Chapter 63: Chapter 63: Taxes Are Very Important
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Doflamingo's attitude towards his big cousin Claudius is quite friendly, mainly because the two sides have no enmity.
But in the end, everything is about benefits; right now, he calls him 'brother', but who knows about the future?
After withdrawing his thoughts, Doflamingo asked, "Where did that guy Hajrudin go? Why haven't I seen him these days?"
"Diamante arranged for him to 'collect taxes'." Trebol said calmly.
The so-called 'taxation' of the Donquixote Family is actually an annual collection of protection fees from the various forces attached to the big tree of the Donquixote Family.
It's not a very troublesome job, as most know the consequences of disobeying, but there are all kinds of birds on every tree.
As a behemoth on the dark side of North Blue, the Donquixote Family also has many affiliates.
Every year, there are always a few who default, either because the business is not doing well, there is no money, or they feel that they are strong, and they want to experience the iron fist of sanctions from the Donquixote Family.
Therefore, every year, the Donquixote Family will send cadres to be responsible for collecting taxes
If someone dares not to pay taxes, then... well, at least his family won't mourn him, and they can be together after death.
Hearing the answer, Doflamingo didn't ask any more questions. He pointed to the Devil Fruit on the table and said, "Give him this when he comes back."
"Understood." Trebol replied.
Doflamingo asked again: "Recently, I've been so focused on my cultivation that I haven't had time to ask, is there anything on the family side that can't be resolved?"
"Nothing at all, although we suffered a lot in Cervantes, but thanks to that incident, your reputation, is now resounding in North Blue, and our business is doing even better than before." Trebol said in a sticky voice.
After a short pause, seeing Doflamingo frowned and was about to teach him a lesson, Trebol hurriedly tried to restore his normal tone, and said, "Not only North Blue, but also our business in other sea areas, has also become more prosperous.
Before the Cervantes incident, Doflamingo was just a North Blue country turtle in the eyes of the world.
But now it is different, he Doflamingo has a certain prestige in the world.
After all, not everyone can fight Marine Admiral for six days and five nights without getting caught!
In the past, everyone talked about Whitebeard, Roger and others, who knew about this Doflamingo?
But now, even if they don't pay special attention to it, everyone at least has an impression of Doflamingo in their heart.
Seeing that Doflamingo nodded, Trebol said again: "However, regarding the construction of the new flagship, Doffy, you still have to take time to look at the design drawings. If you are satisfied, then we can start construction."
The original Flamingo was a small three-masted sailing ship, and its carrying capacity, firepower, and performance were not enough.
Doflamingo didn't have much demand at that time, and it was easy to use.
Now that he has become a big pirate, and there are giants under his command, this small ship may not be able to bear the heavy responsibility of the flagship, so Doflamingo has to build a new flagship.
"Who is the architect going to be?" Doflamingo asked curiously.
"North Blue's shipbuilding technology is not very good, so we plan to wait for you to confirm the design, then send the commission directly to Water Seven, let the ship be built there, and then bring it back to North Blue" Trebol said.
"Okay, I'll take a look tomorrow." Doflamingo replied.
Meanwhile, in New World · Wanokuni.
Onigashima, home of the Beasts Pirates!
A burly man with a huge stature, holding a jug in his hand, was looking at the wanted poster and information in his hand.
In front of him, there was also a man with black wings and armour wrapped tightly around his body, except for his eyes, barely revealing any physical appearance.
These two people are Kaido and King.
"That bastard Roger turned into Pirate King..." Kaido said angrily.
The wanted poster in his hand at this time is Roger's latest reward.
Five billion sixty-four million eight hundred thousand Beli!
This bounty is the highest in the world and has become the highest in history, even higher than the bounty offered to Kaido's boss, Rocks!
Obviously, even if the Roger Pirates announced their disbandment, the World Government and Naval Headquarters are very worried about these pirates, and are willing to raise the bounty to such a degree, all to find the Roger Pirates and kill them to bury their secrets with them.
You know, it's not twenty years later, the bounties have not inflated to that extent.
Twenty years later, Whitebeard's bounty is only 5 billion Beli.
Now, Newgate has only been offered a reward of around 2.5 billion Beli.
