Pirates: Beyond Akainu
Chapter 178 There is no essential difference
Chapter 178 There is no essential difference
On the broad and bustling Plaza Street, a man and a woman were browsing around, and not far behind them were a group of energetic and fully armed naval guards.
The navy paraded through the market with such arrogance, but the passers-by and vendors showed no fear and even took off their hats to salute the navy.
The leading man smiled and nodded frequently. He was wearing a red and white military uniform with the rank of rear admiral and holding a decorative cane.
The woman who followed him step by step was dressed in black and white business attire and thick red glasses, but she still couldn't hide the depth of her eyes.
Center of the square.
The major-general man stopped and pointed at a execution platform full of time and asked the woman.
"Miss House, have you been here? The legendary place of beginning and end, Rogge Town."
The woman who was called the house lady nodded, "I have been to the town famous for Roger the Pirate King, the place where he was born and executed."
"It's a really nice town. Now under the governance of our new navy, it has become more prosperous." The eyes of the major general man were full of pride and emotion.
Shigenobu pushed the frame of the picture, and flashed back to the old Rogge Town deep in his memory. When the navy crossed the street, people hated dogs, but what about the current scene?So sincerely said:
"Mr. Turan, this is indeed your achievement. You ended the chaotic era of pirates."
"No, it was Marshal Sakaski who ended the pirate era."
Tulan's eyes were filled with longing, and whenever he thought of him, he would inevitably burst into tears.
"Is the great Marshal Sakarsky really dead?"
Turan avoided answering this question, forced himself to be happy, and said with a smile: "The important thing is that now, we have continued the legacy of Marshal Sakaski, and the world is developing in the direction we expect."
"And Miss Fang, don't always belong to you guys. You are my secretary now. I recognize your professional abilities and your contributions in the past four years. It's us!"
The house forced a smile, but her reluctance was so perfect that no one could tell it was a disguise.
"Thank you for your recognition, Mr. Turan."
"Yeah, our career has just started."
"By the way, I heard that Mr. Turan, you used to be the secretary of the great Sakalski? Really?" the house said in surprise.
Turan's expression froze, "Yes, the days with the Marshal were the happiest years of my life."
"Mr. Turan, you must have learned a lot from the great Marshal Sakasky."
Turan waved his hand, "No, I can now serve as the political director of the military commander-in-chief. It is not because of my outstanding ability, but also because of the marshal's afterglow. They respect the marshal and put me in this important position."
"Mr. Turan, there is no need to belittle yourself. From my point of view, it is great that you are the commander-in-chief of the entire army."
"Why do you say that?"
The house pushed up the frame of the mirror and answered seriously: "Because Mr. Turan is a gentle person, and because you were in this position, you prevented many atrocities from happening, and did not let the navy lose its humanity by killing."
Turan smiled bitterly: "But I have already suffered a lot of criticism from the Supreme Military Council because of this incident. They said that my revolution was not thorough and that I was lenient to the royal family and nobles."
"Did you know? As for the meeting I attended at our headquarters three months ago, due to the successive rebellions in various kingdoms, they were already very noisy about this matter, and I was criticized until I couldn't stay any longer before I left. of."
"Commissioner Ghost Spider even threatened to remove me from my post, saying that I was once a noble, could not fully stand on the side of the public, and had betrayed the marshal. It really made me sad to say that."
Turan lit a cigarette gloomily and looked at the distant sky.
"I don't know if their quarrel will come to a conclusion now, and how Chairman Zefa will make a decision."
Mentioning the biggest thing that is very likely to happen now, the house's eyes lit up and he became more energetic. Just when he was about to continue asking further, a guard came to report with documents.
It is a major red-headed document sent from the headquarters.
Turan immediately opened it and took it apart. After reading it, his expression changed drastically. He stared blankly ahead and was speechless.
"What is it?" House asked.
Turan didn't answer, but trusted the documents and handed them over to the house for inspection.
The house took over that trust, it seemed.
"They want to restart the national reform policy and require the cooperation of all military commanders and combatants. Chairman Zefa issued an order and let Lieutenant General Amanda Roy take the lead." Miss Fang Fang simply recounted the core of the document.
