My friends are all pirates

Speaking of Otohime, he remembered.

Don Quixote, who was so stupid back then, took his life.

It's really rare, this tone sounds like a good one.

Can Tianlong people still be good?Doflamingo's dear father was a good man, but he was too naive and sent it away.

"Understood, it's hard work for the envoy to make this trip." Asherid said calmly, and then asked, "Have the envoy eaten? You are here, do you want an extra meal?"

Official: "... I am very grateful, so I will not bother you."

He figured it out, today's meal must be drunk.

Asherid stood up, and stretched out his hand towards the side door.

"Please!"

The official bowed and followed Ah Sherid.

Headed by the two, followed by the important ministers of Dressrosa, a group of people passed through the door and the promenade. On both sides of the promenade were two rows of soldiers who had already stood up and held their heads high. The soldiers of the army have a spirit different from that of King Rick's army. The officials see all this in their eyes, but they don't comment.

His double mission has only just begun.

He has already conveyed the personal request of Saint Muse Garud, and the next thing is the main meal—the request of the Five Elder Stars.

The five old men who hold the supreme power of the world government don't care what the origin of the king of a country is.

Entering the dining room, Alcherid asked the officials to sit at the guest seats, while he himself sat at the main seat.

The two principals were seated in the corner, and the others were seated automatically according to their status. In a blink of an eye, the long table was full, and the waiters filed in to serve everyone.

"Messenger, just relax, let's go."

Seeing that Asherid raised the silver wine glass, everyone also raised their glasses one after another.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." The official raised his glass respectfully and drank it all in one gulp.

"The envoy is thirsty." Asherid smiled, and he took a sip, "Continue to fill up the envoy. By the way, envoy, what do you call it?"

"I don't dare to insult your Majesty's ears with my humble name."

The official's attitude is very humble, because sitting in front of him is a person whom the Muse Garud Saint can call "an old friend".

He was almost scared to death when he heard the Muse Garud Saint say that.

But the more humble he was, the more Asherid wanted to ask.

"What are you talking about? I don't even have a last name."

"Your Majesty, your name is Lowestoft James, Auditor at Mary Gioia."

"Auditor, then you have a high position and authority." Ashred was a little surprised, "Why do you have to do errands?"

"I dare not think so." Lowestoft James said hastily, "We are just lucky enough to serve the nobles of the world."

"Ha ha……"

Ya Sherid smiled and said nothing, and stopped discussing this topic with the other party.

"James, someone like you is acting as an errand, it must not be just to send me an invitation letter?"

"Your Majesty knows everything..."

"You can call me governor." Ashred interrupted the other party, "We have restructured."

"Okay, my lord governor." Lowestoft James followed suit and didn't think it was too strange.

Among the kings of the franchise countries in various places, there are too many who play titles because of spiritual emptiness, and there are many weirder ones than Sherid, the governor?That sounds pretty decent.

"The five old stars want to know what the Governor-General plans to do with the next strategy of governing the country." He said straight to the point, "You also know that the number of countries joining the New World is not many, and the Kingdom of Dressrosa has been It didn't play any role, but it made good friends with all countries."

He paused, and said meaningfully: "But those are all enemy countries."

"Five old stars, what do you want Dressrosa to do?"

Ashred didn't answer the question.

"The great Five Elders did not give me clear instructions, but I would like to do some personal analysis for His Majesty." Lowestoft James said cautiously, "Only balance can bring peace, do you agree? "

I agree with you, but according to what you say, the first emperor on the blue star should be renamed "King Fadi".

"It makes a little sense." Asherid nodded, "The emperors of the sea are also able to live in peace because there is no difference in quality between them."

"It's great that you can understand." Lowestoft James was overjoyed. "Nowadays, Dressrosa's position is particularly important, but the non-alliance countries of the New World have also taken the opportunity to accumulate strength during this war. It will become an element of instability, if Dressrosa is willing to effectively curb some of their overreaching behavior, presumably the new world will surely usher in real peace."

"Wars require money." Asherid shook his wine glass, looked at the wine in it, and said in a very compassionate tone, "James, you may not know that although the turmoil in this country stopped in time, it still hurts a lot. What’s more, there is no more money.”

