"Replace the king."
Prabowo, the King of the Kara Bi United Kingdom, said: "First pretend to pay the Heavenly Gold, then pretend to be overthrown and abdicate to become an ordinary noble. Let someone else take the throne as king. In this way, the Heavenly Gold is given in name, the king abdicates, and the World Government can't blame us."
"What a ridiculous plan."
Komark, the King of Nidelles from the North Sea, rolled his eyes, "When you replace one king, they just ask for the money once again. Haven't you dealt with the CP Organization? The World Government cares about face, but they don't. They block outside news; you'll be forced to comply."
"The pirate excuse is still useful, but one layer isn't enough."
Vladimir, the King of Lubunier, thought for a moment and said: "Let the Revolutionary Army join in too, create more chaos, then our excuse will be stronger."
Prabowo shook his head, "The Revolutionary Army is mainly in the East Sea and the South Sea; how do we contact them? Besides, any contact would be monitored, and if things went smoothly, we wouldn't need to meet in O'hara face-to-face."
"We can pretend."
Vladimir thought for a moment and said: "Only need a flag; whether they are real or not doesn't matter. Who says the Revolutionary Army only counts if it's Dorag's group? We could create a new faction."
"This can work."
The King of Flower Country agreed: "Everyone contributes some troops to form a new 'Revolutionary Army,' combine together, the Heavenly Gold we send out gets robbed by the Revolutionary Army..."
"Then we send it back." Vladimir said.
"And then get robbed again." Kaizer chimed in.
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"That's settled then, we'll proceed with this plan, the first resolution from the first meeting in O'hara, submit the proposal for review by O'hara."
After deciding on the specific plan, the King of Flower Country continued: "Now, let's discuss the second item, regarding the distribution of trade shares."
He looked at Prabowo, also from the West Sea, "You've acquired quite a bit of territory lately and gained many resources, but you can't sell all these resources to O'hara, can you?"
"Some of the quality isn't great, indeed it's substandard..."
Prabowo nodded, then looked warily, "But substandard will become quality, O'hara has already established factories here, refining on-site, there will surely be qualified goods eventually. My trade share, I absolutely will not concede."
His territory also harbors rich minerals and vegetation, but O'hara only wants quality items, so if the mineral quality is poor it has to be refined into qualified products, which just takes time.
"I'm not asking you to concede, but we can cooperate, O'hara doesn't prohibit this, after all, not everyone uses O'hara's products."
The King of Flower Country said: "Sell the substandard goods to me, we, these countries, still need a lower-level market."
Not every country is like O'hara, where everyone has a job and spare money to enjoy various products from O'hara; as newcomers, the people below aren't that wealthy.
The industries they establish domestically can't benefit the whole country; for ambitious kings who aim to follow O'hara's example, only by emulating O'hara can they become strong.
So, mimicking O'hara to improve citizens' living standards is what they should do.
If quality products can't benefit the entire country and importing O'hara's goods is too expensive, they can only establish a lower-level market.
"You're dreaming."
However, as soon as the King of Flower Country finished speaking, Kaizer smirked: "You want to create a complete industrial chain? Sage won't agree."
The lower-level market is still a market.
A steel basin and a wooden basin have no difference in use, eating canned food is the same as eating wheat products, the use is similarly to fill the stomach.
According to O'hara's habits, they aren't likely to allow these people the possibility of having a complete supporting industrial chain, no matter how small the product.
"No, Sage will agree, as long as we are not stronger than him, he certainly will."
The King of Flower Country glanced at Kaizer, saying: "I used to only hear about O'hara, but before coming here this time, I visited other islands of O'hara. Honestly, even the most remote islands have living standards comparable to my Royal City. Of course, not all, but just counting the average person."
"Building a lower-level market also improves our overall living standards and allows our people to have money; with money, they can buy O'hara's quality goods; with money, they'll envy O'hara's lifestyle more, which for Sage, there's no harm."
"Since we're preparing to form a new union, then certain things he will allow, some core industries, I will seek support from O'hara, ensuring not to exceed boundaries, as for why..."
He glanced at everyone, no need to elaborate, everyone understood.
Whether it's the World Government or the current O'hara, both rule the world with absolute strength.
This is the truth, no matter how well-developed, without absolute military power, it's impossible to unite everyone.
But as long as you have absolute military power, even if a place has nothing to do with you, if you want, it can become yours.
Sage doesn't impose restrictions; they will find their own place.
Because this isn't competition...
It's simply the desire to follow behind O'hara, picking up scraps, so as not to fall to the bottom of this emerging new era.
There's no competition with O'hara, but against other countries... if moving too slow, it's easy to be completely devoured.