"This is another bloody storm! They want to attack without distinction regardless of their origins! No! I have to go back to the headquarters immediately and ask the Chairman not to do this! This will destroy the newly settled situation in the world!"
Turan was very anxious, he tossed the major general's coat, turned around and left.
Shigenobu Fusako took a deep breath. With her understanding of past life experiences and thorough knowledge of history, she never expected that the organization that had taken control of the political power would actually go on a killing spree.
"Is it to consolidate power? Otherwise, I really can't figure out their motive for doing this."
……
……
Five days later.
Turan took a fast boat and traveled through the starry night back to the headquarters. As soon as he got off the ship, he immediately asked to meet with the Chairman, but Zefa refused because he felt unwell.
Therefore, he had no choice but to go to the newly established National Renovation Office to find Roy, the person in charge.
Roy warmly received Turan.
"Lieutenant General! Do you have to do this?!" Turan came up and asked angrily.
"Don't call me my military rank, call me my position, Minister of National Reform." Roy smiled.
Turan was angry and yelled: "You are too extreme!"
"Extreme?" Roy smiled, then got up from his desk, first closed the door and window, and then said to Turan in the office where they were the only two left:
"Wasn't Marshal Sakaski extreme?"
"Can the situation be the same as it is now!? Now that we have ended the era of pirates and established a new government, the World Peace Alliance, it is up to our navy to slowly transition power, so that the peaceful order becomes the next step in the world. Main theme!”
"The excuse you used to launch the new national reform is nothing more than the rebellion of those countries, but can such a little rebellion be the opponent of the current navy? One or two legions can solve the problem!"
"I think it's you, Amanda Roy, who wants to seize the opportunity to seize power! You want to increase your prestige and power within the navy through the national reform! You want to take over the position of Chairman Zefa, don't you!?"
Turan was furious, pointed at Roy's nose, and said what was in his mind for the past five days.
Roy's face was stern, obviously suppressing his anger.But after taking into account the other person's identity as Sakaski's secretary, his mood gradually slowed down and he laughed out loud.
"It really makes me sad that you misunderstood me like this. Back then, I sneaked into the Pirates' undercover alone for the marshal's career, and brought back important surgical results for the marshal. Do you know how much I contributed to the marshal?"
Turan's angry mood stagnated, he was a gentle person after all.
Roy continued: "Tulan, you are a good person. I can understand your sympathy for those people, but if I tell you that if you don't kill those people now, they will endanger the marshal's career in the future. Do you believe it?"
Turan really didn't believe it, "Now that there is no supernatural power in this world, who can be the opponent of a navy with 27 legions, hundreds of warships, and countless bullets?"
"How naive, Turan!"
Roy sighed softly, lit a cigarette first, and then said slowly:
"In the previous world, individual combat power could lead a war and influence the direction of the world. Now that these are gone, what do you mean by influencing the world?"
Turan hesitated: "Money?"
"Money is just an appearance. What matters are resources and technology. Let's just talk about money. Who has the money?"
"Isn't it in our hands?"
"No, no, no, this is only temporary. How can there be a government where the military has always been in power? As you said, when power is slowly transferred to the National Alliance, who will control the money?"
"A democratically elected president of the world elected by all countries."
"What democratically elected president? Turan, you go deep into the grassroots, and you don't know that the representatives elected by various countries are still the same people as before, but the crown was smashed by us."
Turan argued: "That's because the people are not civilized yet, and I have already commanded the commanders and fighters to start the literacy campaign. This is our next priority. I believe that in the future, the people will elect representatives who can truly represent the people. .”
"impossible."
Roy put out his cigarette, denied it, and said:
"Once resource barriers are formed, they will never be able to catch up. Even if the royal nobles of various countries lose their superficial noble status, their actual noble status will not change."
"The most terrifying thing is that most of the officials and parliamentarians in the National Alliance are those people. If power is handed over to them in the future, we will die without knowing how."
"The key is this world. If such a scattered island world does not have a truly powerful central government, it will not take many years for pirates to be everywhere again."
