One Piece: Kaido the Beast Playing House.

Chapter 258 The Sober Man
When everyone was reveling, were there any sober people in Wano Country? Actually, there were. The first daimyo who came into contact with the idea of ​​beasts, Shimotsuki Yasuie, was the sober one.

In the past few years, Yasuie Shimotsuki has never stopped his investigation of the Beasts. Although the Beasts' preaching team has disappeared, the Beasts' School has been built in the past two years, and the teaching has become more unified. Yasuie Shimotsuki has repeatedly transformed himself into Tono Yasushi, a name that should have appeared more than ten years later in the original timeline, and then he would lie in the corner to eavesdrop on the classes at the Beasts' School.

As the manager of the harbor before the arrival of the Hundred Beasts, although Shimotsuki Yasuie has never been to sea, he is relatively open-minded compared to other daimyo. In fact, if it were not for the Hundred Beasts incident, Shimotsuki Yasuie would have been able to become the first person among the high-ranking officials of Wano Country to truly open his eyes to the world in a few years. Unlike people like Kozuki Oden who only knew how to go out to sea to find freedom, Shimotsuki Yasuie really cares about the lower-class people of Wano Country.

Although he did not do so due to the inertia of thinking in Wano Country for many years, at least he really wanted to do it. The people under his command were taxed at the lowest rate of 10:4, which was the same policy as Kozuki Oden's at the time. Moreover, Hakumai where Shimotsuki Yasuie was located was not comparable to Kuri of Kozuki Oden. It was more prosperous and there were no bandits and robbers. At the same time, the miscellaneous taxes collected from the samurai under his command were relatively small. Before the coming of the beasts, Shimotsuki Yasuie was the most famous daimyo.

Of course, as the saying goes, it is not the comparison of goods that is feared, but the comparison of people. When compared with the policies of the Beasts, the policies of Shimotsuki Yasuji are also quite bad. However, Shimotsuki Yasuji is not like others who only see the evil that the Beasts did to them. Instead, he sees the good that the Beasts did to the people. He wants to know why the people like the Beasts so much. In the extremely xenophobic country of Wano Country, the Beasts can have such a high prestige. He thinks that this cannot be achieved simply by lowering taxes.

Therefore, from collecting the words of the preaching team in the beginning, to sneaking into the corners to listen to the classes, and then running to the fields to watch the people working, Shimotsuki Yasuie can be said to have tried his best to understand the situation of the Hundred Beasts. Especially after knowing that Shusui Denjiro joined the Hundred Beasts, he became even more curious. After all, the Shimotsuki clan is the descendant of the former sword saint Ryuma, so it is normal for it to be connected with the Shusui clan who created the famous sword Shusui.

You wouldn't know this if you didn't understand it. Once you understood it, you would be shocked. He found that the perfection of Baishou's policies was beyond the reach of Wano Country. After all, a simple tax rate of 30% to 1 was enough to make the entire nobility and samurai class of Wano Country jump for joy. Such a low tax rate was simply a fantasy. Secondly, there were no exorbitant taxes. All taxes, how to collect them, and why they were collected were clearly written. It didn't matter if you couldn't understand or were illiterate, there were people to help you interpret them. At the same time, Baishou also opened up trade routes, and various goods introduced from overseas quickly occupied the market of Wano Country. After all, people had to consume now that they had money. They didn't consume before because they had no money, not because they had no desire to consume. These novel products of Baishou just met their needs.

Next, free education gave the people the space to learn more things, and the extremely low but excellent medical level protected the lives of the people. Various diseases that seemed difficult to cure by local doctors in Wano Country were not a problem in the eyes of these beast doctors.

And when survival guarantees were completed, the factories and mines of Baishou also provided new employment opportunities for those civilians who still had spare energy and skilled craftsmen. After all, Baishou really paid them. In the past, mining in Wano Country relied on corvee labor, and things like forging weapons were also strictly controlled. Only the top craftsmen could forge weapons at will. Ordinary craftsmen could only forge weapons when they were recruited by nobles or samurai, and they usually forged farm tools. Many ambitious craftsmen were buried because they did not have enough opportunities to display their talents, and Baishou gave them a chance to come forward.

Finally, and most importantly, the top craftsmen of Wano Country, especially those who can polish seastone, are treated well enough by Baishou. This not only retains talents, but also tells others that capable people can really be respected in Baishou, causing those ordinary craftsmen to start to roll in madly for better treatment, more wages, and a better life. After all, Baishou is not just drawing pie in the sky, they are really making pie. As long as you have the ability, you can eat the pie and don't have to worry about being full. Baishou is backing you up.

