My friends are all pirates

"It is still necessary to pay proper attention. No matter what, it is better to let the navy increase its troops there first."

"Seconded."

"There should indeed be more troops."

"The day when all countries hand over the heavenly gold is approaching, let's do it in the name of protecting the member countries."

"But they really need to be protected. The Drum King's royal family's handwriting has just arrived, and that country is getting more and more powerless against pirates."

"It is definitely not possible to add a branch. The Ministry of the Navy is already the most powerful department. Tell Kong to let him increase the number of troops. It is also the duty of the Navy to respond to the alliance's request for help."

In a few words, Wu Laoxing set the tone for this matter, and not long after, a paper was sent from Marie Gioia to Marin Fando.

Because it was a direct order from the Five Old Stars to the Navy Headquarters, this document was directly submitted to the empty hand of the then Admiral of the Navy.

As the most powerful person in the navy and also the first person to take the blame, Sikong sat in his luxurious and spacious office, watching the inexplicable order of the five old stars, and fell into deep thought.

Those five old men took the wrong medicine again today?

This was his first thought.

Second thought is...

I increase Nima!People you give?

There are never enough sailors in the Navy.

The navy has no shortage of technologically advanced ships with a complete range of categories, and no shortage of combatants. Whether it is the basic marines or generals at all levels, the number is sufficient, but there is a shortage of qualified sailors.

The role of sailors is only to give full play to the weapon system of a ship. Qualified and sufficient sailors are the guarantee that a warship can ride the wind and waves at sea.

On the surface, strict discipline and lower wages than merchant ships are the main reasons why sailors are not willing to work on warships.

As a result, the conscription teams of various countries earned a lot of money, but even so, the shortage of sailors is still a reality, and it is also a problem that is mentioned in every report of the Navy Headquarters.

It is impossible for Wu Laoxing not to know this. If he did not take the wrong medicine, there must be a reason for the incident.

Kong looked at his three favorite generals.

A mushroom head, a flat cut, and an old girl.

Mushroom Head and Hedgehog Head were grabbing snacks on the coffee table, and the old girl was very quiet, just looking at her two old colleagues with the eyes of caring for mentally handicapped children. This calmness is worthy of being the goddess in the hearts of countless colleagues in the Navy Headquarters.

At this time, the high-level design of the navy is a structure of one marshal, one general and many lieutenant generals.

Marshal Kong, known as the "Steel Bone", and General Warring States, known as the "Smart General", are the highest combat power on the surface.

But everyone in the Navy headquarters knows that the hero lieutenant general of the headquarters, Monkey D. Garp, known as the "Iron Fist", is really no worse than the Warring States Period, and Lieutenant Admiral Crane, who manages the staff department, rarely makes a move. , but they are also veterans on the same level as Sengoku and Garp. These three are Marshal Kong's three favorite generals.

In fact, at the beginning, Wu Laoxing's favorite candidate for promotion to general was Karp, not Sengoku. This is a well-known secret in the Navy headquarters.

But Lieutenant General Karp has said in public more than once that the Tianlong people are idiots.

So in the end, the Warring States period was promoted to a general, and Karp was still a heroic lieutenant general rather than a heroic general.

"Warring States, come over and take a look at this." Kong said to Mushroom Head.

Hearing the news, Warring States, who was fighting for Zhenghuan, got up quickly, walked quickly to the empty desk, and took the warrant from his boss.

After just one glance, he habitually frowned, and then asked: "The five old men have nothing to do? Do you care about this kind of thing?"

Chapter 21 Two or three things about Marin Vanduo

Unlike Sora's idea, Warring States directly evaluated Wu Laoxing's temporary order to increase troops as a bad habit of office bureaucrats.

As the only global maritime military force in the world of One Piece, the internal factors that really limit the naval power have never been superficial expenses.

More funds can certainly produce more ships and weapons, but more manpower will be needed to operate them later on. We cannot expect those strong men who are attracted to the navy by high salaries to climb the mast, drain water, raise and lower sails, adjust Rigging or something.

Even Naval Academy cadets were limited to understanding sailing instructions until they passed the midshipman stage, and the school produced officers rather than sailors.

A 33-gun fully rigged sailing warship with full crew and all-weather combat capability has close to 300 sailors who are dedicated to serving the ship. Including combatants and technical personnel such as craftsmen who are not required to change, the total number is close to [-]. When the battle is fierce, nearly [-]% of the sailors will also be ordered to operate various weapons.

Before being a lieutenant general, the Warring States’ view of the navy was—that is, Marie Gioia’s stingy old man, and these office workers would use their mouths to make it difficult for them to do things.

When he became a lieutenant general, his thoughts became - grass!What about people?Where did you die?

Now that he has become a general, the idea has become again—give me a sailor!I want sailors!sailor!

The number of sailors is the greatest constraint on naval power.

