I can only achieve nothing and become the Pirate King.

Chapter 620: After I die, I won’t care about the flood.

Royal Palace, Banquet Hall.

The twelve luxurious golden chandeliers on the dome of the banquet hall emitted bright light even in the daytime. Under the light, Weibull reached out and grabbed the hind leg of the third roasted whole cow, and oil droplets sprinkled like raindrops on the unknown luxurious blanket on the floor.

Twenty chefs came in one after another, pushing food carts with perfectly decorated cakes, steaks made from sea king meat, and a large number of delicacies. Soon, waiters came to serve the dishes.

The waiters in charge of serving the food placed the trays in their hands smoothly on the tables. As soon as the roasted and fragrant squab was placed on the table, the pirates grabbed it and started to tear it into big bites.

"Oh hoo!"

Siver picked up a huge stew pot, which contained amber beef bone soup mixed with beef vertebrae with bone marrow. He swallowed it all in one breath and spit out the bones.

Although humans are not as big as Weibull, they have a big appetite.

Ulki lifted up an oak barrel that was half a person's height, and the sound of his Adam's apple rolling mixed with the exclamations of his men around him.

Renetia was holding a Gatling-like wheel tube that was modified from some unknown source, spraying rainbow-colored cocktails around her, and her laughter was as clear as a silver bell.

The sunlight shone through the stained glass with fingerprints, reflecting broken rainbows in the sprayed wine. She stepped back and popped a grape with her foot. The purple juice slowly seeped into the carpet on the ground in the tail of the music.

The sounds of music, laughter, fighting, and chewing, luxurious attire and vulgar pirates mixed together, this is the party style of the Calamity Pirates.

In the front center of the banquet hall, there was an even larger dining table, on which were placed six hundred exquisite dishes prepared by Marika herself. Sager sat at the head seat, Lily sat on the left, and on the right was Vegapunk, who was deliberately allowed to sit there to accompany the banquet.

"It doesn't have to be so luxurious." Vegapunk said, "I don't care about material desires that much."

"Not just for you."

Lily said calmly, "This is Sarge's daily routine. If we win, we will naturally have a party."

Vegapunk: "..."

He looked at Sager, who had no manners at all, grabbing a big leg of meat and chewing it up with the bones in one bite, and sighed, "Is this how all pirates eat?"

"It's mainly about pleasure."

Sager ate the meat leg in two or three bites, and then reached out to a lamb leg with his greasy hands, saying, "You should have some too. Marika's cooking skills are first-rate, and I have all kinds of rare ingredients here. When combined, it's a delicacy that is hard to find even if you search the whole world."

Vegapunk nodded, picked up the fork and picked up a piece of steak in front of him. After taking a bite, his eyes lit up, but he quickly put down the fork.

"It tastes very good, but you didn't ask me to come here just to eat, did you? My clone is still investigating in O'Hara, and I just got some new news. Sag, your kingdom looks good, but it still has its drawbacks."

Vegapunk combined a large amount of information and instantly grasped the shortcomings of O'Hara's current model. "If the manufactured goods cannot be sold, then the prosperity here will fall apart."

There was deep worry in his eyes: "By then, if there is no new income, and those people with jobs have financial problems, then..."

It was great, better than any kingdom or city he had ever seen, even better than the Eghead he had built.

It’s true that Egghead is high-tech, but you also need to pay to experience the services there, including the food.

But there is always a sense of inertia.
Unlike here, which exudes vitality, Vegapunk's clone has seen so many and found that everyone here is full of hope.

Each of them has a job. Although the salary varies, the risk and talent are also matched with the salary. As for some well-connected guys, they use their relationships with businessmen or pirate executives to enter the management level.
That is essential.

No one cares about this matter.

What Sarge wants is prosperity, taxation, and everyone to exude vitality, so that his rule will not be ugly.

He is a pirate after all.

As for what Vegapunk is worried about.
".Then this place will be destroyed."

Sager replied nonchalantly: "But if it really comes to that, what does it have to do with me?"

