I, a Celestial Dragon!

My men obviously need a large enough space to do something that can get them in the newspapers and attract the attention of young people.

So, I need a batch of eternal pointers!"

"I see!"

The old military man suddenly laughed.

"First you want to get the soldiers in your hands, and then you start to take our territory, right?

Haha, ok ok, I admire you more and more, your style is very close to mine!

But it is difficult for me to agree to your request, because what you are asking me is not a nautical chart, but an eternal compass.

That means what you want is not the relatively stable world, but the Grand Route or even a new world.

After all, you don't need an eternal compass to sail across the seas!"

After he finished speaking, the old military man shook his head in thought and continued.

“I hope that when you start your business, you will try to focus on a relatively stable environment like Sihai.

Relatively speaking, the waters of the Grand Line and the New World are too deep, and I am worried that you cannot grasp them."

"Cough cough..."

Gao Wen quickly coughed twice, interrupting the old military man's words.

“Don’t say that, Senior, please put yourself in my shoes.

My choice is the Grand Route.

From a stability perspective, the Grand Line is where the navy is most densely populated and where CP has the deepest penetration, right?

And in terms of distance, this is also a place closer to you!"

"That's true!"

The old diplomat suddenly nodded and patted the old military man on the shoulder.

"Little Gawain is right. The Grand Line is indeed a great place. Although it is still a little chaotic, it is still under our control.

And it's quite a coincidence, isn't it? He chose the New World, and Gawain chose the Grand Line. Somehow, I'm beginning to look forward to the future, haha!"

While laughing, the old diplomat looked at the other people, and they all nodded in agreement.

The old economic man added with a smile.

“Gawain, I support your decision. The Grand Line can be used as your testing ground.

But first we must emphasize that we will only give you the right to move freely in the Grand Line, but we will not explicitly hand over those lands to you!

As I said before, you are just a celestial dragon, not the king of those lands, do you understand?

Whatever you want to do, don't put yourself completely in opposition to the member states.

Only by boiling a frog in warm water can it die peacefully. In the past seven hundred years, we have always done a good job, increasing the number of member states from the original 280 countries to the current 170.

There are also many new targets like the Dragon Palace Kingdom that joined later.

In short, don't let there be any unrest. Even if there is unrest, it should only be local. Do you think you can do that?"

"Senior, if I say I don't think I can do it, will you believe me?"

"Haha, that's right, your domineering color has already told us what kind of person you are.

Go ahead and do it, as long as no more than 30% of the countries and islands within the Grand Route raise the flag of rebellion at the same time.

Then you won't be limited by us!

As for what kind of power you have mastered, or what kind of influence you possess?

We don't care about that.

Even if you become stronger than us in the future, or even kill us with your own hands.

Then it is still the Celestial Dragons who rule everything, right?"

"Of course!"

Gawain smiled and nodded, then he looked around and continued.

“So, since the seniors have already agreed to my first two plans, I shouldn’t keep the final plan secret.

I want to restart the sea train project, first connecting the islands I have visited with rails and trains, in order to verify the feasibility of the sea train. "

"Oh, that's how it is, no wonder!"

The old military man quickly said with a smile.

"We received a call from Shabaodi Island earlier, saying that a male mermaid was hiding in the bottom of your ship.

The mermaid's name is Dan. After investigation, it was found that he is the younger brother of the fishman Tom. He said that he is the boatman you invited to be in charge of the sea train project.

As for the reason why he hid, he felt that he had offended you before, so he didn't dare to meet you, and thus missed the opportunity to get off the ship...

Fortunately you mentioned this, otherwise I would have thought he was just a liar who sneaked into your ship and was ready to cause trouble.

In order to save your face, I almost ordered CP members to hang him.

After all, I thought you were brought aboard by someone else, and for someone as confident as you, it would be very uncomfortable to make a mistake..."

"this……?"

Listening to the old military man's words, Gao Wen couldn't help but rolled his eyes a little.

Gawain did know about Dan's presence on the boat, but since Dan was hiding so seriously, he just wanted to continue to suppress his temper.

Unexpectedly, this incident caused Mermaid Dan to face life and death.

but……

Gao Wen pursed his lips and took the opportunity to speak.

“Senior, I have specifically left instructions, indicating that I will continue to sail on that ship later.

Even so, my ship still cannot escape your search. Your actions make me sad, seniors!"

"Haha, alright alright, then how can we old guys compensate you for your sadness?"

Upon hearing this, the old military man laughed and stood up.

"How about I give you the knife? Aren't you exercising?

I can give you the knife, but don't ask us for money!

The reason why we don't popularize the sea train is because the fishman Tom and his disciples are not worthy of our trust. Most of the scholars on this sea are not worthy of our trust now!

We have kept the design drawings of the Sea Train, and had intended to test-drive the Sea Train on a large scale after the times had turned a page and the hatred of the previous era had been gradually forgotten.

After all, those automated machines are never controlled by us, but by the creators and maintainers of the machines. We will never let people we don't trust create them!