After thinking for a while, he continued: "If this country is in a state of war, then a person with [-] beli today may only have [-] bele tomorrow, and a person who owns two houses will only have one bele left. Dong."

"If this is the case, there is no problem at all." Lowestoft James continued to be humble online, "Marie Joia is willing to support, and will cancel half of the debts that Dressrosa has already owed."

"That's what Rick owes, not me." Ashried said, "Of course I don't mean to renege on the debt, but after all, I don't even know how much they owe, and the country is in such a mess now, so it can't A little more free?"

"This..." Lowestoft James was a little embarrassed.

Although he still has a quota in his hand, he dare not use it unless the ideal situation is met.

"I now have 38 warships. If a country invades or is unfriendly to me, then I can only take measures. But in the final analysis, food, weapons, and military pay are very tight now, and the pressure to repay the debt is still too great. "

Lowestoft James was overjoyed when he heard this.

He murmured for a long time, but that's all he wanted to hear!

Why doesn't Mary Gioia like Dressrosa, because it won't fight!

Although Mary Joya holds the power of the world government, the framework of the world government also allows Mary Joya to rely on geographical advantages to rule the world. The balance that Mary Joya pursues is to secretly suppress all forces that may pose a threat to Mary Joya— — Also includes affiliated and non-affiliated countries.

At the same time, it is also necessary to ensure that the number and population of the member countries and non-member countries must also maintain a "balance".

Because the world government needs slaves.

The slave production system under the world government is very mature. The majority of slaves are not consumed by private slaves. The factory organization in Mary Joya and various countries that support slavery can realize factory production and assembly line operations through slaves. , But this high efficiency hides a fatal hidden danger-because of the relationship between product categories, a large number of ordinary people have no spending power, and it is the spending power of a very small number of rich people that supports the operation of this huge economic machine.

Merchant ships drifting on the sea head to various islands dotted across the sea, bustling with each other and shuttling back and forth. The bulk materials they transport are often luxury goods such as wine, cosmetics, gold and silver ornaments, and precious furniture, rather than food and production. Raw materials and mass consumer goods.

But slaves are not machines after all, nor can they be manufactured endlessly like machines. Once the supply is cut off, the thriving business economy will shrink. Without new slaves, factories can only gradually decline, and urban commerce will decline. The population will also flow out, and it will become very difficult for the world government to even recruit soldiers—the recruited will rather go to the manor as serfs than join the army, and the manor owner will be very willing to help these people hide their identities, using these cheap labor force.

Such a chain reaction, of course, is what the world government wants to avoid, but the low-cost slaves have long changed the macroeconomic structure of the countries that practiced slavery, and also destroyed the living conditions of the disadvantaged classes. Few, land mergers and inflation are very serious, it is impossible to want to reform.

The safest way is to reduce the number of countries that are no longer worth joining, increase the number of non-joining countries, stir up conflicts among countries and control them to a certain scale, so that the war machine that acquires slaves can continue to operate well.

"If this is the case, the debt can be completely forgiven, and the way of resource support can also be discussed in detail." Lowestoft James suppressed the excitement in his heart, "If the navy is required to cooperate, it is not impossible."

"Forget it then, thank God they don't shoot me black."

Ashred shook his head.

He led the crowd to toast again.

"It's a coincidence that I'm planning to go out for the first time these days. Does Mr. James want to watch the battle together?"

"Huh? Is this convenient?"

"Look at what you said, you are our distinguished guest, and you are all our own people, so there is no inconvenience."

"Thank you for your kindness, I will be looking forward to it!"

Chapter 230 Five, Except the Dead, All Run Away

Lowestoft James thought that Ashred was the most efficient king he had ever seen.

He just fell asleep in the palace... Ah no, he slept in the guest room of the Governor's Mansion. When he got up, the Dressrosa people were already rectifying the army.

It can be seen that the Dressrosa people were already preparing for the battle before he came.

Instead, he rushed to forgive debts and send resources.

But that's a good thing.

If possible, Lowestoft James hoped that Dressrosa's goal would be the kingdom of Prodence.

The neighboring country of Dressrosa is a martial kingdom, and this kind of kingdom is the target that the world government wants to suppress, but the former Dressrosa is so good as this country that it can wear a pair of pants.

