After a period of chaos and turmoil, the Red-Haired Pirates finally gained control over the entire Kingdom of Goa.
Shanks put some effort into clearing out Duan Town, that "lawless zone." Using Duan Town as a starting point, he also uprooted some of the Kingdom of Goa's rotten noble families.
The confiscated assets were worth nearly five billion Beli.
Shanks invested all that money into urban development, reforming and cleaning up Duan Town.
Large-scale urban construction naturally created jobs. Most commoners in this world were hardworking and simple folk, so Shanks's recruitment efforts went very smoothly.
Once people gathered, other forms of consumption naturally followed. Duan Town, once turned into a foul mess by criminal forces, gradually began to regain its vitality.
While rebuilding Duan Town, Shanks also turned his attention to the refugees at Absolute Waste Terminal. Most of them had not ended up there because they were unable to work, but because they lacked "identities."
Without identities, they could not find work. Without work, they could not earn money or obtain food.
Without food, they had to search for it. As the largest garbage city in the country, Absolute Waste Terminal naturally became the home of these refugees.
For the sake of clean and orderly streets, the king and nobles of the Kingdom of Goa had piled all their garbage in Absolute Waste Terminal. To reduce fiscal expenditures, they did not even hire anyone to bury the waste produced by the cities, simply leaving it exposed in the open.
Over time, it became a city of garbage.
As Duan Town was replanned and rebuilt, the city, now regaining its vitality, needed a large labor force to fill it out. Shanks relocated the refugees from Absolute Waste Terminal, gave them identities, and allowed them to settle down in Duan