He pushed the gemstone wine glass and asked B'Elanna to pour a glass of wine. "What you said is too far away. Do you know how big the first half of the New World is? How many islands are there in this world? Millions, tens of millions? How many people are there? No one can know. The sea is too big. This endless conquest just satisfies my desire."

He raised his glass and raised it towards Lily, "Do you know what her dream is?"

Vegapunk looked over.

“Let there be no oppression in the world.”

Lily pondered for a while and said, "To be precise, it is to make sure that people in the world no longer go hungry and cannot afford a house because of exploitation, and that they no longer have nothing left after a lifetime of hard work and cannot even afford medical treatment."

Vegapunk thought of something and opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything.

Lily glanced at him and said, "I know what you want to say. Someone is selling raw materials here, and it's not a place we control. Do you want to say that it is because we are exploiting others that we can maintain the current prosperity?"

All the prosperity of O'Hara can be summed up in one word: cheap raw materials and expensive goods.

"We are not gods."

In this noisy environment, Lily's voice accurately entered Vegapunk's ears.

"Without us, those nobles wouldn't be much better to people, they would be worse than us. But over time, as long as they keep providing us with raw materials, they will be conquered by us sooner or later, or they will be unable to bear the oppression, hold their weapons tightly, fight against the nobles and kings who exploit them, and then become one of us."

"The price we offer is very fair. No matter how low it is, it won't be so low that you can't survive. That goes against Sager's idea. So, either you endure the oppression of those noble kings and live a life no different from that of a beggar. Or..."

Lily's eyes seemed to glow with an indescribable light as she said this, "Depend on yourself!"

There is no end to conquest, and not all islands have raw materials that can be turned into goods. Lily realized this while dealing with internal affairs for a long time.

Dreaming is useless just by thinking, nothing can be achieved overnight. Many things cannot be rushed, Lily doesn't even know where those places are, and it's useless even if she rushes over and kills all those noble kings, if she doesn't plan ahead, it will still be the same.

Only in this way can O'Hara's name become more famous and radiate to the surrounding islands and kingdoms that have not yet discovered it and whose people have not contributed their coordinates, until those oppressed people can no longer bear it and pick up knives to fight others. That will be enough.

Sager drank the wine in his glass and said with a smile, "A man owns a mountain. In the name of owning the mountain, he hired nearby villagers to plant fruit trees on the mountain. They were sold during the harvest season. Everyone got a little money for their hard work, and the biggest part was taken by the guy who owned the mountain."

"You say, are guys like this hindering my tax collection? They can obviously get more money, live a better life, and pay more taxes, but the guy who owns the mountain is standing in the middle, so I can't collect taxes, and they don't have money to buy more things, which makes me look bad."

"But I don't know where that mountain is, and everyone is busy, so we don't need to search everywhere for a small mountain. What should I do now?"

Sager bared his teeth and grinned: "The simplest way is to let those civilians feel the gap, and then feel resentful under the strong gap. Then, they will pick up the knife and kill the guy with the mountain, and then surrender to me with the mountain."

"In this way, they will have more income, and there will be no middlemen to make a profit. They will dare not pay my taxes! They will have enough food and drink and money to buy more goods. It's just a matter of waiting for them to find out that they can win several times."

"you say."

He raised his glass towards a floor-to-ceiling window on the side. From that window, he could just see the outside world. The bustling streets were full of people, with people of all ethnic groups gathered harmoniously. All the sounds seemed to come in from there and into Vegapunk's ears.

The prosperity and vitality are all revealed in this faintly audible sound.

"You don't want this place to be destroyed for no reason, do you? O'Hara has a permanent population of more than two million. If it were suddenly destroyed, wouldn't it be a pity?"

"It's a pity for me to lose such a wonderful and vibrant place, and it's a pity for you too. Vegapunk, I heard that you have made a lot of contributions to the world, but the World Government will not share your achievements with the world. But I will!"

He stood up, took the bottle from B'Elanna, and poured Vegapunk's glass himself.

