Naruto Online: Hyuga Branch Family? Let's go all out!

Chapter 310 Wealth Distribution Plan: Wahlbo Returns

"I, what's wrong with me?" Nami opened her eyes in confusion. You really do have a gift for me!

"Yes, this is the power of our Alabasta national treasure, capable of controlling celestial phenomena!" Ning Yuan said, "I'm bestowing this power upon you!"

"Just like how you gave my sister the ability to control ice and snow?" Nami's eyes lit up as she asked curiously.

"Yes, but your sister specializes in ice and snow, while you're proficient in everything!" Ning Yuan said, "The eight elements of the sky are wind, clouds, thunder, lightning, rain, snow, ice, and frost. You now have the ability to control these eight weather phenomena. Why don't you give it a try?"

Nami raised her small hand, and then a tiny breeze blew from her hand.

"It really works!" Nami's eyes widened in surprise as she looked at the small tornado in her hand.

She has a weather stick that can create some simple celestial phenomena, but those phenomena are very difficult to create. They require complex operations and calculations, and the temperature and humidity of the environment must be taken into account.

Unlike now, where you can control things just by thinking about them!

It couldn't be more convenient!

The only problem is that using this seems to take a lot of energy; she was already out of breath after just creating a little wind.

"You've just recovered from a serious illness, there's no rush to develop your abilities!" Ning Yuan advised. "Besides, you don't need to board the ship anyway, so you might as well train your abilities here!"

"I'll stay here!" Nami looked around the small house. "Won't this inconvenience others? Where's the owner?"

Ning Yuan waved his hand and said, "I bought his house, gave him a household registration in a major city in Alabasta, and then his whole family happily boarded a merchant ship and left!!"

"Huh?" Nami's eyes widened. "No, I only need to stay for a few days, and you bought the whole house? Are you that rich?"

Ning Yuan shrugged: "I'm a king, the king of the world's largest country, don't you think?"

Actually, Ningyuan didn't have much money two days ago, but didn't he plunder the homes of many nobles?

Nami's eyes instantly lit up with greed: "Well, doesn't every country have a high-ranking official in charge of the money?!"

Ning Yuan nodded: "Yes, there is such an official, called the Minister of Finance!"

"What do you think of me?" Nami clung to Ning Yuan like an octopus. "I'll manage your money, and I guarantee no one will dare to embezzle or be corrupt!"

"Don't rush into that!" Ning Yuan straightened up. "I have a question for you!"

"Mmm-hmm!" Nami nodded frantically.

"Imperial Jade Liquor!"

"Huh?"

"Then, odd changes and even remains the same?"

"Uh, what did you say?"

"Let me choose another one. Does accepting the gift mean nothing?"

Nami's eyes lit up. "I can answer that question."

"Accepting a gift doesn't mean you can take it for granted. If you don't intend to be together, you should reciprocate with an equal gift!" Nami proudly raised her finger. "That's a lesson Bellemere taught me!"

Ning Yuan was relieved.

Although he knew Nami just liked money, he was still worried that some kind of fairy had transmigrated into this world.

"It's no problem to let you manage the money!" Ning Yuan said with a smile.

"Huh?" Nami was taken aback. "Wait, I was just kidding. How can I manage the money of such a big country!"

"It's not your business, it's the business of those greedy nobles who are desperately trying to line their own pockets with the country's money!" Ning Yuan said irritably. "You have no idea how greedy those nobles are. Wasn't there a rebellion in Alabasta before?"

"Yes, yes!" Nami nodded. She had read in the newspaper that she had indeed heard about the rebels in Alabasta.

"The rebels weren't rebels at first; they were all regular Alabasta soldiers. They only rebelled because they hadn't been paid for several months!" Ning Yuan said. "When they heard about the rebellion, the former king, Cobra, hurriedly summoned the nobles, hoping to borrow some money to help pay their salaries. Guess how much money all the nobles in Alabasta contributed?"

