Chapter 236

"Li Qing, Lord of the Dark Night, this matter is not over yet!"

Naturally, Yang Ming couldn't feel the sadness of red-haired Shanks.

At this time, without being disturbed by outsiders, Yang Ming pulled out the black sword Ye and the famous sword Griffin that were stuck upside down on his body. Two blood arrows spattered from the wounds and fell darkly on the ground.

Fortunately, with the blessing of various abilities, Yang Ming's self-healing ability was even more exaggerated than Kaido's. In just a few breaths, the wound was blocked and the injury was no longer visible.

Now, it's finally time to check out the loot.

The black sword is more than two meters long, and the blade is made of black steel. It has been tempered by Hawkeye Joracol Mihawk for decades with armed domineering. There is a faint cold light on the sword. To neutralize evil spirits, the hilt of the sword is carved with complicated patterns and inlaid with precious gems, making it look extremely majestic and luxurious, and the blade is extremely sharp.

Yang Ming did not use the armed domineering energy to wrap around his body. He only covered his body with a layer of dragon scales. He held the black knife in his hand and gently scraped it on his arm. He easily opened a wound, although it did not touch the root. Bone, but it is already a rare treasure sword in the world.

You must know that Yang Ming is covered in dragon scales, which is directly related to his strength. The stronger the strength, the stronger the dragon scale defense.

After putting Black Blade Night into the space ring with satisfaction, Yang Ming immediately looked at another trophy.

The mirror-like sword body is cold and airy, reflecting Yang Ming's original appearance. The sword body is slender and the tip is sharp. There is a little light condensed in the middle of the high burning blade on the blade, which seems to be flowing continuously, adding a bit of sharpness. of chill. .

Yang Ming held the famous sword Griffin and laid out his posture casually.

The sword is like a white snake spitting out a letter, hissing through the wind, and like a swimming dragon walking around. Sometimes it is as light as a swallow, and it rises with the sword. Sometimes it is as sudden as lightning, and the fallen leaves are colorful. It is really a silver light rising in the courtyard, swallowed thousands of miles away. Enemy blood.

"What a sword! What a peerless sword!"

Yang Ming was playing with the famous sword Griffin in his hand, just like he was playing with red-haired Shanks' girlfriend. No matter how he played with it, he found it very interesting.

"When I see red-haired Shanks again next time, I will definitely discuss with him how to use the famous sword Griffin."

Taking advantage of the situation, he put the famous sword Griffin into the space ring. Yang Ming looked deeply into the distance, watching the Red Foss quickly move away from Gaya Island. Now it has become a small black spot on the sea level. The corner of his mouth Slightly up:

"After this incident, what will Red-haired Shanks do? He should pass the news that my vest appears on Gaya Island to the ears of the World Government. With Lord Im's temperament, that person should Will you use the legendary King Uranus to deal with me?"

Chapter 355 Change

Taking advantage of the situation, he put the famous sword Griffin into the space ring. Yang Ming looked deeply into the distance, watching the Red Foss quickly move away from Gaya Island. Now it has become a small black spot on the sea level. The corner of his mouth Slightly up:

"After this incident, what will Red-haired Shanks do? He should pass the news that my vest appears on Gaya Island to the ears of the World Government. With Lord Im's temperament, that person should Will you use the legendary King Uranus to deal with me?"

Yang Ming stretched himself and put the matter to an end for the time being.

Anyway, he planted the Ten-Tailed Sacred Tree on Gaya Island, and even appeared in the vest of Li Qing, the Lord of Darkness. This has a strong fishing meaning, and he was testing Mother Nature's attitude towards the Ten-Tailed Sacred Tree. The attitude of existence can also bring out Lord Im.

The reason why Im-sama is mysterious is that there are almost no texts or books recording information about Im-sama in this world.

Now, under Yang Ming's instructions, Kobra, the former king of the Kingdom of Alabasta and now one of the Five Old Stars, is collecting information about Lord Im, and is also looking through the ancient books in his family, trying to find out Got some clues.

These all take time, but Yang Ming obviously can't wait.

As long as Master Yi Mu showed his skills, Yang Ming could accurately estimate the strength gap between them.

Due to his unique origin, Red-haired Shanks has a close relationship with the World Government. Once he goes to the Holy Land Mariejoia to file a complaint, Yang Ming is 60% sure that Lord Im will take action.

