Chapter 292 Canal Planning Business Concept

Business Idea No. 2

After the meeting, Ning Yuan flew back to Alabasta without taking a break.

He was not idle along the way, but drew a sea map.

From Upside Down Mountain, to Whiskey Peak, Little Garden, Waltz Kingdom, Alabasta.

"Is this a kind of dimensionality reduction attack?" Ning Yuan suddenly had such a thought in his mind.

If Nami wants to draw a sea map of the world, she has to travel around the world by ship.

This whole process cannot be completed in a few months, and a few months can only complete one route.

She may have to go for several years, or even decades.

But if she can fly, the whole process will not take long.

During the flight, Ning Yuan also discovered a technological blind spot.

The navigation of ships in the world of One Piece is extremely dependent on permanent pointers.

This is because the magnetic poles in the world of One Piece are so unstable that the compass cannot be used normally on the Great Route.

But the permanent pointer is not an easy-to-use thing. Not only is it expensive, but it also has to stay for a long time after arriving at a place to store magnetic force.

This is a waste of time, isn't it?

Although a ship can carry a large number of permanent pointers at different locations, this kind of thing can be barely used when there are few ships. If it is the scene that Ning Yuan envisions, where thousands of ships compete and tens of thousands of ships come and go for trade, permanent pointers will definitely not be enough.

Ning Yuan definitely cannot solve the problem of magnetism in the One Piece world, but there is a way to solve the problem of navigation.

The solution is the technology from Earth: sextant!

A sextant is an instrument that measures the angle between the sun or other celestial bodies and the sea level or horizon at a certain moment in order to quickly know the longitude and latitude of the location of a ship or aircraft.

This instrument does not rely on magnetism for navigation, but on sunlight.

In the One Piece world, only the magnetism is abnormal, and the sunlight is still fine, so the sextant can also be used normally in this world.

The premise is that this world must have the concept of longitude and latitude.

Obviously, the One Piece world does not have it.

But it is not a big problem, Ning Yuan can compile a set by himself.

So, as soon as he returned to the Rain Feast, Ning Yuan started to get busy.

When Robin came in with a pile of documents, the manuscripts in front of Ning Yuan were already piled up.

"You're back!" Robin was wearing a white dress. Rather than a dress, it was more like a bed sheet draped over her body, so that her beautiful figure and slender thighs were completely exposed.

The weather in Alabasta was too hot, and it was impossible to wrap up tightly here.

"Yeah!" Ning Yuan responded, looked up at Robin, and then his eyes lit up.

Robin is worthy of it. Even if she was tanned in the desert, she was still so beautiful.

However, he did not make any extra moves. Although Robin had expressed her submission, her inner defense was very heavy.

If Ning Yuan wanted to force it, Robin might not resist, but then he could only get Robin's body, not her heart.

"Sit down!" Ning Yuan pointed to the chair next to him and said, "I have one last thing here, so read it to me!"

"Okay!" Robin nodded: "First of all, your identity has been arranged. I arranged for the elite personnel of Baroque Works to form a village, and all the printing factories in the nearby cities have been replaced by our people. I guarantee that there will be no problems."

"Yeah!" Ning Yuan nodded: "Well done!"

The people of the World Government may not come to investigate his identity, but they must be prepared for their coming.

"The second thing is that the rebels have been appeased by Weiwei. Weiwei asked you how to deal with them next?"

"The leader will be executed, and the others will be stationed along the Saint Ding River first, waiting for follow-up arrangements!" Ning Yuan said.

"The leader of the rebels is Vivi's childhood playmate!" Robin asked with a smile: "Is your decision in mind, huh?"

Ning Yuan was speechless: "What are you thinking? This is a rebellion. Can such a person be allowed to live? He must die. This has nothing to do with his identity!"

"If I let him live, then other people will see that there is no punishment for rebellion, so won't they also want to rebel in the same way?"

Robin nodded: "Okay!"

You are right.

She still thinks that Ning Yuan is eliminating her love rival. After all, the world of One Piece has its own political gameplay. According to the thinking of people in this world, since Kosa has admitted his mistakes, he should not be executed.

But Ning Yuan's reason is reasonable.

"By the way, it is better to arrange it as suicide for secret execution!" Ning Yuan said: "Don't let Vivi know!"

"Understood!" Robin nodded: "The next thing is the third thing. King Cobra wants to resign!"

"Why resign for no reason?" Ning Yuan asked.

"Because of the article you wrote about Jinbe, Crocodile decided to launch a rebellion in advance and sent people to capture King Cobra!" Robin laughed, "By the day you killed Crocodile, Cobra had been imprisoned for four days!"

"During these four days, he didn't eat or sleep well, and was tortured. When he was released, his body was already in a very bad state."

