Four days after John of Jesco was gone, there was a commotion in the castle.

It was early in the morning when there was a commotion, and the wind blew so strongly last night that even the wooden shingles on the roof were torn off a lot, firstly, the wind blew hard, and secondly, Luo Yi got up very early because he was worried about the villagers whose houses had not yet been bricked.

Then she noticed something unusual in the castle.

"What's wrong?" Luo Yi called out to a boy who had hurried past her, and everyone seemed to be busy at once, the wooden sticks used for practice were thrown aside, the iron weapons were removed from the walls, and the horses were led out of the stables, put on the saddles, and tied their halves.

"Madam, God forbid, a boat has run aground on the beach!" The boy said happily, "It's finally open this year!" ”

"Oh," Luo Yi nodded to indicate that he knew what he knew, and then suddenly came back to his senses: "Huh? Opened? What openings? ”

"Madam, a ship has run aground on the beach, isn't this the opening of the deal?"

"Oh, ah, yes." Luo Yi nodded, but, it's just a business, is it necessary to mobilize the people of the entire castle to do business? Still heavily armed?

It doesn't seem that simple.

She decided to ask clearly.

"Although it's a ship merchant from afar, there's no need for the whole castle to go, send a few people to ask what goods are available and how much they cost, and then go again?"

"Price?" The waiter was taken aback, and then looked at her for a long time, with a very strange expression: "Price? Ask the price? Madame, are you ......?"

Then, as if considering that she was a "lady" after all, she swallowed the following sentence of "crazy" that had already reached her lips.

At this time, Luo Yi remembered what background she was in......

Since the time of Homer's epic, European merchants have been part-time pirates, they go to a place, put on the appearance of merchants, if the other party is strong and guarded, if the other party is not careful, unguarded, even women and children come out to trade, then they will take advantage of the other party's unpreparedness, catch the women and children on the ship, sail away, and finally, take these women

Trafficked into slavery.

This kind of thing is recorded in Herodotus's Histories.

In this way, it makes sense that the castle should be fully mobilized and fully armed to see the ship......

But!

Why are they so jubilant? And he said, "It's finally open this year?" ”

Nearby is the city of Tournest, there are all kinds of foreign goods and foreign craftsmen, if you want to buy and sell things, it is still easy, you don't have to wait for a ship to run aground in Brad territory......

Don't......

Don't......

"You ...... Ready to take the ship's stuff for nothing? ”

"Of course!" The boy replied, "Well, when will the mistress's brain be a little better?"

"......" Luo Yi was stunned, even though she had been traveling for almost two years, she was still very uncomfortable with her identity as the leader of the bandits...... It should be said that it is completely uncomfortable that I subconsciously ignore it.

Then, she asked again: "Then if the other party wants to sue......"

"Where will the dead sue?" The boy replied dryly.

"Huh!?"

According to the medieval shipwreck law, if there were no living people on board, the lord could take the stranded ship and the cargo on it for himself.

If there are living people on board, the ship and cargo belong to the owner.

However, there are laws above, and there are countermeasures below.

Let the living on the ship become dead, and the ship and cargo will not be "legally" owned by the lord?

Later, the shipwreck law was amended so that if there was a living cat or dog on board, the cargo and the ship would still belong to the owner.

It is said that the revision of this law saved the lives of many crew members, and indirectly showed that the previous "countermeasures" were definitely not only understood by the lords of a certain place.

Nineteenth-century Andersen, who enthusiastically praised that the people on ships stranded in a storm could wait to be rescued rather than be smashed open by the lord, and that the new era was better than the old, and he couldn't help but be a little early in joy, because the Verne of the same era also described the people of southern Europe on the seashore, running to the reef in the middle of the storm and raising fires

Pretending to be a lighthouse in the harbor, they waited for the ships to fall into their traps so that they could continue their ancestral work, which Homer had praised.