Pirate: I was just slacking off, do you really think I'm bad?

Long gripped the bald man's shoulder and said:

"I'm very sorry, Swall didn't mean to mock you just now. If you feel it was inappropriate, I'll have him apologize to you."

"But if you lay a hand on me again, I won't be so polite."

Seeing that the bald man still wanted to resist, Long said in a serious tone.

Although the crow's Devil Fruit ability is somewhat troublesome, Dragon has been through countless battles during his time in the Navy.

If he hadn't held back, the bald man might have been captured long ago.

The bald man felt the pressure from the dragon and naturally did not resist.

"My name is Crow."

The bald man gave his name and gestured to the dragon.

"My name is Monkey D. Dragon."

Long said with a relaxed expression that he felt a certain liking for the person in front of him because he felt they were the same kind of people.

"I apologize for my rudeness just now, Mr. Raven. I am Swall."

Swall bowed to the crow, feeling embarrassed.

"Let's find a secluded spot; we've already attracted attention here."

The sounds of fighting had already drawn the attention of some miners in the mines, who were looking in this direction.

"Come with me."

The crow gestured to the crowd, then strode towards another mine.

The mine tunnels here are very winding, and many are not recorded on the mine route map.

But the crows seemed to know the way well, as if they had been to these mines many times before.

Finally, after following the crow for ten minutes, the group saw a small house located deep inside the mine.

"Let's go inside and talk, Mr. Long."

The crow took the initiative to invite him in, and the dragon, without suspicion, followed him inside.

The cramped wooden hut was crammed with five strong men.

The Dragon and Swall of the Self-Brave Army, along with Raven and two cadres from the Miners' Association.

"Alright, this place is safer, you can talk without worry."

The crow spoke in a very low voice.

"My name is Monkey D. Dragon, the leader of the Brave Army, and I have traveled all the way from the East China Sea."

"Our organization is to help those people oppressed by the World Government and the World Nobles to stand up."

"The Self-Defense Forces?"

The crow was quite surprised by the name.

After the dragon briefly described the situation to the crow, the crow nodded and said:

"A very interesting idea."

"It's your turn."

Long looked at the group of miners' association members in front of him.

"We are steelworkers and members of the miners' association."

"The reason we came here is because you only joined a few days ago and have already started asking about all sorts of things, so naturally we had to come and take a look."

"A steel factory?"

A hint of doubt appeared on Long's face; he knew nothing about the steel factory.

The coal and iron city is divided into two parts: one part is the coal mining area responsible for mining coal resources, and the other part is the steel plant responsible for smelting iron ore.

Dragon had heard of steel factories from some people, but due to the high wall in the middle, the workers on both sides could not actually reach each other.

"No, if you really are steel factory workers as you say, then how did you get here?"

"Because according to the information I've gathered over the past few days, the two areas are not interconnected."

Long asked the question with a frown.

"It may seem like there's no communication between you, but in reality, there are many connections between the two parts. For example, the foremen in the coal mines are actually the workers in the steel mills."

"What? The foreman of the coal mine is actually a steel factory worker?"

The dragon was very surprised.

"Yes, the steel mill selects three or four hundred workers every week to work as supervisors in the coal mine. It's a great job, as the pay is about the same as working in the steel mill, but you basically don't have to do any physical labor."

The crow explained to the dragon the connection between the coal mines and the steel mill.

"Who is the foreman at your steel factory?"

The dragon asked again.

"The supervisors at our steel plant are mostly natives from the four major port cities, with only a few serving as lifelong supervisors."

After the crow finished speaking, the dragon fell into deep thought.

He wasn't sure whether it was the idea of ​​the nobles of the Eryokabu Kingdom or the World Government.

But without a doubt, this divisive tactic was used exceptionally well.

Steelworkers are treated better and have more food than coal miners.

Sending steelworkers to work as supervisors in coal mines would create a long-term working environment that could lead to conflict between the coal miners and the supervisors from the steel mines.

This is what fundamentally caused the division between the two groups that were most likely to unite.

Having people from other parts of the kingdom serve as overseers further severed the connection between the workers and the masses.

In addition, there were tall city walls and thousands of soldiers armed with rifles and cannons.

To minimize the scale and frequency of uprisings as much as possible.

"But a new question arises: you didn't come here as a supervisor, did you?"

"If I were the one who devised this plan, I would definitely restrict the steelworkers' freedom of movement as well."

"Otherwise, this plan, which is based on the lack of information sharing between different groups, will fall through."

The dragon looked at the crow with a very interested smile and continued:

"Since the plan is based on this theory, it is necessary to control the time the supervisors come and go. As far as I know, the supervisors' time in the morning and evening is fixed, and all supervisors must leave after this time."

"At this point in time, theoretically there shouldn't be any supervisors in the coal mining area."

The dragon's words sent a chill down the crow's spine.

He hadn't expected that this tall man could make so many deductions based on just a few words from him.

Most importantly, these speculations are very close to reality.

"It seems Mr. Raven is still somewhat unwilling to believe us."

Swall shrugged and said.

The crow calmed down and said to the dragon and Swall:

"There's no other way. I'm carrying too much on my shoulders. I can't guarantee whether you're members of the CP organization until we establish complete trust."

Long laughed heartily:

"Hahaha, in our conversation just now, I've come to the conclusion that you are the leader of the miners' association, and your goal is to incite a people's uprising."

"If we were truly working for the World Government, we would have arrested you based on that alone."

The crow found it hard to understand why the man in front of it, named Dragon, could have such a high level of intelligence.

In some ways, if the dragon were a member of the World Government, then the workers' uprising in the Kingdom of Eryoka would seem like a joke to him.

They could easily find the key figures in the uprising and had the ability to eliminate them in one fell swoop.

Upon seeing the dragon's wisdom, the crow was first shocked, then said with a complex expression:

"Mr. Long, your words are very touching. However, I carry the hopes of too many people on my shoulders, so I cannot fully trust you at this time."

"I hope you can understand my actions. I'm very sorry."