I, a Celestial Dragon!

As for the deal between Dover and Kaido, haha...

Just cut it off!

Even if it could make us a lot of extra money, I don't have the consciousness to enhance the strength of the pirates!"

After he finished speaking, Gawain glanced at Dover from a distance, and Dover waved his hand nonchalantly.

At the same time, Lu Qimeng half-knelt in front of Gawain and said "Yes, sir" heavily.

After Lucci received the order, Gawain couldn't help but fall into deep thought, because the most important business under Dover was not arms, but human trafficking!

While gently rubbing his forehead with his right hand, Gao Wen couldn't help but sigh.

According to the intelligence he had obtained in the past about Dover's subordinates, to what extent did Dover engage in human trafficking?

It is so big that every human trafficking base in the world has a close connection with Dover!

Either Dover directly controls it, or it pays a fixed fee to Dover…

Speaking in such general terms may sound a bit dry, so let's talk about it with data.

In the world of One Piece, more than 140,000 lives are sold every day!

Please note that it is not 140,000 per year, but 140,000 per day!

Among them, most of the slaves trafficked came from villages around the country that were displaced due to pirate activities and attacks by the World Government.

At every moment, a considerable number of villages on the four seas are destroyed by one horrible creature after another without the world knowing anything about it.

Let me give you an example. This example must be One Piece.

In the original plot of One Piece, after Luffy released the prisoners in Impel Down, a large number of relatively more vicious pirates returned to the sea.

Among them, the strongest is naturally Barrett, who is imprisoned in the sixth floor of Impel Down.

And what did Barrett do? Not long after he came out, he planned the Raftel Eternal Pointer Project with his collaborators.

As soon as this plan came out, the island where he implemented the plan immediately became another tragic place where residents had to be displaced!

The vast majority of the new generation of slaves on the sea came from this large-scale relocation event.

Because in the world of pirates, although the technology is advanced, the people's livelihood is extremely low, it is too easy for slave traders to tamper with large-scale population migration events!

In addition to Barrett's actions, Zephyr's actions are also involved. In the original plot, Zephyr's attempt to use explosive rocks to destroy the world caused the Shuge Island to become a dead place, and also caused countless refugees to flee in panic!

Please note that not every refugee captured by slave traders is eligible to appear at the auction!

When they were not released from prison, the number of destroyed islands would have been less at best.

When we watch the anime and see the auction scene of Shampoo, we can't help but feel that there are only so many people being auctioned.

There are more than ten or twenty people on stage in a group. Even if they take turns in one night, there may not be twenty groups, right?

But in fact, the auction house in Shampoo is the most high-end auction house in the world!

Because this auction house is almost the only auction house in the world that regularly welcomes Celestial Dragon customers!

The slaves that can appear in this auction house are all the best among the slaves. If the goods are not good enough, the Celestial Dragons will really kill the entire family of the auction house manager.

In short, Mr. Rayleigh can regularly appear in this auction lineup, which can be considered quite capable...

Ahem, let’s get off topic. Rayleigh cannot represent all slaves.

In addition to the official auction house in Shampoo, slaves are being sold all over the world at all times!

Gangs need to buy slaves to work and act as thugs, wealthy people need to buy slaves to work as workers, and nobles need to buy slaves to maintain their luxurious lives.

Even ordinary people who made a fortune or saved up a piece of land and a house would mostly buy one or two slaves they liked to serve as housekeepers or assist in work.

In short, some darkness will never be clearly drawn into comics. All we need to know is that there is a saying that goes “what goes up must come down”!

When rulers all over the world were vigorously promoting the culture of slavery, it was reasonable that the slave market in the pirate world was more exaggerated than that of the United States at that time.

Just like the old American movies we often see, perhaps in a rural open space in a village, roaming slave traders would start slave trading again and again.

This guy looks okay, five thousand Baileys.

That guy looks good, 10,000 Baileys.

There are even some with hundreds of Baileys.

There are many examples like this. Population is one of the popular commodities in this world, and the pirate world is just so dark...

Thinking of this, Gao Wen let out a long breath, then pointed at the back of the chair with his finger and shook his head.

“I cannot leave this question of slavery to my lips to decide lightly!

After all, the number of people involved is so huge that it shocks me!"

After he finished speaking, Gao Wen pursed his lips with a serious expression and rubbed his forehead.

There was one thing he didn't say, which was...

He couldn't even make the decision to abolish the slave markets now!

Even in the United States in the past, a bill on whether to allow slavery triggered the famous Civil War.

A country fought a vigorous civil war before the final outcome was finally decided.

At this moment, although Gawain had gathered many powerful people around him, his forces could barely resist for a while even if facing all the pirates and all known navies.

But in the final analysis, Gawain's influence on the entire ocean is too small!

What's more, what he can decide is only the slave sales system that Dover has created in the past few years. He is not one of the Five Elders and cannot represent the world government. He cannot order people all over the world to abandon the slave culture.

Even if Gawain forcefully stopped the slave system under Dover, it could not stop people's desire to buy slaves.

Where there is demand, there is a market. If Dover does not enter this market, then it will be torn off bit by bit by others and taken over by themselves!

In a previous One Piece comic, Dover once said something that was considered bragging by many viewers.

He said that if he was really arrested and imprisoned, the whole world would be in turmoil!

