This ninja in Naruto is unscientific

"I see."

"His complaint letter, on the surface, is about the high price, but what he actually wants isn't a price reduction, but rather a spot!"

"He knows very well what the daily order limit is for our Express Delivery service. He also knows that even if the Daming Prefecture intervenes, it is impossible to force those Flying Thunder Array casters who have not yet passed the assessment to take up positions in order to increase the number of positions."

"So what he really wants to do is use the Daming Prefecture to pressure us into redistributing the existing quotas, and then allocating them to him!"

Nishikawa Tetsu's eyes turned cold: "He wants to use this method of applying in bulk and then being rejected to create the illusion of insufficient express delivery capacity and unfair allocation, thereby forcing us to favor their chamber of commerce, which monopolizes logistics in the east, in the future allocation of quotas."

After hearing this analysis, Ichishima suddenly understood, and then became somewhat angry.

"This chamber of commerce is far too ambitious; they actually want to interfere with the core operations of our Express Delivery service!"

Dude, don't you know that Speedy Express is an official company of Konoha? Daring to oppose Konoha within the Land of Fire, that's incredibly brave. Is this what businessmen are all about?!

"Vice Minister, how should we reply to this letter?"

"I won't reply yet."

Nishikawa Tetsu stood up, walked to the window, and looked at the bustling street below, his eyes gleaming with deep thought.

"What interests me right now isn't how he plans to snatch a spot, but something else entirely."

Nishikawa Tetsu turned his head and looked at Ichijima.

"How did a chamber of commerce that operates in both sea and traditional land transportation manage to so accurately determine our daily quota limit and systematically submit so many tentative applications that were destined to be rejected, all within just seven days of Konoha Express officially opening and many Konoha villagers still not understanding the specific procedures?"

Ichishima paused for a moment, then said, "Vice Minister, you mean they've already been inquiring about this everywhere?"

"It's not necessarily just about inquiring."

Nishikawa Tetsu shook his head, his tone turning somewhat cold.

"It's also possible that they already knew. Perhaps they even obtained some of our internal training materials or operational rules before we officially started operating."

Upon hearing this speculation, Ichishima's face instantly turned pale. If there really was an internal leak, then the problem would be very serious.

He opened his notebook, preparing to write down Nishikawa Tetsu's instructions, but suddenly paused, as if he remembered something.

"Vice Minister, there's one more thing."

Kazushima's expression became even more serious than before.

"While reviewing the rejected applications and unusual records, I came across one very unusual order. This customer's application wasn't rejected; the problem lay with his goods."

Ichijima opened a detailed inspection report and handed it to Nishikawa Tetsu.

"The customer filled in the goods as spices on the registration form. However, when the goods were delivered to the inspection team, the Hyuga clan ninja in charge discovered that the actual weight and volume of those boxes did not match ordinary spices at all, and that there was a coating inside that prevented chakra detection."

"The inspection team immediately followed the rules you set in your previous public lecture, detained the goods, and demanded that they be opened, weighed, and inspected again. It was finally confirmed that the four boxes did not contain any spices at all, but rather a batch of outer shell parts for deep-sea equipment. They were all made of high-strength steel, resistant to high pressure, and had complex sealing interfaces."

"Parts of deep-sea equipment?"

Nishikawa Tetsu frowned.

Who is the shipper? Where is the delivery address?

"The shipper is a goods trading company registered in the Land of Water. The delivery location is a secluded port on the eastern coast of the Land of Fire," Ichijima replied. "And most importantly, this order was processed through the channel provided by the Eastern Coastal Chamber of Commerce."

Nishikawa Tetsu's finger hovered over the inspection report, his gaze fixed on the words "Water Country Registration" and "Deep-Sea Equipment Parts".

"Is this Water Country's supply company one of the designated suppliers for the Deep Sea Chakra Cable project in Kirigakure?" Nishikawa Tetsu asked in a deep voice.

Instead of answering immediately, Kazushima took out an old document from another encrypted folder he was carrying and gently placed it next to the inspection report.

"Deputy Minister, this is an internal notification forwarded from the embassy last month."

Ichishima pointed to the contents of the old document, his voice very low.

"The Hidden Mist Village's deep-sea chakra cable survey team mysteriously disappeared while on a mission along the eastern coast of the Land of Fire."

"The investigation report issued by Konoha at the time clearly stated: a thorough investigation of all relevant material entry and exit records along the route is needed to see if any clues about that team can be found."

Kazushima sighed.

"However, after this investigation order came to us, it was shelved. Because at that time, Express Delivery was not yet in operation, and the huge amount of material import and export records in the eastern part of the Land of Fire were scattered among more than a dozen different departments such as customs and various chambers of commerce. No one had the energy or authority to pull up all these records and compare them together."

"It wasn't until now, when SpeedExpress's centralized verification system brought these scattered pieces of information together, that we discovered this fatal coincidence."

Nishikawa Tetsu leaned back in his chair, quietly looking at the two documents placed side by side on the table.

One was an arrogant complaint letter from the Eastern Coastal Chamber of Commerce, and the other was a list of deep-sea equipment parts suspected of being related to the missing Fog Shadow team, which was being attempted to be circumvented through the Chamber of Commerce's channels.

Nishikawa Tetsu reached out and took back the original copy of the complaint letter.

He flipped to the signature section and carefully examined the clearly marked chamber of commerce seal.

After looking at it for a while, he narrowed his eyes slightly and pointed to the edge of the seal, saying, "Ichishima, look here."

Ichishima leaned closer for a closer look and discovered that there was a tiny, almost invisible chip on the edge of the red circular stamp.

"Go to the inspection team right now."

Nishikawa Tetsu's voice turned cold and decisive.

"Get me all the original orders submitted and approved by this East Coast Chamber of Commerce within the last seven days. I want to personally verify the stamps on every single order!"

"Furthermore, go check the records and get a detailed background investigation report on all the people who have ever handled customs declarations for this chamber of commerce, as well as the actual controlling shareholder behind the chamber!"

Ichishima realized the seriousness of the situation and quickly nodded, "Yes! Vice Minister, you suspect that it's not just one chamber of commerce involved?"

"They are certainly not an ordinary chamber of commerce."

Nishikawa Tetsu stood up, a dangerous glint in his eyes.

"What reason or channel would a chamber of commerce that spends its days running shipping businesses and earning a meager living have to come into contact with and smuggle deep-sea equipment that even inspection teams have to be wary of?"

"There's definitely a much bigger and darker network behind this!"