I can only achieve nothing and become the Pirate King.

Chapter 624: Red Harbor Gun Test
The atmosphere on the sea has been a little weird lately.

It wasn't because the secret imprisonment of the Navy Admiral was exposed, nor was it because the Revolutionary Army was at odds with Marijoa again, nor was it because the Cross Guild accepted the Empress.

But compared to all this bustle, the New World is surprisingly quiet.

In other words, the first half of the new world occupied by Sag was very quiet.

Everything was done as it should be done, business was going on as usual and even getting more prosperous, but there was always an eerie silence.

Those well-known senior officials have not appeared for a long time.

Even the bustling royal palace that could be seen from the port fell into silence for a long time. For a while, there was no familiar bustle there.

The bustle of the palace is not hidden from the public. Because banquets are held all the time, the residents nearby feel at ease.

That is what their master should do. He has given them such a stable, peaceful and prosperous life. What's wrong with just holding a banquet now?

How much does it cost to throw a banquet? How much does it cost to eat and drink?

No matter how much a person eats, how much can he eat?
Not to mention, the master paid for it!
For them, they could not be compared with the master in terms of priority. Those treasures, which they could not necessarily buy even if they could afford them, were all supplied to the palace.

But no one would have any objection to this.

Those who had opinions had all died, and the rest were those who had no opinions or dared not to have opinions.

In fact, for the lower-level people, paying for it is completely unnecessary. They can fully afford it out of respect for the master.

Hundreds of dishes in one meal?
It's just a meal with tens of thousands of dishes, and the more than four million people in O'Hara can't afford to feed one?
On the contrary, the more people there are, the easier it is to provide for them.

They only need to provide one.

What they are afraid of is not providing for one person, but providing for thousands and thousands of people, and they are still not satisfied. They want to take away their homes, their lives, and turn them into slaves to serve them for generations.

But such things simply do not exist in O'Haraly, and there is no soil for them to exist.

If you have to say it.
These people are actually slaves of Sage, ruled by Sage, and are his private property.

Anyone else who wants to do so is not just breaking the rules, they are directly rebelling against Sage. It is not only a betrayal, but also a serious provocation. It will be taken with the utmost severity and will be crushed to ashes.

Even those businessmen who had been purged before and were extremely bold during that time, ended up just embezzling the workers' wages. They were not so arrogant as to occupy land and treat people as slaves.

Being ruled by Sag for so long might make people feel uncomfortable at first, but as more than half of Gareth's tough guys were killed or injured, and the surrenderists turned loyalists and occupied O'Hara, people got used to the hustle and bustle in the palace.

Some people even take pride in it.

The more lively his own master makes things, doesn't that mean their contribution will be better?
The good contribution is to pay more taxes, so that the master can have bigger banquets when he has money.

On the contrary, if the noise is not lively enough, they will have to reflect on whether they have not worked hard enough recently to allow the master to hold a banquet with such little noise.

You have to make more money to pay taxes.

And in the past few days, there has been no movement in the palace, which has made the residents very anxious.

Lady Lily seems to have sailed away, but the master has not left and is staying in the palace. There has been no news of any banquets in the past few days. Could it be that he has run out of money?

He is in the palace and it would be a big deal if he could rest for one day at most. It has been several days and there has been no movement at all.

Some people ran to the gate with money, threw the money down and ran away. Soon, a lot of gold and silver treasures piled up at the gate. Ajin, who was on duty, had no choice but to ask his men to count the money and people and mobilize them to send the money back.

This situation has happened more than once or twice.

I also had to emphasize to them that Lord Sager didn't hold the banquet because he was busy, not because he had no money.

He had a gold shop there, and above the palace there was a huge golden bell brought down from Sky Island.

No matter who is poor, it is impossible that Sager is poor.

The King of Sea Cash, the holder of the world's greatest treasure, has no money, then I don't know who should have money.

Celestial Dragons?
There are many countries that pay Celestial Gold, but there are also many Celestial Dragons. Moreover, the Celestial Gold also has to include the expenses of the World Government itself. After deducting them and distributing them to the Celestial Dragons, each person does not have much.

