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Thinking of this, his hand unconsciously touched the jar of goji berries again.

Immediately, I felt much more at ease.

With this amazing tool in hand, you won't need to lean on a wall anymore.

"Don't look at me like that." Namikaze Minato Uchiha Shingen a cup of tea first, "Don't worry, there are no goji berries in it."

Uchiha Shingen didn't touch his teacup, but stared at Namikaze Minato with a very stern expression.

"Actually, I don't really understand your ninja clan's ways," Namikaze Minato and continued, "But Kushina said that feelings need to be cultivated from a young age, and she insisted that I tell you about it, saying that you know best."

"Lord Hokage, I don't understand," Uchiha Shingen said stiffly. "I've only ever known about training since I was a child; I don't understand anything about this kind of thing."

Actually, I don't mind if you're craving my son.

But I absolutely won't let my daughter have any desire for it!

Naruto, that guy, he never goes home once he's sitting in the office, he's definitely not a good match for my daughter!

Everyone in Hidden Leaf Village knows that I, Uchiha Clan, may have to drink outside against my will, but I'll crawl home to sleep, even if I have to crawl!

"You're just being modest." Namikaze Minato wanted to continue, but seeing that Uchiha Shingen's gaze was already very piercing, he wisely shut his mouth.

Anyway, he got his message across, so he's done his job.

Sigh, the ninja clan is such a hassle. I wonder if Naruto will have a tough time in the future.

"Alright, alright, I won't say anymore," Namikaze Minato said with a chuckle, trying to comfort him. "I've delivered my message. Let's change the subject and talk about the Ninja Academy."

"Oh?" Uchiha Shingen's expression instantly brightened. He seemed to only then notice the cup of tea in front of him, picked it up, blew on it, took a small sip, and exclaimed, "Lord Hokage, your tea-making skills are truly remarkable!"

"That's right, after all these years of training, don't underestimate the power of the Hokage." Namikaze Minato said proudly. "Let's get back to the main topic. I'd like to make some improvements to the application phase of the academy."

"How do you plan to change it?" Uchiha Shingen asked.

Compared to the original timeline, this timeline does not have the so-called "Konoha 12".

It's not that these people are no longer here, but rather that the situation has changed.

This group of students is currently at the end of their internship phase, and they will soon enter the final stage of their studies at the Ninja Academy, which is the application phase.

Currently, the situation is a three-way battle between Uchiha Sasuke, Naruto Uzumaki, Konohamaru Sarutobi.

They left everyone else far behind.

In this timeline, Konohamaru Sarutobi is the same age as Sasuke and Naruto, has shown his amazing talent. To be honest, he is only slightly inferior to the two of them.

But it was precisely this tiny bit that made him so enthusiastic about challenges, and so persistent in his attempts despite repeated failures.

"According to the original practice, after the students complete the application phase, the Jonin will conduct a graduation test, and those who pass will be mentored for a period of time. But I want the Jonin to teach the students during the application phase."

"Isn't it too early?" Uchiha Shingen said. "I'm not targeting anyone, I'm just stating the facts. As you know, not all students can have Jonin their graduation exams."

Just kidding. Although Leaf Village has the largest number of Jonin, it's not extravagant enough to have Jonin as a teacher for every student team.

If Jonin leads a team of students, it means they cannot undertake missions of A-rank or higher, which is very costly for the village.

Unless it's during wartime.

But even during wartime, people were selected.

For example, Team Minato's team was at least at the Chunin level at the time; otherwise, Uchiha Obito wouldn't have been able to draw enemy fire.

"So, now that we're in peacetime, I plan to increase the difficulty of graduation, but to increase the difficulty reasonably, I'll definitely need the Jonin to test it out."

Namikaze Minato produced a roster.

"Take a look."

Uchiha Shingen took it and flipped through it.

"Bai and Karin are graduating soon," he asked. "Is this their last year?"

Haku and Karin started school a little late, which is related to the fact that they both entered Hidden Leaf Village later in life.

Karin is alright, at least she has the name of the Uzumaki Clan and was adopted by the Hokage couple.