"As long as your inventions are beneficial to me and can make this place more prosperous, I will accept them all. Even if you want to sell your inventions to others, I can do it as long as they can afford the price."

"I have research funding as much as you want. I have a big bank there with more than trillions of dollars in it. I don't need you to serve me, but you can serve O'Hara. Doesn't this place represent humanity better than the World Government?"

Vegapunk stared at the glass of red wine that was gradually filling up, and nodded involuntarily: "I came here with this idea in mind. The investigation of the clone is also over. According to the evaluation."

He picked up the wine glass, stood up and drank it all in one gulp, "I am not someone who needs fame. Serving a great pirate or something, it doesn't matter what the outside world thinks. I accept to stay here and serve you!"

"Wow, hahahaha! You're very welcome!"

Sarge laughed and walked over to pat Vegapunk on the shoulder. "From today on, you are the dean of O'Hara Academy of Sciences! I will leave everything to you, including research and teaching! When the time comes, a group of people will come to assist you in compiling teaching materials!"

"Teaching?" Vegapunk was stunned, but soon guessed something, "Do you want to keep this scientific power?"

"Not only scientific power, but also physical skills, firearms, navigation, and world knowledge, I teach everything! I'm in need of talents!" Sag laughed.

He really needs it.

He has tens of thousands of people under his command, but they are all recruited rough guys. Although military force is important, other things are also important.

Some islands lack execution capabilities even after being conquered, and the pirates stationed there will need some coordinated execution capabilities anyway.

Which top-level cadre is not forced to learn something nowadays? If Urki doesn't learn finance, how can he figure out how to lend money?
If Ajin doesn't learn how to manage, how can he manage a port? So now he has to go back to training in shame, but this part can't be let go, and in the end he has to be forced to learn and leave things to him.

What’s more, it’s hard to describe in words.

He has a group of people stationed on some islands with a bounty of over 100 million yuan, among whom the representative is 'The Great Barnaby'. He does a good job and manages the island in an orderly manner.

But with so many people, only one came out.

The rest of them don't even know how to cut down a tree.

After cutting down trees, we need to grow trees, protect the environment, and pursue renewable energy!
In the end, Lily had to discover that something was wrong and give personal instructions before it could be resolved. Even so, it took a lot of effort to find someone who knew how to plant trees.

There are so many islands and so many people. You can't really expect Lily to take care of it all by herself. By the time she takes care of it, it will be too late.

The appearance of Link and his companions alleviated the burden a little, but as the territory expanded, the burden increased again.

He doesn't lack military force now, he just lacks capable officers!
This part will be filled by pirates who don't want to work or have retired due to disability after receiving training.

The remaining teaching is for the future.

Sag can live a long life. He is just over 24 years old. After teaching for 20 or 30 years, he will only be 40 or 50 years old. But a new generation has grown up. With new talents filling the gap, the city will become more prosperous in the future.

But before that
"After this banquet, let's take care of the most important thing first."

Sager said: "That thing is waiting for you to open it."

"Pluto?"

Vegapunk sighed, "Is it fate? If it must reappear in the world, then let it reappear. Perhaps it will bring a different kind of peace to the world."

Pluto, Sag must be activated. Only by starting that can he complete the next plan.

The development and discovery of the first half of the New World has become stable, but this stability is terrifying.

The newly discovered islands represent more raw materials, and those islands and kingdoms that come here because of their fame and are forced by Sag to produce raw materials also mean that he will have more goods.

Sooner or later you have to find a place to dump your goods, so it’s better to do it in one go and find the place with the largest population first to see how much you can swallow.

Fishman Island is used as a transit point, and Alabasta, a place with a population of tens of millions, is used as a dumping ground.
Enough for Sager to expand for a while!

Only in this way
Sager poured a glass of wine, drank it all, wiped the bright red wine from the corner of his mouth, licked his lips, and grinned: ". Only then can I satisfy my increasingly strong desire!"

(End of this chapter)