Of course, the Hundred Beasts brings more than just internal competition, there is also the sharing of technology, such as seastone craftsmen. These people have inherited the craft from their families and will hardly pass it on to outsiders. After all, the country of Wano itself only mines a limited amount of seastone. If more people master this technology, they will lose their jobs. Therefore, every seastone craftsman is very careful and afraid that it will be learned by outsiders. Even if someone above asks him to hand it over, it is impossible. These people will threaten to die and will not hand it over no matter what. After all, taking away the technology on which they depend for their livelihood is no different from taking their lives.

But it is different here at Baishou. With the large amount of seastone mined, the demand for various products is naturally large. What should we do when this demand completely exceeds the work capacity of the craftsmen? Then we can only ask for help. After all, Baishou charges by piece. The more you do, the more money you can make. These craftsmen first selected people from their own families. Later, when there were not enough people at home, they had to start taking in apprentices and let more people join in.

Not only did the number of people increase, but the demand also forced the technology to upgrade. In order to earn more, these craftsmen began to wonder whether this technology, which had not changed for hundreds of years, could be further improved. After all, if they could find a better and faster polishing technology, they could do it faster than others and earn more.

There were more than one or two people who had this idea. Many craftsmen began to try it. After a few attempts, they really succeeded. Now the grinding technology of these sea-building stone products of Baishou is more than twice as fast as before, and now they have begun to prepare for the second technical upgrade. With the sea-building stone craftsmen like this, those excellent weapon craftsmen naturally cannot lag behind, especially after they knew that Baishou had a swordsmith who forged the 12th level of the supreme great work - Oak Thorin, they were even crazier. After all, in Wano Country, swords are always the main weapons. They regard the pursuit of swords as fanaticism, but there are almost no people who can forge the supreme great work. At most, they can only forge the 21st level of the great work. This led to Oak Thorin's transcendent status among the craftsmen in Wano Country. If these craftsmen had not retained the last bit of reason, they might have become his apprentices on the spot.

However, even if those old craftsmen did not become disciples, these craftsmen would grab their nephews and nieces and push them to Thorin, not asking for formal disciples, even if it was just to be an auditor. As long as they could learn a few tricks from this top swordsmith, they would not have to worry about their lives.

Old Thorin is now very powerful, and he is surrounded by people wherever he goes. When he visits the homes of local swordsmiths and craftsmen in Wano Country, those swordsmiths will definitely greet him at the village entrance, and see him off for ten miles when he leaves. This has also made Baishou's reputation in the craftsman world even higher.

The more Shimotsuki Yasuie watched these scenes, the more he felt the horror of the beasts. This was really digging up the roots of Wano Country! And it was a digging up of the roots that Wano Country could not resist at all, because Shimotsuki Yasuie knew his country too well. Those nobles and samurai like him had never paid attention to these things. They always thought that they were the foundation of the country, but they forgot that if they did not produce anything without the support of the lower-class people, they would be nothing. Now the beasts were stepping on the oxygen supply tubes of these people. As long as the beasts' feet fell completely, there would be no need to start a war, and the samurai and nobles of Wano Country would be destroyed in internal strife and hunger.

Shimotsuki Yasuie felt a headache the more he looked at it. He didn't know who he should help now. Should he help the samurai and the nobles? Yes, he should help them, after all, he was one of them, but he couldn't betray his conscience, because his conscience told him that the beasts' approach was correct, and the past practice of the Wano Country of treating human lives as worthless was absolutely wrong. He couldn't force himself to see the right as wrong.

Should we help the beasts? Shimotsuki Yasuie hesitated again. It was difficult for a person who grew up in such an environment and was in an oppressor class to betray his class. The education he received since childhood made it difficult for him to make a decision. Shimotsuki Yasuie admired Shushui Denjiro very much. They did not have the firm determination of Shushui Denjiro, who could do everything for the right cause and devote himself to it without hesitation.

"What should I do?" Shimotsuki Yasuie looked at the secret note in front of him. It was a message from Kozuki Oden to him, telling him to fight against the beasts together in the New Year. Shimotsuki Yasuie hesitated again. He didn't know what to choose. Kozuki Oden, the young man he once taught, Wano Country, where he lived, the people of Wano Country, the people he had vowed to treat well, and the beasts, the force that was doing the right thing.

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How to choose.

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