Sag is different, he is really just one person. The taxes paid by the people and industries in his territory are completely sufficient to cover the current military expenses, or even more than enough. With so many people and profitable industries, how much trouble can it take to support more than 70,000 pirates?
On average, there are about sixty people. They are enough to support a pirate. Sager also has core industries, and he takes the lead in investing.

For example, O'Hara's own infrastructure problem. This thing is bound to not make back the investment or even lose money. However, for the prosperity in his mind, this infrastructure has to be built. If you want to pursue efficiency, you have to spend money to have people do it.

Road construction, repairs, and replanning, which one doesn't cost money?

It is impossible to make much money by demolishing the house and rebuilding it. Relying on Sag's own prestige, he completed the one-to-one replacement. The area of ​​the house was also changed to refund or supplement. But it is not profitable in itself. After all, he would not raise the house price too high.

He did not need to collect taxes too early to complete his armaments because he had enough personal military strength and did not need to overdraw on the future.

But this part of the money is simply not earned, because it is related to the future. Once the road is repaired, more residential and commercial areas will be vacated in the suburbs of O'Hara, and more businessmen will come here. What he collects is future taxes.

It may take ten years to recoup the cost of building a road through the work and business taxes of the people, but Sag knows that people are productivity and he will not be stingy in this regard.

The rest are businesses that some businessmen are not optimistic about. This part of the business is not suitable for Sager to personally deal with and cannot become a core industry, but it is needed temporarily, so he simply takes the lead and publicly invests a part of it to let more people participate. After the scale of the industry is expanded, he will withdraw his capital and let the businessmen run it themselves.

Whether you make money or lose money, it doesn’t matter as the meat is in the pot.

In the gold bank lies the Baileys that were robbed from Tezoro, but if this money was just for O'Hara, it would be a shock. It can only be digested by the whole world, so most of the time, Sager still adheres to normal development.

No matter how poorly he studied, he knew about inflation and deflation. What's the use of having money?

He can't open up the trade route, and trillions of Baileys are like waste paper, and he can't harvest any goods.

But now. The opportunity has come.

"Polo-pollo-pollo." In a room inside the palace, Sag made a phone call, put the receiver on the table, opened a bottle of champagne, found a goblet to pour it, picked up the goblet and shook it, staring at the wine inside.

In addition to the Den Den Mushi that was making a call, there was another Den Den Mushi with its eyes open, projecting images from its eyes onto the wall. The image was of a huge red mountain with surging waves that stretched as far as the eye could see.

However, the facing position is still particular. At the bottom, there is a concave shape of a closed stone door with the pattern of the World Government on it. Under this pattern is a fortress. In front of the fortress there is a ship with the logo of a main gun.

Red Harbor.

Just like the location of Paradise is close to the Sabaody Archipelago on the Red Earth Continent, from there you can reach Marijoa. Similarly, in the New World, there is also a similar port, which is controlled by the navy and is generally used to lift and lower people traveling back and forth.

Of course, this only applies to people; boats are not allowed.

At this time in Red Harbor, the alarm sounded loudly, and the navy and world government officials stationed in Red Harbor all took action. Some boarded the port's warships and sailed to the front to form a warship position, while others entered the Red Harbor artillery position with nervous faces.

You have to be nervous.

Received information
The Death Star is just off in the distance!

The flagship of the Four Emperors' 'Natural Disaster'!
"do not worry."

The person currently stationed at Red Harbor is the current Vice Admiral of the Navy Headquarters, Huoshaoshan, a kind-looking, dovish navy officer. He is chewing on a cigar, exhaling the smoke, and facing the faintly visible outline of the ship, he says:
"The natural disaster didn't come out. The leader is 'Sword Princess'. She shouldn't be here to start a war. I don't know what she wants to do. Admiral Kizaru has already dispatched. Don't be afraid. Also, as a marine, no matter what situation you encounter, you must not be afraid. Although the Four Emperors are scary, for the sake of justice, no matter how scary the enemy is, you must not retreat!"

"Yes!!"

The surrounding navy officers straightened their chests and saluted the burning mountain.