After all, what happened when the Dark Night Pirates destroyed the holy land Mariejoia was too bad. The Dark Night Pirates and the Lord of the Night, Li Qing, have always been a close concern of Im-sama. Finally, they caught some clues about him. Im-sama will definitely Will not spare him.

There was still plenty of time at the moment, so Yang Ming went back to take a rest.

Anyway, his spies are now all over the world, and his people are everywhere, so he is not afraid of losing the whereabouts of the red-haired pirates.

A few days later.

An island in the sky 10,000 meters above the ground.

After some innovations by Yang Ming, Sky Island no longer has divine rule, and is instead governed in the form of a parliament. Every resident of Sky Island has the right to vote and be elected. An election is held every four years to compete for members of the House of Representatives and Member of the Senate.

Now, several years have passed since Yang Ming came to Kongdao, and a new round of election period has arrived.

As the clan leader of the Sandia people, War Ghost Weipa was initially hostile to Yang Ming. After the war, he served as a prisoner of war for several years and worked as a brickslayer for several years. He finally survived the prisoner period and regained his freedom.

Over the years, War Ghost Weipa has seen the importance of the parliament. Compared with the gods who rule the sky island alone, the majority wins over the minority in the parliament, which is obviously more scientific and efficient. As long as the Sandians can occupy more of the parliament. More seats will be able to provide more policies and strategies that are conducive to the reproduction and survival of the Sandians.

In order to compete for the seat of the next member of the House of Representatives, Zhangui Weipa came to the lecture square early to prepare.

The Sky Island is not a large area. Even if it includes the former God's Land, if it is not properly handled, it will one day be overcrowded.

For this reason, the entire land of Sky Island has been utilized and planned in categories. Only the Lecture Square can hold election speeches. Candidates are not allowed to give speeches in other places to avoid occupying other people's space.

At first, the residents of Sky Island were naturally unable to understand and adapt to it, but over time, they became accustomed to this atmosphere and began to evolve into supporters of different factions.

Before War Ghost Weipa started his speech, a large number of Shandia people gathered in the preaching square. These Shandia people in primitive costumes held banners and flags with lines of propaganda written on them:

"Make Sandians great again!"

Human beings are very selfish creatures. When they lose the threat of external enemies, internal fighting becomes inevitable. This has never happened before.

Once upon a time, the Sandians were exploited by Enelu, who claimed to be a god, and wanted to rise up and take back the land of their ancestors. Read the book

Now, the land of the ancestors has been returned, and everyone can live freely in the former God's territory. However, the limited living space on Sky Island has become a flashpoint in the dispute between the Sandians and the indigenous people of Sky Island.

Fortunately, the system of parliamentary elections allows this kind of conflict to be expressed in a civilized manner, rather than resorting to force and ending with the physical destruction of the other party.

Yang Ming was walking on the brand-new streets with a group of people. Sugar and the others were like country bumpkins entering the city. Everything they saw felt new. They looked left and right, especially when they saw that the surrounding crowds were clearly divided into two groups. The people are Sandians on one side and aborigines of Sky Island on the other.

Among the aborigines of Sky Island, someone also came out to run for election, and it was Yang Ming's old acquaintance, the angel girl Cornis.

Cornish competed with the war ghost Weipa on the same stage. She did not shrink back at all because of the ferocious appearance of the opponent. Instead, she confronted him righteously, arguing back and forth with each other, and the supporters around her gave out warm applause from time to time. lively.

Sugar blinked, always feeling that this scene was particularly fresh, and asked:

"These two groups are obviously at war with each other. Why can they still sit together and debate in peace and harmony?"

Sugar's doubts revealed the doubts of others.

In Gran Tang's understanding, if in the Kingdom of Dressrosa back then, if the young master faced anyone who dared to resist him, he would definitely kill them all, or arrest them and imprison them, turning her into a toy. Serve the young master.

It was precisely because of this that she couldn't understand the behavior of these two groups of people on Kongdao.

Rather than arguing in vain, it would be more convenient to just pick up a weapon and kill the other party.

Yang Ming paused and looked at the people behind him. In addition to Sugar, there were also people such as R.3 Gal Dino and Iss Golden Week Marianu. These people were not the generals who had been following him, but were captured by him later. People were forced to join him helplessly. It was understandable that they could not understand the civilized system based on their past experiences and knowledge.