"That is to say, he needs to rest for a while!" Ning Yuan touched his chin, "Even so, he doesn't need to resign!"

After all, the emperors in his impression would not be willing to hand over the throne to their sons even if they died, let alone sick.

"There should be other reasons!" Robin laughed: "During the two days you were away, two people in black suits entered the palace. According to the news from the palace maids, the two of them talked with Cobra for a long time, and some of them talked about abdication!"

"That means the World Government has taken action!" Ning Yuan thought for a while and said: "The black suits should be from the CP organization, so the World Government wants Cobra to step down and take over Alabasta?"

"No!" Robin shook his head and laughed: "King Cobra has issued an order to you and Princess Vivi to get married as soon as possible, and he will pass the throne to you at the wedding!"

"Pass it to me?" Ning Yuan paused with the pen in his hand: "The World Government asked Cobra to abdicate and pass the throne to me?"

He laughed, and Robin laughed too.

The World Government's plan is not difficult to guess, it's nothing more than being afraid of people with a D in their names.

But they could never have thought that Ning Yuan would actually have the identity of a revolutionary army!

As for the child of prophecy and the will of D, they are nothing in front of the time traveler.

In the world of Naruto, the child of prophecy has not been born yet, but Ning Yuan has already unified the world.

He never cares about such things.

"You can help arrange the marriage. I don't understand weddings!" Ning Yuan shrugged and asked, "Are there any other things?"

"Yes!" Robin smiled and said, "This is the news received by Baroque Works. The Black Gate Force led by Colonel Hina of the Navy Headquarters has changed its route and is heading towards Alabasta!"

"Black Gate Force, Hina?"

"Hina is the user of the Fence Fruit, who can create fences to surround and imprison pirates!" Robin added, "This person should be very strong, and he can't be dealt with by a gun!"

"That's it!" Ning Yuan waved his hand, "If we really have to fight, your subordinate Daz Bonis can deal with her."

Daz Bonis, the user of the Quick Slash Fruit, can turn his whole body into a blade. He is very powerful, but he was eventually defeated by Zoro's sword who had comprehended the Iron Slash.

Robin nodded. She didn't know about Hina's fighting power, but since Ning Yuan said so, she felt more relieved.

"Our identities are clear and innocent, and even the casino is closed, so there is no need to be afraid of her!" Ning Yuan thought for a while and asked again: "When will she arrive?!"

"Tomorrow morning!"

"Then let me meet her!" Ning Yuan said with a smile.

Robin pouted, this little pervert, as soon as you open your mouth, I know what you are planning.

But she didn't care about Ning Yuan's hobby. How many men in this world are not lustful?

Lust is at least a normal hobby, which is better than Crocodile's overall idea of ​​finding Pluto and conquering the world!

What, you said Ning Yuan also wants to conquer the world?

How can this be the same!

Crocodile heard a piece of news from somewhere, and then ran to find him directly. The whole action was impulsive and had no plan.

And Ning Yuan, he has people and power, plans and strategies, and he can see three steps ahead. His goal is extremely feasible.

The former is more like dreaming than dreaming.

The latter is equally difficult, but at least Robin can see the possibility of realization.

"This is the last one!" Robin picked up a thick fold of paper: "This is the latest and most detailed topographic map of Alabasta drawn by Baroque Works after more than three years of investigation in various places. Even the royal family of Alabasta will not have such a detailed map!"

Ning Yuan took the map and handed the manuscript paper in his hand to Robin: "Take a look at this, and then arrange for the navigation and engineering departments to learn to make it!"

"What is this?" Robin took the drawing and saw a sphere with crisscrossing circles and grids drawn on it.

Another drawing had a fan-shaped instrument drawn on it.

"Longitude and sextant!" Ning Yuan said: "This is a new type of navigation instrument. With this, ships do not need to use recording pointers, and can go wherever they want!"

"Is there such a thing?" Robin's eyes lit up and he immediately studied the drawing.

Having controlled a force for decades, Robin certainly knew the importance and disadvantages of recording pointers.

If there is really a navigation device that can go wherever you want without the restriction of the magnetic pole, it would be too convenient for a force!

Ning Yuan also spread out the map and studied the terrain of Alabasta.

Alabasta is a huge island with a total area of ​​7 million square kilometers.

The island is very similar to Australia in the previous life in terms of area and shape.

And the situation on the island is basically the same as Australia.

That is: most of the island is a desert Gobi that is not suitable for human survival. Humans can only form gathering areas in a few areas with rainfall, and later developed into several large cities.

But Alabasta and Australia are also different in one aspect, that is: in the center of Alabasta, there is a wide river that almost runs through the entire Alabasta.

This river is called the Saint Ding River, and it is also the mother river of Alabasta.

But there are not many human gathering areas near the Saint Ding River. There is only one Albana in the middle, which is the capital of Alabasta, and there are two port cities at the end of the Saint Ding River.

