Codex Pirates

Chapter 104 Flowers

What was William standing on the bow thinking?

Psychologist Maslow divided human needs into five levels: physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization needs.

For physiological needs, William now has enough food and clothing, and it means that he has a strong self-control ability. Otherwise, with his current status and power, as long as he waved in the East China Sea, countless opposite sexes would naturally come to him.

For social needs, William has the earnest teaching of his teacher Koshiro, and the support of Ajin and Aramis, a group of partners who share weal and woe.

Respect the needs, William has already played an important role in the East China Sea and has enough social status, the mayor of a small town like Darwell should be careful in front of him.

What William is pursuing and thinking about now is the need for safety and the need for self-actualization.

If it is said that William's disdain for rogue-like pirates at the beginning was due to his habitual thinking in his previous life, now he still maintains this disdain, even aggravated, because he already has a certain understanding of this world.

The pinnacle of this kind of rogue is undoubtedly Roger the Pirate King, but what happened to him?

Judging from the phenomenon after the opening of the Great Pirate Era, there may be another story behind Roger's arrest, or he may even be deliberately captured by the World Government, but after Roger's death, the people related to him were implicated, which is worth William's death. wake up.

William has always paid close attention to the news of sea trains. When he heard about such things in the newspapers for the first time, he knew that it was an epoch-making invention. Therefore, he knew a lot about the designer of sea trains, Murloc Tom. information.

Donghai Daily once made a series of news based on Murloc Tom, introducing his life. It is said that the sales volume is not very good. The natives of the East China Sea, such as Wallon, Edmund, Aramis, etc., are interested in a murloc far away in the capital of seven waters. The shipbuilder was not very interested in understanding, at most he was only slightly interested because of his involvement with One Piece, but after knowing that he was not a crew member, but just a shipbuilder, he lost interest.

But William was different. When he saw that such a great designer and shipbuilder was being manipulated by the world government and squeezed out by the locals because of his involvement with One Piece, many people around the world were implicated because of their connection with One Piece. How could someone like William still have the idea of ​​learning from One Piece and becoming a rogue?

It is impossible for him to accept that people like Ajin, Aramis, Sherlock and even Tony will be squeezed and tossed by the world government at will just because of their involvement with him, even after his death.

What's more, William was also a slave of the nobles of the world, and he even killed a Celestial Dragon. Although the incident has passed for so long and there are no witnesses, this is a hidden danger and a thorn in William's heart.

Moreover, as a modern person, emotionally, it is difficult for him to agree with such a regime as the world government.

The existence of Tianlong people is like maggots to people who have lived in modern society like William. They feel bored even thinking about it, and they can't bear this kind of thing domineering above their heads, and this phenomenon still exists. There are laws and violence to uphold.

Therefore, no matter in terms of background, emotion, or reason, the existence of the world government itself is an obstacle to William, and it is the source of his insecurity, which makes him involuntarily hostile.

William is even more of a fan of power, a greedy and ambitious careerist. His life value is to grab more power and influence. Naturally, it is inevitable that he wants to replace the world government.

It can be said that since William crossed over, there are not many choices. Either be a small person like duckweed in troubled times, who will be affected by the tide of the times one day and die silently, or face difficulties and climb towards the peak. Climb, and you can't retreat, you can only keep going up until you reach the top, otherwise you will fall from a high place and die at any time.

William chose the latter, so smuggling, corrupting the grassroots navy, enacting the Morgan Code, and protecting local villages and towns, all these actions pave the way for the strategy in his heart, but this is not enough.

If you jump out of the limitations of this world and look at the situation in the world as a whole, the navy and the world government are somewhat similar to the regime at the end of the Yuan Dynasty in history, extortionate and extortionate, decadent, but they have relatively strong military power, and pirates from all walks of life are like high-pressure policies There are endless armed rebels from the lower classes, but some are useless, more than 80% are not as good as Liangshan heroes, and they don't even have political ambitions. Liangshan heroes at least have a signboard to stand up for the sky.

From this point of view, the Pirate King Goldo Roger opened the era of great pirates, which indeed gave the pirates headless rebels a goal-although in William's view, they were still in a state of disunity.

But this also gave the world government and the navy the righteousness to unite the hearts of the people. The civilians who were tortured by the pirates who swarmed in the era of the great pirates regained some confidence in this brutal regime.

What William sees in Darwell is one of the ideas that can serve as the political ambition and goal of future powers, and the key to keeping his power from falling into the "rogue" level.

From the perspective of the grassroots, with a political ambition that can unite people's hearts, people who agree with it and aim at it can mobilize their subjective initiative more, endure unbearable hard training for ordinary people, and become stronger people.

