After nearly a month of rest and recuperation, the Xia Kingdom had fully adapted to the New World's weather and pace of life.
During that month, under Lott's instructions, Franky and Nami had also built several enormous bridges between the six islands using Island Cloud and steel.
That day, Lott held a meeting in Shandora's conference room.
"Doesn't our Xia Kingdom have five islands around its perimeter now? I want to develop each island into a base specializing in certain functions," Lott told everyone.
They were quite supportive of this. They supported every one of Lott's decisions unconditionally.
It wasn't because of Lott's authority, but because almost every decision he made could be considered a miracle.
They had doubted Lott's plans before. After all, he was much younger than them and had no experience as a leader.
But given Lott's strength and position, they could only carry them out.
Yet as Lott's decisions were implemented, the results had proved them thoroughly wrong.
The first time or two, they had thought he had merely gotten lucky.
But as one seemingly unreasonable decision after another ultimately bore rich fruit, they had no choice but to be convinced.
They finally understood that every decision Lott made was ahead of this world, and their earlier doubts had been nothing but misplaced presumptuousness.
How could a sparrow understand the ambitions of Honghu?
So now that Lott proposed establishing branches on the five outlying islands, they were all for it.
They had not the slightest doubt and didn't even ask why.
Seeing the looks in their eyes, Lott sighed helplessly. He could clearly sense the change in their attitudes.
But this wasn't a good sign.
After all, he wasn't a god. He couldn't make every decision perfect; there were bound to be some oversights.
But with