Chapter 104 Flowers

What was William thinking at the bow of the boat?

Psychologist Maslow divided human needs into five layers, namely: physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, respect needs, and self-actualization needs. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Physiological needs, William now has no shortage of food and clothing, and that is, he has strong self-control, otherwise with his current status and power, as long as he beckons in the East China Sea, there will naturally be countless people of the opposite sex leaning over.

For social needs, William has the earnest teaching of his teacher Koshiro, and the support of a group of partners who share weal and woe with Ah Jin and Aramis.

Respecting the need, William is already important in the East China Sea and has enough social status, and the mayor of a small town like Darwell must also be careful in front of him.

What William is pursuing and thinking about now is the need for security, as well as the need for self-realization.

If at the beginning, William felt disdain for pirates with the nature of rogues because of the habitual thinking of his previous life, then now he still maintains this disdain, and even worsens, because he already has a certain understanding of this world.

The pinnacle of this rogue nature is undoubtedly One Piece Roger, but what happened to him?

Judging from the phenomenon after the opening of the era of pirates, there may be another story behind Roger's arrest, and he may even be deliberately caught by the world government, but after Roger's death, the people related to him were implicated, but it is worth William's vigilance.

William has always been concerned about the news of the sea train, and when he first heard about it in the newspaper, he knew that it was an epoch-making invention, so he learned about Tom, the fish-man, the designer of many sea trains.

The Tokai Daily once made a series of news based on Tom the Fishman, introducing his life, it is said that the sales are not very good, like Wallon, Edmond, Aramis and other natives of the East China Sea are not interested in knowing about a fishman boatwright in the capital of the seven waters, at most they are only slightly interested in being involved with One Piece, but after knowing that it is not a crew member, but a shipbuilder, they are not interested.

But William is different, when he saw that such a great designer and shipwright was wantonly manipulated by the world government and excluded by the locals because he was involved with One Piece, and many people around the world were connected because they had some connection with One Piece, how could a person like William still have the idea of learning the way of One Piece and being a rogue?

There is no way he can accept that the gang of Akin, Alamis, Sherlock, or even Tony will be pinched and twisted by the World Government just because they are involved with him, even after his death.

What's more, William also worked as a slave of the world's nobles, and he also killed a Celestial Dragon, although it has been so long, and there are no witnesses, but this is a hidden danger, and it is also a thorn in William's heart.

And as a modern person, emotionally, it is difficult for him to identify with such a regime as a world government.

The existence of the Celestial Dragon people is like a maggot for people like William who have lived in modern society, and they are tired of even thinking about it, and they can't stand this kind of thing on top of their heads, and this phenomenon is still maintained by law and violence.

Therefore, whether in terms of origin, emotion, or intellect, the very existence of the world government is an obstacle to William, a source of his insecurity, and makes him involuntarily hostile.

William is even more of a power junkie, a greedy careerist who is not greedy enough to swallow elephants, and his life value is to grab more power and influence, so it is inevitable that he will hope for the world government to replace him.

It can be said that since William crossed, there is not much choice, either as a little person like duckweed in troubled times, I don't know which day I will be affected by the tide of the times and die silently, or I will rise to the challenge and climb towards the peak, and I can't retreat, I can only keep going up until I reach the top, otherwise I will fall from a high place and die at any time.

William chose the latter, so smuggling, corrupting the grassroots navy, enacting the Morgan Code, and protecting the local villages and towns all paved the way for his strategy, but it was not enough.

If you jump out of the limitations of this world and look at the situation in the world as a whole, the navy and the world government are somewhat similar to the late Yuan regime in history, tyrannical and rotten, but they have a relatively strong military force, and the pirates from all walks of life are like the endless resistance forces under the high-pressure policy, but there are some waste wood, more than eighty percent of them are not as good as the heroes of Liangshan, and they do not even have political ambitions.

From this point of view, One Piece Gordo Rodger's opening of the era of pirates did make the pirates headless and fly-like rebels have a goal - although in William's opinion, they are still scattered.

But it also gave the world government and navy a sense of cohesion, and the civilians who were tortured by the pirates who swarmed in the era of pirates regained some confidence in this brutal regime.

What William sees in Dawell is one of the ideas that can serve as the political ambitions and goals of the future forces, so that his power does not fall into the level of "rogues".

At the grassroots level, with the political ambition that can unite people's hearts, people who identify with and aim for this goal can mobilize more subjective initiative, endure hard training that is unbearable for ordinary people, and become stronger people.

From the perspective of the middle and high-level, this is also a kind of ideological bondage and shackles, people are social animals, only by constantly instilling relevant concepts, those who already have strong strength, will be influenced, consciously or unconsciously can continue to obey discipline and command, reunited under the flag, and at the same time these strong people with the same ambition are enough to deter people with different intentions, such as the relationship between the navy and various powerful generals.

