That day, a boatman met a strange Swedish king.
Her face was smeared with dark mud, her clothes were in tatters, and her feet were bare. As she ran, she pulled the clothes on her body, as if she was afraid that they were not tattered enough. She also tore off her necklaces, bracelets and other jewelry from her body and threw them to the ground.
She saw the boatman's boat from a distance and ran over at a trot. Before she even got on the boat, she shouted to the boatman: "Quick! Set off the boat!"
As she spoke, she threw the crowbar onto the boat, then jumped into the boat.
"Um..." the boatman asked cautiously, "King of Sweden, where do you want to go?"
"Gu? 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! Get out of here immediately!"
"Run away...why run away?"
"If you don't escape, you will be captured and taken back as the King of Sweden!"
Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden shout from behind: "Hurry up! 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 more! Take me out of here quickly!"
"That won't work." The boatman took off his coat nonchalantly, 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 One."
Supreme (sebastokratorissa), this is the title given to Amy by Ella. In the Seven Hills Empire, this title was second only to "co-ruling emperor" and was often only given to members of the royal family. Although the pirates in the Pirate Kingdom don't understand this, they can at least understand that this title is powerful and will no longer resist Amy's orders.
The soldiers with 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 carried 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, it will be impossible 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 paper: "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 scarce 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, starving people All I can do is steal the 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 okay 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 Alemanni 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: "Give up this idea immediately! Your Majesty! As soon as I heard that you were going to write a letter, I felt a chill on my spine!"
"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 Alemany 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 understand what your Majesty is thinking in your head! There are obviously many places that need to spend money, why? Your Majesty wants to use it to build that unnecessary road?"
"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 pave 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 side by side. 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 wind to light the fire, 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 outcast priests, 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 against Your Majesty. If Your Majesty cannot suppress this rebellious force, then Your Majesty will be able to get what he wants, and he will no longer have to be a King of Sweden!"
"Why are things in the Pirate Kingdom so bad!"
Ella whined again.
At this moment, a follower 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 place to stay.”
"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!"
