In the news business, Lind had already brought Morgans into his fold and established the World Economy News Paper. Riding the wave of interest in the Dragon-Slaying Order, it had quickly become the most influential newspaper in the world.
With Morgans able to communicate with birds and Lind able to use Divine Dragon Coconuts to raise their intelligence, the World Economy News Paper's position would likely be difficult to shake.
As for shipping, the shipyards on Oran Island were developing quite well. The island had already become one of the largest shipbuilding centers in the New World.
However, because Lind had been expanding his forces over the past two years, most of the ships they built went to his troops. Few merchant vessels were built for commercial shipping.
For the past two years, Lind had focused on developing Oran Island. Though he also valued foreign trade, he had mostly relied on superior products to draw buyers to the island and rarely developed merchant fleets of his own.
After all, Lind's identity was a sensitive issue, and Oran Island's specialty products were valuable. If he established his own merchant fleets, the World Government might well find all sorts of excuses to intercept them.
So even though Lind had some shipping operations, they were essentially limited to transporting goods between the islands within the Oran Sea.
The Spark Project, however, had given Lind a new idea: using a cover identity. Whether that cover would be exposed or not, having one was better than having none.
As it happened, Lind had quite a few rising talents under his command. The twelve young elites who had previously received Devil Fruits were all capable of handling things independently now. They were also still relatively unknown, so he could choose someone from among them to take