In the distance, from the Red Port position, only the outline of a huge black ship that was several times larger than a naval warship could be seen. Several people were standing on the deck, and several of their men were holding a huge, live-broadcasting Den Den Mushi with a telescope, facing the Red Port position.

"Okay ah?"

Ulki glanced at Hawkins who was drawing a card beside him, "Is it reliable or not? I don't want to end up at the bottom of the sea."

"Don't worry, we won't die today."

Hawkins repeatedly divined and confirmed that at this distance, their survival rate was above 85% every time, which made him feel slightly relieved.

Why not 99%? Because he has never seen Pluto's power. Naturally, he has no idea about things he doesn't understand. It is acceptable if he can calculate more than 85%.

After all, if it really is fate, there is always a one in ten thousand chance that it will come to you, even if it is 99.99%.

"Hehehe, ancient weapons."

Moriah, who was on the ship, screamed, "Now that I think about it, Wano Country actually still has this weapon hidden. What a pity for Kaido."

Kaido knew that there was Pluto in Wano Country, even though he was hidden deep under the sea. However, Jack himself was a fishman. When he was investigating, he discovered the historical text and through some unknown means, he learned about the existence of Pluto here.

It's just bad luck that it can't be started temporarily, and it was defeated by someone.

Otherwise, he might really be the man with the greatest hope of becoming the Pirate King after Roger and fulfilling his own dream.

Yes, there are many strong people in the sea, and some of them can even surpass Roger in terms of martial arts, but in all these years, the number of people who have fulfilled their personal dreams is only a handful.

It is not a small dream. Although dreams are not high or low, there are always differences in the pattern.

Pirate King Roger fulfilled his dream of finding the final island, Raftel, and became the man who fulfilled his own dream on the sea.

Besides that, there's Whitebeard.

He also fulfilled his dream and got his 'family'.

In this level, they are the only two who have achieved their dreams, and the rest are just one step away.

Big Mom's dream seems to be very close, only a few races away, but it is actually very far away, because she wants to eat at the table with others, which means that everyone has to become giant, which she cannot do.

Kaido's dream: If he could activate Pluto, then everything would be fine. Based on force alone, no one could become the Pirate King before him. Unfortunately, there is no if in this matter. He was defeated by Zag.

And now, the key to this weapon is in Sag's hands, and this time he is here for the experiment.

"It's a pity for him, but not for Sarge."

Lily stood near the bow, holding down the hilt with one hand, letting the sea breeze blow her long golden wavy hair. She stared at the Red Harbor for a while and suddenly said:

"It's better to notify them to retreat. The purpose of this time is an experiment, but this location happens to be blocking the road. We have issued a notice, and whether to execute it or not is your problem."

Sudden!
As soon as he finished speaking, a ball of yellow light appeared on the side railing of the ship. Kizaru put his hands in his pockets, with a bandage on his head, and pouted his mouth to reveal a surprised voice:

"Oh~ How scary, Biondetta Lily, can you predict me now? You seem to have changed a lot too. I heard that Vegapunk is with you, and it seems that Zhan Taomaru has also defected there. Are they okay?"

"Okay or not, aren't you very clear about it? Sager said that you should owe us a favor, so there are some things that we will warn you about, and you have to fight for it yourself. Otherwise, if the people in Red Harbor disappear, it will have nothing to do with us." Lily said lightly.

"Ah, it seems you have obtained an incredible weapon. Is it one of the ancient weapons that Vegapunk mentioned? Pluto? Or Poseidon? If you do this, it will cause panic in the world." Kizaru said.

"It doesn't matter. Pirates will cause panic in the world anyway, sooner or later. We are just conducting an experiment this time. If the experiment goes well, maybe we can maintain peace for a while. In this way, you will be less likely to rashly start a war with us."

"This really makes it difficult for this old man."

Kizaru said with a smile: "Do we have to use Red Harbor as the experimental site? Can't we change it? The ocean is so big, it won't matter if we release it secretly."

"That place is just right. Once it's opened, it will be a good passage."

Lily said coldly: "We don't want to change the place that Sarge chose personally."

(End of this chapter)