Chapter 228 The Disappointment in Jiraiya's Heart
The next morning, after a night's rest, Jiraiya arrived at the Amegakure Building.

Yahiko, who had been waiting here for a long time, came to greet them. They planned to arrange for Jiraiya to visit the Hidden Rain Village to witness its development and changes over the years.

Jiraiya did not reject Yahiko's kindness. He also wanted to walk around the Hidden Rain Village and see how the Hidden Rain Village had developed from a weak and poor ninja village to its current level.

If possible, he wanted to take this experience to the Konoha Village and let the third generation teacher learn and imitate it.

After so many events, Konoha is no longer the invincible number one ninja village in the world. Not only did it suffer losses in the wars with Kumogakure and Iwagakure, but even the Rain Village surpassed it.

Recovering his gradually dispersing thoughts, Jiraiya silently followed Yahiko and began to visit the Hidden Rain Village.

The first stop that Yahiko took Jiraiya to visit was the Ninja School.

Unlike the semi-open ninja school in Konoha, the ninja school in the Hidden Rain Village is a towering building. The outside is made of cold steel and concrete, but the inside is a completely different scene, which looks like a different world.

There are not only many green plants inside the building, but there is even a small stadium.

The arrival of Yahiko and his companions immediately attracted the attention of the teachers and students of the ninja school. They hurriedly came over and shouted "Chief Yahiko", and Yahiko responded with a smile.

Yahiko's calm demeanor reminded Jiraiya of his teacher, the Third Hokage, and he felt deeply moved.

He used to teach a homeless child, and now he has become an independent leader of a ninja village, and is also loved by the people of the Hidden Rain Village.

However, as a teacher, he has not made any progress over all these years. Instead, he is getting worse.

After expressing his feelings, Jiraiya continued to move forward with Yahiko, visiting the classrooms and library, and came to the office of the principal of the ninja school.

After pushing open the office door, Jiraiya saw the familiar figure, Konan.

Although Konan is in charge of the finances and logistics of the Hidden Rain Village, he also serves as the principal of the ninja school and the director of the welfare home.

Jiraiya greeted Konan and then asked about the news about the Hidden Rain Village Ninja School. He was very curious about the history of the Hidden Rain Village Ninja School.

Faced with the teacher's request, Konan naturally would not refuse and explained the history of the Rain Hidden Ninja School to Jiraiya.

Unlike Konoha, which was the first to establish a ninja school, the Hidden Rain Village Ninja School was established very late. It was almost after the end of the Second Ninja World War that Hanzo Salamander established a ninja school in imitation of the Second Hokage.

During the reign of Hanzo Salamander, ninja schools were almost monopolized by a few large families. It was very difficult for ordinary people to enter ninja schools. Even after three years of instruction, they could only become cannon fodder on the battlefield.

Hearing this, Jiraiya nodded.

The ninja school under the rule of Hanzo Salamander meets his expectations for the Hidden Rain Village. The Hidden Rain Village is just a small ninja village, and having a few hundred ninjas is already the limit.

And this is exactly the number of ninjas in several large ninja families.

However, he was more concerned about how the Rain Village Ninja School had changed from being monopolized by big families during the time of Hanzo of the Salamander to its current state.

Although he had not deliberately counted just now, he had roughly estimated the number of students in the ninja school.

The number of students in the Rain Village Ninja School is definitely over two hundred, and there may even be five hundred or six hundred. This number of ninja students has already exceeded that of the Konoha Ninja School, which is really too exaggerated.

Konan saw Jiraiya's surprised expression, and after talking about the ninja school in the Salamander era, she talked about the current situation of the Rain Hidden Ninja School.

The current Rain Hidden Village Ninja School is different from other ninja villages. It does not train mercenary ninjas. Except for a small number of students who need to learn escort and assassination ninjutsu, most of the other students only need to master the three body techniques, and the rest of the time can be used to take other elective courses.

For example, medical ninjutsu, chakra industrialization technology, chakra bioscience, etc.

Only after fully mastering one of the subjects can one officially graduate from the Ninja School.

Hearing this, Jiraiya breathed a sigh of relief, and then seemed to remember something and asked Konan:

"It's a good thing that ninjas don't go out to fight and kill, but aren't your requirements for students to graduate too harsh? It's not easy for ordinary people to master the Three Body Technique."

"Harsh?" Xiaonan shook her head, then said, "Although no students in the village have officially graduated yet, we are different from Konoha. We do not have a three-year education system, but seven to nine years."

"Seven to nine years!?"

Jiraiya was shocked. He originally thought that the three generations' reform of the ninja school to six years was already a very long time, but he didn't expect that the Hidden Rain Village would actually be seven to nine years.

When he was studying at the Ninja School, he graduated and became a Genin after less than two years of study.

The requirements were much stricter in Minato's era, but it only took three years to graduate. Ninjas today really live in a good era.

At this time, Yahiko came over and explained:
"It was Byakuya who first proposed the idea of ​​seven to nine years of education. Later, I discussed this with Senior Brother Minato. We have always believed that the graduation age of ninjas should be postponed."

"Being a ninja is a very cruel profession. If you expose them to the cruelty of the ninja world too early, it is easy for them to go down a path of no return. We must wait until they have a mature mind before letting them make the final decision."

After a pause, Yahiko continued, "However, compared to training a new generation in ninja schools, Nagato and I are more inclined to popularize ninjutsu among ordinary people."

"Many young men, although they do not have the talent to become ninjas, are able to learn a few simple ninjutsu to improve their lives. The development of the Hidden Rain Village over the years is also inseparable from their contributions."

At this point, Yahiko smiled from the bottom of his heart. He truly witnessed the changes in the Hidden Rain Village.

Yahiko's words made Jiraiya fall into silence, feeling very uncomfortable.

It's not just because Yahiko mentioned Minato, his proudest apprentice, the Fourth Hokage who sacrificed his life to protect the village on the night of the Nine-Tails.

It was more because many of the reforms that Minato had enacted in the name of the Fourth Hokage had all been repealed.

In Konoha under the rule of the Fourth Hokage, the major departments of Konoha were forcibly split up, and even among the security forces, civilian ninjas appeared for the first time.

After Minato's death, the old man became Hokage again and everything returned to normal.

He didn't say that there was anything wrong with the old man's policies. At least the old man saved the village during several wars and prevented it from falling apart.

But everything is afraid of comparison. With Yahiko and the Hidden Rain Village as references, the old man seems to be doing nothing and not doing his job.

The war on the Cloud Village side was finally ended.

The old man didn't think about how to develop the village. He had been suppressing the Uchiha in the village and allowing clowns like Danzo to be active on the Konoha stage.

If this continues, Konoha's future will be in jeopardy.

(End of this chapter)