It is easy to change a person's material conditions. You only need to make the person rich to improve your own living conditions. However, it is extremely difficult to change a person's mind, because people always think of the customs that have been practiced for many years. People, habits, and culture are all taken for granted. It is difficult to realize that the country where they live has various shortcomings, and they are unwilling to change these things.

Chapter 356 Civilization

It is easy to change a person's material conditions. You only need to make the person rich to improve your own living conditions. However, it is extremely difficult to change a person's mind, because people always think of the customs that have been practiced for many years. People, habits, and culture are all taken for granted. It is difficult to realize that the country where they live has various shortcomings, and they are unwilling to change these things.

Yang Ming set up the branch of the Dinosaur Chamber of Commerce on the empty island to purchase local specialties and sell Blue Sea's daily necessities, which to a certain extent helped the residents of the empty island get more jobs and income, making them rich.

But if he had listened to Gan Fule's suggestion and stayed as the new god of Sky Island, the residents of this Sky Island would have continued their culture and experience for countless years and continued to live an unchanged life, except for the change of one person. Except for **, nothing actually changed.

It is precisely for this reason that Yang Ming took advantage of the island's advantage of being far away from the blue ocean to implement a system that has never appeared here before. The government controls the power, the parliament has legislative power, and the courts have judicial power. Under the separation of the three powers, the three check and balance each other. .

Although it seems that this will lead to many things, which will appear in the form of quarrels on weekdays, and many tasks will seem a bit delayed, but in an area where there are many conflicts between the Aboriginal people of Sky Island and the Sandians, everyone can let go of the past. After hundreds of years of ethnic hatred and disputes, it is already a huge progress to sit down and talk things over instead of resorting to force to resolve conflicts.

War is not a child's play.

Once a war starts, people are bound to die.

Everyone born in this world will always have relatives, friends, classmates, teachers and other bonds. If a person dies on the battlefield, hatred will spread from the individual to the group of the deceased. If it is only a few people, it can still The pain and hatred can be resolved through time, but when this group expands to the entire ethnic group, it means that the two ethnic groups have developed into a state of immortality.

At that time, the contradiction between the Sky Island aborigines and the Sandians must be resolved completely only if one side is completely destroyed.

But even the victor only suffered a miserable victory.

In addition to resolving the conflicts between the two ethnic groups, the parliamentary election method can also open up people's wisdom and liberate ordinary people from the ignorance under authoritarian rule.

Only when everyone has the right to vote and be elected can they have a sense of ownership and voluntarily maintain the security and stability of this country.

On this basis, it can subtly influence people's ideas and concepts, abandon the barbaric and bloody war methods of the past, resolve conflicts through negotiation, and show the value of individual survival, not only the right to survival, but also the dignity of a person.

Hearing Yang Ming's eloquent talk, Shatang and others looked confused and felt that they were not aware of it.

Sugar and others, who were still under feudal rule, suddenly came into contact with the system of a civilized country, and naturally found it difficult to understand.

People, and individual dignity?

This is something they can't imagine!

In this sea, people have long been accustomed to nobles exploiting civilians, pirates, bandits, and mafia to plunder and kill others at will. The strong can trample on the dignity and lives of others, and even take advantage of others' kingdoms and territories as a matter of course. .

Even ordinary people have become accustomed to farming in the fields or fishing at sea 365 days a year without any rest. Half of the income from their hard work is handed over to the nobles, and the remaining half is dedicated to the local mafia and gangsters. Thieves in exchange for the safety of themselves and their family members, and regard it as a normal thing.

The poor sell their labor power in exchange for a meager salary, or sell their bodies as slaves to beg the nobles for a bite of food, or they risk going to sea to become pirates, risking a narrow escape to explore the world.

Whether they are poor, rich, or nobles from various countries, they all think that all this is a matter of course.

The rich and nobles regard ordinary people as cattle and horses, and the poor also regard themselves as cattle and horses, and no one thinks there is anything wrong.

The poor envy the lives of the rich and nobles and yearn to be strong.

They want to become strong, not to protect those who were once as weak as themselves, but to ride on the necks of countless weak and poor people and enjoy the respect of the humble like those rich and nobles. look.

If Yang Ming wanted to, he could easily become the strongest person in the world by relying on the system he acquired through time travel, and he would naturally become a legendary figure worshiped by the world.

But just as this empty island has become a new god, the people on this island are still living the same life. In fact, nothing has changed.

