An order of 19 billion yuan and 53 warships are required to be delivered within three months. Even in the pirate world where shipbuilding is like building blocks, it is quite stressful.

After all, there are only so many people in Carrera Donghai Branch...

So, in desperation, Vice President Barry had no choice but to call Espagu again.

I, Barry, am here to ask for someone again!

What, not giving it to people?

Your headquarters' revenue this year is only 20 billion. Look, my sales in three months are 19 billion, okay?

Although of the 19 billion, Li Yan will take away a full 12 billion.

After all, Adam Baomu had to be purchased from Li Yan when building the ship, and naval guns also had to be purchased from Li Yan.

However, no matter what, after purchasing the materials from Li Yan, Carrera Company only paid for labor, but it could get 7 billion beli in three months. This profit is already terrifyingly high.

You know, although the headquarters has an annual revenue of more than 20 billion, if the procurement expenses are removed, the actual final profit may not even be 7 billion.

It is precisely because of this that Barry is now confident, and Espagu has also begun to doubt his life.

If this momentum continues, should I really consider setting up the headquarters of Carrera Company in Donghai?

In short, under Barry's repeated urging, two more foremen and more than a hundred outstanding shipwrights were finally hired on Esbagu's side, thus greatly alleviating the manpower shortage problem at the Donghai Branch.

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A few days later.

Li Yan led a group of branch executives to the Shipbuilding Island, and with him was Smoker, who was temporarily transferred to the 18th branch when the East China Sea Fleet supported the New World.

As soon as this guy heard that a new generation of warships would be commissioned in a few days, he shamelessly stayed a few more days just for this moment.

After all, during the more than twenty days in the Eighteenth Branch, he had seen the huge iron lump being built on the shipbuilding island, and his curiosity had already been overflowing, okay?

And where no one noticed, there was a person with a gloomy face. He was CP9's secret agent Kaku.

The construction of the ironclad ship is definitely a big event. When the ironclad ship project officially started more than two months ago, Kaku was already ready to report the matter, but the problem is...

When he contacted Spandam using the top-secret phone bug, he instantly forgot what he wanted to report, and after hanging up the phone bug, he suddenly remembered...

So, Kaku repeated the process of dialing the phone more than ten times, then hanging up, hanging up, dialing again and then hanging up, so that every time Spandam picked up the phone, Kaku would be beaten hard.

Scold.

Kaku didn't understand what was going on, so he chose to write it down and pass it on. But when he picked up the pen, he encountered the same situation as the phone bug.

Finally, after struggling for three days and trying countless methods...

Kaku gave up.

It’s so evil, it’s just ridiculous!

Although he still didn't understand what was going on, Kaku knew that it must be related to Li Yan. Could it be that Li Yan had eaten some special devil fruit that could control others not to leak secrets?

For people in this world, no matter what unreasonable things happen to them, there is nothing wrong with blaming them on Devil Fruits!

Regardless of Kaku who was doubting his life, Li Yan and others were in the dock at the moment, looking at the huge battleship that had not yet been launched.

At this moment, everyone was shocked.

This ship is too big!

You know, the Eighteenth Branch also has a super warship. Li Yan used Luffy's incident to get it through Garp.

However, the super warship was still so small compared to the steel behemoth in front of it, even only half its size.

Of course, in terms of single-wheel volume, although the super warship is smaller than this ironclad ship, it is not only half the size. The reason is that the hulls of sailing ships in the Navy are generally short, but the hull of this ironclad ship appears to be very slender.

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Therefore, in terms of length, it is indeed only half the size.

Another thing that surprised everyone was that although the warships did not have sails, the people in the Eighteenth Branch were not surprised for a long time. After all, the five warships of the First East China Sea Fleet had no sails.

Even without the sails, there are still two huge rollers on both sides of the warship to provide forward momentum for the warship.

But on the armored ship in front of them, no one could find any rollers at all.

So, with no sails and no rollers, what exactly does this ship rely on as power to move forward?

Unlike others, Nami saw some tricks.

"Li Yan, are those three things under the stern used to push the warship forward?"

"Yes, the rapid rotation of four specially shaped blades can provide very powerful power for the warship!"

Pointing to the three propellers at the stern of the ship, Li Yan said with a smile.

Speaking of which, it is really not easy to make this thing. Even if you know the principle, the industrial system of the Pirate World is really unable to make a qualified finished product. So, I have tried dozens of times to make it, but in the end

All failed.

Either the hardness is substandard or the shape is substandard.

Li Yan, who thought he could only give up the propeller temporarily and continue using the roller, suddenly remembered.

Why do I have to be obsessed with industry? This is the world of pirates!

So, Li Yan, suddenly enlightened, directly found Yixiao and Nuo Qigao, and asked them to participate in the ironclad ship project...

With the addition of these two powerful Devil Fruit users, many of the problems originally encountered during the construction process were quickly resolved.

At this time, Li Yan was even thinking that if he had a Devil Fruit user with flame-related abilities under his command, then electricity + fire + gravity could definitely solve more problems.

Speaking of which, according to the timeline of the pirate world, Ace should have challenged Whitebeard in 1519, and eventually joined his army thinking that Whitebeard was his father.

If you say that, if you want to snatch Ace now, you should still have time...

When Li Yan was thinking about flame-related abilities, he inadvertently thought of Ace and was very moved.

After all, if Ace had not joined the Whitebeard White Thieves, Blackbeard would not know Ace's secret, and if Blackbeard did not know, then the Navy would not know it either.

In this way, even if he takes Ace in, there won't be any trouble.

More importantly, after defeating Luffy, if he defeats Ace, Garp will still owe him a lifetime of love.

In the main part, with his teacher Zefa here, Akainu speaking for him, and Crane not embarrassing himself because of Mootu, if there is one more Garp...

Then my connections in the headquarters can be said to be as good as the sky.

The key is, after having such connections, the series of future plans in my mind...
Chapter completed!