"Aleister?" Amy said in surprise, "Didn't he arrive at a place called Greenland and then come back with nothing? I heard the neighbors say so!"
"It's like this. King Aleister used the whole country to explore Vinland, but found nothing, so he was seized by Ragnar Lodbrok. So I don't know where these outsiders learned from This technology. Maybe they learned shipbuilding skills from other people we don’t know. After all, people in our country often go out on their own boats to take risks..."
"I have a rough idea." Ella nodded, "Let's go back to the palace and meet these foreigners."
"How is Your Majesty going to treat them?" Amy asked uneasily.
"I have completely figured it out! Since it is not Hestein's ship, it is not the enemy! You can safely sell the land to them in exchange for money!"
"Your Majesty! Why do I feel like you haven't thought about it at all???"
"How come there are so many intrigues among a group of foreigners who have never had any contact with us! They just want a place to stay? If there is a big country behind them, they can still carry out trade through this foothold! Who knows? We can make one more ally!"
Ella ran back towards the palace happily.
"Is Your Majesty going crazy because of lack of money..." Amy mumbled, suddenly raised her head, and shouted after Ella, "Your Majesty! Wait! Even if you want to sell, you have to negotiate the price..."
"I completely understand! Just pretend to be a ferocious pirate leader and extort a little more money!"
"Why do I think His Majesty still doesn't understand at all???"
Ella took a breath and ran back to the palace. Before she even entered the door, she shouted to a soldier at the door: "Quick, bring those gold...those foreigners here right away!"
When Amy chased her through the door, Ella was sitting on her throne, staring at Amy fiercely.
"How about it, Amy, does your look look like that of a pirate leader?"
Amy stopped and looked at Ella carefully: "It looks like... she will be kicked off the throne by a sheep's hooves."
Ella screamed: "How could it be? I remember that Hestein also sat like this!"
"Hestein is stronger... Your Majesty, I think it would be more dignified for you to sit as usual."
"But it doesn't feel like it's easy to blackmail money, right?"
"If you only think about extorting money, you will look like a gangster no matter how you look at it! Your Majesty, forget about the debt for the time being! Just like before, show dignity and dignity!
!
"
"Gu...Okay, majesty, majesty..."
Ella began to straighten her posture vigorously.
Looking at Ella like this, Amy felt a little headache. A few years ago, she wouldn't have needed to remind Ella of this kind of thing. As a purple-robed nobleman, Ella would naturally exude a majestic aura in serious situations. When did it start to change? What happened now?
"After all, have you hung out with the pirates for too long...?" Amy whispered.
Those visitors from other places entered the palace under the leadership of soldiers. There were twenty of them. The one walking at the front looked like a civilian, wearing a cotton coat, and the one following him looked like a general, wearing a red leather cape and a ferocious bronze mask. Following him were eighteen warriors, each wearing leather with animal patterns and wooden helmets in the shape of leopard and eagle heads, with colorful feathers on the helmets.
"Where did you come from?" Ella asked.
The civil servant came to the throne, opened his hands and said: "We come from the west of the ocean, and we crossed the ocean on the order of the Sun King to find a place to settle in the east of the ocean."
"The west of the ocean?" Ella pricked up her ears, "Are you from Vinland?"
"Vinland? We've never heard of it. We come from the shores of Lake Texcoco, a city-state called Tenochtitlan, the capital of the wealthy Aztlan Empire."
Ella thought for a moment. Since they said they had never heard of the name "Vinland", they most likely had never seen Hestein. The envoy's description made her very excited. A rich empire might be able to make a fortune.
"You want to buy a piece of land here as a place to stay, right? Okay! But first of all, the land here is very expensive! How much money did you bring?"
The messenger clapped his hands, and the two warriors came up carrying a wooden box half as tall as a man.
"Oh oh oh! So many? Are they copper coins? Silver coins? Or gold coins?" Ella's eyes began to flash, "Open it quickly! Open it quickly and let me see!"
"Your Majesty! You are too anxious!" Amy whispered in Ella's ear, but Ella was so excited that she didn't listen at all.
The two warriors opened the box, and Ella stood up excitedly - there were no gold coins, no silver coins, or even copper coins in the box. What's inside is just some cotton cloth, some beautiful feathers, and some unknown small brown beans.
Ella and Amy couldn't help but look at each other, and an idea passed through their minds at the same time - these foreigners couldn't be from some small tribe that was poorer than the Pirate Kingdom, right?
Ella also noticed that the tips of the short spears held by the warriors were not metal, but stones. She couldn't help but coughed and sat back on the throne: "The stones on your weapons... are so sharp. Your skills are really good." That’s right. With such technology, your city walls should also be made of stone, right?”
Before Ella came, the pirate kingdom was built with wooden walls. It was a barbaric place. Ella wanted to test this group of outsiders with this question.
Perhaps sensing the contempt in Ella's words, the messenger replied: "Of course. Not only the city, but also the plains, the sea, and even here, we have our city walls!"
"There is also a city wall on the sea?" Amy asked in surprise, "What does that look like?"
Before the messenger could respond, the general behind him pointed at the warrior behind him and shouted: "The Eagle Warrior and the Leopard Warrior are our city wall!"
Amy looked at Ella, who frowned. Through the conversation just now, she was completely unable to determine whether these outsiders had the technology to build stone walls. So Ella pointed to the door. The walls of Gotland can be vaguely seen there. For the tribesmen of the Pirate Kingdom, this was a spectacle. When this group of outsiders arrived, they should have seen this city wall.
"How do my walls compare to yours?"
The general glanced back, snorted contemptuously, and replied: "It's a good place for a woman to live."
These provocative words made Ella a little unhappy. She calmed down and continued to ask: "What 'empire' are you talking about? Where does its territory extend?"
Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, the general immediately pointed the short spear in his hand at Ella's throne and shouted loudly: "Wherever the tip of the spear touches!"
