Chapter 25 Assessment

In the following days, the 16th branch of the Navy and the Konomi Islands were quietly digesting the harvest.

After Miss Nami's careful calculation, the income this time not only included the pirate bounty, the pirate ship, but also part of the pirate's treasure.

Although it was hidden very deeply by the cunning pirates, if you don't pay attention, you may almost sell the pirate ship together, but with the help of Miss Little Thief Cat, as long as the valuable things are hidden deeply, they can't escape her eyes emitting strange light.

All were found one by one!

As mentioned earlier, some of these ships must be sold.

Not to mention that the Konomi Islands and the 16th branch of the Navy don't need so many ships at all, some of them are not suitable for civilian and naval use.

Therefore, it is better to sell them and buy new ones when the time comes.

The Konomi Islands will keep some as cargo ships, and the 16th branch of the Navy will also keep some as naval warships, and they will just need to change the coating when the time comes.

Although all navy warships are uniformly built and ordered regardless of their models.

Strictly speaking, pirate ships are not suitable for use by the navy.

But there is no way now. We can't find a suitable supplier of navy warships, so we can only make do with it at this stage.

If we want warships, we can either build them secretly, buy them from black merchants, or order them from the Navy Headquarters.

If we build them ourselves, we don't have shipbuilders. Even if we do, we don't have the blueprints of navy warships. Don't look at the many navy warships on the sea, but the technical content of navy warships is not low.

Especially large navy warships!

And it is illegal to privately build navy warships on the sea.

If we find black merchants... the price is expensive and there is no guarantee. Moreover, if we find black merchants, we have to go to the Grand Line or the New World to find them more easily.

As for ordering from the Navy Headquarters?

Please, the 16th Navy Branch is invaded by pirates every year and needs funds every year. Where does the money come from to order so many navy warships?

Isn't this telling the Navy Headquarters that the 16th Navy Branch has money?

How can we ask for subsidies at that time?

You should know that even the five existing warships of the 16th Navy Branch were obtained by asking Sean for help in the past few years, plus reporting damages by themselves.

Of course~

This time, we can take this opportunity to use the damaged navy warships as an excuse to ask the Navy Headquarters to add another one.

By then, the 16th Navy Branch will have 6 navy warships, plus the pirate ship-coated navy warships. It can be said that the 16th Navy Branch, just in terms of the number of navy warships, can be called the strongest navy branch in the waters near the entrance of the East China Sea Great Channel.

As for whether there are navy branches stronger than the 16th Navy Branch in the other half of the sea, Xia Che is not sure.

However.

This strength is the same as the previous East China Sea overlord, the Click Pirates, which claimed to have 5,000 pirates and 50 pirate ships, but if they met a strong man, one person could chop them to pieces.

If the hard power is not good, no matter how many equipments there are, it is useless~

Even strictly speaking, the number of marines under the 16th Navy Branch is not as good as the Click Pirates.

Of course, the Navy Branch has been recruiting marines during this period and has never stopped. The recruitment slogans have been posted, and there has been a wave of becoming a marine in the Konomi Islands. I guess even Smoker has heard it now.

For example, now...

"Bang~"

The door was suddenly opened.

Xia Che, who was planning the development plan of the Konomi Islands' navy strength, raised his head and looked at Smoker who ran in without even knocking on the door. He took a sip of the black tea that Robin Xiaomi poured for him and said helplessly, "Senior Smoker, you have to change your temper. Fortunately, I am not doing anything in there now. If I did something in there, it would be so embarrassing. No wonder you were demoted to the weakest sea by the higher-ups. You have to learn more about the ways of the world from me."

"..." Hearing Xia Che's words, Smoker, who had originally looked indifferent, suddenly turned pale.

Learn from you?

What to learn from you?

Fishing in troubled waters, deceiving superiors and subordinates, and defrauding funds?

Or learn from you to catch pirates?

What's more...

How are you, who was also demoted, better than him?

