One Piece: General Xuanming, Defeat the New World

Chapter 290: Unusual Movement, Dorag's Visit

"Doragu, what wind brings you here?"

In Marinford, in Carsent's office, Carsent was lying on the sofa in a comfortable and lazy posture, looking at Dorag who came uninvited in front of him.

When Carsente used his Observation Haki to sense that Dragon was approaching, he had already let Zhiya leave first.

At this moment, the decadence and depression in Dorag had been swept away, like a long sword that was constantly accumulating strength, its edge was exposed and was about to be unsheathed.

Dorag's current heroic appearance is a world of difference from his state half a month ago.

Seeing this, Carsent nodded gently, knowing that Dorag was ready to leave.

"Lieutenant General Carsen, I don't have anything to do. I'm just about to go out on a mission, so I came to visit you specially."

In response to Carsent's question, Dorag politely complimented him and pulled a chair over and sat down.

"Snapped"

The dancing flame on the lighter ignited the cigar, and Dorag took a long drag while holding the cigar in his mouth. His tattooed face was vaguely visible in the smoke.

"Doragu, let alone the saying that people never come to visit you for no reason, but you haven't been here once in the past few years."

"Don't talk about visiting, just get down to business."

Under Carsent's gaze, Dorag trembled involuntarily.

Looking into Carsent's sharp eyes, Dorag felt that everything about him was seen through from the inside out, without any concealment.

"This feeling... did he see something..."

Dorag frowned and forced himself to suppress the uneasiness in his heart.

"Well, Lieutenant General Carsen. I do have a problem that is quite difficult for me. I hope you can help me with it."

With a smile on his face, Dorag cleverly concealed his surprise and embarrassment, and then took out a mission document and placed it in front of Carsent.

Carsent didn't say anything or look through the documents. He just kept his original posture and stared at Dorag quietly.

His eyes were like swords, and for a moment, Dorag didn't know what to do. He could only suck on the cigar in his mouth, as if he could only feel safe under the heavy smoke.

"Okay, let me take a look."

The atmosphere gradually dropped to freezing point, and suddenly, Carsent's chuckle broke the frozen atmosphere.

Pressure is best when it is just right. If the pressure is not controlled well, and Dorag gets angry and raises the banner of revolution on the spot, it will be a bit troublesome.

As he spoke, Carsent picked up the documents on the table and started flipping through them.

In short, it is a rather acute problem. When the Sky Gold of a certain kingdom was collected and about to be handed over, it was plundered by pirates.

The problem now is that the deadline for handing in the Tianshang Gold is approaching, but it is impossible for the kingdom to collect another portion of Tianshang Gold in a short period of time, so the matter has been reported to the Navy, hoping that the Navy will help take back the Tianshang Gold.

"Is this the mission you are going to carry out? Let me think about it."

Carsent stroked his chin gently, with a barely perceptible hint of teasing in his words.

Dorag was ready to defect, so how could he have the energy to carry out the mission? It was probably a task left over from before, and he just happened to use it to test the waters and reflect his own ideas.

As a rule, people in this situation can only consider themselves unlucky and either squeeze out a share of the money from the people or wait for the reckoning.

However, considering the World Government's increasingly relaxed attitude towards member states in recent years, if the royal family takes responsibility, gives up the throne and becomes an ordinary noble, the issue of taking the blame will be resolved.

This kind of thing has been dealt with in similar ways in recent years.

It is obvious that since the king could seek help from the navy, he obviously had no intention of giving up the throne.

"There are only two solutions to this problem. Other generals have given standard answers. Either send the navy to maintain order and collect the heavenly gold again. Or persuade the king to abdicate."

After reading it, Carsente threw the document back to Dorag and gave the official answer.

After listening to the plan proposed by Carsent, Dorag fell into a brief silence.

He knew these two solutions very well. As early as when he saw the task, he had already contacted the king and advised him to abdicate voluntarily.

But he couldn't say it openly, so under Dragon's euphemistic persuasion, he didn't know whether he was really confused or pretending to be confused. The king didn't mention abdication at all. He just asked the navy to catch the pirates as much as possible and recover the Tensho Gold.

"As for the second method, I have already mentioned it. The king has not expressed his opinion, nor has he asked the navy to send troops to maintain order. He has only repeatedly urged them to capture the pirates and recover the losses."

Dorag frowned and told Carsent what happened.

Carson rolled his eyes and said nothing, but he was muttering in his heart:

This is normal. The king is unwilling to abdicate and will naturally ignore your hints. It is almost impossible to recover the property stolen by pirates, but the king has repeatedly emphasized the need to recover the pirates.

Isn't it obvious that the king is waiting for the naval commander to take the initiative to ask for the collection of gold from heaven to maintain his good reputation?

You can then turn around and say to the people: I have argued with reason, but the navy can't do anything to the pirates, so they can only exploit you.

In simple terms, he wants to establish another after he has been in power. There are only a few fools who can be kings these days.

"If you were faced with this task, how would you handle it?"

Dorag frowned and continued to ask.

"I will persuade the king in a friendly way, and ask him to abdicate voluntarily. You have to consider the method, and you can't just persuade him blindly."

Carson said vaguely. After all, such words cannot be said openly. Why not just find someone to scare the king? The throne is still a life, I believe the king can still tell the difference.

However, such words certainly cannot be said openly, so this is all Carsen could say.

However, it was obvious that Dorag did not understand Carsent's intention and continued to ask:

"At that time, the king and I talked for almost three hours. The king still asked the navy to catch the pirates, and he didn't mention anything else."

"There is no other way. You either listen to the king or go collect the gold from heaven again."

Hearing this, Carson shook his head helplessly. It was difficult to understand what was being said.

Perhaps he did not want to dwell on this matter any further, so Dorag decisively chose to give up this issue and no longer worried about how to persuade the king. Instead, he raised a new question.

"It's not just this mission. If there are any accidents in the future, whether it's a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, will the common people have to pay the heavenly gold again?"