Chapter seven hundred and forty seventh combat power
After giving Minato a little warning, Lei Luo felt that with the IQ of his cheap apprentice, he should be able to distinguish the stakes, so he simply said no more.
Shifting his gaze to Uzumaki Makoto, the Hokage of the Second Village, who was puffing on a cigar with an expression of enjoyment on his face, Lei Luo suddenly felt a little strange, wondering when did this guy like smoking?
"Uzumaki Makoto, please report on the combat power of the second village."
In front of everyone, Lei Luo said hello, his tone was not warm, and there was no expression on his face. However, from the perspective of Orochimaru, who knew Lei Luo quite well, the Prime Minister must not be in a good mood at the moment.
Don’t like secondhand smoke? Or...
Uzumaki Cheng opened his half-closed eyes, glanced at Lei Luo's face from the corner of his eye, and hurriedly sat upright. He first took out a pair of delicate scissors from his arms, and cut off the head of the cigar in three strokes.
Put out the drifting smoke.
Then, he put on a calm look and said with a confident smile:
"The second village now has a total of 15,368 genin, 3,744 chunin, and 221 jounin. With the development in the past two years, Kawa no Kuni has done a great job for us.
It provides a lot of troops."
Perhaps because he couldn't see Uzumaki Makoto's proud look, Hinata Tamaki snorted lightly and continued coldly:
"What's the big deal? The Fire Nation's military strength today is five times that of your Kawakori Nation. If we want to win the war, we still have to rely on the strength of our Konoha mainland and the military regions."
Regarding Hinata Tamaki's deliberate arrogance, Uzumaki Makoto didn't pay any attention to it. He didn't even change his smile. He just looked at Lei Luo. The feeling in his eyes seemed to be waiting for the latter's praise?
Lei Luo knew the situation in the Kingdom of Sichuan well, and the reason why Uzumaki Makoto spoke out was just to let the senior executives present understand his own strength and build up a strong sense of self-confidence.
"Nearly 20,000 combat ninjas... Well, Uzumaki Makoto, you did a good job. How many production ninjas are there? How many have passed the technician examinations at all levels?"
Lei Luo simply praised Uzumaki Cheng and asked the next question, and Uzumaki Cheng blurted out without any thought:
"The Country of Sichuan is a small country after all, and the ability to mobilize so many ninjas is already the limit. Therefore, production ninjas and combat ninjas overlap in many places. There are many ninjas with both sets of professional titles. If we talk about pure production ninjas..."
He took out five fingers of his pen and continued:
"Probably around five thousand people."
Lei Luo knew Uzumaki Makoto quite well, and he knew that these five thousand people were probably a bit wet. After all, the number of combat ninjas was reported so clearly, so why did he have such a rough idea when it came to producing ninjas?
However, although there were not many serious production ninjas in the country of Shirakawa, and fighting and production were 80% inseparable, Lei Luo had no intention of exposing Uzumaki Makoto.
What Uzumaki Makoto said before is correct. After all, the country of Sichuan is a small country with a total population of only more than 300,000. No matter how much people are incited to become ninjas, there will still be only a few people who have the conditions and desire to purchase chakra reagents.
To be honest, Uzumaki Makoto's ability to produce close to 20,000 ninjas is already very strong. This mobilization ratio has almost reached one-tenth. For a country that has just shifted from a feudal system to a capital system...
Indeed, it is not easy.
If you look at the mobilization ratio alone, the Fire Country is inferior to the Sichuan Country. Lei Luo recognized Uzumaki Makoto's achievements from the bottom of his heart.
After talking about the second village, Lei Luo turned to look at Lu Jiu:
"The statistics from the cabinet should have come out, right? Tell me, how many ninjas do we currently have in the Land of Fire?"
Perhaps under the influence of Uzumaki Makoto, Shikaku straightened his back subconsciously, and without any recollection or thought, fluent sentences came from his mouth:
"There are 53,000 ninjas in each military region, including 38,000 genin, 14,000 chunin, and 335 jounin."
"There are more than 10,000 ninjas in Konoha, including 6,500 genin, 2,700 chunin, and 674 jounin."
"In addition, there are more than 20,000 full-time production ninjas, 10,000 junior technicians, 6,000 intermediate technicians, and 4,000 senior technicians."
After listening to Shikaku's speech in silence, Lei Luo had not yet spoken, but Uzumaki Makoto spoke first. He didn't know whether it was ridicule or teasing and said to Hinata Tamaki:
"More than 80,000, that's less than five times? Huan, next time you argue with me, can you please learn math first and then come back?"
Hinata Huan's face darkened, but he didn't expect that Uzumaki Cheng could still remember what he just said, and he wanted to retort, but when he saw Lei Luo turning his head and giving him a look, he had to swallow his suffocation.
Glancing at the friendly interaction between Uzumaki Makoto and Hyuga Tamaki, Lei Luo looked away and noticed that Shikaku and others were waiting for his response. He thought for a while and said:
"Including the combat power of the mainland, the second village, and the military region, the number of ninjas in our Country of Fire now exceeds 100,000, which is a good proof of the results of the reform."
"But I want to remind everyone that although we have completely destroyed any great ninja village in terms of numbers, even the total number of ninjas in the four great ninja villages is slightly inferior to ours in the Fire Nation, but this does not mean that
, we can sit back and relax and wait for victory to come."
First, he affirmed the dazzling achievements made by various departments in the past two years after the reform, and then changed the subject, his expression became much more serious, and Lei Luo analyzed seriously:
"Compared with other ninjas in ninja villages, most of our fighting ninjas in the Land of Fire are from ordinary civilians. Some of them have never even held a sword before. In addition, there are very few combat missions in the country. These ninjas from civilian backgrounds lack iron.
After training with blood, his fighting ability is actually extremely worrying."
"For example, there are more than a thousand jounin in total. The promotion channels for these jounin are different from those before the reform."
"Many of them just have enough chakra, their physical fitness is up to standard, they have the ability to use some high-level ninjutsu, and they finally barely passed the strength test. If they were really allowed to fight one-on-one with Sotomura Jounin
?To engage in a life-and-death fight?"
Shaking his head with regret, Lei Luo sighed and continued:
"Although I hate to admit it, I think that is looking for death."
There are advantages and disadvantages to developing too fast. The advantage is naturally that the number of ninjas can expand rapidly, but the disadvantage may be that the quantity has increased but the quality has declined, right?
Lei Luo, who has seized power in the Country of Fire, and the alliance of capital forces and ninja forces who initiated reforms, undoubtedly have the human and financial resources to vigorously promote the implementation of various policies.
However, after this set of procedures, although the military strength increased nearly five times compared to two years ago, reaching a terrifying figure of more than 100,000 ninjas, it made the Fire Nation ninja community increasingly bloated.
No matter how you look at it, today's Fire Country is completely two extremes compared to Sunagakure and Kirigakure, which have elite military policies and have an average number of ninjas in Ninja Villages of just over 10,000.