"Hm?" Tsunade blinked. "Go into detail!"
"Reform Ninja into Army means turning ninja into an army. An army has a fixed structure and required headcount; it won't grow along with the population. That means the funds consumed every year will be fixed!" Ningyuan said.
Tsunade nodded repeatedly. This would solve the problem of the village's ever-increasing demand for funds.
But that created a new problem.
The old ninja would occupy the army's positions, so what would the newly born ninja do?
"After Reform Ninja into Army, there won't be any ninja anymore. The new generation can work in other fields, such as bodyguarding, logistics, intelligence, medicine, or research. Isn't that what they used to do anyway?"
Tsunade's eyes lit up. That did seem to be the case.
As long as ninja were no longer confined to the ninja profession, they would have countless paths open to them.
"Split clans means breaking each ninja clan into small families of three or four people, then having the families intermarry to dilute their bloodlines! They could even be made to abandon their surnames and adopt different ones!"
Tsunade understood this point all too well. The Senju Family had done exactly that, and the results had been substantial!
But there was another problem.
"What if those ninja clans refuse?" Tsunade asked.
"Didn't I support the commoners earlier?" Ningyuan smiled. "How many people do clans have? The number of commoners is a thousand or ten thousand times greater. Even the Uchiha Clan, the number one clan in the shinobi world, has only two thousand people. I'll surround their home with a fifteen-thousand-man Ninja Army and see how the Uchiha Clan plans to refuse!"
"If fifteen thousand people aren't enough, then make it one hundred and fifty thousand!"
The Mangekyō Sharingan had not appeared for years.