Starting with the Uchiha clan, they began cultivating demonic arts.

Chapter 239 Solving Alabasta's Stubborn Problems

In the end, the three members of the Straw Hat Pirates did not directly try to reclaim their pirate ship. On the one hand, there were guards protecting the ship, and the Straw Hat Pirates did not want to have a conflict with them. On the other hand, even if they stole the ship now, they would not have a chance to go to sea.

After all, besides the ship, Luffy wouldn't forget that his companion Usopp had also been captured. Compared to the Going Merry, rescuing his companion was more important.

Furthermore, Zoro and Sanji seemed to be paying attention to what the guards were saying, such as "royal consort"... It sounded like Uchiha Touya was doing quite well in Alabasta? Did he marry a princess or a queen?

Having shaken off the guards, before the Straw Hat trio could even inquire about any news, someone had already come knocking on their door.

"Are the three of you enemies of Uchiha Touyu? If you're looking for trouble with him, perhaps we can help!"

Several cloaked, furtive figures appeared before Luffy, directly seeking cooperation.

"Who are you? Why are you looking for us?"

Zoro frowned, and asked with some suspicion, and the cloaked figures immediately answered their question:

"We are the Alabasta rebels. As for why we're looking for you? Well, it's because we all share a common enemy!"

Uchiha Tou was unaware of the contact between the rebel army and the Straw Hat Pirates. After Alabasta gradually entered a negotiation phase, he had already changed his target for killing.

He has set his sights on the nobles and officials of Alabasta for his killings!

As mentioned earlier, Alabasta's current predicament is not solely due to Crocodile's actions. In fact, the Shichibukai's dancing fan plan was merely a catalyst. The real cause of Alabasta's current predicament lies in its corrupt aristocratic class.

Princess Vivi's father, Cobra, was a very benevolent king, but that was all he was good at. He was not entirely without political acumen or strategies for governing the country; in fact, he was utterly incompetent.

Although Cobra is considered "brilliant and powerful" in the world of One Piece, which is all about who's worse, and is far stronger than Wapol and the Celestial Dragons, the problems in Alabasta are clearly beyond his ability to handle.

After all, Alabasta has a vast territory, making it the largest country on the Grand Line. Its standing army alone numbers 60. In comparison, countries like Drum Country in Wapol have a total population of less than 6, or Dressrosa, which Doflamingo occupies, have at most a few hundred thousand people.

Alabasta can be considered one of the most difficult countries to manage on the entire Grand Line. Its harsh desert environment, vast land area, large population, and rigid class system have left Cobra with a lot of worries and no way to deal with the situation.

However, this is not difficult for Uchiha Touyu. He has no political acumen and no ability to solve the Alabasta problem through political means—but he can directly deal with the people who caused this problem!

In the extraordinary world of One Piece, an individual's strength, if it reaches a certain level, can completely compensate for their lack of wisdom and political ability.

After all, the ultimate means of politics is naked violence. In the ordinary world, it is necessary to gather a crowd to form a more powerful violent group, so rulers must have certain political maneuvering skills.

However, in this extraordinary world, Uchiha Tou alone is equivalent to the strongest violent gang in Alabasta. In addition, with the noble cause of being Vivi's fiancé and the heir to Alabasta, overturning the table is an easy task for him.

Because most of Alabasta is desert and only oasis areas are habitable, it adopts a system that is almost like a feudal system.

For example, Rainlands is practically Shakrokfar's personal city, and the money and taxes it generates have never been handed over to the Kingdom of Alabasta. In fact, there are many oasis cities like this that are almost separatist, and the Alabasta royal family can directly control less than one-fifth of the entire country's oases.

However, when the rulers of these oasis cities plundered the people, they all used the name of the Alabasta royal family, so in the end, the people's resentment was concentrated on the Alabasta royal family.

In addition, Alabasta's officials also have significant problems. Over the centuries, the system of official positions has become almost entirely hereditary, leading to a vast network of corruption and collusion among officials that continuously drains the country dry.

Uchiha Hiyu first carried out a major purge among the officials in Alabasta. The method was simple: he had Golden Week hypnotize the officials one by one. Faced with Golden Week's paintbrush, these officials had no power to resist and confessed to everything they had done.

Then he went on a rampage of indiscriminate killing, since he was a gunman himself and didn't care about the resistance of these pens.

As for issues like the collapse of order after killing officials—kingdoms like Alabasta, which have enjoyed long-standing peace and prosperity, have plenty of people who can become officials! They can easily select a large number of officials.

During this period, every day in Albana, one could see officials being executed. Uchiha Hiyu strictly followed the laws of the Alabasta Kingdom, dealing with all issues severely and strictly.

Although Cobra was a benevolent king, that doesn't mean the laws of the Alabasta Kingdom were benevolent. In fact, the laws of no country in the pirate world are inhumane, just very lenient.

What does it mean for the law to be lenient? It means that the outcome depends entirely on the mood and thoughts of the person enforcing the law.

It can be dealt with severely or downplayed, and once it is dealt with severely, the result is usually beheading.

Almost every day, Albana had to push out the corpses of more than a dozen officials. Although Cobra and Vivi were kind-hearted, under Golden Week's hypnosis, the officials wrote down their crimes, leaving the two of them speechless about Uchiha Tou's actions.

Although this method of massacre was brutal, it was also the fastest way to solve problems such as class stratification and official corruption. According to Uchiha Hiyu's standards, he killed about 70% of the officials in Alabasta, which amounted to more than a thousand people.

However, at the same time, the money obtained from the confiscation was roughly equivalent to more than ten years of Alabasta's tax revenue, not to mention the many fixed assets that accounted for the majority. To be honest, when they saw the results, even Cobra and Princess Vivi wished they could drag those officials out and behead them again.

