Listening to Gawain's words, the five old stars looked at each other and thought deeply.
After a while, the old diplomat let out a long sigh.
"It stands to reason that what we hate most is new things.
Because new things always bring new ideas, and new ideas always run counter to old ideas and everything outmoded!
However... considering the turmoil of this sea in the past twenty years, even if we don't like it, the Great Pirate Age has already brought too many new things.
so……."
The diplomatic old man chuckled and nodded.
"Anyway, you've already made your decision, so it's up to you to try something new, maybe it will have some unique effects.
Sitting in our position, you will find that everything at hand involves too much, affecting the whole body, and then it is difficult to make any changes.
As for you, I look forward to the day when you challenge us, then join us and become us.
But at least we are still far from that day.
You still have a lot of time to try, explore, find and clarify the results you want.
Even if you make a little mistake during this process.
Firstly, we have time to correct those mistakes, and secondly, we will also get the experience and lessons learned from the mistakes.
You are just yourself now, and you will not bring irreversible consequences to our rule of the entire world like our mistakes, right!"
After saying that, the diplomatic old man simply clapped his hands.
"In short, we agree to your first request. As long as you have the ability to overview and control the Shichibukai, we are happy to see it happen.
As soon as you leave my office, we will send the bear to see you. It's up to you whether you can keep him or not.
As for now, tell me your next request!"
"My next request may seem more troublesome than the Shichibukai.
Seniors, just imagine if I took control of the Shichibukai and decided to use it to influence the future choices of young people all over the world.
My people obviously need a space that is vast enough to do something that will get them into the newspapers and attract the attention of young people.
So, I need a batch of eternal pointers!"
"I see!"
The old military man suddenly laughed.
"First you want to hold the troops in your hands, and then you start asking for territory from us, right?
Haha, ok, ok, I appreciate you more and more, your style is very close to mine!
But it's hard for me to agree to it, because what you asked me was not a sea chart, but an eternal pointer.
That means what you want is not the stable world, but the Grand Line, or even the New World.
After all, you don’t need an eternal pointer to sail on the four seas!”
After the words fell, the old military man shook his head thoughtfully and continued.
"I hope that when you start your business, you try to focus on a relatively stable environment like the world.
Relatively speaking, the waters of the Grand Line and the New World are too deep, and I'm worried that you won't be able to grasp them."
"Ahem..."
Gawain quickly coughed twice, interrupting the military old man's words.
"Don't say that, senior, please put yourself in someone else's shoes.
My choice is the Grand Line.
From a stable perspective, the Grand Line is where the navy is most densely populated and where CP has the deepest penetration, right?
And in terms of distance, this is also a place closer to you!"
"That's true!"
The diplomatic old man suddenly nodded and patted the military old man on the shoulder.
"Little Gawain is right. The Grand Line is indeed a good place. Although it is still a little chaotic now, it is still under our control.
And it’s quite a coincidence, isn’t it? He chose the New World, while Gawain chose the Grand Line. Somehow, I started to look forward to the future, haha!”
While laughing, the diplomatic old man looked at the other people, and they all nodded in agreement.
The economic old man added with a smile.
"Gawain, I support your decision, the Grand Line can be your experimental field.
But first we must emphasize that we will only give you the right to move freely along the Grand Line, but we will not explicitly hand those lands into your hands!
As I said before, you are just a Celestial Dragon, not the king of those lands, do you understand?
No matter what you want to do, don't put yourself completely in opposition to those joining the country.
Only when you boil a frog in warm water can you die in peace. Over the past seven hundred years, we have been doing a good job, and the number of participating countries has increased from the original 280 countries to 170 today.
There are also many new targets like the Dragon Palace Kingdom that were added later.
In short, don’t be turbulent. Even turmoil can only cause partial turbulence. Do you think you can do it?"
"Senior, if I say that I don't think I can do it, will you believe it?"
"Haha, yes, your overbearing look has already told us what kind of person you are.
Let it be done, as long as the countries and islands within 30% of the Grand Line do not raise the flag of rebellion at the same time.
Then you won't be restricted by us!
As for what kind of power you have, or what kind of power you have?
We won't care about those.
Even if you are completely stronger than us in the future, or even kill us with your own hands.
Then the Celestial Dragons are still the ones who rule everything, aren’t they?”
"certainly!"
Gawain smiled and nodded, then he looked around and continued.
"So, the seniors have already agreed to my first two plans, so I shouldn't continue to hide the final plan.
I want to restart the sea train plan and first connect the islands where I go with rails and trains to verify the practical feasibility of the sea train."
"Oh, that's it, no wonder!"
The old military man quickly said with a smile.
"We received a call from Shampoo Island before, saying that there was a male mermaid secretly hiding in the bottom of your ship.
The mermaid's name is Dan. After investigation, he is the younger brother of Tom the fishman. He said that because he had offended you, he did not dare to meet you, so he missed the opportunity to get off the boat...
Fortunately you mentioned this, otherwise I would have thought he was just a vicious man who infiltrated your ship with lies and was preparing to cause trouble.
I even almost ordered CP members to hang him out of consideration for your face.
After all, I thought you were touched on the boat by someone else, and for someone as confident as you, it would be hard for someone to make a mistake..."
"this……?"
After listening to the military old man's words, Gawain couldn't help but rolled his eyes a little.
Gawain did know that Dan was on the ship. Gawain just saw that he was serious about hiding, so he wanted to continue to suppress this man's temper.
Unexpectedly, such an act would make Renyu Dan face life and death.
but…….
Gawain pursed his lips and took the opportunity to speak.
"Senior, I left a special instruction, saying that I would take that ship to continue sailing later.
Even so, my ship still cannot escape your search. Your actions make me feel sad, seniors!"
"Haha, okay, okay, then how should we old guys compensate for your sadness?"
When the old military man heard this, he laughed and stood up.
"How about I give you the knife? Aren't you exercising?
I can give you the knife, but don’t ask me for money!
The reason why we don't popularize borrowing cars at sea is because neither Tom the fishman nor his disciples are worthy of our trust. Most of the scholars on this sea are not worthy of our trust yet!
We have the design drawings of the sea train, and we planned to wait until the era has turned a page and the hatred of the previous era has been gradually forgotten before we can trial the sea train on a large scale.
After all, those automated machines are never controlled by us, but by the creators and maintainers of the machines. We will never let people we don’t trust create those!
As for you, whatever, we can trust you.
If you want to do it, then do it, as long as you are sure they are worthy of your trust!
But don't look aggrieved there. We don't want to do this. We have no money, absolutely no money.
If you want to make the sea train bigger, you need far more than tens of trillions of Baileys. No, absolutely not. You can go to sea and figure it out yourself!"
"Haha, you guys have seen through it. If that's the case, then I'll do what you said and I'll figure it out myself!
But my seniors must not deduct my share of the annuity.