"Uh, one hundred million?" Nami tentatively held up one finger.

"If it were a hundred million, that would be fine!" Ning Yuan said irritably, "Only ten million!"

"Ten million gold?" Nami asked in surprise.

"Ten million Berries!" Ning Yuan scoffed. "What can ten million Berries do? A single soldier needs 5 Berries a month, and an army of 60 needs 300 billion a month! Ten million isn't even enough to fill a tooth gap!"

Nami's eyes widened immediately: "What, 300 billion?"

"Making an army is like this, it's incredibly expensive!" Ning Yuan shrugged. "Later, the rebels were stopped by Vivi, and then I took office. Cobra and those nobles were related, but I wasn't, so I simply arrested all those nobles and ransacked their homes one by one. Guess how much money I made?"

"One hundred million?" Nami blinked. After all, these nobles had worked so hard to scrape together ten million. Maybe their families were really poor?

"One hundred million?" Ning Yuan chuckled. "That's just a fraction. I extracted 655 trillion Berries!"

"What?" Nami's eyes widened. "Wait, you didn't... say an extra 'ten thousand'?"

"No, I'm not one to joke around!" Ning Yuan was still shocked when he thought about the number: "These nobles had mountains of gold and silver. To prevent theft, they even cast the gold into metal spheres over a meter in diameter. The silver was simply used for paving the floors. The Berries they had piled up were starting to mold, and many were even gnawed into pieces by rats and were completely unusable. Otherwise, there would have been even more!"

Nami decisively started counting on her fingers, realizing that 655 trillion was an enormous sum of money.

The dragon collected money to buy lives in Cocoyasi Village: 100,000 Berries for adults and 50,000 Berries for children!

655 trillion yuan, could that buy 65 billion people?

Their Golden Beauty cost 3000 million Berries, or 655 trillion Berries, enough to buy 21 ships!

As for more complex conversion methods, Nami couldn't even imagine them anymore.

Ning Yuan continued, "When I first took over Alabasta, I was thinking of going to the Sky Island to get gold to develop the country. But thinking about it carefully, how could the Gold Capital of a thousand years ago be richer than the capital of Alabasta a thousand years later?"

After all, Alabasta has been a great power for five thousand years. During these five thousand years, Alabasta has rarely experienced foreign invasions, has never signed any treaties to compensate foreign countries with silver, and has never had a case like the Mongols or the Great Captain who fled with a large amount of gold.

In a world where technology is generally underdeveloped and wealth is acquired through the exploitation of the people, if Shandora is rich, Alabasta will only become richer!

Nobles had many ways to make money. They could not only take money directly from taxes, but also organize their own fleets to do business all over the world, and they were all monopolistic businesses.

They make money every day, but they don't spend it much.

Don't even mention how expensive it is to buy slaves. Even top-tier slaves like those in One Piece only cost 1 million Berries, and that's only because the Celestial Dragons artificially inflated the price.

Moreover, Pele's value was already somewhat inflated at that time.

Even if each mermaid is worth 1 million, how much money would you get if you bought all the mermaids in the Mermaid Kingdom?

Over thousands of years, how much money must these nobles have accumulated?

Seeing Nami's stunned expression, Ning Yuan smiled and continued, "We've only been ransacking their homes for two days, and we haven't even finished digging everything up. We've only done a preliminary count, and we should be able to find even more later. Once all the assets of these nobles are tallied, I estimate it will amount to tens of trillions!"

Nami felt like she couldn't breathe at all.

Trillions of billions? What exactly does that mean?

"By the way, all these trillions of assets will be handed over to you, the Minister of Finance!" Ning Yuan continued.

"No, no!" Nami quickly waved her hands. "How could I dare to control so much money? What if I have a brain fart one day and make the wrong decision? Wouldn't I lose a huge amount of money?"

If you give me one or two hundred million, I might be able to manage it.

