One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

Because it also has a growth cap.

The Sandworm Fruit, Moria's Shadow-Shadow Fruit, and Shiryu's Blood-Blood Fruit that Rorschach encountered in the North Blue all had the ability to increase their power by tens or hundreds of times. In comparison, none of them were weaker than the Multiply Fruit.

Among these, Moria's Shadow-Shadow Fruit is particularly noteworthy. Theoretically, as long as Moria's mind and body are strong enough, he can stuff a million or even ten million shadows into his body, potentially increasing his power a thousandfold or even ten thousandfold.

In this world, simply increasing one's strength is not a terrifying thing, because there are also two most important factors, namely, domineering aura and physical strength, which balance the strength of the ability user.

Otherwise, if we're talking about physical strength of several million tons, even Akainu wouldn't be as strong as Pamel, who ate the Strength-Strength Fruit.

But if it really came down to a fight, he probably wouldn't even be able to withstand a single punch from Akainu.

Putting Blackbeard aside, Rorschach returned to the main topic.

"What kind of photos does President Morgans want to take?"

Upon hearing Rorschach mention taking photos, Morgans immediately perked up, rubbing his hands together and saying:

"Ideally, you, Rorschach, could appear on the front page of our newspaper with the entire elite of G5."

Characters like Enel (Thor), Law (Doctor of Death), Palmer (Titan Titan), Bepo (Armored Bear), Hibari (Weather Goddess), and Rorschach (Vice Admiral) are all idols loved by young people all over the world.

"If we could get you all featured together on the Navy's recruitment posters, I think it would definitely attract more outstanding young people to join the Navy."

"Weather Goddess, Titan God, Armored Bear? What cheesy nicknames! Who came up with these?" Rorschach's lips twitched.

Also, why is Bepo's nickname so lame?

Everyone else is some kind of god or something, but he's just a bear.

Morgans chuckled dryly and scratched his head. "These are names given to you by young people all over the world who like you. As the word spread, everyone started calling you that."

Rorschach nodded, looking at the smiling Morgans in front of him and the billions of Berry checks beside him, and a vague idea suddenly popped into his mind.

Perhaps, he can take advantage of this global draft to put into practice some money-making methods that he has been thinking about for a long time?

For the navy, military spending is arguably the biggest challenge.

The most important reason why the World Government can so easily control a massive naval force with millions of troops and several top-tier combatants is that it controls the economic lifeline of the navy, namely military spending.

As a subordinate agency of the World Government, the Navy does not have its own industries, nor is it permitted to have its own industries.

The military budget, amounting to hundreds of billions of peles annually, awaits disbursement from the world government.

Without military funding, this vast, globally-spanning violent regime will descend into chaos.

If Rorschach wants to gradually free the entire navy from the control of the World Government in the future, then this problem will inevitably need to be addressed.

The gold brought down from the floating islands is only a temporary solution.

Their navy must have its own industry.

Moreover, this industry has to bypass world governments.

Right now, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is presented to Rorschach.

So he quickly gathered his thoughts and looked at Morgans.

"President Morgans, how do you plan to publicize our navy's recruitment drive?"

Morgans was taken aback. "How do you publicize it? It's just... publish the news of the Navy's global recruitment drive on the front page of the newspaper, along with photos of you outstanding new naval recruits."

Perhaps noticing the slight disappointment in Rorschach's eyes, Morgans quickly added, "Also, we'll have our reporters and journalists from around the world publish stories of naval heroism, or cartoons, like the righteous sea hero Sora..."

"Have you ever thought about using video Den Den Mushi (snail phone) projection to place recruitment advertisements in densely populated areas such as kingdom capitals and towns?"

Rorschach interrupted his narration and offered his own advice.

"Use video Den Den Mushi (snail teleportation devices) to project images into crowded places?" Morgans was stunned by Rorschach's suggestion.

Who is he?

Even without Rorschach's experience of living two lives, the world's leading news giant, relying solely on its keen insight into the news industry, immediately recognized the unprecedented and enormous business opportunity contained in Rorschach's brief suggestion.

Yes!

Video Den Den Mushi can be used for projection!

They could easily record a Navy recruitment video using a video denial-shield and then distribute it around the world.

Compared to an advertising format that allows you to hear sounds and see images, a newspaper with only text and pictures seems incredibly simplistic.

Seeing Morgans in shock, seemingly having made countless connections, Rorschach breathed a sigh of relief.

Talking to smart people is so easy.

Morgans was able to complete his subsequent thoughts and even actions simply by mentioning it briefly.

However, in order to create greater benefits for his suggestion, Rorschach continued:

"Think about the huge sensation caused by the world broadcast of the Battle of Marineford, President Morgans."

I think your news agency could completely change this monotonous way of disseminating information, because it's just too inefficient.

Even if your news agency has seagulls that can fly fast to deliver newspapers, the world is so vast and the climate in various places is extremely harsh that sometimes the time it takes for the newspaper to reach people to be several days before or after the news broke.

In that case, can this still be called news? Isn't this clearly old news?

"How many newspapers can a seagull carry? Fifty? One hundred? You sell each newspaper for one hundred Berries, so one hundred newspapers would only amount to ten thousand Berries, and even then, you might not be able to bring them back safely."

Moreover, printing newspapers incurs costs such as labor expenses, the need to set up printing plants, bribe local officials, and pay taxes.

After deducting costs, the writer's fee, and the seagull's loss, how much of the 10,000 pegories would be left?

Seagulls also encounter predators such as birds of prey, and severe weather can also cause them to suffer losses.

