Ever since Shaya had first transmigrated, he had been pondering a question!
What the hell truly counted as hegemony?
Whenever Shaya thought of the word "hegemony," a certain country came to mind!
More precisely, anyone from Shaya's world would think of that country the moment they heard the word "hegemony"...
It couldn't be helped—this was what true weight meant!
That country had truly explained the word "hegemony" crystal clear...
So, once Shaya had confirmed that he was a Celestial Dragon, he began considering a series of moves to salvage his class status! To stop a certain revolutionary from succeeding in his revolution...
Of course, it wasn't that Shaya intended to defend the rights and interests of Celestial Dragons outside the Figarland family, like the Five Elders did! He wanted to defend—or rather, guarantee—his own class interests!
Now that the World Government—in other words, the Celestial Dragons—had achieved a monetary hegemony that even the hegemonic nation from his previous life had failed to accomplish, forcing every World Government member nation around the world to abolish its own currency and use Beli instead...
He did not even need to put in much effort to harvest the entire world through the currency and economic system. How much Beli was worth and how much was printed each year were entirely up to the Celestial Dragons...
Yet there were still some countries in this world that bartered goods for goods!
That was something Shaya could not permit...
Thus, Shaya joined forces with Crocodile, Doflamingo, and Moria to establish the World Grain Merchants, intending to control grain cultivation and exports throughout the world, completely seize control of food prices, and ensure that even countries wishing to barter would be constrained by the value he set for food.
Next, Shaya's target was the vast reserves of oil