Chapter 143 Adjusting Yamato

Chapter 143 Adjusting Yamato

Chapter 143 Adjusting Yamato
Yamato looked at Lu Li and subconsciously felt uneasy.

Because she found that every time Lu Li showed this kind of look, strange problems would arise, and then her outlook on life would be impacted, and she would become autistic.

"Brother Lu, Sun Dasheng..."

Yamato spoke first.

However, before she could finish her words, Lu Li raised his hand and interrupted her, "Yamato, I just thought of a question."

"But I don't want to hear Brother Lu's questions..."

Yamato's face was full of bitterness. She now began to doubt whether she was Kozuki Oden.

"Do you want to hear more about Sun Dasheng?"

Lu Li had a smile on his face, like a weird uncle who was luring a little girl.

Yamato had a very conflicted look on her face, she really wanted to know the sequel to the story, but she didn't want to hear the questions Lu Li had to ask.

After a fierce inner struggle, her desire to hear the story overcame her fear of the question, and she nodded reluctantly, "Okay, Brother Lu, go ahead."

Lu Li raised his hand and pointed at the prisoners who were suffering and not getting enough food, "Yamato, these are the people of Wano Country, right?"

Yamato didn't expect Lu Li's question to be so simple, and nodded, "Of course, otherwise why would they be locked up here."

Lu Li's mouth curled up, "Then let me ask you, Yamato, do you feel pity for them?"

"Pitiful?"

Yamato tilted his head, "It's not that pitiful, after all, they can eat here. People who are not imprisoned here also have to rely on labor to eat. The old, weak, sick and disabled can't eat enough here, and they can't eat enough in Wano Country either."

Lu Li was stunned. He didn't expect that Yamato, with his simple mind, could come up with such a philosophical answer.

Or perhaps it is precisely because Yamato is a naive psychopath that he can see the essence through the phenomenon.

If you think about it carefully, it is true. People like Kuri can't even make a living by selling their labor. And in today's Wano Country, people who live a normal life are just selling their labor or other things in exchange for daily necessities.

"Brother Lu, do you feel pity for them?"

Seeing Lu Li was silent for a moment, Yamato asked back.

"It doesn't matter what I think of them. Yamato, do you feel bad when you're hungry?"

Lu Li asked from a different angle.

Yamato thought about it for a moment and said, "It's really sad. If you put it that way, these hungry people are really pitiful."

Having said that, her eyes turned different when she looked at the old, weak, and sick people, because she subconsciously thought that Rabbit Don Prison was just a place where she could get enough food.

In addition, every time she came here, she focused on recuperating and eating, and then escaped from prison after her injuries were healed, so she never noticed that there were many prisoners here who did not have enough food.

Lu Li used her own example, and she immediately recalled the pain of hunger she had experienced back then, and suddenly felt some empathy with these prisoners.

"Yamato, don't you always say that you are Kozuki Oden? Let me ask you, what is Kozuki Oden's identity?"

Lu Li continued to ask.

"He is the man who will become the general of Wano Country, the hero who will found Wano Country and overthrow Kaido's tyranny."

Yamato answered without hesitation.

Lu Li did not rush to refute Yamato this time, but just nodded, "So he is the hope of Wano Country. You also said before that he is a person loved by the people of Wano Country."

"Of course!"

Yamato nodded excitedly, thinking that Lu Li finally agreed with her.

But Lu Li's next words made her fall into deep thought, "Then, as the leader of Wano Country, if you feel pity for these people, why don't you help them?"

Yamato was stunned, completely confused.

After a while, she took out the diary of Kozuki Oden, flipped through it quickly, and her eyes became even more confused.

"I am Kozuki Oden..."

Yamato's voice was vague, "So I don't have to help them."

"Yamato, do you know what you are talking about?"

Lu Li said with a serious expression.

