Red sand dust

To be honest, Daimaru did not place his hopes on the elders who now co-managed Sunagakure Village regarding going south to open up the ocean.

Even Daimaru couldn't come up with a decent reason to convince these slightly conservative seniors.

The prosperity of maritime trade that started in the Age of Discovery in my memory has its historical reasons.

The Ninja Realm is a new world with extraordinary power. Daimaru is not sure whether ocean trade will have the expected influence.

It is definitely beneficial, but no one knows how beneficial it is.

Whether it's worth taking too much risk for uncertain gains, Daimaru takes a negative view of the elders' ideas.

When the gravel found him and hinted that Fuyi intended to support him in exploring the ocean, Daimaru was indeed a little overjoyed.

Even just understanding it can be regarded as giving Daimaru a chance to fight for.

Daimaru, who was a little caught off guard, spent two or three days and nights thinking about a acceptable plan, and asked Shasha to privately forward it to Fuyi for review.

Soon after, several elders who were familiar with Daimaru knew about it.

"Have we Suna Ninja been doing too much lately?"

Having seen Daimaru's plan, Ryuuza is not very optimistic about it, but he has the attitude that it doesn't hurt to give it a try.

Marky nodded in agreement:

"The air combat unit, the conflict with the Iwa ninja, regaining the lost ground, and then joint training with the Konoha ninja, sending exchange students to each other, and the joint chuunin exam next year, wouldn't it be a bit too showy if we go south to the ocean?"

If you are too arrogant but not strong enough, you will easily attract people's jealousy.

Ma Ji and Longsha's worries were not groundless.

Konoha Village, which has a great family and business, is fearless, and its allies are safe and sound. Not to mention the feuding Iwagakure Village, Kumogakure Village and Kirigakure Village, which have ordinary relations, seem to want to increase their precautions against Suna Ninja.

Daimaru's heart sank, a little helpless.

Even though he was a little reluctant, he knew that what the two of them said made sense.

After the defeat of the "Konoha Collapse Plan", Suna Ninja negotiated and regained part of the mission share, but in the end suffered heavy losses.

It will take some time to regain strength and digest the benefits gained by the fourth generation Kazekage and a large number of compatriots.

The logistics support unit that Temari currently belongs to is the "reserve" formed. It will take at least two years to be put to use to slightly fill the vacancies caused by the large number of people killed in battle.

In addition, the northern homeland that was brought back not long ago, if it is not managed well, there may be a risk of losing it again when the Iwa ninja recovers.

Now that even Kazekage doesn't have Sunagakure Village, he is really satisfied. It would be perfect if we could choose a suitable Kazekage Fifth Generation as soon as possible.

Fu Yi pondered calmly for a while, and then looked at Daimaru, whose face was as heavy as water:

"What do you think?"

"Hard to say!"

Daimaru replied,

"I've done too many sand ninjas this year. It's really time to cool down. It's not good to be too impetuous! But..."

Daimaru hesitated for a while, then suggested,

"Time waits for no one! I'm afraid that after a year or two, there will be no chance. There won't be much time when the five major ninja villages have no time for him to take care of..."

The Kumo ninja and the Iwa ninja are facing each other. They are located in the north and cannot interfere with the southern sea area. Konoha Village has just stabilized the situation and does not want to start a big war.

Sunagakure Village's biggest opponent in exploring the ocean is Kirigakure Village.

Like the Sand Ninja, the Mist Ninja had just killed the Fourth Mizukage. Fortunately, there was Terumi Mei, a strong man who could barely hold on to the overall situation, and the Elder Genshi was also able to keep the situation under control.

However, the Fourth Mizukage Yagura is dead, the Three-Tails is missing, and the Six-Tails Jinchuuriki Yu Gao should have killed his master Harusame by now and betrayed Kirigakure Village.

In such a comparison, it is not necessarily better than Sunagakure Village.

The Mist Ninjas, who began to uphold an open foreign policy, tried to change the traditions in the Blood Mist. When making changes, they would definitely not conflict with the Sand Ninjas.

The Ninja World's forces that can prevent the Suna Ninja from "racing for territory" in the southern seas are almost out of shape. With such a good opportunity, if we don't quickly demarcate the sphere of influence, the game of military expansion will be over when the Five Kage Conference begins. If If we can't find a new continent, we have no choice but to explore outer space.

Ma Ji and Long Sha looked at each other and smiled.

It is a good thing for young juniors to be enterprising. The two of them are not opposed to it, they just think it is unnecessary.

"The village is now in dire straits. It is definitely impossible to invest heavily in the development of the South China Sea. However, it is definitely a good thing to develop areas in the south that no one pays attention to..."

The buffer zone between several big countries is not suitable for large-scale war and cannot be swallowed up.

The large and small islands in the south are quite large in total.

"You mean, let me try first?"

Fu Yi nodded:

"Make preparations first, survey the sea chart, find water..."

Well, it’s not bad to have such a result.

Limited support without affecting the overall situation was the conclusion given by Fu Yi.

Success is gratifying, failure is acceptable.

That night, the worried Jonin Centipede breathed a sigh of relief after learning the outcome of the discussion between Daimaru and several elders.

…

In the base where members of the air combat unit rest and train, Daimaru is studying at his desk.

On the opposite wall, there was a large map of the southern sea area of ​​​​the Ninja World. The table that could accommodate a meeting of more than ten people was filled with messy documents and drawings.

"Water is really a big problem!" 』

Daimaru, who was a little exhausted from thinking for a long time, sat up and stretched.

Everyone knows that the Kingdom of Wind is severely short of water.

However, few people realize that in less developed times, ocean navigation and drinking water were also big problems.

Because there is sea water everywhere, it is easy to overlook how important fresh water supply points are during the voyage.

Although there are many large and small islands on the sea, few actually have ready-made fresh water. Most of them are barren coral reefs, guano islands, and uninhabited islands.

Every island that has fresh water to supply is extremely important.

If the Sand Ninjas want to stably occupy a large number of islands in the south, they must consider the issue of livability. If establishing a base also requires transporting fresh water from outside, it will be too much of a loss.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the Kingdom of Wind itself is extremely dry and has no fresh water to support overseas.

Being inland, there is really no solution; but along the coast, there is still some hope.

The almost inexhaustible sea water, if it could be converted into fresh water, even a very small part, would be of great help to the Suna Ninja.

Is it difficult to desalinize seawater?

It’s not difficult!

The hard part is controlling the cost of desalination.

The southern sea area is arid, hot and rainless. Using primitive solar energy to evaporate seawater to prepare fresh water can somewhat alleviate the water shortage, but the amount is too small to be helpful.