The gourmet among pirates

But think about it, if these islands did not have special resources, the Golden Lion would not go to great lengths to snatch them away and move them to the sky.

"But I really didn't expect that some of the Celestial Dragons would be so greedy for money! Because of these veins left by the Golden Lion, some members of the Celestial Dragon families on the Holy Land Mariejoia can't sit still!"

That's right.

Director Carter, who was sent by the World Government, and the adult behind her, obviously hid everything they did at the new address of Rogge Town from the World Government.

After all, if the World Government knew about these mineral veins, they could just be honest and send people to mine them directly. There would be no need to be so secretive.

Their purpose in doing this is nothing more than to destructively exploit and make a lot of money before the world government discovers it.

After thinking about this.

Maureen shook her head speechlessly.

"You want to make some money before leaving, but this cannot delay the construction progress of my base!"

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After returning to the warship.

Mo Lin made a direct call to the office of Navy Marshal Seng Guo.

Report the situation here to Zhan Guo.

As for how the Warring States Marshal will deal with it, that is not Mo Lin's concern.

All Mo Lin needs to know is that in this way, the construction progress of his branch base will definitely speed up.

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In fact.

After receiving Maureen's call.

In the Admiral's office at the Navy Headquarters.

Zhan Guo was much more excited than Morin had imagined.

Gold mines, emerald mines, silver mines, iron mines, ruby ​​mines... there are so many reserves that even the Tianlong people secretly mine them without telling the world government.

The information hidden in this did not need to be explained by Mo Lin, but Warring States was also clear about it.

It can be said that the golden lion smashed Rogge Town, which was originally developed with its geographical advantages, into a large island rich in resources.

If allowed to develop for a hundred or two hundred years, Rogge Town would develop into a country joining the World Government. It would not be surprising at all during the Warring States Period.

After hanging up the phone from Mo Lin, Sengoku said to Crane in the office, Akainu and Aoji who had returned from their mission:

"I believe you all heard the phone call just now, so can you guys give me some advice on how to deal with this matter?"

In the corner of the office, Qingzhi, who was leaning on the sofa, heard this and said lazily: "Since it is a matter of Tianlong people, let Wulaoxing handle it."

Regarding the Tianlong people, Qing Pheasant is too lazy to take a trip into this muddy water.

"Hey, hey, hey, be serious! Didn't you hear that there are a lot of mineral veins in Rogge Town?"

Hearing this, Qingzhi glanced at Warring States in surprise and said jokingly: "So what if there are a large number of mineral veins? Marshal, don't you have any ideas about those mineral veins?"

Originally, Qingzhi just wanted to make a joke, but he didn't expect that Warring States said quietly to him: "Isn't it possible?"

Warring States' words directly shocked everyone in the office.

After a short silence.

He on the side seemed to understand Sengoku's thoughts and said: "I remember a few months ago, when Mo Lin chose to establish the branch in Rogge Town, the World Government seemed to intend to build Rogge Town into a fortress in the East China Sea to attack Those pirates in the East China Sea are trying to go to the Grand Route through the Upside Down Mountain to curb the number of pirates on the Grand Route to a certain extent. If my guess is correct, Sengoku, you must have this idea!"

Warring States nodded: "Yes, if we accept this mission, the entire island of Rogge Town will be directly transformed into a military fortress. At that time, everything on the island will naturally belong to our navy. By then, , even if the World Government regrets, it will not be able to take back Rogge Town again."

Sengoku and He have both said this. Akainu and Aoki who are present will be fools if they don't understand.

"Now that so many mineral veins have been discovered on the island, how could the World Government still agree?" Akainu frowned.

"But the problem is, the world government doesn't know yet!"

Looking at Sengoku who seemed to have made up his mind, He stared at Sengoku and said, "Why are you so concerned about that island this time, Sengoku?"

