I, a Celestial Dragon!

Are they children? Why would they ignore each other for so many days just because of a conflict?

You are the f*cking admirals of the navy, and you want to be the admiral of the navy?"

Having said this, Gawain waved to Borsalino who was not far away.

"Borsalino, why don't you become the admiral of the navy?"

"Oh, no, no, no, how about I quit my job and grow flowers for you, sir!

Isn't the Binz scholar on your ship researching optimized planting every day?

I'll help him with my sunshine!"

While joking, Sakaski waved to Borsalino and Kuzan.

He is indeed qualified to wave his hand, because he is the senior of both of them.

Seeing that Gawain used Kizaru to seduce the two of them, Kuzan and Sakaski temporarily put aside their hostility, and instead came together and saluted Gawain.

After the salute, the two of them naturally came to Kizaru's left and right, and sat down across Kizaru without even looking at each other.

As soon as his butt touched the bench, Sakaski couldn't help but say to Gao Wen.

"My lord, after the dejection of that battle, the New World pirates quickly shook off the shadow of failure and gathered around Red-Haired Shanks!

Even Charlotte Lingling's vice-captain followed the red-haired boy!

On the one hand, the Red Hair Pirates are gradually becoming bigger and stronger, and they already have the shadow of the Rocks Pirates!

On the other hand, Blackbeard Teach, who inherited Whitebeard's legacy, is hiding in Beehive Island and developing secretly!

Red Hair and Black Beard, one bright and one dark, are about to regain the strength they lost last year!

We can't just sit back and watch them grow bigger and stronger. We must take the initiative to go out and finally completely defeat everything that's left of them!"

"fart!!!"

Before Sakaski could finish his words, Kuzan slapped his thigh hard.

"In that war, more than 2 million navy soldiers died, 1.3 million were seriously injured, and more than 5 million were slightly injured!

To treat the wounded and to pay pensions to the dead Marines.

The navy is still on loan until now, and the military expenditure every month has to be paid back to Mary Joa!

Under this situation, the entire navy was living on coarse food. Although there was some replenishment in military strength, the navy's combat effectiveness did not increase at all, and most of the recruits had not even stepped out of the training ground!

In this situation, you actually want to lead them to continue fighting?

You want to eradicate the pirates!

You just want to eliminate the navy first!!!"

Chapter 612 It’s better to leave the remaining brave men to chase the poor bandits

As soon as he finished speaking, Kuzan's dissatisfaction was visible to the naked eye, and icicles were extending down from his legs.

If Gawain hadn't been here, there would have been no way Kuzan would have appeared in front of Sakaski.

In the current navy, even Sengoku can't suppress the two of them. Sengoku can't even let them sit together!

If Gawain hadn't woken up and summoned them, Kuzan knew very well that the next time he met Sakaski, it would be a life-and-death battle between the two!

Because Kuzan knew very well that he and Sakaski were both right, neither of them was wrong, and they were equally determined!!!

Only Gawain is an exception, only Gawain!

Thinking of this, Kuzan frowned and looked at Gawain.

Of course, he was not frowning at Gawain, but because Sakaski appeared in his peripheral vision, and that figure made him feel sick!

So he turned sideways, avoiding Sakaski's figure, and then spoke to Gawain.

"Sir, in the past year, the navy has encountered countless problems, whether it's pensions, recruiting new members, cooperating with your anti-corruption campaign, or the assessment of generals and the education issues in the training camp.

In short, the war a year ago destroyed the foundation that the navy had worked hard to develop for nearly thirty years.

In Rocks' era, when the Navy ended its fate of being suppressed by Rocks, we accumulated strength for a full thirty years through steady advancement, which resulted in a complete victory over the pirates.

To say it was comprehensive may be a bit one-sided, because the result of this victory was the disappearance of the navy's foundation.

At this moment, we may actually be qualified to hunt down pirates who have suffered greater losses.

But so what? As long as we always focus on the pursuit, the pirates will continue to come in waves!

Keep chasing and killing, keep wearing away, as we and the pirates become weaker, our control over the grassroots will become lower and lower!

Today, we should cooperate with your actions even more. While you maintain basic public order, we should strive to assist your decisions and try to extend your reach to more distant places!

The sea train now only connects about 40% of the islands in the Grand Route, and only the East China Sea has a part of the sea train track in the four nautical miles.

Let our navy join the Black Bird's territory, expand our territory starting from the grassroots and civilians, work hard to completely bring the Grand Route and the four seas under management, and fundamentally dismantle the soil where pirates were born.

This is what we should do now. This scarred navy must draw strength from constant communication with the grassroots and civilians!

Instead of knowing that we will suffer heavy losses, we still continue to stir up war and repay the civilians who support us with more broken families!

The death of every Marine will lead to greater unrest in grassroots society!

Every broken family will increase the civilians’ dissatisfaction with us!

This is the truth, this is the real world!

And him, humph!

Sir, all he has in his eyes is enemies and hatred. Such a bastard who never takes his soldiers seriously is not worthy of being the next marshal of the army!"

"Damn!!!"

When Kuzan said this, Sakaski finally couldn't help it.

He was holding a cigar, which he had learned to do at some point, and angrily interrupted Gawain and spoke.

"Sir, just because you are afraid of the death of your soldiers, are you going to give up the opportunity to pursue the enemy and let them hide in the corner to lick their wounds and continue to grow stronger?

It is better to use the remaining courage to pursue the enemy rather than to seek fame by imitating the Overlord. Although I don’t know who the Overlord is, this is what you said to us when you were explaining our work to us a year ago, and I have always kept it in my heart!

It is true that our navy suffered countless losses, but don’t forget that it was these losses that led to the enemy’s retreat!

