Moria the Pirate.

After reading the detailed information about the Capital of Seven Waters, Moria lay on the chair and thought carefully.

The City of Seven Waters, as the place with the most developed shipbuilding industry in the pirate world, naturally has its own division of power.

These shipyards are roughly divided into three categories: The first category is the shipyard with a long history in the Seven Rivers City. It is the largest, has superb technology and craftsmanship, and has the greatest influence.Among them, the most representative one is Tom Studio, which is currently under surveillance.

The second category is the shipyards supported by the World Government and the Navy. After seeing the development of the shipbuilding industry in the City of Seven Waters, the World Government naturally does not want to let it go. The Navy also follows suit and has a number of shipyards in the City of Seven Waters. , can be said to be the officially designated shipyard.

However, in recent years, with the advancement of world government and naval technology, the shipbuilding technology and design of the Seven Waters City have become disdainful to the world government and navy.At the same time, in order to ensure that the technology is not leaked, the Navy has moved the shipyard and no longer needs Seven Waters Road to provide warships.

Without orders from the navy and support from the world government, these official shipyards quickly declined.After all, the navy has developed warships that can sail in windless zones, and the government has also made significant scientific research progress. Naturally, it will no longer focus on these shipyards, which have long lost their value.

The third category is like Moria. With the withdrawal of official forces, apart from a part of the remaining space in the Capital of Seven Waters being swallowed up by local shipyards, the rest is occupied by these foreign shipyards. occupied.However, most of them are small shipyards, and entities like Moria can be said to be top-notch.

It can be said that apart from its name, the current City of Seven Waters has actually been going downhill.

With the advancement and diffusion of shipbuilding technology, whether in the four seas, the Great Line, or the New World, the shipbuilding industry has already blossomed everywhere. The Capital of Seven Waters is no longer a must-visit place for people. Technical aspects The gap is not that far away.

Therefore, the entire shipbuilding industry in the Seven Rivers Capital has entered a period of decline. Except for those shipyards with a long history that are still persisting, many shipwrights have chosen to find another way out.

This is why the world government and navy will withdraw from all shipyards and change hands, because the profits are really too little.Every year, the number of shipbuilding orders received by the Seven Waters Capital continues to decrease, which means that more shipyards have emerged in other parts of the world.

Just like Moria himself, he built a shipyard in the Magic Triangle and recruited many outstanding craftsmen to build ships specifically for his own pirate ships.

Nowadays, there are only a few shipyards in the hands of relatively large forces. After all, leaving the ships to others to build is still not as reliable as building them yourself. At the same time, it also reduces the cost.

In short, the Seven Rivers City is no longer so attractive to people. There are more shipyards now, so you don’t have to come to the Seven Waters City!

This is an unavoidable trend. Even if the iceberg integrates the shipyards of the entire Seven Waters City, it will not change the fact that the Seven Waters City is declining.

However, this allowed Moria to see an opportunity.

The opportunity to integrate the Seven Waters Capital and turn this place into your own sphere of influence.

In the original work, Iceberg can do it, and naturally, Moria can do it better than Iceberg.

Although this place is too close to the World Government's Judiciary Island, it doesn't matter, as long as one's purpose is achieved.

Roger ushered in the age of great pirates, and countless people rushed to the sea in search of legendary treasures.However, people's ships still haven't changed much, and they still rely on the wind to travel.

Since Moria is going to launch a vigorous industrial revolution, let the world government see the power of capital.

So, as one of the most representative products of the Industrial Revolution, the birth of the steamship is naturally essential, especially in this world where ships are the main means of transportation.

Although the emergence of steamships cannot completely make wind-powered sailing ships disappear from the stage of history. After all, the weather conditions in the pirate world are very bad, and all kinds of strange phenomena may occur. In some places, wind-powered sailing ships are more useful than steam ships. Some.

However, even so, the emergence of ships will be an epoch-making progress, and the navigation level of the entire pirate world will be greatly improved.As a result, social changes will advance rapidly, and the entire pirate world will face unprecedented changes. It will also be a time for the world to be reshuffled.

This is an opportunity, and Moria must seize it tightly.

Therefore, under Moria's instruction, Moria's men began to purchase a large number of existing shipyards in the Seven Waters Capital, hoping to integrate the shipbuilding resources of the entire Seven Waters Capital.

As of now, Moria has 28 shipyards in his hands, which can be considered a considerable number for the Seven Waters Capital, which has 132 shipyards.

However, Moria was not satisfied with this result, because all the shipyards he had were small and medium-sized shipyards, and there was not a single large shipyard.

You must know that more than [-]% of the shipbuilding industry in the Seven Rivers City is firmly controlled by those large shipyards, and the remaining [-]% ​​is divided up by these small and medium-sized shipyards. Even Moria Acquiring all the small shipyards will not have any effect. If you want to control the Seven Waters City, you must attack the large shipyards.

But unfortunately, until now, there has been no progress.

After all, the City of Seven Waters is a place where the World Government directly intervenes in its management.

Only after coming to the pirate world did Moria understand the world government management model.

In the entire pirate world, in addition to the countries that are affiliated with the World Government, there are also many non-governmental affiliated countries and places that cannot be managed by the World Government. For example, the current New World is basically divided up by pirates.

As for the places it rules, the world government basically ignores them and basically adopts the method of autonomy. For the franchised countries, they only need to pay "heavenly gold" regularly. Regarding the governance of the country, it is entirely an internal matter. , Unless it is a super major event, the world government will not easily intervene.

Of course, in addition to the countries that are members of the World Government, there are also places like the Seven Waters Capital and the Chambord Islands that are directly under the government's jurisdiction, but they all adopt an autonomous approach and elect mayors for management.

However, in terms of fiscal revenue, in such a prosperous place, the world government sends special officials to collect taxes, which is equivalent to another kind of "heavenly gold".

In the Capital of Seven Waters, there are naturally officials sent by the World Government to collect taxes, but usually, as long as all taxes are paid, they will not interfere with who is the mayor or how to govern.

But this does not mean that the world government will do nothing and will still take care of what should be taken care of.Anyway, Moria has received a warning from the World Government and cannot act recklessly.