Chapter 239 Solving Alabasta’s Problems
In the end, the three members of the Straw Hat Pirates did not directly try to take back their pirate ship. On the one hand, there were guards protecting it, and the Straw Hat Pirates did not want to get into dispute with them. On the other hand, even if they robbed the ship, they would have no chance to go out to sea.

After all, in addition to the ship, Luffy will not forget that his companion Usopp has also been captured. Compared to the Golden Merry, it is more important to rescue his companion.

And Zoro and Sanji were also a little concerned about what the guards said, something like the king's husband... It sounds like Uchiha Feiyu seems to be doing well in Alabasta? Did he marry the princess or the queen?

After getting rid of the guards, before the Straw Hat Trio could go and ask for information, someone had already come to their door.

"Are you three enemies of Uchiha Feiyu? If you want to cause trouble for him, perhaps we can help!"

Several cloaked, furtive figures appeared in front of Luffy and came directly to cooperate with them.

"Who are you? Why are you looking for us?"

Zoro frowned and asked suspiciously, and the cloaked men immediately answered their questions:
"We are the resistance forces of Alabasta. As for why we are looking for you, it's because we have a common enemy!"

Uchiha Feiyu was not aware of the contact between the rebels and the Straw Hat Pirates. After Alabasta gradually entered into a negotiation state, he had already changed his target of killing.

He has already targeted the nobles and officials of Alabasta!

As mentioned earlier, Alabasta's current state is not just the result of Crocodile's efforts. It can even be said that the Seven Warlords of the Sea's Dancing Powder Plan has always been just a fuse. What really led Alabasta into its current predicament is its corrupt aristocracy.

Princess Vivi's father, Cobra, is a very kind king, but he is just kind. As for his tactics, politics, and state governance strategies, it cannot be said that he has none at all, but it can be said that they are a mess.

Although in the world of One Piece where everyone competes to be the worst, Cobra can be regarded as "wise and brave", and is much stronger than superstars like Walpo and the Celestial Dragons, but it is obvious that the problems of Alabasta are beyond this guy's ability to handle.

After all, Alabasta has a huge land area and can be regarded as the largest country in the Grand Line. Its standing army alone has a full 60 troops. In comparison, the Drum Kingdom of Walper has less than 6 citizens in total, or Dressrosa occupied by Doflamingo has only a few hundred thousand people at most.

It can be said that Alabasta is one of the most difficult countries to manage in the entire Grand Line. The harsh desert environment, the vast land area and the large population, as well as the rigid classes, have all made Cobra helpless even though his hair has turned white.

However, for Uchiha Feiyu, this is not difficult. He has no political skills and no ability to solve the problems of Alabasta by political means - but he can directly solve the people who cause this problem!
In a supernatural world like One Piece, if an individual's strength reaches a certain level, it can completely make up for his or her wisdom and political ability.

After all, the so-called ultimate political means is naked violence. In the ordinary world, people must gather together to form a more powerful violent group, so the rulers must have certain political means.

However, in this extraordinary world, Uchiha Feiyu alone is equivalent to the strongest violent gang in Alabasta. Coupled with the righteousness of being Princess Vivi's fiancé and the heir to Alabasta, it is easy for him to overturn the table.

Since most of Alabasta is desert and only oasis areas are habitable, it adopts an approach that is close to a feudal system.

For example, Rainland can almost be said to be Shaklockfar's personal city. The money and taxes obtained have never been handed over to the Kingdom of Alabasta. In fact, there are many oasis cities like this that are close to separatism. The oases that the Alabasta royal family can directly control are less than one-fifth of the entire country.

However, when the rulers of these oasis cities plundered the people, they all used the name of the Alabasta royal family, so in the end the people's resentment was concentrated on the Alabasta royal family.

In addition, Alabasta also has serious problems with its officials. After hundreds of years of inheritance, almost all of the officials here have become a family inheritance system. The resulting corruption and mutual protection among officials have formed a big network that continues to suck blood from this country.

Uchiha Feiyu first carried out a large-scale purge among the officials of Alabasta. The method was very simple. He took Golden Week to hypnotize the officials one by one. Faced with Golden Week's coloring, these officials had no power to resist and revealed everything they had done one by one.

Then he started killing people without restraint. After all, he was the gunman and didn't care about the resistance of the pens.

As for the problem of order breaking down after killing the officials, a kingdom like Alabasta, which has been peaceful for a long time, has a lot of people who can be officials. A large number of officials can be selected at random.

During this period, officials being executed could be seen in Albana every day. Uchiha Feiyu strictly followed the laws of the Kingdom of Alabasta and dealt with all issues severely and strictly.

Although Cobra is a benevolent king, this does not mean that the laws of the Kingdom of Alabasta are benevolent. In fact, the laws of any country in the world of pirates are inhumane, they are just very lenient.

What does it mean to have a lenient law? It means the outcome of the process, which all depends on the mood and thoughts of the person enforcing the law.

You can be strict and severe, or you can make a big deal out of a small matter, and once you are strict and severe, the result is basically beheading.

Almost every day, Albana would push out the bodies of more than a dozen officials. Although Cobra and Vivi were kind-hearted, the charges written by those officials under Golden Week's hypnosis left them speechless about Uchiha Feiyu's actions.

Although this method of massacre is brutal, it is also the fastest way to solve problems such as class stratification and official corruption. According to Uchiha Feiyu's standards, almost 70% of the officials of Alabasta were killed by him, which is as many as thousands of people.

But at the same time, the money obtained from the confiscation of property was almost equivalent to Alabasta's tax revenue for more than ten years, not to mention the many fixed assets that accounted for a larger proportion. To be honest, when seeing the results, even Cobra and Princess Vivi wanted to drag those officials out and chop them again.

