Pirate Hero Advent

In Aluma, an oasis city in Alabasta, Lynn meets a familiar person, and a familiar thing.

People, referring to the fat uncle with a beer belly - Doto.

In the future, Alabasta fell into civil strife due to Crocodile's conspiracy, and the father of the rebel leader Koza was the uncle Doto.

Doto is one of the ministers of Alabasta. He once led Kosha and a group of Alabasta people to jointly develop an oasis city called Juba.

Later, because of the big incident caused by Crocodile, Juba became a dry city without water. Most of the residents left there with hatred for King Cobra. clean.

He stayed in Yuba, trying to dig the groundwater over and over again, and he was originally fat and turned into a skinny old man.

Even in the face of the big sandstorm caused by Crocodile, Doto stubbornly sticks to the city he opened up by himself, and shouts Jubah cannot be defeated by the desert!

And the key item that triggered this series of events was something Lynn was familiar with:

A contraband banned by the world government—dancing powder, also known as rain-calling powder.

A long time ago, a country without rain invented this green powder, which can produce mist-like smoke floating in the air, producing the so-called artificial rain. The origin of the name is to hope that the people will dance happily because of the rain. celebrate.

But once this powder is used, the neighbors living in the downwind will suffer from drought, and the country that discovered this will break out of war. Since then, the world government has banned the manufacture and possession of this powder.

Crocodile used dancing powder to trigger a large-scale drought in the future, making the people mistakenly think that King Cobra used dancing powder to take away their rainwater, so they hated the king, which led to the civil strife in Alabasta event.

In the incident more than ten years later, the dancing fans acted as props to arouse the hatred of the people of Alabasta.

However, at this time, Uncle Duo Tuo said that this batch of dancing fans is a batch of goods that cannot be missed.

Just when Lynn was wondering, Doto sealed the last batch of sacks containing dancing powder, and greeted everyone:

Come with me. Upstairs is my residence in Aluma. We'll talk about it in detail there.

Afterwards, the guards stood guard nearby, and Lynn, Weiwei, and Icarem went upstairs with Doto.

After telling Doto a general account of their experience, Doto smiled and held out his hand to Lynn.

Mr. Lynn, as the minister of Alabasta, I would like to thank you for your help to Princess Weiwei, and I welcome you to Alabasta—although you came at an inopportune time.

Lynn held Uncle Doto's hand, grinned and said, No, I came just in time!

Doto: ?

Getting along on the ship let Weiwei know that Lynn has such a temper, so she didn't bother with Lynn's words too much, but asked Uncle Doto about Alabasta.

Father, what kind of deal is he going to make with that pirate named [Golden Lion]?

Well, speaking of this...

Dotto pulled the curtains of the room, took out a projection phone bug, and said, Then let's take a look at this. This is a live broadcast by His Majesty the King to the people of the whole country more than 20 days ago.

Live broadcast? Everyone was taken aback.

Doto nodded and explained: About twenty-four days ago, the day Princess Weiwei and you went to sea, those weird walls suddenly fell from the sky and completely blocked the coastline of Alabasta.

At the same time, communications across the country have been disrupted, and we cannot get in touch with the outside world.

I was not in the palace at the time, but it is said that His Majesty the King immediately led the King's army to prepare for the battle.

Afterwards, a huge floating island floated over, and the pirate nicknamed [Golden Lion] descended from the sky, floated in mid-air, and told the king his request.

He wants to make a deal with Alabasta, using 100 million Berry to buy 1,000 tons of dancing powder!

Hearing this, Lynn frowned, turned and asked Icarem beside him, Dancing powder has been listed as a contraband by the world government. Does Alabasta have a recipe for making dancing powder?

Icarem frowned, and said in a low voice: Mr. Lynn, the history of Alabasta is much longer than you think, so... yes, we do know how to make dancing powder.

Lynn thought for a while and asked again: So is this deal fair? I mean the cost.

Icarem replied: In terms of money cost, one ton of dancing powder costs about 90,000 Berry, and one thousand tons is 90 million Berry. According to the price offered by the Golden Lion, we even have 1,000 Berry. Wanberg's surplus, although not much, will not be a loss, but...

I know, Lynn nodded, it's 'time cost'.

Not only that, but also 'labor costs'.

Icarem added: The most troublesome thing about making dancing powder is not its materials, but the extremely complicated manufacturing process of dancing powder, which requires a lot of hands to refine and grind for a long time before it can be made into a finished product. On average, ten It takes about a month for an individual to make one kilogram of dancing powder.