Turan was speechless and felt powerless even before he could say many words. He finally said:
"Then the only option is to kill them? Doesn't the problem disappear if we kill them?"
Snapped!
Roy clapped his hands, very loudly.
"In short, we can't transfer power to the National Alliance yet. Even if we want to transfer it, we have to clean them out first. Those guys are too nostalgic for the old world and their crowns, and they cannot truly welcome the new world."
Turan was helpless and exhausted: "Then how far do you want to clean it?"
"Didn't the Marshal once say that if we want the world to no longer have the concept of a country, then the world must truly become a whole?"
"How is this possible? Even if there is no country, there are so many races, how can they be a whole? Isn't it good to respect each other and coexist peacefully?"
"There will be a day, but not now."
Roy took the initiative to open the door and asked Turan to go out.
Turan was dissatisfied, but he could only leave first.
"By the way, your consciousness is too low to continue to be the general commander. It will delay our work progress. I want to dismiss you. Of course, you are an alternate member, and I am also an alternate member. I am not qualified to do so. But I will report your situation to the Chairman."
Roy sneered.
"Then we'll see!" Turan slammed the door and left.
……
……
Three days later.
The military committee issued an order to inform the entire navy that Turan was no longer suitable to serve as the political director of the commander-in-chief of the entire army, and Beria, the minister of the Qing counter-revolutionary department, took over, but he still retained his status as an alternate member.
At the same time, it was announced that the new national reform plan has officially begun, with the goal of physically eliminating the definition of each country and establishing a unified world.
The World League for National Peace was changed to the World League for Racial Solidarity.
A massive movement officially began.
……
……
Alabasta.
After the World Government was destroyed and all supernatural powers disappeared, Alabasta, which had refused to become one of the founding members of the World Government, received preferential treatment.
The new navy did not force the Alabasta royal family too much, but only asked King Kobra to hand over the crown and certain property.
In the subsequent elections organized by the Navy, Cobra, who won the hearts of the people, once again became the spokesperson of Alabasta and became one of the members of the World Nations Peace Alliance.
Cobra readily accepted the result, but five years later.
The former royal palace is now in the government hall.
Ikarem, the former king's guard, reported urgently: "Sir, the navy has gathered 20 troops and has appeared in the waters of the kingdom!"
Cobra, who was sitting on the chair that once symbolized royal power, couldn't believe it and was lost in thought.
The former princess Weiwei exclaimed: "Father, let's run away quickly! I told you that the navy can't be trusted. Five years ago they didn't dare to attack us because we had a standing army of 60, but now the standing army has been dismantled by them. Seven or eight, so I can’t wait to take action.”
"Zefa! Zefa...is everything the chairman said false?" Kobra couldn't help but think of the day when the first World Nations Peace Alliance Conference was held.
Zefa, as the supreme commander of the entire army and the most powerful man in the world, swore to them:
The corrupt world government is gone forever, and all the Celestial Dragons have been put to death!Now is the time for us to put aside past grievances and build a new era. Peace will be the main theme of the future!
Cobra was caught in the memory of the past, weeping, he really believed it then.Believe that the navy that destroyed the corrupted world government and the Draconians will bring peace to this world.
"Zefa has been a radical from the beginning to the end! It was with his support that the Demon King Sakaski seized control of the navy from the Warring States Period."
Weiwei is heartbroken, because of the death of Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates, she hates Sakaski very much!
Ikarem agreed: "I also feel that the Navy wanted to kill us all from the beginning, and now after five years of accumulation of strength, it is finally ready to take action, because I have read Sakaski's article and the New Navy News. In the eyes of that devil, , there is no essential difference between us and the Tianlong people, we are all worthy of death."
"There is no essential difference between us and the Celestial Dragons? Our ancestors refused to become Celestial Dragons back then!" Cobra felt that he had heard the funniest joke.
Wei Wei shook her head sadly, gave Ikarem a wink, and then held up Kobra from left to right.
"Father, let's go first. Now the navy is powerful and we can't resist it. Let's retreat first and then take back Alabasta that belongs to us!"
"Yes, we will take back Alabasta that belongs to us in the future!"
Kobra fled in panic, led by her daughter Vivi.
