Merchants swarmed to the docks in a flock, and after realizing the opportunity, they swarmed back in a flock.
They realized that the Golden Tesoro Ship was a massive cake.
Of course, they had not even the slightest chance at the gold on it, but they could grab a share of the real estate on this ship.
Although it was strange to describe the properties on the ship as real estate.
Yet when a vessel grew to the scale of the Golden Tesoro Ship, it was practically an unsinkable warship.
Naturally, the people on the Titanic used to think that way as well.
However, judging from the shipbuilding technology in the current pirate world, this ship was truly majestic and imposing, and calling it the number one ship in the world was no exaggeration.
It could even accommodate battles between people like Tesoro's Galdino-like gold powers and Logia Devil Fruit users.
The sheer size of this ship was enough to accommodate over three hundred thousand people, and counting guest traffic plus the people serving them, at least two million-plus people could fit on this vessel.
Under such circumstances, what a massive business opportunity the food, clothing, housing, and transportation of two million people presented!
One had to know that even the Sabaody Archipelago or Water 7, the premier massive metropolises of this world, only held around seven hundred thousand to one million people.
Even counting the daily floating population of two or three hundred thousand, it still fell short of half this ship.
How could merchants sit idly by in the face of such a massive business opportunity?
They began rolling up their sleeves to prepare for the bidding of that real estate, intending to secure a one-time, permanent harvest—which was actually a very ancient way of making money.
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