Roger's reward is more than two Whitebeards!
It can be seen that the reward offered this time is outrageous!
In addition, pirates are all rebellious, especially the big pirates standing on the front lines, who the hell can accept a 'Pirate King' standing over their heads?
Therefore, even if Roger has basically secured his title now, people like Kaido, Charlotte Linlin, and Shiki will definitely not admit to this "Pirate King" title.
Now everyone is gearing up, wishing to find Roger and beat him to death.
In this way, perhaps the title of the Pirate King can be snatched away by them?
Thinking of Charlotte Linlin, Kaido's expression was silent for a while, and then said: "Linlin's Totto Land seems to be developing much faster than us..."
Indeed, judging from the current situation, Charlotte Linlin's big mom pirate group is developing very rapidly.
In fact, even if you look at it twenty years later, the pirate group with the strongest foundation and the most powerful force in New World should be the big mom pirate group.
Because Charlotte Linlin's development model is completely different from that of ordinary pirates, Totto Land can be said to be a standard pirate country!
If you want population, they have population, if you want tax, they have tax, and if you want territory, they have territory. It has evolved from traditional plundering to the point of sustainable development.
Maybe give her some more time, and her Bigmom pirate group will really become a kingdom-like pirate group that can be passed down from generation to generation.
Charlotte Linlin had to leave her base camp and go to Wanokuni to fight the Straw Hats because of the legendary plot armour, otherwise the outcome would have been really hard to say.
Kaido was talking to himself here, and King stood silently beside his boss without saying a word.
After a while, Kaido opened the information and asked, "Did you find out?"
"Well, the Don Quixote Doflamingo of North Blue is Mythical Zoan user. It should be in the form of a legendary vampire. I guess it is precisely because of the powerful immortality and resilience of this ability that he was able to fight fiercely with the Marine Admiral for so long." King replied.
"Zoan, and a Mythical Zoan at that... he is really a good seedling. If he can be brought under my banner, he will definitely be a great help to me in the future, just like you!" Kaido said with some expectation in his heart.
Kaido, who is obsessed with Zoan's abilities, probably dreams not of being the Pirate King or finding the One Piece, but to be the director of a zoo.
Therefore, a large part of the formation of Beasts Pirates is to find Zoan ability users.
He heard that there was a newcomer from North Blue, and he fought fiercely with a Marine Admiral for five or six days as soon as he debuted. This made Kaido, who was already interested in expanding the strength of the Beasts Pirates, very intrigued, so he asked King to inquire about the relevant information. .
Unexpectedly, the newcomer is a Mythical Zoan user!
It really made Kaido's heart itch with anticipation.
"Did you find out about that Queen?" Kaido put down Doflamingo's information and asked again.
"I did, and he's joined up with that Mythical Zoan newcomer." King said calmly.
Kaido froze for a moment, then frowned and asked, "Where is Caesar?"
"It's the same." King replied.
Kaido raised his hand and touched his chin, thinking.
The more powerful the pirate group, the less likely it is to rely entirely on such things as plundering as its source of income.
Because plundering is unstable, at this point, pirates who were not engaged in production have to consider making money from stable channels.
The thinking of most pirates is still simple and rude, from plundering, simple evolution to 'collecting protection fees'.
Like the Whitebeard Pirates, their territory has to pay a large amount of protection fees to Whitebeard every year, so that they are allowed to fly the Whitebeard flag.
Charlotte Linlin's Bigmom pirate group also has an important revenue, which is to collect 'taxes', that is, protection fees, from the various islands of the nations under their command.
Kaido also has the same idea. Wanokuni currently pays him protection fees and honors him as the grand protector of the country.
But Kaido felt that the money was not enough, so he fell in love with Wanokuni's craftsmanship, and planned to use Wanokuni's resources and craftsmen to open a military factory, produce weapons, and sell them all over the world to make money.
But this kind of industry cannot only have resources and craftsmen, the most important thing is to have relevant scientific research talents!
Otherwise, you can only sell knives!
By selling cold weapons, how can you make as much money as by selling artillery?
So Kaido is also eyeing Queen and Caesar, the top "weapon masters" in the scientific research industry.
It's just that he didn't expect that they were all eaten up by this Donquixote Family already?!
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