After taking a look at He, Warring States stood up from his seat, came to the window, looked at the rows of navy recruits being trained in the lower square, and said in a low voice:

"Because I want to expand the army! After Roger's death, for the sake of what he called ONE PIECE, the villains who were blinded by greed rushed to the sea. If the navy does not expand its army, it will be eliminated by the times sooner or later. But expanding the army requires money. The World Government does not want the navy to be too strong and thus out of their control. They do not intend to give us sufficient military funds. I have no choice but to find a way to find the money myself."

Expand the army?

Hearing this, Akainu, as a naval hawk, stood up and said: "In that case, then I will go to the East China Sea."

Looking at Akainu who took the initiative to ask for help, Warring States nodded: "Okay, I will go to the Five Old Stars to implement the ownership rights of Rogge Town as soon as possible. In the meantime, I will trouble Akainu to go there." East China Sea! By the way, Rogge Town seems to have accumulated a 'military expenditure' now, Akainu, please keep an eye on it. Because it depends on whether the fleet directly under your command can be expanded early next year."

After hearing Sengoku's promise, Akainu's eyes lit up and he said with a ferocious smile: "Don't worry, as long as I'm here, no one can take away the military expenditures for the expansion of our navy."

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After handling the matter in Rogge Town.

Molin drove the warship and took time to go to the windless zone and hunted a small sea king.

Small Neptuneoids are only tens of meters in size.

Although it is still a huge monster compared to humans, at least Morin's warship can fully accommodate this pile of meat.

Originally, after Morin processed the Neptune meat, he planned to throw it directly into the icehouse on the warship.

But when he saw Ace, he changed his mind.

For a change of taste...no, to give Ace some exercise.

Maureen specially found a small rocky island and asked Ace to use his fruit-burning ability to roast the sea king.

Chapter 137 The competition begins

Facts have proved that Ace's abilities still need to be trained.

It was the first time that Ace tried to use the Burning Fruit ability to bake food. At first, he couldn't control his heat at all. The pieces of meat divided by Molin were grilled half-cooked, and some of the fire was used. It was violently carbonized and completely charred.

But whether it was half-cooked food or carbonized food, Molin ate all of them without hesitation.

After watching Maureen eat all the roasted meat without saying a word, Ace's eye circles were a little red.

That's not touching.

That was caused by Maureen's beating.

Every time Ace makes a mistake, he will receive Maureen's "love education".

In the words of Maureen: "It is shameful to waste food!"

In order for Ace to better appreciate the effect of his flame control, Maureen generously handed the pieces of blackened meat that Ace had grilled to share with Ace.

Under the threat of Morin's Iron Fist and the shadow of the food he baked, Ace's control over the flames increased rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In just a few days.

Ace can already use a flame to roast a piece of meat and turn it into a qualified piece of barbecue.

Although the half-cooked and even carbonized barbecue made Molin a little tired of eating it, after seeing Ace's progress, Molin was a little relieved.

Very good, my well-intentioned education is not in vain!

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March 1509, 12 in the Haiyuan calendar.

The Grenada Food Competition is on time.

Compared with the last audition, this official competition is much more spectacular.

Of course, it is much more interesting.

Even those chefs who were eliminated before mostly chose to stay and continue to watch the competition, because this is really a rare chef ceremony in ten years.

Most of the fifty participating chefs who were selected from the first round of auditions to participate in the official competition are well-known chefs. Contestants like Mo Lin who were not famous before but still ranked among the top fifty, There are very few, only seven or eight in total.

Before the game started, the host stood on the center stage and loudly announced the rules of the game.

"In order to better demonstrate the level of this competition, this round of competition will be more cruel than the previous round. This time the judges will not only consider the taste of your cooking, but also your production." Scores will be calculated for the knife skills, creativity and even the final presentation during cooking, so contestants, are you ready?"

"Of course, in order to better utilize the cooking skills of each chef. Our competition has specially prepared a hundred kinds of ingredients for each chef. Contestants can select the ingredients you think are suitable according to their own preferences and then cook them."

"After the cooking is completed, our ten judges will taste your dishes one by one and give you scores, and based on the final total score, the thirty finalists will be selected."

