Adair's letter sparked a great deal of controversy in the new government of Neustria, and the advantages were obvious: the country was in dire need of a decent navy to defend itself against the bandits from the north and south, and it might be barely enough to defend the diocese of Turnest by a ship, but it was clearly not enough to defend the maritime frontiers of all Neustria.

Ships for maritime operations are already being built at an accelerated pace, and personnel for naval operations are not so easy to find for a while.

Just as cavalry is not infantry by throwing infantry on horseback, naval sailors are not considered sailors by throwing infantry on ships, not to mention that they are now short of infantry.

"It's all because you've been unifying Neustria too quickly, and if you use the diocese of Tournest as a base and slowly encroach on them like they did before picking up Count Bag, the situation will be much better now."

"Ahh Her Majesty the Queen can only be hahaha in the face of such a well-founded accusation, but, if she does it again, she will do this, so much land has been wasted, she looks uncomfortable, she has to hug her arms, besides, she doesn't want to choose to pretend to be a pig when the arranged marriage brought by the right to marry is approaching, the house fight is really not her forte, there are eggs hurting stars, I wonder when there will be another crossing woman to her fiancé's first love, put her on the house, isn't that just pretending to be a pig and becoming a real pig," It's happening, don't say 'what if', let's see how we can solve it......"

"Hmph."

"They're not going to swim here, so we can build fewer ships, which is ...... our finances right now," Tim said. Since he rose one step higher, he has been doing the task of taking seven pot lids and covering ten pots every day. The navy is a more expensive project than cavalry, and Neustria is not a landlocked country. As long as the queen still cares about the security of the homeland, she has to grit her teeth and build up the navy, and at the same time, the foreign trade that brings them financial resources cannot allow them to simply levy merchant ships, and now there are not enough merchant ships, and the fleeing Duke Ulrich and others took all the ships in the port at that time, and they had to requisition merchant ships from other places to ensure normal trade here in the royal capital. In fact, they were debating whether to requisition some fishing boats to improve water traffic that had been destroyed at home and abroad, but the catch was also important to fill the new government's relief gap, as they now have more people to feed and the catch is a cheap source of animal protein. All in all. They have too many things to do, but they don't have enough personnel and materials in their hands, and they need such and such things in every place, but there are so many things that can be mobilized.

However, these northerners, who claimed to have surrendered, could solve their urgent needs in this regard, and if they could help defend the sea frontier, the pressure on the Neustria's sea would be greatly reduced. Moreover, the northerners came by boat, and if they took refuge with the new government of Neustria, these ships would naturally belong to the new government. There is no need to build new ships for the time being, and the new government will save a large part of the deficit on its budget sheet.

In addition, there is another advantage that the native sailors of Neustria cannot have, and it is also the reason why Luo Yi finally accepted them - only pirates know how to fight pirates. Only they knew about the sea routes that had invaded Neustria from the Far North and the pirate lairs that had supplied along the way, and without the active assistance of these leading parties, Neustria would have been in a situation of passive attack. Even if the Navy were to be able to do the same thing in the future without their strength, the cost would have been enormous and avoidable.

But. Relative to the benefits they bring, the disadvantages are also shiny.

"How can we trust them?" It's a conundrum.

It can be seen from what happened to Count Fisher and others. These "simple barbarians" don't mind lying and deceiving people at all, and religious proselytizing and swearing are hard to believe that Luo Yi, who is a modern person, has any effect, and the final result of the discussion is that according to their own methods of the northerners - to hand over hostages.

"When they form an alliance with others, they will demand the surrender of ten or twenty people of noble birth as hostages." The archbishop said that this was confirmed by many accounts, so they did so, but the condition was changed to "hand over the wife and children of the chief, all of them".

The conditions were set so harshly because they really couldn't trust the other party's discipline, and once this was another fake surrender, their losses would be great, and they couldn't afford to take such a risk.

"Send the hostages to the sampan!" The interpreter representing the new government in Neustria shouted at them from the sampan.

"One is not enough!" This is the answer of the northerners.

When the new self-proclaimed ruler of Neustria saw the hostages sent by the northerners as a sign of goodwill, she was utterly stunned.

Well, she should have remembered that these northerners, they, had many chiefs, and their chiefs were polygamous...... (Luo Yi: How can I remember things that have been separated by two hundred chapters!) ）

So, now there are about fifty women dressed in silk and satin, and their number is about a hundred or so to live behind her...... Back & Palace.

Oh my God.

Why is it there, you ask?

Isn't that the empty place now? Everywhere else is occupied by government departments and agencies!

The problem is that there aren't enough houses there!

So in the end, many marching tents had to be set up in the courtyard.

That's the number of people...... In case they turn around, will they be hostages or will I be hostages......

But she couldn't return these people, after all, the next thing was to be surrendered, and it was not a good thing to be the first to regret it at this time, so Her Majesty had to stiffen her face to accept a group of blonde wives (and their maids) and a large group of blond and blue-eyed Zhengtai Lori mixed with various other colors of hair and eyeballs (how much food money does this cost)

After a busy day and finally settled these people, Luo Yi Great Demon King was very uncomfortable and clumped her body together, compared to the bed, the chair in the office where she was sleeping now was really too small!

However, she didn't find any peace in her dreams.

"Luo Yi, huh, when will you take me through the beautiful ancient times, modern life is really annoying, you have to go to work to make money, you are busy all day long, and the pressure is so great."

"Believe me, if I can take you through, I will let you cross over as soon as possible."

"Nonsense, you must have forgotten your friends, for fear that I will divide you, huh."

"I very much hope that someone will help me share the burden, even if it is a person who can only run errands, and the chief of staff nagged him yesterday that his official position is not worthy of the name, and he doesn't even have a decent errand."

"Hey, Luo Yi, seriously, after so many years, you have a few cute buns now?"

"What's a bun?"

"Child, Luo Yi, how many do you have? Let me tell you, one son is not enough, no insurance, the more the merrier, how to ask for two, so that if a slut kills one, you also have a son, the status is firm, no matter how pink eye others are, it doesn't matter if the daughter is splashed out of the water or not...... How many of you are there? If it's not enough, you have to hurry up! ”

"One hundred hangs zero."

"How can one be enough...... Wow, Luo Yi, you have a hundred? It's amazing! You don't have to worry about it for the rest of your life...... Wait, why do you have so much? ”

"Fist."

"Fist ......"

The sound stopped rarely, probably choked at last, Luo Yi was not sure about this, she just turned over again in her dream, this time she found a more comfortable position, fell asleep exhausted, and slept until dawn.

The next day, when receiving the surrendered envoys, the new queen of Neustria, Her Majesty, gritted her teeth and moved her sore body with a pair of panda eyes (the chair was an anti-human, nay, anti-demon king's prop, and she only slept one night to understand this truth).

This qiē entered the eyes of the leader of the other party.

So he greeted his queen with this -

"Your Majesty, did you have a good time with my wife and sister-in-law last night?" (To be continued......)