Codex Pirates

Chapter Two Hundred and Fiftieth Replaces

Harden stared at the golden lion Shiji with his red eyes: "What did you say? What do you want to do to Donghai?"

"I said, the East China Sea that you are so proud of will soon cease to exist." The golden lion Shiji sneered and revealed his plan to destroy the East China Sea.

Golden Lion Shiji never thought of concealing this plan. Almost everyone on Melville Island knew about it. "sea" is the East China Sea.

Inexplicably, Harden recalled the scene of Kebi holding his signed book tightly in his arms. He looked at the golden lion Shiji with a ferocious expression: "You are dreaming, and William will definitely stop you."

Harden looked at Crowe again: "You bastard, he wants to destroy Donghai, didn't you hear? You are indifferent? Are you willing to be a dog for him!?"

The golden lion Shiji grinned, as if he was very satisfied with Harden's performance. He turned his head and glanced at Crowe, who was indifferent to Harden's scolding, and looked at Harden again: "Crowe is smarter than you, you think you are Are you trying your best to protect your hometown? In fact, he is the one who does what he can for his hometown, and he told me what you said about the pirate kid named Morgan William. "

The Golden Lion Shiji took a deep breath of his cigar, and commented condescendingly: "I can only say that this brat has a bit of a brain, compared to the waste that flocks to the sea in this shitty era, he has some scheming and artifice, unfortunately, still Can't stop the real big pirate."

"If you want to save Donghai, then become my companion. Isn't it a matter of course not to take action against your companion's hometown?" Golden Lion Shiji finally talked about his real purpose of coming to Harden at this time, " Crowe said, you are the deputy of that Morgan William, and you have unparalleled prestige in the gang, so I spare your life, you join my team, if that William is a person who doesn't know the time, wait for me to get rid of it He, you will be the overlord of the East China Sea, and you will stand up for me, gather people, and take charge of the East China Sea, how about saying one thing in the East China Sea?"

Harden's bloodshot eyes first looked at Shiji, the golden lion, and then at Crowe, who was pushing his glasses subconsciously, and finally lowered his head without saying a word.

"I don't know how to live or die!" Seeing Harden's recalcitrant look, Golden Lion Shiji spat coldly, turned and left.

Crowe followed behind the golden lion Shiji, and looked back before leaving. It happened that Harden also raised his head and gave him a complicated look.

Under William, there is no deputy or number two person. This point may not be clear to outsiders, but high-level executives such as Harden and Crowe are well aware of it.

Indeed, Strictly speaking, Harden can be regarded as William's veteran in the pirate group, but he can only be regarded as the deputy of William's pirate forces. team members.

There are many forces under William's banner, including the Four Seas Trading Company, the Gold Flash Bank, the Guards, the Militia, the Attendant's Office, the Staff Department, the National Security Bureau, the Fifth Business Office..., and even the Weapons Research and Development Department has a unit specially set up for poison gas warfare.

A group of high-level executives including Harden and Crowe dare not say that without William, they can integrate so many organizations. Who can let Sherlock continue to run the place with no complaints or regrets? Plan for yourself? Who can make Dan Bier, who is extremely smart and arrogant, bow his head? Who can command the ruthless Ah Jin again? Who can overwhelm the equally rebellious Edmond?

Harden was not stupid. Hearing what Golden Lion Shiji said just now, someone had exaggerated his role in Golden Lion Shiji's ear, thus preventing Golden Lion Shiji from making up his mind to kill him immediately.

This person is probably Crowe.

It's just that Harden doesn't know how to respond to Crowe's help, and he doesn't know what Crowe wants to do. Is he a spy? Or was it simply out of compassion?

Among William's subordinates, Sherlock, Dampier, and Crowe have the most outstanding minds. Shylock makes money by doing business. In addition to researching and developing weapons for William, Dampier also advises on grand strategies, picking up what's left and making up for it. He is good at playing those conspiracies and tricks. The National Security Agency has grown from scratch in his hands and has developed steadily. It even made many high-level officials under William feel uncomfortable and fearful of the existence of him and the Security Bureau.

Harden couldn't figure out what such a person was thinking, so he could only say nothing.

...

On the other side, Shiji, the golden lion, took Crowe out of the cell and went to the laboratory.

The reason why Shiji has so much trust in Crowe, who has just taken office, is because Crowe has told Golden Lion Shiji almost all the information he knows about William and his forces.

Expand the scope of influence through the financial means of the Flash Gold Bank and control more pirate teams; support a number of shipyards in the country, and send overseas students to the capital of seven waters on the great route to research new warships; research and develop biological and chemical weapons, and develop the education system , cultivate follow-up talents; rely on force, through monopolized trade, collect huge wealth; collude with the local navy, corrupt local officers through clubs and ingenious bribery methods, and deceive the upper and lower...

Crowe was the former head of William's intelligence department. He knew almost everything about William's deeds. Facing the golden lion Shiji at this moment, he took the initiative to find Shiji without waiting for Shiji's interrogation. Said these layouts and actions.

This allowed Crowe to gain the trust and value of Golden Lion Shiji far beyond others, and in the eyes of Golden Lion Shiki, Crowe had more voice and credibility than Crick and other members of the expedition team who surrendered.

As for the Golden Lion Shiji, it was only through Crowe's narration that he realized that the new-style steamship was actually nothing. Interested.

If it is Edward Whitebeard, he may not be interested in everything that William has created, because what he yearns for is family. If it is Roger, the One Piece King, he may also disdain these things, because he yearns for adventure.

This is because none of them are careerists.

But the golden lion Shiji is different. Ever since he became a pirate, he has always dreamed of dominating the five seas and ruling the world.

Lions are group animals. In addition to the male lion who is the leader in the group, there are many accomplices who obey it.

The so-called king of all beasts, if he has no one under his command and is alone, what kind of king of all beasts is he? How to rule the entire grassland and ocean?

Crowe successfully persuaded the golden lion Shiji to change his mind from destroying the East China Sea to becoming interested in the East China Sea. He even considered taking everything William arranged and replaced it, and then put the base in the East China Sea. Through the mature system there To obtain more manpower, funds and other resources, to speed up the progress of the experiment, and to develop more new steam engine-powered vehicles, to add some support and protection to his hegemony.

That's why Shi Ke specially kept Harden alive, and even tried to recruit Harden again, because he wanted to take over what William had already created in Donghai and replace it.