Kaido's Wano Country had now become the largest destination for food exports from Charlotte Linlin's Totto Land, which meant Wano Country's commoners lived nothing like the miserable lives they had in the original story.
Although Kaido was not particularly bright, and Kurozumi Orochi was hardly a decent man either, the enormous butterfly effect had changed things.
Kaido now had a perfectly sensible first mate who carried considerable weight.
Compared to King, whose brain had been burned out by hatred and held nothing but Nika, Bloodhand Salo was undoubtedly a normal man.
He was also a seasoned old pirate who understood sustainable development.
Salo had seen through Kurozumi Orochi's intentions at a glance, though he had not stopped him from continuing to build factories.
But Salo had no intention of letting Wano Country's commoners starve to death. As it happened, Charlotte Linlin could export vast quantities of cheap food.
Under Salo's influence, Wano Country had thus transformed directly from an agricultural nation into an industrial one, using factory profits to import food from Totto Land.
Far from losing money, it enjoyed healthy profits and accumulated considerable wealth.
In particular, once Wano Country's commoners became workers rather than farmers, they no longer had to pay taxes to the daimyo.
Kaido paid their wages, and they bought their food from him as well.
As for water? Kaido had the Fish-Fish Fruit, Model: Azure Dragon. An occasional rainfall could provide enough drinking water to last a long time.
If that still proved insufficient, they could simply bring water over from Salo's former territory, which had not been polluted.
Now, all of Wano Country's farmers had become workers, earning steady wages and buying products from around the world in stores.
There was a reason most farmers had preferred heading to the cities for work during