Haku was in a very awkward position. The entire Yuki Clan was gone, and he was only able to enroll in the academy because of Uchiha Shingen.

The political background check at the Ninja Academy is extremely strict.

Those with impeccable Leaf Village wouldn't sense anything; as long as one can refine Chakra, entering is basically effortless.

But those who became Leaf Village members halfway through their lives were investigated with meticulous care.

This resulted in Haku and Karin being only one year ahead of Sasuke and Naruto.

Among their classmates were three young heroes from the original timeline.

Team Might Guy.

But they are all still at school and doing well.

"Lord Hokage, are you letting me choose the people?"

"Pretty much. If you, Shingen, are willing to take the lead, the resistance from the others will definitely be much less."

"Okay, so you mentioned mentoring people during the application phase. How do you do that?"

"In the application phase, the main focus will still be on teaching in the village, just like before, except the teachers have changed to Jonin."

Uchiha Shingen nodded and continued flipping through the roster.

He would certainly choose between white and Karin, but he was thinking about who the third person should be.

It's just that Mitarashi Anko graduated a long time ago, otherwise he wouldn't have needed to look for someone else.

Chapter 4 Re-entering the Ninja Academy

Strictly speaking, the Ninja Academy's curriculum consists of four stages.

The final graduation exam is a short phase. After completing a formal graduation exam at the school, students are tested to see if they truly possess the qualities of a ninja, under the guise of selecting team members from active-duty ninjas. This phase is conducted by Chunin and Jonin from the regular army. Those who fail go back to school, while those who pass not only become Genin but also have the valuable opportunity to become direct subordinates of Jonin.

However, since the final stage involves manipulating people's hearts and minds and is not conducted in the Ninja Academy, there are only three stages in the common sense.

The basic stage involves imparting knowledge and teaching Taijutsu. This stage is the least difficult and depends entirely on how hard the student works.

The internship, or training phase, is the cultivation of individual combat skills, including learning the basic Three Body Techniques, the use of various ninja tools, and practical combat drills.

The third stage is where students are truly differentiated.

Since students' talents and characteristics have been largely demonstrated in the first two stages, this stage consists of private lessons and special training.

Now that Namikaze Minato wants to have this stage of the course conducted by Jonin, he is undoubtedly taking advantage of the reduced size of the ninja army during peacetime to promote elite training.

It's not a bad thing for ninja villages to implement an elite system. In peacetime, everyone reduces their military strength, so this is necessary to ensure combat effectiveness. However, Kirigakure is the only one that has Hidden Mist Village, turning the elite system into a bloody terror.

However, the biggest obstacle to Namikaze Minato's policy was the Jonin themselves.

As is well known, Jonin only carry out A-rank and S-rank missions, with a minimum reward of 150,000 taels of silver and no upper limit.

Furthermore, ninja mission rewards are calculated per person, meaning that Jonin can legitimately use mission levels to provide benefits to their favored subordinates.

For example, for an A-rank mission worth 150,000 ryo, a Jonin can lead a Chunin subordinate team to complete the mission. In this case, the mission provider will pay 450,000 ryo for each of the four people.

The highest level of missions that Chunin can undertake is B-rank, with mission rewards ranging from 80,000 to 200,000 taels. On the surface, it seems that the maximum reward can be more than 150,000 taels per person, but in reality, most Chunin usually only receive around 100,000 taels when undertaking B-Rank Mission.

Therefore, Jonin are generally unwilling to train inexperienced Genin, let alone start training them during the application phase.

For them personally, the cost is indeed very high – no one knows if they will be lucky enough to pick a promising stock.

Uchiha Shingen was one of the few Jonin who didn't care much about this.

Because after Bai graduates, he will definitely have to mentor him himself.

To this day, he has three true students: Haku, Sasuke, and Anko.

All three children have demonstrated exceptional talent in their respective fields of expertise.

As Orochimaru's former disciple, Anko's performance lived up to Orochimaru's high regard for her; her talent was evident in Yang Release.

In Uchiha Shingen's view, Anko might be the only one among his three disciples to truly master the Dragon Cave Sage Technique in the future.

