People are in the heavens, wealth can rival a country

Chapter 294 Shichibukai in the cell

Crocodile's daily life is not without luxury. Of course, all of these belong to Townsend now.

He slept comfortably, took the most luxurious and comfortable bath since he started life as a buyer, and then changed into a well-fitting and decent light blue suit with a black overcoat on the outside .

Nicole Robin has re-trimmed his hair, neatly brushed back, revealing a smooth forehead.

"Good workmanship."

Tang Sen stood in front of the full-length mirror and straightened his collar.

"When I was young, I used to hide in a barber shop on a small island in the North Sea." Nicole Robin did not shy away from mentioning her past.

"You look like a big shot now." She looked at Tang Sen and said, "However, there is still a cigar missing. Crocodile has the best stock here."

"No need." Tang Sen said: "I'm not interested in relying on external decorations to become a big shot, I'm a pragmatist."

"Decent dress is just to subtly increase the convincing power of one's own language."

"After all, Mr. Crocodile doesn't think that he will have a common topic with a person who is hanging around and wearing a straw hat all day."

"You said before that you wanted Crocodile to let you work—" Nicole Robin paused, "I'm afraid it's impossible to rely on words alone."

"I know that person, he will never be inferior to others."

"I know him better than you, Nicole Robin." Tang Sen smiled: "Besides, I don't intend to make him loyal to me. I prefer to call it cooperation."

"Now, you can take me to see Mr. Crocodile. It has been a long time. I hope he is calmer than before."

"Please follow me." The greatest advantage of Nicole Robin is that even if she has her own ideas, it will never affect her work. The experience since she was a child has taught her how to make herself impeccable.

This is an excellent assistant.

"Although the cell is not made of pure sea stone, but some are inlaid on the steel fence, it also costs a lot of money. Crocodile made this cell to imprison those pirates who are valuable to the world government. , and then send them to the Great Undersea Prison or Mary Gioia."

Nicole Robin explained as he walked: "He spent a lot of effort to maintain the relationship with the world government and the navy. In fact, among the Qiwuhai, Crocodile has the best official reputation. He maintained the order in Alabasta, blocked most of the pirates who tried to enter the great route through Alabasta, and never used the power of Shichibukai to do anything wrong."

"Isn't this the purpose of the World Government's recruitment of Shichibukai?" Tang Sen said casually: "It's a smart way to hide one's ambitions. Unfortunately, Mr. Crocodile's structure is still too small."

In the eyes of ordinary people, Qiwuhai is nothing more than a stupid policy of the world government. It not only exempted those evil big pirates from their previous crimes, revoked their reward orders, but also allowed them to enjoy the legal right to plunder—

Such a policy is too much to criticize.

However, Townsend can fully understand why the world government would do this.

Perhaps most of the Tianlong people are idiots, but Wu Laoxing and the high-level navy are definitely not. Their original purpose of recruiting Qi Wuhai was to use pirates to control pirates.

Since the words of the One Piece King Gol D. Roger before his execution opened the age of great pirates, the whole world has been in chaos, and countless people have thrown themselves into the sea and stepped into the ranks of pirates——

Of course, there are people who take the initiative to go to sea for the legendary ONE PIECE, but most of them are people who have their hometowns robbed, their families destroyed, and they have no choice but to go to sea because of the sharp increase in the number of pirates.

These people poured into the great airway continuously, looting, killing, and destroying the most chaotic airway in the world, and even went to the second half of the "new world" to become the source of soldiers for the pirate emperors.

The Shichibukai system is aimed at this.

The rights given to the Shichibukai by the world government are legal plunder. Of course, such legal plunder does not include the countries that are members of the world government and merchant ships under their countries, but only pirates and non-member countries.

The reason for including pirates is very simple. The world government hopes that the Shichibukai will stop those new pirates on the great route, and block the way for pirates on the four seas and even the great route to go to the new world.

And including the non-joint countries - those countries that are unwilling to pay the heavenly gold to the Tianlong people, or cannot pay the sky's gold are all non-joint countries. The world government doesn't care about these countries at all, and the navy will not protect these countries. If Qiwuhai can It's certainly a good thing to turn these countries upside down so that they have to pay a lot of money.

The plan was beautiful, but it was not so easy to implement.

The great pirates who were recruited into the Qiwuhai didn't even look at the face of the world government, they entrenched in various places and did their own thing, let alone fighting pirates, most of the Qiwuhai just relied on their privileges to be more unscrupulous.

Among them, Crocodile, who is conscientiously entrenched in Alabasta to stop pirates, and often provides valuable devil fruit ability users to high-level officials, is particularly dedicated.

In the original book, if it wasn't for Luffy's intervention, Crocodile would definitely have succeeded in seizing the kingdom by causing civil strife in Alabasta. Moreover, the world government and navy would never interfere, even if they guessed the cause of the civil strife. It may be a conspiracy by Crocodile, but as long as Crocodile is still dedicated, what is the need for them to interfere?
"No matter how well he does his duties as Qibuhai, he is just a loyal dog to the world government and cannot make waves. Even if he steals the country, he will not be able to break free from the control of the upper echelons," said Tang Sen. .

"That's why he wants Pluto." Nicole Robin said.

"No matter how powerful a weapon is, if you don't have the strength to control it, it's just a wedding dress for others."

As Tang Sen said so, the two of them had arrived at the lower level of the Yuyan, and entered a secret room.

This room is obviously at the bottom of the lake, with glass walls, through which you can see huge shadows floating in the water outside.

The Crocodile captive banana crocodile, an extremely large and ferocious crocodile.

But Tang Sen didn't pay attention to those harmless little animals, he looked towards the center of the room.

In the center is a square iron fence, and a figure is sitting in it with his head down.

Footsteps echoed in the house price, but Crocodile did not raise his head.

Townsend walked to the fence and looked at Crocodile.

The other party's originally neat hair fell down messily at this time, shadows covered his eyes, the decent fur coat was messed up, and the suit underneath was even more untied, revealing the blood-stained shirt.

Nicole Robin obviously didn't help the other party take out the Hailou stone bullet.

"Mr. Crocodile, we meet again."

Tang Sen broke the silence, "Now, we can have a good chat."

(End of this chapter)