Taoist priest, who is so popular in One Piece

At this moment, the atmosphere in the tavern has begun to change.

Everyone began to look forward to what surprising thing Bai Ye would say next.

Of course, except for Luffy who was always eating.

In fact, even in Bai Ye's previous life, many people, when discussing the navy, only brought up its achievements in defeating pirates to refute the argument that the navy was the bad guys.

They have never cared about the biggest purpose of the World Government in establishing a navy.

That is to maintain rule!

Some even think that the Navy has kept the Celestial Dragons in captivity in the Sabaody Archipelago and Marijoa, and that they are completely unable to control anyone else on the sea.

It's just... a bit confusing.

The World Government is the supreme ruler of this ocean, and is then confined to two locations by a subordinate agency.

Is this reasonable?

As for why the Celestial Dragons or the World Government have not appeared in other parts of the world.

Simply because they have a navy.

The Navy will continue to help the Celestial Dragons get whatever they want.

Therefore, when discussing the navy, please be sure to include the World Government, because the navy, after all, does not have absolute autonomy.

So the question is, what do the Celestial Dragons need?

Gold and slaves in heaven!

Isn't the scope of these two things longer-lasting and wider than that of pirates?

Seeing that Coby was speechless, Bai Ye continued to speak.

Let’s talk about heavenly gold first.

Every year, the member states of the World Government have to pay tribute to a portion of their treasures to the Celestial Dragons, the world's nobles, and these 170 member states will deliver the treasures to the Navy's escort ships.

Everyone knows what heavenly gold is.

Isn't it just exploitation of the lower class people? What's the difference between this and pirates robbing money?

Oh no, there is a difference.

The pirates are too stupid and only know how to drain the pond to catch the most fish.

The world government is much smarter. It doesn’t want everything, but it wants it all the time.

If civilians are robbed of their money by pirates, they can at least complain to the navy. But if they are robbed of their money by the World Government, how do you tell the navy?

They are busy transporting your money to the Celestial Dragons.

Let’s talk about slaves!

Honestly, in such a sea with extraordinary power, the World Government has been able to maintain slavery for eight hundred years. I have to give a thumbs up to the Navy.

Of course, many people think that there are only a few talents in Tianlong, and they will not need that many slaves in total, while the pirates have killed so many people.

Therefore, the navy kills pirates and maintains the rule of the world government, which means giving up the interests of some people and protecting the interests of others.

This is something Bai Ye cannot understand.

This is just like the ancient emperors. No matter how powerful the emperor is, a few wives are enough for his lifetime.

But why do we need three thousand beauties in the harem?

Take a certain celestial dragon for example. He might only bring a few slaves with him on a regular basis, but he might have dozens of them kept in his own home.

The Celestial Dragons can’t be unable to even support these people.

Not only that, once the Celestial Dragons got tired of playing with these slaves, they would kill them all.

The Celestial Dragons never lack slaves, and they have countless slaves.

Every day, there are countless slave owners who want to curry favor with the Celestial Dragons. They capture all kinds of slaves from all over the world and provide them for the Celestial Dragons to choose from.

They don't mind having too many slaves, they are just afraid that the Tianlong people won't like them.

What’s more important is that what goes up must come down.

When the world government practices a system that is a mixture of slavery and feudalism, then it will be the same throughout the world.

Do you think that the kings of those allied countries will not learn from the Celestial Dragons to collect high taxes and keep slaves?

In this way, Bai Ye’s entire point of view forms a closed loop.

Because of the high sky gold and slavery, some islands choose to withdraw from the world member state system. In this case, the world government will definitely accuse these places of false charges and send the navy to suppress them.

After all, once the World Government leaves these islands alone, other islands will surely follow suit, and the World Government's system of sucking the blood of the entire ocean to nourish itself will collapse.

At this time, some islands that are capable of resisting the navy will be able to rule the country, while other islands that are unable to resist will be destroyed, and the only way left is to go out to sea.

This time may be the origin of the pirate era.

"No!" Just when Bai Ye said this, Coby suddenly interrupted him.

"Even if what you said is true, why do those guys who go out to sea become pirates?"

"They obviously lost their own homes, why would they destroy others'?"

"They could... they could make a living by fishing, or become adventurers!"

Coby is on the verge of collapse at this time. He believes in the navy, but now he is facing the situation of faith collapse.

"Idiot, you still can't see the facts clearly now?"

Just when Bai Ye was about to speak, Zoro on the side suddenly spoke.

Perhaps thinking of their previous friendship, Zoro decided to completely make Coby give up:

"It's not that they don't want to do it, but the world government doesn't allow it!"

"How could a world government that exercises high-handed rule over the entire ocean allow such a [free] person to exist?"

"Whether you're fishing or an adventurer, you don't have to pay the heavenly gold, and you don't have to worry about becoming a slave one day."

“They are all people who can [freely] decide their own destiny.”

"Once such a person appears on the sea, it will cause great harm to the world..."

Having said this, Zoro suddenly froze and stopped talking. He seemed to have grasped the truth of something.

