The Beautiful Swordsman Came with a Barbecue

At this time, Skyler was the only one in the Warring States Marshal's office who felt a little surprised. Obviously, the others already knew the reason for the Warring States meeting more or less.

Skyler looked around, feeling a sense of discomfort being kept in the dark, but she still said suspiciously: "Shouldn't the Warring States Marshal choose the next marshal?"

Hearing the words, Zhan Guo nodded without hesitation. After all, the final list to be submitted was decided by himself. It is only to help him to sort out the list of these people now.

Of course, respecting the opinions of these people is also very important. After all, Crane has not yet reached the time to retire, there is no successful successor in the staff, and Nurkic cannot leave the Zhanye Detachment.

Therefore, after the next Marshal takes office, it is estimated that within a short period of time, Crane will still serve as the chief of staff of the General Staff Department. As the second in command of civilian work, Crane's attitude towards the new Marshal is very important.

Needless to say, Zefa naturally has too much influence in the wind direction within the navy. If he speaks against the new marshal, it is not impossible for Marin Fando to come to a standstill.

What's more, Zefa, as the chief instructor of the recruits, also involves a problem of the consciousness of a recruit. If Zefa is dissatisfied with the new marshal, then these dissatisfaction will sprout in the recruits' hearts.

At that time, the new marshal will find out, why is the entire Marin Fando against him?

This is extremely fatal. After all, the Warring States Period does not want the next Marshal to be too difficult, so seeking Zefa's opinion or persuading Zefa is what he should do for the next Marshal before he leaves office.

In fact, some time ago, when the two of them went to the New World to attend a certain funeral, Karp actually told himself about the idea of ​​retiring. This veteran who has served in the Navy for nearly 60 years also began to feel powerless.

Especially when the two of them were talking, they both talked about one point tacitly, that is, the matter of being caught up and overtaken by a latecomer, and this latecomer is Skyler.

The navy won the top war beautifully, but it did send off an era, a war, and made these old guys suddenly feel that this era has no place for them.

Karp is like this, and so is Warring States, so he can understand Karp's idea of ​​wanting to retire, and compared with Crane, Karp is not irreplaceable today.

Of course, the world government probably won't accept two people retiring at the same time, so Garp probably has to wait until he retires first before he can apply for retirement. No, for the Monchis, it's called a notice.

But that was after he retired from the Warring States Period, and the retirement of the Warring States Period meant that the new Marshal took over, and Karp could not retire when the new Marshal took over, because it would have a very bad impact.

Maybe Karp didn't have this kind of thought, but other people probably think that Karp chose to retire because of the succession of the new marshal. This kind of public opinion is not allowed to spread by the Navy.

Therefore, Karp must express his position and even contribute to the succession of the new marshal, so that people know that he has no intention of opposing the new marshal, which is also part of the meeting.

As for Skyler. Warring States has to admit that the biggest difficulty in the succession of the new marshal is in Skyler. Skyler's statement determines the determination of the new marshal candidate, and even the future direction of the entire navy.

In fact, the candidate for the next Marshal of the Navy is well known to everyone. Although Huang Yuan didn't say it out loud, his actions proved that he had given up the fight for the position of Marshal.

And the only ones who are qualified to compete for the position of marshal are Admiral Akainu Sakaski and Admiral Aokiji Kuzan, and these two generals happen to be the leaders of the two largest factions of the navy.

In other words, they are the leaders of the two largest existing factions, the Hawks and the Doves.

The role of the leader was not elected by them internally, but today, and before today, the moment the two became generals, they had to become the leaders of the faction.

They represent the interests of the factions. Although the factions are not unified, there is no doubt that the factions are distinct. Therefore, how to balance the two factions is actually the most important thing.

This involves the choice of Skyler. Skyler is definitely the most special general in the navy today.

Her background determines that she is a general of the dove faction, but her style and communication are always inseparable from the hawk faction. Among the most critical choices, Skyler's bias will determine the faction direction of the dispute.

It is even the key to whether the hawks and doves can continue to survive.

If Schuyler supports Aokiji, and after Aokiji succeeds in taking office, the dove faction wins, and the two factions will still exist, because Schuyler is a change made by the dove faction to the marshal dispute.

But if Schuyler supports Akainu, and Akainu succeeds in the end, then these two factions will cease to exist. It is not that the dove faction will be defeated and disappear, but that the foundation of faction existence is the opposition of interests.

As for ideas and concepts, they are only the driving force behind the establishment of factions. Once a faction is formed, it is an interest group, not a community of aspirations.

And if Schuyler supports Akainu, it is equivalent to directly breaking the foundation of the two factions, and the situation of opposing interests will collapse directly. Coupled with Schuyler's influence between the two factions, it will directly lead to two factions. The disappearance of factions.

