What was greatness?
When you stood before a miraculous feat of engineering wrought by human hands, when you saw that they had somehow filled in the sea and split apart mountains, you could truly grasp what human greatness and human power meant.
In the past, the World Government had never carried out projects that benefited the people. They were more interested in building things like Bridge Country, which made travel convenient for themselves.
They had even been too lazy to hand Bridge Country over to the Marines for military use.
They built massive national projects entirely for their own selfish desires, so ordinary people naturally had little feeling or understanding of them.
But what the Revolutionary Army was doing now truly improved people's lives. Traveling from the Four Seas to the Grand Line had become much more convenient.
Opening up the Red Line was no less significant than building 37,900 kilometers of high-speed rail across the continent of Kyushu, making travel and movement far easier for the people.
Many people did not actually want to go to the Grand Line. They merely wanted to travel to other seas, but because of the Calm Belt, they had no choice but to enter the Grand Line first before heading to the Four Seas.
Unless they had a special mission, once they had risked their lives to pass through Reverse Mountain and reach the Grand Line, why would they not simply continue doing business there for the sake of profit?
This was an open strategy of strengthening the trunk while weakening the branches. Yet due to costs, merchants would inevitably drain the Four Seas dry, enriching the Grand Line and fattening its commerce beyond measure.
Of course, when they returned, they would certainly bring some goods, profits, and resources back to their hometowns.