Chapter 196 Porusalino: The Emergence of a World Where only Pirates Are Injured

It took Princess Otohime and King Neptune a considerable period of time to digest and accept what Polusalino said. Touched by the words, the sleeping little Baixing woke up for a while, but fortunately she fell asleep again immediately.

Seeing that Xiaobai Xing was fast asleep and probably wouldn't wake up suddenly again, Princess Otohime finally spoke:

"Vice Admiral Porusalino, are you talking about this to help us solve the current predicament on Fish-Man Island...and why, as the Vice Admiral of the Navy Headquarters and the highest combat power of the future World Government, will you What are you saying to us? These words should be regarded as betraying the government..."

"The purpose of saying these words is indeed to help you solve the current predicament on Fish-Man Island, but to be more precise, it is to establish a foundation of mutual trust between you and me."

Porusalino smiled and said, "As for betraying the government, don't talk nonsense. I have always been loyal to the government and the navy..."

"Then we will just assume that you are loyal to the government,"

Princess Otohime smiled, and then changed the topic, "But since you said those words before to build a foundation for us to trust each other, it also means that you haven't said anything about the way you can really help our Fish-Man Island solve the problem. Yeah?"

"What Princess You said is absolutely correct. Poseidon, King of the Sea, is indeed an ancient weapon that can destroy the world, but you don't know how to use it, and you can't talk about using it to solve the current problems..."

"And I'm afraid you won't allow us to use it, Lieutenant General Porusalino, right?"

King Neptune interjected.

Porusalino looked at the Great Knight of the Sea with some surprise - to be honest, compared to his wife, Princess Otohime, this King Neptune gave Porusalino a slightly different impression. "Incompetent", I didn't expect that he could grasp his own thoughts so accurately...

(But if you think about it carefully, the alliance between Fishman Island and Whitebeard seems to have been led by King Neptune after the death of Princess Otohime. If you don’t have extraordinary courage, you may not dare to... And in After Wang Lufei and the others landed on the island, the king's performance was also remarkable...)

"Yes, I will not allow you to use the power of the Sea King now. This will seriously destroy the balance of this world," Porusalino said, "But I have also prepared for you a solution to the current predicament of Fish-Man Island. The solution...King Neptune, Your Highness Otohime, do you know a fish-man shipwright named Tom?"

…

For ordinary people in this world, the legendary story of Pirate King Roger and his crew will always be fixed on the day he was executed, or the day he was arrested. But for the World Government and those who know the deeper truth of this world, even if Roger dies, the story of him and his companions is not over.

Whether it is the high-priced bounties placed on former Roger Pirates crew members around the world or the sweeping searches for Roger's possible widow in the South China Sea, it all shows that the world government wants to completely eliminate the evil brought about by Roger and his gang. Determination to influence the future - and driven by this determination, he only built the Oro Jackson for the Roger Pirates, and was not even a member of the Roger Pirates. The world's number one shipbuilder Yu Tom, a man, welcomed the government's judicial ship to his shipyard in the capital of the seven waters in the year 1500 of the Aegean calendar.

The reason is simple - the World Government could only find him at that time as a "criminal" who was related to Roger and was relatively easy to deal with.

And on that day——

"The government's judicial ship is coming!"

"...What is a justice ship?"

“It’s the government’s mobile court!”

"The government's mobile court came to our capital of Seven Waters...to try someone?"

…

Amid the heated discussions among people, Tom the fishman cooperated and was shackled and escorted by dozens of capable sailors to the judicial ship docked at the dock.

"Wait a minute!! Wait a minute!! What crime did Mr. Tom commit!!"

"Mr. Tom! Mr. Tom!! Let him go quickly!!!"

Two and a half-year-old teenagers rushed out from the crowd, looking excited, as if they wanted to step forward to help Tom unlock his shackles. But two tall sailors held them back, preventing them from taking another step forward.

These two half-grown teenagers were Bingshan and Franky who were adopted by Tom. In their hearts, although Tom was a fishman of a different race from them, he was their master and even acted as their father.

"Let me go! Mr. Tom! Mr. Tom!! Give Mr. Tom back to us!!!"

Compared to Frankie who was completely panicked, Bingshan who was with him was relatively calm and didn't say anything, although he was also worried. He was very aware of his master's strange strength that could lift a ship with one hand. And since such a master didn't resist, he must have his own reasons.

Sure enough, Tom, who was walking obediently towards the judicial ship, suddenly stopped and turned to look at his two disciples, his heart full of relief:

"Don't worry, it's okay. Hahahahaha!"

