In the blink of an eye, three full months have passed since the original world conference.
In the past three months, some inexplicable changes have occurred in the sea.
The biggest changes are the series of major raw material exporting countries in the Grand Line and all the trade routes leading to the Capital of Seven Waters!
In these three months, countless jobs have been placed in the islands and countries mentioned above.
Residents in these locations can no longer even consider important things like farming, whether they are engaged in mineral processing or serving the transportation industry.
The income from those jobs has all increased by more than one level, and they have instantly become the new favorites of ordinary local residents.
In recent times, although the shipyards in the Capital of Seven Rivers that are still engaged in foreign trade have reduced the number of ships they sell, ship prices have been rising.
The sea increasingly needs greater shipping capacity.
Living in this era, the lives of ordinary people have improved a little bit.
At least in the cities affected by the above changes, although it will take a long time for the children of ordinary families to see their fathers, even their mothers may go to the nearby docks to engage in various jobs.
But at least the increase in parents' income has slightly improved the children's living standards.
When the children play together, although their clothes are generally a little tattered, they are not sallow and thin...
In this era, while the common people are better off, the merchants and nobles have gained far more than the common people.
This is why no matter in any era, the concept of class is the most difficult to get rid of.
Precisely because as long as the people at the top have fixed resources, no matter what changes they experience, their gains will always be higher than those at the bottom.
This pattern can only change in the face of major changes in the entire era.
That kind of change is nothing more than an uproar, success or failure.
Of course, in the turmoil of every era, some people enjoy the dividends of change, and naturally some people have to suffer the bitter consequences of change.
In the past thirty or fifty years, the pirates who have reaped the dividends of change have naturally become more and more arrogant.
The gradual corruption of the Navy and the gradual emergence of the Four Pirate Kings, even though they did not bring any direct benefits to the pirates, it also created conditions for them that were more suitable for robbing families.
But in the past few months...
Forget about the old pirates and the pirates in the new world, they didn't feel any turmoil.
But the Grand Line and the pirates of the four seas...
Especially the pirates in the Grand Line...
Because the number of people hanging around ports and docks for food has increased countless times, the scale of the living circle derived from ports and docks has increased significantly.
As the population gathers more and more, no matter how corrupt the local troops are, the number of troops has also increased, making them more dangerous overall.
Therefore, the cost for Grand Line pirates to attack major docks has increased a lot. Although the benefits have also increased relatively, the risk has also increased too much.
It's like this is an adventure game. Originally, the Grand Line Pirates went to almost all level 10 exploration locations. The supplies here were not very rich, but the enemies were not dangerous either.
As a result, in the past few months, the danger level of 80% of the ports on the Grand Line has increased significantly.
The exploration locations that were originally at level 10 are now almost at level 25 or 6.
As a result, pirates below level 10 and around level 10 will naturally have no leveling place...
What is this? This is the source of the development of pirates.
The dangers faced by plundering have changed the pirates' judgment of plundering to a certain extent.
In short, the pirates who have been lucky enough to enter the Grand Line from all over the world in the past few months have been living a very uncomfortable life.
On the one hand, they finally got in, but soon encountered difficulties one after another.
Or, there are many pirates who are barely qualified to plunder the major ports of the Grand Line today.
result…….
Either their ships were damaged by these raids, or they took a bag of treasure with them and planned to buy a new ship before entering the new world...
hehe.
It doesn't matter if they are willing to spend money. Although the price of ships in the Seven Waters Capital has increased dozens of times, as long as they are willing to hand over all the money they robbed along the way, they can still have a ship to use.
And if they are not willing to spend the money, then...
“What a ghost, I’m stationed here, but I didn’t expect so much garbage to come and cause trouble for me!
Pirates, haha, go to hell!
There are too many pirates!
When I was stationed on Fish-Man Island, or when I was walking around the world with Lord Gawain later...
At that time, there were not so many pirates to deal with in the world!"
In addition to the above words, the pirates have experienced many other things.
for example…….
"Humph, it's so funny, it's all a joke!
Facing you trash, I really can't help but want to destroy you!