Haku has successfully awakened Ice Release, and he has mastered Uchiha Shingen's Body Flicker Technique to the best of his ability.

Sasuke goes without saying; he's a cheat code. Uchiha Shingen taught him based on his own training process.

Unfortunately, the three children were not in the same grade. Anko graduated early, and Haku and Sasuke not in the same grade either. Uchiha Sasuke was very promising, so Uchiha Shingen didn't need to worry about not having a good ninja to lead the team. Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Shisui were both waiting for Sasuke graduate.

Therefore, Uchiha Shingen felt that he should prioritize Haku, since he was still his brother-in-law.

The day after agreeing to Namikaze Minato, Uchiha Shingen went to the Ninja Academy.

For decades, the gate to the Ninja Academy has remained unchanged.

This door frame was originally made by that idiot dog using Wood Release, which he said would be more auspicious.

Whether the door frame was festive or not, Uchiha Shingen didn't know, but the way the great First Hokage originally made the door frame was quite festive.

In a moment of excitement, I flooded the construction site and got yelled at for over an hour.

Upon entering the gate, the first things you see are the playground and the teaching building.

This training ground bears the footprints of Leaf Village Genin.

After walking across the playground, Uchiha Shingen entered the teaching building.

The school building was renovated before the Third Shinobi World War, which created the entrance hall. This hall mainly displays the names of famous figures from Leaf Village's history, with the aim of helping students better understand the village's notable figures.

In the hall, several Ministry of Ministry of Education ninjas were already waiting, including the Minister of Ministry of Education.

Although the Ministry of Education is the Senju Clan's private domain after their retirement, it places great importance on Uchiha Shingen and the Senju Clan descendants.

Similarly, the Senju Clan people have always kept a low profile, treating each department as their own private domain.

The name of the Senju Clan faded from Hidden Leaf Village after the Senju Clan disbanded.

So much so that many people are unaware that most of the people in the Ministry of Education who don't interact much with outsiders are descendants of the Senju Clan people.

However, the major ninja clans all knew that the Hokage Building had a relatively lenient attitude towards the Ministry of Education, and would generally try its best to meet the Ministry of Education's requests.

After all, this is a group of the Senju Clan, even after leaving the scene, are still willing to remain within the Leaf Village system.

Tsunade was originally Sarutobi Hiruzen, but the Third Shinobi World War brought too many unexpected events.

"Lord Shingen." The Minister of Ministry of Education stepped forward with a beaming smile. He shook hands with Uchiha Shingen, "Everyone is very grateful for your support of the school's work."

"You're too kind," Uchiha Shingen said with a smile. "It's good to teach the children. My own students are about to graduate too."

"If everyone thought like you, our work would be so much easier," the Minister of Ministry of Education sighed.

Working between schools and parents is never easy.

A good teacher can solve most problems.

The news that Uchiha Shingen was coming to the school to participate in the students' applied education had already spread to everyone yesterday.

The Minister of Ministry of Education also learned that he actually had so many friends in the village.

These are truly a group of good friends. Why would they think he could arrange for Uchiha Shingen to teach anyone?

"Let me show you the offices first," the Minister of Ministry of Education said. "According to the Lord Hokage's plan, we have already set aside some rooms specifically for the Jonin to use as their offices."

Jonin's offices, of course, must all be private.

It's not because Jonin have high rank and special privileges, but because their teaching materials are classified as secret.

For safety and convenience of work, schools must set up separate offices.

"Okay, but I'd like to check on the students first," Uchiha Shingen said. "Is everyone in class right now?"

"Of course, shall we watch it now?"

"Hmm, let's see about the 57th and 58th years of Leaf Village."

"Understood. These two cohorts of students are currently in academic classes. Please follow me."

Chapter 5 Uchiha Shingen's Students

The biggest change in the Third generation compared to the Second generation was the introduction of academic subjects.

Starting with Sarutobi Hiruzen, academic studies became one of the main focuses of the Ninja Academy.

They really went all the way up from the basic stage to the exercise stage.