There are rivers, but there are very few cities along the way. Why is this?

The answer is simple, the St. Din River is an above-ground river!

Because the St. Din River flows through a large desert, the sand in the upper reaches is constantly washed down by the river water. This sand continues to raise the bed of the St. Din River, causing the St. Din River to get higher and higher. .

Over thousands of years, it turned into an above-ground river similar to the Yellow River.

So the question is, the Yellow River often floods. Is this the case with the Shengding River?

Yes, of course it does, and often!

How often?

Albana, the capital of Alabasta, was not built on flat land at all. Instead, it was first built with earth to form a flat-topped mountain, and then the city was built on the mountain.

Five huge drainage outlets were built around the city for fear that the St. Din River would overflow and flood the city.

"If Alabasta wants to develop, it must first control sand. If it wants to control sand, it must first control rivers!" Ning Yuan tapped the table lightly and read.

Robin next to him suddenly raised his head with surprised eyes.

Ning Yuan put down the map. The map was indeed very detailed, but it did not have a common symbol on modern maps: contour lines!

So much so that Ning Yuan only knew that the Shengding River was an above-ground river, but he didn't know how much higher it was than the ground, where it was higher and where it was lower, and what the conditions were like nearby.

"You arrange for someone to do the things in the manuscript, and I'll go out!" Ning Yuan simply stood up with the map, and then flew out through the window.

Robin was a little speechless. Isn't there a gate? Why don't you leave?

but!

“If you want to develop, you need to control sand first. If you want to control sand, you need to control rivers first?”

"This new king seems different from the previous king!!" Robin thought thoughtfully.

At least the previous kings didn't seem to be so concerned about the St. Din River.

Although the king also cared about the people, he only paid lip service to it.

As for what to manage the St. Din River?

Not to mention that Kobra hadn't thought about it. Counting dozens or hundreds of generations, not a single king of Alabasta had thought of this.

So, is Ning Yuan different from others, or is it because of the revolutionary army?

Robin became interested in Ning Yuan's ideas.

She stood up quickly, handed the manuscript paper in her hand to the craftsmen of Baroque Work Club, and then returned to Ning Yuan's office, handling trivial matters while waiting for Ning Yuan's return.

At noon, she arranged the food so that Ning Yuan could eat it as soon as he came back.

But Ning Yuan didn't fly back until after four o'clock in the afternoon, covered with dust.

Of course, this is just an adjective. In fact, Ning Yuan's body was clean and there was no dust at all.

"Come next to me and look at the map together!!" Ning Yuan said.

Robin immediately stood up and came to Ning Yuan's side, only to find that the map was still the same map, but there were many circles and lines on it that he didn't recognize.

"This is a contour line, used to describe the altitude of this place!" Ning Yuan introduced: "And these blue lines are the canals I selected. The St. Din River is too high, and the water volume is huge, so Once it floods, it will destroy most of Alabasta!"

This is why there are no cities in the lower reaches of the St. Din River, they are all flooded.

"I want to dig 14 canals on both sides of the St. Din River to divert the water of the St. Din River, so that there is less water in the St. Din River but more territory is covered. Moreover, the terrain on both sides of these fourteen canals is flat. It can definitely be improved into arable land, and by then Alabasta will have hundreds of millions of acres more arable land!”

"The area covered by the river water will be larger, and the area covered by water vapor evaporation will also be wider. When the time comes, these areas will gradually start to rain, and the drought and lack of rain in Alabasta will also change!"

“As for the St. Din River, when the water volume is reduced, we can also build large sand dredgers to lower the height of the river, or we can artificially dig the river channel to change the course of the St. Din River. Then there will be no worries about the flooding of the St. Din River! "

"This!" Robin's eyes widened, looking at the circles and lines on the map, and asked in shock: "Can this be done?"

What is the concept of hundreds of millions of acres of cultivated land?

It can feed hundreds of millions of people!

The total number of people in Alabasta is less than 100 million!

"I not only conducted on-site inspections, but also made careful calculations. It is absolutely feasible!" Ning Yuan said with a smile.

After all, he is not fighting alone!

"The only problem is that such a huge project requires a lot of manpower and material resources!" Ning Yuan continued: "So I divided the entire project into six phases, one every four months, and strived to complete it within two years!"

"The rebels will be the workers digging the rivers! In addition, poor civilians will be recruited in the future to provide work in exchange for relief!"

"This workload is not small!" Robin frowned: "With 600,000 people, I'm afraid we won't be able to dig a single canal in four months!"