"Players whose total score does not reach the top 30 will be eliminated by us in this round. Of course, the eliminated players do not need to be sad. In addition to the cash prize of 500,000 Baileys, our competition will also provide you with The chefs have prepared a set of exquisite gifts for all contestants.”

The rules of the competition had actually been decided in advance, and the host's explanation was more of an explanation to the crowd of tourists outside the arena.

"If there are no problems, then... I announce that the 'Grenada Food Competition' has officially begun!"

Following the host's announcement, fifty chefs took their places, quickly came to the ingredients area, and began to select ingredients.

Although Sai Fang prepared ten portions of each of the hundred kinds of fresh ingredients.

But in the face of fifty chefs who are all watching eagerly, if one person is not careful and moves slowly, his favorite ingredients may be chosen by others.

In addition, in this competition, all three participating dishes must be cooked within four hours.

Time is tight.

So after the competition started, the participating chefs were like restless ants, running back and forth in the area where a hundred different ingredients were placed.

Molin stood in front of the ingredients area and quickly selected the ingredients he needed.

Because he was also a judge for the finals and competitions, the organizer had already "accidentally" told Mo Lin about the 100 ingredients prepared for the competition.

So before the game, Morin roughly decided what ingredients he would prepare.

After selecting the ingredients, Molin quickly returned to the cooking area.

I started preparing my first dish.

Goldfish plays with lotus!

"Goldfish Playing with Lotus" is an ingenious dish made with squid as the main ingredient. The squid is rolled up like a goldfish and plays in the lotus made of eggs, shrimp and green beans. This is where the name of the dish comes from. The knife skills of this dish are exquisite, sour and spicy, the squid is crisp and tender, and the lotus pods are smooth.

After removing the beards from the selected dried squid, alkaline hair, and rinsing it clean, Mo Lin started his swordsmanship performance with swordsmanship at the level of a great swordsman.

Maureen used exquisite knife skills to cut out the scales on the squid, and then processed the shape of the squid again.

Soon, the squid rolls came to life one by one, resembling small goldfish, and were completed by Molin.

After making the goldfish, Maureen cracked the eggs, took out the egg whites, stirred them well, and folded them into the shrimp mixture. Then use a small wine cup to set the shape, put the egg white and shrimp ingredients into the cup, put 5 green beans around it, and put one green bean in the middle. Steam it in a cage for 2 minutes. After forming a lotus pod, put it in a cage to keep warm.

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Because Maureen finished the cooking in advance.

More than three hours later, the ten judges came to Mo Lin.

When Maureen lifted the cover of cooking and presented her first dish in front of ten judges.

Mo Lin introduced: "Before the judges taste it, let me briefly introduce the first dish, Goldfish Playing with Lotus!"

The moment Mo Lin opened the cover, the rising mist seemed to turn into lifelike fish in front of the judges' eyes, happily shuttled under a lotus.

Although the fog dissipated quickly, the scene just now shocked the judges.

hiss!

After the shock, the judge with a goatee said with emotion: "'Goldfish playing with lotus'? Is this the goldfish playing with lotus? It really opened my eyes! After living for so many years, this is the first time I have seen a cloud made of mist. The scene of a goldfish playing with a lotus. If nothing else, just for this creativity, I give you ten points!"

Another judge continued: "What's more? Have you seen the carvings of the goldfish on the plate? They look like swimming fish. Every detail is vivid and lifelike. At first glance, they look like real swimming fish. Plus, The carefully prepared lotus seeds perfectly fit the name of the dish!"

Chapter 138: Beef in the Shadow of Lantern

This is not so much a dish as a work of art with great ornamental value!

"It's breathtaking. With this superb swordsmanship, coupled with the miraculous mist-forming method just now, the young people today are really amazing!"

After sighing for a moment, one of the older judges picked up the chopsticks without any nonsense.

"Knife skills and creativity, I have nothing to say about this dish, so next, let's try the taste of this 'Goldfish Playing with Lotus'!"

"Please!" Molin made an invitation gesture and stepped aside.

As the first judge spoke first, the other nine people followed suit and began to take out a portion of the goldfish and lotus dish to eat.

"This tastes so fresh!"