"In fact, your war is stupid."
Guan Liyuan's words seemed a bit arrogant to Zabuza, and even Bai was a little disappointed with such "empty" words. Many people have made such whining, but what's the point? However,
this is indeed Guan Liyuan's true thought!
The fuse of war can be accidental, but the root of the war must have its essential contradiction.
Although personal force has a strong influence on the ninja village and the country in the Naruto world, and there is also a scourge of Black Zetsu left by Kaguya as a mastermind, Guan Liyuan still does not think that the root of the war is the stubbornness of a few strong people and the running of Black Zetsu...
On the contrary, it is precisely because of the war in the Naruto world that these stubborn strong people and Black Zetsu who want to rescue Kaguya have the opportunity to survive and develop!
The essential contradiction is usually a conflict of interests.
For example, Konoha occupies too many resources in the ninja world. After the decline of the Senju clan and the Uchiha clan, Konoha's force cannot match the resources it possesses... At least in the eyes of other major powers.
What will the ninja village get in the war? The territory of the ninja village will not expand or shrink due to war, but it will determine the number of commissions they accept and the support of the country where they are located! The territory of the
ninja village will not grow, but the growth of the country where they are located will naturally provide more resources and paid commissions for the ninja village, and continuous victory in the war will also attract clients from other countries to entrust tasks to the ninja village.
Unequal distribution of benefits does exist, but in Guan Liyuan's view, this inequality has not yet reached the point where a full-scale war is needed!
As for the period before the Ninja Village, the ninjas fought to the point where children as young as five or six had to go to the battlefield and it was difficult for them to survive to adulthood. This was completely a low IQ behavior...
Although ninjas need to replenish their body's essence and energy because of their chakra training, and their appetite is bigger than that of ordinary people, they definitely don't starve themselves to death. As for other resources... I haven't seen them enjoy them much. The Naruto world doesn't need spiritual stones or other auxiliary training. It seems that the most used resources are metal resources for making shurikens and kunai...
Well, in order to have more metal to make shurikens and kunai, countless shurikens and kunai made of metal are inserted into the enemy, and finally everyone's average life span is only in their teens...
Is there anything more low IQ than this?
The main world where Guan Liyuan is now is also full of wars, but that is because most of the creatures in the abyss are unwilling to live in peace with humans, or even unwilling to communicate with humans. They are obsessed with destroying humans and occupying paradise... Are
the IQs of these ninjas at the same level as those of ghouls?
"The essence of war is to promote the redistribution of benefits, but given the current situation in the ninja world and the sacrifices that war requires, it is much more cost-effective to develop existing resources than to promote the redistribution of benefits." Guan Liyuan further said.
Bai remained silent. She had always regarded herself as Zabuza's tool, but now she only felt that Guan Liyuan's words were unclear and powerful. Instead, Zabuza frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"
"The endurance and strength of a newly graduated Genin can be compared to that of a cow, right?" Guan Liyuan asked.
"Of course... How can a cow be compared? Do you know what the exam was when I graduated?" Zabuza's tone was very cold.
Guan Liyuan was not interested in listening to him talk about his "glorious history" of how he killed all the students in a class.
He skipped Zabuza's question and asked, "Has the land of each country been fully developed and utilized? How many fields can a cow plow in a year? How many mines can it mine? How much can a Genin eat and use in a year? If a war breaks out, how many Genin will die in a year? What can you get if you win?"
Zabuza remained silent.
Maybe he vaguely guessed what Guan Liyuan was going to say, or maybe it was Guan Liyuan who asked it, and he didn't know!
After all, the ninja village is not a small peasant economy, nor does it rely on planting and industry, but relies on subsidies from the country where it is located and the remuneration for commissioned tasks.
"In this case where the income is greater than the consumption, the redistribution of benefits is not urgent, especially the losses caused by promoting redistribution will be greater than the gains from the redistribution of its own interests! So where are these human resources consumed?" Guan Liyuan continued to ask.
Outsiders only know that Momochi Zabuza is a "ghost man" who enjoys killing people, but he himself knows that he is a ghost man who dreams of becoming a Mizukage! So at this time, he was also thinking about what Guan Liyuan said... Could it be that the remuneration for ninja tasks is not as fast as farming?
Zabuza thought about it carefully, and it seemed not to be the case. For a task like this one of Cardo, even a hundred cows could not exchange it!