It's just that this kind of behavior will not make the original hawks and doves merge into one and become a united force. It will only give birth to new opposing factions that don't know where they will go.

For the sake of stability, the Warring States Congress hopes that Skyler will choose Aokiji. After all, the two inherent factions have existed within the navy for several eras. Although there are internal frictions, they can promote the steady progress of the navy.

At the same time, in Sengoku's mind, Aokiji is actually a better candidate. Although the navy now has a large number of unowned sea areas to take over, the navy will usher in expansion and development, which is different from Aokiji's personality.

But while the navy needs to develop, it also needs to be stable. Once the Whitebeard sea area is successfully taken over by the navy, how to develop the navy's defense network in the sea area is what Aokiji is good at.

But Sengoku was not sure that Aokiji was the best candidate, otherwise there would be no need for a discussion meeting today, just to persuade one by one.

The prerequisite for Aokiji to be a marshal is to defend the sea area he won for the navy at the end of the Warring States Period. However, if he wants to continue to expand and continue to march toward the depths of the new world, Aokiji's ability and temperament are not suitable.

The navy really hopes to control the new world that everyone thinks is impossible to control in this era, so the navy needs to actively seek opportunities for development.

And if such an opportunity is found by Akainu and created by him, although it will be accompanied by more risks, it may also have more opportunities.

Coupled with the Sword Troop, the troop that enshrined Sengoku's expectations for the new era is under the control of Akainu, and Drake has now become a candidate for disaster.

Once he really becomes a disaster, then in the name of Beast Kaido, stirring up some storms in the New World will bring infinite opportunities to the navy.

Moreover, Skyler already has the personality of the Zanya Detachment. Obviously, under the jurisdiction of Akainu, he can do more things. Therefore, if Skyler supports Akainu, the Navy will usher in unprecedented opportunities for development.

But there is no opportunity without risk. Although the justice of Akainu is absolute justice, it is absolute justice for the navy, not the absolute justice required by the world government.

With such a marshal, coupled with a general like Skyler, the new era will be completely unpredictable. Who knows how many things these two people will cause?

Especially Akainu's personality that even Skyler can easily deceive. I am afraid that Skyler will have some inappropriate thoughts at that time, and Akainu will affirm Skyler's actions with a face of approval.

Skyler is not without a criminal record. If Akainu is allowed to be the marshal, let alone control the Zanya Detachment, Akainu is not smart enough to be led away by Skyler.

It can be said that regardless of the choice of Skyler, the pros and cons are equally obvious, and in the end it depends on how Skyler chooses, so that the Warring States can "arm up" in a targeted manner.

At this time, Sengoku also asked: "Schuyler, who do you think is more suitable to be a marshal, Akainu or Aokiji?"

Hearing that Warring States asked this question directly, Crane, Zefa, and Karp all had weird eyes. Although they all came to discuss this question, can this question be asked directly?

But Warring States needs a clear answer from Schuyler. After all, Schuyler is too "dangerous" in a certain sense. If you are not sure now, it is better to make things happen later. Warring States does not have such a big heart to accept it. .

Moreover, from the perspective of the Warring States Period, Skyler's ability to pretend to be confused is not inferior to other people present here at all. If you ask a gentle question, Skyler will definitely use his "ignorant" cloak to directly Get away with it.

But Warring States didn't want to give Skyler such an opportunity anymore, he just wanted to understand Skyler's thoughts now, after all, at least now that Skyler's thoughts were confirmed, he still had a year or two to operate.

But once the most critical moment of the marshal campaign comes, Skyler will come to express his attitude, then there will be no time.

Under the watchful eyes of several people, Skyler frowned, because she never thought about participating in the decision of the marshal candidate. After all, whoever is the marshal has little influence on her and Zhan Ye detachment.

If Aokiji becomes the marshal, there is a high probability that she will not be bothered. After all, the Warring States Period has worked so hard for so many years to block the subjective initiative of the Zhanye Detachment. It is useless for Aokiji to come.

Not to mention the red dog, although with the character of the red dog, it will prevent all things that do not comply with the rules and regulations in the navy, but the Zanya detachment is different, after all, the two parties have agreed.

If Akainu becomes the marshal, he needs to give the Zanya detachment enough autonomy to act. As a rule-abiding person, Akainu will not violate his promise.

Who will become the next Admiral of the Navy? For Zhan Ye Detachment, it is only a matter of who Nurkic will report to in the future.

And no matter how stupid Skyler is, she also knows that if she expresses her thoughts clearly, she will definitely offend another person, and she doesn't want to do that.