And what do you want to do in there?

Smoker pointed at the boy with pink hair and a melon face and said unhappily, "This guy heard that you are recruiting marines here, and hopes to join the 16th branch of the Navy."

As soon as he finished speaking, the boy next to him stood up consciously and looked at Xia Che excitedly.

"Colonel Xia Che, my name is Coby, please let me join the 16th branch of the Navy. I hope to become a powerful marine like Colonel Xia Che and catch all the pirates."

Although he didn't know what happened at the time, after waking up and seeing that everyone was caught, he guessed that they must have been caught by the two marines at the time.

It was incredible that only two marines caught so many pirates.

Especially after learning that the male marine was actually the base commander of the 16th branch of the Navy, Coby believed... Colonel Xia Che must be a very powerful marine, so when he heard that the 16th branch of the Navy was recruiting marines, he always wanted to try it.

But he could never find an opportunity, or was afraid... not to be recognized.

After hearing that they were going to be sent back to their island, he was very nervous. Finally, he mustered up the courage to ask Colonel Smoker, and was brought here by Colonel Smoker.

However.

"Kerby..." Hearing this name, Xia Che raised his head in surprise.

After looking at the pink hair, he guessed who the boy in front of him was.

Unexpectedly, this time when catching pirates, he even brought this guy with him.

He raised his eyelids, ignored Smoker who was laughing at Coby because he heard Coby say [Catch all the pirates! ], and his eyes fell on Coby. He crossed his hands in front of his chin and said seriously, "Although the 16th branch of the Navy is very short of marines, our 16th branch of the Navy recruits elite soldiers and men of the sea, and you..."

Although he didn't finish his words, Coby already understood what he meant and lowered his head with some disappointment.

It's normal for a coward like him to be rejected.

But thinking that he had finally mustered up the courage this time, if he gave up like this, he would definitely regret it very much. He took a deep breath again and looked at Colonel Shache in front of him firmly. When he was about to say something.

At this time.

"But as a naval captain, for the justice of the navy, I am willing to give you this opportunity." As if he had guessed what Coby wanted to say, Xia Che interrupted him directly, looked at Coby again, and said in the tone of a naval captain, "As long as you pass the exclusive assessment of the 16th branch of the navy, you can become a member of the 16th branch of the navy."

After the words fell.

"???"

Robin, who kept quiet and downplayed his presence, raised his head in confusion at this moment and looked at Xia Che.

When did the marines of the 16th branch of the navy have an assessment?

Why didn't she know?

Aren't they all the recruitment assessments handed down by the headquarters of the navy?

It's just that the requirements for the marines of the branch are slightly lower.

At this moment.

Even Smoker, who was watching boredly, turned his head curiously. What kind of assessment does the 16th branch of the navy have?

To be honest, as a naval colonel who was also demoted by the headquarters, Smoker was still very curious about what kind of assessment this naval colonel who was more talented than himself would set.

"I, I, I..." Hearing that Colonel Xia Che was willing to give him a chance to take the test, Coby suddenly became excited, clenched his fists, and shouted loudly, "I will work hard! Thank you Colonel Xia Che for giving me this opportunity, I will definitely not let Colonel Xia Che down."

"Very good!" Xia Che nodded with satisfaction, his hands still crossed, but his expression became serious again. Looking at Coby in front of him, his whole body exuded the aura of a naval colonel again, and asked solemnly, "In this case, let me take the test myself!"

As soon as these words fell.

Coby: ? ? ?

Colonel Xia Che personally took the test?

Before he could react,

"Please listen to the question!" Under the gaze of everyone, Xia Che asked directly, "If there is a large-scale war between the navy and the pirates, and you are also on the battlefield, at this moment, the war has come to an end, all the goals of the navy have been achieved, but the pirates have not been eliminated. However, at this moment, the battlefield is littered with corpses, and you see your companions and acquaintances on the battlefield dying one by one. How will you react at this moment with your heartbroken heart?"