Chapter 164 Lu Li: What is Mr. Kaido’s dream?

Chapter 164 Lu Li: What is Mr. Kaido’s dream?

Chapter 164 Lu Li: What is Mr. Kaido’s dream?
"What did you say!?"

Kaido's good mood disappeared immediately after hearing Lu Li say that he was going to shut down his devil fruit factory.

"Governor, don't be so angry. Let me tell you some data first."

Lu Li said, erasing the previous content on the blackboard and drawing a simple table, "I just said that our factory profit ratio is very high, a full 100 times, but this does not include the devil fruit factory."

All the cadres looked at the blackboard, and each of them looked like a good kid listening to the class attentively.

The table on the blackboard clearly shows the output-to-profit ratio of each factory. Based on the same basic salary of 9000 Baileys per month, the profit ratio of the weapons factory is 93 times, and the profit ratio of the seastone factory is 119 times.

The profit ratio of the artificial devil fruit factory is... 2 times.

Well, of course, double the revenue is normally high, but compared with the other two businesses, it stands out.

"How is this going?"

Kaido frowned after seeing this data. He had always thought that his most profitable product was the artificial devil fruit.

“There are many reasons for this profit ratio.”

Lu Li explained, "Of course, the wages we pay to the citizens of Wano Country are very low. I don't deny that artificial devil fruits are sold at high prices, but their profits are not high. This is mainly due to the fact that its raw materials are too expensive and the production equipment is expensive."

He made another list on the side, which was the construction cost of an artificial devil fruit factory, the cost of the equipment required, and the cost of the raw materials needed to make each artificial devil fruit.

Compared with these costs, the cost of workers is almost negligible, so the cost of artificial devil fruits is never on the human side.

“Is the cost so high?”

Kaido looked around at the cadres, but they all had similar expressions.

But Kaido soon realized that it was not that the cost of artificial devil fruits was high. Double the profit was also very high, but he had never calculated the profit ratio of various industries before.

Rather, he did not expect that the profit ratio between his weapons products and seastone products would be so high.

“This is an ideal cost analysis.”

Lu Kai said, "In fact, the cost may be even higher than this. I looked at the financial report of the Beast Pirates last year that Mr. Jin gave me. In terms of external sales, the product with the lowest income is artificial devil fruits."

"No, most of our artificial devil fruits are eaten by our own people and not sold to the outside world. Mr. Lu, you can't just look at the financial report data."

Maria realized that something was wrong. They created artificial devil fruits not mainly to sell them, but to produce and sell them themselves in order to strengthen the pirate group.

Rather, the reason they want to make money is to create artificial devil fruits. This can no longer be said to be the business of the Beasts Pirates. This is part of military expenditure. She felt that Lu Li was making excuses.

"Well, admittedly, we consume a lot of it ourselves, but the profit ratio I just mentioned is based on the price of foreign trade, and takes into account the portion we consume."

Lu Li said, "In fact, although the Beasts Pirates have become richer and richer over the years, their expansion speed is not very fast, and their economic improvement is limited, because they have invested too much in artificial devil fruits."

"Lu Li, you may not understand yet, the reason why I want to make money is to build the strongest devil fruit army."

Kaido spoke at this time, his tone was quite kind.

"I will discuss the practicality of the Devil Fruit Army with the Governor later. Let's return to the issue of cost first."

Lu Li asked Kaido to be patient. "Why is the cost so high? It's because this project has a long industrial line, and many parts are not controlled by us. Doflamingo provides some raw materials, Caesar provides technology, and we buy the core production equipment from them. The technical blockade means that the bulk of the profits have been taken away by them."

Lu Li's analysis made Kaido's expression gloomy.

This was actually a verbal trap set by Lu Li, but Kaido remembered the high profit ratios of his other two factories, and subconsciously thought that the remaining more than ninety times of profit had been earned by Doflamingo.

If you think about it carefully, it is true, because artificial devil fruits are products of high-end technology, and they cannot make the core production equipment themselves. They are all imported from Caesar and Doflamingo, and these equipment are not cheap.

"Mr. Lu, we have a cooperative relationship with those two people. They are indispensable to the operation of the existing process. We can't let our partners earn nothing. That would not last long."

Jin said, "As for the profit, Mr. Kaido just said that we make artificial devil fruits not just to make money, this is military expenditure."

"Arms spending? Is this really effective arms spending?"

Lu Li said with a smile, confusing Jin.

"We have created a legion of givers with the help of artificial devil fruits, numbering over a thousand. Doesn't this count as military expenditure?"

Jhin asked in confusion.

Lu Li was speechless upon hearing this. He pointed outside the door and said, "Mr. Jin, do you think those 1,000 gifted ones can defeat you together?"

Then he looked at Kaido again, "Governor, do you want to go outside and try to release the Conqueror's Haki and see how many endowers can stand?"

After Lu Li finished speaking, there was a moment of dead silence.

Jhin first thought about comparing their combat power, and then he was surprised to find that it might take him less than a minute to kill all those gifters.

Kaido also fell into deep thought, because he suddenly realized that if he used his Conqueror's Haki, there would probably be no more than ten people left standing...

