One Piece: Fist of the World.

Chapter 219 Development and Current Situation

More than a month later, Greenbit.

There is strength in numbers, and more money means more things can be done.

With the joining of members of the Don Quixote family and those who had been turned into toys and slaves by the Don Quixote family, the construction work of Greenbit progressed rapidly.

Coupled with the supplies purchased from various places by the Rod Pirates with their strong financial resources, Greenbit changed almost every day. In just over a month, the entire island changed drastically. The original lush forests were replaced by buildings that were neatly distributed and clearly divided.

In the center of the island, there is a huge manor, which is the base of the Rhodes Pirates.

In the huge dining room of the manor, there was a huge round table. The Rhodes Pirates sat around the round table. Led by Baby-5, several waiters placed the meals one by one, then left the room and closed the door.

"Thanks to everyone for your hard work during this time."

Rhodes raised the glass in his hand and looked at his companions who were sitting around him.

"However, we have now achieved our initial goal and can celebrate a little."

All the friends had smiles on their faces. They raised the cups in front of them and drank from them.

"Nayru, you should talk about the responsibilities first."

The grand banquet was held last night. Today, we will share the current situation with all partners. After all, everyone has been busy with their own responsibilities during this period of time and do not have a clear understanding of the overall development of the pirate group.

"First, it's about the security company."

Rhodes was basically a hands-off boss. He just put forward some ideas and requests, and left the rest of the work to Nelu and Luo.

However, as Rhodes' right-hand man, this is what he was supposed to do.

Various information flashed through Nelu's mind.

"Including Dressrosa, there are 11 surrounding islands, a total of 15 countries have signed security agreements with us."

"These countries have a total population of about 320 million. Based on an annual cost of 5 BEL per person, we can receive a total of 1600 billion BEL per year."

"so much!"

Nia's head snapped up, her eyes almost turning into the shape of Bailey's.

"Not actually."

Naylu shook his head.

"According to what Rhodes said, we have started recruiting in all 15 countries. After strict assessment, we have recruited a total of 1 people. According to the conditions given by Rhodes, these 1 people can get a salary of 10 Baileys per month, and their five family members, including myself, can be exempted from the annual security fee."

"In this case, after deducting the cost of the security company, there will only be about 1400 billion Baileys left."

“This is also a huge sum of money!”

Although Rhodes and his crew had never been short of funds since they set sail, thanks to the generous donations from Tezoro and other friends, the sudden news that such a large amount of money would be coming in every year still made it difficult for his companions to calm down.

That’s 1400 billion Baileys, every year!

Although we don’t know what we will do with so much money, this number still makes everyone excited.

“That’s just in theory.”

Nelu continued to pour cold water on everyone.

"In fact, among the 15 countries that have signed security agreements with us, four are so poor that people there can barely make ends meet. It is simply impossible to ask them to pay security fees."

"Moreover, according to Rhode, the 1 people we recruited will receive a monthly salary of 10 Baileys, and their food, clothing, housing and transportation will all be taken care of by the security company. We also have to consider their weapons and equipment."

"Not only that, if they perform well, there will be additional rewards. The outstanding ones can be promoted to junior cadres. After the promotion, their income and other benefits will be further improved. All of these require money."

"I am currently studying how to assess them."

In fact, Rhodes never expected to make money by collecting these security fees.

Charging security fees is just a way to gradually make these countries and their people accept them.

The cost of 50,000 Baileys per person per year is not too much.

Aaron is in Donghai, but he charges 10 yuan for adults and 5 yuan for children every month.

After training the newly recruited group of people for a while, Rhodes planned to drive some pirates to invade the countries that flew their flags, and then make a few big splashes in front of all the citizens. This way, they would feel that their security fees were worthwhile and would feel less repulsive.

Moreover, although there are a large number of pirates in this world, and in the New World there are a large number of islands that depend on pirate groups, most people in this world still reject pirates.

Most people yearn for peace.

So even if Kaido, the King of Beasts, is ambitious to conquer the world, he still supports Kurozumi Orochi as the daimyo in Wano Country, and he himself acts as the Protector of the Country.

