novelsite Chapter 145 Laying out the Shampoo Land
Chapter 145 Laying out the Shampoo Land
In the blink of an eye, it has been more than a week since Profik and others arrived at the Shampoo Islands.
Profic had a phone call with the Five Old Stars in the Kingdom of Vera, and the agreed time for the meeting was one and a half months later. It took about a week to sail from the Kingdom of Vera to the Chambord Islands, and stayed in Chambord for nearly ten days. With all the plans in mind, there is still more than half a month left before heading to the Holy Land for a meeting.
During this time, in addition to letting Star become familiar with his fruit abilities, Profic spent it practicing Armed Color Haki and investigating the situation in the Shampoo Islands. As for Nolando's adventure notes obtained at the auction, they were given to Falbu for research.
Professional people do professional things, and Profic feels reassured.
In these days, Profik discovered that the geographical location of the Shampoo Islands was too important and had irreplaceable value for the development of a force.
Therefore, in order to foresee future development, he decided to establish part of his own industry in the Chambord Islands. In his future plans, in addition to industries such as human trafficking, organ trading, and drug trafficking that break the bottom line of human life, the more industries arranged in the Shampoo Islands, the better.
Profic used this time to buy and seize some shops, restaurants and other various businesses in the Shampoo Islands. By the way, a large number of bounty prisoners of varying worth were also eliminated, and a lot of bounties were obtained from the navy.
Profic's actions quickly established a great reputation for him in the Shampoo Islands. Many disciples of various religions and schools "recommended themselves" in the hope of becoming Shichibukai's subordinates.
Profic conducted an in-depth investigation into their backgrounds and found that most of these guys had dirty backgrounds. They were originally engaged in various illegal crimes and activities that exceeded the lower limits of human beings. Therefore, Profic rejected their application to join the flag and sent a large number of them to naval prisons.
For these acquired or snatched properties, after discussion, Profic decided to hand them over to Fuentes for management. Property acquired through legal acquisition
Currently, he plans to focus on developing the catering industry. In addition to the fact that most of his acquisitions were restaurants and bars, Profik had other reasons for making this choice.
The catering industry is not a sensitive industry, and with the status of Shichibukai, it is not easy to be rejected by other forces. At the same time, the catering industry has a broad enough market that anyone can become a potential customer of the catering industry.
On the other hand, the catering industry, especially bars, often becomes the distribution center for much information. Operating such an industry can also facilitate the collection of intelligence or talent in the future.
"You few are still responsible for continuing to run the restaurant. You are all experienced veterans and you will definitely be able to do a good job." Profik explained the work tasks to several original store owners and current employees, "If you encounter any problems , don’t worry, just discuss it with Mr. Fuentes. If he can’t solve it, he will report to me..."
In addition, Profic has also set up a "talent recruitment market" on the Shampoo Islands. Don't get me wrong, unlike those slave-trading black shops disguised as talent markets, this talent market is a serious talent registry.
All intelligent creatures, regardless of gender, age, or race, can register their talents and careers they want to take here. Of course, it must be legal. All bosses and foremen can come here to find the talents they want. Of course, it must also be legal and voluntary.
According to Profik's vision, this talent recruitment market provides an intermediary function on the surface, but is actually responsible for helping Dawn secretly recruit talents in the Shampoo Islands. If there are people with Devil Fruit abilities, scientists, physical skills masters, or special talents, Dawn can know the relevant information in advance through this channel and recruit them.
Then, Profik personally placed an advertisement on the talent recruitment market on behalf of Dawn, openly soliciting outstanding talents with special abilities.
It is true that many people came to "recommend themselves", but none of them met Profik's needs. But Profic did not reject them, but arranged them in the industry belonging to Dawn. After all, these industries currently only have an empty shell and lack a lot of manpower.
However, Profik believes this won't last long. We haven't recruited suitable talents yet, probably because it has just been released and its reputation is not yet famous enough.
After all, in the original work, the Shampoo Islands are a "gathering of heroes" in the pirate world. Every year, countless outstanding talents enter the New World from here, and countless people pass through the Chambord Islands when leaving the New World. The supernova in the original work,
During this time, Profic also did not miss the training of Armed Color Haki.
He often went to Xia Qi's rip-off bar to ask Lei Li and Xia Qi about the secrets of armed domineering training.
Although Raleigh pretended to be disgusted, he actually taught Profik seriously.
According to Reilly, Profic's talent for armed color domineering is quite good. In just a few days, Profic followed Rayleigh's method and unleashed the domineering energy in his body. The next step is to hone and precipitate over a long period of time to increase the strength and storage capacity of the domineering force, and then slowly break through to the advanced usage of armed color domineering power.
There is no need to rush into the practice of domineering.
But the one who has made the fastest progress in armed domineering is not Profic, but Gao Shifu. Perhaps it's because the addition of animal phantom beasts to the body is really terrifying. Currently, Gao Shifu's armed domineering power is second only to Morana in terms of strength.
Having a good relationship with Lei Li and Xia Qi will make it much easier to do many things in the future.
In Profik's plan, there are many things that may "use" Rayleigh, the pirate king's right arm.
Apart from anything else, if I go to Fish-Man Island and the New World in the future, I will have to ask Rayleigh to help with coating.
Although as a Shichibukai, Profik could also apply to enter the new world through Mary Joa, he did not want to give up the Bifur. What's more, if you want to go to Fish-Man Island, you cannot avoid the important step of coating.
Having said that, this coating is also a big business. So many people enter or leave the New World every year. If it can be fully utilized, there is probably a huge profit margin.
Profic is considering adding the lucrative coating industry to its future business landscape. He considered that he could hire the coater "Lao Lei" at that time, or hand over part of the equity to Lei Li and Xia Qi...
"Sister Xia," Profic said. He went directly to Xia Qi to explain his idea, "Do you think I can make money if I open a special coating company?"
Xia Qi and Lei Li were both shocked: Other pirates are thinking about improving their strength, seizing territory, wooing strong people, and competing for the throne of the Pirate King. Why are you here staring at money all day long?