One Piece: General Xuanming, Defeat the New World

"No, no, this is not right, Lieutenant General, this is not right!"

Eric lay on the ground, frantically looking through the information thrown to him by Carsen, trying to find a glimmer of hope in it.

But with this information, any piece of evidence in it, once confirmed, would mean a dead end.

Eric flipped through the pages, only to find two words densely written between the lines: "death penalty"!

"Take him away and wait for his fate."

Carson was losing interest and didn't want to get entangled any further.

"As for the rest of the East China Sea Governors with the rank of Major or above, we will arrange for someone to temporarily take over your jobs until everything comes to light. We will then make fair judgments on rewards and punishments."

The officers of the surrounding East China Sea had anticipated this order. Not only did they not complain at all, but they spoke respectfully:

"It should be so. Thank you, Master Xuanming, for your understanding."

These people knew very well that with Eric in the lead, if they followed the Navy's trial procedures, none of them would be executed, and at most they would be dismissed from their posts.

The naval trial regulations, taking into account the distribution of power, are particularly strict in dealing with the highest local officials, while the trials of accomplices are more lenient.

After all, when the superiors do bad things, the subordinates have almost no right to make their own choices. At the same time, in order to preserve the naval power to the greatest extent, they basically only punish the main culprits.

Therefore, going through the trial process is already a relatively good outcome for these officers in the East China Sea.

What they were really afraid of was that Carson would act directly without following the procedures. After all, it would be easy for a candidate for general to deal with some officials in the East China Sea.

……

After dealing with all this, Carsent used Den Den Mushi to contact General Sengoku and informed him of the matter of East China Sea Governor Eric.

In this regard, Zhan Guo did not say much, but asked Carsent to handle it properly and pay attention to the impact.

Hearing Zhan Guo's consistent tone, Carsent knew that Eric's affairs could not be hidden from Zhan Guo.

In other words, Zhan Guo could know most of the information about the four seas at the first time. Especially the internal affairs of the navy, which could not be hidden from Zhan Guo.

But think about it, the East China Sea is the weakest sea among the four seas. The Navy has a high degree of control over the East China Sea, and the Navy also has an internal review force. Eric's behavior cannot be hidden from Zhan Guo.

The reason why the issue was not dealt with before was, on the one hand, that there had indeed been no serious rebellion in the East China Sea, and on the other hand, because people were concerned about the claims of factions in the four seas.

The four seas are one. If the East China Sea is disturbed, the other three seas will also fall into tension. This is not what the Warring States period wants to see.

And this time, Carsent's tour around the world gave the Warring States an excellent opportunity.

Don't say I'm unfair. I've been to all four seas, but you just happened to have problems in the East China Sea. You can't blame anyone else for this.

After the communication with Den Den Mushi, an action report has been sent out to the headquarters, with the main focus on strictly following the procedures.

After doing all this, Carsent put down the Den Den Mushi in his hand, leaned back in his chair, and waited for the fish to take the bait.

……

At this time, the Navy Headquarters also caused a small-scale disturbance because of the situation in the East China Sea. Of course, it was mainly concentrated within Garp's faction.

It is called the Garp faction, but in fact it is just a name. Garp has never cared about factional disputes, and those who depend on him neither reject nor agree with him, and he mainly keeps silent.

A few years ago, he had handed over the faction to Dorag, but now Dorag has defected and there is no one to take care of it.

After all, the Garp faction is more like a group of guys who rely on Garp's face to bully others.

Some of these people may truly admire Karp, but most of them are just unwilling to change their appearance and just want to get by one day at a time.

In other words, under the name of Karp, they formed an interest group on their own.

They will not compete head-on with Sengoku, Vice Admiral Tsuru's staff, and the emerging Aegis Society. Without Garp's support, they will be easily crushed, but for other factions, this is enough.

Upon receiving the news, several representatives from the interest groups gathered together immediately.

"Lieutenant General, what do you think we should do? Governor Eric of the East Sea, should we keep him?"

"Protect, protect, protect, use your head to protect, are you going to fight Xuan Ming head-on? Do you have military merits, or something else? Do you know how much it will cost to protect Eric?"

The lieutenant general behind Eric was already troubled by this matter. When he heard someone else asking about it, he immediately became furious and started cursing.

"Waste, waste, you are useless."

"Even if we can invite a strong person to talk to Xuanming, we can't afford the price. Even if we are qualified to talk to him, we still have to pay the price of asking Xuanming to show mercy."

"Even if we go to great lengths to save Eric, we will never get the position of Governor of the East China Sea. Do you understand?"

"Eric is completely finished now. What good will it do us to keep him alive?"

The lieutenant general had it very clear in his mind that if they called Carson to demand the release of the person, whoever made the call would be killed.

The only way is to entrust someone to help them communicate.

The people who have this ability are mostly Sora, Sengoku, Tsuru, Garp, and the newly emerging Borsalino and Sakaski.

Not to mention Garp, who used his name to mess around and then expected others to clean up the mess when something went wrong. If Garp knew about this, Carson wouldn't even have to do anything, Garp would have cleaned it up himself.

As for others, they simply cannot afford the price.

What's more, only if there are benefits can one be noticed and have the possibility of being saved.

Eric represents the group's interests in the East China Sea.

Eric's position as the governor of a sea area can bring them a lot of benefits and money. If they had not spent so much effort in planning in the past, the position of governor of the East China Sea might not have been given to Eric.

But now, the loss of this benefit is inevitable. In this case, Eric's value has dropped sharply.

"It's impossible to save him. Whoever moves now will die. Tell Eric not to say anything that shouldn't be said. We will take good care of his family."

After a long silence, the lieutenant general exhaled the smoke from his mouth and made a judgment.

……

In the East China Sea, Carsent, who had been waiting for two days, stood up.

By this time, Carson understood that the people behind Eric had given up on this guy.

Come to think of it, a guy who can't bring any benefits is not worth their spending a lot of money to rescue.

However, this also means that the incident ends here. Carson will not take the initiative to trace the matter back to the headquarters. The faction far away from the headquarters will cut off its tail to survive, and Eric will become a discarded pawn.

What Carson has to do is to make the best use of this discarded pawn and let it burn out its remaining energy.