Outside the palace, bursts of gunfire continued.
(End of this chapter)
On the broad and bustling Plaza Street, a man and a woman were browsing around, and not far behind them were a group of energetic and fully armed naval guards.
The navy paraded through the market with such arrogance, but the passers-by and vendors showed no fear and even took off their hats to salute the navy.
The leading man smiled and nodded frequently. He was wearing a red and white military uniform with the rank of rear admiral and holding a decorative cane.
The woman who followed him step by step was dressed in black and white business attire and thick red glasses, but she still couldn't hide the depth of her eyes.
Center of the square.
The major-general man stopped and pointed at a execution platform full of time and asked the woman.
"Miss House, have you been here? The legendary place of beginning and end, Rogge Town."
The woman who was called the house lady nodded, "I have been to the town famous for Roger the Pirate King, the place where he was born and executed."
"It's a really nice town. Now under the governance of our new navy, it has become more prosperous." The eyes of the major general man were full of pride and emotion.
Shigenobu pushed the frame of the picture, and flashed back to the old Rogge Town deep in his memory. When the navy crossed the street, people hated dogs, but what about the current scene?So sincerely said:
"Mr. Turan, this is indeed your achievement. You ended the chaotic era of pirates."
"No, it was Marshal Sakaski who ended the pirate era."
Tulan's eyes were filled with longing, and whenever he thought of him, he would inevitably burst into tears.
"Is the great Marshal Sakarsky really dead?"
Turan avoided answering this question, forced himself to be happy, and said with a smile: "The important thing is that now, we have continued the legacy of Marshal Sakaski, and the world is developing in the direction we expect."
"And Miss Fang, don't always belong to you guys. You are my secretary now. I recognize your professional abilities and your contributions in the past four years. It's us!"
The house forced a smile, but her reluctance was so perfect that no one could tell it was a disguise.
"Thank you for your recognition, Mr. Turan."
"Yeah, our career has just started."
"By the way, I heard that Mr. Turan, you used to be the secretary of the great Sakalski? Really?" the house said in surprise.
Turan's expression froze, "Yes, the days with the Marshal were the happiest years of my life."
"Mr. Turan, you must have learned a lot from the great Marshal Sakasky."
Turan waved his hand, "No, I can now serve as the political director of the military commander-in-chief. It is not because of my outstanding ability, but also because of the marshal's afterglow. They respect the marshal and put me in this important position."
"Mr. Turan, there is no need to belittle yourself. From my point of view, it is great that you are the commander-in-chief of the entire army."
"Why do you say that?"
The house pushed up the frame of the mirror and answered seriously: "Because Mr. Turan is a gentle person, and because you were in this position, you prevented many atrocities from happening, and did not let the navy lose its humanity by killing."
Turan smiled bitterly: "But I have already suffered a lot of criticism from the Supreme Military Council because of this incident. They said that my revolution was not thorough and that I was lenient to the royal family and nobles."
"Did you know? As for the meeting I attended at our headquarters three months ago, due to the successive rebellions in various kingdoms, they were already very noisy about this matter, and I was criticized until I couldn't stay any longer before I left. of."
"Commissioner Ghost Spider even threatened to remove me from my post, saying that I was once a noble, could not fully stand on the side of the public, and had betrayed the marshal. It really made me sad to say that."
Turan lit a cigarette gloomily and looked at the distant sky.
"I don't know if their quarrel will come to a conclusion now, and how Chairman Zefa will make a decision."
Mentioning the biggest thing that is very likely to happen now, the house's eyes lit up and he became more energetic. Just when he was about to continue asking further, a guard came to report with documents.
It is a major red-headed document sent from the headquarters.
Turan immediately opened it and took it apart. After reading it, his expression changed drastically. He stared blankly ahead and was speechless.
"What is it?" House asked.
Turan didn't answer, but trusted the documents and handed them over to the house for inspection.
The house took over that trust, it seemed.
"They want to restart the national reform policy and require the cooperation of all military commanders and combatants. Chairman Zefa issued an order and let Lieutenant General Amanda Roy take the lead." Miss Fang Fang simply recounted the core of the document.
