Chapter 412 The Earl of the Windrunner (Subscribe)

Another picture, that is the once beautiful Silver Pine Forest.

All the trees were either burned or felled.

Between the huge camps on both sides, there is a dead and no-man's land of more than five kilometers. The ground was completely scorched black, and so were the corpses. There were very few non-black corpses on the battlefield.

The flames incinerated almost everything, and any corpses not recovered that day were charred by the flames in the next day's battle.

Alleria couldn't stand it anymore: "You just let your compatriots die in the wilderness?"

Duke shook his head: "It's not that they don't want to recover the corpses. The crux of the matter is that the tribe refuses to communicate. And there have been many times when the tribe sent people to attack the civilian husbands who recovered the remains, and even ogres captured the civilian husbands and ate them alive."

Alleria gagged.

"Except for Dalaran and Alterac, almost all the alliance countries have been affected by the flames of war. Every country has suffered a lot, because of conscription, a large number of fields are uncultivated. It is not difficult for us to imagine that the next Winter is going to be bad."

The elf's slender eyebrows drooped: "Then, what happened to our people?"

Duke was satisfied with the beautiful elf's use of the word "we", and he waved: "Come here, let's talk slowly."

"Before I said it, you mustn't freeze the road." Alleria seemed to have lingering fear in her request.

Duke was a little embarrassed: "Just don't run away."

Ever since that night at the State Guest House, Aurelia seemed to be a little shadowy, and she refused to have Duke behind her, and then she would dodge quickly if there was any trouble on Duke's side.

"You promise first!" Alleria emphasized.

"Okay, okay, I will never force you." Duke made a gesture of surrender with both hands.

Alleria just sat down.

Duke whispered: "Actually, the situation in the Kingdom of Stormwind is better than most kingdoms."

"Huh?" Alleria was surprised.

Duke pointed to the map: "Hillsbrad Hills is the only area that has not been affected by the war so far. Although we have more than 600,000 refugees stranded here, we are still developing all the grasslands into After the fertile land, we can basically have 80% of us to be self-sufficient."

Alleria originally wanted to ask what to do with the remaining 20%, but suddenly found that Duke's fingers had reached the Westfall, the territory of the old Stormwind Kingdom.

"here?"

"Yes, it's here." Duke smiled mysteriously: "The orcs are a hunting race. They like meat. On their planet, there are many large and super-large prey. Often, killing one is enough for several." Hundreds of people eat for a few days. Therefore, in their eyes, only land with a large amount of wild prey is a good territory. The West Wilderness is too barren for them.”

When Duke said this, Alleria couldn't help but burst out laughing. She has been to the Western Wilderness, and apart from a lot of small monsters such as gnolls and wild wolves, that empty plain is definitely the most suitable place for human farming.

"The Horde prefers Elwynn Forest, so when I asked my subordinate Edwin Van Cleef to form a base area behind the enemy, everyone was forbidden to farm near Elwynn Forest. A hundred kilometers away from the forest, set up a large number of sentries And the alarm system, the area 200 kilometers away until the seaside is the planting area."

Duke took out a report: "This is the harvest list of summer grain. The results are quite good, enough to feed 600,000 people for a year."

Alleria's beautiful eyes were filled with divine light.

Farming under the eyes of the orcs, thanks to Duke, he thought of it and did it.

"In order to prevent the grain from getting wet and spoiled during sea transportation, I also invented the method of transporting the grain in rubber bags after drying, which can reduce most of the loss on the sea road. In the past, every time a bag of wheat was shipped, one bag would be broken on the road. .Now it’s only 1 in 10 bags going bad.”

Sitting in front of Duke, Alleria put her elbows on her knees, held her face in her hands, and stared at Duke: "I don't know where you got so many ideas. Well, it's because you are so good. That’s why I think you can do anything.”

"Ahem!" Duke coughed dryly, "I'm not a god of creation."

"Okay, in your expectation, can we kill the Horde?"

Duke spread his hands and admitted frankly: "If you can win, you can't kill them all. I have calculated that even if you kill every orc in the world of Azeroth, there will at least be more orcs on the planet called Draenor opposite the Dark Portal." Two million tribes in every corner of the planet."

Alleria looked a little sad.

"However, I will let the flag of the Alliance be planted in every corner of Azeroth as much as possible."

At this time, a slim figure appeared at the stairway at some point.

Alleria frowned: "Sylvanas, I've told you how many times, now that we have different identities, we have to knock on the door when we come up to see Duke."

"I want to knock too, but what if knocking on the door makes me miss some good shows?" Queen Xi had a sly smile on her face.

Alleria blushed for a rare occasion, and bit her lip lightly: "Sister, you are enough!"

Duke smiled and asked, "Sirvanas, what's the matter?"

"No, I just want to confirm that the rangers of our Windrunner family are your free mercenaries, Lord Duke, or are they really your vassals?"

"Sister, don't make trouble for Duke." Alleria was a little anxious, she thought Duke was just helping her that day. After all, in the human kingdom, there has never been a precedent for conferring a high elf as a hereditary noble.

Queen Xi shrugged: "We have more than 200 people joining than originally planned, and many guys are trying to make a wish. It's not what I want to ask, as long as I have a forest."

"Oh, that's it, then I'll just leave it to you guys." Duke had already prepared an official document: "Please call Veresa and Liras here as well."

The Windrunner sisters were dumbfounded.

This is a canonized license signed by King Ryan Wrynn himself. As a nearly independent duke, Duke has the right to directly confer titles below baron, but the level of viscount and earl must be approved by the king.

The aristocratic rule in this era is the vassals of the king's vassals, not the king's vassals. Duke has no more than three earls as direct vassals at most, and Duke's vassals do not need to obey the king's orders.

The four Windrunner sisters never imagined that Duke's actions would be so fast, and he really got the approval.

Alleria is the Countess of East Elwynn Forest.

Sylvanas is the Vitesse of Eastern Duskwood.

Veresa's fief is the original Stone Tablet Lake and now Fengxing Lake, so she is the Viscountess of Fengxing Lake.

The fief of Lilas is the Blackwell Pumpkin Farm, and she is Baroness Blackwell.

All hereditary titles.