Seeing Zabuza frowning... No, Zabuza has no eyebrows, he is "arching his eyes" to think, Guan Liyuan continued: "In fact, the main reason is that the ninja's mission reward is not proportional to the effort, and the higher the level of the ninja
, the more so!" "How is it possible? The mission reward of a Chunin is at least five times that of a Genin..." Zabuza said immediately.
"But how many Genins can produce a Chunin? In addition to the mission, how much training time does a Genin need to spend? Twenty Genins can become Chunins after ten years of full-time training, but after a Chunin deducts the time for continuing training, the time to execute the commission is only about twenty years. Even if the efficiency is five times that of a Genin, it is still a loss of half..." Guan Liyuan calculated the account.
Of course, the actual ratio is not like this, but Zabuza understood Guan Liyuan's example... And Guan Liyuan did not notice that Bai Ye, who was standing beside him, showed an interested look.
Guan Liyuan felt that the various ninja villages, spending so much money to train ninjas, was actually a disguised arms race, and it was the worst arms race that directly destroyed productivity!
"You mean the more Chunins and Jonins we train, the more disadvantageous it is?" Zabuza couldn't accept it.
"It was true in the Warring States Period, but after the Senju and Uchiha clans took the lead in reforming and finally determined the rules of the Ninja Village through the Five Kage Conference, this 'disadvantage' was actually resolved a lot..." "
Has anything changed?" Although Zabuza's voice was cold, there was some urgency in his tone.
Many people regarded Zabuza's assassination of the Mizukage as a reckless act, thinking that he was the type with strong limbs and a simple mind, but in fact his ambition was definitely not small! His assassination was also for the purpose of promoting a coup...
"The biggest change is that ninjas can use their own military resources to exchange for non-military resources from non-ninjas, which means that the process of training ninjas is no longer separated from production in disguise." Guan Liyuan said.
"Isn't it the same now?" Zabuza asked again.
The situation has not changed, why is it not peaceful now?
"It's different... Now all ninjas are considered as a group, and ordinary people who are not ninjas are considered as a group... The trade between the two is the exchange of military resources and material resources. The more equal this exchange is, the more stable the ninja world will be. But now the military power of ninjas is inflated... Ahem, you can understand that there are too many ninjas, and the commission money is decreasing!" Guan Liyuan continued.
Seeing that Zabuza hadn't come to his senses yet, Guan Liyuan guided him and asked again: "When the Ninja Village era just started, how many ninjas were there? What was the ratio of Genin, Chunin, and Jonin? How many ninjas are there now? How much have the commissions increased compared to that year?"
With this reminder, Zabuza also understood that although the top five countries now no longer have strong people like Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha who can suppress everything, the number of ninjas has increased and the level has risen overall, but the rate of increase in commissions is not that fast... Naturally, ninjas are not worth much!
"You mean, the so-called 'root contradiction' is actually..." Zabuza's tone was a little weird.
"That's right, the so-called contradiction is that there are too many ninjas. In fact, every time the Ninja World War is over, the reason why everyone can be quiet for a while is not because someone has seized the territory, but because the number of ninjas has decreased!"
In Guan Liyuan's view, the Ninja World War is like capitalism pouring milk into the river... Although it is a waste, it does play a role in stabilizing the market!
Of course, ninjas are not milk, and they can't jump into the river by themselves, so they will sacrifice in the war!
The leaders of the major ninja villages may not have this purpose, but they indirectly contributed to this result...
"..." This statement made Zabuza unacceptable.
"Fighting for peace, sacrifice is great; fighting for profit, sacrifice is valuable; fighting for sacrifice... sacrifice is stupid." Guan Liyuan further stimulated him.
In this way, the ninja is indeed stupid. He desperately improves his chakra and hones his ninjutsu, which makes his value lower and lower. In the end, he can only "self-destruct" to regain balance.
After Zabuza remained silent for a long time, he said sarcastically: "What else can we do? Should we reduce the number of ninjas? Even if Konoha does this, they will definitely be eaten alive!"
"Indeed, peace cannot be built on the kindness of human beings, otherwise it will only benefit the 'first bad guy'... But there are actually other ways! Now the contradiction appears in two parts. One part is the imbalance between the military resources produced by the ninja group and the material resources produced by non-ninja groups... and the other part is that the production of military resources cannot be slowed down within the ninja group because of mutual distrust!" Guan Liyuan said slowly. Zabuza
continued to look at him without saying a word.