So under Zhan Guo's serious eyes, Skyler said: "Marshal Zhan Guo, who do you think is not suitable to be a marshal among these two?"

Skyler chose to kick the ball back to Sengoku, and waited for Sengoku to say something more offensive, but Sengoku smiled, this Skyler, treated him like a red dog.

He has been sailing the sea for so many years in the Warring States Period, and he has never seen any strong winds and waves. How could he not see such an obvious undercurrent in Skyler, so he said directly:

"The old man can tell you the answer, but you answer the old man's question first, and the old man asks first."

It's a child's trick to want him to be fooled by Zhan Guo, but it's too late before Zhan Guo was proud, Skyler asked back: "It means that there is actually a person in your heart who is not suitable to be a marshal?"

Zhan Guo's face froze, Crane and Zefa were also stunned for a moment, and then showed a smirk, Garp even slapped his thigh and laughed, only Zhan Guo's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot.

He didn't expect that his defense had such a big loophole. He said with a dark face: "Skyler, answer the old man's question first!"

"Really boring!"

Skyler shrugged, and then said: "Is it really important who becomes the marshal? If it is a competition between Akakenu and Aokiji, then the loser, how to arrange it, is the most important thing?"

Hearing Skyler's words, Sengoku and Tsuru nodded. Obviously, the two had considered this matter before, after all, the relationship between Akainu and Aokiji was not good.

The friendship between the two is limited to work, and even at work, there are often conflicts.

Skyler's worries are not unreasonable. If one of the two becomes the marshal, I'm afraid the other will not be convinced.

But if you want to deal with such a situation, you must first know who can win the marshal election before you can solve it. If Aokiji wins, it's actually not that difficult to solve.

After all, Akagi looks down on Aokiji, but he will not violate his own justice, and he will not even question or change his own justice, but Aokiji is different.

Aokiji's firmness for justice is not as reassuring as Akaken. Although he can become a general, Aokiji's firmness for justice is beyond doubt, but it is not clear how firm he is.

Perhaps under the leadership of the Warring States Period, Aokiji was able to stick to his own justice, but it is hard to say whether his justice will remain firm for a marshal, especially a marshal like Akainu who he also despises.

Seeing that Zhan Guo agreed with her statement, but still waiting for her answer, Skyler also frowned. She felt that Zhan Guo had gone too far, and insisted on letting herself speak out.

But after thinking about it, Skyler gave up covering it up. After all, that wasn't her character. Skyler looked at Sengoku and said bluntly, "I support Admiral Akainu as the marshal."

Hearing Skyler's answer, Sengoku closed his eyes tightly, leaned back, and lay directly on the sofa. Although Akainu would have many problems as a marshal, but Aokiji would have no problems as a marshal How much to reduce.

Even Skyler was able to say his answer so directly, but it gave the Navy some time to react.

Crane also sighed at this time. I have to say that Skyler did not choose to support Aokiji, which really made her a little regretful. After all, Skyler's behavior, if it is exaggerated, is a betrayal of the camp.

And it was the faction supported by Crane who betrayed, but she didn't say anything, after all, it was Skyler's own freedom. Skyler became a dove general, not because of her own choice, but because of her birth.

Therefore, it is absolutely necessary for Skyler to support Aokiji. What's more, at their level, the interests of the camp are no longer absolute, and the interests of the entire navy are what they should consider.

Therefore, even though he felt a little regret about Skyler's choice in his heart, Crane didn't say it, but began to think about how to stabilize the entire leadership team once Akainu was promoted to general.

As the chief instructor, Zefa naturally has no factional concept, and Zefa himself is more supportive of Akainu. If Aokiji's personality is still the same as Aokiji more than 20 years ago, maybe Zefa will not help each other.

But since Aokiji changed his justice and became lazy, the balance in Zefa's heart couldn't help but tilt towards Akainu.

Zefa would not say it easily, even in such a high-level confidential meeting, Zefa only nodded slightly to Skyler when he heard Skyler's answer.

Zhan Guo closed his eyes and lay on the back of the sofa, not to put on any posture, but to feel a little dizzy, and a lot of possible things kept appearing in his mind.

Especially thinking of the scene where Skyler, who is not restrained, goes to Marie Gioia to do things, Sengoku suddenly doesn't want to retire, at least he is here, and he can restrict Skyler.

But the sense of powerlessness in his heart kept telling Sengoku that he didn't have the energy to limit Skyler anymore, and now he could only think about how to appease Aokiji.

Sengoku opened his eyes hard and asked, "Then how do you think Aokiji will be arranged?"

Although he didn't have any hope, Warring States still asked. Although the idea that Schuyler is a genius of martial arts in his heart has often wavered over the years, there is no disadvantage in asking.

