The Almani Federation, a country that was once despised by Ella, once called the "United Emirates of Almani" many times, has more than half of its territory once belonged to the Seven Hills Empire.

About five hundred years ago, the then emperor of the Qiqiu Empire divided the imperial territory into two and handed over it to his two sons to divide it. In order to distinguish, these two empires were called the East Qiqiu Empire and the West Qiqiu Empire respectively. Ayra's country was the East Qiqiu Empire, which belonged to it.

Although the empire was divided into two, the relationship between the two empires has always been intimate.

As the Qiqiu Empire stopped expanding to the outside world, the civilized level of the Qiqiu Empire became higher and higher, but the combat effectiveness of the imperial army became lower and lower. However, the empire was invaded by barbarians in four directions, southeast, west and north. In order to win the war, the two empires of the east and west had to hire a large number of barbarian troops to fight.

The East Qiqiqiu Empire where Ella is located now retains the troops known as the "Bar Alliance". Although Hestein was beaten to pieces, within the Qiqiu Empire, this can be regarded as the most elite army under the Imperial Guards.

The Western Qiqiqiu Empire was not as lucky as the Eastern Qiqiu Empire. As its dependence on the barbarian army deepened, the leaders of the barbarian army gradually controlled the power of the empire, and the emperor of the Western Qiqiu Empire became a toy in the hands of the barbarian army.

In the end, the mercenary leader of the German tribe deposed the emperor of the Western Qiqiu Empire and destroyed the Western Qiqiu Empire. Since then, the western territory of the Qiqiu Empire has fallen into the control of the barbarians. Almani is one of the tribes of this group of barbarians.

However, Ella is not in the mood to think about these national hatreds and family hatreds. Her mind is full of her huge debts of her fifty thousand Nomisma.

She settled the accounts on paper.

"Selling a big grizzly bear, earning 4,223 fins, equivalent to about twenty-one Nomisma, minus the meat eaten on the Grizzly bear road, and sending out three smoked fish, compensation doors, water tanks, and some scattered vessels for expenses... I didn't make any money!"

Ella shouted, tearing off the dense notes of paper.

She has been waiting in the port of Stadt for a week.

She thought that there were so many goods left in the port that merchants would always run back to pick them up. But before the merchants could wait, the "bandit suppression" team repelled several waves.

In terms of equipment, the enemy troops that came were neither regular troops nor peasants recruited soldiers, but mercenaries who came from where they didn't know.

Every time these mercenaries were captured, Ella enthusiastically invited him to visit the "Flying Dutchman", and used honey wine and beef and mutton as cargo to entertain them, and gave them some travel expenses, hoping that they would go back and explain to their employer that Ella was really here to trade.

After a few days, the mercenaries sent away several waves, but in addition to a large amount of expenses to entertain them, there was no merchant who came to Stad to talk to her about trade.

"Amy, do you think I should build a city here in Stad and prepare for setting up a stall here for a long time?" Once, Ella consulted Amy's opinion like this.

"That would be a complete invasion!" Amy firmly rejected Ella's idea.

Ella had to continue waiting in Stadt. Although the merchants did not dare to come, if they stayed like this, the nearby lords of the Almani Federation would definitely come after hearing the news. As long as she explained the situation clearly in front of those lords, she could carry out trade in the Almani Federation normally.

However, in order to prevent raids from those lords, Ella built a simple camp in Stadt.

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If you look at it from the map alone, the Almani Federation has an extremely vast territory. Its area is more than five times that of the entire Britain, and it is no less than the two empires of Qiqiu and Tianfang.

However, this is just a sign of the phenomenon. Compared with the Qiqiu Empire and the Tianfang Empire, which have high power concentration in the center, the power of the Almani Federation is even more discrete than the Pirate Kingdom.

The consul of the Almani Federation was just an open common leader, and it was actually scattered into nearly four hundred states, and was in a state of independent governance. The nobles who controlled the territory only fulfilled extremely limited obligations to the consuls, while some powerful lords did not even need to fulfill them at all.

It is precisely for this reason that the consuls of the Almani Federation are nicknamed "Earl of France" by people. Compared with the Earl of France, who has almost no power, the powerful lords within the Almani Federation are more valued.

Otto, Duke of Anglia near Stadt, is such a powerful lord.

He once relied on the Duke of Anglia to resist three sieges of "Snake Eye" Sieged, thus limiting Sieged's sphere of influence to Frisia and preventing the further invasion of the Almani Federation by Sieged. After Sieged's death, he even took the opportunity to annex Frisia's land.

Otto, who has two principalities, Anglia and Frisia, is now a hot figure in the Almani Federation.

When he received the news from Stadt, Otto was sitting in a luxurious carriage. He had just rushed back from a "rally". Due to the lack of power of the consul, "rally" was the way for lords of all sizes within the Almany Federation to deal with territorial issues.

However, the content of this "assembly" is a bit special. The lords participating in the assembly did not come to discuss things in the territory, but to the pirate kingdom.

Before coming here, they all received the news that most of the lords of the Pirate Kingdom had gone out to sea with the Pirate King and disappeared.

The Almani Federation has always suffered from the pirate kingdom.

More than ten years ago, Sieged invaded Friziland; two years ago, Ivar killed the son of Lord Jutland; a year ago, a female pirate who claimed to be Scipio led her troops to besiege Lübeck and forcibly "borrowed" 150,000 Nomisma, but has not been returned to this day. As for ordinary coastal looting, since the number is not clearly counted, I will not mention it.

Since the consul of the Almani Federation Earl Ile-de-France was left unto it and did nothing, the lords whose territory was close to the Pirate Kingdom had to form an alliance on their own to fight the invasion of the Pirate Kingdom.

And this time, they thought the time for a counterattack had come.

Otto, who successfully resisted the invasion of Sigald, was naturally chosen as the leader of the alliance. The lords who participated in the assembly just waited for him to raise the flag of revolt before responding, destroying the pirate kingdom in one fell swoop.

However——"Stad's port was occupied by pirates?"
Chapter completed!