Joint Chunin Ninja Exams!
They could strengthen the practical combat abilities of shinobi through competition and also promote friendly relations among one another.
However...
These were merely superficial slogans.
The core of the Chunin Ninja Exams was actually an alternative form of military and economic warfare.
The Chunin Ninja Exams were a platform to showcase the strength of each shinobi village.
After this event commenced, it would attract wealthy individuals and the ruling class from various countries to watch.
The village that showed a brilliant performance during the Chunin Ninja Exams would inevitably receive more commission missions from wealthy people, while those with mediocre results would naturally see their orders decrease.
Even the feudal lords of their own countries would lack confidence in the strength of their native shinobi villages, thereby handing commission missions over to the shinobi of other countries.
The Hidden Sand Village had performed rather poorly, causing the Wind Country feudal lord to be quite reluctant to allocate funds to the Hidden Sand Village, forcing Kazekage Rasa to even start panning for gold.
Jiraiya carefully trained Naruto Uzumaki, causing him to hold extremely high confidence in these Chunin Ninja Exams, which was why he proposed holding the Chunin Joint Exams.
Only, to his surprise, the Cloud Village, Stone Village, and Village Hidden in the Mist actually responded to his invitation.
In theory, every shinobi village was qualified to hold such an event, but if a small country proposed it, it would mostly just be self-amusement that added to the jokes, and only when the Five Great Shinobi Villages held them would other shinobi villages respond.
Even for Konoha, the number-one shinobi village in the shinobi world, when it carried out this event and sent out invitations, only the Hidden Sand Village—which Konoha had beaten into submission in