According to the latest intelligence from the Navy, after returning from the Grand Route, the Don Quixote family set up some industries in the North Sea and then set out again, heading for the second half of the Grand Route, a place called the 'New World'.
I don't know what he is busy with, but Lieutenant General Crane of the headquarters is in the process of hunting.
"Old Edward, I remember that Den Den Mushi can communicate with very far places, right?" Li Zhong asked after reading the information.
"Ah? That's right." Old Edward didn't react immediately why Li Zhong asked this.
"That's good." Li Zhong nodded.
If all the industries in the North Sea were destroyed, the Don Quixote family would most likely return to the North Sea no matter what they were busy with in the New World.
Otherwise, they would lose all their reputation and would no longer be able to continue working as pirates.
The Don Quixote family are pirates, but they are more than just pirates. In addition to burning, killing and looting, they also have many "side jobs".
Precious items auctions, devil fruit trades, human trafficking, arms sales, they are a well-known evil party in the underground world that spans multiple fields!
The Don Quixote family has placed most of their assets in the Grand Route: valuables auctions, devil fruit trade, and human trafficking.
Because these things are produced in abundance on the Grand Line, people on the Grand Line can afford them.
In this great pirate era, the strong men from all over the world continued to flow to the Grand Line, and correspondingly, wealth also continued to pour into the Grand Line. After all, the four seas were still a little poorer.
Only the non-raptor weak animal-type fruits that no one wants will be sold around the world for auction.
In the North Sea, the Don Quixote family's main industrial layout is arms.
The reason is also very simple.
Because the North Sea is not as rich and much safer than the Grand Route, the labor cost here is very low!
If the production costs can be reduced, then the profits of Duoflamingo will be much higher.
In addition, the main consumers of arms are either the national wars between non-member countries in the world, which the navy cannot control, or the chaos in the New World.
Local production and local sales can also reduce Don Quijote's transportation costs.
Although the world is poor, it is only the people who are poor, not the king. These big customers who buy arms have money, so Don Quixote's business can continue.
Li Zhong turned to the next wanted poster in his hand.
Don Quixote did intend to destroy the properties he left in the North Sea as 'bait', but this was not his main direction of action.
The most important thing for Li Zhong right now is promotion.
Those who produce arms are just small fry. Dealing with them won't help you get promoted quickly. You can just kill them when you're hunting pirates.
By the time Li Zhonghai has caught most of the pirates and been promoted to captain, Don Quixote should be back soon... Even if he doesn't come back, it doesn't matter. He can try his best. Destroying the illegal military factory is also an achievement.
But it would be great if I could make him remember the grudge and run straight to me.
But when he turned to the second wanted poster, Li Zhong frowned again.
Sotor, leader of the Bolas Pirates, has a bounty of 9000 million.
Li Zhong turned the wanted poster to the previous one.
Donquixote Doflamingo, the leader of the Donquixote family, has a bounty of 3 million.
...Isn't this gap too big?!
When Li Zhong first got the wanted posters, he simply ordered the marines to sort the pirates in the North Sea according to the size of the bounty.
After receiving the wanted order, Li Zhong did not look at it carefully. He did not expect that the number one pirate in the North Sea could have a bounty gap of four times that of the second!
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In response to this, Old Edward said that this was the normal bounty that pirates should have.
A pirate like Doflamingo, with a bounty of several hundred million, should not stay in the North Sea at all. If the Don Quixote family was not special and had arms business, he would never return to the North Sea.
Li Zhong looked at the stack of wanted posters in his hand and flipped through them again.
8000 million, 7500 million, 7400 million...well, they are all small fry worth less than million!
During the time in the Navy branch, Li Zhong has been communicating with Old Edward. Now he knows that the bounty offered by the pirates probably indicates the strength of the other party.
A group of weaklings who are not even worthy of the rank of brigadier general.
"Oh, forget it. No matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat." With a light sigh, Li Zhong, who had memorized all the information in his mind, put the useless wanted order aside.
This time he did not ask old Edward for information.
Since they are all small fry of this level, there is no need to make a special trip.
If you see it on the road, just kill it. If you don’t see it, forget it.
Li Zhong and Old Edward, who were somewhat bored, walked all the way to the warship after finishing their conversation.
That's right, warships.
Since Li Zhong has already joined the navy, wouldn't it be embarrassing to let him ride on the Corpse of the Dog Pirates?
In order to ensure that Li Zhong could travel smoothly without having to worry about trivial matters, old Edward gave Li Zhong his only medium-sized warship as his travel vehicle.
Old Edward used his authority as the highest chief of the branch to appoint Li Zhong, who was only a private of the third class, as the temporary special supreme commander of the ship!
He also crammed nearly half of his branch's naval forces onto this warship, giving Li Zhong a fully staffed team.
It can be said that old Edward has spent all his family fortune this time!
Of course, he did not gain nothing. Old Edward knew that Li Zhong was very powerful and there would be meat to eat if he followed Li Zhong, so he sent so many people over this time to share some soup with everyone.
Although those who wave flags, shout slogans and fart to add to the atmosphere may not necessarily gain military merit, but watching the strong take action and walking with the strong is a kind of gain in itself.
Besides, even if their military achievements are not recorded, their combat experiences will always be recorded. Then, they will have a long list of achievements such as "participated in the suppression of XX pirates" or "participated in the suppression of the OO pirate group". At least it will look good, right?
