Chapter 72
In Eruma, the oasis city of Alabasta, Lynn met a familiar person and something familiar.
People refer to the fat uncle with a beer belly-Doto.
In the future, Alabasta will fall into civil strife due to Crocodile's conspiracy. Among them, the father of the rebel leader Kosha is the Uncle Doto.
Dotto is one of Alabasta's ministers. He once led Koza as a child and a group of Alabasta people to jointly develop an oasis city called "Yuba".
Later because of the major event triggered by Crocodile, Yuba became a dry city without water. Most of the residents left there with hatred of King Cobra, only Doto uncle has been Firmly believe in the innocence of the king.
He stayed in Yuba and tried to dig the groundwater over and over again. He was originally fat and turned into a skinny old man.
Even in the face of the great sandstorm caused by Crocodile, Doto stubbornly clung to the city he personally developed, and chanted "Yuba is impossible to be defeated by the desert"!
The key item that triggered this series of events is something that Lynn is familiar with:
World Government expressly prohibited prohibited items-dancing fans, also known as "calling the rain"的粉".
A long time ago, a country that does not rain invented this green powder. It can produce misty smoke floating in the air, producing so-called "artificial rain". The origin of the name is to hope that the people can Happy dancing and celebrating because of the rain.
However, once this powder is used, the neighboring countries living downwind will suffer from drought. The country that discovers this will break out of war. Since then, the World Government has banned the production and possession of this powder.
Crocodile used dancing fans to cause large-scale droughts in the future, causing the people to mistakenly believe that the king Cobra used dancing fans to take away their rain. Therefore, they hated the king, and this led to the later Alabasta. Civil strife incident.
In that incident more than ten years later, the dancing fans acted as props that instigated the hatred of the people of Albasta.
However, at this time, Duto Uncle said that this batch of dancing fans is a batch of "goods that cannot be missed."
When Lynn was puzzled, Dotto sealed the last batch of sacks with dancing powder and greeted everyone:
"Let me follow, upstairs I’m in Eruma’s place, where we will talk in detail."
Then, bodyguards in the vicinity, Lynn, Vivi, and Iqalem followed Doto upstairs.
After telling Dotto about their experience, Dotto smiled at Lynn and stretched out his hand.
"Mr. Lynn, as the minister of Alabasta, I thank you for your help to Vivi Princess and welcome you to Alabasta-although you are not here at the right time."
Lynn took the hand of Doto Uncle, grinning said with a smile: "No, I came at the right time!"
Doto: "?"
On the ship Getting along with Vivi let Vivi know that Lynn is such a temper, so he didn't worry too much about Lynn, but asked Doto Uncle about Alabasta.
"Father, what business is he going to make with the Pirate named [Golden Lion]?"
"Well, speaking of this..."
Dotto closed the curtains of the room, took out a projection Den Den Mushi, and said, "Let's take a look at this. This is a live broadcast by King Your Majesty to the people all over the country more than 20 days ago. "
"Live broadcast?" Everyone was taken aback.
Dotto nodded, explained: "About twenty-four days ago, on the day Vivi Princess you went to sea, those weird walls suddenly fell from the sky and completely blocked the coastline of Alabasta."
"At the same time, communications throughout the country were disrupted, and we could not get in touch with the outside world."
"I was not in the palace at the time, but it is said that King Your Majesty immediately led the king's army to do it. Ready for the battle."
" Then, a huge floating Skypiea floated over, and the Pirate, nicknamed [Golden Lion], fell from the sky and floated in midair, telling the king his Request."
"He wants to make a deal with Alabasta to buy a thousand tons of dancing fans with 100 million berries!"
hearing this, frowned of Lynn, turned to ask To the side of Icarem, "Dancing powder has been listed as a prohibited item by the World Government. Does Alabasta have a formula for making dancing powder?" Iqalem kept his brows tight and whispered. : "Mr. Lynn, the history of Alabasta is much longer than you think, so...Yes, we do know how to make dancing fans."
Lynn thought for a while, then asked: "Then this Is the trade fair fair? I mean the cost."
Icarim replied: "For the cost of money, a ton of dancing fans will need about 90,000 Berry, and a thousand tons is Ninety million berry, according to the price provided by Golden Lion, we even have a surplus of 10 million berry. Although it is not much, it will not lose money, but..."
"I know , "Lynn nodded, "It's the'time cost'."
"More than that, there is also the'labor cost'."
Icarim added: "Make dancing fans The most troublesome thing is not its material, but the production process of dancing powder is extremely complicated. It takes a lot of hands to refine and grind it for a long time before it can be made into a finished product. On average, ten people make one kilogram of dancing powder, about one Months."
