Doflamingo Was Incredibly Useful!
The Five Elders are busy, Cipher Pol is busy, the Army is busy, the Navy is busy, the Academy of Sciences is busy, and even Mihawk and Gion are busy studying Swordsmanship.
Meanwhile, Imu, who lives Moon Chamber, is also busy these days.
What are you busy with?
Of course, he wasn't playing tennis, watching song and dance performances, or eating delicious food—those are everyday leisure activities. He was busy with important business!
What's important?
Looking at the various reports submitted by the Five Elders, some from the Kabane World and others from the Sea Star Homeworld, although trivial matters didn't reach his attention.
However, the World Government have been making significant moves recently, and progress reports on these important matters are inevitable.
For example, the State Council's Finance Department's Heavenly Tribute Collection and Management Committee has begun to get on track as economists from various countries gather together. It has already dispatched professional economists, accompanied by officials from the Administrative Department, to the poorer and smaller Affiliated Nation states.
The Sorbet Kingdom, where Bartholomew Kuma resides in the South Blue, and the Dressrosa Kingdom in the 'New World' are among the countries receiving key support.
It is worth mentioning that economists and economists are not the same thing.
Economists are experts who study economic theory and its application, while economists are more practical. Their research focuses on enterprises, industries, and markets, providing reasonable suggestions for an organization's operation and production to improve its economic efficiency and effectiveness.
Simply put, once economists arrive in a country, they first need to understand the country's overall situation, such as climate, population, resources, environment, and neighboring islands, and then develop a feasible development plan.
Meanwhile, the economists remained in Mary Geoise to study the reform formula for the Heavenly Tribute rate system, a very complex subject.
They need to ensure that the World Government's annual revenue is not significantly affected, while also making sure that its nearly two hundred Affiliated Nation can accept and adapt to the situation.
There is also the project report from the Construction Division of the Administrative Department, which mainly covers four aspects: the construction of the World Government Headquarters, the construction of the New Army Headquarters, the construction of the Drum Kingdom Medical Academy and World Hospital, and the laying of the sea rails in Water Seven.
Although Mr. Tom has not yet solved the problem of connecting the train and the floating track, the size and materials of the track have been determined.
Therefore, the Construction Division decided to first complete the track from Water Seven to Enies Lobby.
Finally, there is the issue of Tequila Wolf, the "Tequila Wolf," or rather, its problems stem from the influence of the previous four major projects.
The problem is that they need a huge workforce. Although there is various engineering machinery to assist them, workers are the main force in construction. But where can the Construction Division find so many people all at once?
Therefore, Maxwell, the director of the Construction Division, submitted an application to his superiors, requesting that personnel be transferred from Tequila Wolf.
The problem is that the 'Tequila Wolf' was decided by Imu shortly after the World Government was founded. Knowing this history, the Five Elders dared not make decisions on their own and could only send the report to him.
"Hey, I'm actually looking for a chance to let them go."
Imu looked at the report and smiled helplessly. In his opinion, it was a bit too much to arrest everyone in the country just because they couldn't pay the Heavenly Tribute and then sentence them to life imprisonment plus forced labor until death!
However, he only intended to release the common people; he would leave the royalty and nobles out and let the World Government choose a suitable candidate to be the new king.
"But if we release so many people, the Tequila Wolf project will have to come to a standstill, which won't do. The bridge East Blue must continue, and we need to speed it up!"
Even now, Imu still adheres to this principle.
For no other reason than the Great Prophecy of the mermaid princess from eight hundred years ago, which I remember vividly.
She once said that a massive tsunami would occur in the East Blue, sweeping across all kingdoms and islands, a tsunami far more terrifying than the 'Aqua Laguna' of Water Seven.
For this purpose, the predecessor Imu decided to connect most of the islands in the East Blue with a bridge so that people could be quickly evacuated in the event of a tsunami.
According to his memory, it wasn't out of pity for these common people, but simply from the perspective of the rulers' interests. If everyone in the East Blue were to die, the World Government's losses would be incalculable.
But no matter what he thought about it, Imu now felt that this was a great act of kindness, and who knows, it might actually save the lives of all the people in the East Blue in the future!
Regardless of the need to avoid causing panic among the countries in the East Blue, this Great Prophecy has always been a top secret of the World Government. At the same time, it was forcibly constructed using the entire labor force of the "Land of Disobedience," leading to it being regarded by the outside world as a terrifying project used by the Celestial Dragons to "make an example of someone."
While the future will undoubtedly undergo irreversible and massive changes because of him, who knows whether this apocalyptic tsunami was man-made or caused by nature?
As for questioning the authenticity of this Great Prophecy, don't be ridiculous. Imu himself has the ability to see a point in the future, so what is there to doubt?
The power to Future Sight is a real force in this world!
"If most of the innocent civilians are released, where will the labor force for building the bridge come from, and what about the major construction projects of the Construction Division?"
In the quiet treehouse, Imu fell into deep thought, even the wine glass in his hand stopped swirling. He was using his 'familiarity with the plot' to recall which resources in the Sea Star could be used as labor.
"Since the track laying for Water Seven is being done at sea, the Fish-Man Race and Merfolk should be able to help a lot. They're more efficient than human workers, right?"
His eyes lit up.
Given the current good relationship between the World Government and Fish-Man Island, wouldn't it be reasonable to hire a group of Fish-Man craftsmen to help lay the sea-based railroad tracks?
Now that the Sabaody Archipelago has become a safe zone for the Fish-Man Race, they will definitely need to connect to the Sea Train tracks if they want to travel freely to more places.
Imu kept this idea in mind, preparing to order the Five Elders to do something later.
"For the labor shortage problem in other projects, could we consider using mechanized animals? I remember that the Future Kingdom has modified Masira and robots."
But after thinking about it, it still felt a bit unreliable. Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind—what had he thought of before?
Life imprisonment, or forced labor until death?
Oh, right, a convict!
"Hundreds of thousands of prisoners in Impel Down are locked up and tortured in underground jails all day long, yet they are still fed and given water—it's a complete waste of resources!"
Imu stood up and paced back and forth excitedly.
"Those prisoners with bounties over 100 million cannot be touched, but how many of them are there? The main force is still the prisoners with bounties below 50 million in the first four levels. In addition, with the ability control of the Pet-Pet Devil Fruit User Taklama, as long as we keep an eye on this 'Slave King,' we will have hundreds of thousands of 'absolutely obedient' labor camp inmates!"
In his view, the prisoners in Impel Down and the people of the Tequila Wolf were completely different things.
As a time traveler, he was willing to show some mercy to the latter, but as for the former, he would use it freely, even to the point of exhaustion, without batting an eye!
Since they dared to become One Piece and do things that went against the World Government, they must have been prepared. Even if they weren't, we can still assume they were prepared.
"In this way, the liberation of the Tequila Wolf can be used to win over the hearts and minds of people around the world, and the new kingdom formed by the liberated people can be easily controlled by the World Government."
At that moment Imu suddenly remembered someone.
"Speaking of construction, I remember Doflamingo's side had someone with a relevant background."
He now truly felt that Doflamingo was extremely useful, not only providing him with tennis strings and intelligence on the Underworld to the World Government, but also building and managing the North Blue arsenal, and even providing talent!