Arkham in the pirate world

Crowe returns to the Arkham Group's office in Water City.

"Mr. Crowe, Mr. French is here!" the office staff said.

"Oh?"

Crowe walked directly to the office on the second floor. Arkham Group and Franky have cooperated not once or twice, so now that Franky is here, if Crowe is not there, the staff will take him to the office to wait.

Franky was lying on the sofa a little bored. When Crowe came in, he didn't get up and said, "Clough, does your company have so many machines to build?"

"Production needs it!"

Crowe responded with a simple sentence and glanced at the design drawings on the table.

"The samples are in the same place," French said.

Naturally, when making a design, you cannot just have drawings, especially for a mechanic with strong hands-on skills like Frankie.

With the raw materials provided by the Arkham Group, Franky will personally test every improved design to ensure the practicality of the design to avoid wasting his efforts.

This is the experience Franky summed up after last year's design drafts were continuously returned.

Of course, this is also a common problem among designers. Every designer is an artist and always pursues the perfection of products, so much so that they ignore practicality and applicability, resulting in some weird gadgets.

Industrial products are not private workshops. What they need is popularity and large quantities, not intensive cultivation, let alone flashy works of art.

To give a simple example, the AK gun has many shortcomings, but it is the most widely circulated gun in the world. The benefits it creates are definitely much greater than those of refined guns in various countries. Why, two words , The skin is solid!

Precision means cost, high cost means high selling price, and high selling price means low circulation. This is very different from the concept of industrialization.

Of course, industrialization does not mean being rough, but it means being refined and meticulous while controlling costs.

Some of the machines that Franky improved before were very artistic, such as the "four legs" on his body.

Franky put his hands in his pockets and walked on the street. He could feel that this city that was once "dead" was changing because of someone. People's faces were filled with smiles again, and this was the fish. Man Tom designed the sea train for its original purpose.

If Tom the Sea Train is the beginning and prelude to saving the Water City, then Espagu's Carrera Shipbuilding Company is the development and midfield based on this.

that guy!

Franky curled his lips. Even though he and Espagu didn't deal with each other, he had to admit that the other party did a great job.

Espagu is really realizing his dream step by step, but what about him?

Walking in this vibrant city, Franky suddenly felt a little strange and lonely.

The land of flowers.

"CP9 is targeting Espagu?" Liszt looked at Crowe's routine report faxed by the phone bug, which mentioned the pigeon man Lu Qi and the long-nosed man Kaku.

"The person behind Water City is suspected to be one of the Five Old Stars!"

Liszt narrowed his eyes slightly. For more than a year, Crowe's mission in the Water City was to find out who was behind Espagu.

Espagu's change in attitude toward Liszt can be divided into three stages: initial welcome, then hesitation, and then determination.

It is impossible for no one to do anything behind his back and support him.

Think about it carefully, what is CP9?

Cipher Pol, the secret intelligence agency directly under the World Government, is the agency second only to the sequence "0"!

What's more, with Spandam's IQ and arrogant attitude, if he had no other worries and only dealt with one Espagu, did he really need to send four CP9 elites to lurk for five years to get the "Pluto" blueprint?

Lister did not deny Espagu's ability.

But no matter how powerful he is in the Water City, no matter how outstanding his abilities are, a despicable person like Spandam will always find ways to use evil tactics to deal with him, just like he did with Tom the fishman.

So why did Spangdam become patient all of a sudden and was willing to wait five years? Has he become a good person?

impossible!

There is only one possibility. The cooperation between Espagu and the World Government is supported by some powerful people, so that Spangdam is afraid of it.

When Lucci and his gang are causing trouble in the Water City and their identities are completely exposed to Espagu, according to CP9's solution, they should kill him directly to avoid smearing the world government, right?

But after the battle on Judiciary Island, Espagu can still firmly hold the position of mayor of the Water City. Will there be no one behind him?

"With the steam engine and sea train technology in hand, Espagu's resistance, and the intervention of the World Government and CP9, Carrera Shipbuilding Company suddenly became useless!"

Lister frowned. His original intention was to use Carrera Shipbuilding Company as a springboard to expand towards the Grand Line.

Now it seems that he took it for granted. The human heart is the hardest thing to grasp.

Espagu is not lacking in ambition and ability. His original willingness to accept his own capital injection to pursue the development of the company means that with a larger platform, he will also leave Liszt behind and let the company go further.

Should we cooperate with the world government or Liszt?

Any fool would choose, right?

A failed investment!

"Let's liquidate!"

Lister made a decision. Now his share of Carrera Shipbuilding Company has been diluted, leaving only about 25%. If he continues to wait and see, Espagu has many ways to kick him out. Rather than being kicked out, it is better to take the initiative. separate.

After receiving Liszt's order, Crowe immediately met with Espagu. After friendly negotiations between the two parties, Espagu took back all the shares in Liszt's hands for 50 billion beli, and re-signed steam engines and sea trains. According to the purchase terms of other technologies, Arkham Group will have the right to develop and use these technologies.

Espagu was a little confused about the following terms, but signed his name anyway.

The peaceful separation of Carrera Shipbuilding Company and Arkham Group was considered a big news in the summer of 1517 on the Hainan calendar.

The World Economic News newspaper also published a column about this, showing readers the whole story of this "50 billion breakup" incident through interviews with both parties.

The columnist praised Lister, thinking that he had the foresight to exchange 15 billion Baileys for 50 billion Baileys in just three years, which is simply a model of investment!

Is Liszt profitable with this investment?

earn!

While exchanging 15 billion for 50 billion, with the help of Carrera Shipbuilding Company, we trained a group of outstanding young shipwrights, developed our own shipyard, obtained the right to develop and use steam engines and sea train technology, and launched the Arkham Group. reputation.

For ordinary people, it’s a huge amount of money!

But for Lister, this investment was a failure. If Espagu hadn't successfully used the power of the World Government to kick him out of the game, he would have made more!

"If the chapter is wrong, click here to report"