Naruto's civilian cannon fodder starts with the three-body technique

Chapter 27 Cutting Tool Reimbursement
"Ah?" Sarutobi Kagejiro quickly fell silent, then whispered softly, "Shinnosuke, I didn't mean that."

The extremely arrogant Sarutobi Kagejiro was like a mouse encountering a cat at this time, and was completely suppressed by Sarutobi Shinnosuke.

Although the two are of the same generation, Sarutobi Kagejiro is ten years older than Sarutobi Shinnosuke, but he is suppressed instead. It can be seen that the reputation of the Sarutobi family being the last among their peers is not groundless.

"You're not going to apologize, right? Then let's practice alone after we get home."

"No! Shinnosuke, please let me go. I was just saying it casually."

When Sarutobi Kagejiro heard the word "solo training", he immediately shook his head with fear in his eyes. Obviously, the so-called solo training was not so friendly to him, and he even had some psychological trauma about it.

However, Sarutobi Kagejiro considered himself to be of noble status, so how could he possibly apologize, especially to a lowly person who sold stinky fish? Therefore, Sarutobi Kagejiro refused to give in even under the forceful pressure of Sarutobi Shinnosuke.

Seeing the two arguing, Umino Sasuke interrupted, "Shinnosuke, there's no need to apologize."

"Hmph!" Sarutobi Kagejiro was delighted after hearing this, looking like a villain who had succeeded.

But just as Umino Sasuke finished speaking, he continued to propose: "However, deserting the battlefield, being inconsistent and treating mission information as a joke, this must be punished, otherwise wouldn't this encourage the violation of Konoha ninja rules?"

"Yeah! You're right, we can't go unpunished."

Sarutobi Shinnosuke nodded repeatedly, expressing his deep agreement. "Senior, what should the punishment be?"

"Then punish him to stay here and fill the gap in the Aoba Squad's defense zone. Take over this sentry patrol mission. As for the intelligence, Shinnosuke will deliver it back in place of Kagejiro."

After Umino Sasuke finished speaking, he looked at Akimichi Torifo who was standing beside him, obviously wanting Akimichi Torifo to make the decision.

"Huh?" After hearing this, Akimichi Toribo's eyes lit up and he quickly thought in his mind, this is a good suggestion, it's a good opportunity to get mission merit points.

The only problem is that doing so may seem like stealing the credit.

No, how can this be considered stealing credit?

Even if it was a case of stealing the credit, it was Shinnosuke who stole Kagejiro's. Shinnosuke was the young patriarch of the Sarutobi clan. This was entirely an internal issue of their Sarutobi clan. If it was arranged like this, then the Sarutobi clan might even thank him for being a good man.

Umino Sasuke added at the right moment: "Ye, what do you think about letting Shinnosuke go back with you to bring the information back?"

"this--"

Yue Guangye thought carefully in his heart. After listening to the conversation between Shinnosuke and Kagejiro just now, he thought that Shinnosuke's strength was obviously much higher than Kagejiro. It would definitely be more reliable to let Shinnosuke go with him to bring the information back.

What's more, it's not far from the base, and it's a suggestion from my savior, so how could I not agree?

Seeing that Yue Guangye agreed, Akimichi Torifon knew what else to say. He would definitely let Shinnosuke send the information back instead of Kagejiro. As for the safety issue on the road, he could just let Maruboshi Kosuke leave a shadow clone. It would be easily solved. Anyway, it was not far from the base and it would only take half a day to go back and forth.

So, it was happily decided, and the only one who was hurt was Sarutobi Kagejiro.

But it can only be messy in the wind.

Akimichi Torifo patted Umino Sasuke's shoulder with great satisfaction and said with a smile, "Sasuke, what about the distribution of mission merits?"

"Everything is subject to Master Fang's arrangements, but we just stopped these Sand Ninjas and consumed a few detonating tags and blades. I wonder—"

There was something hidden in Umino Sasuke's words.

