After the signing of the armistice treaty, people on both sides breathed a sigh of relief.
This war was finally coming to an end.
Subsequently, both sides decisively sent messages to their frontline personnel, and the Hokage Office also released the news at the first opportunity.
"The Hokage Office Building has published a new announcement."
"What did it announce?"
"Read the front part quickly, those in the back, stop shoving!!"
"Stop shoving, stop shoving, I can't read, someone read it out!!"
There really were people who joined the commotion, squeezed to the front, and ended up realizing they couldn't read.
The village popularized basic knowledge for children who could become shinobi, but as for ordinary villagers, they did not have this privilege; they either paid someone to teach them or remained illiterate.
Within the present Konoha, illiterate ordinary villagers accounted for a very high proportion.
The Third Hokage had also considered building more ordinary schools to let children who couldn't become shinobi go to school and learn basic knowledge.
It was just that after doing the math later, this thought was decisively snuffed out.
Building too few schools was definitely not enough, and building too many required equipping these schools with suitable teachers; various desks, chairs, and books also cost money. Back and forth, calculating it all, it required investing a massive amount of capital to be sufficient.
The kind of continuous investment without end.
Calculating up to this point, the Third Hokage snuffed out the idea of building a large number of ordinary schools.
Therefore, if you ran into illiterate villagers in the village, you didn't need to feel surprised, because it was a common phenomenon.
"Everyone stop shoving, let me see... The announcement says that the village has already held peace talks with the representative delegation from Sunagakure,