Chapter 1317: The World Government of "Greed for Money".
In the cabin, Guan Liyuan looked at the newspaper that the news bird had just delivered, and he was also a little hesitant in his pleasure......
The happy thing is that so far, although it can't be said that everything is exhausted, but after all, it is still in Guan Liyuan's expectation in the general trend.
Compared with the world government, the revolutionary army is too weak, especially the headquarters of the revolutionary army, the real elite of the headquarters, less than 20,000, and counting the local factions that are the core cadres of the revolutionary army, less than 200,000.
And half a year ago, the navy, which is only one of the combat forces of the world government, had tens of millions of soldiers.
It can be said that before rescuing Ivankov and others, the strength of the headquarters of the revolutionary army was weaker than the entire strength of any of the Four Emperors.
After all, the accident more than two years ago greatly damaged the vitality of the revolutionary army, and its development has been much sluggish since then.
Now Ivankov and the others have been rescued, and they have also absorbed hundreds of tens of millions and hundreds of millions of bounty prisoners, and they have officially raised the banner and the world government is facing it, so there are also many grassroots forces to join, and it should be stronger than the most powerful of the four emperors, Whitebeard.
And Guan Liyuan relied on this force, which can only be said to be a "small threat" in the eyes of the world government, to leverage the "general trend", so that the world government, which commanded the world half a year ago, is now controlled everywhere.
But what hesitating is the reaction of the world government, and many "allies"!
Today is January 1, 1521, and at the beginning of the new year, the world government has canonized a large number of governors......
"It seems that the top level of the world government still has some brains...... That's right, after all, it has mastered the world for 800 years," Guan Liyuan muttered.
Although Guan Liyuan has always been puzzled, with the arrogant style of the world government, how to maintain eight hundred years of hegemony, but at least the current IQ of the world government is online once!
At the beginning of the new year, the new governors were canonized, not only admirals like Smoker who took the opportunity to set up a mountain, but even some naval branches that had obviously been involved in the incident and had changed their course, as long as they did not clearly display the signboard of the revolutionary army and did not show that they were incompatible with the world government, they were all canonized as "governors."
This is also the first time in recent years that the world government has engaged in the "governor-general" on the sea......
And this part of the so-called "revolutionary army background" is actually a branch of the revolutionary army, and their purpose is to protect their hometown from the tyranny of the world government and the exploitation of the Tianlong people.
Although there is a spirit of sacrifice, there are no overly lofty goals, and there is no reason to force them to be more ambitious.
In this way, the position of "governor-general", who is both military and political, has been able to meet their demands, and the price is only to recognize the world government, continue to provide "heavenly gold" every year, and even pay most of the taxes......
Therefore, many naval divisions that originally belonged to the side of the revolutionary army were shaken at this time, neither hanging the flag of the revolutionary army with great fanfare, nor being sealed in a high-profile manner, as if they had acquiesced in this matter, and even judging from some news sent back from the dark department, some of them were ready to give the "heavenly gold" to the Tianlong people this year!
Even Klockdahl and Moonlight Moria, who were already on the verge of rebellion, actually took the position of two governors, and they also maliciously put the island countries controlled by several "openly rebel" revolutionary army branches around Alabastan into the sphere of influence of the two.
Of course, this is also expected by Guan Liyuan - it seems to be in turmoil, but after all, most of the power is not his own, and it is not surprising that this situation will occur.
Moreover, it is enough for them to pay "heavenly gold" to the world government, avoid war with the world government, and not easily turn against the revolutionary army.
Even Klockdahl and Moonlight Moria only accepted the canonization for the time being, and at the same time continued to secretly convey the idea of "cooperation" to the surrounding revolutionary army branches.
If in the first half of the Four Seas and the Great Passage, the power of the world government and the anti-world government has reached "4:6" or even "3:7", then now this number is gradually returning to "3:3......
As for the other "4"? Go and be a melon-eating crowd! And it is a melon-eating mob that will break out at any time and hurt people......
This is also the reason why Guan Liyuan returned to the new world without stopping for the first time after muddying the waters - the revolutionary army needs a truly stable base camp!
Alabastan is half smaller, after all, Alabastan's Kobra and Vivi are cooperating with the Revolutionary Army, but the one who temporarily controls the military power of Alabasta is Klockdahl, who uses each other with the Revolutionary Army, and compared with the world, Alabastan is still too small, so it can only be regarded as half smaller.
Guan Liyuan's ideal base camp is the most prosperous and essential sea area in the entire "new world" - the sea.
At the same time, what makes Guan Liyuan even more puzzling is why the world government is so obsessed with "heavenly gold"?
When so many member countries began to delay the delivery of heavenly gold in disguise, the world government also behaved particularly toughly......
I would rather make concessions on the right to take care of myself, and resolutely avoid any "heavenly gold"!
Could it be because the "Heavenly Gold" is a thing of the Celestial Dragons?
But obviously in order to appease Fish-Man Island, he has already slapped Char Ross Saint in the face, and even really restricted the Draconian's behavior of catching Fishman slaves, which shows that the world government knows how to make concessions at this stall......
Money is indeed a good thing, even for the revolutionary army, most of the high-level cadres are gathered together by ideas and beliefs, but the strength of the grassroots and every soldier ...... Although there are also ideas and beliefs, at the same time "money" is also very important, otherwise what to feed hundreds of thousands of people?
But...... The current performance of the world government's "money fans" is a bit confusing!
"There are even concessions in terms of self-care and taxes, but not 'heavenly gold'? If it is only for 'money' and 'resources', taxes should be the most direct...... Could it be ......" Guan Liyuan seemed to think of something, but he didn't figure it out.
The biggest difference between "heavenly gold" and "taxes" is that some of the latter are paid with Bailey, and some are paid with ordinary resources and rare resources, while "heavenly gold" must be gold!
This is also the reason why many non-gold-producing countries are overwhelmed by "heavenly gold".
Could it be that gold is of any special use? Because of the lack of conditions, Guan Liyuan can only guess here, after all, the world government is "inexplicable" and not for a day or two!
Guan Liyuan found out before that when some small countries on the Red Earth Continent were not broken in history, he doubted how the world government could make such a mistake - even if these small closed countries did not directly interact with the "sea", but as long as they did not destroy the historical records of these small countries, they were not afraid of any clues leaking out?
Eight hundred years ago, the world government destroyed all the historical materials of all countries, except for the main body of history, and even documents that may be associated with historical records, and ensured that no one dared to write this history...... With such strength, how can such a mistake be made?
To this end, Guan Liyuan also specially organized people to study the history or legends of these small isolated countries, and the results were ...... I really didn't find any clues!
Could it be that the world government also investigated in this way back then? This is not in line with the world government's style of preferring to kill mistakes rather than letting them go!
But at this time, Guan Liyuan didn't think much about it, but silently put down the newspaper, and said at the same time: "It's very good, you can really sneak in here, come out...... Do you want to talk to me, don't you want to assassinate me?"
"Of course not, the contemptible people are not so whimsical, this time I made a special trip to visit His Excellency Guan Liyuan, just to avoid unnecessary trouble, so I chose this way, please forgive me......"
I saw a man with unusually fair skin, a slender body, and an uncomfortable smile on red lips, who appeared at the door of Guan Liyuan's cabin at this time......