They stayed in the capital of the island republic much longer than expected. In addition to making sulfonamides, Hezekiah had traveled too far. Ayla sent many clippers and searched for several days before finally finding their way there.
The siege camp of a city in Sicily that was about to be captured found Hezekiah and forcefully pulled him back.
Ella, the teachers and students of the Alchemy Academy, originally planned to take away all of them. However, even though Ella offered a high price, many people were still unwilling to go to the wild land in the north, and Paracelsus was not very popular either.
Like these teachers and students, only one-third of them got on Ella's boat in the end.
Fortunately, most of the most skilled alchemists such as Lazi and Lupisisa are among them.
Boxes of gold coins were carried from the port to the ship. As spoils of war, Ayla emptied the island republic's treasury.
Amy was a little dissatisfied with the amount of loot: "Your Majesty, are you too kind to these businessmen by only emptying the treasury? They still have a lot of money in their private hands. You know, they are not innocent.
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Amy said this because she investigated the letters exchanged between the Governor's Palace and the residences of the business nobles. The results showed that before the war began, almost 90% of the businessmen in the island republic supported the war. She even included these
The businessman made a detailed list and handed it to Ella.
But Ella didn’t know what was going on in her mind. None of the war criminals on the list were moved. Instead, they tied up all the businessmen who were not on the list and forced them onto the ship. Even their families were not spared and they were moved along with them.
All their assets were emptied. Those that could not be moved, such as land and properties, were all converted into gold coins at a low price and brought aboard the ship. For those who didn't know, they thought these people were war criminals.
There were also some civilians who offered to go to Sweden with Ella, and Ella took them with them.
Such a large number of people could not be transported by the Pirate Kingdom's small boats alone, so Ella borrowed the fleet of the Republic of Liguria. The Seven Hills Empire currently has no power to stop this fleet, and Ella can pass through the Black Sea Strait openly.
, unload the loot and personnel in Azov City, and then return to the Pirate Kingdom by land.
In order to prepare for the Tianfang Empire's attack, Ayla left Andrea in the Mediterranean.
As the hero who defeated the island republic and regained the Republic of Liguria, Andrea is already at the peak of his power in the Republic of Liguria, and may even become the new governor. When Ella is away, the Republic of Liguria will be under his influence.
Become a loyal vassal of the Seven Hills Empire. And if Ella prepares to take back the throne of the Seven Hills one day, Andrea will provide her with strong political and military support.
"Be happy, I'm not taking you back to be slaves!"
After the ship left the island republic, Ella stood in front of the merchants who were forcibly kidnapped by her and explained:
"I want to develop trade in Sweden. There are furs, fish, and all kinds of rare animals there, but neither I nor this group of pirates have any trading experience and often suffer losses. So I want your help! Your property
I’ve brought them all here for you. Once you get to Sweden, let’s develop well!”
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Having said that, those merchants were still full of complaints. After all, who would be willing to give up the Mediterranean trade circle and go to the wild lands of the north to do business?
"Don't be discouraged. Sweden has actually developed very well now. It has high stone walls, roads that can run four carriages side by side, and even bathhouses... You don't really think that it is right to continue to stay in the island republic.
What a good thing?"
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Shortly after Ella's fleet left the Island Republic, the army of the Seven Hills Empire invaded the capital of the Island Republic.
In retaliation, this army plundered the Island Republic for three days. Three days later, the residents living in the capital of the Island Republic were forcibly relocated to major cities in the Seven Hills Empire. All their original lands were sprinkled with salt.
Thorns were planted.
The island republic just disappeared from the Mediterranean Sea.
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"Speaking of which, I still have more than 4,000 soldiers who have gone to who knows where."
Thinking of this incident, Ella became very angry. She fought so many battles in the Mediterranean this time, and the biggest loss was that the pirates themselves got lost! She asked the last group of soldiers who came back
, and learned that they were all together until they arrived at "Insfahan", and then got separated for some reason.
Ella didn't know where "Yinsfahan" would go if she continued walking eastward. It was a completely unfamiliar world to her.
"Your Majesty, look over there!" Amy suddenly pointed to a port along the coast of Qiqiu Empire, "That's our ship! There are several of them!"
Ella immediately docked the fleet at the port. Under the guidance of passers-by, she caught a group of drunken pirates who were occupying the place in a tavern. Seeing Ella come in, the pirates burped, rolled their eyes and said
: "Rui...King of Sweden? We are preparing to go back to find you!"
"Why are you here? Where are the others?"
"Others? Of course they went to drink somewhere else. This pub is too small to seat all of us..."
Ella stomped her feet angrily: "Where have you been? Before I hit you with a crowbar, you'd better give me a reasonable explanation!"
"Where...? Let me think about it, it seems to be a place called...Afang Palace!"
"Yes, Abang Palace! It's huge! It's said to be more than three hundred miles long!"
The drunken pirates added one word after another.
"They like to use black flags over there. We have also met the owner of Afang Palace. Who is he called... the First Emperor!"
"Yes, the First Emperor! He is almost a thousand years old but he is still very energetic! I heard that he sent people to retrieve the elixir of life from the sea in the east. From then on, he became... immortal!"
"They were talking about 'tribute' and stuff like that, and took away all the things we snatched from Yinsfahan. There were so many of them, we didn't dare to say anything. A good guy doesn't suffer the loss, so things were taken away and they took advantage of them.
Just pay attention and grab it back. As a result, he gave us a lot of things backhand, asking us to pay tribute once a year, and then sent us back. Oh, by the way, there are more than a thousand of us. When I heard that there is immortality in the East China Sea
I continued to look for the medicine, but I don’t know if I have found it now. The First Emperor also asked us to bring this back to you, the King of Sweden..."
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A pirate drunkenly rummaged around in the bag under his butt for a while, and pulled out a golden object. As soon as a corner of the object came out, Ella snatched it away in fright - it was a solid gold object.
The completed seal is surrounded by purple ribbons. At the bottom of the seal, there are several square characters written:
"King of Sweden in Great Qin."
"Then what's wrong with the First Emperor! Why did I become his vassal without even meeting him!"
After reading the words on it, Ella threw the seal to the ground angrily.
"Come here! Melt this seal and exchange it for some radishes to take home!"
"By the way, what were you robbed of?" Amy asked with a frown.
"Spices and so on... and elephants, the total value is about 50,000 or 60,000 Nomisma."
"Sixty thousand Nomisma?" Ella stamped her feet on the ground angrily, "That big bastard, the First Emperor! He still wants me to pay tribute to him once a year?"
"Then what did they give you?" Amy asked again.
"We didn't check it carefully. Ah, the other side gave us a list or something. The words were square and square, and we couldn't understand it..."
"Show it to me! It better have thousands of nomisms!"
However, looking at that list made Ella tremble in another sense.
"Are you not mistaken? There are at least one hundred thousand nomisms on this thing?"
"That's right, that's it. We can't get those porcelain and other things from other places, right?"
Ella suddenly hugged the seal that was thrown on the ground.
"When is the next tribute? Does it have to be done every year? - I mean, can I go every six months, no, every month?"