But that's worth trillions, how am I supposed to manage it?

I dare not interfere!

"Don't worry, we in Alabasta have a well-established fiscal system. It'll be quite difficult for you to mess around!" Ning Yuan laughed. "Besides, don't you have the Goddess of Wisdom helping you?"

"Goddess of Wisdom, isn't this a map?" Nami asked.

"Maps are just a tiny, insignificant function of the goddess of wisdom!" Ning Yuan said with a smile, extending his hand, and a shared screen appeared in front of the two of them!

In reality, the goddess of wisdom is still in Alabasta, and the two are actually each looking at their own things.

However, with a simple calculation, the information seen by the two people can be synchronized. If Windows can do this, it will only be easier for Athena.

"Let me tell you about Alabasta's fiscal management approach!" Ning Yuan said, and the 655 trillion assets in front of him were immediately divided into two parts: one part was 480 trillion and the other part was 175 trillion!

"The money confiscated from the nobles consisted of a large portion in fixed assets such as gold and silver, and a smaller portion in Pele. We need to use Pele as foreign exchange reserves for doing business with other countries!"

"And we will use this gold as a monetary anchor to issue our own Alabasta currency!"

As a major power, Ningyuan certainly cannot use the world government's currency. Otherwise, wouldn't they be able to easily exploit you with any economic policy they implement?

"This is a new currency I designed. 100 yuan is equivalent to 1 gram of gold. I named it the Alabasta Gold Dollar, or Gold Dollar for short!" A gleaming gold banknote appeared in front of the two of them.

The reverse side of the currency depicts an endless desert, while the obverse side features the portrait of a young man.

Weiwei glanced at the profile picture, then at Ning Yuan, and then chuckled, "You'd print yourself on currency!"

"That's right!" Ning Yuan nodded. "It's not that I'm narcissistic, but we humans are social animals, so we're particularly good at recognizing faces. Printing faces on banknotes provides better anti-counterfeiting measures!"

"Furthermore, the curves of a human face are more difficult to draw, which increases the difficulty of counterfeiting money!"

This is based on scientific theory; it's not just something Ning Yuan made up.

"Okay!" Nami nodded. "Go on!"

"Yes!" Ning Yuan nodded. "To facilitate the issuance and exchange of currency, we also need to build our own bank. As for the name, we'll call it the Royal Bank of Alabasta!"

To be fair, Ningyuan was initially very opposed to the imperial system.

However, after he had been in power for several years, he discovered that the imperial system was actually an excellent system.

The premise is that the emperor himself cannot have any problems.

If the emperor is capable, the country can easily become powerful; but if the emperor is incompetent, the country is prone to problems.

There has never been a perfect emperor in Chinese history, because even the most capable emperor has one flaw: he can die!

Once an emperor dies, all his systems, decrees, personnel appointments, and foreign policies may change.

However, this situation does not exist for Ning Yuan.

Because he is an immortal being, he will not die.

Moreover, he was extremely clear-headed and had no bad habits.

You can't even say that Ning Yuan is lustful.

Marrying only seven or eight wives in a lifetime is hardly lustful. That number is less than some modern playboys, let alone the emperors of ancient times with their three palaces, six courtyards, and seventy-two concubines.

As long as Ning Yuan remains in this position, this country will always be strong and prosperous.

Therefore, the system of Ningyuan declaring himself emperor is naturally the best system!

Far away.

"The Royal Bank is responsible for issuing and redeeming currency. In addition, we are responsible for building other banks and developing industries, agriculture, and even the postal service."

Ning Yuan recalled that the postal system in the One Piece world was actually quite inconvenient, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the islands were completely isolated from the world.

If Alabasta wants to rule the world in the future, a global banking and postal system is essential.

"Door-Door Fruit, Teleportation Fruit, Mirror-Mirror Fruit!!" Ning Yuan thought of these three space-type fruits. To be honest, these three fruits are perfect for the postal industry.

