From the Navy Admiral to the Gotei 13

The so-called enemies within the Rain Country.

In fact, they are the remnants of Salamander Hanzo who escaped in large numbers that year. These guys have put their lifelong beliefs on Salamander Hanzo. Even though Hanzo is dead, they did not give up and instead wanted to avenge Hanzo.

Therefore, they have been causing all kinds of trouble in the Rain Country for many years. However, the harm they cause is actually not that great. They are just a bunch of jumping clowns.

But it's really disgusting.

In addition to these remnants, there are also a large number of bandits who have become bandits due to the problems left over from the war, as well as wandering rebel ninjas from the Hidden Rain Village, and even criminals who have fled from other countries.

The Rain Kingdom is located at the borders of the three major countries, and also borders the Bird Kingdom and the Grass Kingdom. It can be said to be the central area where the five countries converge.

Therefore, once criminals from these five countries encounter problems in their own country, they all like to go to the Rain Country.

This also led to the fact that the security situation in the Rain Kingdom was not very good before, and Diarmuid and others did not have the time to care about these trivial matters.

After Kabuto Yakushi took office as the Minister of Intelligence, he began the purge operation in the Rain Country.

Investigate a large amount of intelligence, and then send the ninjas from the Hidden Rain Village and the people who joined the Akatsuki organization that year to clean up these people.

Speaking of which, after Diarmait took over the Hidden Rain Village, the ninjas of the entire Hidden Rain Village were divided into three classes.

The first echelon is naturally the Yorozuya, which includes Diarmait, Orochimaru, Sasori, Kakuzu, and Juuzou Biwa, as well as the two unknown people Nohara Rin and Shirogiri Arisato. Now, they can also add a substitute non-staff member, Kabuto Yakushi.

The second echelon is the Akatsuki organization that followed Diarmait to counterattack the Hidden Rain Village. As the victorious party in the civil war, their status is naturally higher.

At the bottom of the list are the ninjas from the Hidden Rain Village led by Hanzo the former Salamander.

And now, after a period of integration.

The Yorozuya is still in a high and mighty position, accepting offerings from the Rain Country, becoming a patron saint-like figure and holding the highest power.

But the ninjas of the Hidden Rain Village and the ninjas of the Akatsuki organization, who were originally clearly divided, have now basically merged into one.

After all, most of them are actually from the Land of Rain. After the civil war ended, Hanzo of the Hidden Rain Village also died. The ninjas of the Hidden Rain Village who did not escape could not be Hanzo of the Hidden Rain Village's die-hard fans.

Over time, the two sides naturally merged.

In this fusion process, it was not the Rain Ninjas of the Hidden Rain Village who gradually disappeared, but the once glorious pacifists of the Akatsuki organization.

Nowadays, they basically all call themselves 'Rain Ninja'.

This is probably the problem within the Land of Rain.

After this internal integration and the clearing of chaos, the entire Rain Kingdom was back on track.

Gradually, under the suggestion of Kabuto Yakushi, the closure of the Hidden Rain Village began to be lifted. At least now, it was no longer as troublesome for outsiders to enter the Hidden Rain Village as before, requiring detailed registration. A simple record would be enough, and a lot of passes were also issued to the outside world.

The only constant is the incessant rain.

As the 'sixth country' bordering the five countries and second only to the five major countries, the advantages of the Rain Country are actually quite obvious.

That is, once the environmental remediation is qualified, business will develop rapidly.

In fact, before the Second Shinobi World War, Hanzo of the Salamander had vigorously developed commerce in the Land of the Rain. The prosperity of commerce promoted the development of the Land of the Rain and accumulated a large amount of funds for Hanzo of the Salamander. This was the basis for him to dare to declare war on the three surrounding countries later.

After all, why fight a war if you have no money?

Ninjas need to eat too, okay?

If you don’t even pay your salary, who will work hard for you?

All in all, everything seems to be moving in a good direction.

And it's not just the Rain Country.