Of course, Uchiha Tou's reputation in Alabasta is now even more terrifying. Before, only the rebels called him the Slaughterer and the Feather of Destruction, but now even the nobles of Alabasta know that he is an absolute god of death!

"Well... the problem with the officials is solved. With a large amount of money filling the national treasury, plus the large amount of state-owned assets that were recovered, Alabasta can finally catch its breath."

"The next problem should be those separatist nobles. I'll take a few members of the Baroque Works to visit them, offer some assistance, and check on their work. I believe we can quickly bring power back to the table."

Sitting in a chair, Uchiha Touyu looked at the intelligence report in his hand and slowly analyzed it. Opposite him were Princess Vivi and her father, King Cobra.

The king, known for his benevolence in the original story, now wore a complex expression and said in a low voice:

"Are you still going to kill people? The situation in Alabasta has improved a lot by now, hasn't it?"

"If you're willing to wait until Vivi reaches your age before launching a large-scale rebellion and repeating what you're doing today, then you can indeed stop now."

Uchiha Touyu spoke calmly, saying that in reality, these warlords were far more harmful than corrupt officials, and that these warlords even had influence within the Alabasta rebels.

After all, even if the rebels were to eliminate the Alabasta royal family, it would be almost impossible for them to defend the country, considering that a world government exists in this world.

At that time, those separatist nobles will naturally jump out, directly drive out the rebel army, and seize the fruits of victory... In any case, in this extraordinary world, as long as you lower your bottom line, dealing with pure rebel armies is too easy.

The root cause of the uprising was that the people in the country could not survive, which ultimately stemmed from Alabasta's lack of resources and unfair distribution.

While Uchiha Touyu's rampage solved some of the resource allocation problems, a large amount of resources remained in the hands of the warlord nobles and were not distributed to the common people.

Given the resources and population Alabasta currently controls, even if the uprising is quelled and peace is restored, a new uprising will inevitably break out again in a few decades due to problems such as overpopulation and resource depletion. Ultimately, this is because these separatist nobles have seized too many resources.

Upon hearing this, King Cobra's expression changed, and he gritted his teeth:

"Then I'll leave it to you, Feiyu!"

"I am truly sorry. It is my incompetence as king that has caused you and Vivi to endure so much pressure, even damaging your reputation..."

"Reputation is meaningless. Since we are in the right, the navy won't go after me because of my reputation anyway. It's better to have a deterrent effect on nobles and officials."

Throughout history, most of the wise and powerful emperors in feudal dynasties were seen as tyrants by their ministers, who were ruthless in killing people. In the eyes of these truly wise rulers, deterrence was the most important thing.

Moreover... these warlords are not like ordinary officials; they have considerable armies under their command. Now that the rebel army has the idea of ​​peace talks, they cannot kill indiscriminately. Therefore, Uchiha Touyu can only focus his attention on these warlords and their armies.

"Well... perhaps you're right! Blindly showing mercy doesn't seem to be a good way to govern a country."

"Perhaps your iron-fisted methods will be of greater help in governing the country. With Weiwei by your side, the two of you can complement each other perfectly. In that case, I will have no regrets about entrusting the country to you."

Cobra wore a bitter smile. It wasn't until Uchiha Touyu interrogated all the officials that he realized just how rotten his country had become.

Before that, although he had some understanding in his heart, he was too kind and did not investigate the behavior of the officials, which led to these officials and nobles becoming even more powerful.

"Whether it's mercy or ruthlessness, the most important thing is to hold onto power! Father-in-law, if you had really followed my example before, you probably would have 'drowned and drowned' long ago."

While the people in the One Piece world may not be the smartest, they are incredibly brave and have a lot of fighting spirit. To survive here, you only need to be smart enough; you don't need to be too clever. But you definitely need to be strong, or you might end up as ashes at any time.

"Haha, you're right, Alabasta... is indeed too weak."

"Alright, let's not waste any more time. Princess Vivi and King Cobra, you two should focus on negotiating with the rebels and try to appease them. As for me, I should go back to chopping people down!"

King Cobra and Princess Vivi are the royal family of this country, but the one who truly makes the decisions is Uchiha Touyu, and judging from their expressions, they are willing to accept it.

This is not only because of Uchiha Touyu's strength and kindness, but more so because Uchiha Touyu's actions truly solved Alabasta's long-standing problem.

After assigning the tasks, Uchiha Tou didn't waste any time and went straight to the oasis of the mission target. Alabasta is now divided into more than a dozen noble separatist forces, and these noble forces have formed alliances with each other, resulting in three leaders.

Since they were ready to make a move, Uchiha Touyu decided to start with the strongest noble faction. There was nothing to say about that – Alabasta was basically devoid of strong individuals, and even the royal family's strength was only so-so, with only two Zoan-type Devil Fruit users who were worth mentioning, let alone these nobles.

Basically, they captured the nobles, hypnotized them during Golden Week to obtain evidence of their crimes, and then went on a killing spree. In just over a week, most of the nobles and their loyal followers were dead, and tens of thousands more souls were added to Uchiha Touyu's hands.

These dead souls were mostly well-trained soldiers or guards, which gave Uchiha Touyu more vitality and allowed his body to evolve more towards the Asura realm. Both his physical attributes and the Armament Haki within him were greatly enhanced.

Even the Third Generation Kitetsu in Uchiha Hiyu's hands, through continuous killing, was completely transformed into a black sword. However, unlike ordinary black swords, this sword's final color was a pure dark red, as if it were a lump of congealed blood.

(End of this chapter)