"It's simple. Let me give you an example. Everyone should already know about Mary Geoise through the newspapers, so you should also know about the flying ship that carried away the people who were liberated, right?"
Everyone from the Whitebeard Pirates nodded. This had also been one of the major points of focus in the recent newspapers.
Even the Whitebeard Pirates themselves were extremely curious about that flying ship.
"When we were in Mary Geoise, the royals of those World Government-affiliated countries were extremely fond of this ship. They all eagerly wanted to buy one. Let's do some simple arithmetic. Taking the prices of ships from Water 7 as an example, an ordinary pirate ship costs at least around 100 million Beli to build. A slightly better one costs 200 to 300 million. A ship that can fly obviously can't be that cheap. Doubling the price would be perfectly reasonable. Let's use the very conservative estimate of 500 million Beli as the basic price of one airship. Of the more than 130 countries affiliated with the World Government, I believe that no matter how poor their countries are, their royals can definitely afford several hundred million Beli. Let's be conservative and assume that only half of them buy one. That's still 65 ships. Multiply that by five, and it comes to 32.5 billion Beli..."
"Eh!!!"
"Th... 32.5 billion Beli..."
The moment that figure came out, everyone from the Whitebeard Pirates was stunned.
They might have been overlords of the New World, but 32.5 billion Beli was still a sum they hadn't even dared to imagine.
They even wondered whether the treasure of Laugh Tale was worth that much money.
Whitebeard was shocked as well.
But Ye Mu hadn't finished speaking.
"This is only the most basic price. As royals, they