Beyond that, the only other development worth watching concerned the Revolutionary Army.
Not long after that battle, the Revolutionary Army faced an even fiercer crackdown and retaliation from the World Government.
First, the bounties went up.
Anyone who provided useful intelligence on the Revolutionary Army, captured one of its members, or even turned in a body whose identity could be verified would receive a substantial reward.
Before, an ordinary tip about the Revolutionary Army might have been worth only one million Beli.
Now that amount had doubled.
Anyone who helped capture a Revolutionary Army member could receive a reward of more than five million Beli.
The news set the Four Seas abuzz.
Perhaps all it would take was a tip about the Revolutionary Army to change someone's fortunes and lift them out of hardship.
Money talked, and countless people were tempted.
Intelligence on the Revolutionary Army's key figures and bases could bring in an enormous hundred million Beli.
The money, naturally, came from the Celestial Dragons.
Previously, few Celestial Dragons had even heard of the Revolutionary Army, despite its calls to overthrow the World Government and abolish their privileged status.
But after the Revolutionary Army stole their treasure, every Celestial Dragon knew its name.
The wealth the Celestial Dragons had amassed over eight hundred years was almost unimaginable.
Putting up tens of billions of Beli, or even more, was no hardship for them.
The proposal passed unanimously in the Celestial Dragon Council.
Each Celestial Dragon family would contribute two billion Beli. With nineteen families in Mary Geoise, that came to thirty-eight billion.
Some furious Celestial Dragons dipped into their personal funds as well, each adding hundreds of millions of Beli.
The most generous among them thought their family's contribution too stingy and personally put up another two and a half