Chapter 386: Minimum Standards

The war has temporarily ended, but it is not completely over.
Houses have been demolished, clearing out large areas of empty land. The crowds gather in the open spaces, forming three different formations.
In one area are the ninjas, and in another are the commoners. The last group comprises children.
Those under sixteen are all considered minors, and Meiji has lowered the standard.
Therefore, many children are actually ninjas.
The ninjas of Konoha are busy with the post-war handling work, with no time to rest as new battles continue.
Miki looked at Shiroha.
"Is this Chiyoshi, the flower of the never-withering desert?"
With Chiyu's head in hand, White Tooth, dressed as a skeleton in the dark, nodded.
"Is this all that's left?"
"There are still some arms and legs..." White Tooth said in a deep voice, "The body is just an empty shell, I suspect the core escaped in the chaos, it shouldn't have gone too far. I'll lead the team to pursue it right away."
Megumi glanced at Byakuya, who was covered in bruises and hastily bandaged.
"I don't have time to worry about her, she's just a spendthrift dog."
After a moment of contemplation, Megumi said,
"Chiyoshi should be going to rendezvous with the troops sent to the Land of Rain."
"Follow the original plan, you bring your team to infiltrate the Land of Birds and harass the border of the Land of Earth along the way."
"Without supplies, the mission is very difficult. Rest for half an hour and then depart."
"Ha!" Baiya knelt down on one knee and received his orders, then turned and left.
Upon leaving this time, he will take away half of the manpower, drawing some of the manpower from the four ninja tribes.
The remaining people must prevent the counterattack from the dispatched Suna hidden troops.
Outside the village, there is no shortage of manpower in Sunagakure.
On the battlefield of the Land of Whirlpools, there are more than two thousand elite warriors, while on the battlefield of the Land of Rain, there are nearly ten thousand.
Next, it can be predicted that Sunagakure will definitely counterattack.
Time is very tight.
The first thing to deal with is the aftermath of the battlefield here. Mei Ji doesn't plan to leave anything for Gaara.
In a ninja village, there are always more civilians than ninjas.
Actually, in ancient times with low productivity, the ratio of soldiers to population was 25:1 to 50:1, any higher would endanger the fundamentals.
That is, a population of 250,000 supported an army of 10,000.
This is Sparta, where everyone is a soldier.
But ninjas are not like ordinary civilian soldiers, their ratio is five to one in Konoha.
With a population of fifty thousand, they can assemble ten thousand ninjas.
This is abnormal, but also very normal.
The Hidden Village is a military organization where everyone is a soldier by default, and one out of every five people is a ninja.
If you insist on counting, Meiji's mother is a ninja who registered and has the qualifications to practice as a ninja, but she retired due to various reasons.
This kind of phenomenon is normal in Konoha.
With a population of over 200,000, you can squeeze out a ninja force of 40,000 by crowding together.
If you insist on squeezing, you can squeeze out even more.
This is basically the bone marrow of the Akimichi clan. From the elderly women to the children, everyone can fight.
The proportions are abnormally high.
What's even more bizarre is the data from the Sand Village. Under her mask, Mei raised an eyebrow as she looked at the statistics in her hands.
Compared to the Hidden Sand, the Leaf Village is even more impressive.
With a ratio of three to one, the village, which has a population of around ten thousand, can muster an army of nearly thirty thousand people, although most of them are lower-level ninja.
砂隐也是存在忍族的。
血继家族可以说没有，但前身是沙漠里迁徙的雇佣兵部族，受雇于沙漠民族，人员构成单纯又复杂，一个部族有着数个姓氏，或是没有姓氏，以收服失败部族的力量壮大，基本特征是全族皆兵。
They pursued oases and engaged in bloody battles around them, until the end of the era of the Hidden Leaf Village.
Like Konoha, there are several members in a family, and adult men will have two to three people join the Hidden Village to serve.
In Sunagakure, the source of ninjas is a normal distribution.
While in Konohagakure, the majority is from the Shinobi Clan.
Among five individuals, one is a ninja, and among the ninjas, more than three out of five are from the Shinobi Clan.
For an ordinary civilian household, they can provide one to ten ninjas, while the Shinobi Clan has one ninja for each occupant.
It is a miracle that a village in such constant warfare hasn't collapsed.
There are many reasons. Ninjas do not produce anything and rely on the support of the country. This is definitely the biggest expense. For a village like Sand Village, whose mission quota has been seized by Leaf Village, it is the lifeblood of the village and completely controlled by the daimyo of Wind Country.
Compared to others, Konoha is relatively affluent, but it is still constrained by money.
Moreover, the productivity of the ninja world is not low.
The ninja villages are immersed in the past glory of ninjas, while the outside world is rapidly developing without the support of rulers. This spontaneous pace of development is not slow, ranging from light industry to heavy industry, and from large factories to small family workshops, everything is available.
In the daily life of Konoha, there are always manifestations of these changes, which Miki has been observing.
From the use of DC electricity to AC electricity, from black and white TV to color TV, from radios to vending machines, and even firearms, the changes are numerous.
They can earn money, and they really make big money.
Among them, coal mine owners, in the land of wood leaves, often have missions involving these coal mine owners. They are not short of money and they raise armed forces and hire ninjas to deal with laborers, which is normal operation.
Even if Konoha doesn't do it, there are plenty of villages willing to do this kind of dirty work.
They give so much.
There are few tasks, good to do, and lots of money.
Moreover, Konoha is not unwilling to do it. With a big forest, there are all kinds of birds. The Third Hokage often turns a blind eye. Whether to accept or not is a personal choice for the ninja. The village simply takes a small commission from the missions.
It often happens that Da Ming runs out of money and secretly issues tasks to cheat coal bosses. Generally, he collects under the name of bandits.
Each one is cunning and merciless.
More often, there are battles between coal bosses in the form of assassination tasks.
This kind of mission is gladly accepted by ninjas.
The true patrons behind them are often nobles.
There is no need to say much about the mission itself. The problems in Sunagakure are basically no different from those in Konohagakure.
Do tasks to earn money to support the family, when there's no more money, we ask for help.
This is the key to feeding all these mouths.
Among them, Meiji found that Suna had a large-scale export of minerals, mainly selling them to the Country of Iron, which in turn exports weapons to the whole world, especially providing a large number of weapons to the border of the Country of Lightning.
It's not shuriken, but a gun.
The Hidden Iron Country, that stinky kid who stays neutral, needs to be dealt with, but not now.
In order to completely kill the Sand Village, these economic sources must be cut off.
The next operation will revolve around this.
After so much effort to capture it, if the Hidden Sand Village rises again, it will all have been in vain.
The first thing to do is prisoner management, the registration can be dealt with later. Once all the personnel from the Hidden Sand Village gather, Miki can spirit out with the Winter Mist Vehicle.
Winter Blizzard cars are ready in Konoha.
Use the summoning jutsu to transfer these prisoners to the village.
To be honest, the village can't afford suddenly having so many extra people.
The placement of the vortex family has caused great stress to the village, mainly because they have not dealt with such a situation before and lack experience.
But Mei Ji can afford it.
Even if it means eating dung, it can guarantee the minimum standards and allow them to survive.
Of course, the minimum standard cannot be so insane, at least we guarantee absolute green and healthy water and food.
Besides, when you eat too much and get full, you are more likely to cause trouble.