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Chapter 1: The Queen (3)

"Aresta?" Amy said in surprise, "Didn't he come back after arriving at a place called Greenland and gain nothing? I heard from neighbors all say this!"

"It's like this. King Yaresta explored Wenlan with his whole country, but he got nothing, so he was seized by Ragna Lodbrok. So I don't know where this group of foreigners learned this technique. Maybe they learned shipbuilding skills from others we don't know. After all, people in our country often take a boat out on their own..."

"I have a rough idea in my heart." Ella nodded, "Go back to the palace and go to see these foreigners."

"What is your Majesty going to treat them?" Amy asked uneasyly.

"I have completely figured it out! Since it is not Hestein and his ship, it is not an enemy! You can sell the land to them for money with confidence!"

"Your Majesty! Why do I feel like you have never thought about it???"

"Where are so many intrigues who have never had contact with us? They just want a place to settle down? If there is a big country behind the opposite side, they can still trade through this place to settle down! Maybe they can make more friends with an allied country!"

Ella ran back towards the palace excitedly.

"His Majesty is crazy about money..." Amy muttered, suddenly raised her head and chased Ella and shouted, "His Majesty! Wait! Even if you want to sell, you have to talk more about the price..."

"I already understand completely! Just pretend to be a vicious pirate leader and extort more money!"

"Why do I think Your Majesty still doesn't understand at all??"

Ella ran back to the palace. Before entering the door, she shouted at a soldier at the door: "Hurry up, bring those gold...that group of foreigners here!"

As Amy chased through the door, Ella was lying on her throne, staring at Amy fiercely.

"How is it, Amy, does this look look like a pirate leader?"

Amy stopped and looked at Ella carefully: "It looks like... it will be kicked off the throne by a sheep's hoof."

Ella screamed: "How could it be? I remember Hestein sat like this too!"

"Hestein is more sturdy... Your Majesty, I think you should sit as usual and be more majestic."

"But that doesn't feel easy to get money?"

"If you just want to extort money, no matter how you look at it, you will only be like a gangster! Your Majesty, forget the debt for the time being! Just like before, show your majesty and majesty!!!"

"Gu... OK, majestic, majestic..."

Ella began to correct her posture vigorously.

Looking at Ella like this, Amy felt a little headache. A few years ago, she didn't need to remind Ella of such things. As a purple-robed nobleman, Ella would naturally exude a majestic aura in serious occasions. When did it start to become like this now?

"After all, have you been with the pirates for too long..." Amy murmured in a low voice.

The visitors from the foreign country walked into the palace under the guidance of soldiers. There were twenty people, and the one who walked in the front looked like a civilian, wearing a cotton coat, following him, like a general, wearing a red leather cloak, and a hideous bronze mask. Following him were eighteen warriors, each wearing leather with animal patterns, a leopard head and a wooden helmet in the shape of an eagle head, and a colorful feathered ornament on it.

"Where did you come from?" Ella asked.

The civilian came to the throne and Zhang Shou said, "We come from the west of the ocean, and we are ordered by the Sun King to cross the ocean to find a place to settle down in the east of the ocean."

"The West of the Ocean?" Ella pricked her ears, "Did you come from Wenlan?"

"Venland? We have never heard of it. We are from the shore of Lake Tescoco, a city-state called Tenochtitlan, the capital of the rich Aztlan Empire."

Ella thought for a while. Since they said they had never heard of the name "Wenlan", they were most likely not seeing Hesterin. The envoy's description made her very excited. A rich empire might make a good fortune.

"You want to buy a piece of land here as a place to settle down, right? OK! But before that, the land here is very expensive! How much did you bring?"

The messenger clapped his hands, and the two warriors walked up with a wooden box half a man tall.

"Oh oh! So many? Are they copper coins? Silver coins? Or gold coins?" Ella's eyes began to flash, "Open them! Open them! Let me see!"

"Your Majesty! You're 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, silver, and even copper coins in the box. All she had in it were cotton cloth, some beautiful feathers, and some unknown brown beans.

Ella couldn't help but look at Amy, and an idea passed through their minds at the same time - these foreigners were from a small tribe that was poorer than the Pirate Kingdom, right?

Ella noticed that the spear tips of the short spears held by the warriors were not metal, but some stone. She couldn't help but cough and sat back on the throne: "The stones on your weapons... are so sharp, and the technology is really good. With such technology, your city walls should also be made of stone, right?"

Before Ella came, the Pirate Kingdom used wood to build city walls, which was a wild place. Ella wanted to use this question to test these foreigners.

Perhaps judging the contempt in Ella's words, the messenger replied: "Of course there are. Not only cities, plains, seas, and even here, there are our walls!"

"There are walls on the sea?" Amy asked in surprise, "What does that look like?"

Before the messenger could respond, the general behind him pointed the warrior behind him and shouted: "The Eagle Warrior and the Leopard Warrior are our city walls!"

Amy looked at Ella, and Ella frowned. Through the conversation just now, she was completely unable to determine whether the group of foreigners had the skills to build stone walls. So Ella pointed out with her fingers. The walls of Gotland could be vaguely seen there. For the tribes of the Pirate Kingdom, this was a wonder. When these group of foreigners arrived, they must have seen this wall.

"How does my wall compare to your walls?"

The general glanced back and hummed with his nose contemptuously, and replied: "It's a good place for women."

These provocative words made Ella feel a little unhappy. She calmed down and continued to ask: "What 'empire' you are talking about, where does the territory extend?"
Chapter completed!
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