"This is another bloody storm! They want to attack without distinction regardless of their origins! No! I have to go back to the headquarters immediately and ask the Chairman not to do this! This will destroy the newly settled situation in the world!"
Turan was very anxious, he tossed the major general's coat, turned around and left.
Shigenobu Fusako took a deep breath. With her understanding of past life experiences and thorough knowledge of history, she never expected that the organization that had taken control of the political power would actually go on a killing spree.
"Is it to consolidate power? Otherwise, I really can't figure out their motive for doing this."
……
……
Five days later.
Turan took a fast boat and traveled through the starry night back to the headquarters. As soon as he got off the ship, he immediately asked to meet with the Chairman, but Zefa refused because he felt unwell.
Therefore, he had no choice but to go to the newly established National Renovation Office to find Roy, the person in charge.
Roy warmly received Turan.
"Lieutenant General! Do you have to do this?!" Turan came up and asked angrily.
"Don't call me my military rank, call me my position, Minister of National Reform." Roy smiled.
Turan was angry and yelled: "You are too extreme!"
"Extreme?" Roy smiled, then got up from his desk, first closed the door and window, and then said to Turan in the office where they were the only two left:
"Wasn't Marshal Sakaski extreme?"
"Can the situation be the same as it is now!? Now that we have ended the era of pirates and established a new government, the World Peace Alliance, it is up to our navy to slowly transition power, so that the peaceful order becomes the next step in the world. Main theme!”
"The excuse you used to launch the new national reform is nothing more than the rebellion of those countries, but can such a little rebellion be the opponent of the current navy? One or two legions can solve the problem!"
"I think it's you, Amanda Roy, who wants to seize the opportunity to seize power! You want to increase your prestige and power within the navy through the national reform! You want to take over the position of Chairman Zefa, don't you!?"
Turan was furious, pointed at Roy's nose, and said what was in his mind for the past five days.
Roy's face was stern, obviously suppressing his anger.But after taking into account the other person's identity as Sakaski's secretary, his mood gradually slowed down and he laughed out loud.
"It really makes me sad that you misunderstood me like this. Back then, I sneaked into the Pirates' undercover alone for the marshal's career, and brought back important surgical results for the marshal. Do you know how much I contributed to the marshal?"
Turan's angry mood stagnated, he was a gentle person after all.
Roy continued: "Tulan, you are a good person. I can understand your sympathy for those people, but if I tell you that if you don't kill those people now, they will endanger the marshal's career in the future. Do you believe it?"
Turan really didn't believe it, "Now that there is no supernatural power in this world, who can be the opponent of a navy with 27 legions, hundreds of warships, and countless bullets?"
"How naive, Turan!"
Roy sighed softly, lit a cigarette first, and then said slowly:
"In the previous world, individual combat power could lead a war and influence the direction of the world. Now that these are gone, what do you mean by influencing the world?"
Turan hesitated: "Money?"
"Money is just an appearance. What matters are resources and technology. Let's just talk about money. Who has the money?"
"Isn't it in our hands?"
"No, no, no, this is only temporary. How can there be a government where the military has always been in power? As you said, when power is slowly transferred to the National Alliance, who will control the money?"
"A democratically elected president of the world elected by all countries."
"What democratically elected president? Turan, you go deep into the grassroots, and you don't know that the representatives elected by various countries are still the same people as before, but the crown was smashed by us."
Turan argued: "That's because the people are not civilized yet, and I have already commanded the commanders and fighters to start the literacy campaign. This is our next priority. I believe that in the future, the people will elect representatives who can truly represent the people. .”
"impossible."
Roy put out his cigarette, denied it, and said:
"Once resource barriers are formed, they will never be able to catch up. Even if the royal nobles of various countries lose their superficial noble status, their actual noble status will not change."
"The most terrifying thing is that most of the officials and parliamentarians in the National Alliance are those people. If power is handed over to them in the future, we will die without knowing how."
"The key is this world. If such a scattered island world does not have a truly powerful central government, it will not take many years for pirates to be everywhere again."
Turan was speechless and felt powerless even before he could say many words. He finally said:
"Then the only option is to kill them? Doesn't the problem disappear if we kill them?"