As for you, whatever, we can trust you.

If you want to do it, then go for it, as long as you are sure they are worthy of your trust!

But don't act like you're aggrieved. We won't buy it. We have no money, absolutely no money.

If you want to expand the sea train, you need far more than tens of trillions of Baileys. No, absolutely no, you can find a way on your own at sea!"

"Haha, you guys saw through me. In that case, I'll do as you say and figure out a solution myself!

But seniors, please do not deduct my share of the pension.

I’m already under a lot of pressure!”

Chapter 84 Don’t come next time

"Good on you, Gao Wen, you're really eyeing our money!"

As soon as Gao Wen finished speaking, the old man took over the conversation with a smile.

“Although we won’t provide you with extra wealth, you can rest assured about the annuity. We won’t deduct anything from you.

All the gold we receive from heaven is always divided into four parts: one part is used for the three armed forces, one part is used for culture, education and intelligence, one part is used to carry out various large-scale projects and provide jobs, and the other part is your annuity.

We must find a way to circulate the confiscated money back to countries around the world. If we cannot collect it, no matter how much wealth there is in this world, it will come to an end sooner or later.

However, if we only carry out various projects, those projects can only provide basic jobs and salaries for ordinary people. They are far from enough to stimulate the consumption trends of the nobles in major member countries around the world.

Therefore, although 99% of the Celestial Dragons living in Marijoa are not as insightful as you and me, their stupidity and debauchery are also worth our use.

Gao Wen, I wonder if you have noticed that, under our deliberate guidance, every Tianlong person living in Mary Joaquim has never had the habit of collecting and accumulating wealth!

They are not like dragons, constantly piling Baileys into the treasure room.

On the contrary, every time they save up a few months of annuity, they will launch a wave of competitive consumption.

It is precisely their competitive spending over the years that has driven the consumption enthusiasm of the vast majority of royal families and aristocrats around the world.

In this way, year after year, until the shopping preferences of us Celestial Dragons become the popular trend in the minds of the nobles of the vast majority of member countries around the world, we can corrupt them while maintaining the basic healthy operation of the world economy.

Use the small commodity market to forge an economic cycle among ordinary people, and then use the arrogance and debauchery of our fellow Tianlong people as a foundation to build a luxury goods market among the rich.

In this way, the world can be plundered by us peacefully for eight hundred years!

Of course, everything is not as simple as I said. If we want to explain it in detail, we may have to talk for hundreds of days and months.

We don’t need to talk that much at the moment.”

The old man said this and nodded slightly to Gao Wen.

Listening to the old economic man's words, Gao Wen smiled knowingly. He could understand what the old man said.

Just like the luxury goods market before Gawain traveled through time, he was not the only one who felt that many of the things that appeared on the market were just to fool fools, right?

But if luxury goods are not sold at such a high price, if luxury goods are not given a high-end enough positioning.

So where should the world's rich go to spend their money?

Let them live like ordinary people, buying high-quality and low-priced goods?

Then they might not be able to spend all the money in their lifetime.

If they can't spend all the money, do you think they will contribute it to the general public?

Don't think about it, that's too outrageous, everyone knows it.

Let them spend their money on luxury goods, at least we can collect high luxury goods transaction taxes to supplement culture, education, politics and social welfare.

As for letting all the rich people invest in projects and thereby provide jobs for society?

Not every rich person likes to struggle, especially those who get rich overnight. If they don’t have high-end markets and expensive goods to match them, they will become like the landlords, burying silver and small yellow croakers in the cellar for hundreds of years!

The same is true in the world of pirates. Gawain certainly knows who the exploiters are in the pirate world.

A celestial dragon like himself is naturally the exploiter at the top level.

But below them, every noble within the member countries of the World Government also possesses the identity of exploiters and huge wealth derived from exploitation.

Next are the big pirates, local gangs and large corporations, as well as the heads of the four naval branches who collude between black and white.

There are so many exploiting classes in this world. What if the Celestial Dragons took all of them to learn from Grandet and hid their money for their enjoyment?

The economic system of the pirate world should have collapsed long ago.

If we put ourselves in their shoes, we will realize that although the pirate world is not a unified world, it even maintains a backward political system of slavery.

But their economic system is more complete than that of the Earth before the time travel.

Here, there is only one currency in the whole world, Bailey!

In some respects, the world of pirates has at least completely unified its weights and measures.

As for the same writing system, at present, there are only two types of writing left in the world of pirates.

One is the universal language used throughout the world, and people all over the world can understand the news in the World Economic News.

The other type is the characters used by the great kingdom and the Kozuki clan, which are engraved on the stone tablets of historical texts.

However, up to now, there are very few people who can understand that kind of writing. After the scholars who are proficient in that kind of writing have completely disappeared, the World Government has completed the feat of unifying the writing system.

Thinking of this, Gao Wen laughed leisurely.

There is very little inheritance left for him in this world.