But the supply of professional sailors is always in short supply. The navy has conducted a special survey for this, and even borrowed the resources of the CP organization. About two-thirds of the manpower required by merchant ships and warships.

In this context, the forced conscript teams of non-governmental organizations spread all over the world, and most of the time they serve merchant ships.

Some of them are simply "snatchers", whose style is similar to that of human traffickers. They will hang around inns and hotels, and anyone who makes them feel out of place and can't find a job, so wandering on the street will become a target. "The rogues" would promise high salaries to these rogues if they signed the contract, and they could also advance their salaries, and those unlucky ones who signed would eventually find themselves standing on a ship bound for the open sea, becoming low-paid sailor apprentices, " The "smugglers" would take months' wages from merchant captains as commissions.

In addition to the "kidnappers" there are also "decoys". These people look for sailors who are drunk or in debt, and get them to sign in exchange for drinking or paying their debts. Especially the "decoys" who have no moral principles simply is to handcuff drunk sailors, lock them up for one night, and sell them to merchant captains, in either case the new sailor is legally obliged to serve the new ship until it is completed which can take months or sometimes longer Years of ocean voyages.

Compared with merchant ships, naval sailors have lower salaries but stricter discipline. Whenever the navy needs to recruit a large number of sailors, the forced conscript team will be led by officers of the naval recruiting department to search the streets, and with the assistance of sticks, Round up any sailor they see, and if time is particularly tight, they will raid homes and bed and breakfasts in the middle of the night to search for sailors, or raid merchant ships that are coming into port, and take people who have been at sea for months or years. Before they could put their feet on land, see their families, or even get paid, they were dragged off merchant ships and taken to warships.

From Marie Gioia to civilians who are not family members of sailors, no one thinks there is anything wrong with the navy doing this. Everyone believes that if the navy doesn't capture these people as soldiers, they will become pirates sooner or later.

Residents of the coastal towns even outright thought the sailors were "a brood of pudgy rhinos dressed in human clothes, molesting women in sailor coats, beating every passing post with clubs, and leaving every stray dog ​​with its tail between their legs in front of them." fled" dangerous elements.

Even the merchant ships that have been robbed don't have much opinion, so they can use the sailors' fear of the navy to recruit at a low price.

This is a very strange thing. The prosperity of this world is largely supported by countless sailors, but they seem to be despised by the whole society.

Marin Fando would not consider this kind of issue. They only knew that although they hired a large number of conscription teams every time, there were not enough sailors.

Therefore, the navy has never been fully staffed. There will always be a certain number of warships under maintenance in Hong Kong, and only the most basic maintenance and garrison personnel are kept. The Navy has been able to maintain a stable number of warships that can sail.

Only when a large number of warships need to be mobilized, such as the surrender of gold by various countries, the convening of a world conference, etc., in order to maintain the navy’s ability to control the main waterways, the navy will increase the number of warships going to sea and hire a large number of forced conscripts for this purpose.

Unlike the World Conference, which is held only once every four years, the gold in the sky is paid once a year. At a fixed time every year, galleons sailing from Marie Gioia will sail to the four seas and the first half of the great channel.

When they begin their return voyage, the lower and lowermost decks will be filled with treasures, including crates of smelted gold and silver, so rich in treasures that these galleons are called "treasure ships", even though they themselves are full of soldiers. And artillery, there will still be a larger number of naval warships to escort them.

Now the fleets of treasure ships from all over the world have completed their collection and are starting to move towards Marie Gioia. The treasure ships on the great waterway will slow down for a while, but the pressure on the escort of naval warships will only increase. Because of the weather problems in the great waterway, the treasure ships cannot gather Formed into a large convoy, they must return to Mary Gioia in batches from different waterways.

Kong is the marshal, and for specific matters such as how to arrange escort troops and fill vacancies in local troops, he only looks at the plan jointly submitted by the three favorite generals under his command.

Garp is just a fisherman, only interested in fighting. Sengoku and Crane have spent a lot of effort to complete the deployment of troops. It can be said that the existing manpower of the navy has been utilized to the extreme. There are no sailors in service. There is nothing left, and now Wulaoxing just throws a word and wants to send extra troops to the waters of Magnetic Drum Island?

I increase Nima Oh!

Is this horse riding a Drum Island thing?

"I can't help it anyway." Warring States said that I will lie down and you can do whatever you want, "Marshal, we have to be tough once, after all, it is the Drum Kingdom's poor governance that caused the current situation. They treat the people better. So many pirates."

Kong wanted to cover his face.

Anyway, he was the marshal who co-authored the quarrel, right?

If you're so stubborn, go ahead, go alone and confront five people across the street, do you think it's easy?

"Don't say such stupid things." Kong rubbed his temples, his head really hurts, "At this time, if you go through the normal process, you may not be able to catch up. You are a general, and you find a way to recruit people by yourself, just go to Marie Gioia to snatch people. I don't care, anyway, I have to get at least one manpower for the warship."

