One Piece: Fist of the World.

Chapter 220 The Mission Given to Tezulo
"The textile machines that Gray and his team improved have not yet been put into mass production, but textile companies have already been opened on the islands we occupied, especially on the poor islands."

Bakara also reported on his work.

According to Rhodes' idea, the human resources of these islands are also an important resource. After occupying these islands, he must find ways to solve their employment problems and make full use of these human resources.

Only after these people make money can they pay the annual security costs.

Not only that, when the people on these occupied islands all have jobs and their lives gradually become more affluent, funds can flow fully and generate greater value.

Bakara knew this truth without Rhodes teaching her.

Hearing this, Rhodes nodded.

Although these countries had their flags flown by Rhode and his men, they were only temporarily compromising because they were afraid of the strong fist.

No king wants another ruler to appear above him.

Once Rhodes and his group show signs of decline, these countries will immediately turn against them.

Only interests can bind them tightly around.

When textile factories opened by Rhodes and his gang spread across these countries, when more than 50% of the citizens in these countries were working for Rhodes and living on the wages paid by Rhodes, their lives were also protected by Rhodes' security company.

So, who can tell clearly who is their king!
"Not only the textile factory, but also the industries on Mordick Island will be split up, and some unimportant and simple jobs will be assigned to these countries to complete, so that they can have more diverse job opportunities."

Rhodes added.

"Besides, Liluka is a fashion designer, right? We want to get involved not only in the textile industry, but also in the clothing industry. Not only that, we need to see if there are any places nearby that are suitable for growing cotton. We want to control the entire industry chain."

Robin took out his notebook and wrote down Rhodes' request. He was ready to organize the information he had collected and look for an island suitable for farming.

"If it's planting, we can help!"

Leo, the representative of the Dwarf Tribe, spoke up with a proud look on his face.

"We, the Dongtata tribe, are best at taking care of plants. There are no plants in this world that we cannot take care of. Just leave the matters of plant cultivation to us!"

"Of course, I won't forget you."

Rhodes looked at Leo opposite him. Although this captain of the Tontatu tribe was small in size, he was very strong and was also a devil fruit user. With them around, the defense of Greenbit Island could be well guaranteed.

"Ah, is it my turn to report?"

Brooke pointed at herself, then put down the milk and adjusted her hat.

"Although I don't know Captain Rhodes' intention, I have indeed held 32 concerts on these islands."

Unlike the others, Brooke's job was just to open the concert.

With Tesoro's strong support, every concert was very successful, and Brooke had become a super star among these occupied islands.

Especially in those four poor countries, Brooke's name was known to almost everyone.

"Very good, keep it up!"

Music has a magical power that transcends nationality and race and brings everyone together.

Every concert of Brook is a positive publicity for the Rod Pirates.

This is also a reflection of their soft power.

"The portal is operating stably."

Kosa was finally able to straighten his back and speak.

Captain Rhodes originally gave him the Door-Door Fruit because he wanted him to be able to open the portal to Sky Island at any time.

To this day, this goal has not been achieved.

Especially after entering the new world, the distance between him and the Sky Island was so far that Kosa could not see any hope that he could open the door to the Sky Island.

Fortunately, after such a long period of training, his fruit ability has finally made new progress.

In the past month or so, he has built portals that can connect to GreenBit on all the islands he has visited.

And it's permanent.

Although the portal is not big and has limitations on transportation, so it cannot be used as a regular freight channel, it is already very impressive. At least people can go back and forth through the portal.

After this period of continuous testing, the portal is running stably and without any errors.

In this world, all islands are separated by vast seas. Especially in the New World, there are all kinds of bad weather. Even if there are two adjacent islands, it takes about a day to sail there.

This is also the reason why there are huge differences in the levels of science and technology between many islands in the world.

This inconvenience has also brought great trouble to the rule of various forces.

And now, Rhodes and his crew have Kosa's portal. Apart from anything else, the fact that the cadres of Rhodes Pirates can provide support to various islands at any time through the portal has already surpassed most forces.

"Good boy, I knew you wouldn't let me down."

Rhodes' eyes lit up slightly.

When they expand their power in the future, they will first drive away some pirates to invade, and then the security company will come forward to expel the pirates, and sign a security agreement with the country with the momentum of a great victory. After the agreement is reached, the factory will move in to provide jobs for the unemployed, and then let Brook come to hold a concert to further enhance their sense of identity. Kosa will build a portal as soon as possible so that the people of the Rod Pirates can come through the portal at any time.

After such a series of combined punches, this country should be completely transformed into the shape of Rhodes.

After listening to Kosa's report, Rhodes continued to look at the other people.

Weber ate the [Snow-Snow Fruit] and became the second natural ability user. He has been studying the abilities of the devil fruit for the past month, hoping that he will no longer be easily killed in future operations.

Liluka's doll soldiers were once again wiped out in the previous battle with Cracker, and she has been busy doing handicrafts for the entire month to replenish her inventory.

After Franky joined, he has been hanging out with Gray. The two of them did various research together. No new battleships were seen, but his body has been transformed again. He has become a lot bigger. After using Gray's new materials, his body is much stronger than before.

As the only survivor of the Don Quixote family, Baby-5 became the head maid of Rhodes's group. She occasionally cooperated with Gray in research, and would cover her face and giggle from time to time.

"Nero, we need to speed up the training and development of the new recruits, and focus on those with potential."

Thinking of the devil fruits in his own inventory, Rhodes quickly gave instructions to Nelu.