However, these fruits are not suitable for individuals to eat, because the enormous amount of work involved would be exhausting.

The goddess of wisdom has reserved the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, so the Door-Door Fruit can be eaten by the history books of time!

Let's see if we can pull out any artifacts that can be linked with the Goddess of Wisdom, and then we can give her a teleportation fruit.

As for the Mirror-Mirror Fruit, that fruit is a bit too far away for Charlotte Brûlée to possess.

Although it wouldn't be troublesome to go, Ning Yuan doesn't have any divine artifacts at the moment, so he's not in a hurry to retrieve them.

He didn't even retrieve the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.

Furthermore, the goddess of wisdom has the ability to find unclaimed Devil Fruits and their users.

If Ning Yuan wanted to, he could collect all the unclaimed Devil Fruits in a few days, and then assassinate the Devil Fruit users. In one or two weeks, he could wipe out all the Devil Fruit users.

But that makes it meaningless.

This is like someone who plays Zelda and only wants to save the princess, or plays Minecraft and only wants to fight the Ender Dragon. What's the point of playing like that?

A life with overly clear goals becomes a professional gamer's life, not a life, but a quest.

"Hmm?" Ning Yuan frowned.

I didn't come looking for you; you just came to me!

His ears were sharp; he heard people when they were still far from the village, but soon the whole village became noisy, so much so that Nami, who was engrossed in studying the bank's construction plans, could hear them.

"What's going on outside?" Nami asked, looking up.

"The King of the Drum Kingdom has returned!" Ning Yuan exclaimed.

"Huh? What's wrong with that?" Nami asked.

This is the Kingdom of Drums. Isn't it normal for the king to come and visit the village under his jurisdiction?

"The Drum Kingdom was attacked by the Blackbeard Pirates a while ago, and then the king abandoned his people and ran away!" Ning Yuan said. "Now that the Blackbeards are gone, the king has returned!"

Nami's face immediately darkened: "How could there be such a king!"

Ning Yuan thought this approach was actually alright. If you let Wapol fight against Blackbeard, what's the difference between that and letting the catfish demon capture Tang Sanzang?

Have you not heard the saying, "If you save people but lose land, you will save both people and land; if you save land but lose people, you will lose both people and land"?

At least Valpo's actions saved himself and the country.

If it really comes down to a fight to the death with Blackbeard, do you think Blackbeard might massacre an entire city and destroy a nation?

However, while Wapol's gameplay is impeccable, his character is questionable, and there are many flaws in his character.

Not to mention that he bullied his wife Vivi during the World Conference, he later expelled all the doctors in the country, leaving only 20.

To be honest, Ningyuan really didn't understand what this operation meant. Don't you know how much money a major medical country can make?

Back when China was still relatively unknown, countless wealthy people would flee abroad whenever they fell ill, contributing a significant amount to the GDP of foreign healthcare systems!

Your country has already established its reputation as a major medical power, but you don't know how to leverage it.

That's not just stupid, it's downright stupid!

"I'll go out and take a look!" Ning Yuan said, getting up.

"I'll go with you!" Nami quickly got out of bed.

"Your health!" Ning Yuan hurriedly advised.

"I feel better now!" Nami stretched her arms and shook her head. "It seems like my condition disappeared all at once after you gave me the gift!"

"Superpowers can also cure diseases?" Ning Yuan asked in surprise, then nodded. "They probably can."

Don't be fooled by the fact that only Zoan-type enhances physical strength; Paramecia and Logia-types also enhance physical strength, just not to the same extent as Zoan-type.

Now that Nami has the power of a Devil Fruit, her physique has improved, and after drinking a bowl of porridge, her body has naturally recovered.

"Let's go out together!" Ning Yuan said, taking Nami's hand.

Nami blushed. Although they were together, this was the first time they had publicly held hands in front of everyone!

(End of this chapter)