Chapter 579 Duke Is Very Busy (1200 Monthly Pass)

Many people think that fighting a war is hard work.

No, in fact post-war reconstruction was a chore.

Thanks to Du's prior planning and ruthlessness, the number of orcs captured was far less than in the original history. Before and after, no one knows how many orcs are there. Maybe even Orgrim himself doesn't know how many orcs came to Azeroth through the Dark Portal.

There are many illiterate orcs here, and when counting heads, they are generally based on clans.

Anyway, no less than one million orcs came to the world of Azeroth to jump around.

Except for more than 20,000 people who followed Kilrogg* Deadeye and Kargath and other chiefs who fled back in a hurry, most of the orcs were here. As for the captives, there were only 25,000 people.

In history, there were more than 200,000 orc captives.

Just not killing prisoners based on the knight's creed, but having to build shelters for these prisoners and feeding these big eaters, caused the financial collapse of Dalaran and Stormgard.

The point is, the orc captives still haven't bought it.

In the years that followed, as the power of the demon blood gradually faded from the orcs, the orcs became less violent and dangerous. Some brain-dead philanthropists who have not experienced the first and second Dark Portal Wars completely ignored how these orcs slaughtered villages and cities in the human world and how much damage they caused. Instead, they cried out for the orcs who were oppressed and enslaved by humans.

Of course, this problem is completely gone now.

Twenty-five thousand orcs who have lost their will to fight are almost a level that any kingdom in the eleven countries of the alliance can handle.

What's more, according to Duke's proposal, except for the 15,000 people who are willing to accept the most open-minded Lordaeron, the rest will be shared equally by countries that are not seriously damaged by the war, or they will either contribute money or people to expel prisoners of war. shelter.

Duke's family planning policy package for orcs was also passed by a large majority at the Throne Council.

As in history, the Alliance finally decided to build a total of three small shelters in the Hillsbrad Foothills and the Arathi Highlands.

Duke let Ryan agree to temporarily lend all the ships under the name of the Stormwind Kingdom to Daelin, because Daelin wanted to send a large force to Stranglethorn Vale to find trouble with goblins and blackwater pirates. It is precisely because of the money-seeking bastards like goblins that the Horde has a large number of warships, and the Alliance almost fell.

It may not be possible to start a full-scale war with the goblins, but at least you have to take out enough indemnity in the pockets of this group of crazy guys that they will be hurt for many years.

In exchange, Daelin transferred almost all civilian merchant ships and cargo ships of Kul Tiras to Stormwind to support the restoration of the Stormwind Kingdom.

In this era, it is not an easy task to revive a kingdom with a population of one million. Even though Duke had already prepared Edwin Van Cleef to start preparations before counterattacking the southern continent, even before the large army landed in Stormwind City, he began to prepare the materials needed to rebuild Stormwind City.

It just so happened that Stormwind City was completely destroyed, and the orc clan sitting in Stormwind City was a bunch of incomprehensible bastards. They tore down almost every wooden pillar in the city to make a fire, and then took all the stones and piled them up to make animal pens. Except for the Stormwind Fortress, the entire old Stormwind City was basically completely demolished. The most thorough reconstruction is needed.

Rebuilding Stormwind City, plus over a hundred residential areas in Elwynn Forest and Twilight Forest, this is definitely an extremely huge project.

Of course, this is not something that can be done in a short time.

It stands to reason that Duke, an expert in internal affairs, should be too busy to have his hands full.

However, most of the time, the upper management of Stormwind can only see the figure of Duke's chief butler, Markaro. This mercenary-born butler has become the number one representative in handling the internal affairs of the Stormwind Kingdom instead of Duke. The matter of rebuilding Stormwind City was handed over to the Brotherhood of Masons led by Van Cleef.

Ryan asked where Duke was more than once, but every time he just knew that Duke was wandering around in his fief, not knowing what to do.

For Duke, Ryan and Anduin have reached a point where they are almost pampered and left alone. They will never order Duke to do something. Most of the people who saw Duke were trying their best to rebuild Stormwind City, so Duke was up to it.

What is Duke doing?

In mid-December, many places in the entire eastern kingdom were very cold. Elwynn Forest is considered to be a relatively warm area, and it can’t be said that it is like spring all the year round, but the temperature around 18 degrees is a suitable temperature for soaking in hot springs.

Near Stone Lake in East Elwynn Forest, now named Windrunning Lake, Sylvanas was running through the woods.

"Duke that bastard! You don't have the slightest sense of being a Grand Duke. Every time you want to find someone, you don't know where to go." Cirvanas was full of complaints.

With the surrender of the orcs and the restoration of the Kingdom of Stormwind, Duke, the Grand Duke, suddenly became worthy of his name. As the price of poaching the Windrunner family from Quel'Thalas at that time, Duke sealed a large fief to the three Windrunner sisters.

From the moment she took back the fief, Cirvanas also became the official Viscountess of East Twilight Forest.

Cirvanas hadn't enjoyed half a day of aristocratic luxury or happiness, and was immediately stunned by the miserable situation in the territory. Night Town needs to be rebuilt, and over a thousand human subjects need to be resettled. I heard that there are still more than 3,000 former Night Town residents in Hillsbrad, eagerly waiting for the boat schedule, eager to return to their former homes winter.

After realizing what the New Year meant to humans, Cirvanas went crazy.

She once complained to Duke, but Duke dismissed her with the generally accepted rule in the aristocratic world that 'the great lord cannot directly subordinate the lord's subjects'.

Now the complicated internal affairs finally drove her crazy.

Unexpectedly, when she was close to the steaming lake, her pointed ears suddenly pricked up, and she heard some terrible sounds.

"Uh...um...ah..."

The sweet murmur of his own sister made Cirvanas blush.

"Bastard! It's here in broad daylight...huh!" No matter what, Veresa is her third sister.

Cirvanas also died of melancholy. Ever since the Dark Gate kissed in public, his eldest sister and three younger sisters have completely fallen. It would be impossible to become a nymphomaniac, but staying with his own sisters, listening to the topic of the two of them being Duke all day long, Cirvanas was really annoyed, so he took his fourth sister and ran to the Twilight Forest.

Originally, she wanted to wait for Veresa to finish, but the wait lasted for half an hour, with no signs of stopping. Queen Xi couldn't bear it anymore, and a loud arrow drew a conspicuous arc, blasting to the lake, splashing water all over the sky.