Kahn's First Woman
After becoming an arms tycoon, Kahn's cooperation with the World Government deepened.
Even the World Government needs to buy weapons on the black market.
It's not that the World Government and Marines don't produce weapons. On the contrary, they have the best scientists in the world and the largest arms production base.
But even if they can produce their own weapons, they can't supply the front and back halves of the Grand Line, as well as Marine branches all over the world.
In this era of great pirates, piracy has become a mainstream profession.
Every day, the bullets consumed by Marine training and combat, along with the waste weapons, are enormous.
Even in large bases with weapon production facilities, the World Government and Marines still don't have enough weapons.
So, they produce weapons while also buying from the black market.
In the original story, Kaido and Kurozumi Orochi reached long-term cooperation with the World Government through Doflamingo, making Wano Country a supplier of arms and seastone for the World Government.
But now, the "Cross Family" arms are becoming more high-quality. The Five Elders, not wanting to be scammed by the black market, also use Den Den Mushi to bargain with Kahn, making the "Cross Family" a supplier of hot weapons and medicines for the World Government.
As for the cold weapon supplier, it's still the "Beasts Pirates".
Throughout the entire world, there's no cold weapon better than those from Wano Country.
Just like the unique pharmaceutical business of the "Cross Family", the cold weapons produced by Wano Country are also unmatched.
Counting the supply of seastone, the "Beasts Pirates" is not far behind the "Cross Family" on the surface, having reached long-term cooperation with the World Government for two businesses.
In reality, the "Beasts Pirates" have fallen far behind the "Cross Family".
Because arms and medicine will soon no longer be the most profitable business of the "Cross Family".
After three years, the three island ships jointly built by the seven largest shipbuilding companies in the shipbuilding holy land and the world's top shipbuilder team were finally completed in April of 1509 on the Sea Circle Calendar.
The three island ships were all named "Grandine" by Kahn.
But the full names are—"Grandine New World", "Grandine Paradise", and "Grandine West Blue".
Among them, "Grandine New World" is the gold version.
As the name suggests, this island ship is gilded just like the original "Gulan Tezolo".
To build this golden giant ship, Nami, who will become a family member in the future, can control a large amount of gold in the "Grantinie New World" as soon as she eats the Paramecia·Golden Fruit and exerts powerful force.
Due to his strength, Kahn not only used up the legendary Golden Land but also spent an unknown number of billions of berries to acquire gold from all over the world.
The crazy acquisitions in the past three years led to a continuous premium on gold, allowing countless forces with a large amount of gold to make a lot of money.
It is no exaggeration to say that Kahn invested most of the munitions and medicines, as well as the Capone family of West Blue and the "Donquixote Family" of North Blue, the berries they earned for the "Cross Family" into the three "Grantinie New World".
As for how Kahn built the golden version of the ship without the help of Paramecia·Golden Fruit's ability user? Of course, it was because of Hancock's electric heating.
Moreover, the gold version of the island ship was not specially prepared for Nami, and there are also reasons for Hancock in it.
Gold conducts electricity, and Hancock's ability in the "Grandine New World", second only to the Logia Thunder Fruit on the Island of Thunder, will be strengthened at an epic level.
Hancock was also appointed as the head of the Grandine New World by Kahn before Nami joined.
The fact that Kahn dismantled an uninhabited island and turned it into three island ships was seen by the people of Dressrosa, as well as countless outsiders, so naturally, they couldn't hide it from the whole world.
Especially after the completion of the gold version of the "Grandine New World", the entire body gold-plated, even the dragon on the bow no longer blue but golden, which became one of the big stories in the Sea Circle Calendar in 1509, reported by Morgans.
The whole world knows that Cross Kahn, the "Walking Scourge", built an island ship full of gold, but they don't know what he intends to use it for.
Kahn, who also saw the news, took the opportunity to contact Morgans and asked Morgans to help him place an advertisement in the Daily Newspaper.
In return, Kahn gave Morgans his purpose for building the three island ships, as well as his "friendship."
Morgans responded with sudden excitement.
With Kahn's friendship, this superstar, on the brink of becoming a sea overlord, would now provide first-hand information for any disturbance.
So, Morgans not only advertised Kahn but did so with Headlines.
Of course, Morgans didn't advertise so blatantly for the sake of Newspaper's reputation.
Instead, he cleverly took advantage of the hype, claiming that after his own hard work and investigation, he finally discovered why Cross Kahn built three island ships and why he had been buying superstar gold worldwide for the past three years.
According to the Newspaper's report, the storm of the mobile entertainment city immediately swept the whole world and caused a sensation across the seas.
For a time, countless people were looking forward to the launch of the three "Grandine" ships.
People, wealthy businessmen, and nobles in East Blue, South Blue, and North Blue were cursing Kahn, wondering if he looked down on them.
They were all over the world, so why did West Blue get the island boats?
Could it be because West Blue is his hometown?
No way, there's too little entertainment in this world.
For example, the entertainment of the nobles involves playing with slaves or watching slaves duel.
The entertainment of ordinary people is basically gambling.
As for the three "Grandine" ships, they were just an entertainment introduction filled with two full pages of newspapers.
To sum up, you can find all kinds of entertainment on the "Grandine" ships.
Even if there is no entertainment in this world, it belongs to the original creation of "Grandine" and was actually carried over by Kahn from his previous life.
In addition, the three "Grandine" ships also have a large number of stores waiting for major companies to settle in.
Before opening, the front and back halves of the Grand Line, as well as the people of the world in West Blue, were full of expectations for the "Grandine."
"You sneaky cat, trying to defeat this empress, it's been a long time coming."
On this day, on the training ground behind the Amazon Lilly's Island Palace, Hancock was ruthlessly mocking the peerless beauty who, despite being covered in stains, still exuded amazing charm.
Hancock continued with such taunts for two years.
If you read carefully, you will find that Hancock's sarcasm is full of bitterness and envy.
"It doesn't matter. I didn't expect to surpass you in terms of strength."
For Hancock's ridicule, Scarlett had gone from resignation to complacency over the past two years.
Scarlett, now 22 years old, is slightly inferior to Hancock in height and figure but not in appearance and charm.
After calming her short breath, she suddenly wiped her pink hair, looking at Hancock's red lips and slightly raised: "As long as I beat you on the other hand, and you can't beat me again, that's fine."
"You sneaky cat, die!"
Hearing this, Hancock suddenly became furious, with blue and white lightning flashing all over her body. She teleported behind Scarlett, ready to kick her away with a sweeping kick.
However, Scarlett, who was dripping with sweat, reacted in time and raised her foot to block Hancock's kick.
Terrifying airwaves immediately burst out from their long legs.
From Scarlett's ability to block Hancock's kick, it was clear she had mastered Armament Haki.
Scarlett had already mastered not only Armament Haki but even Observation Haki.
After six years of training, Haki's cultivation method still comes from Amazon Lilly Island, one of the most complete Haki systems.
Her potential has been enhanced by Paramecia Love Love Fruit, and she receives retaliatory guidance from the jealous Hancock.
At 22 years old, if Scarlett couldn't master the two-colour Haki, it would be truly mediocre.
As for why she was called a sneaky cat by Hancock and why Hancock was so jealous, it stemmed from an accident two years ago.
It was in that accident that Kahn lost the most precious thing in his life and got Scarlett's most precious thing, becoming each other's tenth man and woman.
Coincidentally, their fight was discovered by Hancock, who immediately exploded in jealousy.
Then Scarlett was abused by Hancock for two full years.
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