The new king was waiting for Lowestoft James when he met Ashred at the port.

A fleet has been moored in the port.

Lowestoft James, who is very good at distinguishing ships, just watched it for a while, and he understood the composition of this fleet-only three were serious warships, eight were armed merchant ships, and only two were displacement ships. Thousand tons, the other nine ships are all around [-] to [-] tons.

But it's already pretty good,

But being able to produce three battleships was a little beyond his expectations.

However, considering that the other party has ten thousand kingdoms secretly and a golden lion on the surface, it is not too much to be able to produce three warships.

Lowestoft James was only half right at best.

IWC does not have extra warships for Asherid, it is not enough by itself. In the final analysis... Warships are really rare goods. There are only a handful of private shipyards in the world that can manufacture large-scale warships, otherwise the capital of water would not It will be so delicious.

Wanguo's egg tart ship is essentially Charlotte Lingling's use of her own ability to make up for the lack of ship technology and manufacturing capabilities.

"James, are you resting well?"

On the pier, under the guard of a group of soldiers, Asherid was staring at the materials being transported. He checked from time to time, and when he saw that the envoy of Marie Gioia, who was snoozing, had finally come, he greeted him with a smile.

"I'm very sorry, Governor, I'm late." Lowestoft James blushed.

This group of people got up so early, which made him feel a little bit embarrassed.

Seemingly seeing what he was thinking, Ashred said: "We don't have a dedicated military port yet, so we can only get up early, so as not to affect the entry and exit of civilian ships as much as possible."

Dressrosa doesn't even have a military port, which is really inconvenient.

But Asherid has already made up his mind. After the war, he will pull a small island of suitable size from the sky to make it a military port area.

The islands from Skira will definitely be available for Dressrosa's expansion needs.

Again, stop wasting.

"No, no, I caused you trouble." Lowestoft James hurriedly apologized.

The world's impression of officials directly under the world government is that they look at people through their noses, which is actually a bit unfair.

First, they do often use their nostrils for eyes.

But the world government officials received the salary from Mary Joya, and their attitude after arriving in a place was largely because of Mary Joya's attitude.

And Mary Joya now hopes to improve the relationship with Dressrosa, which was not good enough.

Lowestoft James, of course, was also humble.

And this is a new world.

These people in the New World always seem to be at ease. The great empire has risen and fallen in the outside world, and this area remains the same. The power from the outside world may sweep their land again and again and leave in a hurry. But the impact on them is still minimal, and they still go their own way.

The people of Dressrosa are actually the same, except that Dressrosa is a veteran franchise country, so although they do their own way, they are not ignorant of the world.

When the sun was fully up, the eleven warships were finally loaded and sailed.

Asherid did not hide his destination from Lowestoft James, and Lowestoft James knew that Asherid's goal was the Kingdom of Swabia.

He also knows something about this country.

This is a big country with a population of one million, and the current royal family has ruled for 200 years.

But the wealthy nobles are now immersed in pleasure, their swords are rusted from long idleness, the slaves don't care about changing masters, since the new masters can't be worse than the previous ones anyway, and the bourgeoisie bears the burden of society. Some expenses, but no benefits.

It is obviously impossible for such a group to form a strong army.

For Lowestoft James, who chose to watch the battle with the ship, he got a very smooth sailing.

But no matter what the weather is, the most eye-catching person on the deck must be Asherid. There is always a bird on his shoulder, and beside him, there is always a mermaid girl holding a crystal ball.

Asherid still aboard his loyal Dreadnought.

Along the way, the people on the boat have experienced a lot with him. Even the guide bird is now a bird man who is no longer ashamed of being small.

Among the old crew, only Enilo and Nicole Robin did not follow. It is very simple for Enilo not to follow. The arsenal is a big deal, and nothing can go wrong, let alone stop. Only Enilo and the technicians mingle.

The reason why Nicole Robin didn't follow was even simpler, not to be seen by Lowestoft James.

But it is reasonable for Ashred to invite Bailey of the World Government to invite Lowestoft James.

The sea was rough and the waves were high, but none of this could compare to the exhilaration in Al Sherid's heart.

The new world is not only the emperor of the sea, he needs more patience to establish his sphere of influence among the intricate parties.