novelkee Chapter 476 Aokiji's Journey to the East China Sea
Chapter 476 Aokiji's Journey to the East China Sea
The East China Sea has been particularly lively recently, thanks to Kizaru's activities and invitations outside the East China Sea. Danzo, who is stationed in the East China Sea and is in charge of external affairs, has suddenly become busy.
The first person to arrive in the East China Sea was Aokiji. This former navy admiral sneaked into the East China Sea and stayed there for several days before he was discovered by patrolling ninjas, who reported him to Danzo.
Compared to the surprise of the people below, Danzo, who had received the news from Kizaru a long time ago, was very calm. He did not go out himself, and also instructed the ninjas below not to expose Aokiji's identity and let Aokiji have a good tour of the East China Sea.
He will go out again when he has seen enough in the East China Sea and is willing to reveal his identity and contact the Kingdom of Light.
This approach was certainly not Danzo's own idea, but was arranged by Kizaru.
Kizaru knows that different approaches should be taken when treating different people.
Aokiji feels lost because he has seen the darkness of the Navy and the World Government, and cannot find a better way to achieve justice.
Therefore, there is no need to give him too much guidance. Let him go to the East China Sea and see how the East China Sea develops under the rule of the Kingdom of Light.
Aokiji, who was hiding his identity, did notice the changes in the East China Sea as soon as he entered it, as well as an indescribable atmosphere that was different from the outside world.
Aokiji couldn't explain this atmosphere, but he saw villagers in the village on the island arguing with officials from the Kingdom of Light over the measurement of one or two feet of land.
If facing the officials sent by the king, the villagers dared not speak out and could only accept the oppression silently.
And now, they even dare to argue with officials!
Just by stepping onto the first island after entering the East China Sea, Aokiji saw something completely different from before.
During the rest of the journey, Aokiji saw more changes. He saw soldiers from the Land of Light who were loved by the villagers, and he saw schools established by the Land of Light that were enrolling students at very low or even free entrance fees.
Aokiji sneaked into the school and eavesdropped on their classes.
This school not only teaches basic literacy, but also professional skills. He heard and saw accounting, law, business, and civil engineering.
In addition to these professional skills, he even saw professional soldiers in the school's physical education classes, teaching these students basic physical skills and explaining to them the principles of domineering.
In the past, in other waters, civilians would never have the chance to come into contact with these things.
Even if they join the navy, a new recruit has to serve as a serviceman for two years before they can gradually begin to learn combat skills, and these are the most basic training in muskets, basic physical skills, swordsmanship, etc.
In a school like the Land of Light, it is absolutely impossible to directly teach "high-end knowledge" such as Haki.
On the one hand, even if the newcomers who have just received training understand Haki, it is difficult to practice and master Haki without sufficient training. On the other hand, such knowledge, let alone the navy, even the pirates will not easily pass it on to outsiders.
As a civilian, you must make enough contributions and prove your loyalty to the organization, or to the great pirates, to have the opportunity to obtain this knowledge.
And now, in the school established by the Kingdom of Light in the small town, all kinds of professional knowledge, which usually requires ordinary people to spend huge costs to acquire, are simply imparted.
Such a school attracted Aokiji's attention. If Kizaru was not around, he would definitely pull Kizaru aside and ask him why he and his Kingdom of Light were willing to do this?
After leaving the island where the school was built, Aokiji was cautious. On the next island he landed on, he took the initiative to look for schools in the towns on the island.
In this way, Aokiji discovered, after visiting several islands, that the establishment of each school affected a population of at least 200,000.
These people generally live on different islands, and the Kingdom of Light will choose the most suitable location to build a school based on the distance and traffic conditions between the islands.
At the same time, in order to ensure that students from other islands can go to school smoothly, the Kingdom of Light also opened self-powered speedboats that can travel quickly between islands, and built dormitory buildings in the school to allow students to live on campus.
For the first time, Aokiji experienced what it meant to have a government and a country that cares about the people.
And through his continued observation, he discovered the differences between the people here and those in the outside world that he had noticed when he first entered the East China Sea.
The difference is confidence. After accepting the rule of the Kingdom of Light, people living in the East China Sea are more confident than before.
When they need problems, they dare to find grassroots officials and soldiers to solve the problems. When faced with arrangements that they think are unreasonable, they dare to take the initiative to argue with the officials and try to explain what they think is right.
Aokiji even saw a young official from the Kingdom of Light who had just been assigned to serve as a village official during his travels. He issued a wrong order due to his insufficient understanding of the local situation.
After hearing the villagers' reactions, the young man realized his mistake, withdrew the order on his own initiative, and visited every household to apologize to the villagers.
The scene of the young man apologizing left a very deep impression on Aokiji, especially after he knew the reason behind it, he was even more moved.