In other words, it takes 10 million people to work together for a month to produce a thousand tons of dancing fans!

Hearing this, Lynn turned his head and looked at Icarem, How many resident labors are there in Alabasta?

Excluding the elderly and children, it's probably the same number. Ikalem replied.

At this point, Lynn has initially understood the purpose of the Golden Lion's blockade of Alabasta:

For a certain purpose, Golden Lion needs a lot of dancing powder, but even if he asks Cobra for the formula of dancing powder, the defects of long production cycle and troublesome production process of dancing powder are unavoidable.

Therefore, if Golden Lion wants to gain a large number of dancing fans in a short period of time, he needs to find a large number of people to help, so he has his eyes on the superpower on this great route - Alabasta.

He wants Alabasta to use the power of the whole country to produce dancing fans for him?

That's right.

Uncle Doto nodded, confirming Lynn's guess, The pirate's strength is too terrifying, enough to completely destroy the entire Alabasta, launching a crusade against him will definitely make the Alabasta side Countless casualties.

And that pirate's purpose is just to buy a large number of dancing fans, and he has no hostility towards the Alabasta Kingdom itself.

So, after much consideration, the king agreed to negotiate a deal with that pirate—on the premise that the negotiation will be conducted under the witness of all the residents of the Kingdom of Alabasta.

This is the live video of the negotiation at that time.

Uncle Duo Tuo turned on the projection phone bug and showed everyone the situation at that time.

It was a negotiation between a king and a pirate.

One side is the great pirate who competed with Roger in the same era and created countless legends——[Golden Lion] Shiji;

On the other side is one of the 20 royal families who founded the world government 800 years ago—the descendant of the Naferutali family and the king of the superpower Alabasta—Nafirutali Cobra.

The momentum of the two sides is equal, and the details of the transaction are being finalized step by step between you and me.

Golden Lion needs the Kingdom of Alabasta to create a large amount of dance fans for him in a short period of time, and he will solve the problems of materials and funds.

And Cobra asked Golden Lion and his flying pirates not to harm anyone in the kingdom of Alabasta, otherwise the deal would be voided, and Alabasta declared war on the flying pirates.

After all, the Kingdom of Alabasta is a member country of the World Government, and the Golden Lion did not want to attract the attention of the World Government before completing its plan, so the two parties quickly finalized the details of the transaction——

The air pirates' blockade against Alabasta lasted for twenty-six days.

Twenty-six days later, in the capital Albana, the Alabasta side handed over 1,000 tons of dancing powder to the Flying Pirates, and the Flying Pirates paid 150 million Berry to the Alabasta side.

After removing the cost of 90 million Berry, the remaining 60 million Berry plus the materials in the treasury will be used to appease the Alabasta civilians affected by this incident.

During the transaction, Alabasta will temporarily cut off contact with the outside world. At the same time, unless they encounter an active attack, members of the Air Pirates are prohibited from harming any ordinary person in Alabasta.

The above is the approximate result of the negotiation.

After the projection was over, Uncle Duo Tuo put away the projection phone bug, and said to Wei Wei: Don't worry too much, Your Royal Highness, the king has his own sense of propriety.

Weiwei nodded, but the worry on her face didn't subside in the slightest.

But Lynn was very curious, Everyone in Alabasta will be forced to participate in this transaction, don't you all disagree?

As Icarem said, in order to produce a thousand tons of dancing powder in twenty-six days, including the time of transportation and loading and unloading, the entire population of Alabasta must be involved.

Wouldn't anyone be unwilling, even to strike?

Doto just smiled and replied:

Mr. Lynn, you're not from Alabasta, so it's normal that you don't know.

His Majesty the King said most often: the country is the people.

Alabasta is a country made up of people, and everyone is a part of the country.

Every Alabasta has a deep love for the land under his feet and a deep love for our country.

Uncle Doto grinned.

So when we want to do something to save our beloved country - we come together and we can do anything.

Hearing this, Lin En was stunned for a moment, and then asked: If Golden Lion unilaterally sabotages the deal, do you just trust him?

Mr. Lynn, you still don't understand what I'm saying.

Doto smiled: For the country we love so much, we come together and we will do anything.

War means death and injury. Everyone in Alabasta, including His Majesty the King, loves peace. We will choose to endure and compromise so that our homeland will not fall into the flames of war, but this does not mean that we are afraid of war.

Although the big pirate's attitude is tough, this is a relatively fair deal after all, and if he wants to unilaterally breach the contract—

Doto smiled and repeated that sentence for the third time:

For the country we love, we come together and we will do anything.