One Piece: Adopting Akainu at the beginning, adopted son Barrett

Chapter 193: Outline of the Volunteer Army

"Long, do you have time? You don't have to go for this training. I plan to take you to make friends with Sakaski, and leave the support to Borsalino."

At the beginning of the year 1492 of the Haiyuan calendar, at the Navy Headquarters, Ross came to the room where Long lived to talk to him alone.

Time passed quickly, and several months passed in the blink of an eye. After Ross led the trainees out for the fourth time, he planned to return to Yun Island with Yixiao, who had just resigned from the navy.

While Zefa is leading them to the new world for practical training, he takes Long to change the future fate of a little bear.

"Of course no problem Mr. Ross, I look forward to going out with you, every time I go out with you I benefit a lot."

Long touched the back of his head with a happy face and grinned. Then he turned and ran away as if he remembered something. He took out a notebook from a bookcase and handed it to Ross, then said:

"By the way, Mr. Ross, this is the spreadsheet of my new plan for the past few months. It contains some of my plans for the future, the detailed guidelines I told you about, and the students in the training camp who are willing to work with me to accomplish great things!
Oh, yes, there is also a list of the names of the failed navy officers that Uncle Zhan Guo and Aunt He found for me these days. They are all seniors who truly have a sense of justice. If possible, I may be able to recruit them!"

The more Long spoke, the more excited he became, like a student who had made a career with the guidance and help of his teacher and was anxious to show off and get praise.

However, compared to the reserved nature of most people, Long's personality in this regard is particularly like his father Garp, and he is very straightforward and exaggerated.

Perhaps the few aspects of him that are like his father are in these unimportant things.

"Oh? Really? Then I have to take a closer look."

Ross smiled happily and opened the notebook in his hand with great interest.

The first thing that catches the eye is the three core purposes of the organization established by Long, which are also three general outlines. They are different from the views originally expressed by Ross and are more in line with the order on the sea.

[First outline: observation and absorption.]

We observed every island we arrived at, watched their lives, and experienced their daily lives, although it would be a long and boring time!
Not all nobles are our enemies, and not all evil deeds are bad things. We need to first experience the impact of the system before we can understand how to change it fundamentally and observe all the talents we can absorb.

Being simplistic and brutal will only result in meaningless blood being shed, and the leeches will crawl back up and twist everything back onto the wrong track.

What we need is not futile battles time and time again, but to prescribe the right medicine and carry out medical operations to eliminate diseases one after another!

And absorb those talents who can really join this great cause! 】

[Second outline: right and wrong.]

Looking at the same problem from different angles will result in completely different answers. There is no absolute right or wrong in the world.

What we must insist on is to first figure out whether something is right or wrong, and where it is right and where it is wrong.

Then make the right things more right and leave the wrong things as insignificant.

Nothing can be done too absolutely, because the existence of absoluteness itself is a mistake. It will only lead people to another extreme, another new "aristocratic" system.

The world is like a pyramid. Beauty will exist as the tone of the world, and wrong things will be placed at the top for everyone to be vigilant. We are the ones who maintain this order. 】

【………】

Ross looked at these outlines and the various systems derived from them with great interest. It was obvious at a glance that they were not completed by Long alone. Most of the details should have been perfected by Zhan Guo and He.

But Long was not completely ineffective; he played a big role in it.

If Ross is the teacher who gave Long a better direction.

Then Long is the leader who summarizes this direction into several main guidelines.

Warring States and Crane provided him with insufficient assistance based on the situation on the sea.

These three steps are indispensable. The lack of any one of them will cause Long's future career to go astray and move in another unknown direction.

After reading the objectives, the next step is planning.

But this plan is very simple, like a straight outline, waiting to be supplemented by scattered details.

Turn the page.

The following is a preliminary roster. Ross counted them and found that there were quite a lot of them. There were six talents recruited from the Navy in the elite training camp.

This number is not small. After all, truly wild geniuses are a minority, especially in the first batch of elite training camps. The wild talents in the second batch of training camps will gradually rise until the third batch reaches its peak.

Then Zefa retired completely, the elite training camp was completely disbanded and turned into a navy recruit training camp.

This was already part of the plan. From the very beginning, the elite training camp would not continue to exist, simply because the Navy was short of manpower.

