The Alemanni Federation, a country that has been called the "United Emirates of Alemanni" by Ella many times, more than half of its territory once belonged to the Seven Hills Empire.
About five hundred years ago, the then emperor of the Qiqiu Empire divided the empire's territory into two and handed it over to his two sons. To differentiate, the two empires were called the East Qiqiu Empire and the West Qiu Empire respectively.
.Ella’s country belongs to the Eastern Qiqiu Empire.
Although the empire was apparently divided into two, the relationship between the two empires has always been close.
With the cessation of the Qiqiu Empire's external expansion, the Qi Qiu Empire's civilization level has become higher and higher, but the combat effectiveness of the imperial army has become lower and lower. However, the empire is suffering from barbarian invasions in the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest. In order to obtain
After the victory of the war, the two empires of the East and West had to hire a large number of barbarian troops to fight.
The Eastern Qiqiu Empire where Ella is located now also retains a force called the "Barbarian Alliance". Although it was defeated by Hestein, within the Qiqiu Empire, this can already be regarded as the most powerful force under the Imperial Guard.
An elite teacher.
The Western Qiqiu Empire was not as lucky as the Eastern Qiqiu Empire. As its reliance on the barbarian army deepened, the leaders of the barbarian army gradually took control of the power of the empire, and the emperor of the Western Qiqiu Empire became a plaything in the hands of the barbarian army.
In the end, the mercenary leaders of the Germanic tribes deposed the emperor of the Western Seven Hills Empire and destroyed the Western Seven Hills Empire. Since then, the western territories of the Seven Hills Empire have fallen into the control of the barbarians. The Alemanni are this group
One of the barbarian tribes.
However, Ella is not in the mood to think about these hatreds between the country and the family. All she can think about is her huge debt of 150,000 nom.
She did the calculations on paper.
"Sold a grizzly bear for 4,223 fen, which is equivalent to about 21 nomis horses, minus the meat the grizzly bear ate on the way, and the three smoked fishes sent away, as well as compensation
The expenses for doors, water tanks, and some scattered utensils...it’s totally unprofitable!”
Ella shouted and tore up the densely written note with a bang.
She had been waiting at the port of Stade for a week.
She originally thought that with so much cargo left at the port, merchants would come back to pick it up. But as she waited, the merchants did not wait, and the "bandit-suppressing" team fought back several waves.
Judging from the equipment, the enemy troops who came over were neither regular troops nor peasant levies, but mercenaries who came from nowhere.
Every time she captured these mercenaries, Ella would enthusiastically invite them to visit the "Flying Dutchman", entertain them with mead and beef and mutton as cargo, and give them some travel expenses, hoping that they would go back and explain to their employer that she was a mercenary.
Lazhen is here to trade.
Over the past few days, several waves of mercenaries were sent away, but apart from a large sum of money to entertain them, there was not a single businessman who came to Stade to discuss trade with her.
"Amy, do you think I should build a fort here in Stade and be prepared to set up a stall here for a long time?" Ella once asked Amy for her opinion.
"That would be an invasion!" Amy firmly rejected Ella's idea.
Ella had no choice but to continue waiting in the Stade Territory. Although the merchants did not dare to come, but if they stayed like this, the nearby Alemany Federation lords would definitely come after hearing the news. As long as the situation was explained clearly in front of those lords,
She will be able to carry out trade in the Alemannic Federation normally.
However, in order to prepare for the raids from those lords, Ella still built a simple camp in Stade.
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If you look at the map alone, the Alemannic Federation has an extremely vast territory. Its area is more than five times that of the entire Britain, and it is no less than the two great empires of Seven Hills and Tianfang.
However, this is just an indication of the phenomenon. Compared to the Seven Hills Empire and Tianfang Empire, whose power is highly concentrated in the center, the power of the Alemannic Federation is even more discrete than that of the Pirate Kingdom.
The consul of the Alemannic Federation is only a common leader on the surface. It is actually dispersed into nearly 400 states, each in its own state. The large and small nobles who control the territory only perform extremely limited obligations to the consul.
, and some powerful lords do not even need to perform it at all.
It is for this reason that the current consul of the Alemannic Federation is jokingly called the "Count of Ile-de-France". Compared with the Count of Ile-de-France who has almost no power at all, the powerful lord within the Alemannic Federation is
On the contrary, it attracts more attention.
Duke Otto of Angria near Stade was such a powerful lord.
He once relied on the Dukedom of Angria to withstand three sieges by "Snake Eyes" Sigurd. This limited Sigurd's sphere of influence to Frisia and prevented the Alemannic Federation from being invaded by Sigurd.
Gede further invaded. After Sigurd's death, he even took the opportunity to annex the land of Frisia.
Otto, who had both the principalities of Angria and Frisia, was now a popular figure in the Alemannic Federation.
When he received the news from Stade, Otto was sitting in a luxurious carriage. He had just rushed back from a "meeting". Due to the lack of power of the consul, the "meeting" was Alemanni
The way territorial issues are handled between large and small lords within the federation.
However, the content of this "gathering" is a bit special. The lords participating in the gathering are not here to discuss things in the territory, but for the pirate kingdom.
Before coming here, they all received the news that most of the lords of the Pirate Kingdom had gone to sea with the Pirate King and were missing.
The Alemannic Federation has always suffered from the pirate kingdom.
More than ten years ago, Sigurd invaded Frisianland; two years ago, Ivar killed the son of the Lord of Jutland; a year ago, a female pirate who called herself Scipio led troops to siege Lübeck and forcibly "
We borrowed 150,000 Nomis horses and have not returned them yet. As for ordinary coastal plundering, we will not mention it because we cannot count the number.
Since the Count of Île-de-France, the consul of the Alemannic Federation, ignored this and did nothing, the lords whose territories were close to the Pirate Kingdom had to form an alliance on their own to fight against the invasion of the Pirate Kingdom.
But this time, they thought it was time to counterattack.
Otto, who had successfully resisted Sigurd's invasion, was naturally elected as the leader of the alliance. The lords participating in the assembly only waited for him to raise the flag of rebellion first, and then responded in large numbers, destroying the pirate kingdom in one fell swoop.
However - "The port of Stade was occupied by pirates?"
Otto stood up suddenly, and his tall body almost broke the roof of the carriage.