Snapped!
Roy clapped his hands, very loudly.
"In short, we can't transfer power to the National Alliance yet. Even if we want to transfer it, we have to clean them out first. Those guys are too nostalgic for the old world and their crowns, and they cannot truly welcome the new world."
Turan was helpless and exhausted: "Then how far do you want to clean it?"
"Didn't the Marshal once say that if we want the world to no longer have the concept of a country, then the world must truly become a whole?"
"How is this possible? Even if there is no country, there are so many races, how can they be a whole? Isn't it good to respect each other and coexist peacefully?"
"There will be a day, but not now."
Roy took the initiative to open the door and asked Turan to go out.
Turan was dissatisfied, but he could only leave first.
"By the way, your consciousness is too low to continue to be the general commander. It will delay our work progress. I want to dismiss you. Of course, you are an alternate member, and I am also an alternate member. I am not qualified to do so. But I will report your situation to the Chairman."
Roy sneered.
"Then we'll see!" Turan slammed the door and left.
……
……
Three days later.
The military committee issued an order to inform the entire navy that Turan was no longer suitable to serve as the political director of the commander-in-chief of the entire army, and Beria, the minister of the Qing counter-revolutionary department, took over, but he still retained his status as an alternate member.
At the same time, it was announced that the new national reform plan has officially begun, with the goal of physically eliminating the definition of each country and establishing a unified world.
The World League for National Peace was changed to the World League for Racial Solidarity.
A massive movement officially began.
……
……
Alabasta.
After the World Government was destroyed and all supernatural powers disappeared, Alabasta, which had refused to become one of the founding members of the World Government, received preferential treatment.
The new navy did not force the Alabasta royal family too much, but only asked King Kobra to hand over the crown and certain property.
In the subsequent elections organized by the Navy, Cobra, who won the hearts of the people, once again became the spokesperson of Alabasta and became one of the members of the World Nations Peace Alliance.
Cobra readily accepted the result, but five years later.
The former royal palace is now in the government hall.
Ikarem, the former king's guard, reported urgently: "Sir, the navy has gathered 20 troops and has appeared in the waters of the kingdom!"
Cobra, who was sitting on the chair that once symbolized royal power, couldn't believe it and was lost in thought.
The former princess Weiwei exclaimed: "Father, let's run away quickly! I told you that the navy can't be trusted. Five years ago they didn't dare to attack us because we had a standing army of 60, but now the standing army has been dismantled by them. Seven or eight, so I can’t wait to take action.”
"Zefa! Zefa...is everything the chairman said false?" Kobra couldn't help but think of the day when the first World Nations Peace Alliance Conference was held.
Zefa, as the supreme commander of the entire army and the most powerful man in the world, swore to them:
The corrupt world government is gone forever, and all the Celestial Dragons have been put to death!Now is the time for us to put aside past grievances and build a new era. Peace will be the main theme of the future!
Cobra was caught in the memory of the past, weeping, he really believed it then.Believe that the navy that destroyed the corrupted world government and the Draconians will bring peace to this world.
"Zefa has been a radical from the beginning to the end! It was with his support that the Demon King Sakaski seized control of the navy from the Warring States Period."
Weiwei is heartbroken, because of the death of Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates, she hates Sakaski very much!
Ikarem agreed: "I also feel that the Navy wanted to kill us all from the beginning, and now after five years of accumulation of strength, it is finally ready to take action, because I have read Sakaski's article and the New Navy News. In the eyes of that devil, , there is no essential difference between us and the Tianlong people, we are all worthy of death."
"There is no essential difference between us and the Celestial Dragons? Our ancestors refused to become Celestial Dragons back then!" Cobra felt that he had heard the funniest joke.
Wei Wei shook her head sadly, gave Ikarem a wink, and then held up Kobra from left to right.
"Father, let's go first. Now the navy is powerful and we can't resist it. Let's retreat first and then take back Alabasta that belongs to us!"
"Yes, we will take back Alabasta that belongs to us in the future!"
Kobra fled in panic, led by her daughter Vivi.
Outside the palace, bursts of gunfire continued.
(End of this chapter)
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