In the comics, few people feel that the world is in turmoil, because the comic world revolves around Luffy and his crew.

In Luffy's world, he couldn't see what happened in Dover's arrest order world.

The fact is, after Dover's arrest, the slave market around the world will have to be reshuffled!

It was a large-scale operation involving global gangs, and an economic war that could put countless villages in trouble.

Many people are puzzled as to why the Golden Emperor, Dover, or the World Economic News are controlled by him.

None of them has monster-level strength, and they tremble when they see the Four Emperors.

But they just have an inexplicable self-confidence!

In fact, the status and identity of these three people are equivalent to the national bank, the national stock exchange and all news agencies in the country.

What if these three industries all went bankrupt and disappeared overnight?

So, do you think that this country will experience unimaginable turmoil?

Because of this, their self-confidence can be understood!

Because in this comic-based world, Luffy's story is a story of dreams, but the story of people like Dover is the naked reality!

Reality is much heavier than dreams.

Thinking of this, Gawain's lips turned a little pale. Beside him, Rayleigh thought for a moment, then raised his hand and patted Gawain's arm.

"Hey, Captain, don't think about that.

Do you think we are just pirates, marines, and little kids who want to play pirates?

To be honest, I have had a very deep understanding of the slave industry.

Although I am always sold, believe me, only by being sold can you understand more.

I'm often too lazy to read the information that Shaqi and Kalifa handed you, but I can guess what you learned from it.

You look like this now, don't you?

Dover's slave market is difficult to handle?"

“Flick, flutter, flutter!!!”

The moment Rayleigh finished speaking, without waiting for Gawain's response, Dover started laughing.

While laughing, he spread his hands arrogantly and said.

"The legendary Pluto Rayleigh is, after all, just a legendary sailor and pirate. How can you understand what is hidden behind the word 'market'?

Any industry that can be mentioned with the word "market", whether it is the entertainment market, industrial market, food market, building materials market, etc.

The existence of every market is an integral part of today's society and a basic piece of the puzzle for maintaining social stability!

As for the slave market that I control, Fufu, you don't want to ban that kind of thing all at once, do you?

Tsk, tsk, you want me to laugh at your kindness, guys?"

Having said that, Dover raised his right hand, but halfway through he suddenly felt pain, so he had to switch to his left hand.

As his left hand slid in the air, countless lines appeared out of thin air, then intertwined and entangled in the air to form a complete market structure map.

Pointing at the line pattern, Dover continued with a sneer.

“Once my slave market is abolished, the demand gap caused by this act will cause dissatisfaction among family members from the king and nobles to the petty bourgeoisie on the street.

The world is changing and shifting. Every day, different families change from slaves to commoners, from commoners to petty bourgeoisie, from petty bourgeoisie to wealthy people, from wealthy people to aristocrats, and from aristocrats back to commoners or even into slaves.

Just like the flow of water, as long as everything flows in a world with the concept of slavery, the forceful cutting off of the water circulation will only lead to polarization between the upstream and downstream, that is, floods in the upstream and droughts in the downstream.

Such a result is nothing more than a dam bursting, and both upstream and downstream markets will be impacted!

As for my slave market, even I know that everyone who does this business will be called a damn bastard by you!

But I must explain to them that they also have families and they also need this industry to maintain their income!

If you really hate slave traders, then just make sure the concept of slavery is eradicated from the entire world!

If there is no concept of slavery, then what they do is simply a crime and goes against the trend of society!

As for now, even the World Government and Marijoa are taking the lead in slavery. In this environment, my people may be bastards, but they just have no conscience!

They only violate morality, but not purely illegal!!!

Of course, some of them would certainly break the rules and expand the scope of slave collection from the stipulated... children who have lost their parents to children from good families.

There are also people who, when they cannot find a place to live and cannot make a living to sell their goods, will reach out to some peaceful families!

That kind of behavior is a crime, but punishing crimes is the job of the Five Elders and the Navy. What does it have to do with me?

the most important is……

Did you know that the slave industry not only feeds slave traders, but also the vast majority of ordinary slaves!

Unlike people like you, Rayleigh, who often sneak into my auction house to make extra money, most of the slaves who appear in small places come to us on their own to sell their children, even their wives and themselves!"

Having said that, Dover looked at Gawain coldly. He stared into Gawain's eyes and spoke word by word.

“Gawain, you don’t really want to give up my slave market completely!

You can revise that market, you can add more rules and more perfect execution methods for it!

But once you give up completely, not to mention the slave traders who will aspire to get promoted in the future, just the slaves who will be waiting to be sold every day!

There is no market for me to feed them, and no families who buy them to feed them.

How can you expect countries around the world to create an environment and resources to support slaves out of thin air? ! !

Many of the people I trafficked were indeed poor and innocent.

But apart from those, many more people have lost their families and their futures. Without the support of the slave traders who make money from them, they can’t even have a full meal, and are destined to starve to death!!!"

Having said that, Dover stood up excitedly. He no longer looked at Gawain, but at everyone around him.

As he watched, he slammed the table angrily and said.

"I've never had a chance to learn any bullshit in my life!

All I know is that if you want to ban slavery, wait until you actually rule the world before doing it!

If you are in the position and do the job, but you have not reached that level but make decisions at that level.

That kind of decision would surely be irresponsible!"

After saying that, Mingge looked down at Gawain, and spoke to him in the most serious tone he had ever used.