One characteristic of the lords of the Pirate Kingdom is that even if the lord is running around with his troops every day, no one will find it strange or question him.
Compared with when she was in the Seven Hills Empire, the affairs in the Pirate Kingdom that required Ella to handle personally were extremely rare, and most of them were lawsuits that she couldn't understand.
For example, one time, a woman came to her to plead grievance and said that her neighbor broke into her house, killed her husband, and then ransacked her house. However, the defendant plausibly defended himself by saying: He was in
Kill your opponent in a glorious and equal duel, and then legitimately obtain your opponent's property.
Although the defendant was sentenced to death in the end, the reason for his conviction was very mysterious: it was not because he killed someone, but because he passed by six houses after killing his opponent, and only confessed to the owner of the seventh house.
He confessed his behavior and asked the owner there to witness. According to the law, he could only pass through five rooms at most.
Ella cannot understand the laws of these tribesmen. So most of the time, she has to invite the most respected elders of the local tribe to participate in the trial.
As for matters of diplomacy and internal affairs... Ella has hardly encountered many. Except for litigation, almost 80% of the matters are related to the management of the territory... and these can actually be left to others.
In the pirate kingdom, hiring people to help take care of things in the territory is even the most common thing. In their understanding, the main responsibility of the lord is to defend the territory, go out to rob and lead troops to fight, and the management of the territory should be done by
Let someone do it.
It took Ella a year to slowly get used to this political structure that was completely different from the Seven Hills Empire. But she was quite happy to be able to leave her territory behind and run around outside.
Najirfa slowly stopped at the port of Stade.
"Well, there are 300,000 pounds of cargo on the ship. Although a lot of it was eaten by the grizzly bear, it can still bring in a profit of 10,000 Nomis horses..."
Ella calculated silently in her heart.
There is a grizzly bear on the bottom floor of Najirfa, which Gan hunted. He originally seemed to have planned to train the grizzly bear into a mount, but after hearing that Ella wanted to go to sea for trade, he generously
The grizzly bear was given to Ella as cargo. Then he rushed back to Zealand and went to sea with Hestein.
The grizzly bear is now tied to the bottom of the boat with an iron rope. It barks non-stop to disturb Ella's sleep every night, and eats a lot of meat every day.
"Your Majesty, I am a little worried. When the merchants see our ship, they won't be frightened and run away, right?"
"Why are you running away? I've already had all the nails on it dug out. And Najirfa is a mythical ship of the dead. It sounds so scary that I even changed the name to 'Flying West'."
It’s Lan Ren’s name!”
"Wait a minute! Your Majesty, why have you never mentioned the name change to me..."
At this moment, a soldier hurried over.
"King of Sweden! For some reason, there is no one at the port!"
Ella was surprised: "Isn't it said that the port of Stade is busy loading and unloading goods every day, and it is very prosperous?"
"I don't know! A lot of goods are still left at the port, but there is no one there!"
Ella held her head: "How could this happen? Could it be that an enemy attacked and scared everyone away?"
Amy couldn't help but complain: "Your Majesty... haven't you noticed yet? This 'enemy' is us! It's because of Your Majesty's Najir Law!"
Ella hurriedly ran to the side of the ship and looked down. Sure enough, as the soldier said, the port was empty, with not a single soul in sight.
"How could it be!" Ella wailed, "If I can't sell this boatload of stuff, won't my debt have to be increased by another 20,000 nomisms?"
"So I suggested to Your Majesty to buy less goods from the very beginning!"
"I'm here to trade, why are they so afraid?" Ella stamped her feet on the boat angrily, "I don't believe they can all escape! Come on, get off the boat with me and pull them out!"
"Wait a minute, Your Majesty, this is completely piracy..."
However, before Amy could finish speaking, the group of pirate soldiers had already picked up their swords and axes and walked off the ship in a menacing manner. Ella strode in front of them, looking like a pirate king.
A large amount of unloaded cargo piled up at the port. Ella waved her hand: "Look to see if there are any merchants hiding in the cargo!"
So the soldiers spread out, inserted their swords into the wooden boxes, and pried open all the goods piled at the port.
All the boxes that looked like they could contain people were pried open, and no one was found.
Ella looked at the rows of houses in the distance again and waved her hand: "Break in and take a look! I don't believe they are all gone!"
Under Ella's order, the group of soldiers rushed into the street. They smashed with their fists, jumped with their feet, chopped with axes, and used all methods to open the closed doors.
Ella walked angrily on the street and kept giving orders to everyone: "Search carefully! Look in the closet! Look in the rice vat! Look in the basement! Remember to close the door after you finish it!"
"Report! A woman with a good figure was found here!"
"What do I need a woman for? Find me a businessman! A businessman from the Chamber of Commerce!"
"Report! After the door was removed, there were two children inside. They couldn't stop crying when they saw us!"
"Then put the door back on it!"
"Report! This family wanted to give us money and hoped that we would spare his life. But he couldn't come up with the money after a long time. When I saw it, his family was so poor that they only had rice!"
"Then just give him three salted fishes!"
"Report! This person should be a businessman!"
Two soldiers escorted a man over. He was short and fat, wearing gorgeous silk. As soon as the soldiers let go, he hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to Ella: "Your Majesty, spare your life! Your Majesty, spare your life!"
"
Ella almost died: "I'm here to trade! Why are you so afraid!"
"Trade...trade? Understand! I buy! I buy!"
The businessman tremblingly took out a money bag and handed it over. Seeing the bulging money bag, Ella's eyes suddenly shot out like a hungry wolf. She wiped her saliva and imitated the businessman's appearance in her memory.
He rubbed his hands and smiled flatteringly: "Hey hey hey... what do you want? We have good fish and bacon here, as well as the specialty honey wine..."
However, in the eyes of others, Ella's pretentious smile was sinister, like a ghost seeking life. The businessman was about to cry: "What... I don't want anything. I want to buy...
Buy my life!"
Ella put away her smile and turned around silently.
She first put the money bag into her pocket, then covered her ears expressionlessly, and said to the soldier behind her: "He said he wanted a bodyguard. Just give him the grizzly bear, and the other one will eat
Lots of grizzly bears!”
"Grizzly bear? No...I don't want a grizzly bear..."
"Another smoked fish for you!"
Ella quickly turned around and stuffed the merchant's mouth with smoked fish.
