In recent years, the population of Alabasta has exploded, mainly because Crocodile contacted various livelihood black technologies, and the conditions proposed were similar, that is, they hoped to live in Alabasta... and even asked King Cobra of Alabasta to meet the condition of "accepting refugees from all over the world"!
Alabasta was originally two continents divided into two by a strait. The East Continent is more prosperous because there are more oases and more fresh water resources here. Although there are plans for artificial oases in the West Continent, it has been stumbling and not smooth before, and the population density is not high.
Not only is the capital of Albana enclosed in the East Continent, but even the rebel base in the original work is in Cattleya on the East Continent. It can be seen that the East Continent is the essence of Alabasta. As for
the West Continent... the most prosperous is the casino built by Crocodile!
However, as the survivors moved in one after another four years ago, Cobra did not realize the other party's true intention at first. He really thought that the other party was a real, kind person who put himself in others' shoes, so he agreed to the migration plan, which led to a surge in the population of the Western Continent in a few years, and the number of foreign populations crushed the indigenous people.
And as foreign populations, the immigrants often interacted with the indigenous people of the Eastern Continent. The desalination plants and water conservancy projects in the Eastern Continent were basically built by "outsiders".
However, just two years ago, the World Government suddenly came to the door and said that among the immigrants, there were groups of escaped slaves during the Tiger incident and their descendants who entered Alabasta, and asked Alabasta to help recover these people...
Cobra originally wanted to downplay the matter as much as possible, but who would have thought that the World Government's envoy had just arrived in the capital, and the Western Continent had already received the news!
Almost overnight, there were hundreds of thousands of rebels in the Western Continent...
Cobra didn't understand, how could there be so many descendants of escaped slaves? And you have to know that Cobra was not ready to use violence, and even the commander of his Kingdom Guards did not know about it. The rebels were "forced" out?
However, the fast-paced development that followed completely disrupted Cobra's pace. Not only the Western Continent, but also the desalination plants and water conservancy projects in the Eastern Continent began to strike. Even radicals claimed to dig up the dams to allow seawater to flow into the oasis... Cobra
did not know that most of these immigrants were from some islands controlled by the Revolutionary Army, poor countries that had been helped, or exiles who were persecuted by the World Government and wandered around.
And the number of immigrants was far more than Cobra imagined. After all, the Revolutionary Army has now mastered the doldrums navigation method, and the sea transportation capacity is no joke.
Although most of these people are not the Revolutionary Army, many of them are immigrants from non-member countries, escaped slaves of the Celestial Dragons, or have other identities that cannot be revealed!
Therefore, when Alabasta wanted to cooperate with the World Government to capture escaped slaves and their descendants, countless outsiders were all panicked...
and at this time, the Revolutionary Army, which they had a good impression of, called out, and Alabasta quickly lost control of the entire Western Continent!
In order to avoid close combat between the East and the West, and not to stimulate the "outsiders" on the Eastern Continent, Cobra asked Crocodile to mediate.
After all, these people were introduced by Crocodile, and... In the past two years, Crocodile, who brought water, fertile land, food, and protected everyone, has a reputation in Alabasta that is so high that if Cobra is a little stingy, he will absolutely not tolerate it! However, Cobra is worthy of
being a model king. The first thing he thought of at this time was to let Crocodile, who also has a high reputation among outsiders, appease them. At the same time, he also hoped that Crocodile would use the identity of the Seven Warlords of the Sea to stabilize the World Government. Cobra did not want to give the World Government an excuse to send troops to Alabasta.
Legend has it that the Nefertari royal family was one step away from becoming a Celestial Dragon, but Cobra did not have any good feelings for those guys.
Crocodile also readily agreed, but what happened afterwards gradually exceeded Cobra's expectations!
The World Government was actually stabilized by Crocodile, or it seemed that from the beginning, the so-called escaped slave incident of Tiger was only investigated by a subordinate department of the World Government, and it had not risen to a high level at all, so it was easily suppressed by Crocodile. At the
same time, Crocodile also used his "popularity" to start appeasing and suppressing the rebels...
and the outsiders from the Western Continent also proposed that Crocodile take the post of "Governor of the Western Continent" as a guarantee for a ceasefire between the two sides.
Cobra had already noticed something was wrong with the situation at that time, but the situation was forced... In order to avoid civil war, Cobra appointed Crocodile as the Governor of the Western Continent.
However, after that, the rebels in the Western Continent were like leeks, surrendering one group, killing another group... and then another group would appear immediately! Anyway, Cobra had long lost count of how many people there were in the Western Continent.
As the governor of the Western Continent, Crocodile has indeed been suppressing the rebels, but at the same time, he has completely mastered the military and political power of the Western Continent, and even the Eastern Continent has to give him extra subsidies...
After watching the "double act" performed by the Governor and the rebels for two years, it is normal for Cobra to be suspicious. It can even be said that Cobra now just wants evidence to convince the people that Crocodile, the governor of the Western Continent, as a national idol and national hero, is the culprit of the civil strife! Otherwise, Crocodile, who
controls the entire Western Continent, which is likely to have a population of tens of millions, and also controls a lot of the country's lifeline industries in the Eastern Continent, once he bites back, Cobra feels that the Nefertari royal family will not be able to bear it. More importantly, once the civil war breaks out, no matter which side suffers casualties, it will be the pain of the people.
And you have to know that even among the indigenous people, many of them admire Crocodile, especially the young people. Even the elderly who are the most supportive of the Nefertari royal family are grateful for the fresh water and fertile fields brought by Crocodile.
Not long ago, Cobra appointed the young Minister of Environment, Kosha, as an inspector to inspect the Western Continent to pacify the rebellion. At the request of Princess Vivi, the princess personally led a small team of dark inspectors to sneak into the Western Continent while Kosha was attracting Crocodile's attention in public...
Unfortunately, both the military and the ministers in the kingdom have dark eyes and ears, and the two teams of inspectors, one bright and one dark, were discovered as soon as they left the capital.
If we don't consider factors outside of Alabasta, Crocodile now wants to confront the Nefertari royal family!
However, Guan Liyuan insisted that he should try his best to win the support of the Nefertari royal family, at least... let them acquiesce in some actions of the Revolutionary Army.
If we can control a complete Alabasta, it is equivalent to the first half of the first half of the Grand Line. The Revolutionary Army has sufficient supplies, sufficient logistics, and sufficient manpower, and can also be a source of transit, hiding troops, and defensive counterattacks.
Because Alabasta is almost a continental country, it is impossible for the navy to deal with Alabasta by sinking the same way as they did with O'Hara. Even the tactics of naval combat alone cannot harm Alabasta at all. As long as the people are evacuated from the port cities, naval combat alone will be just a tickle for this behemoth!
Once the navy is about to land, the million-level professional army with "geographical advantages" and "people's support" will make them know what a meat grinder is... But
the premise is that Alabasta cannot be in chaos, otherwise even if Crocodile temporarily steals the supreme power, the restoration forces in the civilians will make Alabasta lose its advantage!
Even if Crocodile can suppress the restoration forces and make them unable to raise their heads, as long as they cannot win immediately and completely, Alabasta in the civil war will not be a match for the navy, nor can it provide much help to the revolutionary army. 8)
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