Although the pirates are now just curled up in the New World to lick their wounds, the security in the New World and the Four Seas has indeed improved a lot, but don't forget that the peace and stability we have today are exactly what we exchanged for those sacrifices!

Peace has indeed come, but the enemy has not completely disappeared. While we are pursuing stability, the enemy is also growing stronger in the corner!

He didn't like seeing the scenes of navy casualties, and he was even more reluctant to face the relatives and families of the dead!

But the more lenient we are, what will happen in the future? When we slowly recover and the enemy regroups, the casualties in the next war will be beyond our imagination!

Yes, indeed, the world is the world of the strong, and war is the war of the strong.

But what determines the ownership of the world is never the victorious strong man, but the desire and sacrifice of everyone on the winning side from top to bottom!

If I kill innocent people indiscriminately, huh, then I will go back to Impel Down and go to the sixth floor to fight with the pirates who were captured in the past, so that they won't have an easy time in prison!

But I always have a clear conscience about my decision and everything I have done in the past!

All sacrifices are made only to save us from having to sacrifice. If bloodshed is inevitable, let the blood be shed on our generation who are already scarred!

While the pirates have not yet fully recovered, while the Red Hair Fleet has not yet been fully integrated, and while Red Hair has not yet established a firm foothold and is far from reaching Rocks' level!

Even though we are covered in wounds, we must recruit soldiers from all over the world, let more people with lofty ideals join us, and then use the righteous forces of the world to completely wipe out the existence of the so-called thieves!

Without the biggest enemy, even if there are still conflicts in the world, they will not spread to hundreds of millions of people!

Only a quick victory can minimize losses!

Just like offense is always the best defense!!!"

Having said that, Sakaski stood up and knelt heavily on one knee in front of Gawain.

"My lord, the fate of the world depends on this moment. I sincerely ask for a fight. Even without the help of the navy and the cowards, I can completely suppress and wipe out the remaining pirates!

It's okay not to be a Grand Admiral as long as you allow a few friends from your ship to come along.

I never cared about the position of marshal. The reason I fought for it was just because I wanted to be the one who made the final decision!!!"

At this point, Sakaski lowered his head, silently waiting for Gawain's decision.

At the same time, Kuzan gritted his teeth and came to Sakaski's side and knelt in front of Gawain.

“My Lord, please think twice. The enemy is now imprisoned in the New World, while we have the Four Seas and the Great Route!

If we are ten times stronger, then our enemies are only three times stronger!

With your presence, we are fully capable of operating Sihai and New World as one solid entity!

In this way, our strength and faith will take root and sprout in the four seas and the new world.

As one gains, the other loses. Sooner or later, the pirates who have lost their foundation will be polished away by us in history.

As long as we block the pirates' path connecting the four seas and the New World, as long as we steadily advance our arrangements in the New World, and as long as we are stable enough, we will be fully capable of growing bigger and using our strength to overwhelm others, or even directly solving the pirate problem peacefully!

This is not just my fantasy, but a very likely future, just like a swordsman who is not strong enough will not think of challenging Hawkeye.

As long as we become strong enough, our enemies will eventually lose the desire to be our enemy!

If there is a better way to solve a problem, but you insist on doing it in a way that will incur heavy losses, then it is nothing but greed and stupidity!

As I said, all we paid for was time.

According to him, all we gain is time!

As I said, all we lost was our energy.

According to what he said, we will lose countless lives yearning for justice and the support of the people at the bottom!

After the war, the world has longed for peace. Starting a war again at this moment will only make those who long for peace become our enemies!

We must not act rashly. Although human hearts are invisible, they are closer to the future than victories visible to the naked eye!

My lord, I am nearly forty years old. At this age, I am coveting the position of marshal. I am already the youngest marshal candidate in the history of the navy!

I am already the youngest admiral in the navy. Even if I become the youngest marshal in the navy, it would only make me look unstable!

The reason I desire this position is simply to prevent fools from leading the navy and the world into a worse era!

If I were really greedy, then with my current status, I could even have more wealth and power than the Pirate Emperor!

But I treat those who have been discarded like worn-out shoes, and peace will be more important to me, to civilians all over the world, and to the hearts of everyone who has ever lost something, than power, than money, and even more important than the so-called victory!

Compared with him, I believe I am among the majority!

Please consider my proposal carefully, sir!!!"

At this point, Kuzan had almost said everything that was in his heart.

He and Sakaski knelt on the left and right, silently looking at the ground in front of them, waiting for Gawain's answer.

And Gawain.

Looking at the two people in front of him, he shook his head slowly.

These two guys, one is ice and the other is fire, one is la la and the other is…

cough cough.

In short, these two people are just like the elements in nature, they are completely incompatible.

That's not the point. The point is that they are both right.

For Gawain, although Aokiji's decision was conciliatory, it did make some achievements in winning the hearts of the people. It was more suitable for Gawain to grasp the grassroots people and subtly change the color of the world.

As for Sakaski, although his decision was radical, the outcome of complete victory would be of great help to politics!

Although total victory is just a word, the meaning behind it is far beyond the imagination of normal people.

If Gawain can really get the answer to a complete victory over the pirates as soon as possible, then his personality, which is already on the verge of being deified by the people, will be elevated to a level that is rarely seen in a thousand years. At that time, even if the people are dissatisfied with the warmongering, Gawain, who has gained the upper hand and is admired, can completely rely on his personal charm to resolve all the voices from the people!

For a leader, being right or wrong is not even a choice, because the disagreements that reach the ears of a leader are rarely truly wrong.

So how difficult is it to be a leader?

They must accurately choose the more suitable one in the face of invisible problems, and the prospects brought by each choice will be equally attractive.

If you make the right choice, you will go down in history; if you make the wrong choice, you will be infamous forever.