Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 432 Konoha Year 61 and Enrollment

Konoha Year 61, Land of Fire, Konoha Village, Ninja Academy:

Today is the annual opening ceremony of the Ninja Academy.

On this day, families who received the Ninja Academy's admission notice from the previous year will usually send their children to the Ninja Academy.

The current enrollment standard for Konoha ninjas is by invitation only.

In other words, before the age of ten, after the children started school, they either demonstrated talent in ninjutsu or had some special abilities, or they were simply descendants of ninja families.

Of course, receiving an acceptance letter from the Ninja Academy doesn't mean you have to attend the school.

Similarly, it's not that you can't come to school if you haven't received an admission notice. If you believe your child truly has the talent of a ninja but hasn't shown it before, then they can have one chance to take the entrance exam.

However, generally only children aged ten to twelve are eligible.

If you are over this age, you cannot go to school.

As for those who receive an admission notice but do not attend...

At least it hasn't happened yet.

The reason is simple: graduating from the ninja academy and taking the civil service exam leads to a promotion.

To put it bluntly, this world is ultimately a world of ninjas. With such special abilities, it's much easier for them to pass the civil service exam and start from the bottom than for ordinary people.

Uchiha Shisui has risen through the ranks very quickly in the past few years and is now the deputy district head of a district. In his previous life, this would be equivalent to a high-ranking official in a district of the capital. Keep in mind that Shisui started from the bottom as a civil servant, so this speed of promotion is quite fast.

Of course, Shisui is not an exception. Take the Uchiha clan's security department for example. Ever since Yua adjusted the security department's functions to include maintaining the security of Konoha Village and resolving neighborhood disputes, the people in the Uchiha clan's security department have been able to earn a government job.

To put it bluntly, the security department is now considered a formally established job.

Only those who have secured a permanent job know what that means for ordinary people.

A secure job? No, it's a symbol of status.

After all, even if you work for a merchant who earns a million taels a month, if the Security Department calls you to assist in an investigation, you still have to obediently go and assist in the investigation, because this is written in the law, and the highest authorities of Konoha are backing the Security Department.

Of course, this leads to a problem: the security forces are short-staffed.

Later, Fugaku Uchiha expanded the organization, and now, four-fifths of the people in the Uchiha clan's security force are not from the Uchiha clan.

In fact, the Uchiha clan did have some complaints about this, but as long as they dared to bring it up, Fugaku Uchiha would dare to curse them.

Damn it, you can't have many children yourselves. The entire security force has a maximum of a thousand or so Uchiha clan members. Isn't that a lot?

If the Uchiha clan had 10,000 members, would I need to use those 1,000-plus clan members as laborers?

The others were speechless.

The situation later changed to each street having a branch of the security office. You Ya suggested that since the work they did was similar to that of the street office, they should merge the two. From now on, this place would be a combination of the security department and the street office. Well, that meant more people would have to be added.

Currently, there are over 15,000 guards managing the population of over nine million within Konoha's inner city.

It would be an injustice if I weren't working like a dog.

But there was no way around it; Fugaku Uchiha couldn't possibly abandon the security force altogether. That was impossible.

Therefore, the organization continued to expand.

This leads to the topic of recruiting new people.

Let alone the security department, other departments, construction department, engineering department, logistics department, bank, hospital, and so on, who doesn't want new recruits? Who doesn't want these new recruits to be ninjas?

As a result, the ninja school has recently been expanding.

But Yuya actually had some difficulties.

The fact that he recruited over a thousand new people a year was after he had relaxed his requirements.

If we look at his previous standards, which required a genin like Tobirama Senju to be proficient in Shadow Clone Technique, Substitution Technique, and at least three offensive ninjutsu, then at least two-thirds of the more than one thousand students graduating each year would be unqualified.

However, Tobirama Senju was preparing for war, while Yua felt that since there was no war now, it would be fine to relax the policy a little.

This is why there are more than a thousand ninja graduates every year.

However, it only seems like a lot, a little over a thousand a year, so in more than twenty years there are only about 20,000 people. These 20,000 people are distributed across various sectors, resulting in a shortage of people in every area.

The problem isn't the lack of ordinary people, but the lack of high-end talent, specifically high-end talent like ninjas.

You Ya himself was speechless. He was stuck with the problem of lacking manpower his whole life. He had been lacking manpower from beginning to end.

Therefore, the Ninja Academy is of utmost importance to Yua every year.

Therefore, although he would come to the Ninja Academy every year to give a perfunctory speech, he did value the Ninja Academy quite a bit.

This is a cradle of talent.

However, this year is a little different.

You Ya smiled as he looked at the list of students admitted this year in his hand.

He was very familiar with many of the names listed above.

At this very moment, at the entrance of the ninja academy, with a toothpick dangling from his mouth and heavy dark circles under his eyes, Gekko Hayate sat at the entrance of the ninja academy, filling out forms, while in front of him stood a long queue.

This is considered a routine task every year. He and nine other Chunin need to record the number and names of the new students within three days.

However, it usually doesn't take more than three days, at most one and a half or two days to complete.

The extra day was only given in case of unforeseen circumstances.

"name."

"Naruto Uzumaki!" A blond-haired man grinned, then adjusted his goggles and chuckled loudly, "The man who will become Hokage someday!"

The hand recording Moonlight Gale paused slightly, then a pair of dead fish eyes with thick dark circles looked at Naruto.

He then wrote down, expressionless: "Naruto Uzumaki, male, age?"

Naruto blinked and quickly said, "Ten years old, I'm ten years old this year."

"Oh, here you go. Don't damage this label." Hayate Gekko said, tearing off a sticker-like barcode from the form and sticking it on Naruto's collar.

Naruto looked at Hayate Gekko and asked in confusion, "Uncle, aren't you going to laugh at my dream? I said I want to be Hokage."

Hayate Gekko didn't even bother to lift his eyelids: "If what you're saying is true, then the Hokage should be very happy. Alright, stop standing there like an idiot and get out of here. I'm waiting for the next one."

Naruto blinked, put his hands behind his head, and walked into the school.

(End of this chapter)