With this series of records, it will be smoother for these Marines to get promoted in the future.
This does not involve any loss for Li Zhong, it is a win-win situation, so why not do it?
As for an airborne private becoming their top leader, do the Marines have any objections?
They have no opinions!
Even very happy.
After all, Li Zhong did not avoid people when he was practicing before. The marines of this branch knew that this was a strong man who could destroy them all with a wave of his hand!
The seniority system is very serious in the military, but if there is a person whose talent and ability are far beyond those around him, then the old rules will no longer apply to this person.
Because he has the power to overturn the table. If you hold his neck and force him to play according to your rules, he can completely overturn the table and no one will be able to play!
Whenever such a person appears, everyone will accept him as a new member and make him a member of the rules and regulations!
Just like now, Li Zhong walked onto the warship, and all the marines on the ship gathered on the deck, saluted Li Zhong in an orderly and solemn manner.
From this moment on, the words coming out of Li Zhong's mouth will be the 'absolute rules' on this warship!
"Let's go." Li Zhong's tone was flat, but his voice was clearly heard by everyone on the boat.
"Yes, sir!" Nearly a thousand navy officers responded in unison.
The canvas was raised, and this time Li Zhong no longer had to circle left and right to entangle the boat with hair all over it to control it.
Driving, eating, living and traveling, all these chores are taken care of by the Marines.
Li Zhong only needs to do two things: concentrate on practicing, and find the pirates and take action to solve them!
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"Old George, do you feel that?"
"What?" Old George responded instinctively while wiping the long knife in his hand.
He wipes this long knife every morning, noon and evening.
He first wiped it with soft cotton cloth, then patted it with talcum powder to remove dirt, wiped it a second time, and then dripped expensive sword oil on it, spreading it evenly, even more carefully than he had treated his long-deceased wife.
This knife is not an unknown one. It is a "good and sharp knife of fifty craftsmanship" of which there are only fifty in the world. Its name is Shuihu.
Old George spent half his life savings to get it by chance.
As a swordsman, he regards the sword almost as his life.
Anyone who could interrupt him and talk to him while he was concentrating on taking care of the water tiger must be an extraordinary person, otherwise he would have been killed by a single palm strike!
Why not use a knife? Because if the knife is stained with blood during maintenance, wouldn’t all the previous efforts be wasted? !
Seeing that Old George didn't really listen and just gave an instinctive reply without further ado, Captain Leib spoke to his deputy Captain Old George again: "Don't you think the sea has been a little too quiet recently?!"
In fact, Leib also knew that this old swordsman with slightly gray hair hated being disturbed when he was maintaining his sword.
Out of respect for his companions, Leib usually doesn't choose to disturb them at this time.
But he really couldn't sleep tonight and felt uneasy.
He had had this experience twice in his life.
Once when he was a child, the island where he lived was attacked by pirates at night. Most of the town was burned down and countless people were burned to charcoal in their sleep. But he escaped because he was awake.
The second time, one of his men betrayed him and attempted to assassinate him at night, but he escaped because he was awake.
Now, that feeling comes again.
He waited for the first half of the night, called up the crew, and prepared for battle, but nothing happened.
Still unable to sleep or eat, he began to recall whether anything special had happened recently.
But as he recalled, he found that nothing big had happened recently, no, there was something special.
That is, major events rarely happen!
It has been less than ten years since the Great Pirate Era began, and the seas are full of pirates.
Incidents like the massacre of an island should happen frequently, so why are there so few related incidents in the newspapers recently?!
That's why he went to disturb the deputy captain old George who was woken up by him at this time. Because nothing happened, he was bored and started to maintain his sword.
This time, Old George finally gave a positive response: "If you are really worried, let's find a deserted island to stop and lie low for a while."
Captain Leib opened his mouth, but found that there seemed to be nothing else he could do, so he said: "Okay... You are right, I will go find the navigator now."
Captain Leib's intuition was very sharp and did not deceive him. When he found the navigator, before he told the navigator his plan, he asked the navigator to find a deserted island nearby to dock.
The navigator told him the bad news first.
While Captain Leib was looking for the navigator, the navigator had also been looking for his captain, and now the two finally met.
"Captain! A naval ship has been spotted at twelve o'clock!" the navigator shouted in a trembling voice.
That simple sentence seemed to have used up all the energy in his life.
Captain Leib's nose twitched slightly, and he smelled a fishy odor and looked down.
The navigator's pants were soaked. If it weren't for his good eyesight and not having night blindness, he wouldn't have been able to see clearly.
...No, even though the navigator is usually not very courageous, he is also a person who has traveled all over the world with me. How could he show such an ugly behavior just because he encountered a navy warship? !
Captain Leib realized that something was wrong and grabbed the telescope that the navigator had hung around his neck.
Because he used too much force, the rope tied to the telescope was broken, and the navigator staggered.
Captain Leib took the telescope and looked towards twelve o'clock.
Soon, he saw the warship.
Captain Leib was stunned for two seconds.
then……
“I…fuck!!”
He saw a medium-sized warship.
This is no big deal. As a pirate with many years of experience, he has dealt with the navy more than once or twice.
But this time is different.
There were human heads hanging on that warship.
7000 million, 5000 million, 4600 million... 500 million, 200 million, 150 million...
Captain Leib, who had good eyesight, recognized the appearance of those human heads. Those hanging on the warship were all the heads of the well-known pirates in the North Sea!
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