Of course, Uchiha Feiyu’s reputation in Alabasta is even more terrifying now. In the past, only the rebels shouted about the Butcher and the Feather of Destruction, but now even the nobles of Alabasta know that he is an absolute god of killing!

"Well... the problem of officials has been solved. With a large amount of money to fill the treasury, plus the large amount of state-owned assets that have been recovered, Alabasta can finally breathe a sigh of relief." "The next problem should be those separatist nobles. When the time comes, I will bring a few members of the Baroque Works to visit them and check on the work of these nobles. I believe that power will be centralized soon."

Uchiha Feiyu, sitting on a chair, was looking at the information in his hand and analyzing it slowly. Opposite him were Princess Vivi and her father, King Cobra.

The king, who was known for his kindness in the original novel, now had a complicated look on his face and whispered:
"Are you going to continue killing people? The situation in Alabasta has improved a lot now, right?"

"If you are willing to wait until Weiwei reaches your age and then launch a large-scale rebellion and repeat what you did today, then you can indeed stop now."

Uchiha Feiyu spoke calmly, in fact, these separatist nobles are much more harmful than corrupt officials, and even among the Alabasta rebels, there are shadows of these separatist nobles.

After all, even if the rebels could kill the Alabasta royal family, it would be almost impossible for them to defend the country. You have to know that there is a world government in this world.

At that time, those separatist nobles will naturally jump out, directly expel the rebels, and receive the fruits of victory... Anyway, in this extraordinary world, as long as the bottom line is released, it will be too easy to deal with pure rebels.

The root cause of the uprising is that the people in the country can no longer survive. Ultimately, it is a problem of insufficient resources and unfair distribution in Alabasta.

Uchiha Feiyu's massive killing spree certainly solved some of the resource allocation problems, but at the same time there were still a large amount of resources in the hands of those separatist nobles and were not distributed to ordinary people.

With the resources and population that Alabasta currently has, even if the uprising is quelled and peace begins, a new uprising will surely break out again in a few decades due to population explosion, resource reduction and other issues. The bottom line is that these separatist nobles have occupied too many resources.

Upon hearing this, King Cobra's face changed and he gritted his teeth:

"Then I'll leave it to you, Feiyu!"

"I'm so sorry. It's because of me, an incompetent king, that you and Weiwei have to bear so much pressure, and even your reputation..."

"Reputation is meaningless. As long as we are in control of the greater good, the navy won't want me because of my reputation anyway. It would be better if we can deter the nobles and officials."

Since ancient times, most of the wise and powerful emperors in feudal dynasties were tyrants in the eyes of their ministers, who killed people without mercy. In the eyes of these truly wise monarchs, deterrence is the most important thing.

Moreover... these separatist nobles are not like ordinary officials. They have a lot of troops under their command. Now that the rebels have the idea of ​​​​peace talks, they cannot kill them at will. Uchiha Feiyu can only focus on these separatist nobles and their troops.

"Well... maybe you are right! Blind kindness doesn't seem to be a good way to govern a country."

"Perhaps your iron-blooded methods will be of better help in governing the country. With Weiwei, the two of you can complement each other. In this case, I will have no regrets in handing the country over to you."

Cobra showed a bitter smile on his face. It was not until Uchiha Feiyu tortured all the information out of those officials that he realized how rotten his country had become.

Although he had some understanding of the situation before, due to his blind kindness, he did not pursue the officials' behavior, which led to these officials and nobles becoming more powerful.

"Whether it's mercy or iron-bloodedness, the most important thing is to hold on to your strength! Father-in-law, if you had really followed my example, you would have drowned long ago."

Although the people in the One Piece world are not very smart, they are full of martial virtues. To survive here, you just need to have enough brains. You don't need to be too smart, but you must be strong. Otherwise, you may be turned into ashes at any time.

"Haha, you're right. Alabasta... is indeed too weak."

"Okay, let's stop wasting time, Princess Weiwei and King Cobra, just focus on negotiating with the rebels and try to appease them first. As for me, I'm going to keep killing people!"

Obviously, King Cobra and Princess Vivi are the royal family of this country, but the person who really makes the decision is Uchiha Feiyu, and judging from their expressions, they are willing to do so.

This is not only because of Uchiha Feiyu's strength and kindness, but more because Uchiha Feiyu's approach did solve Alabasta's long-standing problems.

After assigning the tasks, Uchiha Feiyu did not waste time and went directly to the oasis of the mission target. There are now more than a dozen aristocratic separatist forces of varying sizes in Alabasta. At the same time, these aristocratic forces form cliques and factions with each other, and three leaders have been formed.

Since he was ready to take action, Uchiha Feiyu started directly from the strongest aristocratic separatist force. There was nothing to say about it - there were basically no strong people in Alabasta, even the strength of the royal family was just that, and there were only two animal-type Devil Fruit users who could do anything, not to mention these nobles.

Anyway, they just captured the nobles, used hypnosis to get the evidence of their crimes during Golden Week, and then started killing them indiscriminately. In just over a week, most of the nobles and their diehard subordinates were dead, and Uchiha Feiyu had tens of thousands more dead souls on his hands.

These ghosts were basically well-trained soldiers or guards. They brought more blood and energy to Uchiha Feiyu, and also made his body evolve more towards Shura. Both his physical fitness and the armed color domineering in his body were greatly improved.

Even the Sandai Kitetsu in Uchiha Feiyu's hand was completely turned into a black sword in the constant killing. However, unlike ordinary black swords, the final color of this sword was pure dark red, as if it was a ball of solidified blood.

(End of this chapter)