"In other words, if you want to resolve this contradiction, you can only start with 'material resources'! As long as the material resources are increased to the same speed as the growth of military resources, the contradiction can be eased..." Guan Liyuan continued.
Zabuza's expression became more and more strange...
"That's right! In general, the reason why the ninja world is constantly at war, in addition to mutual distrust, is that the non-ninja group has created too little material value!"
Zabuza and Bai were speechless. If this conclusion had not been led by Guan Liyuan bit by bit, the two would have thought he was crazy...
Is the reason why the ninja world has been at war for years because of the lack of productivity of ordinary people? The most despicable and ambitious people can't come up with such a shameless reason...
But now that Guan Liyuan said it, the two had to believe it. After all, the whole deduction process was in front of them. They could understand 70% of each step separately, but after putting them together, this conclusion was astonishing.
"The war in the ninja world... has nothing to do with ninjas? So... that means we can't stop the war at all?" Zabuza asked.
Bai also looked at Guan Liyuan at this time, with a hint of expectation in his eyes...
Although Bai's tragic life experience was caused by the bloodline limit, the reason why the bloodline limit was excluded was also the pain after the war.
The more people have experienced war, the more they yearn for peace...
"Of course there is a way! Ninjas can increase the total amount of military resources by practicing chakra, so there must be a way for ordinary people to improve productivity! For example, the civilians of the Fire Country now, I think, have electricity and steam engines, which can create more value than the civilians of other major countries... On the other hand, we can also find a way to let ninjas directly create non-military resources, such as medical ninjas who go out to see ordinary people and earn more than ninjas of the same level."
Although what Guan Liyuan said can only be regarded as "talking freely" and "talking on paper", it did attract Zabuza's attention and opened another door in the heart of this ambitious devil who originally wanted to seize the Kirigakure regime by violence.
But Bai's thoughts are not that complicated. He is just thinking, can this really end the war?
"In fact, there is another way, which is similar to the way when the order of the ninja village was just established..."
"There is another way?" Zabuza asked in surprise.
Guan Liyuan first said a lot of things that normal ninjas would not think about, and deduced a jaw-dropping conclusion. Then, when he thought that war was the inevitable fate of ninjas, he proposed two solutions from another perspective... Now there is a third one?
"That's right, when the order of the ninja village was just established, the reason why peace was maintained for a period of time was not only because the trading model of military resources and material resources was established to relieve pressure, but also because Senju Hashirama distributed the tailed beasts to the five major ninja villages... The tailed beasts can serve as a deterrent between ninja villages, but on the other hand, they will not produce military resources and aggravate the decline in the value of military resources." Guan Liyuan said.
Indeed, there are only a few people who can completely control the tailed beasts. The tailed beasts and the Jinchuriki are usually not directly used as the military resources of the ninja village to exchange for material resources, and the material resources consumed are not many. At the same time, they also have a deterrent effect in the ninja group, so they can ease the contradictions!
Of course, Guan Liyuan didn't think that the silly first generation had such vision and could see through the new contradictions that would be brewing in the ninja village system. It was
probably a guess... Seeing Zabuza silent, Guan Liyuan suddenly said: "We will set off tomorrow! You will go back to the Land of Water later? Take me with you, I want to go to the north of the Land of Water by water." That's right, Guan Liyuan also decided on the plan for the next month in the Naruto world. It was neither going to Konoha to lure the "snake" out of the hole, nor going to the Land of Fields to gamble whether he could find the snake's nest. After
all , it would take half a month to go to the Land of Fields by water. Half a month to find Orochimaru's base? I'm afraid there won't be enough time... Guan Liyuan planned to go to the Land of Waters, which is adjacent to the Land of Fields to the west. To be more precise, he went to the southern part of the Land of Waters, the Taketori clan, which was fighting with the Land of Grass. Although they were just a branch of the Kaguya clan and could not awaken the Corpse Vein at all, as long as he could find some ways to practice the Corpse Vein, it would be useful for Guan Liyuan! Moreover, the Bamboo Cutter Clan is in a fixed place, which is much more reliable than luring the "snake" out of the hole and digging out the snake's nest in an unknown place...
What Guan Liyuan didn't know was that right after he left, Zabuza looked at Bai and said, "Do you think what he said makes sense?"
Bai's expression changed slightly when he heard that, but in the end he said indifferently, "I don't know, I'm just a tool of Lord Zabuza."
"Tool...?"