The expressions of the other cadres also changed from stunned to weird. Apparently, they all began to understand that the one who gave the gift was rubbish.

"So, after spending more than ten years in Wano Country and spending astronomical amounts of money to create an artificial Devil Fruit army, is it really an effective fighting force?" Seeing everyone silent, Lu Li once again asked a soul-searching question.

Kaido's expression was terribly gloomy. He suddenly felt that he had worked in vain for the past ten years. Thinking about it carefully, he did not become one of the Four Emperors by relying on the gift. He relied on his own powerful fighting ability and the brave and warlike old brothers around him to build his empire.

"Governor, I want to ask you, who gave you the idea of ​​using artificial devil fruits to create this kind of army?"

Lu Li inquired.

boom--

The wall behind Kaido shattered, and his domineering aura surged. It was obvious that Kaido was extremely angry, and the whole room was shaking.

"Doflamingo——"

He uttered the name in a low voice, "That boy, did he trick me?"

Lu Lixin said that he really felt a little sorry for the 'Newspaper Reading King', but he felt that Doflamingo really had to take the blame for this matter, after all, he seemed to be the only person with such a brain in this process line.

"I don't know the details, but judging from the results, artificial devil fruits are indeed unreliable. Eating them may improve physical fitness a little, but there is no obvious help. Unlike real devil fruits that can transform at will, they become unable to swim."

Lu Li said, "Plus, the artificial devil fruit has already shown serious side effects, taking away people's expressions. I suspect it will also affect people's brains, thus destroying a person's growth potential in disguise."

He looked at Kaido's gloomy expression and continued, "Thinking of the worst, if our Giver Corps had not eaten the Devil Fruit, they might be even stronger now. At least they would have an advantage in naval battles and be able to swim."

Kaido's face grew darker as he listened to Lu Li's words. This was too much of a blow to him.

He has been doing this for more than ten years because he feels that this will give him hope of forming a legion that can overthrow the world.

But now Lu Li was slapping him in the face with the cold facts, that is, his army was rubbish, and at this pace, even after another hundred years, he would not be able to overthrow the World Government and the Celestial Dragons.

His anger grew as he thought about how his time and youth had been wasted.

"Stop all the artificial devil fruit factories!"

Kaido said angrily, he realized that he had been fooled. In the whole line of interests, he was the one who actually consumed the artificial devil fruit. Doflamingo had never let his men eat even one artificial devil fruit!
What does this mean? It means that the guy knows that this thing has serious side effects and is useless!

Over the past decade, all the money has been earned by Doflamingo, and all he got in return was a useless Legion of Givers.

"It seems that the Governor has figured out that the investment in the Devil Fruit Factory is ineffective military expenditure and a complete waste of money and time."

Lu Li said with a serious expression.

"Mr. Lu's words make sense, but what should we do after we shut down the artificial devil fruit factory?"

Jin asked the question, he was now just as shaken as Kaido.

Because he has been working hard all these years because he believed that what Kaido has done in Wano Country can change the world. But now someone tells them that the legion they created is rubbish. How can he bear it?

So instead of being angry, Jhin now feels more confused.

If the army of people with special abilities doesn't work, then how on earth can they overthrow the high and mighty Celestial Dragons?

"I do not know."

Lu Li gave a brief reply of four words, "Before, the Governor-General only asked me and Yamato to manage Wano Country, hoping that we could help the Beasts Pirates make more money. That's why I analyzed that the Devil Fruit Factory is unnecessary. If we only consider economic benefits, we can shut it down and replace it with weapons and seastone factories."

"Lu Li, let me ask you, how can we truly expand the Beasts Pirates?"

At this moment, Kaido looked at Lu Li with burning eyes.

Lu Li felt quite strange. He never expected that with his intelligence, he could almost become the military advisor of the Beasts Pirates.

But he still straightened his expression and looked at Kaido, "Mr. Kaido, I want to ask you, what is your dream?"

Depending on Kaido's answer, he will give different solutions.

Kaido also realized that Lu Li had changed the way he addressed him, and felt that this question was very heavy.

After hesitating for a moment, he answered in his deep voice: "I want to drag those born as 'nobles' and those in power who indulge in comfort to the battlefield, and use war to redefine the value of everyone..."

He paused, then said, "To put it simply, I want to overthrow the rule of the Celestial Dragons and create a more just world where value is determined only by ability."

Kaido's words shocked some of the cadres present, because not everyone knew what Kaido's ultimate dream was, and his next sentence bluntly stated that he wanted to challenge the absolute authority of this world - the Celestial Dragons.

"So, Mr. Kaido wants to overthrow the Celestial Dragons and become the king of the world himself?"

Lu Li continued to ask.

Kaido shook his head without thinking, "What's the point of being the king of the world? I just simply don't like the Celestial Dragons. I'm not interested in ruling the world. If I must be king, I only want to be the Pirate King."

Lu Li was not surprised by the other party's answer, because Kaido was just a reckless man with a simple way of thinking. He was not interested in being the king who ruled the world. He just wanted to fight with the Celestial Dragons.

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