Marine Headquarters officially announced to the entire world the exact time and place of Whitebeard's execution.
On March 1st, Marineford Era 1510, at the start of a new year and the beginning of spring, Whitebeard would be publicly executed at Marine Headquarters. At that time, Marine Headquarters would broadcast the execution live to viewers around the world.
They wanted the people of the world and the pirates to witness firsthand the end of an era.
After mobilizing the power of the print media, everyone began to look forward to it.
The Great Pirate Era had been ushered in by Pirate King Roger, and it would end with the death of the "Strongest Man in the World."
Tsugikuni Yoriichi and his subordinates settled down in the Sabaody Archipelago. After a few days of leave and rest, Yoriichi's subordinates began busying themselves.
The Sabaody Archipelago was the end point of the first half of the Grand Line. Many pirates would conceal their identities and quietly land on the islands. Once their Log Poses had finished locking onto the magnetic field, the pirates would hire the local coating mechanics to coat their ships before heading to Fish-Man Island.
This was how most pirates traveled to the New World. Only a small number of exceptionally powerful fleets could cross the Calm Belt and enter the New World by other routes.
What Tsugikuni Yoriichi had his subordinates do was not particularly difficult. He merely had them compile a registry of every coating mechanic and, using the New Marines' unparalleled influence, inform those mechanics that they needed to notify the New Marines before coating any ships.
Of course, this method could not completely stop pirates from descending into the deep sea to reach Fish-Man Island. Humans were creatures driven by profit, after all. Pirates would always