letter in front of Nishikawa Tetsu.

"It's a fairly large merchant guild on the eastern coast of the Land of Fire. The letter bears their official seal, and they require us to provide a written response."

Nishikawa Tetsu picked up the letter and quickly glanced at its contents.

The letter was worded politely, but it was full of dissatisfaction.

The reasons can be summarized in three points: the price of Konoha Express is too high, the daily delivery quota is too small, and the cargo review process is too strict.

The letter concluded with a strong request for the Daimyo Prefecture to intervene and re-evaluate the pricing and service scope of the express delivery service in order to "better serve the commercial development of the Land of Fire."

Nishikawa Tetsu turned the letter over, looked at the back, then turned it back to the front, staring at the Chamber of Commerce seal at the bottom.

"This chamber of commerce, is it involved in shipping and long-distance freight?"

"The Vice Minister is wise." Kazushima nodded, clearly having done his homework beforehand. "This chamber of commerce has almost monopolized land and water freight transport from the eastern coast of the Land of Fire to the capital, as well as some inland cities, over the past three years."

Ichishima paused, his tone becoming somewhat subtle.

"Since our Konoha Express started operating, their regular freight business hasn't been greatly affected, but the number of expedited orders has dropped by 20% in just seven days."

"Moreover, express delivery has an extremely high profit margin and has always been their most profitable business."

Upon hearing this, Nishikawa Tetsuya smirked and casually tossed the letter onto the table.

That makes sense.

"His real reason for complaining is that he thinks we're taking away their most profitable business. But he can't say that outright, since we're also operating legally, so he can only target our prices, quotas, and review system, trying to drag Damingfu down with us to suppress us."

"Then what should we say?" Ichishima asked. "If the Daimyo Prefecture really gets involved, it might affect the subsequent operation of our Express Delivery service."

Nishikawa Tetsu leaned back in his chair, his fingers tapping lightly on the table.

"Go back? Of course we should go back, and we should do so with a clear conscience."

Nishikawa Tetsu looked at Ichijima.

"Yishima, compile a detailed report of all the orders that have been approved by Express Delivery in the past seven days, the applications that have been rejected, and the goods that we suggested were changed to rail and regular transportation because they did not meet the requirements, and give it to me."

"I need to take a good look at this report to see if our prices are too high and if we have too few spots!"

"Yes, I'll get right away and get it sorted out."

Just as Ichishima turned to leave, Nishikawa Tetsu suddenly called him back.

"Wait, who brought this letter?"

"It was a man who claimed to be a representative of the Chamber of Commerce." Ichishima recalled, "The day before yesterday afternoon, he waited in our reception room for more than an hour, saying that he insisted on seeing you in person to deliver the letter. But you were at Mount Myoboku at the time, so I told him you weren't there, and he left the letter and a name."

"His name is Kubota."

"Kubota?"

Nishikawa Tetsu stroked his chin, a thoughtful glint in his eyes.

"Investigate this person's background and see if he is just a representative of this chamber of commerce or if someone else is directing him behind the scenes."

Nishikawa Tetsu gave a cold laugh.

"A chamber of commerce that deals in sea freight and long-distance slow delivery doesn't need to write such a formal complaint letter to request the intervention of the daimyo prefecture just because of excessively high prices."

"If they really think we're too expensive, they can simply continue with their regular transportation or hand over their goods to the newly opened maglev train. There's no need for them to fight tooth and nail with our business that focuses on instantaneous teleportation."

"The reason they are in so much pain is that our express delivery service not only took away their expedited business, but also completely squeezed their profit margins based on information and time differences."

Nishikawa Tetsu stood up and walked to the window.

"Investigate thoroughly to see if this chamber of commerce is involved with any forces that have suffered losses due to the community plan. If so..."

Nishikawa Tetsu turned his head, his eyes sharpening.

"Then this complaint letter is not a simple case of business competition, but an organized probing."

Two hours later, Kazushima walked into the office carrying several thick documents, looking somewhat solemn.

"Vice Minister, the statistical tables and comparative data you requested have all been compiled." Ichishima neatly placed the documents on the table.

Nishikawa Toru asked bluntly, "And the result? Were our prices too high?"

"Not high."

Yidao opened one of the comparison tables and pointed to the data, explaining, "I made a detailed comparison between the fees for these seven-day express delivery orders and the express shipping fees charged by the Eastern Coastal Chamber of Commerce over the past year."

"Overall, although our base fees are not low due to fewer initial stages, they are still 10% to 15% lower than the highest-level express shipping service."

Nishikawa Tetsu sneered: "Our prices are lower than theirs, and our speed is countless times faster. No wonder they're so anxious to write a complaint letter."

but……

Nishikawa Tetsu frowned slightly and looked at Ichijima.

"If price isn't an issue, why did they emphasize in the letter the need to revise the fee schedule and scope of service?"

Kazushima's expression became somewhat subtle as he pulled out another statistical table from the folder.

"Deputy Minister, this is also an extremely unusual situation that I discovered while checking the data."

"In the past seven days, we have explicitly rejected more than twenty applications because they did not meet the transmission requirements. However, more than half of these rejected applications pointed to the same chamber of commerce, namely the Eastern Coastal Chamber of Commerce that wrote this complaint letter, in terms of the background of the applicants or the channels through which they submitted their applications."

"More than half?"

Nishikawa Tetsu took the statistics sheet, his gaze lingering on it for a long time, his eyes gradually sharpening.

He tossed the statistics sheet onto the table and tapped his fingers lightly on the surface, making a rhythmic tapping sound.