From the Navy Admiral to the Gotei 13

He always felt like he had become the person he hated the most back then, full of talk of morality and virtue, speaking of noble and noble things. …

But if you think about it carefully, they did do some practical things. At least Smoker being one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea is much better than those bastard pirates, right?

Smoker's eloquence was not as smooth as Diarmait's. Besides, he was only twenty years old and did not have the experience of Diarmait's two lifetimes. He was somewhat passionate in his heart.

It has to be said that Diarmait's words were a bit empty, but to Smoker, they did make his blood boil.

"Look at Ms. Stussy. She's also a senior operations commander of the CP agency. In our Marine Headquarters, according to the administrative hierarchy, she'd be a powerful vice admiral. But what about now? Didn't she come to Pleasure Street to be a brothel owner? Why? For justice! She's different from those CP people, otherwise she wouldn't be trusted by our Navy. A woman like her can endure this kind of torment. As a man, are you, Smoker, so incompetent?"

Diarmait pointed at Stussy and said.

Stussy nodded cooperatively on the surface, but in his heart he was cursing Diarmait to death.

You are the madam, I am the queen!

After hearing what Diarmait said, Smoker felt embarrassed. Since they all had the surname S, it was even more embarrassing.

"Also, don't worry. We have found another suitable candidate to be one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea at our headquarters. In two years, when she comes of age, we will arrange for her to join the Seven Warlords of the Sea. Then you won't be alone. If you really can't stand the pressure, you can go to her, your colleague, to talk to her. Don't worry, it won't be just the two of you in the future. We plan to turn the entire Seven Warlords of the Sea organization into a peripheral organization of the Navy. By then, you being here will be no different from being at the headquarters. You will be surrounded by your own people!" Diarmait patted Smoker's shoulder again.

Smoker's expression changed several times, but he finally stopped getting angry.

"I understand, Admiral." Smoker nodded.

"Well, I'm glad you understand this. It's also very difficult for us to do. If there is a better way, how could we bear to let such an outstanding talent like you become a pirate?" Diarmait shook his head with emotion.

"Then Admiral, can you give me a rough estimate of how long I have to serve as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea before I can return to headquarters?" Smoker asked in a deep voice.

Diarmait hesitated for a moment, and just as he was about to speak, Smoker said, "I will take your words seriously this time!"

Seeing this, Diarmait was silent for a while, then said, "It's hard for me to give you an exact number. Plans can't keep up with changes, but based on the current situation, it will take at least ten years, right?"

"That means I have to hold on for about seven years, right?" Smoker said after a moment of hesitation.

Diarmait glanced at Smoker, then shook his head and said, "No, I mean, it will take at least ten years from now."

Smoker? ? ?

It’s better to wait for three years and three years!

"Don't worry, just be a good Shichibukai here, and you will have more and more opportunities to communicate with the headquarters. In this way, you can improve your strength and ability. I am very relieved. If you serve as a Shichibukai for a few more years, you will definitely not have any major deficiencies in your ability to do things. I promise you, okay? When you become successful and complete this great task and return to Marineford, I will arrange for you to be a candidate for admiral!" Diarmait patted Smoker's arm and said earnestly.

Oh boy, another empty promise.

When Smoker left Marineford, he was promised the position of rear admiral, and even hinted at the position of vice admiral or something.

Now, Diarmait was trying to trick him into becoming a 'candidate for general'.

Smoker is no longer the kid who hung out in school more than two years ago. He has been a pirate for two years and has seen a lot of intrigues. He has been a captain for more than two years and has also made a lot of promises.

Of course, he could understand what Diarmait meant.

But even so, I still have some expectations in my heart.

Now Smoker finally understood that he had fallen into this trap and there was no way he could get out now. If he didn't want his file to be deleted and he didn't want to be a pirate for the rest of his life, he had to follow Diarmait.

I just hope that when he becomes successful in the future, General Diarmait will show some credibility.

After Smoker figured this out, he could only sigh helplessly and said, "Then, General, is there something you want me to do this time?"

"Yes, of course." Diarmait nodded, then said, "You are now one of the Shichibukai, the only one. The World Government has no doubts about you. They didn't use you for anything before, but now it's time for you to contribute to the Navy."

…ask for flowers.

When it comes to contributing to the navy, Smoker not only does not show any disgust, on the contrary, he is actually a little excited.

Even though he's a pirate, it's still good if he can enforce justice!

"Does the headquarters have a plan to counterattack the New World? Do they need me to be an insider? Do they want to form an alliance with the target so that they can stab him in the back? Who is it? Whitebeard? Big Mom? However, with my identity as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, it won't be easy to gain their trust, but I will try." Smoker said excitedly.

