Chapter 514: New Emperor

Chapter 514: New Emperor

The news of Whitebeard's defeat spreads very fast. It becomes the headline of all newspapers without any exception. After all, Whitebeard has stood on top of this world for decades and was the rival of the Pirate King Roger.

But now he finally lost his seat to a younger generation. Furthermore, the one who defeated him was Alan, the apprentice of Buggy who defeated him in his prime years ago. Also, it's a well-known fact that Alan's Legend Pirates are members of the Clown Pirate Fleet.

So this means that Clown Pirates, or to be precise Buggy is usurping another Emperor's throne again after Big Mom. This also means that Buggy has control over more than half of New World with the territories of Big Mom and Whitebeard in his hands.

Those who don't know are afraid of this because it looks like Buggy is trying to conquer the world. But those who know are not bothered and many are even happy with this. It's because the territories under Clown Pirates' control have always flourished.

Clown Pirates are the strongest and wealthiest pirate crew in the world. Their wealth might be comparable to the already destroyed Celestial Dragons. All their wealth comes from their giant businesses that are being run by their people.

They built factories, offices, academies, etc on their territories. Unlike other pirate crews that try to take over territories just to exploit the people, Clown Pirates' expansion is to grow their businesses. They always use local folks as their workers and they give fair wages with fair treatment.Diiscover new stories at novelhall.com

Many pirates think they are fools for being nice by paying these common folks instead of enslaving them. But it's actually the opposite. By paying and giving the workers fair treatment, they increase work efficiency and the risk is lower too.

Those fools like Celestial Dragons who enslaved people to work actually spend more and the efficiency is also bad. Just to catch those people to make them slaves alone needs a lot of expenses. Many potential workers also died during the capture process.

Then just to save their expense, they give the slaves less food. Without enough food, they won't have enough energy to work, reducing their result. Also, many slaves died just after a few weeks because of starvation and abuse from their superiors, so they would need to keep catching people.

Those are just a few problems Clown Pirates found. Another thing is those slaves aren't professionals in the work given to them. Even miners need to have an education to do their job better, that's why Clown Pirates also built academies for the people in their territories.

With all these good treatments, Clown Pirates also reduces the risk of rebellion because people are satisfied. Those people would be idiots to rebel against Clown Pirates because even if they succeed, they would lose all the wealth and good lives they've received.

All these things have made Clown Pirates times better than those who use slaves. If being compared, even with the same kind of factory, Clown Pirates can produce 3 times the amount of weapons than other underground weapon factories of the same quality just because of this system.

After all, the people who work in Clown Pirates' businesses have been taught properly. That's why they can do their job much better than those slaves who were caught and forced to work without knowing anything. So even if they spend more on their workers, they also gain more from it.

But that is always overshadowed by their images as pirates. Just like now, people all over the world are more worried about Clown Pirates' ambition to conquer the world even though it never crossed Buggy's mind at all. Conquering the world sounds very tiring. After all, just controlling half of New World is too troublesome already.

"You want to give all those territories to me?"

"Yes, Grand Captain. We are your subordinates, so the territories we won are obviously yours."

"Brat, you just don't want to manage them because it's too troublesome, right?"

But even after splitting into different crews, they are still on good terms with each other and immediately form an alliance. They are splitting into different crews just because they want to do different things.

Marco's crew is composed of those who want to stay near Whitebeard and live a relaxed life even as pirates. Ace's crew is composed of those who want to continue adventuring the world and fight other forces. Jozu's crew is composed of those who want to hunt treasures all over the world.

After these 3 crews formed, they immediately do what they want to do. Marco's crew just stays in Whitebeard's hometown with the old man, Jozu's crew goes to Paradise, while Ace's crew goes to explore New World. That's what they say to Whitebeard and the others, but in reality, they are going to challenge Legend Pirates.

Ace's crew members are mostly the youngest members of Whitebeard Pirates. They respect Whitebeard a lot and they are hot-blooded. These guys still can't accept Whitebeard's defeat completely, so they plan to challenge Legend Pirates and show that Whitebeard Pirates are still powerful even without Whitebeard himself.

"Are you sure about this, Ace? Isn't this too soon to challenge them? You couldn't even defeat Yamato, so it's obviously much harder to defeat Alan."

"I know, Deuce. But if we wait even longer, then they will also get stronger. Besides, it might show that we are cowards by not fighting them as soon as possible."

"We will also get stronger after we train, so we need time, you know. The enemies are also very powerful. Even if Charlotte Pirates aren't there again, Legend Pirates have enough power to defeat us all. Legend Pirates don't have that many members just like Clown Pirates' main crew, but all their members are strong."

"Enough, we will still challenge them even if the odds are bad. But you don't need to worry, I already got ourselves good allies to help us in this plan."

"Eh? You were thinking about that? Unbelievable. So, who are they?"

"My brother. Straw Hat Pirates and Heart Pirates."

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