After speaking, he felt uneasy, and added another sentence: "It must be full!"

Sengoku looked at Sora with an expression of "Marshal, you will have a hard time retiring like this".

Sora returned with a look of "beep beep again and I will make you feel pain now".

"marshal."

"Let it go!"

"I just have one condition, let Karp do it with me!"

"That's great, you quickly take him away!"

Seeing the displeased Sengoku push the cursing Capra out of his office, Sora suddenly felt that the air was filled with joy.

If you are not happy, I will be happy.

Sora, who was full of energy again, looked at the last favorite general with his strange face.

"Little Crane... Huh? Why are you going?"

Sora looked at Crane who had already walked to the door, and felt self-doubt.

Wouldn't it be nice to enjoy a safe working atmosphere with such a kind boss like me?Why are you leaving?

"I'm going to help, Marshal." He was very helpless, "Warring States and Karp are together, and work efficiency will not improve."

"...That's true, thank you for your hard work." Kong felt that it made sense, and let him go with a wave of his hand.

The office of the Admiral of the Navy has returned to cleanliness, leaving only a lonely muscular old man.

Naturally, the Imagination floating on the sea did not know what happened in Marin Vanduo. Now, the crew sailed to the unknown distance with good expectations.

The new captain who has been reduced to an "unemployed" person, under the unanimous persuasion of everyone, nestled in the newly renovated captain's room and continued to familiarize himself with his abilities.

In the words of our companions, we are sorry to let you hang on the deck to blow the wind.

Ah Sherid felt that he was rejected, but he had no proof.

However, he has no objection to being able to calm down and familiarize himself with his abilities.

It has been several days since the Imagination resumed its voyage, and Acherid spent most of the time in the captain's cabin, especially when the weather was bad.

In the captain's room, Asherid looked at the lightning and thunder outside the window, and began to think about one thing—if the ability to burn fruits is used instead of the stove and bellows, can a weapon capable of carrying capacity be created?

In theory, this doesn't seem entirely impossible.

Domineering can dye the sword into the color and shape of the swordsman, so it doesn't make sense that ability should be treated specially, right?

Domineering is emitted by one's own body, but the natural ability is also a part of the body.

However, this setting has become less friendly over the years.

Asherid looked at the long sword that he had put on the table. He didn't dare to experiment with his precious long sword these days, otherwise the sword would be useless.

Even if you don't consider the sword, how to combine the ability with the sword is a difficult matter. Sending out flames and covering the sword with flames are completely different things.

The flame is the body, so for example, it is very awkward to cut someone with a sword and hit someone with your body at the same time.

In any case, how to adapt the fruit ability to what he has learned so far is the most important thing for him now.

Chapter 22 A City Founded by Slaves

The first thing Ashred thought of was actually the work of blacksmithing.

The ability to burn the fruit, he estimated that it could replace the role of the stove and the bellows.

When he was reading the manga, his deepest impression of Yashao Fruit was that Ace was punched in the face by a red dog.

At that time, he thought that Ace was fishing, and the flame temperature he created was not high enough.

But now that he himself has become a person with the ability to burn fruit, he feels that this should not be the reason.

As rumor has it, those who eat a Devil Fruit will know the name of the fruit.

But the name of the fruit comes from the ability, and the term that the ability user knows is actually ability.

Different from the superhuman and animal departments, what the natural department obtains is the "cause" of natural phenomena.

The ability to burn the fruit is "burning", and the flame is the result of the ability.

Why the fruit of the red dog is called "magma" instead of "lava", and why the fruit of the green pheasant is called "frozen" instead of "frost" or "snow" can be fully understood at this moment.

Based on this point, the temperature of the flame produced by the burning fruit ability is quite considerable.

Asherid has been transformed into the body of the flame, which acts like a closed system, so when he activates "fluidity" but does not release the "closed", the temperature of the flame is worth looking forward to.

And the initial temperature depends on how much energy he is willing to expend.

Of course, the flames ejected to the outside will still lose heat due to the loss of the closed system, but it can still easily destroy all wooden hulls.

However, feeling the swaying of the ship's hull, Alsherid still had a score in his heart, and he didn't dare to play with the air oven in the captain's cabin.

He's a real landlubber now.

He still maintains the entity in most cases, and being able to consciously maintain the contact between the entity and the outside world, or even only part of the entity or physical contact, is his biggest gain in the past few days.

Ability users also need to eat and drink, get married and have children. If the natural system can't do this, then it has to be renamed the child-killing or suicide system.

Being a naturalist is not as "lying" as he imagined.

However, the natural system is still "convenient". Even if the entity is actively exposed, once it receives harmful physical contact from the outside world, it will still spontaneously switch to a body that is only a natural phenomenon.

Considering the scarcity and concentration of HQ around the world, the "fluidity" of the natural system can solve most of the fatal blows for Al Sherid at the front of the great channel, and his biggest risk is still shipwreck.