Chapter 228 The Gap in Jiraiya's Heart

The next morning, after a night's rest, Jiraiya came to the Hidden Rain Building.

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

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

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

After so many events, Konoha is no longer the world's invincible first ninja village. Not only did it suffer losses in the wars with the Hidden Cloud and Hidden Rock, but even the Hidden Rain Village came from behind.

Retracting his gradually divergent 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 cold steel and concrete, but the inside is another scene, which looks like a different world.

There are not only many green plants planted inside the building, but also a small stadium.

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

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

He taught the street kid back then, and now he has become a capable leader of the ninja village, and has also gained the love of the people of the Hidden Rain Village.

As a teacher, he has not made any progress in all these years, but has become more and more backward.

After sighing, Jiraiya continued to move forward with Yahiko, visited the classroom and library, and came to the office of the principal of the ninja school.

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

Although Konan is in charge of the finance 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 of the Hidden Rain Village Ninja School. He was very curious about the history of the Hidden Rain Ninja School.

Faced with the teacher's request, Konan naturally would not refuse and explained the history of the Hidden Rain 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 of the Salamander followed the example of the Second Generation Hokage to establish a ninja school.

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

Hearing this, Jiraiya nodded.

The ninja school under the rule of Hanzo of the Salamander was in line with his expectations for the Hidden Rain Village. The Hidden Rain Village was just a small ninja village, and a few hundred ninjas were already the limit.

And this happened to be the number of ninjas from several large ninja families.

However, he was more concerned about how the Hidden Rain School changed from being monopolized by big families during the time of Hanzo Salamander to what it is now.

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

The number of students in the Hidden Rain School is definitely more than 200, and there are even 500 or 600 students. This number of ninja students has 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 era of the Salamander, he talked about the current situation of the Hidden Rain School.

The Hidden Rain School is different from other ninja villages today. 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 biological science, etc.

Only after fully mastering one of the courses can you 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 for ninjas not 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?" Konan shook her head, and then said: "Although no students in the village have officially graduated yet, we are different from Konoha. We don't have a three-year education system, but seven to nine years."

"Seven to nine years!?"

Jiraiya was shocked. He originally thought that the third generation teacher's reform of the ninja school to six years was very long, but he didn't expect that the Hidden Rain Village was 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 in Minato's era were much stricter, but it only took three years to graduate. Now the ninjas are really living in a good era.

At this time, Yahiko came over and explained:

"Bai Ye was the first to propose seven to nine years of education. Later, I also discussed this with Senior Brother Minato. We have always believed that the graduation age of ninjas should be postponed."

"Ninja is a very cruel profession. If they are exposed to the cruelty of the ninja world too early, it is easy to go down a road of no return. They must wait until they have a mature mind before they can make the final decision."

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

"Many young men, although they don't have the talent to become ninjas, can learn a few simple ninjutsu to improve their lives. The development of the Hidden Rain Village over the years is inseparable from their contributions."

Speaking of this, Yahiko smiled from the bottom of his heart. He really witnessed the changes in the Hidden Rain Village.

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

Not only because Yahiko mentioned Minato, his proudest apprentice, the Fourth Hokage who sacrificed himself in the night of the Nine-tailed Fox to protect the village.

It is also because many reforms issued by Minato in the name of the Fourth Hokage have been abolished.

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

After Minato's death, when the old man became Hokage again, everything returned to the same state.

He didn't say that the old man's policies were not many. At least the old man saved the village in several wars and did not let the village fall apart.

But everything is afraid of comparison. With Yahiko and the Hidden Rain Village as references, the old man seems to be a bit idle and not doing his job.

It was not easy to end the war with the Hidden Cloud Village.

The old man did not think about how to develop the village. He has been suppressing Uchiha in the village and allowing clowns like Danzo to be active on the stage of Konoha.

If this continues, the future of Konoha will be in jeopardy.