Chapter XXVIII
Katakuri and his party walked in a hurry, but none of the booty was left behind.
BIG· The MOM pirates have not yet begun to expand their sphere of influence, and there are only a handful of countries that pay protection fees, and there are no taxes at home (citizens pay one-seventh of their life to fulfill all their obligations), and their financial revenues are all dependent on seizures and gifts (from those forces that they have befriended, which are actually protection fees in disguise. Life has been tight.
Katakuri is not a mother who only cares about eating, so she is naturally reluctant to lose such a large amount of loot.
The six warships captured were all the main ships of the Navy, each equipped with three triple main turrets and a total of 24 secondary guns on both sides. The flagship of the MOM Pirates, "Queen, Mama, Anthem", is strong.
If it can be brought back to the nations, it will undoubtedly greatly enhance the BIG· The strength of the MOM Pirates.
Other pirates did not dare to use captured warships, for fear that the navy would have some arrangements on it and be overshadowed. The MOM Pirates don't have such concerns, as long as Charlotte Lingling makes them Hormitz, the warship itself will honestly confess......
Of course, if you decide to use it for your own use, it is still necessary to repaint, otherwise it will be too much of a slap in the face of the navy, and unless there is a real full-scale war with it, it is not wise to provoke the navy in this way.
However, Katakuri personally prefers to sell these warships, and even sell them back to the Navy.
The cost of a navy's capital ship is said to be no less than 1.5 billion Baileys, and there is no serious damage in the process of capture, no matter how cheap it is, it should not be less than 1 billion, and the six ships add up to 7 or 8 billion Baileys.
For the current BIG· As far as the MOM Pirates are concerned, it is obviously worth more than the six warships themselves to use the money to buy a few powerful and suitable Devil Fruits for their younger siblings.
Katakuri didn't want them to repeat their own tragedy back then, eating the wrong Devil Fruit, which would be enough to lower the growth ceiling in the future......
In addition to the six warships, no less than 3,000 rifles, Gatling guns, and mortars were also captured this time, all of which were the most advanced models in the world (in mass production).
On the way home, Mousse used this free time to learn about the most advanced guns in the One Piece world, which turned out to be a little powerless for him to complain.
The guns are all rifled and loaded, and the bullets and projectiles of the shells are all spherical? Is this a backdoor specially opened for the protagonist?
That is, the mortar shell has to add a tail to adopt a more reasonable shape, but with the slow flight speed of the mortar shell and the curved trajectory with a huge arc, it is impossible to directly hit the high-end powerhouse who comes and goes like the wind and has seen and heard the domineering warning.
And the shrapnel released by its explosion also does not pose any threat, it can only be regarded as a pure weapon of abuse, which is not as good as a rifle or even some special pistols!
Although he was very speechless, Mousse had no idea of helping this world improve guns, because the three major generals of the future navy were all natural powerhouses, and no matter how powerful the guns were, the threat to them would not be too great (using Hailou stone bullets, or attaching armed color domineering to bullets, it is still possible to hurt those with natural fruit ability, but the latter is still in a very advantageous position as long as they are not weak in sight and hearing). )。
On the contrary, Charlotte Lingling relies on super physical defense, and after upgrading the gun, she can break the defense, which obviously does more harm than good to the Charlotte family, so Mousse will not be so stupid.
While thinking about this, Mousse also vaguely guessed the reason why the development level of guns and ammunition in this world is completely disconnected, and even the chaos and imbalance of the entire scientific and technological system.
"Scientists need to learn far less knowledge than on the earth before the crossing, maybe all the disciplines combined, theoretical knowledge is not as large as any undergraduate science and engineering major, but the individual genius has a lot of room to play, such as the accuracy of manual can even reach the nano level, which has led to the unconventional development of individual fields, and related fields have been pulled away because there is no genius attention, and even many major achievements can not be replicated at all, and key scientists will be directly lost as soon as they die, led to a significant regression in the level of science and technology......"
Such world rules have undoubtedly seriously affected the popularization of technology, but it is not a bad thing for Charlotte Mousse herself.
If it was still before the crossing, no matter how talented he was, it would be impossible for him to complete the work of gene sequencing in a small laboratory by himself.
But in the world of One Piece, not only is there much less knowledge that must be learned, but the requirements for equipment and equipment for scientific and technological research are also greatly reduced, and the research cycle is also greatly shortened.
Moreover, after eating the fruit of books before, Mousse has greatly improved his intelligence and greatly shortened the time required to study, and if it goes well, he may be able to start this work within a year or two.
Of course, not being able to get the blood samples of his grandparents must have made it a lot more difficult, but Mousse, who had prepared for this and made a plan, did not regret it very much, because he might be able to use it to allow his mother to relax the deadline and get more time for research......
The warships and guns were of great value, but in Mousse's opinion, the most valuable trophies after this victory were actually the thousands of naval prisoners of war.
If they can negotiate peace with the world government, they are an important bargaining chip.
And if you can't negotiate and you have to fight, you can let Charlotte Lingling make the souls of these soldiers into Homitz, which will greatly improve the strength of her own side.
Even those ordinary sailors among them are the elite of the Navy Headquarters, and their soul strength is at least much higher than that of civilians in all countries.
And you don't have to be polite to harvest the souls of the captives, if you really tear your face with the navy completely in the future, you can take it all at once. The Hormitz made in this way is naturally far more powerful than the Hormitz that usually collects soul taxes from the inhabitants of all countries.
And there is another advantage of using the souls of naval officers and soldiers to make Homitz, that is, Homitz will bring his own gun skills......
According to Mousse's understanding, there are three sources of Hormitz's skills, one is the soul fruit itself, the second is the soul injected into Hormitz, and the third is the characteristics of the substrate itself that makes Hormitz (the most typical are Sun Prometheus and Thundercloud Zeus).
The Soul Fruit does not have its own gun skills, and the substrate is even more impossible, so the Hormiz soldiers who know how to operate guns must be the soul injected into it.
But most of the inhabitants of all countries are ordinary people, how many of them can shoot?
Therefore, BIG· The angry army of the MOM Pirates looked at the crowds, but they could only slash with cold weapons, and their own combat effectiveness was weak, so they couldn't even play the tactics of the crowd.
In addition to maintaining domestic law and order, it will probably be able to fart and increase the momentum......