I've been dormant for too long, and looking at you trash, I can't control my desire to kill!
Even if you are not killed by me, you trash will sooner or later die under the master's plan!
As for now, haha!
Massacre and burial in the desert!!!"
All in all, Jinbei and Crocodile performed their tasks very well. What they did was not only good, but impeccable.
When Bingshan set prices for a series of ships in the Capital of Seven Waters, he mainly set quite high prices for ships used by pirates.
Under Gawain's influence, the ships in the Capital of the Seven Waters have changed from fast-moving consumer goods to high-end luxury goods mainly supplied to the Celestial Dragons and nobles of various countries.
In addition, although Bingshan has a series of new ways to make money such as Champaign Casino.
But the shipbuilding industry, a physical heavy industry, has never been let down by the iceberg.
The salary of shipwrights in the Capital of Seven Waters has been rising, which has attracted shipwrights from all over the sea to gather here.
And when Bingshan's industry formed a virtuous cycle, the malicious intent faced by the pirates became even more serious.
In the original plot, when Luffy and the others arrived at the Capital of the Seven Waters, they only needed a little more than 200 million Baileys to replace them with a new ship made of Adamantite and about the same size as a small aircraft carrier.
but now…….
Gawain said irresponsibly, if Luffy still wants to change to a ship like that...
For the sake of the Pirate Flag, Iceberg will give Luffy a unique pirate discount of close to 3 billion beli.
Thus…….
The things that the Shampoo pirates have been discussing in the past few months are all the things that they have no money to change their boats and go to sea, and the money they worked so hard to steal was easily pocketed by those damn shipwrights...
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Because of this, the anti-capitalist wave first spread among a small group of pirates.
This is quite an unexpected surprise for Gawain.
…
At this moment, Shampoo Island, at the auction.
Gawain, along with Shalulia and Charros, sat at the front of the auction house and looked indifferently at the people being auctioned on the stage.
In the distance, the person in charge of the auction house kept wiping his cold sweat. While wiping, he kept trying to make eye contact with someone.
However, Doflamingo, who was sitting arrogantly behind Gawain, didn't look at him at all.
Dover is not in the mood to watch any auction. Compared with the past, this auction house is now Gawain's property, not Doflamingo's.
As for Dover now, he is more concerned about the small promise Wulaoxing left for him some time ago.
As long as he behaves himself, or at least behaves himself, within five years, the Five Old Stars may resume Dover's status as a Celestial Dragon.
For Gawain's sake, Dover could even move his mother's grave back to her cherished destination, Mary Joa.
Although Dover said he didn't care, in fact, he cared very much.
Because of this, Dover has started borrowing books from Robin in the past three months.
It is really difficult for Tianyaksha to cultivate his moral character.
But if it's just a little restrained, Dover doesn't think there's a problem.
While Dover was sitting arrogantly, Gawain held Shalulia's hand and looked up at the goods on the auction table.
This auction house was mainly used for slave trading, and indeed slaves are still being auctioned today.
However, compared with the past, the number of slaves traded every month has been reduced several times.
There are only two or two slave stars on the stage. The quantity is really not good, but the quality has improved.
After Kalifa took over the slave market, she did not drastically promulgate various new regulations as Gawain originally planned to fundamentally reduce the number of slave trade products.
After personally entering the slave industry, Kalifa gradually understood that the result that Lord Gawain wanted to achieve, which was to reduce the number of slaves, was difficult to achieve through tough regulations.
Just like banning smoking and alcohol, the more severe the ban, the more people will engage in it.
The more forbidden something is, the more people pursue it.
So, Khalifa finally chose to take Bingshan's route. After all, she had served as Bingshan's secretary and she knew Bingshan's way of thinking very well.
Further promote the high-quality slave industry, over-hype the prices of high-end slaves, and use the market funds occupied by high-end slaves to squeeze the market share of low-end slaves.
In other words, the current hard-working market prefers to buy and sell high-quality goods that have lost their vitality and are bought and sold by themselves or their family members.
If there is no special race, talent, physique, or appearance.
