1510 Grand Line Era.
Not long after Sengoku became Fleet Admiral, he promoted Aokiji to the position of new admiral.
Sengoku knew very well that Marine Headquarters had already split into two factions.
The hawks led by Victor.
And the doves led by Sengoku.
Although Sengoku did not consider himself a dove, he could no longer win over Akainu and the others.
Sengoku could now only rely on the doves' strength.
Otherwise, he would merely be a Fleet Admiral with no troops under his command.
Therefore, Sengoku left the Headquarters' daily affairs to the dove-affiliated officers.
In addition, he handed leadership of the directly affiliated branches to dove-affiliated officers one after another.
Gumir became commander of the G1 Branch, while Gumir became commander of the G2 Branch, Stierles became commander of the G3 Branch, and so on.
The commanders of these directly affiliated branches had originally been recommended by Victor.
Now, most of them had been replaced with members of the dove faction.
With a new emperor came new courtiers.
Sengoku certainly would not promote Victor's people.
Victor could understand that.
Moreover, to sow discord and drive a wedge between Victor and Akainu, Sengoku only suppressed Victor's faction.
He did not suppress the officers belonging to Akainu's faction.
The only one neither promoted nor demoted was Kizaru.
Sengoku had no time to deal with Kizaru for the moment.
After all, every radish needed its own hole.
With all three admiral positions filled, there was no place for Kizaru.
Kizaru had not sided with Victor, nor was he favored by Zephyr.
Therefore, there was no need to care too much about Kizaru's feelings.
"Senior, are we really not going to do anything?"
Lite was starting to panic.
Sengoku had only been Fleet Admiral for a month, yet he had already replaced