On August 20, Dan Katō, a Konoha Elite Jonin and commander of the Grass Ninja detachment, formally reached a peace agreement with Grass Ninja leader Cao Bao in Kusagakure. It was also the Shinobi World's first outsourcing agreement!
No wonder Hiruzen Sarutobi—and even Shimura Danzō—envied the returns.
The steep premiums on supervision missions gave the village extra income. That meant Konoha could train two more squads of Anbu or Root Ninja without assigning them ordinary missions. For the village, it was excellent value. Few missions let it put seventy percent of the commission into public funds!
For Konoha Ninja, the steady flow of missions from the Land of Grass could support dozens of Chunin and nearly ten Special Jōnin. That meant if war broke out again, Konoha would have dozens more Chunin and nearly ten more Special Jōnin!
Akaseki knew, of course—
In the worlds he had experienced through Immersion, too much outsourcing hollowed out a society's grassroots strength. But—
That weakness did not really apply to a ninja village.
For one thing, Konoha was not extracting nearly as much. The Hokage Building already felt a little guilty about taking a quarter of Kusagakure's revenue. Compared with the outsourcing Akaseki knew, that was downright generous. For another, a ninja village was not playing with finance, piling up money just to make more money—
For a ninja village, the only thing worth accumulating was combat strength.
Money could not buy the right to missions!
Without enough combat strength, any agreement was just empty talk.
Besides—
Even setting outsiders aside, the ninja clans within Konoha would never accept it if the Hokage Building hoarded money like a miserly landlord!
In the end, the profits would still be converted into combat strength.
And this was only the Land of Grass. If the Land