Buyers in the slave industry would rather drive low-quality slaves to docks in various places to work as laborers than send them to auction houses.
After all, after Dover's industry was merged into Gawain's plate, the slave market was almost connected to economic and trade terminals around the world.
For today's slave industry, their own brother industries still lack workers.
Anyway….
Looking at the auction items at the auction, all of which were beautiful or handsome, Gawain frowned in silence.
This is not a good idea. The slave market is becoming boutique, which is really too harsh on those who are particularly good-looking and whose family conditions are not very good.
But there is no way. When it is temporarily impossible to outlaw all slave trades, making this industry high-quality will undoubtedly give up saving some people and save people far beyond this group...
After many things reach a certain level, the choices we face are never just good or bad.
Gawain can only choose to be a little bad, or worse!
That's all!
On the side, seeing Gawain's expression becoming more and more profound, the person in charge of the auction house started to tremble in his legs.
After these three months, who among those still working at the auction house doesn’t know that Gawain is their real boss?
Didn’t you notice that even the famous joker can only sit in the second row?
After observing his words and expressions, the person in charge of the auction carefully approached Gawain.
"Dear Tianlong people, are our products not satisfactory to you?
Sorry, there haven't been many high-quality products on the sea lately. It's all our auction house's fault.
Please wait a moment, adults. Although the overall quality of the products is not very high, the products at the finale tonight are very good.
She is the most beautiful dancer in the West Sea, a top-notch product with top-notch figure and spirited white hair, graceful dancing posture and extremely soft figure!!!
Please wait a moment, adults, as long as it takes a moment, the auction item will be on the market!"
After the words fell, the person in charge of the auction smiled and wiped his sweat, and then stepped back carefully.
After he left, Charles blew his nose in displeasure.
"Hmph, the current auctions are really getting worse and worse. There are not even more than 500 million pirates.
If you want to buy a mount, you still have to go to Marigioa. The mounts coming out of the city are so good, but the auction house is becoming more and more boring!"
As soon as the words fell, Charles was bored and wanted to leave. Compared with watching the boring auction, he now wanted to play football more.
It's a pity that Brother Franky went to the Capital of Seven Waters...
On the side, watching Charros leaving, Shalulia curled her lips in dissatisfaction, and then wanted to stand up.
At this moment, Gawain grabbed Shalulia's hand and shook his head.
"It's okay. Since he feels bored, let him go."
"But Brother Gao Wen, this guy Charros disrespects us too much. We invited him to play together, but he actually dared to leave first!
It’s really too much, I will definitely take care of him when I get back!”
Shalulia was still not happy. Charros left early, which made her feel that he was slapping the Gawain family in the face.
Ahem, okay, after hanging out with Gawain and his group for three full months, relying on the protection and help of Gawain's family members, and being reluctantly accepted and respected by Gawain's subordinates, Shalulia has completely recognized herself.
She is the mistress of the Gawain family...
On the side, Gawain listened to Shalulia's elbow turning completely toward him, and he gently patted Shalulia's arm.
"Okay, Shalulia, we don't have to force Charles to do something he doesn't like."
What's more, although Gawain didn't say it, he was hoping that Charros would show disdain for the slave auction.
What goes up has a direct effect. When a series of Celestial Dragons care less about slaves, this industry will naturally gradually decline.
As for Gawain.
He took Shalulia and continued to linger in the auction house, spending more than 20 billion to click on dozens of subsequent lots.
These include eight unremarkable Devil Fruits, two more meaningful Devil Fruits, three opera troupes, a dancer who is the best in the West Sea, eight famous swords, etc.
Stussy's job lacks professional entertainers. Compared with training, it is more convenient to purchase.
Therefore, Gawain sent people to arrange new orders for the auction house, which was to continue to collect all entertainers in the sea who were disliked by the nobles and sold out.
On the one hand, they are used to fill various programs, and on the other hand, those who are not qualified to join the program can also be anchors.
In this way, just waiting for the delivery of the Vinsmoke family's phone bug, Gawain's heart attack plan can officially begin.