This is true for the entire ninja world.

As the shadow of the Third Shinobi World War gradually dissipated, the military confrontation between countries was no longer a problem. Instead, economic and cultural confrontations followed. For this reason, all countries were vigorously opening up and developing, making the entire ninja world harmonious.

The countries that were once enemies are no longer enemies.

Merchants from all over the world travel among various countries.

The population decline caused by the continuous wars has gradually begun to recover.

This can be seen from the Twelve Young Warriors that continue to emerge in Konoha.

The Twelve Little Strongmen are just representatives of a new generation. In fact, during this period of time, the birth rate of newborns in Konoha has reached its peak since the establishment of the village, and is still breaking records.

The rest of the countries are mostly the same.

At the same time, according to the intelligence obtained by Kabuto Yakushi, it seems that all major countries are carrying out disarmament.

The number of ninjas is decreasing rapidly.

Perhaps, there are many forces like the Kato clan and the Senju clan that are constantly withdrawing from the ninja industry, but Diarmait has never paid attention to them before.

It was said that after the war, Konoha disbanded approximately 40% of the ninja ranks within three years. All departments, including the Anbu, were constantly streamlining the number of ninja practitioners...

The graduation rate of ninja schools used to be very high, especially during wartime. Basically, as soon as you reached a certain age, you would graduate and then be sent to the battlefield.

But now, it is said that the graduation rate of ninja schools has dropped significantly. If you don’t have some talent or ability, you will not be allowed to become a ninja.

You can't just demobilize on one side and recruit ninjas on a large scale on the other side, right?

Isn't there something wrong with this?

This disarmament situation is not unexpected, because it is almost the first problem that countries must solve after the war.

When the war breaks out, the daimyos can continue to provide support to the village in order to win. At that time, there are sufficient funds and materials, and they can afford to support these ninjas, and they must support them.

Now that the war is over, any daimyo with a normal mind would not continue to support the various ninja villages according to the treatment they received during the war.

Therefore, the income and funding sources of the ninja village will be reduced.

The mission resources of each country are basically stable, and have even shrunk a lot with the end of the war, so many ninjas can't even get the missions.

Without tasks, there is no money to be made. Without money to be made, how can one support the family?

This is a practical issue, so many ninjas also support disarmament.

It doesn't mean that everyone who becomes a ninja is willing to continue to be a ninja for the rest of their lives.

Most people feel that there is no future in their careers, so they naturally want to change careers.

Only true elite ninjas will not be affected by such things.

Therefore, after the large-scale disarmament of various countries, although the number of ninjas has decreased a lot, their quality has indeed improved a lot.

The number of ninjas in the ninja world has now dropped to a historical low since World War I, World War II, and World War III, and it looks like it will remain at this level for a long time to come.

This can be clearly seen from the Fourth Shinobi World War, that is, the time of the Shinobi Alliance.

Let’s look at the situation of the Third Shinobi World War, and just talk about the Iwagakure Village in the Land of Earth.

One army defeated the Sand Village, one army fought a great battle with Konoha in the Land of Rain, and one army fought to the death with the Cloud Village.

These three armies were all combat forces organized with a base number of tens of thousands. That is to say, at the beginning of the war, the Iwagakure Village had already mobilized 30,000 ninjas to fight externally.

They must have left some defensive forces inside, and Ohnoki never appeared on the external battlefield from beginning to end.

When the Third Raikage entered the Land of the Earth, the Iwagakure Village could still arrange 10,000 ninjas to intercept and kill him.

It can be judged that the Iwagakure Village had an army of at least 40,000 ninjas at that time. This is the lowest case scenario. A conservative estimate is that there were at least 50,000 troops at hand.

In fact, it is not just the Iwagakure Village. Because of World War I and World War II, before the outbreak of the Third Shinobi World War, all countries were engaged in an arms race, so the number of ninjas increased sharply.

Konoha and the Hidden Cloud Village, which are also fighting on multiple fronts, cannot be worse than the Hidden Cloud Village.

