novelkee Chapter 477 Aokiji's Problem
Chapter 477 Aokiji's Problem
Aokiji initially thought that he had encountered the first incident of officials from the Land of Light bullying villagers.
But in subsequent observations, he understood the official's difficulties and knew that what he brought to the villagers was the latest higher-yield and wind-resistant wheat seeds developed in the Kingdom of Light.
He forced the new wheat seeds onto the island in order to increase land productivity and boost villagers' income.
This was undoubtedly for the sake of the villagers, but in the face of such stubborn and somewhat ignorant villagers, simple verbal explanations were no longer effective. The official could only use the power in his hands to forcibly promote the wheat seeds.
This incident also brought new thoughts to Aokiji.
Sometimes, when facing stubborn villagers, is it not enough to just be friendly and have equal dialogue? Can officials use their power to force their own policies?
But this also gave Aokiji more things to think about. If in every confrontation between officials and villagers, the officials insisted on their own policies and used the power in their hands to enforce them, how could we guarantee that the officials would not make mistakes?
This latest experience brought Aokiji new thoughts from more angles, and made him feel confused while feeling that he had found the way.
The road was just ahead, but it seemed to be shrouded in an impenetrable fog, which made Aokiji somewhat unsure whether the road he saw was in the correct direction.
With more questions and more thoughts, Aokiji continued his journey.
His final destination in the East China Sea was Windmill Village, the hometown of his former boss and teacher, Garp.
Aokiji continued his journey and landed on several islands along the way to Windmill Village. Nothing major happened on these islands.
All he could see were different officials from the Kingdom of Light, some majestic, some kind, and some cheerful, who were promoting the governance of the Kingdom of Light on different islands, in different towns and villages.
Under their governance, the island is in good order, the old roads connecting towns and villages are being renovated and expanded, and thanks to the construction of public works, as long as the residents on the island have the strength, they can find well-paid jobs.
At the same time, Aokiji also saw that the officials of the Kingdom of Light sent out their officers with supplies to maintain basic life and distributed them free of charge to those elderly widows and widowers who were unable to work and had no descendants to support them.
All the orphans in towns and villages were searched out and raised in places called welfare homes.
There, these children not only have basic living guarantees, but also learn basic cultural knowledge. After the older children are tested, the excellent ones are sent to school, and the less qualified ones will receive professional skills training to ensure that they can support themselves with their skills after adulthood.
Looking at what happened in the orphanage, Aokiji felt a little emotional. He was glad that these children lived in a good era and lived under the rule of the Kingdom of Light.
At the same time, Aokiji couldn't help but think of the little girl whom he had let go with his own hands, the child named Robin.
If Robin, her mother, and those scholars had lived under the rule of the Kingdom of Light, perhaps the tragedies of the past would not have happened.
Thinking of Robin, Aokiji suddenly felt that after his trip to the East China Sea, maybe he should go and see the grown-up girl. How is she doing now?
The last information Aokiji had about Robin was that she joined Crocodile in exchange for Crocodile's protection. After that, as Crocodile took the initiative to leave the Kingdom of Alabasta and hide his tracks, Robin's whereabouts were temporarily lost.
After several more days of traveling, Aokiji finally reached his final destination, Windmill Village, more than half a month after entering the East China Sea.
Stepping onto the road leading to the Windmill Village from the pier, Aokiji, wearing sunglasses and carrying a bag on his back, stood by the side of the road, looking at the newly built spacious concrete road.
"Make way, make way, uncle in front, please make way!"
"Obito, honk the horn!"
The noisy sounds and the roar of machinery around him made Aokiji move to the side of the road and look back.
Two young people, a man and a woman, were sitting on a metal three-wheeled motorbike. The motorcycle was blue in color and had a rectangular flat open-air box on the back.
Aokiji had seen similar motorcycle designs before. Among the younger generation of the navy, Smoker had a three-wheeled sidecar motorcycle.
However, that motorcycle was designed and manufactured by the Navy's scientific research department specifically for Smoker, and is powered by Smoker's Smoke Fruit ability.
Apart from this, Aokiji has never seen motorcycles of other shapes, and the main reason is power.
The power technology that can drive motorcycles either relies on some kind of fruit ability or some extremely advanced scientific research technology.
Under these restrictions, mechanical means of transportation such as motorcycles become extremely expensive and cannot be widely used.
Aokiji watched as the young man gradually slowed down his motorcycle under the guidance of the girl next to him, and finally drove the motorcycle to stop next to him.
As the motorcycle stopped, the gentle-looking Rin, who was next to Obito who was driving the three-wheeled motorcycle, angrily educated him: "Obito, you idiot! Is this what you call being able to drive a three-wheeled motorcycle? What if you hit someone? If you act like this again next time, I will tell Master Kizaru!"