If you really want to convince people, you must not only have fists, but also thoughts.

Nationalism, nationalism...... William doesn't care about the route at all, what he cares about is whether he can help him reach the top of the power pyramid and overthrow the burden that weighs on his heart.

And at present, ending this era and pacifying the troubled times seems to be a good slogan to unite people's hearts, even if it is not everyone's goal, William will make it everyone's goal, and he will become the one who can put an end to all this!

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The Morgan Pirates anchored in Black Reef for a week, and the townspeople were always wary of them, and most of them did not listen to William's words and returned to live in the town, but hid in the mountains outside the town.

But after a few days, they discovered that the pirates on the ship had indeed gone ashore to harass and hurt the inhabitants, as William had promised, before some of them returned home one after another to clean and sort out the wreckage of their homes.

During this period, William invited the town of Darwell and several other leading figures of the town to board the ship, discuss the future, and make an agreement.

William would install two retired pirates who were disabled and could not continue fighting at the Blackreef docks, both to sell merchandise to passenger ships for his brewery and to serve as liaisons to report anomalies to William.

The Morgan Pirates will also regularly patrol the waters around Blackreef in the future, bringing the town under their protection.

Correspondingly, the ships of the Morgan Pirates will anchor in this town from time to time in the future, and they must be supplied on the shore, and William promises to buy them at an affordable price, and the town will also pay a "security tax" to his pirates every month.

The amount of money was very small, far below the psychological expectations of the townsman Dawell and others, and what William valued was not the money itself, but the ruling meaning behind the collection of taxes, which would take root in the hearts of the townspeople.

So when Darwell discussed with the people in the town that for the sake of peace, he wanted to honor some of the Morgan Pirates' belongings, William directly refused.

During this process, Darwell and other leading figures in the town have been accompanying Caution, trying to meet the demands of William and a group of pirates, for fear of angering them, tearing their faces and ransacking the town like other pirates.

A week later, when they heard that William and the others were leaving, they organized the townspeople to see them off at the docks.

There were some pirates on the shore who were busy carrying things down from the ship, wrapping them in pirate flags and putting them on the docks, Darwell gave a strange look and asked, "Captain Stockett, this is ......." ”

"Some supplies," William said calmly, "the town has just been looted, and these things are needed." ”

Darwell and a few of the town's leaders around him heard each other look at each other behind them, and only after a half-ring did Darwell take William's hand.

"You said that you and your men are different from other pirates, and I really believe it now," the old man, who had always behaved groveling and flattering, said sincerely for the first time, "You will not become Gordo Roger, because you will be greater than him, and you will be the true pride of the people of the East Sea!"

The leading figures of the surrounding towns echoed in unison.

In fact, William paid very little, they occupied the ships of the Guy Pirates, obtained a lot of property, and the materials left on the shore were all things that occupied a lot of space and were not of high actual value, but when they did all this, they were facing the identity of pirates, and this contrast made Dawell and others more impressed and shocked.

In the crowd behind Darwell, Mary and Isa, the proprietress of the town's tavern, were also there, and their mother and daughter were lucky enough to escape from Guy's hands and have been safe until now.

When she saw William and Dawell talking and preparing to leave, the little girl Isa grabbed a wildflower picked on the road, suddenly ran out of the crowd, and in a puzzled, stunned, and worried gaze behind her, she came to William and handed over this ordinary wildflower.

"Thank you for saving us. Isha lifted her little face and tried to stand on her tiptoes and hold the flower high.

Some of the townsfolk were worried that even with this week's performance, they still had the deep-seated impression that the pirates were still a mob that did nothing wrong, and they feared that Isha would anger William, the leader of the pirates.

The busy pirates on the shore gradually stopped what they were doing and watched this scene with complicated eyes.

William looked down at Isa and felt a little familiar, he glanced at the crowd on the other side, and soon spotted Mary, the tavern lady standing in front of the crowd and looking at him with a smile on her face.

William smiled as well, recognizing the mother and daughter as the residents he had rescued from the town's wine cellar.

"You're welcome," William bent down, took the flowers from Isha's hand, carefully pinned them to his chest, and said earnestly, "Thank you for the flowers too." ”

Isha pursed her lips a little shyly and smiled, her eyes crooked into crescents.

William touched her head and turned to his own ship, and the pirates on the shore went back to work, only occasionally glancing at the townspeople, no longer resentful of being suppressed by William, but much more friendly.

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Volume II: The Devil of the East Sea, End.

Volume II: The Great Thief.

Let your dense rain invade obliquely, I only sit on the royal city!