"It can be done!" Ning Yuan drew the shape of the canal on the paper next to him and said: "From the middle, excavate both sides at the same time and divide it into four directions. The longest canal here is only 1,800 kilometers, which is equivalent to only one section per section. It takes 4 months and 120 days to dig 3.75 kilometers per day. The canal is 20 meters wide at the top and 10 meters wide at the bottom and 15 meters high. This means 843,750 cubic meters of soil are excavated every day, which is equivalent to every day. It’s not difficult for people to dig 5 cubic meters a day!”

"This!" Robin looked at the calculation process on the paper with his eyes wide open. The length of the canal was extremely terrifying, but after it was converted into numbers, it suddenly became no longer out of reach!

It seems that it can really be done?

"In the first phase, the two longest canals will be dug at the same time. As long as these two canals are dug, the situation in Alabasta will be greatly improved!"

"But the question is, where does the money come from?" Robin asked: "The money for hiring soldiers is still their previous salary, but what about the money for civilians?"

"The work that 600,000 soldiers can do will cost at least one million civilians. One million civilians, even if each person is only paid 30,000 Beli per month, it will cost 30 billion! Four months is 120 billion Beli!"

"Does the Alabasta royal family have no money?" Ning Yuan asked.

"We haven't taken over the financial work of Alabasta yet, but as far as I know, there should be no money!" Robin said: "The reason why these soldiers participated in the rebellion is partly because they haven't been paid for a long time!"

It didn't rain in many cities, causing the financial collapse of Alabasta.

The financial collapse of Alabasta has also led to the inability to pay soldiers' salaries.

Without salaries, soldiers will naturally rebel, and the logic is established.

"How much money does Crocodile have?" Ning Yuan asked: "The Rain Banquet has been here for a long time, and he should also be able to obtain treasures by fighting pirates!"

"Crocodile doesn't have much money!" Robin shook her head and said: "It also takes money to maintain the Baroque Works. If you squeeze it out, you should be able to come up with more than 10 billion?"

But more than 100 billion is a drop in the bucket for the huge amount of work!

Ning Yuan thought about it and asked again: "There are nobles in Alabasta!"

"Yes!" Robin nodded.

Alabasta has not always been a single-line inheritance. There were also royal families that were separated before. These royal children went to the local area and became nobles one by one.

"If all these nobles were copied, how much money could they get?" Ning Yuan asked.

"This!" Robin was stunned and shook his head: "I really don't know, no one will calculate how much assets these nobles have, but what is certain is that it must be a lot!"

"After all, these nobles don't need to pay taxes, they can also get taxes from various cities, and they will also form fleets and do business everywhere! Because of their noble status, they can often monopolize the main industries of a city!"

They are doing monopoly business and making a lot of money.

But they don't need to pay taxes!

Alabasta has existed for five thousand years, and these nobles have accumulated wealth for five thousand years.

So how much money do these nobles have?

"Then take money from these nobles!" Ning Yuan said lightly.

"But!" Robin frowned: "After all, they are nobles, we can't do anything to them openly!"

"With Crocodile gone, the deterrent to pirates has decreased!" Ning Yuan spread his hands: "Pirates are rampant, and then bloodbathed the nobles' family, what can we do!"

Robin's eyes lit up, and he instantly understood what Ning Yuan meant.

It's still the old way, let Baroque Works disguise as pirates!

The only difference this time is that there was Crocodile fighting pirates before, but there is no Crocodile now!

She immediately wrote this down, and then began to think about who to let do this.

Well, Daz Bonis.

He is loyal and a killer, so he is very suitable for this.

"By the way, that Whiskey Peak, notify him not to rob pirates in the future!" Ning Yuan thought about it and said again.

"Why?" Robin asked: "These pirates have huge bounties on them, which is a rich source of funds!"

"It's too low to make money like this!" Ning Yuan shook his head and said: "Let's change to raw material processing, financial settlement, and tax collection!"

"I can understand tax collection, but raw material processing? Financial settlement?" Robin asked: "What are these?"

"These are complicated!" Ning Yuan smiled and said: "I will write a book to explain it to you later!"

Raw material processing and financial settlement may seem insignificant, but in fact the profits are huge.

Singapore, which is close to the Strait of Malacca, started like this.

Singapore only has a few routes, just one!

And what about Whiskey Peak?

Ships from the East Sea, West Sea, South Sea, and North Sea, as long as they come from Upside Down Mountain, will eventually converge here!

What a huge fortune this is, but no one has ever paid attention to it!

Not only Whiskey Peak, but also Twin Cape, which is closer to Upside Down Mountain. If nothing else, you can make a lot of money even if you open a snack bar!

What is there here?

Just a lighthouse!

What a waste! It's just a huge waste!

I can only say that people in the One Piece world don't know how to do business.

Of course, the merchants in the One Piece world are most likely officials and businessmen backed by nobles, and they are all doing monopoly business.

If you don't need a brain to make money, why bother thinking about ways to make money.

As a result, now, all the benefits are in Ningyuan's hands.