That night, the news was quickly delivered to Duke Otto. When he heard that Ella was not afraid after watching the training of the Guards, but instead clapped vigorously, Otto punched the table in anger.
"We are completely treated like monkeys!" he said through gritted teeth.
If Ella was just an ordinary noble, he would think that she lacked political awareness. But now Ella is the "Triumpher" who is famous for his military achievements. Such performance only made Otto feel that he and his troops were underestimated.
Amy and her troops have dealt a huge blow to the Alemannic Federation. Hamburg and Bremen, the commercial towns in the northern part of the Alemannic Federation, have all fallen one after another. The nobles who fell into Amy's hands were all sentenced to death without exception.
A group of nobles, including Duke Otto, have asked the Count of Île-de-France for help more than once, but have received no response.
In this case, supporting the reset of "Triumph" seems to be the best way - for those businessmen, if Triumph can be reset successfully, they will have the opportunity to reach a friendly agreement with Triumph by assisting her reset. And for Duke Otto, as long as the pirate kingdom falls into internal fighting, he can take advantage of the opportunity to gain benefits.
Restricting Aila's actions is due to the consideration of the subsequent negotiations with Aila. With Ella less aware of their predicament, they would have more leverage in negotiations.
But at the same time, Duke Otto also had concerns: Just a little-known maid had caused chaos in the northern part of the Alemannic Federation. If the "Triumph" was put back, would it be like letting the tiger go back to the mountain?
So he arranged the exercise. He must let the "Triumph" see the strength of their Alemanni Federation!
But this plan seems to have failed. Perhaps in the eyes of the "Triumpher", his army is really nothing more than a circus.
He turned his attention to the other people in the same room - where the major lords and merchants of northern Alemanni gathered. In order to negotiate with the Triumphant, they have been discussing here for several days.
"Is it really okay to let such a terrible person go back?" Duke Otto asked.
The mayor of Hamburg stood up. After the city of Hamburg was occupied by Amy, he was actually the "former mayor", but relying on his properties scattered throughout the Alemanni Federation, the weight of his words was still very important.
"There is no other way at the moment." The mayor of Hamburg said, "I will test her personally tomorrow."
That night, a carriage carried the mayor of Hamburg and left the capital of Duke Otto. He arrived at the castle where Ella was on the second night. After a short rest, he went to visit Ella early on the third day with gifts.
"Oh oh oh! You actually want to give me so many gold coins!"
Ella's eyes lit up as she looked at the box full of gold coins. In the Qiqiu Empire, this kind of gift would never catch Ella's eyes. But now she was burdened with a huge debt of 150,000 Nomisma, and she was afraid of poverty. Simply giving gold coins would be much more effective than giving other gifts.
The mayor of Hamburg breathed a sigh of relief at Ella's performance. The more Ella likes money, the more room she has for negotiation.
"We heard that the King of Sweden had arrived here, so we made a special trip to visit." said the mayor of Hamburg. "It's not just me. This box of gold coins was put together by three cities: Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck." A gift for the King of Sweden."
"Oh oh oh oh! I will definitely come back to visit you with a gift some other time!"
"There is no need for a return visit. This is just an insignificant gift." The mayor of Hamburg bowed and said, "Our three cities have decided to invest to help the King of Sweden regain his position in the Pirate Kingdom."
"Take back the position of the Pirate Kingdom?" Ella was stunned for a moment, "The Pirate Kingdom...what happened?"
"Ah, it turns out that the King of Sweden 'knows nothing'." The mayor of Hamburg smiled inconspicuously, then took out a few letters from his arms and handed them to Ella's hand.
"This is……?"
The mayor of Hamburg lowered his head and said: "This is the correspondence between the current 'King of Sweden' in the Pirate Kingdom and us. There are three letters in total - about how to make the 'former King of Sweden' disappear forever."
Ella opened the envelope suspiciously and took out the letter inside. After reading the content of the letter, her face suddenly darkened.
"Things are clear to me."
Ella threw the letter on the table and turned her back to the mayor of Hamburg. .
"Let me think for a while, you go first."
The mayor of Hamburg took advantage of the situation and said: "King of Sweden, please rest assured that everyone who has seen this letter is on your side - because that Amy is a tyrant. No one will be willing to sacrifice their life for a tyrant..."
"I asked you to go first, didn't you hear me?"
Ella's sudden voice startled the mayor of Hamburg. From this position, he could not clearly see the expression on Ella's face. He couldn't guess what Ella was thinking, and after waiting for a while he didn't see her speak, so he had to leave angrily.
After the sound of closing the door came from behind, Ella slowly turned around - she bit her lip and tried not to let tears flow out of her eyes.
In this state, she spread out the letters again.
The handwriting on the letter was crooked, as if it had been scratched by a cat, and there were many erasures on it. Ella knew the handwriting very well - it was Amy's hand. I think she was the one who taught Amy to write in person.
"Amy, why would you do such a thing...?"
There are three letters in total. In the first letter, Amy informed the Alemanni Federation that Ella had disappeared. She offered a series of conditions, including trade privileges, hoping that the Alemanni Federation could get rid of Ayla according to her ideas to stabilize her position in the pirate kingdom. The latter two letters are urging the Alemanni Federation to complete the matter quickly, and there is a full sense of threat between the lines.
Ella's hand brushed over each word, intending to let these words tell her what Amy was thinking when she wrote the letter.
Words cannot speak.
But Ella convinced herself over and over again: Amy wouldn't really want her life.
She read from the beginning word by word, hoping to read the words.
She convinced herself over and over that Amy must be trying to say something else with this letter, something that couldn't be conveyed literally.
Finally, she noticed this sentence in the first letter:
"...Send that little golden bird to the paradise underground."
Ella wiped her eyes away from the tears that were threatening to overflow.
Then she laughed easily.
Here's a tip from Amy. Apart from Amy, the only one who can understand the meaning is Ella.
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