"No, that's not the problem." Diarmait waved his hand, then continued, "The following is what we've discussed at headquarters. We've decided to use your name, White Hunter Smoker, as camouflage to establish a trading company. Both headquarters and Ms. Stussy will be investing resources within this trading company. Your job is to publicly serve as the 'president'. At the same time, you must do everything you can to expand and strengthen this trading company, ideally to the level of a chaebol. The purpose of this trading company is simply to generate more funds to support headquarters."

Smoker? ? ?

0You ask me to be a marine and enforce justice, no problem.

You can ask me to be a pirate, kill people and burn things, that's fine too.

But now you suddenly ask me to be the president of a "trading company". This is outrageous. When did I, Smoker, have the ability to do this?

"General, I..." Smoker said hesitantly.

"Don't worry. We have the combined strength of pirates, the navy, CP, and Happy Street. The key is that there is no dirty struggle for power between us. Basically, this plan will not be too difficult, and there will be no opponents. As for the source of goods, you also know that we have been developing in the Calm Belt for several years. We have iron ore, copper ore, stone ore, coal mine, timber, and even a gold mine. At the same time, we have obtained a large amount of other resources in the Calm Belt. Most of them can be digested by our navy, but many things have been sitting there with no place to digest them. After you have established the shell of the company, our navy will hand over the goods to Stussy. At that time, you will cooperate with Stussy in the dark world as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea and sell them. You can keep part of the money earned for development, give part to Ms. Stussy for circulation, and donate the rest to the headquarters... There is no risk." Diarmuid said seriously.

Smoker was stunned for a moment. He was a little unsure before, but now it seemed that everything was ready, except for the east wind?

Doesn't seem difficult?

It made sense when he thought about it. With the combined forces of several parties, basically no one could be their opponent. At the same time, there was enough goods. Smoker also knew that over in the Calm Belt, the navy had gathered more than 200,000 pirate prisoners to open mountains and reclaim land for large-scale development of the Calm Belt. No one knew how much resources they had dug out, but they just couldn't cash in.

Therefore, as long as we build the framework here, we can start operating immediately and convert these resources into funds continuously to provide blood transfusion to the headquarters.

Smoker was also very clear about the importance of this blood transfusion.

Maybe it won't be a big deal at first, but as their business grows bigger, it might become an independent source of military funding for the navy in the future.

The qualitative change that would bring about would be tremendous.

"Look, this is the benefit that the Seven Warlords of the Sea can bring to our navy. Now there is only you, and when there are more in the future, won't the benefits be even greater? So I didn't lie to you, if you stay here, you are also shouldering the future of the navy, Smoker!" Diarmait said seriously.

"Yes, I understand, General!" Smoker nodded seriously this time.

Right

Chapter 215 Doflamingo: Where did this Amway company come from?

In the North Sea, in a residence of the Don Quixote family.

Doflamingo, this guy, returned to the North Sea at some point.

In fact, although Doflamingo became the leader of the Don Quixote Pirates, he did not give up the foundation he laid in the North Sea when he was young. On the contrary, he had deep roots in the North Sea, and a large number of businesses related to the dark world were carried out here.

At this time, Doflamingo was holding two lists in his hands and comparing something.

"Interesting! Can you give us a 20% discount on the iron ore price?" Doflamingo murmured. He then placed the list on the table, looked up at Trebol, and asked again, "Have you figured out the origins of this Amway company?"

Recently, Doflamingo noticed a newly emerging business, or should I say company?

The company was called 'Amway Group'. It had sufficient supply of goods and its prices were lower than most of its peers. It was developing very rapidly, which surprised him.

For example, in this case of iron ore, Doflamingo is the buyer. He controls a complete arms production chain and has been smuggling black arms for many years. The production of arms requires sufficient iron ore and other materials.

Doflamingo does have several related mining businesses, but the problem is that they are not enough. His arms business is in a period of expansion, so he needs new sources of goods even more.

It wasn't that there were no mining merchants who had cooperated with him before, but this Amway company suddenly came into Doflamingo's sight.

The iron ore they can provide is of high quality and the price is 20% lower than the market price. Doflamingo will of course be tempted.

So while he was thinking about these things, he was also secretly investigating what was going on with this Amway company that suddenly appeared.

Torrebol nodded, then said, "I found out something. This company has a very powerful background!"

"Oh?" Doflamingo raised his eyebrows, then smiled evilly and said, "12 Fufu (Ruoshui Novel Group ⑨⑦⑤⑥③②④~①０ Fufu, how big is it?"

"This company is backed by two big men. One is the White Hunter Smoker, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and the other is the Queen of Pleasure Street, Stussy..." Trepol said softly.

Doflamingo frowned slightly, then said, "Shichibukai? What qualifications does that Smoker have to work with Stussy? Is it because they both have the last name "S"?"

In Doflamingo's opinion, Stussy's status and reputation are far greater than Smoker's, whether in the Dark World or in the New World.