Most of the members of the Donquixote family are Devil Fruit users, and the Rod Pirates currently have a large stock of Devil Fruits.

However, most of the team members are already esper users, and the remaining ones have no intention of becoming esper users, so there are too many devil fruits on hand. It is necessary to select the right people from the newly recruited members as soon as possible, and wait for them to make enough contributions before rewarding them with devil fruits, so that the fruits can be used to their full potential.

"I know!"

Nelu nodded, and thinking of the devil fruits in stock, he couldn't help but look forward to the new recruits.

Most of the former owners of these devil fruits had pretty good strength. If the Rod Pirates could recruit some powerful characters among their members and have them eat devil fruits, the overall strength of the group would increase again.

While Nelu was daydreaming, he silently calculated in his mind the gap between the Rod Pirates and the Four Emperors.

In terms of power, the Rod Pirates now rule over 15 countries, which is considered huge even in the New World.

In terms of strength, as the captain, Rod can already fight Kaido head-on without losing, and is fully qualified to become one of the Four Emperors.

As for the other members, Pekin, Xiaqi, Gray, Nia, Genos, Bonis, Minina, and Liluka, all have the strength to stand on their own, and can hold their own even when facing the cadres of the Four Emperors.

After this calculation, it seems that the gap is here!
In terms of top-level strength, they are on par with the others, and when comparing the strength of general cadres, the Rod Pirates also have an advantage.

Instead, it is the level of senior cadres between the captain and ordinary cadres.

The three big bosses of the Beasts Pirates and the three sweet generals of the Big Mom Pirates, each of these big cadres has far extraordinary power. Even Jack the Drought cannot completely defeat him, let alone the other two big bosses who are even higher than him.

As for Cracker from the Big Mom Pirates, he also failed to keep the opponent at bay in the previous battle, and Katakuri was able to completely suppress him.

Thinking of this, Nelu felt a sense of urgency again.

He must continue to get stronger, and get stronger faster, so that he can help Rhodes reach the top!
Maybe they were thinking of the same thing, but Luo suddenly turned around and looked at Neilu.

The short round-table talk ended quickly. The partners who were originally busy with their own things finally learned about their current situation. They were all full of energy and continued to work in high spirits.

After the meeting, Rhodes, Neilu and Luo did not leave immediately. Instead, they opened the side door and entered a slightly smaller room.

"Do you still have to be so secretive?"

In the room, a man raised his head and stood up to show respect when Rhodes came in, and then the four men sat down one by one.

"I've seen the report in the newspaper. You defeated the Four Emperors head-on. There's no need to keep our relationship secret anymore."

Tezoro poured a glass of wine for Rod and pushed it to him, then poured a glass for Nelu and Luo, and finally picked up the glass himself.

When he first saw the report, he thought he was seeing fake news.

Although he had full confidence in Rhodes and had bet everything on him when he was in Lavis, he did not expect that Rhodes would grow so quickly.

In just less than a year, he was already able to face off against the Four Emperors.

He had just clearly heard the conversation outside in the next room. Based on the materials prepared by Rod for him in advance, he had a clear understanding of the current strength of the Rod Pirates.

This can definitely be called the Fifth Emperor!

Big news: Morgans' report is still too conservative!
"Some necessary caution is still important."

Rhodes swirled the red wine in his glass.

Until now, he still doesn't like the taste of red wine and still prefers beer.

However, in this atmosphere, it seems that the red wine does feel better when shaken.

"I am still a Shichibukai. Exposing my relationship with you will only irritate the World Government. It would be bad if I were stripped of my Shichibukai status. This status is still very important to me. At least I have to wait until I have completely digested the results of the battle."

"How cautious! I am even more optimistic about our future!"

A hint of deep malice flashed across Tesoro's face, and he looked forward to the future of overthrowing the Celestial Dragons more and more.

"So, you called me here specially. Is there something important you want to tell me?"

Tezulo put down the wine glass in his hand and his expression became a little more serious.

His Grand Tesoro has been making a fortune since it officially opened last year. As the world's largest entertainment city, there are countless things he needs to deal with every day.

And thanks to the popularity of Grand Tesoro, he officially became the world's richest man, controlling more than 20% of the world's Bailey.

Even the power of the Gold-Gold Fruit seemed to become stronger as he gained more wealth!

"My identity is quite sensitive now. The World Government should focus on guarding against me. Many things cannot be done. I must have your assistance."

This scene was destined to happen when he showed his strength to fight the Four Emperors head-on and had many powerful partners.

The World Government needs the Seven Warlords of the Sea to contain the Four Emperors and achieve world balance, rather than training the Seven Warlords of the Sea into behemoths that are more terrifying than the Four Emperors.

The fact that the World Government has been able to exercise restraint and not harm Rhodes shows that they are very concerned about the overall situation.

It would be unrealistic to expect them to agree to the demands made by the Rod Pirates.

"What's going on?"

"Punk Hazard!"

Rhodes looked at Tezulo and made his request.

"I heard that after Vegapunk was recruited by the World Government, he continued his research on an island called Punk Hazard."

"This island is not listed on any compass, and cannot be reached by conventional navigation."

"I want a way to get to that island!"

"You really gave me a very difficult problem."

Tezoro stroked the ring on his finger, thinking over all the information he had gathered.

This was the first time he had heard of the island of Punk Hazard, but from what Rhodes had described, this island was not simple at all. It was probably a top-secret area of ​​the World Government. It would not be easy to travel to this island.

"But I'll find a way as soon as possible."

Tezulo smiled widely.

"After all, money can make anything possible!"

(End of this chapter)