Her face was smeared with dark mud, her clothes were in tatters, and her feet were bare. She tugged on her clothes as she ran, as if she was afraid that they were not tattered enough, and she also
Necklaces, bracelets and other jewelry were ripped off from his body and thrown to the ground.
She saw the boatman's boat from a distance and ran over at a trot. Before she could get on the boat, she shouted to the boatman: "Hurry! Set off the boat quickly!"
As she spoke, she threw the crowbar onto the boat, then jumped into the boat.
"Well..." the boatman asked cautiously, "King of Sweden, where do you want to go?"
"Gu Rui, King of Sweden?" The woman touched her face in panic, "Is it easy to see?"
The boatman glanced at the crowbar on the boat: "I think there is no one around Gotland who can't recognize you..."
"What's happening! Set off the boat quickly! Escape from here immediately!"
"Escape...why run away?"
"If you don't escape, you will be captured and taken back as the King of Sweden!"
Before he finished speaking, a shout suddenly came from behind: "Move quickly! The King of Sweden is on board! Don't let her run away!"
Ella panicked: "Quick! Set sail immediately! This is an order!"
The boatman scratched the tip of his nose: "But if you are not the King of Sweden, then you cannot give orders; if you are the King of Sweden, then you cannot escape..."
Seeing the pursuers approaching, Ella grabbed the boatman's hand and begged: "Stop talking anymore! Take me out of here quickly!"
"That's not possible." The boatman took off his coat calmly, revealing a flame-shaped medal hanging on his inner clothes. "I have been waiting for you here for a long time on the order of the Supreme Being."
Supreme (sebastokratorissa), this is the title granted to Amy by Ella. In the Seven Hills Empire, this title is second only to "Co-Emperor" and is often only awarded to members of the royal family. Although the pirates in the Pirate Kingdom do not understand this,
At least I can tell that this title is very powerful and I won't resist Amy's orders anymore.
The soldiers wearing the Medal of Fire are the Guards who only obey Amy's command.
"Asshole Amy! This is rebellion!"
The pursuers arrived, all wearing medals of fire. Amid Ella's screams, they lifted Ella's limbs and fought her back to the palace in Gotland.
"Your Majesty, you are finally back. It's time to deal with the affairs of the territory."
"No! I don't want to be the king of this hellish place anymore! I want to go home!"
"Unfortunately, His Majesty is now the King of Sweden. If Sweden is not governed well, he will not be able to regain the throne of the Seven Hills Empire."
Amy brought reports as high as a mountain and piled them in front of Ella. Ella wailed behind the pile of papers: "Why are there so many! Wasn't it very easy a few years ago?"
"It's not a matter of His Majesty's policies in the past few years. First of all, Your Majesty prohibits pirates from going to sea to plunder..."
"What's wrong with this?"
"So the problem of lack of resources in the Pirate Kingdom has become more and more prominent in the past few years! Especially the food problem, the weather is cold, and the crops in the farmland alone cannot feed everyone in the Pirate Kingdom. Your Majesty prohibits going out to rob, and the hungry people will
I can only steal my neighbor’s supplies..."
"Didn't I find a lot of mercenary jobs for them? You can work as a mercenary in England and the Alemannic Federation! It must be no problem for people who can rob to become mercenaries, right? And the commissions are higher than ordinary ones.
The mercenaries came high!"
"If you want to plunder, you only need enough ships. But England and the Alemannic Federation don't need so many mercenaries! This is not a time of war!"
"I have an idea! Amy, can I pretend to be Alfred, write a letter declaring war on the Alemannic Federation, and then take the opportunity to sell the mercenaries of our pirate kingdom to both sides..."
Amy trembled, and her mind immediately drifted to the letter written by Ella for Hestein and the letter pretending to be Ragnar declaring war on England. She hurriedly shouted: "Stop this idea immediately! Your Majesty! As soon as I hear you want to
I feel chills running down my spine just writing this letter!”
"So, I have to finish all these matters honestly...?"
"That's right."
"Then there will be the same amount of business tomorrow?"
"That's right"
"Then I have absolutely no time to observe the stars, study alchemy, and do math problems!"
"Your Majesty, you are the King of Sweden!"
"Can't I find a few ministers to help me take care of some affairs? Just like the Qiqiu Empire, there is no need for me to take care of everything myself..."
"That's no problem. But Your Majesty, can you afford to pay the ministers' salaries? Even mine, Your Majesty, has been in arrears for half a year!"
"Where's my money? Aren't all the businessmen in the Alemannic Federation paying me protection fees????"
"Your Majesty, you forgot again??? You used it all to build roads!!!!!"
Ella closed her mouth for a moment, as if she didn't want to continue on this topic. However, this topic touched a sensitive nerve somewhere in Amy. She blushed angrily and spoke louder and louder: "I don't
I understand what is going on in His Majesty’s mind! There are obviously a lot of places where money needs to be spent, so why does Your Majesty want to use it to build unnecessary roads?”
"If there is a road, it will be more conducive to trade and exchanges, and it will also speed up local development..."
"I understand this! But just paving some pebbles, what does your Majesty want to do by building a square road like the Seven Hills Empire? The Pirate Kingdom doesn't even have decent city walls, but the road your Majesty built can already run four cars abreast.
A horse-drawn carriage? It’s just in Gotland, but His Majesty has built such roads all over Sweden? If I hadn’t stopped him in time, His Majesty would have built such roads for the entire Pirate Kingdom! You say,
Where did the money go?”
"Gu..."
Ella was speechless.
"Those priests of the Asa Clan are fanning the flames, and the voices of various tribes wanting to go out and plunder are getting louder and louder! Unless the current situation can be improved, I think your Majesty will have no choice but to agree to their request!"
"That group of priests who have lost their power, how dare they - what if I still ban it?"
"According to the information obtained by my men, the priests of the Asa Clan have persuaded the elders of several tribes to prepare to do harm to Your Majesty. If Your Majesty cannot suppress this rebellious force, then Your Majesty will be able to get his wish and no longer have to be a
King of Sweden!"
"Why are things in the Pirate Kingdom so bad!"
Ella howled again.
At this moment, an entourage walked in with his head lowered and reported to Ella and Amy: "A group of strangers in strange clothes came from the sea. From what they said, they seemed to want to buy some land in the Pirate Kingdom.
As a foothold.”
"Someone actually wants to buy this kind of shabby land?" Ella stood up from behind the pile of documents excitedly, "Come on, Amy, the money is here!"