And Big Aunt Charlotte Linlin even established the Ten Thousand Kingdoms and ruled the forces under her command in the form of a country.

Just by comparing these two pirate groups, you can see that the Big Mom Pirates are far stronger than the Beasts Pirates in terms of grassroots and core strength.

Not only that, although Big Mom has bulimia, once it breaks out, she will not distinguish between friend and foe, and will attack everything she sees regardless of the consequences, which puts the citizens in constant danger of life, and living in Bankois requires them to surrender one month of their lifespan every six months, but with the title of queen and a ruling system like Bankois, the rule of Big Mom's pirate group is generally much more stable and reliable than that of the Beasts Pirates.

Kaido, the King of Beasts, who is also one of the Four Emperors, can only rely on his personal charm to recruit people and get some subordinates with ulterior motives. The Kurozumi Orochi he fostered completely disregards the people's livelihood in Wano and makes the entire country a mess. He has no ability to inject fresh blood into the Beasts Pirates. His rule is like a castle in the air, and is completely supported by Kaido's powerful strength.

Rod will not learn Kaido's way of ruling by exhausting all resources.

Now that he had the security company as a shell and the dual endorsement of the world government and the royal families of various countries, Rhodes could recruit a large number of people from the 15 countries where he had planted his flags without much resistance.

Those in these countries who hated pirates and did not want to become pirates now had a reason to convince themselves and join Rhodes's army.

As long as they start to join in, everything will fall into place. They will change little by little and integrate into Rod's Pirate Group until they become exactly what Rod wants.

This is the greatest benefit that the title of Seven Warlords of the Sea can bring to Rhodes now!

"In Greenbit, the original members of the Don Quixote family have gone through two rounds of screening, and in the end more than 400 people remained, thanks to the help of Robin and Violet."

Luo also told everyone about what he had been responsible for during this period.

"Most of those who were turned into toys by Sugar's ability left directly. Apart from the people of Dressrosa itself, there were more than 1300 people who stayed. Among them, we found more than a dozen agents of the World Government and undercover agents of the Navy."

Doflamingo once wanted to train Law into the new generation of "Heart" as his right-hand man.

And now, the Don Quixote family that he had worked hard to build for more than ten years was destroyed in one day. Everything left over from the family was absorbed by Luo. Perhaps this is also a kind of inheritance.

"According to what you said, Rhode, the total of 1700 people were divided into two parts. Among them, 1000 relatively reliable people were left in Greenbit to take charge of various tasks, and the remaining 700 people with unsettled minds were formed into seven pirate groups and spread out to the surrounding waters. The dozen or so undercover agents were among them."

Rhode didn't even lend his flag to these seven pirate groups, nor did he accept them as his subordinates. In the final analysis, these selected pirates were a group of guys who were afraid of chaos in the world. They just wanted to make their way in the sea, get drunk today, and settle scores.

Rhodes just gave them a new pirate ship and some start-up funds, allowing them to pursue their ONE PIECE again.

After this, Rhodes might just be their savior and reincarnated parents; and when needed, they could also be his beloved relatives and friends!
"We have already sorted out the arms business left by the Don Quixote family."

"Except for Sihai, which was not convenient and we were unable to meet and communicate, we have already visited Bonis, Kosa, and Weber, the partners we can contact in the New World."

Pei Jin and Xia Qi have been mainly responsible for this matter during this period.

When Doflamingo ruled Dressrosa, he openly developed the tourism industry and attracted countless tourists, but he was secretly engaged in arms trafficking. They also had a military factory underground in Dressrosa, enslaving toy soldiers and dwarfs to work day and night.

Doflamingo relied on his own skills and status to spread his business across the Grand Line and the four seas.

After Doflamingo was defeated, some former clients chose to cut off contact directly, but some people expressed their desire to continue cooperation after being contacted by Pekin and others.

Especially for some of the partners in the New World, Pekin and Xia Qi took Bonis, Kosa and Weber to visit them one by one and renegotiated the cooperation.