Regarding the question of the Warring States Period, Crane, Zefa, and even Garp all looked at the Warring States Period with strange expressions. After all, Skyler was not the kind of person who could give an answer.

Skyler was also asked by Sengoku, how to arrange Aokiji? How does she know? She only knew that in the original book, the two fought for the position of marshal for ten days and ten nights, and then Aokiji broke his leg and ran away.

With such a mess, how would she, Skyler, solve it? ! No ability to cut!

Everyone watched Skyler's face gradually twitch, and knew that it was hopeless to seek Skyler's opinion.

Zhan Guo was also a little disappointed, after all, he hoped that Skyler would be a genius who usually pretends to be confused, and then he would solve the problem for him at this time.

Just when Zhan Guo wanted to talk and divert this topic away, Skyler said for no reason: "Why do you have to have only one marshal?"

Hearing this, everyone was stunned, and Garp was the first to react, shaking his hand in front of Skyler's eyes, and said, "Skyler, are you okay?"

But Warring States said: "Tell me carefully."

Garp looked at his comrades in disbelief. Could it be that Sengoku is also crazy?

Skyler frowned tightly, and a guess that he had seen in his previous life emerged in his mind, that is, Aokiji left the navy, perhaps with a mission.

The duel between the two is not only for the position of marshal, but also for the loser, an excuse to join the world of darkness.

"The navy can only control the situation on the surface, but the underground world is so big, it is also an area that the navy has never explored. The Sword Troops try to take root inside the pirates, but the underground world is not just as simple as pirates.

Intelligence, arms, drugs, and even wars are all circulated and traded in the underground world. We have not found a way to check and balance until now. Why can't there be someone to lead it? "

Skyler's words were not very clear, and there was even some confusion, but both Zhan Guo and He understood, and they both began to think.

Warring States stroked his beard and said: "The underground world is different from the pirate group, they are more vigilant, and it is impossible to accept the joining of a general, unless they are destroyed.

But they have been able to exist for so many years, not because of their strength, but because of their dirty and tenacious vitality. Perhaps as soon as we make a move, they will be transferred. How to target them? "

"I didn't say target, I said command them."

Skyler corrected, Sengoku nodded, didn't mind, but asked again: "Will they accept a general to join?"

Crane also nodded in agreement. After all, there are some desperate idiots among the pirates. Maybe the general leaves, and they are still willing to accept it, but the underground world is different.

That group of people is more vicious and vigilant, they will not believe that there will be a general joining them.

Skyler looked at the two in doubt and said, "They won't accept a general, but they might not accept a former general who was kicked out of the navy."

"Kicked out of the Navy?"

"If the position of marshal is used as a bargaining chip, and Admiral Akainu and Admiral Aokiji are duel, the one who wins in the end will become the marshal, and the one who loses will be kicked out.

Wouldn't it be true that a former general without affiliation would be tempted by influence? "

After Skyler finished speaking, Zhan Guo immediately shook his head and said, "They are not fools. If they arranged such a scene, they would definitely be able to see it."

"Why does it have to be an arranged drama? Why can't it be a real duel?"

"But according to what you said, that's too dangerous? You should know better than anyone else that if Aokiji and Akainu fight, the result will not be as simple as victory or defeat."

The implication of the Warring States Period is that if the two really fight for this matter, they will spare no effort to fight until the last moment. At that time, they may not be able to take care of each other and even their own safety.

This kind of thinking is still too dangerous. The Warring States Period absolutely does not allow two people to give up their lives and fight because of such a thing. Such a gamble is really too dangerous.

Skyler also fell into deep thought when he heard the words. After all, according to the original book, the two fought for ten days and ten nights. Aokiji's legs were broken, and Pang Island was permanently changed because of the battle between the two. climate.

In a battle of this level, even a little bit of slack might lose one's life. It was indeed too dangerous. Skyler raised his hand and scratched the broken part of his left eyebrow, but there was no better way.

But Zefa sighed at this time, and said: "There is a way, but... maybe it will be more cruel to the loser."

"any solution?"

Warring States asked curiously. After all, Zefa is not someone like Skyler or Garp who decides something with a slap on the forehead. The thoughts he can say must have been thought through.

Zefa glanced at the crowd and said, "That's the one who doesn't even have the qualifications to fight to the end and is declared defeated by others!"

"Indeed. But this is too humiliating."

Crane also let out a long sigh. With the strength of Akakenu and Aokiji, if they just lost, it can only prove that this battle has failed, but if they are declared defeated by others, then everything is lost.

Zhan Guo's face also became serious. After a long time, he asked Skyler, "Can you stop the fighting in time?"

"no problem."