Without waiting for Umino Sasuke to explain, Akimichi Torifon immediately understood and said with a smile: "As for the reimbursement of battlefield blades and supplies, I understand this rule. It will be deducted from the captured spoils of war. Of the excess, 70% will be handed over to the village, and we will redistribute the remaining 30%." Konoha Village has a clear rule that 70% of all spoils captured during a mission must be handed over, and the remaining 30% is the spoils that can be pocketed.

However, every policy has its own countermeasure.

This method of distributing captured goods has a fatal loophole, which is the reimbursement issue for cutting tools and supplies.

For example, if you encounter an enemy in a mission and fight with them, and you lose 10 kunai but also capture 100 kunai from the enemy, theoretically, you should hand over 70% of them, which is 7 kunai.

But the actual situation is that in order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the team and deal with dangers that may arise at any time, 10 kunai can be taken from the spoils to restore combat effectiveness, and the actual captured kunai becomes 90 kunai, and 7% is handed over, which is 63 kunai.

By analogy, the same principle applies to the wear and tear of bladed tools such as detonating tags and shurikens.

This became an unspoken rule of the ninja: the loss of blades and supplies during the mission could be reimbursed from the spoils, and the remaining part would be handed over to the village.

of course.

As for captured spoils, most of the ordinary middle and lower-level ninjas with no background dared not keep them privately, but when it came to reimbursement of bladed tools and supplies, there was a lot of room for maneuver, and it was common for ordinary ninjas to have their reimbursements increased by three levels.

The children of the ninja clan have strong backgrounds, so it is common for reimbursements to increase by several times or even dozens of times, which is extremely outrageous.

It was so outrageous that the village finally stipulated in written document that the reimbursement for bladed materials could not exceed the amount of seized proceeds. The part that the seized proceeds were not enough to reimburse had to be borne entirely by the ninjas themselves, in order to put an end to all ninjas' false reporting of large losses, or even collusion with bladed material dealers to fleece the village.

Although the policy is good, there are problems in its implementation.

Ordinary ninjas would be stingy and hand over some of their spoils when on a mission, but the ninja clan members with good backgrounds basically would not hand anything over. When asked, they would just reimburse the loss of blades. If they dared to make a fuss, they would be faced with a long bill and would have to pay out of their own pockets to subsidize the village, and it is very likely that they would shed blood and tears for the village.

This kind of thing has happened before, otherwise the village would not have explicitly stipulated that battlefield reimbursements cannot exceed the spoils of war, and the excess must be borne by the villagers.

Apparently, the ninjas used to eat in such an ugly way that the village came up with this reimbursement cap rule.

But this further exacerbated the gap between the rich and the poor among ninjas.

The ninja clan members who are not short of money go to the battlefield and report all the losses directly, and basically do not hand over any of the spoils.

Ordinary ninjas of the middle and lower levels with no background are not rich to begin with, but they have to hand over at least 80% of the spoils.

Why is it at least 80%, not 70%, or even less?
Naturally, the right to evaluate the value of the seized goods is not in the hands of these ordinary ninjas at the middle and low levels with no background.

The price of the same kunai made in a local workshop and that made in the country of craftsmen can differ by more than ten times.

How to assess the value of the seized goods is still up to the guys in the logistics department.

In order to obtain a relatively fair assessment of the captured goods, shouldn't we give our colleagues in the logistics department a little bit of appraisal fee? Charging only 10% of the appraisal fee is already very conscientious, right?

The logistics department of the Sand Village is directly controlled by the elders. The appraisal fee soars to 30%, plus the 70% handed over to the village. It is equivalent to all the spoils having to be handed over, and they can hardly keep a penny.

Do you know how the Daimyo of the Wind Country suppressed the sand bandits in the country?
All the spoils have to be handed over, so who would want to pretend to be a bandit and take the thankless task of robbing a caravan?

The Daimyo of the Wind Country may not be very capable in dealing with external affairs, but he is definitely an expert in dealing with internal affairs. He can suppress the poor Sand Village, which shows his high political literacy.

(End of this chapter)