"Mr. Tom...Mr. Tom!!!"

…

In the courtroom of the judicial ship, the judge who represents the justice of the world government stands high above, and the navy lieutenant commander who represents the violence of the world government stands aside.

"Based on the fact that you created the pirate ship Oro Jackson, the pirate ship of Roger, the pirate king of the world who was sentenced to death a few days ago..."

"Originally, it's okay for the boatman to sell the boat to anyone, but the Pirate King is an exception..."

…

Among the crowd watching the trial, Franky, who had mixed feelings in his heart, lowered his head silently, remembering what Tom once said to him and Bingshan:

"There is no such thing as a pirate ship design in the world. Any ship that hangs the skull and crossbones flag is a pirate ship, and any ship that hangs the seagull flag is a navy ship..."

As a master, the meaning of Tom's words was to teach his two disciples to face the ship he built with dignity as boatmen. But today, when Franky thought of these words, he realized something different. s things.

(Mr. Tom is not Roger’s crew member at all, everyone knows it! He just did what a shipman should do, but he is so easily characterized as a criminal of the World Government... This, this is nothing! If the government says you are a pirate, you are a pirate, and if it says you are committing a crime, are you committing a crime? Is there even the slightest bit of truth in this? Isn't this the same as relying on one's own preferences and disregarding the facts? Hang the flag you want to see?!)

(Navy, don’t they say that navy representatives represent justice? But what are these navies doing!)

(Such a government, such a navy, can they really...really represent justice?!)

…

Just as Franky's inner concept of justice was shaken, Fishman Tom received the final judgment against him by the aloof bearded judge:

"...the death penalty! Take the prisoner down!"

"yes!"

The sailors on both sides of Tom got the order, saluted to the judge's bench, and then prepared to escort Tom to the court.

"Okay, let's get down."

"Let's go!"

"...What's wrong? Why don't you leave quickly!"

"Hey! What are you doing!"

The two sailors realized that Tom had no intention of moving, so they pushed his body hard, but he didn't move at all. Not only that, Tom also raised his head, looked directly at the judge without fear, and said loudly:

"I am currently designing a steam outer steamer capable of running on sea tracks..."

"...?"

The judge's face was full of surprise and confusion - he could understand steamships at least, but he couldn't understand what it was like to run on a sea track, and what did he mean by saying this at this time?

The judge's reaction was completely within Tom's expectation. He ignored the two sailors beside him who were almost using their strength to escort him down, and continued loudly:

“If the reason why this island is deserted now is because commercial trade is not smooth, and if the reason for people’s panic is because they are worried that this island may sink to the bottom of the sea at any time—then the opening of the sea train will sooner or later be the salvation of this water city! "

"..."

The judge looked at Tom quietly - although the latter was a criminal in his eyes, the expression on his face did not look like he was lying.

"S-I'm sorry! Let's take him down right now!"

"No, wait a minute."

The judge waved his hand to stop the sailors from continuing, "You mean... sea train?"

"From one island to another, the ship puffs out smoke and sails on the sea track...it can carry people and cargo, and can even carry ships...it is not affected by the weather, and anyone can cross the sea freely..."

"What a foolish dream!"

"The gods of water were all destroyed when they arrived!"

"That's right! And there are Neptunes in the sea!"

…

As soon as Tom finished speaking, before the judge could react, the onlookers laughed out loud - Franky, standing among them, realized for the first time that he actually hated these people who lived together in the Water City so much. , he thought they were extremely noisy and stupid.

People's ridicule was completely within Tom's expectation, so he was not angry at all, but continued to explain calmly: "The offshore track does not need to be fixed, it only needs to float slightly lower on the water, and it will never be affected by waves. In addition, the sea train just uses the track as a road sign to move forward like a rope. In addition, I am also designing to make the friction between the outer wheel and the track make a sound that is disgusting to the fish. In this way, the sea kings will not approach easily. ”

"...can it really be done?"

People are still skeptical.

Tom doesn't care about people's skeptical attitude. Anyway, he knows that he can definitely do it, and now he only needs to explain it to the judge representing the world government:

"As long as Santa Pobla, Puke and Sanfarud are connected, various transactions can proceed smoothly, thereby promoting industrial development..."

"To be honest, the design drawings will be completed soon, but this is not something that ordinary shipbuilders can build!"

