In Silio's castle, Reggie invited Grace to have dinner. Originally, he wanted to invite other lords, but Grace was unwilling. She also threatened Reggie that if there was even one irrelevant person at the banquet, she would kill him tomorrow.
Will leave Spiked Island.
In Grace's eyes, except for Reggie, everyone else was irrelevant, and the banquet eventually turned into a candlelight dinner for two people.
"The Pallas people will never change," Grace cut off a piece of fish meat with a dagger and fed it directly to Reggie, "They will never be able to farm in this life, so just give up!"
Reggie looked at Grace's dagger and was thinking about whether to eat the piece of fish.
If he ate it, he was afraid that Grace would stick the knife into his throat.
But if he doesn't eat, Grace will still stab the knife into his throat.
Among the girls Reggie knew, Grace was definitely not the most beautiful, but she was undoubtedly the most charming, because Reggie could never figure out her temperament.
Reggie carefully bit off the fish meat from his dagger and asked, "Then what do you think the Pallas people should do? Craftsmen? Hunters? Fishermen?"
"Don't be stupid, they can only be pirates! The Pallas have been robbing other children's food for as long as they can remember. The blood of bandits flows in their bodies and will never change."
"Don't be so brazen!" Reggie said, "You promised me back then that the age of pirates was over!"
"You are so smart that you would believe a pirate's promise," Grace sighed, "This is what troubles me the most. I don't want to deceive you, but I really can't do it, so I have no choice.
We can only let them fend for themselves."
"Don't you want to be the pirate queen anymore?"
"It's all your fault," Grace put her cheek against hers and kissed Reggie gently on the lips. "It's you who made me tired of the pirate life. I want to be the woman next to you."
Reggie finally figured out Grace's intentions. She couldn't change the Pallas, but she was trying to change herself.
This puts Reggie in a dilemma. He always adheres to a creed that everyone has the right to make a choice, but this time, Grace has no choice.
"No matter what, you must stay here for the time being and take care of my people for me and prevent them from looting in this sea area."
"Why can't you understand what I say!" Grace lost her patience. "They have no other way to survive. It's winter now, and many Pallas people don't have a grain of food in their homes. If you don't let them plunder, they will
What should I rely on to survive?”
This is a difficult problem to solve. Relying on Reggie's charity? This obviously won't work. Reggie does have enough food to feed these Pallas, but if he really does this, what will happen to the other two races?
Think? Why can the Pallas get something for nothing?
Like the Byers, leave the women and children behind and force the men to dig coal on Blackstone Island?
Blackstone Island is not Broken Snow City. Only Yinge and her one hundred soldiers were there, sending thousands of pirates to an isolated island. In less than two days, the island would become a river of blood.
Reggie thought for a long time and finally thought of a way out for these pirates.
"Let them become soldiers of the Fourth Army."
"Fourth Army?" Grace tilted her head, "What is that?"
"There are four armies in the territory of Broken Snow City, which are called the First Army, the Second Army, the Third Army and the Navy. The Navy is my fourth army. The current commander is Doranor. Since you are also good at
For naval battles, just join the navy. Each soldier can get fifteen gold coins per year. Such a life should be much happier than that of a pirate."
"Fifteen gold coins," Grace nodded, "not bad."
"Not bad?" Reggie said in surprise, "Aren't you surprised?"
"Is there anything surprising? We are pirates. When we encounter caravans, we can often grab hundreds of gold coins. But gold coins are of no use on Spiked Island. In Silio's hands, one gold coin can only buy a few.
Ten pounds of grain, the Dongsang people sell their grain very cheaply, but we cannot trade with them. If we are found to have private transactions, Silio will immediately declare war on us."
"The era of Silio has passed. That fat guy is now digging coal on Blackstone Island!" Reggie said, "From today on, you can trade with the Dongsang people at will. Each pound of grain only costs eight copper coins. I
A large amount of food, meat, and wine will also be sent, and the prices are very cheap. Fifteen gold coins a year are enough for the family to live a happy life."
Grace thought for a moment, nodded and said, "That's a solution. Who did you just say is the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Army?"
"It's Doranor."
"Is this the wizard under the stars?"
"How do you know he's a wizard?"
"How dare you show off in front of me!" Grace said fiercely, "Without him, you would have died in my hands!"
Reggie laughed dryly: "You have a good impression of the old wizard, right?"
"The wizard above the stars is indeed worthy of respect," Grace said with a smile, "but guess, will other Pallas people obey the orders of a wizard?"
"Since they respect you so much, it at least proves that they don't hate wizards."
"Don't ever say this kind of thing in front of the Pallas people," Grace drank a large glass of rum. "They regard me as a goddess and my witchcraft as divine power. In their eyes, I am the same as
Wizards have nothing to do with it."
It turns out that Pallas, like everyone else, has serious discrimination against wizards. They will never obey Doranor's control, which means that they cannot join the Fourth Army.
"Tell me, what do you want us to do?" Grace poured Reggie a glass of rum. "Do you really want us to go to war? War is a contest between the strong, and robbery is when the strong bully the weak.
Games, pirates like to bully the weak, but they are not good at fighting, otherwise we wouldn’t be bullied by the Golden Eagles all the time.”
"There's no need to fight, we just need to protect the safety of this route." Reggie really didn't like the taste of rum, but Grace kept holding a dagger in her hand, so he could only drink it with a frown.
"You mean for us to deal with the other pirates?"
"Occasionally I have to deal with the enemy's navy, but this situation is not common. I have a lot of trade with the White Tower Country, and I have to transport a large amount of coal from Blackstone Island. I don't want my merchant ships to be harassed too much.
"
"This is something we can do. Let's set up a fifth army and let me be your commander."
Reggie agreed to Grace's request, but her conditions didn't stop there.
"As your commander, I want to get more rewards!"
"Of course, seventy gold coins a year."
"I have to stay with you for at least two months every year. Within two years, I must be pregnant with your child."
"Wait!" Reggie rubbed his forehead. This was a word he often used to threaten Sophia. He never expected that this sentence would come out of Grace's mouth.
"Don't you think it's too rude of you to do this?"
"To hell with your reserve! Will you agree or not?"
"I have nothing to lose, but it's just a bit..."
"Since you agreed, don't talk nonsense. Let me see your sincerity first tonight!"
Grace took Reggie's hand and walked into the bedroom. In those clear eyes, Reggie saw a rare tenderness.
"You are mine tonight!" Grace cut off a large piece of dried fish and stuffed it into her mouth, shattering all Reggie's fantasies with the most vulgar eating gesture, and then pushed Reggie down on the bed.
…
Half an hour later, Reggie asked, "Do you know what to do?"
"Of course I know, I am the Queen of Pallas, I have never seen anything!"
"You don't understand anything and you still want to be up there! Come down here quickly!"