Chapter 121 The Harmless White Night

The next morning, Bai Ye followed Yahiko and Konan to the Hokage Building to meet the Fourth Hokage.

Compared with yesterday, both sides were less reserved and more familiar with each other. They were brothers in the same school and had a common teacher.

After some greetings, the Fourth Hokage talked about today's schedule.

He planned to take Yahiko and others to visit the Ninja School in the morning and to visit the combat exercises in the Death Forest in the afternoon to exchange experiences in managing the village.

Yahiko and others naturally would not refuse these arrangements, as they also wanted to visit the Ninja School.

Let's take a look at the Konoha Village, which was the first to establish a ninja school institution, and see how the ninja school has developed. This will be of great help to them in reforming the ninja school.

Accompanied by the Fourth Hokage, they soon arrived at the Ninja School.

The Ninja School does not cover a large area and the number of students is not that large. There are only about three hundred students in the entire school, and there are only about ninety ninjas in each class.

Yahiko and Konan were stunned to see so many ninja students.

For the Hidden Rain Village, the number of students in the Ninja School is an astonishing number, because the number of ninjas in the entire Hidden Rain Village is not much more than the number of ninjas in the Ninja School.

But this number is a bit too little for Bai Ye.

In his estimation, the ninja school should have about 500 ninjas graduating every year in order to maintain the number of tens of thousands of ninjas in Konoha.

However, considering that it is not difficult to become a ninja quickly, Bai Ye is more inclined to train a ninja captain in the ninja school.

As long as the number of Chunins can keep up, each major ninja village can directly mass-produce ninjas with Genin strength. Otherwise, the Sarutobi Ninja Army of 3,000 people would not have appeared in later generations.

If there were such a terrifying number, the ninja school would have been full long ago.

After entering the Ninja School, Namikaze Minato gave a detailed introduction to the Ninja School, such as the standards for students' graduation assessment and the plans for the Ninja School in the next few years.

The general meaning is that Konoha intends to take an elite route and allow ninjas to develop in all aspects.

After introducing these in detail, Minato Namikaze looked at Yahiko and others, expecting to see expressions of surprise on their faces.

Konoha's Ninja School is the only school that focuses on all-round development.

Other villages train Genin either by teaching them shuriken throwing and a few simple ninjutsu and then starting to carry out missions directly, or by putting all their skill points into combat and only knowing how to fight and kill.

Only Konoha will carry out all-round development and train Genin from the aspects of tactics, teamwork, etc.

Unfortunately, Yahiko and Konan were not moved at all, and even wanted to say that this was it. The Hidden Rain Village had already provided multi-faceted training for students in the Ninja School, and even had senior ninjas involved in their education.

All of these were initiated by Bai Ye. It can only be said that Bai Ye sees further than Konoha.

At this time, Bai Ye showed a thoughtful expression and asked: "Hokage-sama, how many years does it take for Konoha to graduate from the Ninja School?"

"Three years..." Namikaze Minato said without hesitation, "However, when peacetime comes, I plan to delay it to five or even six years."

"Three years?" Bai Ye was a little surprised after getting the answer.

In his impression, ninja school should be six years. If it is only three years, isn't it too advanced to have nine years of education, which is not conducive to cost control? However, judging from the graduation time of the three ninjas and Kakashi, Konoha has actually been delaying the graduation age.

The three ninjas initially graduated at the age of six, which was a one-year system. Kakashi, Obito and others delayed it to three years, graduating at the age of nine. By the time of Naruto, it became six years.

Thinking of this, Bai Ye smiled at Minato Namikaze and said, "Sorry, I was a little distracted, but can I ask about the specific plan of the Hokage? We in the Hidden Rain Village also want to delay graduation."

Namikaze Minato glanced at Bai Ye and nodded slightly: "Of course, but the plan may change at any time, and I am just expressing some superficial opinions."

This scene made Yahiko and Konan a little confused.

Is Bai Ye mocking Minato Namikaze? Or is he sincerely asking for advice from Minato Namikaze? However, they should listen carefully to the plans of these two people, which will be very helpful for the future.

While Minato Namikaze was taking Byakuya to visit the Ninja School.

In the advisory office, the Third Hokage and others were also observing the investigation team through the crystal ball.

After seeing Namikaze Minato and Yahiko and the others talking and laughing, the Third Hokage couldn't help but touch his pipe, chuckled and said: "Minato has grown a lot, and he is also at ease when facing the exchange group."

"After the Yuyin exchange group leaves, it will definitely improve the village's diplomatic environment and allow those small ninja villages to have more in-depth cooperation with us."

Hearing this, Mitomonen and Utane Koharu also said:
"All this is thanks to Jiraiya. When Jiraiya left the village without permission, we were against it. We never expected that the orphan he taught would grow up to be a high-ranking official in the Hidden Rain Village."

"But why did Hanzo choose them as his successors?"

The Third Hokage smacked his lips twice, then explained: "I think there are several reasons. One is that Hanzo has not trained a qualified successor, and the other is that he has lost his ambition."

"It would be better to confirm Jiraiya's disciple as the heir. This would solve the succession problem and prevent the Rain Country from chaos. But I think the power is still in Hanzo's hands."

"I guess they sent Yahiko and the others here just to show goodwill."

Mitokado En nodded, and then said: "Hiruzen's analysis makes sense, but who is this Byakuya? He seems to have a good relationship with Yahiko and Konan."

The Third Hokage blew out smoke and continued, "According to the report from my Anbu, it was because of Byakuya that Yahiko was valued by Hanzo, and Byakuya was eventually accepted as a disciple by Hanzo."

"I see." Mitomon Yan suddenly realized: "But this Bai Ye looks too innocent, is he really the disciple of Hanzo of the Salamander?"

Perhaps he was choked by the smoke, or perhaps he felt that the other people's remarks were too ridiculous, Danzo stood up with an extremely unpleasant expression, and could not help but say:

"Don't be fooled by this brat Bai Ye. He is the most evil ninja in the Hidden Rain Village."

Danzo's remarks attracted the attention of the others. They all looked at Danzo, not understanding why Danzo had such great malice towards Bai Ye.

Bai Ye looks harmless and is very interested in the plans of the ninja school.

At first glance, he is the dove-like ninja.

Is there some hidden story behind this? Or does Danzo simply dislike nice people?

Thinking of this, the Third Hokage asked Danzo: "Danzo, I remember that you were active in the Land of Grass and the Land of Rain half a year ago. Could it be that you have dealt with them?"

(End of this chapter)