Needless to say, Konoha has always been the leader of the ninja world and the big brother among the five major countries. It always wins the war. How could it be possible that the number of its ninja army is less than that of the Iwagakure Village?

As for the Hidden Cloud Village, it has always been at odds with the Hidden Iwagakure Village, both feeling that if Konoha is the boss, they are second in command.

Therefore, their military strength cannot be weaker than that of the Iwagakure Village.

So conservatively estimated, these three countries alone had at least 150,000 ninja troops during the Third Shinobi World War. If we calculate more freely, it is not impossible that there were 200,000.

Even if the Sand Village and the Mist Village are a little weaker, as one of the five major countries, they can't be too much weaker. The two of them together should have an army of 50,000, right?

Therefore, it can be estimated that during the Third Shinobi World War alone, the five major countries alone were able to mobilize no less than 250,000 ninjas.

In the following decade or so, the number of ninjas dropped almost drastically.

Because, during the Fourth Shinobi World War, the entire Shinobi world, including the Iron Kingdom samurai, along with the five major nations and various smaller nations, mobilized a total of over 87,000 combat troops, not even reaching 90,000.

You can imagine how serious this disarmament is.

(It seems like they are repairing the network cable at my house today. The internet keeps being disconnected for an hour or half an hour, which really frustrates me.)

Right

Chapter 634 Diarmuid: I want to visit the Pure Land.

In the Hidden Rain Village, Orochimaru's laboratory.

A Sharingan was soaking in an unknown liquid.

Orochimaru was sitting at the table, holding a notebook in his hand, reading with great interest.

Not long after, the door to the laboratory opened, and Scorpion walked in. He looked at Orochimaru in surprise and asked, "Changed the container again?"

"Oh my, I've already used the face erasing technique to restore my original appearance, but I didn't expect you to recognize it at the first sight." Orochimaru looked at the notebook in his hand and teased without turning his head.

"Five years. I've been with you day and night for these five years. How could I not feel something like you changing your container?" Scorpion responded calmly.

"Then I feel a little ashamed. I can't feel it when you change the regeneration nucleus or something." Orochimaru looked up at Scorpion and said.

Scorpion's puppet glared at Orochimaru with remarkable lifelikeness and said, "It's my strength that you can feel it, because the regeneration core doesn't need to be replaced."

After saying that, Scorpion walked over to the Sharingan immersion research, took a look at the Sharingan, and then said, "Come to think of it, you've been looking at that notebook for several years now, aren't you tired of it? With your IQ, you should be able to memorize it by now, right?"

"This is a kind of contact and exchange of ideas. Haven't you been holding another notebook and looking at it for a long time?" Orochimaru complained.

That's right, Orochimaru and Sasori were studying Senju Tobirama's notebook, and Diarmait was also studying it. However, in these five years, the three of them still had not truly understood the complicated and profound information.

After all, it can be regarded as the life's work of Senju Tobirama. It contains the essence of wisdom and thought. To this day, Orochimaru can still find new highlights every time he reads it.

"I have to say that Konoha's Second Hokage is truly... a genius among geniuses. A long time ago, I thought I was very powerful. After meeting you, I have to admit that you are even better than me in scientific research ability. But after reading the notes of the Second Hokage, I discovered that even you have an immeasurable gap between him." Scorpion said with some emotion.

I don't know when it started, but Scorpion started calling Senju Tobirama "Second Hokage".

Perhaps it is because anyone who has read his notes would find it difficult not to feel respect and awe for him?

Senju Tobirama is such an incredible guy.

"The Second Hokage's talent is indeed superior to mine, but if you say there is an insurmountable gap, I don't think that's enough. In my opinion, the only difference between him and me is that we are good at different things." Orochimaru said with a little pride.

Scorpion thought about Orochimaru's words for a moment, then nodded and agreed, "That makes sense. He's good at creating something from nothing, and you're good at adding bricks and tiles."