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Haken waited for him to finish completely, approached and said, "I am now in charge of the entry and exit of merchant ships in this port, and it turns out that those boys can't control it at all. ”

"Yes, I want to ask, what are so many merchant ships here for?"

"It's just that we collect the money, and there is a war, and that's it!" Haken thought he had made it clear, but Lukka didn't understand a word.

"Why don't we ask Kate. Ollie suggested.

"Yes, yes, this work is arranged by Lady Kate, and she has been waiting for you to come back!" Haken nodded repeatedly.

"Let's go. Lukka led everyone back to the lord's quarters.

The pier was only more than 700 meters away from the station, and it was supposed to go very fast.

But Phil kept looking around, constantly stray from the right direction. That's it, even with Linde running around with him. As soon as the pirates on the road saw Luca, they bowed and stepped aside, but when they saw Linde's figure, they forgot their politeness, which was not very skillful, and first watched from a distance, and then found that the big man was actually very gentle, and from a distance he developed into an onlooker.

By the time Lukka had apprehended the two runaway guys and brought them back to the lord's residence, an hour had passed.

"Seven hundred meters! Let you walk for an hour! Do you know that time is tight right now, even if I can wait, solar energy wait?" Lukka complained.

"Didn't I want to find out where the house was suitable for a laboratory?" quibbled Phil.

"Did you find it?" asked Thea.

"I think that's good!" said Phil, pointing to an imposing building in front of him with a courtyard.

"Nonsense, of course! This is my lord's station. Lukka tapped his finger on the door of his head.

Kate had already learned of the Silent Reaper's return, and stood at the courtyard gate for a long time.

Ollie pounced directly, and the two hugged for a while before parting.

Kate smiled and said, "Welcome back, Captain." There's a lot to report to you. ”

"I guess so. Lukka followed her through the courtyard to the three-story gate inside.

Daniel suddenly remembered something and asked, "What about that Gray? Why didn't you see it, wouldn't you run away?"

An angry voice sounded through the door, "Didn't Lord Lords not let me leave the confines of this station?"

When Luka and the others left, Gray didn't have time to ask if the so-called "station area" included the courtyard outside. He didn't dare to experiment with himself, so he had to stay in the house all the time.

Everyone came to the study and sat down, and Lukka spoke first: "Sister Kate, you seem to be managing this island very well!"

Kate smiled and replied, "These pirates are actually better than those nobles. Also, they are very afraid of you, so I won't have any resistance to doing things. ”

"Don't be modest, get down to business. What's the matter with the merchant ships, and the butcher Haken?" Luca spoke in a tone that didn't seem like asking about his island's affairs, but like carrying a bench and knocking melon seeds to listen to gossip.

"That's right. Kate said as she walked over to the chart hanging on the wall, "Didn't we say that the area north of Tata Island belongs to the sea area that neither the Alliance nor the Empire can fully control. ”

"Well, that's why pirates can rob with impunity. Lukka nodded.

"Yes, I just gave the pirates a different way of looting. Kate said.

"What do you mean?" Not only Luca, but also Ollie, who was closest to her, didn't understand.

Kate explains:

"If you want to pass through that sea, as long as you pay us a certain amount of tolls and send them by Sunset Express before we sail, we will no longer harass them. ”

"If you are willing to spend more money, you can also upgrade the 'toll' to the 'protection fee', so that not only will we not be robbed, but on the contrary, we will help them send away those privateers of the opposing camp. ”

Ollie asked in surprise, "So, can those pirates agree?"

Kate smiled slightly: "What the pirates want is actually very simple, as long as there are silver coins in the account, they don't care if they are robbed or not." ”

"But in this case, the danger factor of the pirates is also a lot greater, right?" Luka's concerns do make sense, those pirates used to deal with nothing but unarmed merchant ships, according to Kate's method, what they need to deal with now is heavily armed privateers, and they may even provoke the navy of the Empire or the Alliance.

Kate replied, "So, I asked Gray to help me regroup the pirates. In fact, there is no need to form a combat-ready fleet like the navy, as long as there are enough ships and the momentum is loud enough, it is enough to scare those privateers away. Don't forget, we still have a sign like the Silent Death. ”

Lukka was still a little worried: "It's enough to scare those privateers, but what about the navy? won't the navies of both sides come to look for trouble?"

This time it was Kate's turn to be surprised: "What, don't you know yet?"

"You know what? We haven't docked for more than half a month, and as soon as we get back to the island, we run here, and we haven't had time to inquire about anything except that Haken said a few unclear words to us. "Luca has been a bit busy for the past two months.

"Thirteen days ago, the Brohn Empire and the June Alliance officially went to war. The first battle took place in the sea south of Rift Rock Harbor, and the battle lasted three days, with a narrow victory for the Empire. Kate said, handing over a Sunset Express bulletin, which detailed information such as the size of the fleet, the number and type of ships on both sides, and so on.

Lukka took it and looked at it carefully: "In other words, they don't have time to meddle with our business right now. ”

"Yes, I guess they are not only unavailable, but they try not to provoke us, lest we go to the other side to help. Kate said.

"So, the merchant ships on the docks were also driven here by the war?" Lukka connected the two events.

"Yes, their routes or destinations are either at war or at the forefront of the war, and continuing to sail with cargo is tantamount to surrendering to the Jedi, so I took it upon myself to temporarily open the port so that they could exchange their goods for sailing supplies and return safely. Kate said with some trepidation, knowing that this was a bit beyond her purview.

"This is last week's cargo record. "Gray hasn't left the station, but he's been helping to calculate cargo information.

Luka didn't pay much attention to Kate's so-called "overstepping his authority", he always felt that Ollie's sister was a little too cautious. Now seeing this string of numbers, I have left those little things behind even more.

"It's more profitable than a robbery, isn't it?" Lukka shouted.