Yamato's body trembled, and the diary in her hand fell to the ground. However, she did not rush to pick it up. She looked at Lu Li with fear and said, "I... I don't know. I... I am Kozuki Oden, but Kozuki Oden will not personally help the poor people, nor will he help the country in times of crisis. I just need to be loved by the people."

Lu Li knew that Yamato's psychological defenses were collapsing, so he took advantage of the situation and said, "You should also feel very strange. Kozuki Oden was the one who abandoned the people who trusted him and went out to take risks when the country was in danger. After he returned to Wano Country, he never did anything practical for the people. Do you think this is really right?"

Yes, although the original work has been trying hard to exaggerate how the "heroic man" Kozuki Oden is loved by the people, he has only been doing stupid and foolish things from beginning to end, and has not done even one practical thing for the people.

The starving people did not get enough food because of him, and the cold people did not get warm clothes because of him. Not to mention the absurd things he did when he was young, after he returned to Wano Country, he just compromised with Kurozumi Orochi and played the clown every day.

Well, it's not about enduring humiliation and arranging and training counterattack forces behind the scenes, but simply dancing and acting like a clown, giving Kaido six years to develop.

Gou Jian, the King of Yue, knew how to endure and accumulate strength while sleeping on firewood and tasting gall. Kozuki Oden was just wasting time. He lost with four twos and two kings. When he was dancing and playing the clown, not to mention secretly organizing a counterattack, he didn't even do anything practical for the people. He didn't even hunt to feed the children in poor areas. So at that time, the people of Wano Country hated Kozuki Oden.

Because they had been enslaved by their homosexuals for many years, they were waiting for Kozuki Oden to come back and save them, but this guy compromised and danced naked on the street every day.

In the end, Kozuki Oden was defeated and died in a frying pan. Someone said that the reason he endured was that Kurozumi Orochi had some hostages in his hands, and everyone was moved to tears...

Well... Lu Li felt that it was a bit abstract. Whether it was Kozuki Oden or the people of Wano Country, they were all quite abstract.

Lu Li felt that the only thing he could identify with Kozuki Oden was his strength and integrity.

"But...but Kozuki Oden has always been like this."

Yamato's voice became smaller and smaller, and she felt something collapsing crazily.

"It's always been like this, right?"

Lu Li asked back, pointing at the old and weak prisoners who were grateful for the leftovers, "Yamato, you also feel pity for them. You clamor to defeat Kaido and liberate Wano Country, but apart from challenging your father, have you ever helped the people of Wano Country over the years?"

Yamato was stunned by the question, and tears flashed in his eyes. "I, I feel like I should help them, but the diary doesn't say that Kozuki Oden will help the people himself."

"If it's not written in the diary, you won't do it? Do you think that the people will love you without you doing anything for them?"

Lu Li said that in fact he felt that Kozuki Oden might not have done anything, but that did not prevent Kozuki Oden from being loved by the people.

Rather than admiring Kozuki Oden, the people of Wano hate Kurozumi Orochi and Kaido. In comparison, they think that the Kozuki family is very good. They are loyal to the Kozuki family, not just to Kozuki Oden.

To put it more bluntly, it is the theory of bloodline. Wano Country is a feudal country, and the people naturally believe that the rule of the Kozuki family is justified, so even if a monarch like Momonosuke is put forward, they will bow down and be moved to tears.

But to be fair, if Kozuki Oden really became the ruler of this country, would he be able to govern Wano Country well?

But not necessarily...

Judging from his life experience of visiting prostitutes at the age of 6 and raping women at the age of 15, and he has no management experience, he might become a tyrant after ascending to the throne of general.

As for Momonosuke, who became the general at the end of the Neukuchi no Kuni chapter in the original work, let alone let a few-year-old lecherous kid be the general and manage the country, well, that's fine, that's great.

"Isn't that right? Because I am Kozuki Oden, of course I will be loved by the people."

Yamato said hesitantly.

Lu Li smiled, "Then go walk around and shout that you are Kozuki Oden, and see if they will love and admire you."

