After the Revolutionary Army came to a stop, merchants surged in like a tide. They were all wolves hoping to claim a share of the profits from Wano Country's development.
The wolf kings and their packs naturally brought in massive quantities of supplies, hoping to make a fortune from the Revolutionary Army.
The Revolutionary Army had now begun printing a new currency, adding certain special materials and metals unique to the Revolutionary Army, making its banknotes distinctly different from Beli.
For now, the Revolutionary Army had not directly abolished Beli, because that would have wiped out the savings and wealth people had accumulated over many years, amounting to the government's plunder of ordinary people's property.
That was why the issuance of paper currency had to be handled with extreme caution.
Beli had, up to this point, monopolized currency issuance throughout the pirate world. Nearly everyone used Beli. If the Celestial Dragons had been a little smarter, they could have endlessly printed Beli, like that universal empire from Leo's past life, shifting the operating costs of their own country onto the entire world.
The Celestial Dragons were feudal monarchs; they did not understand such advanced financial maneuvers. Yet having military power and financial power—two of a nation's fundamental rights and obligations—stripped away was itself enough to turn a nation into a crippled invalid with both legs broken, no longer whole.
In a sense, the World Government, which bore most of this world's military capacity and currency printing, truly deserved the title of "World Government." The major nations under it were instead like the World Government's military colonies and financial colonies.
And now, what the Revolutionary Army intended to do was drive the Celestial Dragons' influence entirely out of the world.
The new currency was an extremely important part of that.
Naturally,