"In other words, a thousand tons of dancing fans need 10 million people to work together for a month to complete!"
hearing this, Lynn turned his head and looked towards Iqalem, "How much is Alabasta's permanent labor force?"
"Excluding the elderly and children, this is probably the same number." Iqalem replied.
That’s it, Lynn has initially understood the purpose of Golden Lion's blockade of Alabasta:
For a certain purpose, Golden Lion needs a lot of dancing fans, but even if they ask for it from Cobra The formula of dancing powder, but the shortcomings of long production cycle and troublesome production process of dancing powder are inevitable.
Therefore, if Golden Lion wants to get a lot of dancing fans in a short period of time, he needs to find a lot of people to help, so he focuses on the superpower on the Grand Line-Alabasta.
"He wants Alabasta to produce dancing fans for him with the power of the whole country?"
"Yes."
Dotto uncle nodded, confirmed Lynn "The strength that Pirate possesses is too terrifying, enough to completely destroy the entire Alabasta, and the reckless crusade against him will inevitably cause countless deaths and injuries on the Alabasta side."
"And that Pirate The purpose is to buy a large amount of dancing fans, and is not hostile to Alabasta Kingdom itself."
"So, after thinking about it again and again, the king agreed to negotiate a deal with that Pirate-premise It is this negotiation to be carried out under the witness of all the residents of Alabasta Kingdom."
"This is the live video of the negotiation at that time."
Dotto uncle will project the Den Den Mushi Open it and show everyone the situation at that time.
That was a negotiation between the king and Pirate.
One side is competing with Roger at the same time and created countless Legendary Great Pirate——【Golden Lion 】Shiki;
The other side is the founder of World Government 800 years ago One of the twenty Royal Family-the descendants of the Nefertari clan, the king of the superpower Alabasta-Nefertari · Cobra.
The imposing manners of the two parties are similar, and the details of the transaction are also finalized step by step between you and me.
Golden Lion needs Alabasta Kingdom to create a large amount of dancing fans for him in a short period of time, and he will solve the problems of materials and funds.
And Cobra asked Golden Lion and his Flying Pirates not to harm anyone in Alabasta Kingdom, otherwise the transaction would be invalidated and Alabasta declared war on Flying Pirates.
Alabasta Kingdom is a member country of World Government after all. Golden Lion did not want to attract the attention of World Government before completing its own plan, so the two parties quickly finalized the details of the transaction——
Flying Pirates blocked Alabasta for 26 days.
Twenty-six days later, in the capital Albana, the Alabasta party handed over a thousand tons of dancing fans to Flying Pirates, and Flying Pirates paid 150 million bergs just like the Alabasta party.
Removing the 90 million berries of the cost, the remaining 60 million berries plus the materials in the treasury will be used to appease the civilians of Alabasta affected by this incident.
During the transaction, Alabasta will temporarily cut off contact with the outside world, and unless it encounters an active attack, Flying Pirates members are prohibited from harming any ordinary people in Alabasta.
"The above is the approximate result of the negotiation."
After the projection is over, Doto Uncle put the projection Den Den Mushi away, and said to Vivi: "Don't worry too much. Her Highness the Princess, the king has a sense of measure."
Vivi nodded, the worry on his face did not fade.
But Lynn is very curious, "All Alabasta people will be forced to participate in this transaction, don’t you guys disagree?"
Just like Icari As Mu said, if you want to produce a thousand tons of dancing powder in twenty-six days, including transportation and loading and unloading time, all the residents of Alabasta must be involved.
Will no one be unwilling, even on strike?
Dotto is just laughed and replied:
"Mr. Lynn, you are not from Alabasta, so it is normal for you to be unclear."
"Your King One of Majesty's most frequent sayings is: The country is even a person."
"Alabasta is a country formed by people, and everyone is a part of the country."
"Every Alabasta person loves the land under his feet and our country."
Dotto uncle grinned Issho.
"So when we want to do something to save our beloved country-we gather together, we will be omnipotent."
hearing this, Lynn was stunned briefly After a while, he asked, "What if Golden Lion unilaterally disrupted the transaction, do you trust him that way?"
"Mr. Lynn, you still didn't understand what I was saying."
Doto said with a slight smile: "For our beloved country, we gather together and we will be omnipotent."
"War means death and injury, including King Your Majesty, Alabasta Everyone in Hobby is peaceful. We will choose to forgive and compromise so that our homeland will not fall into the flames of war, but this does not mean that we are afraid of war."
"Although the attitude of the Great Pirate is tough, But this is a relatively fair deal after all, and if he wants to unilaterally breach the contract—"
Dotto repeated that sentence a third time with a smile:
"For our beloved country, we gather together and we will be omnipotent."