However, if you transmit news signals directly through video Den Den Mushi (snail phone), you will not suffer any losses.

You could even sit in the new world, at the news scene, and conduct live news reports on people carrying video Den Den Mushi (snail teleportation devices), which is essentially a global live broadcast.

Time is the most precious form of money.

Rorschach's words made Morgans's bird eyes grow brighter and brighter, and his breathing became rapid.

"If we don't sell newspapers, how will we make money?" Morgans panted heavily, his eyes bloodshot, staring intently at Rorschach with a hungry look, as if he were looking at a stunningly beautiful woman.

Rorschach smiled.

"How do you make money? Morgans, where's your sharp mind, the brain of the head of the news industry?"

His words were extremely blunt, but Morgans didn't mind at all.

He just looked at Luo Xia with an impatient, hungry gaze, like a baby bird waiting to be fed by its parents.

"Tell me quickly, Lieutenant General Rorschach, stop keeping me in suspense."

"I don't have many ideas, and this idea just popped into my head temporarily. Just listen to it for now. I believe that with your keen sense in this area, you will definitely be able to figure out more ways to use it later."

Urged on by Morgans, Rorschach poured out all the immature and chaotic thoughts in his mind.

He certainly didn't have many detailed and mature methods, after all, he hadn't even finished junior high school in his previous life, let alone learned much advanced knowledge about advertising and media.

All he could think of was to view this from the perspective of a more advanced civilization.

"First of all, video den Den Mushi have a signal band. Only when the signals from two locations are on the same band can they connect and transmit video and audio signals."

Therefore, you can set specific frequency band charges for the live video broadcast of Den Den Mushi (a type of electric telephone insect) by your news agency.

Those who want to watch the news must pay on time before they can get a signal.

This fee can be charged by time, daily, monthly, quarterly, or yearly, based on a set amount of Berries. This is called a monthly or yearly subscription system.

"Monthly subscription, yearly subscription?" Morgans's beak gradually widened, as if suddenly, a door to a new world was opening before him.

And Rorschach was the one who helped him open the door.

"At the same time, you can insert advertisements during live news broadcasts and charge fees based on the timing of the advertisements."

Imagine the exposure your ads would bring to businesses and the increased brand awareness of their products when billions of people around the world are watching your news agency's live broadcast at the same time.

With increased exposure, why worry about not selling your products? And once your products are sold, why worry about other businesses coming to you to pay for advertising?

Morgans, let me tell you, those businessmen will be begging you, crying and kneeling, to help them place ads.

"Billions of people?" Morgans' hand holding the teacup trembled violently, spilling tea all over himself, and then he began to shake all over.

"With more ads, you can set up multiple signal bands to play news from different places, but the ads on each band are different, or the number of ads and the time of the ads are different."

For example, Alabasta National News, Dressrosa News, Fishman Island News, etc.

At this point, you can also charge extra to those who purchase the signal band based on the amount of advertising placed.

For example, a clean signal band with fewer ads costs 1000 Berries per month, while one with more ads costs 800 Berries per month. Do you think those who aren't short of money would be willing to pay an extra 200 Berries to eliminate ads?

"Yes, of course. What is two hundred Berries to a rich person?" Morgans himself stopped thinking. His chaotic thoughts were completely being led by Rorschach.

Rorschach laughed and said, "That's right. Two hundred Berries is nothing, but if twenty thousand people, two million people, or two hundred million people all gave you two hundred Berries, and it was two hundred Berries a month, what do you think you would do?"

Morgans swallowed hard, stuck out his tongue and licked the bird's beak, and said in a hoarse voice, "I think I'm going to die a horrible death."

“Uh…” Luo Xia was taken aback by him, then shook his head with a wry smile.

Morgans is right. If he could really make that much money, he would really die, and die a terrible death.

Because that's no longer a business worth hundreds of billions or trillions of pesos a year.

That was a sum of money so enormous that even the well-informed Morgans felt his scalp tingle.

At that terrifying rate of money making, even the world's richest man, Tezzoro, would have to take a backseat.

In that case, would the world government still tolerate him?

The Five Elders will definitely take down Morgans and then get the World Government to take over the business.

"Anything else?" Morgans asked, catching his breath.

Luo Xia sneered, "What? Aren't you afraid of dying?"

"So be it, but before you die, let me hear what better ideas you have, please, Lieutenant General Rorschach." Morgans had a heroic look on his face, as if he were ready to die for his beliefs, which made Rorschach's lips twitch.

Little did Rorschach know the immense turmoil his simple remarks had stirred in Morgans' mind.

Because this is a groundbreaking theory, a revolutionary theory capable of revolutionizing journalism, manufacturing, commerce, and many other industries.

Rorschach didn't think that far ahead; he just wanted to find a good way out for the navy's future military spending.

He continued, "Besides broadcasting news, you can also film various types of Den Den Mushi footage, such as live battles in the arena, desert dances by Alabasta dancers, or large-scale real-life power struggles within the kingdom, and then distribute them through global or regional live streams. This distribution can be done by someone paying a high price to buy the rights, or, as mentioned above, by allowing those who want to watch it to pay to watch it."

"Besides that, you can also do live-streaming e-commerce during your live streams. Live-streaming e-commerce means you help merchants sell their goods and then deliver them to their doorsteps via cargo ships. However, this is quite troublesome. The world is too big, and there are countless pirates at sea, making both collecting money and delivering goods very complicated. Therefore, you can narrow down the scope of your live-streaming e-commerce, such as offering delivery within a specific kingdom for an additional fee. What is delivery? Delivery is..."