"Mr. Zoro, you haven't finished yet." At this time, Coby continued to ask.

"That's enough, Coby." But at this moment, Bellemer stepped forward, patted his shoulder and continued what Zoro had not finished saying before: "Fishermen and adventurers all have a symbol that the World Government fears the most."

“That’s freedom.”

"Those guys will only be called pirates by the World Government."

"Because besides freedom, pirates also have the symbols of evil!"

He, who once dominated the town of Shields with the help of Monkawei's reputation, obviously understood this faster than Kebi.

After all, that was how he dealt with Sauron in the first place. When Sauron challenged his rule, he simply imprisoned him and then stigmatized him.

A dignified pirate hunter, but in the mouth of Bellemer, he became a devil passed down by word of mouth.

This made Coby, who didn't know the truth, feel absolute fear of him.

This is the power of public opinion!

Of course, this doesn’t mean that Kobe is stupid, but because of different experiences, there are some things that he is destined to not be able to empathize with.

From a certain perspective, a character like Kobe's is indispensable in troubled times.

At this time, Zoro finally figured out one thing.

Why did Roger start the Great Pirate Era with his death?

"Is that what you are planning?"

Zoro showed an expression of admiration: "What a bastard and a lunatic."

He admired Roger's courage and bravery, but was disappointed with the era he had ushered in.

At the same time, he also set his eyes on Bai Ye and slowly asked, "Is this the reason why you got on board?"

"Well, who knows?" In response to Zoro's question, Bai Ye just shrugged: "After all, it's really hard to find a fool like Luffy in this ocean, hahahaha!"

ps: Today's 6,000-word update has been presented. I will just say a few words next, you can choose not to read it.

First of all, let me talk about these chapters, which I have wanted to write for a long time.

I would like to make it clear in advance that I have no intention of whitewashing pirates or the Straw Hat Pirates, nor do I mean to say that the navy has committed more crimes.

In this book, even for the civilians who are protected by pirates or navy, the navy, like the pirates, are in the camp of evil.

Because they cannot guarantee permanent and absolute protection of civilians.

The most evil thing is the world government.

Secondly, at least in my opinion, the so-called "navy kills all pirates and then establishes a world government" is completely untenable.

Because the Navy has no reason to overthrow the World Government.

The World Government has ruled the world for eight hundred years, and the Navy itself is the second largest vested interest.

Just like those generals and ministers in the last dynasty, was there any one of them thinking about overthrowing the monarchy?

They will only suppress those rebellious people as long as there is no external force that threatens their position.

They won't even implement reforms.

Of course, this does not mean that the Navy is both responsible and independent.

The interests of the navy themselves are tied to those of the world government.

With the help of the name of the World Government, the Navy can claim to be righteous, and with the help of the gold plundered by the World Government, the Navy can possess such unparalleled power.

This is a question of position determining the brain.

Of course, if the world government begins to exploit the navy, the navy may not be able to rise up.

Similarly, in the Navy's view, whether it is heavenly gold or slavery, it is a policy that the World Government has been implementing for 800 years. It should be a part of this world.

Why did they resist?

The Navy's doves and hawks, plus the neutrals.

They are all due to disagreements on how to deal with pirates, and no faction is targeting the World Government.

Not even the doves.

To quote a handsome young man: "Why the hell don't you dare to fight the brigade commander?"

They really don't dare.

Moreover.

Did the pirates really kill all of them?

As long as the oppression of the world government continues, as long as there is injustice in this world, as long as everyone is still divided into different classes.

There will never be a shortage of people going out to sea.

Even think about it, why does the World Government let the Four Emperors go and appoint the Seven Warlords of the Sea? Isn’t it a check and balance strategy of the imperial art?

Next, I will share some personal opinions, which can be regarded as a refutation of some readers' views.

There were a lot of comments asking why I made the protagonist a pirate or something like that.

In fact, the two largest parts of One Piece fan fiction are naval fiction and pirate fiction.

Excluding those articles where the villain is the main character.

There is actually no difference between naval literature and pirate literature.

The main plot of the naval novel: become a navy, defeat small pirates, improve strength and gain reputation, defeat big pirates, improve strength and gain reputation...Kill the world government and achieve world peace.

Have you noticed? This is a pirate story, or to be more precise, the main line of a ship story.

All we need to do is replace the navy above with pirates, and it will be exactly the same, right?

Is there any naval novel that really wants to kill all the pirates before bringing world peace?

Aren't we all going to take down the World Government once we become strong enough?

The magical thing is, if we just take down the World Government, the pirates will truly disappear.

If you say that the protagonist is a pirate, it will attract more people to become pirates.

So if the protagonist of a naval novel serves in the navy and maintains the rule of the world government, wouldn't that encourage more people to go to sea?

You can't just say that the protagonists didn't actually do it...

So I would like to ask readers who only like naval literature not to start a debate with this book.

As for why I didn’t post these in the first chapter, it’s because I was afraid of being scolded, hahaha!