One Piece : From Slave to Fleet Admiral

His body felt somewhat sore and his head was dizzy, but the room was no longer as stuffy as before.

Even the ceiling that originally had some dust and stains had been wiped clean.

The moment she saw Jake wake up, Monet smiled and put the rag she was holding into a nearby water basin and said.

"You're awake? It's been about six hours since you fainted from training. It's already evening now. I was in better shape than you and got bored waiting for you, so I helped tidy up your room a bit. But the hygiene here is still quite bad. While cleaning, I even froze some strange insects."

Hearing Monet's words, Jake also smiled and replied.

"Thank you for your hard work Monet. I did hear some strange noises last night. Aren't you afraid of those bugs?"

"I wouldn't say I'm afraid, but they are a bit disgusting. It's fine when they're frozen though. How are you feeling? Still very sore?"

A faint golden light appeared in Jake's hand.

As the golden light entered his body, his expression clearly became much rosier.

"I feel much better now. Do you need some too?"

"I don't need it. I just overused my Devil Fruit ability a bit, but I've already recovered. Since you've recovered, let's go have dinner. The cafeteria will close soon.

While you were unconscious, Lieutenant Commander T-Bone came to find us. He wants us to finish training by noon tomorrow, then go with him to patrol near the Sea Train in Water Seven."

"The Sea Train? Is that thing almost built? I heard old William say it would take at least two or three more years?"

Monet wiped the water on her hands slightly with a towel, then smiled and said.

"It's just one of the routes. There are four lines in total. The rest will probably take three or four years to complete construction."

"I see."

As they talked, they walked towards the cafeteria.

Jake's mind was constantly pondering some things.

It's now 1509, about five years before Tom is executed by the World Government in 1514.

Based on this timeline, Franky and Iceburg should already be shipwrights in Tom's Workers.

If possible, Jake still wanted to recruit such talented people.

After all, in the Great Pirate Era, excellent shipwrights are extremely important for any faction.

Moreover, Jake knew better than anyone here the importance of road transportation for economic development.

If the Marines really want to break free from the World Government's control, they must have their own sources of funding.

And funds, in most cases, can be obtained through road construction.

Although the World Government may not necessarily agree with this, once the roads are built, there will be too much room for maneuvering.

For example, don't the Sea Trains need Marine warships for fixed-point and fixed-segment guarding during voyages?

Otherwise, wouldn't the Sea Trains just be purely delivering money to pirates?

But ships going out need funds and cannons and bullets are needed to defend against pirates, which also require funds.

All these funds can be taken from the World Government.

As for how much is actually used on pirates, that's not for the Marines to decide.

The Marines are only responsible for spending the military funds they request.

As for returning excess military funds, that's not something the Marines should do.

Secondly, if pirates come too fiercely and plunder some important "assets", when the Marines later recover the assets, it's normal for most of the recovered assets to have been spent by the pirates, right?

You can't expect pirates to get money and not use it, just keeping it on their ships.

If the pirates happen to be completely wiped out during the Marines' crackdown, it's very normal for the wealth to have been spent.

Jake even plans to contact some forces other than the Marines to monopolize some of that wealth.

The construction of one Sea Train line affects the livelihood of millions of workers, and is also a big chess piece Jake plans to lay down later for the Marines to break free from the World Government.

More importantly, if the Sea Train can really be realized, it will greatly facilitate patrolling the entire sea area later.

The speed of the Sea Train is incomparable to ordinary sailing warships and pirate ships.

With this, the Marines will be able to quickly deploy large numbers of Marine soldiers over a wide area, which is a huge advantage for maintaining security in the surrounding waters.

Moreover, after the Sea Train starts operating, a large number of sea patrol routes can be eliminated, so only a small number of Marine soldiers need to be deployed for routine patrols.

Because of the existence of the Sea Train, Marine soldiers can take the Sea Train from nearby islands to the scene at any time and effectively strike against pirates.

Under such conditions, the survival rate of Marines will be much higher than before.

As long as the Sea Train can transport troops quickly, in most battles, pirates will face far more Marines than themselves.

Sometimes, for most pirates, when they see defeat is inevitable, the morale of that group of vicious rabble will collapse faster than people imagine.

Finally, what Jake is more concerned about is whether these Marines can become soldiers in battle and exist as ordinary civilians in normal times?

Those unproductive scum pirates are one thing, but the Marines can't rely on plundering civillians to live, right?

Although the Marines' military funds come from the World Government, where does the World Government get them from?

Obviously, the high taxes of allied nations' citizens.

These taxes are the key factor in supporting the huge organization of the Marines.

In these days, through observation, Jake has already discovered a point that is very difficult for him to accept, which is that the strongest group of people in this world basically live as non-producers.

Whether it's those scum pirates who should be like that, or the young and strong Marines, they basically rely on sucking blood from other places to survive.

Especially those Devil Fruit users - how many islands could one Rumble-Rumble Fruit provide electricity for?

How many natural cold storages and cold chain transportation could one Ice-Ice Fruit provide?

And those superhuman strong people beyond theoretical limits - Garp can shatter a mountain with one punch, so how efficient would it be to have him in charge of road construction for transportation?

Damn those ability users, they are all perfect production machines.

It's such a waste to let them be consumed by those damn pirates every day instead of utilizing them!