When Yang Ming dies of old age and becomes a pile of loess a hundred years later, a new strong man will take his place, and the world will once again fall into a new round of reincarnation, and nothing will change.

People like Sugar can't understand Yang Ming's dream, just like they can't understand the rapid changes on this empty island.

For example, people from primitive tribes are accustomed to a life of rough hair and bloodthirsty, and it is difficult for them to understand that modern people use various processes to turn food into delicacies and enjoy the delicious food on the tip of their tongues.

Sugar and others were related to Yang Ming's important plan. Seeing that they were all confused, Yang Ming simply stopped and patiently came to the lecture square to let them have a good look at the lecture and debate.

Sugar and others looked at each other in shock. Nowadays, people had to lower their heads under the eaves. Facing this notorious Shura Marshal, they naturally did not dare to make any objections and stood obediently among the crowd.

They looked up and saw that on the high platform set up in the lecture square, a young man dressed as a primitive tribe was dancing and speaking loudly:

"All Sky Island residents, we are joining a great movement to rebuild our homes and re-fulfill this country's commitment to all people!"

"For a long time, a small group of people on Sky Island have grabbed the fruits of profit, while Sandians and some Aboriginal people on Kong Island have to bear a heavy price. They allow us to live in remote places, in pigeon-cage-like cramped quarters. In the house, I go out early and come back late every day. I am so busy at the end of the day that I am half exhausted, but I can’t afford to buy an apartment in the land of God.”

"The arrival of the Dinosaur Chamber of Commerce has made Sky Island prosperous, but most of us have not shared the wealth. Those dirty congressmen, those shameless judges, and those despicable politicians have bulged their pockets. We got up, but the result was that we worked longer hours, worked overtime every day and every night, and did not have any entertainment activities..."

Chapter 357 Passionate

"The arrival of the Dinosaur Chamber of Commerce has made Sky Island prosperous, but most of us have not shared the wealth. Those dirty congressmen, those legislative judges, and those despicable politicians, their Our pockets are bulging, but the result is that we work longer hours, work overtime every day and every night, and don’t have any entertainment activities..."

"Those rich people are hoarding land, driving up the price of houses in the land of God, and stealing the income from our labor in disguise. The rich people who have more wealth can spend a lot of money to get more votes. They go They entered the parliament and became glamorous parliamentarians, they entered the courts and became high-ranking judges, and they also entered the government and became despicable and dirty politicians."

"Friends, we should be clear about it. If things continue to develop, the descendants of these parliamentarians, judges and politicians will still follow the path of their ancestors and occupy these positions forever. Then we Sandians He Kong Island natives will never have a chance to make a comeback!"

"These lawmakers, judges and politicians will only protect themselves and their family descendants, and ignore the real subjects of this country, which is us. Their victory is not our victory, and their achievements are not our achievements."

“While they were cheering and celebrating in God’s land, we who were struggling in the fields and on the construction sites could not share their joy at all.”

"As long as you give me your sacred vote, I swear in the name of the leader of the Shandia people that as long as I can enter the parliament, everything will change from this moment on!"

"Because, this is our moment!"

"It belongs to us!"

"This moment belongs to everyone here today!"

On the high platform set up in the lecture square, War Ghost Weipa's passionate voice was very penetrating and infected everyone present.

Even those Sky Island natives who were prejudiced against the Sandians couldn't help but be moved.

And Cornis, the angel girl who sang opposite the war ghost Weipa, originally gained a lot of attention with her beautiful face and tall figure, but now she was eclipsed in front of the war ghost Weipa and completely lost everything. Aura.

This is not because people no longer pay attention to beautiful women, but because their beauty is not worth mentioning in the face of more lofty ideals.

I don’t know who started it, but a voice came:

"Weipa!"

This seemed to ignite the fire, and everyone's passion completely detonated.

"Weipa!"

"Weipa!"

"Weipa!"

"..."

At first, it was only the supporters of the Sandians, but due to the emotional infection, more and more Sky Island natives also joined the supporters, and gradually formed a unified voice.

At this moment, the war ghost Weipa shines brightly!

The Sandians hope that War Ghost Weipa will fight for more living space for them, and the Sky Island natives hope that War Ghost Weipa will fulfill his election promise, gain more rest time and entertainment time for them, and suppress the gods. The practice of driving up housing prices in the territory makes it possible for them to afford a house.