The judge has completely believed Tom's words. He who works for the World Government has a clearer understanding of the meaning of Tom's status as the world's number one shipbuilder than ordinary people. In fact, although he just sentenced Tom to He was sentenced to death, but according to the instructions given to him by the top leaders of the World Government, he would also send someone to contact Tom later to see if he could get him to secretly serve the government.

Therefore, the judge immediately asked impatiently: "Can the sea train you mentioned be connected to Judiciary Island?"

"sure!"

Tom's resounding answer made the sailors on the side swallow their saliva nervously and expectantly - although they were not high-level officials of the government or navy, even they could feel what this technology could represent.

Tom's voice became louder and louder:

"Once this technology is completed, if you can freely cross the sea in the future, it will greatly change the transactions between islands in the world! The sea train is the hope of the Seven Rivers City!"

"How many years will it take?"

The judge looked at Tom and asked the key question bluntly.

"ten years!"

Bang! Bang! Bang!

"Then come and see!"

The judge knocked the gavel three times decisively and re-announced the outcome of Tom's trial without any delay. "Tom, the shipbuilder, was sentenced to ten years' probation because he wanted to develop and manufacture sea trains!"

"Oh oh oh!!"

"so amazing!!"

"Great!!"

"Come on Tom!!"

The people changed their attitude again and cheered, as if they were not the ones who thought Tom should be sentenced to death before - only Frankie still had a serious expression on his face.

Ten years of probation is indeed something to be happy about, but what will Mr. Tom do after ten years?

Will the world government put the "flag" they want to see on Master Tom again?

Obviously——Master Tom’s crime was obviously not established from the beginning!

…

Time has come to now——

"So, Lieutenant General Porusalino, what you mean is that our Fishman Island can cooperate with Tom Craftsman and the Seven Waters City to jointly build a water train? In order to offset the debt with the government?"

Princess Otohime murmured, her heartbeat beginning to accelerate uncontrollably.

"That's right, among the murlocs who can freely come and go in the sea, who is more suitable than you to take on the construction work of the sea train? After all, your racial advantage lies here. Just one person is worth at least ten ordinary people. Human workers, right? And many sea areas where it was originally impossible to rely on the strength of human workers to build sea trains can be solved as long as the fishmen join in,"

Porusalino shrugged, "And not only the preliminary construction work, but also the later line maintenance and the security of ordinary passengers, Fish-Man Island can also participate in it... This kind of profit-free and harmless The government will never have any reason or idea to refuse.”

"And through this project, we on Fish-Man Island can speak for ourselves in the whole world and change mankind's inherent impressions and views of us. The people on the island can also gain practical benefits from it!"

King Neptune answered excitedly.

"That's the truth,"

Porusalino smiled and nodded, "And if Fish-Man Island can achieve a win-win situation with the government on these matters, then a considerable number of naval generals, including me, will have enough confidence and reasons to demand the world government. , pushing for new laws on Fishman Island.”

"New laws on Fishman Island?"

King Neptune and Princess Otohime looked at each other and frowned.

"Well, the general content is - unless it is self-defense, all humans who harm murlocs should be punished; similarly, all murlocs who harm humans will also be punished; those who protect them are guilty of the same crime... Of course, these are all Except for pirates and slave traders, they are our absolute targets."

"...If such a law can be implemented and further improved, peace between us fish people and humans will really come!"

"I hope so too~"

"But having said that, Lieutenant General Porusalino, we actually still have a very critical question that we want to get your answer to."

"Um?"

"Why do you want to help us on Fish-Man Island? You even told us so many things... Maybe the navy can also benefit from it, but... you don't seem to be the person who would do such a thing in the rumors. …”

Seeing the same confusion and puzzlement on the faces of Princess Otohime and King Neptune, Porusalino smiled faintly, hiding his merit and fame:

"Why? Maybe it's because I have a close friend named Lao Tie. He wants me to be the light of righteousness after eating the Shining Fruit..."

(I can’t possibly tell you that I am doing all this to prepare for my early retirement, right? Of course, it is also mixed with some personal ethics...)

"..."

Princess Otohime and King Neptune looked at each other again - how did you say that? They didn't understand it, but they were shocked.

ps: 4.6k!

ps: When I spoiled the solution to the dilemma of Fish-Man Island before, I mentioned the Capital of Seven Waters and Alabasta, but now the Capital of Seven Waters has been clarified! It should be easy for everyone to guess what Alabasta represents~

ps: Sea train = If you want to get rich, build roads first! (laughing to death)