"Rin, I really can drive! I drove it last time I was in Konoha, and I helped the elderly in the village transport goods." Obito explained hurriedly with a bitter face.
"How many times have you driven it? How long was the last time?" Lin's tone was gentle, but she looked at Obito with very serious eyes.
Obito shrank his head and whispered unconfidently: "Except this time, it was opened once, about a year ago."
"Obito!" Lin raised her voice.
Obito quickly clasped his hands together and begged for mercy, while signaling to Lin with his eyes that there was someone else next to him.
Aokiji, standing next to the tricycle, watched the quarrel between the two young men and women, with a slight smile on his face. At the same time, he roughly guessed that his whereabouts might have been exposed.
After Obito's reminder, Lin seemed to react. She hurriedly got out of the car, tidied her hair which had become a little messy because of Obito's driving, and then bowed slightly to Aokiji with great apology.
"You must be Kuzan-senpai! I'm so sorry, Obito and I were so rude just now. We came to pick you up on the orders of Master Kizaru."
"Ah la la! Have I been exposed so soon?" Aokiji said to himself in a low voice, then looked at Lin, and then looked at the three-wheeled motorcycle beside him, "Where should I sit?"
Faced with this question, Lin turned her head somewhat embarrassedly to look at the three-wheeled motorcycle behind her. The lazy voice of Hokage Kizaru rang in her mind, "Let that guy sit in the cargo box! He is so big that he can fill the driver's seat by himself."
While Lin was thinking about how to explain it tactfully, Obito, who was behind, said casually, "Kuzan-senpai, please sit in the cargo box at the back."
"Obito!" Lin turned around and reminded Obito with her eyes, then immediately turned back to Aokiji and explained, "Senior, the universal three-wheeled motorcycle designed by our Kingdom of Light is mainly aimed at..."
Before Lin could finish her words, Aokiji had already thrown the bag into the cargo box, then stretched out his long legs and directly flipped into the open cargo box, leaning his back against the metal baffle at the front end and sitting down with his legs bent.
"Don't be so polite. It's nice to sit here."
"Haha! Senior really has the same taste as me. I also like to sit like this." Obito said with a smile, and then returned to the driver's seat.
Lin didn't know what to say, so she could only sit back in the driver's seat and quietly remind Obito, "Obito, drive slowly. Safety is the most important thing."
Facing Rin, Obito nodded obediently. In his heart, he really wanted to tell Rin that none of the three of us present would be injured by the tricycle overturning!
Under Lin's gaze, Obito turned the key, stepped on the accelerator, started the three-wheeled motorcycle again, and drove towards the windmill village.
Aokiji sat in the cargo box at the back, turned his head to look at Obito who was driving the tricycle, and asked curiously, "What's the power of this car?"
Aokiji was not illiterate. He knew that the navy's steel warships were able to sail without wind because of steam power, but the tricycle he was sitting on at the moment was obviously not powered by steam from burning coal, but by other power.
"It's a car, a substance extracted from petroleum. I'm not too sure about the specific principle. Anyway, in our homeland of the Land of Light, three-wheeled motorcycles and cars like this have become popular. I heard from Senior Scorpion that petroleum is a mineral energy source mined from deep in the desert, just like coal." Obito didn't know enough about these things and could only explain them vaguely.
"Oil." Aokiji whispered the name, and became even more curious and expectant about the land of the Land of Light that Obito mentioned.
But before that, he had many questions that he wanted to ask Kizaru.
Under Obito's driving, the three-wheeled motorcycle drove into the windmill village smoothly and steadily, and finally stopped in front of a tavern in the center of the windmill village.
After waiting for the car to stop, Aokiji picked up his bag, stood up, and jumped out of the cargo box. He looked towards the tavern with its door open. He saw Kizaru sitting at the bar and drinking.
"Thank you." After thanking the two young men, Aokiji walked straight into the tavern and sat down next to Kizaru.
"When did you discover me?"
"The patrolling ninja noticed you the day you entered the East Sea."
Aokiji was slightly stunned when he heard this, "It seems that I still underestimated you."
"No, it's just that you don't know our ninja soldiers. What they are best at is infiltration and reconnaissance. In the previous war years, when it comes to intelligence confrontations, the most considered thing is not the strength of the ninja, but the ninja's reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance capabilities." Kizaru explained with a smile.
Aokiji nodded, and then continued: "Then I will go along the way..."
"Don't worry, everything you saw really happened. To be honest, the Kingdom of Light and I will not waste so much manpower just for you and perform so many dramas just for you."
Kizaru's words were very direct, but they convinced Aokiji. After a moment of silence, he said with mixed feelings: "The East China Sea under the governance of the Kingdom of Light is like two different worlds compared to the outside world."
Huang Yuan raised the wine glass in his hand and said with a smile, "This is why so many of us are working hard." (End of this chapter)