"That thing!"
Rocks mentioned the conflict between himself and World Government, Harald fell into memories,
A few months ago, he led a team to visit neighboring countries, but happened to bump into an armed ship of World Government and attacked a country that had helped Elbaf for free during the famine in Elbaf, and plundered the people of the country back to Holy Land as slaves.
He tried to stop him, but was warned by the World Government agent on the ship, telling him that Elbaf was just a country that wanted to join World Government, and it was not World Government-affiliated Countries. If he wanted to take care of the affairs of the day, he would never want to join again.
And the agents also told him that all Non-affiliated Countries were lawless zones for them, and the people there had no human rights at all, and killed some people in front of him.
This made Harald furious. He felt that there was no such reason. World Government was not the rule of the world. Even if he wanted Elbaf to join World Government, he would never sit idly by and ignore such a thing. So he took action angrily, sinking the armed ship with a sword and releasing all the slaves on it.
But after the incident, the matter was carefully edited by newspapers, and it turned into a completely different picture - Elbaf King, Harald exposed his true nature, and his friendship with the government was just a pretense, and he sank an innocent warship!!
This makes Harald and Elbaf's vision of integrating into the world even more difficult, and joining World Government Member States is even more difficult.
But Harald did not give up, but made the decision to let some soldiers of this country join the navy, so as to restore some of Elbaf's reputation in the eyes of the world. However, what he did not expect was that World Government and the navy would have them deal with Rocks Pirates as soon as they got these soldiers.
After explaining all this to Rocks, the two of them had arrived at Ida's Tavern and sat opposite each other in front of the bar.
"I've said it a long time ago, World Government is like that. You are the only one who still has unrealistic illusions. It's time to give in Harald and let your entire country become my partner!!"
"I really can't stand it anymore, the way you bow your head to World Government!"
Rocks was drinking very depressedly. Harald was obviously as powerful as himself. No one, whether it was the navy or World Government, could match him. Elbaf also controlled the entire World's Strongest is a country of warriors, but it is obsessed with World Government's attitude. Isn't it good to join forces with him to take over the whole world with his strength? Why do you have to join World Government Member States, and still with a humble attitude!!
However, in the face of his invitation and persuasion again, Harald remained unmoved.
"One day, I want Elbaf to join World Government. No matter how difficult it is, I will do it!"
Harald knows his situation very well. If he is just one person, then he can take a gamble with Rocks.
But the actual situation is not that. He is the king of Elbaf and bears the responsibility of the entire country. It is unreasonable to rashly push the entire country to the opposite side of World Government and get involved in a huge war.
Is it so simple for World Government to be able to stand in the world for 800 years without falling? I don't know how many unknown forces are hidden in the depths of Holy Land. Once you lead the entire Elbaf to join the Rocks side, then a war that can sweep the world will definitely come.
At that time, Elbaf will have only two outcomes, either completely overthrow World Government, or turn it into ruins and destroy the country.
He couldn't afford to bet and didn't dare to bet on the fate of an entire country, so he could only reject Rocks over and over again, and tried hard to change Elbaf's image in the eyes of the world, so that this country could truly integrate into the world and gain eternal peace.
After hearing this, Rocks understood that his trip was in vain this time, and he still could not shake Rocks's determination, so he looked at Harald's bald head and joked,
"Shaving your hair to show sincerity, what kind of culture is this!?"
It turns out that the reason why Harald's head became bald was because he did it himself, in order to express his determination and sincerity to the world.
"Garp also laughed at me..."
After hearing this, Harald mirrored his bald head and raised an awkward smile. This was a method he read in a book, but everyone seemed to think this behavior was funny. Then he told Rocks some things about meeting and talking with Garp,
"Garp?! It seems that guy also hates the upper class of World Government. In that case, he might as well just become a pirate!"
From Harald's conversation, Rocks learned that Garp was also dissatisfied with the attitude of World Government's upper management, so he thought it would be better to let the other party become a pirate and continue to be a navy!
However, Harald refuted his idea,
"There are indeed scum in the organization, but the navy helps people every day. It is an excellent army. Elbaf Since John Giant, many soldiers have become the navy. If more soldiers who have the power of our country but have nowhere to show it can be sent over, they will definitely be able to help people..."
Harald knows that there is a lot of darkness within World Government and the navy. Especially after the last Non-affiliated Countries incident, he is even more aware of this and has also communicated with Garp about this.
But Garp firmly believes that, at least in the navy, the navy that adheres to justice is at least more powerful than darkness, so he wants to stay in the navy, influence the justice within the navy through his own abilities, and use his own power to protect that part of the navy with justice in mind, so that the navy will not completely turn into darkness.
Harald strongly agrees with this. It is rare to be able to understand the darkness around you and escape, but it is even rarer than this. Knowing the darkness but not escaping, but wanting to use yourself to influence this darkness to move towards light and justice.
It was precisely because he saw that there were people like Garp in the navy that he was willing to let more giant warriors join the navy.
"Please help me persuade him, Ida!"
Seeing that Harald was so persistent, Rocks had no choice but to change his strategy and take the family route. He wanted to seek help from the owner of this tavern, Ida, one of Harald's wives.
But Ida smiled faintly,
"Yes... if Harald were my child, I would advise him like this, please be careful when making friends!"
Ida's thoughts are obviously the same as Harald's. He wants this country to no longer be in the violent and chaotic state it once was, but to have permanent peace.