Perhaps he was lacking in strength, but in their industry, such flaws were tolerable. Moreover, it was said that Stussy's backer was Charlotte. As for Lingling, it was even less of a problem.

Compared to him, White Hunter Smoker, although he has the title of Shichibukai, is not as good as Stussy in every aspect?

How can this be cooperation?

"Maybe it's because of his status as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea? We found out that behind Amway, there might be the power of the CP agency helping out. I guess it was Smoker who made this request to the World Government as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and Stussy might have been attracted by his background as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, so he chose to cooperate with him." Trepol said softly.

Torrepol was indeed correct in this regard. There was indeed some CP power behind Amway. After all, Stussy himself was a senior executive of CP-0.

But in fact, Smoker did make relevant demands to the World Government, and according to the Seven Warlords of the Sea Agreement, the World Government also agreed to his demands.

This is related to the matter of Smoker becoming one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. Because of Diarmait's efforts, Smoker became one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea through the recommendation of the CP Agency. Therefore, the CP Agency naturally has a good impression of Smoker, and the World Government is not very wary of Smoker.

It is because of these reasons that the current situation has come about. The World Government knows about Smoker's situation and asks Stussy to cooperate with Smoker, but they don't know that Stussy is actually in cahoots with Smoker.

"The Seven Warlords of the Sea?" Doflamingo was a little interested when he heard that. He had been very interested in this organization since it was established, but he had not found any opportunity to join it.

In recent years, he has been trying to curry favor with the Navy. Currently, the Navy only needs to pay a 30% discount when purchasing arms from him, which is a huge profit.

But even so, Doflamingo was not sure whether the Navy would agree to him joining the Seven Warlords of the Sea?

Now, seeing Smoker starting to cause trouble as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, he would of course be envious.

But despite his envy, after a brief pause, Doflamingo asked, "How is the business situation of Amway? What is its strength?"

"Very impressive," Torrepol said first, then explained in detail, "At first, they were doing business openly, just like many businesses and merchant ships. Later, with Stussy's help, they began to venture into the dark world, engaging in large-scale smuggling. What's surprising is that they have a wide variety of goods and an abundant supply. So far, they have been involved in a large number of mineral businesses, as well as timber smuggling, tobacco trade, and so on. However, at this stage, they have been selling raw materials or other finished products on consignment. Aside from tobacco, they haven't produced any mature products of their own. I suspect they have control over a secret source of raw materials, or perhaps they are collaborating with some country to secretly sell these resources."

"In just over two years, has it developed to this point?" Upon hearing this, Doflamingo became even more jealous of the title of Seven Warlords of the Sea.

That’s right, it is now the end of the Haiyuan calendar year 1507.

A little over two years had passed since Smoker and Stussy teamed up to do this.

"Can we find out where their goods come from?" Doflamingo asked again.

At this point, Torrebol said with some embarrassment, "I can't find it. Their source of goods is very secretive... Over on Happy Street..."

"I understand." Doflamingo nodded and continued, "Happy Street is a powerful intelligence organization. The information you can find is all information they don't care about and are willing to show us. Information like supply channels, etc., Stussy doesn't want to show us, that means she really can't see it!"

Doflamingo was still very impressed with the intelligence level of Happy Street, but he didn't think too much about it.

It was impossible for him to imagine that it was the Navy that continuously provided raw materials to Smoker and Stussy, and it was even more impossible for him to imagine that the bulk of Amway's profits would eventually fall into the hands of the Navy.

"Young Master, should we cooperate with this Amway company?" Torrepol asked again.

Doflamingo casually picked up a glass of red wine from the table, took a sip, and after thinking for a while, a wicked smile appeared on his lips and he said, "Of course, since they offer a lower price, why don't we cooperate? What's more, Smoker is my designated colleague. After all, I must get the position of Shichibukai!"

The situation was different from two years ago. Two years ago, when Amway was just starting out, there were only White Hunters in the world. Smoker was the only one among the Seven Warlords of the Sea.

And now, there are two more, one of whom is the tyrant Bartholomew Kuma. This guy joined the Shichibukai organization a year ago and became the second Shichibukai.

The other one is Hawkeye, Dracule, Mihawk.

It is said that this guy is now unrivaled in the art of swordsmanship and calls himself the world's greatest swordsman. Because of his arrogance, he has aroused the hostility of many swordsman masters, who have gone to challenge him, but all of them returned defeated. Therefore, Mihawk has now more or less established the title of "the greatest swordsman".

Originally, everyone thought that this guy was a playboy. Although he was defined as a pirate by the navy and had a bounty on his head, he had no history of committing any crimes. Therefore, he was not recognized by the pirate camp.

Everyone thought that he would continue to mess around and maintain this dissolute state, but in the blink of an eye, he suddenly became one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, which was very confusing.