Ella's fleet is finally returning.
They stayed in the capital of the island republic much longer than expected. In addition to making sulfonamides, Hezekiah had traveled too far. Ella sent many clippers and searched for several days before finally finding Hezekiah in the siege camp of a city in Sicily that was about to be captured, and forcefully pulled him back.
Ella, the teachers and students of the Alchemy Academy, was originally going to take them away. However, even though Aila offered a high price, there were still many people who were unwilling to go to the wild land in the north. In addition, Paracelsus did not like these teachers and students very much. In the end, only one-third of them went to Aila. Pull the boat.
Fortunately, most of the most skilled alchemists such as Lazi and Lupisisa are among them.
Boxes of gold coins were moved from the port to the ship. As spoils of war, Ayla emptied the island republic's treasury.
Amy was a little dissatisfied with the amount of loot: "Your Majesty, are you too kind to these businessmen by only emptying the treasury? They still have a lot of money in their private hands. You know, they are not innocent. .”
Amy said this because she investigated the letters sent to and from the Governor's Palace and the mansions of business nobles. The results showed that before the war began, almost 90% of the businessmen in the island republic supported the war. She even made a detailed list of these merchants and handed it to Ella.
But Ella didn’t know what was going on in her mind. None of the war criminals on the list were moved. Instead, they tied up all the businessmen who were not on the list and forced them onto the ship. Even their families were not spared and they were moved along with them. Empty all their assets. Those that could not be moved, such as land and properties, were all converted into gold coins at a low price and brought on board the ship. Those who didn’t know better thought these people were war criminals.
There were also some civilians who offered to go to Sweden with Ella, and Ella took them with them.
Such a large number of people could not be transported by the Pirate Kingdom's small ships alone, so Ayla borrowed the Ligurian Republic's fleet. The Seven Hills Empire currently has no power to block this fleet. Ella can cross the Black Sea Strait in a grand manner, unload the loot and personnel in Azov City, and then return to the Pirate Kingdom by land.
In order to prepare for the Tianfang Empire's attack, Ayla left Andrea in the Mediterranean.
As the hero who defeated the island republic and regained the Republic of Liguria, Andrea was already at the height of his power in the Republic of Liguria and might even become the new governor. In Ayla's absence, the Republic of Liguria would become a loyal vassal of the Empire of the Seven Hills under his influence. And if Ella prepares to take back the throne of Qiqiu one day, Andrea will provide her with strong political and military support.
"Be happy, I'm not taking you back to be slaves!"
After the ship left the island republic, Ella stood in front of the merchants she had forcibly kidnapped and explained:
"I want to develop trade in Sweden. There are furs, fish, and all kinds of exotic animals there, but neither I nor this group of pirates have any trading experience and often suffer losses. So I want your help! Your property I brought them all here for you, and when you get to Sweden, let’s develop well!”
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Having said that, those businessmen were still full of complaints. After all, who would want to give up the Mediterranean trade circle and go to the wild lands of the north to do business?
"Don't be discouraged. Sweden has actually developed very well now. It has high stone walls, roads that can run four carriages side by side, and even bathhouses... You don't really think it's okay to stay in the island republic. What a good thing?"
…
Shortly after Ella's fleet left the Island Republic, the army of the Seven Hills Empire invaded the capital of the Island Republic.
In retaliation, the army pillaged the island republic for three days. Three days later, the residents living in the capital city of the Island Republic were forcibly relocated to major cities in the Seven Hills Empire. And its original land has all been sprinkled with salt and planted with thorns.
The island republic disappeared from the Mediterranean Sea.
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"Speaking of which, I still have more than 4,000 soldiers who have gone to who knows where."
Thinking of this incident, Ella became very angry. She fought so many battles in the Mediterranean this time, but the biggest loss was that the pirates got lost themselves! She asked the last group of soldiers who came back and learned that they were all together until they arrived at "Insfahan", and then got separated for some reason.
Ella didn't know where "Yinsfahan" would go if she continued walking east. It was a completely unfamiliar world to her.
"Your Majesty, look over there!" Amy suddenly pointed to a port along the coast of Qiqiu Empire, "That's our ship! There are several of them!"
Ella immediately had the fleet dock at the port. Under the guidance of passers-by, she caught a group of pirates who were occupying the place and drinking heavily in a tavern. Seeing Ella coming in, the pirates burped, rolled their eyes and said, "Rui...King of Sweden? We are about to go back to find you!"
"Why are you here? Where are the others?"
"Others? Of course they went to drink somewhere else. This pub is too small to seat all of us..."
Ella stomped her feet angrily: "Where have you been? Before I hit you with a crowbar, you'd better give me a reasonable explanation!"
"Where...? Let me think about it, it seems to be a place called...Afang Palace!"
"Yes, Abang Palace! It's huge! It's said to be more than three hundred miles long!"
The drunken pirates added one word after another.
"They like to use black flags over there. We have also met the owner of Afang Palace. His name is Shi...Shi Huangdi!"
"Yes, the First Emperor! He is almost a thousand years old but he is still very energetic! I heard that he sent people to retrieve the elixir of life from the sea in the east. From then on, he became... immortal!"
"They were talking about 'tribute' and so on, and took away all the things we snatched from Yinsfahan. There were so many of them, we didn't dare to say a word. A good man doesn't suffer the immediate consequences. Things were taken away and they took advantage of them. Just pay attention and grab it back. As a result, he gave us a lot of things backhand, asking us to pay tribute once a year, and then sent us back. Oh, by the way, there are more than a thousand of us. When I heard that there is immortality in the East China Sea So I continued to look for the medicine, and I don’t know if I have found it now. The First Emperor also asked us to bring this back to you, the King of Sweden..."
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A pirate drunkenly rummaged in the bag under his butt for a while and pulled out a golden thing. As soon as a corner of the thing showed up, Ella was so frightened that she snatched it away - it was a seal made of pure gold and decorated with purple ribbons around it. At the bottom of the seal, there are several large square characters written:
"The King of Sweden in the Great Qin Dynasty."
"Then what's wrong with the First Emperor! Why did I become his vassal without even meeting him!"
After reading the words on it, Ella threw the seal to the ground angrily.
"Come here! Melt this seal and exchange it for some radishes to take home!"
"By the way, what were you robbed of?" Amy asked with a frown.
"Spices and so on... and elephants, the total value is about 50,000 to 60,000 Nomisma."
"Sixty thousand Nomisma?" Ella stamped her feet on the ground angrily, "That big bastard of the First Emperor! He still wants me to pay tribute to him once a year?"
"Then what did they give you?" Amy asked again.
"We didn't check it carefully. Ah, the other side gave us a list or something. The words were square and square, and we couldn't understand it..."
"Show it to me! It better have thousands of nomisms!"
However, looking at that list made Ella tremble in another sense.
"Are you not mistaken? The things on this are at least one hundred thousand Nomisma?"
"That's right, that's it. We can't get those porcelain from other places, right?"
Ella suddenly hugged the seal that was thrown on the ground.
"When is the next tribute? Do I have to go every year? - I mean, can I go every six months, no, every month?"