From the perspective of the middle and high level, this is also a kind of ideological restraint and shackles. People are social animals. Only those who already have strong strength will be affected by instilling relevant concepts, and they can continue to obey discipline and discipline consciously or unconsciously. Commanding, reunion under the banner, and at the same time, these powerful people with the same ambition are enough to deter those who have different opinions, such as the relationship between the navy and various powerful generals.

If you really want to convince people, you need not only fists, but also thoughts.

Nationalism, nationalism... William doesn't care what the route is. What he cares about is whether it can help him climb to the top of the power pyramid and overthrow the burden on his heart.

From the current point of view, ending this era and pacifying the chaotic world seems to be a good slogan to unite people's hearts. Even if this is not everyone's goal, William will make it everyone's goal, and he will become everyone's hope. The man who did it all!

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The Morgan Pirates had been moored in Black Lagoon for a week, and the residents of the town had always been wary of them. Most of them did not listen to what William said, and returned to live in the town, but hid in the mountains outside the town.

But a few days later, they found that the pirates on the ship did, as William had promised, never go ashore to harass and harm these residents, and only then did some people go home one after another, cleaning and tidying up the wrecked homes.

During this period, William invited the mayor Dawell and several other leading figures in the town to board the boat to discuss future matters and make an agreement.

William will place two retired pirates who are disabled and unable to continue fighting to work at the wharf of Black Reef Town. These two people can not only sell goods for his winery to passenger ships, but also serve as liaison officers. Report the anomaly to William.

The Morgan Pirates will also regularly inspect the surrounding waters of Black Lagoon Town, bringing this town under their own protection.

Correspondingly, the ships of the Morgan Pirates will berth in this town from time to time in the future, and supplies must be provided for them on the shore. William promises to buy them at a fair price, and the town will also pay his pirates a "security tax" every month. ".

The amount of money is very small, far below the psychological expectations of the mayor Dawell and others. What William values ​​is not the money itself, but the ruling meaning behind the tax collection, which will take root in the hearts of the residents of the town.

So when Darwell discussed with the people in the town, for the sake of safety, to honor some property of the Morgan Pirates, William directly refused.

During this process, Dawell and other leading figures in the town have been accompanying carefully, trying their best to meet the requirements of William and a group of pirates, for fear of offending them, and then ransacking the town like other pirates after tearing their faces.

A week later, when they heard that William and others were leaving, they organized the residents of the town to see them off at the pier.

Some pirates were busy on the shore, moving things down from the boat, wrapping them in the pirate flag and putting them on the pier, Darwell took a strange look and asked: "Captain Stolter, this is... .”

"Some supplies," William said calmly, "The town has just been looted, and these things are needed."

Darwell and several leading figures in the small town around him looked at each other after hearing it. After a while, Darwell held William's hand.

"You once said that you and your subordinates are different from other pirates, and I really believe it now," the old man who had always been groveling and flattering said sincerely for the first time: "You won't be a brother. Aldo Roger, because you will be greater than him and become the real pride of Donghai people!"

Several prominent figures in the surrounding town echoed.

In fact, William paid very little. They occupied the ships of the Guy Pirates and obtained a lot of property. The supplies left on the shore were all things that took up a lot of space and were not of high actual value, but when they did all this , with the identity of a pirate on top of it, this kind of contrast left a deeper impression on Darwell and others, and also shocked them even more.

Among the crowd behind Mayor Dawell, Mary and Isa, the proprietresses of the tavern in the town, were also there. Their mother and daughter were lucky to escape from Guy and have been safe until now.

When William and Darwell finished talking and were about to leave, the little girl Isa suddenly ran out of the crowd holding a wild flower picked on the road, and in the eyes of puzzlement, astonishment and worry behind her, He came to William and handed over this ordinary wild flower.

"Thank you for saving us." Isa raised her face, tiptoed hard, and held the flowers high.

Some townspeople showed concern. Even with this week's performance, in their deep-rooted impression, the pirates are still a group of thugs who do all kinds of evil. They are worried that Isa will offend William, the leader of the pirates.

The busy pirates on the shore gradually stopped their work and looked at this scene with complicated eyes.

William looked down at Isa, feeling a little familiar. He scanned the crowd on the opposite side again, and soon found Mary, the proprietress of the tavern, standing in front of the crowd and looking at him with a smile on her face.

William also showed a slight smile. He recognized their mother and daughter, who were the residents he had rescued in the wine cellar in the town.

"You're welcome," William bent down, took the flowers from Isa's hands, carefully pinned them to his chest, and said seriously, "Thank you for the flowers too."

Isa pursed her lips and smiled shyly, her eyes bent into a crescent moon.

William touched her head, turned around and walked towards his own ship, the pirates on the shore started working again, only occasionally looked at the residents of the town, no longer dissatisfied with being suppressed by William, but friendly many.

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Volume 2: Demons of the East China Sea, finished.

Volume 2: Thief who steals the country.

Let your dense rain invade, I only sit in the royal city!