One Piece: God Killer

Chapter 158 The future of Fishman Island

"Everything in the world is bustling for profit; everything in the world is bustling for profit. The dilemma of Fish-Man Island lies in profit, and the way out of Fish-Man Island also lies in profit."

As long as Princess Otohime asks, "Mr. Profik, does he have any insight?" Profik can tell her what is on his mind.

"Human emotions have always been based on interests. As long as Fish-Man Island can provide enough benefits to the world, a bridge can be built between humans and Fish-Man Island."

There are interests first, then feelings, and finally the fish people and humans form an inseparable "community of destiny". These are the three steps Profik envisions.

But when Profik said the word "profit", Princess Otohime frowned. An idealist like her has a natural aversion to talking about "interests." In addition, during the last banquet, what Profik said was "three hundred million beli for a fishman" left a deep impression on Princess Otohime.

When it comes to profit, Princess Otohime inevitably thinks of the slave trade.

If Profik's plan is to have Fish-Man Island take the initiative to provide slaves to the Celestial Dragons, then she can guarantee that they will be driven out of Fish-Man Island immediately!

Naturally, Profic would not make such a foolish move. He said: "Last time I also talked about the benefits. The benefits of the slave trade made slave traders take risks and capture fishermen's slaves. But the benefits of the slave trade are quite limited. "

"How many people in this world can afford to buy slaves? Except for the Celestial Dragons of Marijoa, there are at most some wealthy nobles. How many slaves can they buy? How much money can they have to buy slaves? How many people can be attracted to take risks for this purpose? ? With all due respect, even if a mermaid is auctioned every day at the auction house in Shampoo, such 'interests' can only be said to be minimal!"

"As long as Fishman Island can integrate into human society in other aspects and provide enough benefits to the entire world, it will soon be able to win over most human civilians. At that time, we will have to deal with slave traders and slave-holding nobles, and even Abolition of slavery would be so much easier!”

The problem of fish-men slaves is difficult to solve, of course it is, but it is not that difficult to say that it is simple. As long as Fishman Island doesn't suddenly have a big job like relocating the whole family, the number of slaves can be controlled within a range that does not affect the normal development and iteration of Fishman Island society. Although this statement is very cruel to the captured fishmen and mermaids, there are some things that cannot be rushed.

No matter what, this is much smaller than the loss caused to the fish-men tribe by moving the whole family to land.

There is money to be made from child trafficking, but the number of children who can be trafficked only accounts for a very small proportion of the total number of children. Why is this? On the one hand, of course, it is a blow from the law. Although Fish-Man Island can't do anything against the Celestial Dragons, other nobles are different. As long as Fish-Man Island cooperates with Daybreak and is protected by Profik, no noble from an ordinary country would dare to keep slaves. As the "Shichibukai" Profik would dare to kill any one of them.

Another very important reason is that there are feelings between neighbors and relatives. Based on this feeling, generally speaking, neighbors and relatives will be responsible for helping to prevent trafficking. This kind of relationship is established based on long-term common life, interests and blood ties. It is also something that is lacking between fishmen and humans. To form such a relationship, what is needed is a connection of interests and long-term contact.

This is exactly what Profic can provide to Fishman Island as the Shichibukai.

"But what should we do?" Princess Otohime understood what Profik meant, but she didn't know what to do.

To be honest, she didn't even think there was any difference between her previous method and Profik's philosophy - to bring benefits to mankind, wouldn't it mean contact? If you want to make contact, don't you have to change your attitude towards humans and then move to live on land?

This is the "gap" between Princess Otohime and Profik. Restricted by the level of development and social conditions, the society on Fishman Island is basically a traditional community society composed of acquaintances. Almost all food and clothing are produced by oneself, and there is very little contact with the outside world. In such a social environment, the most effective method that Princess Otohime can think of is to engage in a large-scale immigration of the whole family.

This is not to blame on Fishman Island. In the world of One Piece, most areas are in such a social state. Among the few exceptions, we have to exclude the pirate navy and warmonger Germa Liuliu of the Flower Kingdom. There are not many normal commercial countries left, let alone capital countries or information countries.

What Profic wants to do is to use business to connect the world and use technology to change the world. Fishman Island just happens to exist as one of them.

"Your Highness Otohime," Profik guided, "Who are most of the humans that we usually come into contact with on Fishman Island?"

"It's a pirate."

"What are the interests of most pirates? They are burning, killing, looting, and slave trade. Is it possible to expect your people to change their views on these people? It is impossible to expect them to live in peace with other humans. How can you expect them to live in peace with other humans? Do fish people live in harmony?"

"It is precisely because of this that I want to move Fishman Island to land..." Princess Otohime said.

Profik shook his head: "That's wrong. What's the use of moving to land? Which island are you going to? If it's an uninhabited island, what's the difference from being on the seabed? If there are indigenous people on the island, So, how do you deal with your relationship with each other?"

"You must know that the resources on the island are quite limited. Every more mouths to eat will bring more pressure. The fish-man island moved to the land will not only be unable to provide benefits and integrate into the world, but also have to compete with other races. Resources and interests. By then, instead of being able to achieve reconciliation with humans, more intense conflicts will break out. And when faced with such a life-and-death struggle for interests, race will become the best excuse for hostility between each other!"

Hearing what Profik said, Otohime, who had finally worked up her energy, felt like a deflated rubber ball.

This doesn’t work, that doesn’t work either, “So what should we do?”

“Trade and travel!”

"trading?"

"travel?"

For Otohime and Neptune, trade and travel were completely unheard of new words.

"That's right, most of the humans that Fish-Man Island can come into contact with today are pirates. Apart from doing evil, these pirates can only do some consumption on Fish-Man Island... The human group that Fish-Man Island targets is really It’s too narrow!”

"Trade and tourism can effectively change this situation! The so-called trade is the process of exchanging what is needed between different regions. In this process, huge money flows will occur and countless profits will be brought. And in At the same time, trade will bring about personnel exchanges and a natural sense of identity. It can be said that countries that establish trade relations with Fishman Island will become the 'community of interests' of the Dragon Palace Kingdom."

"At that time, Fish-Man Island can use trade relations to influence the attitudes of other countries and get more countries to side with Fish-Man Island. It can also use this to ask other countries to abolish slavery and release all slaves! Even For those countries that are unwilling to give up their slaves, Fish-Man Island can increase the price of goods, and even pull countries to cut off trade with them to exert pressure. As long as the amount of trade is large enough, even the World Government and the Celestial Dragons will be affected by the Fish-Man Island Island influence!”

"The so-called tourism is to allow citizens from other countries to pay money to live and play on Fishman Island for a period of time, and Fishman Island provides certain safety guarantees and services. Tourism not only allows the Dragon Palace Kingdom to obtain a large amount of funds, but also Let humans and fish people contact and understand each other in a peaceful state."

"Imagine that all countries are trading with Fish-Man Island, and people all over the world know about the Fish-Man clan. At this time, wouldn't it be a matter of course to abolish the fish-man slavery system and realize the peaceful coexistence of fish-people and humans? Fish-Man Island Wouldn’t it be possible for the residents’ wishes to settle on land to be realized?”