I Have Accomplished Nothing, So I Can Only Become the Pirate King

Chapter 363 The giant beast and its master

Lack of people

This sentence made Sage stunned.

He lit a cigar, leaned against the throne, seemed to be thinking about something, and slowly blew out a puff of smoke.

"How many of us are there now?"

Lily: "..."

What are you thinking?

Just want to take a puff of a cigar, right?

Since the remnants of the Whitebeards were no longer a threat, their subordinates have been constantly conquering territory to expand their power. As the territory becomes larger and larger, Sag doesn't pay much attention to it.

Anyway, the plan is being completed.

"According to last week's statistics, our total strength reached 13,589 people and a total of seventy-one battleships, including one main ship, the Death Star, four battleships, and four cadre ships. , sixty-two standard pirate ships."

Needless to say, the Death Star was full of two thousand people. It was four warships with a standard crew of eight hundred people. It was comparable to a large naval warship, and it was also a ship for big officials.

To be precise, it is the ship of Moria, Hawkins, Urki and Akin.

But Ajin doesn't care about it now. He strongly requested to return to the Death Omen Star to serve as the battle captain. Sager has also agreed. If the whole ship goes out, that battleship will not go out.

Now it is just a boat for Ajin to lead his people to conquer territory.

The three female officers were the crew members of the Death Star. They refused to be equipped with a ship. Even if they had important matters, they would only ride on the Death Star.

There are four cadre ships with a standard crew of 360 people, mainly Bellamy, Palu, Miote and the 'executor' Slyman who came from behind.

Slyman, relying on his excellent commanding skills and fierce fighting style, has been recognized by the pirates of the Natural Disaster Pirates and promoted to a cadre.

As for Jambalu and Statham, one is a helmsman and is stationed at the base camp. One was a boatman, working with Leti, and he was also a giant, so he was not suitable to lead a battleship alone. All of them returned to the Death Star.

Oh, and there's Faust, the black cat who guards the treasure house.

Basically, I slept at the hatch of the treasure house on the ship, and slept at the door of the treasure house of the castle after getting off the ship. It was almost transparent.

The remaining sixty-two pirate ships are the battleships owned by the men of the Natural Disaster Pirates. The number of people in each ship is variable, ranging from 80 to 160 people.

"In addition, we have a base camp in O'Hara, three magnetic islands with 3,000 troops stationed, each with 1,000 people stationed on them. There are also 37 islands, of which only 27 are equipped with stationed personnel. There are still ten islands that are currently unguarded and uncontrolled and are in the flag-planting stage.”

"Also, the total number of people under the control of the Natural Disaster Pirates is 2,536,212. The data comes from last week's summary."

"Ah? Are there already so many people and so many islands? I thought there were about twenty of them." Sage touched his chin.

"Not much actually, Sag."

Lily said: "We have no obstacles now and are expanding very quickly, but islands are different from each other."

"Important production areas, frontline islands, and dangerous routes all require a large number of people to be stationed. It is not just the magnetic field island that is important. For some islands with average resources, although we dispatch few people, they are not much less. Because we still need to dedicate manpower to **** the transport ship, at least 120 people are needed to station on an island."

"We still need to allocate manpower to continue to expand the territory. We need people to take our men to go on expeditions, so we are seriously short of men, which results in the vacancies of ten islands. Unless we don't go to war, then the current number of men is enough. ”

"In addition, the people under our control are not enough, especially those islands, the production capacity is too low and there is a lack of population."

"Sarge, we are short of workers right now."

They are different from Big Mom. Big Mom's Totland only has thirty-four islands, but her sphere of influence is very large because many of the islands are in flag-planting status.

It's different here. They don't plant flags. Everywhere they go, they must send people to completely control it. Even if they plant flags now, it's purely because they don't have enough people, so they can only be designated as spheres of influence.

Then I encountered a very strange problem.

In the past, Lily felt that as the number of people increased, a lot of food would be needed and the financial pressure would be great.

She always thought that Sagar grabbed so much money in the first half just to prepare the territory for domination. After all, how can one rule without money?

It wasn't until she did the overall summary last week that she realized something was wrong.

Sager's money was converted into various industries. After all, building factories was not purely a businessman's business. A large part of it was invested by him independently.

Especially arms, battleships, gems and food, the first three are fully owned and controlled by Sag, and no one is allowed to interfere. In terms of food, Sag controls half of the country's food industry and canning factories, and the remaining half is run by businessmen, most of which are located on the affiliated islands.

When these factories are opened, staff salaries and material costs are the bulk of it. With such a huge expense, Sager should have spent all his money long ago.

But the problem now is that there is still a lot of money in the palace, almost 13 billion Baileys in cash and 10 billion equivalents. The more than 20 billion he snatched seems to have not been touched at all. .

The taxes collected from O'Hara are fed back into the country in a very healthy way, serving as resource costs and labor wages, and then accumulating more and more.

Even though Sage was extravagant and extravagant, the tax money collected was still a lot. Even if all the tax money was spent at a certain time, Lily didn't worry anymore.

She would only feel that the money would come back sooner or later, and O'Hara was running it very well.

It’s not even about money now.

It's a matter of not enough staff.

There are more than 2.5 million people, but there are not enough people now!

Lily had never thought about it, ever.

In her concept of life, she just felt that someone was oppressing the people, and the people were like weeds, miserable but they would always grow back.

It's so rare to have a stable job.

But now, there are more and more people, people are making more and more money, and the demand is increasing, so more and more resources are needed.

Then the output resources will need to be more, and more people will be needed to engage in this work.

Businessmen have founded all kinds of industries, except for the half of the grain share, as long as they are needed by people.

At first they were still in O'Hara, so O'Hara didn't have enough people.

The large number of industries and factories, as well as the service industry and individual craftsmen, gave everyone in O'Hara something to do, and there was even a shortage of people.

There are two million people in O'Hara!

Even if you leave out children and the elderly, there are still many people who end up not being enough.

If you don’t have enough people, then look outside. The big island of Magnetic Field is better, and there are still some people. But for the small attached islands, there are only three to five thousand people on each island, and more than ten thousand people. They are not enough for themselves, let alone I said I won’t do any other work.

Originally, half of what was produced in O'Hara was kept for himself and the other half was sold.

But the growing needs of people have slowly overwhelmed the other side.

But business must be done because it is profitable, and merchants dare not raise prices. Sage's rule is to sell at a fair price internally, and he does not care about external affairs.

But the cheaper it is internally, the more demand there will be. Although the price is high externally, the higher the price, the more people will invest in it. .

Then

There are enough resources, but there is a lack of labor to convert resources into commodities.

Very strange.

It's strange that Lily sometimes can't figure it out.

Not only her, but everyone had a strange feeling. Marika even said that her dream was being realized here.

Even Lily herself feels that such a country is simply like heaven.

Everyone has something to do, everyone can make money, and everyone is better off.

But sometimes when she thinks about it carefully, she shudders.

She subconsciously looked down at the city buildings below from the heights of the palace.

From here, you can see the bustling and lively crowds that are almost the size of your fingers. The whole city seems to be alive, exuding unprecedented vitality.

But her eyesight was dazzled again, and she felt that the 'living' city suddenly opened its mouth, and the crowds became densely packed sharp teeth, like a terrifying giant beast that devoured everything.

She turned to Sage again, the captain she would follow for the rest of her life, the so-called illiterate guy. When he saw her looking over, he couldn't help but bared his white teeth and smiled brightly.

But she suddenly felt that this smile was as frightening as the city beneath her feet that chose people to eat.

The master of the beast.

It's him!

(End of chapter)