"Outsourcing?" Jiancheng frowned, not understanding.
"It means Konoha takes on the mission first, then spends part of the reward to hire Sunagakure to carry it out," Akaseki explained.
Jiancheng shook his head. "Wouldn't that amount to making them pay Konoha an extra share of the reward? Not just Sunagakure—even the Land of Wind and other employers definitely wouldn't accept it. Even if we forced them to accept it for now, more missions would surely flow directly to Sunagakure afterward."
For small countries without ninja villages, they could directly divide up mission zones, requiring them to hire only Konoha ninja in the future.
But for major countries like the Land of Wind, they could only make them "open their mission zones to Konoha." Then, to make the Land of Wind choose Konoha and further squeeze Sunagakure's room for survival, Konoha would even have to offer especially "good value for money."
Akaseki repeatedly shook his head. "No, no, no. Of course we're not making them spend more. On the contrary, we'll make them spend less—the only ones who suffer in the end will be Sunagakure's ninja!"
Jiancheng was stunned, still not quite understanding.
Seeing this, Akaseki continued, "Of course, Konoha can't do nothing and just take a cut. That would make it too easy for Sunagakure to push us out. We need to take responsibility for both the front and back ends of the mission—especially supervision and after-sales service!
"If the Sand Ninja fail to carry out a mission properly or can't resolve it, we also need to urge Sunagakure to provide the employer with better service!
"The employers spend less money and receive better service, so naturally they'll be willing to hand their missions over to Konoha."
Now Jiancheng understood.
In short, Sunagakure would shoulder everything while Konoha made a clean