Unless there is a general who is willing and able to take Zefa's place in the future, there will be a chance to reopen the elite training camp. For example, Zhan Guo? It's not impossible.

After the roster is completed, the next thing to be recruited are the naval generals who have retired early or have already retired.

Most of them were former brigadier generals and major generals. The only lieutenant generals were two retired widows, both of them were around fifty years old and could still fight for a few more years.

As for the two levels of captains and lieutenants, there are almost none. If there are any, they are only those navy officers who were once quite talented.

Although the bottom and middle levels of every organization are important, after all, they are the cornerstones for making the organization bigger and stronger, but Long's conditions allow him to pull together a good team in the early stages.

Then there is no need to waste more time, and it might be better to sift through the saved places at the bottom.

"It's a good plan! It impresses me, Long, but it still needs to be improved. Several major outlines are too big, although in my opinion there are still flaws."

Ross's words made Long happy, but the flaws behind it made him feel a little disappointed. After all, this was a plan he had been preparing for a long time and summarizing again and again. However, Ross's next words made him feel relieved. He just said:
"But nothing is absolutely perfect. The flaws I feel are because I am looking at your plan theoretically. But in reality, your plan is more beneficial to the pattern of this ocean.

I am looking forward to the day when you are wanted by the World Government. By then, you may have a deeper understanding, and some unnecessary plans will be overturned by you, replaced by strategies more suitable for the sea."

"Um... Teacher, is this a blessing?"

Long scratched his cheek awkwardly. Although he knew that Teacher Ross already had expectations and recognition of him, these words were pure praise and recognition.

but……

The idea of ​​a wanted order was so incongruous. Although I had communicated with Uncle Zhan Guo and the others for a while, I was mentally prepared for being wanted.

But Mr. Ross said this so... boastfully? No, it should be another word. It reminded him of the look on those pirates' faces after they learned that their bounties had increased.

It's about the same as that.

"Okay, pack up and have a good rest. We'll leave tomorrow. Besides you and Sakaski, there's also Yixiao."

"Yixiao? Oh! I remember now. I haven't seen him in the Marine Headquarters for several months. Isn't he studying as an assistant with Marshal Kong and his men?"

When this was mentioned, Long remembered a person named Yixiao. He heard that he was seriously injured a few months ago.

The bandage around his eyes was covered in blood. The sailors passing by were afraid that he would drop to the ground and die the next moment. They didn't know why he looked like nothing had happened.

"Well, Yixiao has quit the navy. I can only say that it's not what I expected. You don't need to ask about the specifics. Your father will tell you after you leave... Never mind. Come find me when the time comes. He will probably forget about it."

Originally, Ross was planning to say a few good words for Garp in front of Long, and then remind him to tell Long about the game of annihilation.

After all, the dragon will inevitably carry out a Tianshangjin mission, or a mission related to the Tianlong people.

He cannot escape this matter. In the original book, it may have been done to help him get promoted better and faster, but now, it is to allow him to initially see the true nature of this world.

I believe this was how the Warring States period was arranged.

But after thinking it over, Ross gave up. He was afraid that Cap might accidentally forget about it and turn a good thing into an embarrassing one.

That would be too bad, maybe? After all, everyone knows what Garp is like, and Dragon is no exception.

"Really? That's a shame. He's obviously a very powerful person. I was thinking of recruiting him into my business, hahaha!"

Long didn't ask too many questions. He knew that he should know the truth when he should.

Too much worry and thinking will only increase physical and mental fatigue, thus dragging yourself down.

"It's impossible for Yixiao to help you. He is not interested in this. He may help you, but he won't help you. However, the friend I am going to introduce you to may be able to help you. He is also a child I met by accident."

"Wow, that's great, Mr. Ross. What is he doing now? How old is he? What's his personality like? He... and he..."

After hearing this, Long was very excited. Ross's help meant a lot to him, so he seemed particularly happy and expectant, and asked a lot of questions about it.

Ross did not intend to hide the truth from Long. After all, they would get to know each other sooner or later. He said:

“He is a amiable little pastor with a kind heart, some reliable friends, and most importantly, his background and experience.

I don’t know much, and I can’t tell you directly. If you want to know more about him, you have to work hard to get his or their approval.”

"Do you approve? I certainly will!"

Engineering work

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(End of this chapter)