Admit your mistakes and correct them! This is a truth that everyone understands, and it is often mentioned by people to teach others.
But in Hizashi's life, there are too many people who are completely unable to achieve such a path on their own, let alone an official from the Kingdom of Light.
What is the stereotype of officials in Aokiji? They are dressed gorgeously, treat the common people below them like pigs and dogs, and regard their own face as more important than the sky. People like them will never admit their mistakes to those below them. They will only admit their mistakes to those above them, and even kowtow to them.
Because he had seen too many high-ranking officials like this, when Aokiji saw such a young official, he couldn't help but feel a strong liking for him.
As a businessman, he took the initiative to contact the official and learned that the young man's name was Shimura Fugetsu. The young man's elegant and decent conversation made him like him even more.
At the end of the conversation, Aokiji learned from the young man that Kizaru, the founder of the Land of Light, was from the Shimura clan, which is one of the most prestigious clans in the Land of Light. As a result, he admired the young man even more.
After all, if this young man were in the World Government, his background would make him a world noble like the Celestial Dragons. With such a top background, let alone apologizing to the villagers for the mistake in issuing orders, even if the young man served as a village official, it would be the greatest insult to his identity.
It is rare to have such a top-notch background and yet be so gentle and kind.
Aokiji stayed on the island for several days, during which he found a young man named Shimura Fugetsu to talk to many times. He heard that the young man regarded Kizaru as his idol and wanted to follow a hero of the tribe like Kizaru to accomplish something great.
"Kizaru is the pride of all of us Shimura clan members. With his great strength and extraordinary wisdom, he ended the thousands of years of chaos, ended the most cruel era of ninja villages, and established a unified Kingdom of Light, allowing all people in the world to live in peace.
As a member of the Shimura clan, I share the same blood with Lord Kizaru, so of course I must follow in his footsteps and accomplish something great.
I don't have much talent in ninjutsu, but I have good results in business and city governance. In the future, I want to become an excellent governor.
My goal is to ensure that all the people under my rule have a good life, have enough food to eat, wear new clothes, and be able to read and write.
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It seems that it is a rare opportunity for Shimura Fugetsu to meet a listener like Aokiji. He freely talks about his dreams and his ambitions for the future.
Aokiji on the side listened silently, only responding out loud on rare occasions.
It was not until the end of today's communication that Aokiji said very seriously: "Feng Yue, I hope that the next time I come to this Fishhead Island, I can see that the villagers live a happy life under your governance."
"Then just watch carefully! Uncle Aota." Shimura Fugetsu said confidently. The way he addressed Aokiji was the pseudonym that Aokiji gave himself.
After finishing today's conversation, Aokiji also said goodbye to Shimura Fugetsu, and left the island alone with anticipation for the next meeting.
The observations over the past few days and the communication with Shimura Fugetsu have given Aokiji a great shock and gain.
If the young people from the big families in the Kingdom of Light all had such aspirations, and if the Kingdom of Light continued to implement their system, then before they became corrupt, the entire East China Sea would become a real paradise.
Aokiji was excited about this, as if he saw the direction and path to achieve justice.
But he was also worried about this. Sometimes he couldn't help but think that eight hundred years ago, when the World Government was just established, the twenty kings who established the World Government and their followers were also so high-spirited.
But power and wealth, over time, eroded their descendants, turning the world's nobles into beastly beings like the Celestial Dragons, and the officials of the World Government into parasites who only knew how to exploit and plunder and enjoy wealth and power.
Precisely because he has witnessed the beauty of the world, he cannot bear to see it being eroded by darkness in the future. Aokiji also does not want the future Country of Light to degenerate into the same state as the World Government.
With a mixed feeling of excitement and worry, Aokiji continued his journey.
He saw more islands, and on these islands, he also met officials from the Land of Light who had relatively bad attitudes, but after Aokiji understood the reasons for these very few bad attitudes, he felt that the badness of these officials was almost cute.
An official is preparing to promote a type of wheat from the Kingdom of Light on the island that has a higher yield and is suitable for island cultivation.
However, his order was met with dissatisfaction and resistance from the villagers. The villagers regarded food as more important than life and farming as the top priority in their lives. They did not believe in this new seed and were unwilling to follow the officials' orders.
Faced with the villagers' resistance of not doing anything and not farming, the official chose a tougher approach after persuasion failed. He changed his previous kind face and became a tyrant in the eyes of the villagers.
Wielding a warning stick, he led his officers and the ninja team stationed on the island to force the villagers to plant.
The villagers seemed to have returned to the days when they faced the rule of the king and the nobles. They were dissatisfied and suspicious, but they dared not not do it. (End of this chapter)