Transcended as Lord Buggy-Part 3

514. New Emperor

The news of Whitebeard's defeat spreads very fast. It becomes the headline of all newspapers without any exception. After all, Whitebeard has stood on top of this world for decades and was the rival of the Pirate King Roger.

But now he finally lost his seat to a younger generation. Furthermore, the one who defeated him was Alan, the apprentice of Buggy who defeated him in his prime years ago. Also, it's a well-known fact that Alan's Legend Pirates are members of the Clown Pirate Fleet.

So this means that Clown Pirates, or to be precise Buggy is usurping another Emperor's throne again after Big Mom. This also means that Buggy has control over more than half of New World with the territories of Big Mom and Whitebeard in his hands.

Those who don't know are afraid of this because it looks like Buggy is trying to conquer the world. But those who know are not bothered and many are even happy with this. It's because the territories under Clown Pirates' control have always flourished.

Clown Pirates are the strongest and wealthiest pirate crew in the world. Their wealth might be comparable to the already destroyed Celestial Dragons. All their wealth comes from their giant businesses that are being run by their people.

They built factories, offices, academies, etc on their territories. Unlike other pirate crews that try to take over territories just to exploit the people, Clown Pirates' expansion is to grow their businesses. They always use local folks as their workers and they give fair wages with fair treatment.

Many pirates think they are fools for being nice by paying these common folks instead of enslaving them. But it's actually the opposite. By paying and giving the workers fair treatment, they increase work efficiency and the risk is lower too.

Those fools like Celestial Dragons who enslaved people to work actually spend more and the efficiency is also bad. Just to catch those people to make them slaves alone needs a lot of expenses. Many potential workers also died during the capture process.

Then just to save their expense, they give the slaves less food. Without enough food, they won't have enough energy to work, reducing their result. Also, many slaves died just after a few weeks because of starvation and abuse from their superiors, so they would need to keep catching people.

Those are just a few problems Clown Pirates found. Another thing is those slaves aren't professionals in the work given to them. Even miners need to have an education to do their job better, that's why Clown Pirates also built academies for the people in their territories.

With all these good treatments, Clown Pirates also reduces the risk of rebellion because people are satisfied. Those people would be idiots to rebel against Clown Pirates because even if they succeed, they would lose all the wealth and good lives they've received.

All these things have made Clown Pirates times better than those who use slaves. If being compared, even with the same kind of factory, Clown Pirates can produce 3 times the amount of weapons than other underground weapon factories of the same quality just because of this system.

After all, the people who work in Clown Pirates' businesses have been taught properly. That's why they can do their job much better than those slaves who were caught and forced to work without knowing anything. So even if they spend more on their workers, they also gain more from it.

But that is always overshadowed by their images as pirates. Just like now, people all over the world are more worried about Clown Pirates' ambition to conquer the world even though it never crossed Buggy's mind at all. Conquering the world sounds very tiring. After all, just controlling half of New World is too troublesome already.

"You want to give all those territories to me?"

"Yes, Grand Captain. We are your subordinates, so the territories we won are obviously yours."