Especially some of these countries are their targets for further expansion of security company business. The continued arms business is also paving the way for future security company business.

Since arms can be purchased, it is better to just purchase security services directly without wasting manpower.

"Bears still haven't quite mastered the ability to discharge electricity."

Bepo scratched his head sheepishly.

In the previous battle, he used the ability to discharge electricity. After the battle, Rhodes told him not to worry about other things and to concentrate on studying that power.

However, after more than a month of training, although he can use the friction of hair to discharge electricity, he is still some distance away from forming a powerful attack.

Compared with Neru's discharge, it's nothing.

“The research institute has been completed, but it will take some time before it can produce results.”

Gray was holding a cup of black tea in his hand, looking very satisfied.

After only one year at sea, he now has his own research institute where he can study all kinds of things that interest him without having to worry about funding.

This would have been completely unimaginable a year ago.

"However, the institute has recently synthesized a batch of new materials. I'll show them to you later to see if there are any that can be used."

"Also, regarding the improvement of textile technology mentioned earlier, Franky and I have already developed a new machine. After the industrial adjustment on Mordic Island is completed, we can start mass production."

The original pirate alliance on Mordic Island was vulnerable to Rod's fist. With the help of Robin and according to Gray and Franky's suggestions, they completed the industrial adjustment and completely turned into a production base for Rod's gang.

In the future, Greenbit's research institute will be responsible for researching technology, and Mordick Island will be responsible for producing such models.

Mordic Island was also completely handed over to Gray and Franky, and Robin would only be responsible for some administrative work and auxiliary supervision.

"I still have no idea about awakening."

Nia waved her hand and glanced at Genos beside her.

Before Kaido's attack, the two of them fought against Kaido's cadres, Junti and Sasaki respectively.

Although both of them won the battles, they felt just as much pressure.

Not to mention the subsequent battle with Jack the Drought. Facing an opponent who had been exhausted by Nayru for a long time, the two of them had to work together to barely suppress the opponent.

According to Rhode, although Jack the Drought is also one of the three main figures of the Beasts Pirates, his strength is far inferior to the other two.

Therefore, after the battle, Nia and Genos have been thinking about how to further improve their strength.

Especially Nia, she felt that she was also a veteran of the pirate group. Now that Captain Rhodes was able to rival the Four Emperors, she had to be able to deal with the senior officials under the Four Emperors independently.

As users of animal-type Devil Fruit abilities, their main fighting method is physical skills, and awakening is the best way for them to improve their strength.

However, awakening the devil fruit is not such an easy thing to do.

After Nia and the others, Robin just smiled softly and said nothing.

Her main job recently was to summarize all aspects of the matter and report them to Rhodes. With her nearly perfect secretarial ability, she saved Rhodes a lot of energy.

However, the information collection about the relics of ancient powerful people that Rhodes had instructed had not yet produced any results.

Bonis remained silent.

He was not the kind of person who could handle government affairs, nor was he responsible for anything alone, and his work had already been reported to by Peikin and others.

Fight, kill, shock.

This is what he has been doing for the past month.

"Me, me, me! In addition to studying food, I've also been exercising recently!"

Minina bent her arms slightly, showing off her biceps.

"I have learned the Armament Haki, and I can use it to send it out with a bang. This will allow me to cook meat more delicately!"

Minina happily shared her stories.

Minina, who had always relied on her talent and brute force to fight, finally decided to exercise her fighting ability after the last battle.

Then he showed a learning ability that was as exaggerated as his physical talent.

Learn Armament Haki instantly, and master the display of Haki in one day.

"My observation Haki is also going well. Now I can feel the texture of the ingredients and can handle them more easily. I will definitely make more delicious dishes for you later, hehehe~~"

Everyone looked at Minina who was grinning foolishly with complicated eyes.

What a terrifying talent!

Just by eating and drinking, he can have terrifying physical fitness, even surpassing that of animal-type devil fruit users.

Even if it is domineering power, if you study it carefully, you will soon master it thoroughly.

I wonder what level of power she would have if she practiced asceticism like Bonis.

(End of this chapter)