Yamato was silent. It was not like she had never done this before, but everyone looked at her as if she was mentally ill and ignored her.

"Wake up, Yamato, you are not Kozuki Oden. They are just numb people in the feudal social system, naturally succumbing to the theory of bloodline. Even if you perfectly inherit the spirit of Kozuki Oden, have his strength, and do the same thing as him, no one will love you."

Lu Li's words were like sharp knives piercing Yamato's heart. "In a sense, in the long run, his contribution to this country may not be as good as your father's."

Yamato was at a loss under Lu Li's verbal output. She could only argue where she felt she could fight back, "How could he be worse than Kaido? Kaido has only brought pain to this country!"

Lu Li raised his head and looked at the factories standing in the distance and the smoke that reached the clouds. "Kaido has caused great damage to the environment, but it is undeniable that he has brought this country into the industrial age. This is a kind of progress. It's just that he is too cruel and doesn't know how to manage, so he has made the country become like this."

Combining his previous observations and analysis, he felt that although the people of Wano Country were extremely poor in some areas, such as places like Kuri, the living standards of residents in core cities were still good.

The country actually does not lack food, but there are huge problems with distribution.

Overall, Lu Li felt that the current Wano Country was likely to have a better economy than the Wano Country previously ruled by the Kozuki family.

This is easy to understand. Kaido wants a complete country, so he did not burn, kill and loot in Wano. He exists as the endorsement of the ruler, that is, the protector of this country.

After Kaido came, weapons factories were established, artificial devil fruit business started, and seastone products were made by craftsmen from Wano Country. These products were exported and traded, bringing huge economic benefits to the Beasts Pirates and Wano Country.

Kaido is certainly a villain, but he broke down the borders of Wano Country and allowed this closed and backward society to move forward.

Hundreds of years or decades later, when the Beasts Pirates are no longer in power in this country, it will undoubtedly enter a period of rapid development because the industrial and economic foundations have been established.

Even if Kaido knew a little about management, he would be able to govern Wano Country very well now, not only ensuring the happiness of the people, but also greatly improving the production capacity of his factories.

It’s just that Kaido is an uneducated pirate who only knows how to drain the pond to catch fish.

The two biggest crimes that Kaido committed against this country were that he allowed someone like Kurozumi Orochi to manage the Country of Wano, which was tantamount to backing up a dirty villain and allowing Kurozumi Orochi to oppress the people of the Country of Wano at will.

Second, his factory pays no attention to environmental protection and has directly destroyed the local river ecology. It may not last long at the moment, but in another ten years, all the surrounding farmland will probably die. By then, famine will spread and drinking water will not be guaranteed.

As for whether the products produced by Kaido's factory are "inhumane", not to mention the seastone and weapons production lines, the artificial devil fruit is indeed a product with side effects, but this thing is not cheap if it is sold outside.

There are many people in this ocean who are willing to take risks for their abilities, so Kaido's artificial devil fruit sells very well.

Kaido does not have the bad taste like Kurozumi Orochi. He just throws away the fruits he has eaten. Kuri's situation was caused by Kurozumi Orochi's abnormal psychology.

And even if he stopped the devil fruit business, just selling weapons and seastone industrial products would be enough to bring enough income to the Beasts Pirates.

There is another point that Lu Li wants to complain about, and that is that artificial devil fruits are simply too weak. Kaido's inferior products cannot be compared with the ones developed by Dr. Vegapunk. After eating them, they are ugly and have many side effects, and the improvement in abilities is not necessarily that much.

Kaido fed so many of his subordinates artificial devil fruits, but in reality, are these miscellaneous soldiers really of any use? They are all full of domineering aura.

Lu Li seriously suspected that Kaido was fooled by Doflamingo, which was why he teamed up with the other party to engage in this unreliable business, which was a waste of money and time, and most of the products were produced and sold by themselves, and it also ruined many members who originally had potential.

(End of this chapter)