Chapter 233 Initial Direction

After seeing off the sailboat of the Defias Brotherhood, Yang Yi returned to the town center of Ratchet.

A large low-legged table was placed on the platform in the center of the town, with three maps spread out on it.

These three maps were Yang Yi's gains from the previous period.

The first two maps were the map of Kalimdor and the map of the Barrens, both of which were drawn by Baoyu, who "has a powerful uncle".

These two maps look a bit rough, and Yang Yi is not impressed by Baoyu's painting skills.

The third map is the future planning map of Ratchet drawn by Van Cleef.

The former leader of the Stormwind Stonemason Association is different. In Yang Yi's opinion, the level of detail of this map is basically the same as that printed by a precision machine.

From the planning map of Ratchet, it can be seen that Van Cleef really put in a lot of effort during his more than one month of investigation in Ratchet.

According to Van Cleef, if the Ratchet fishmen can complete most of the construction on this planning map, the future Ratchet will never be much inferior to Stormwind.

Without looking at the construction plan of the Ratchet City on the drawing, the planning of the periphery alone makes Yang Yi feel that Van Cleef's idea is very bold and forward-looking.

Van Cleef combined the actual situation of Ratchet Town and designed three satellite towns for the future Ratchet City on the planning map.

The three satellite towns are built in the Dead Water Oasis in the west, the Warrior Island in the southeast, and the Thorn Ridge in the north.

The town of Dead Water Oasis controls the main passage from Ratchet City to the inland, the town of Warrior Island guards the throat of Ratchet City to the sea, and the town of Thorn Ridge guards the northern highlands of Ratchet City and overlooks the Angry River.

Not only that, Van Cleef also designed transportation connections for the three towns.

In the planning map, Dead Water Oasis will have a subway leading to Ratchet City, Thorn Ridge Highlands will build an elevator to connect with Ratchet City, and Warrior Island will mainly rely on ship transportation.

According to Van Cleef's idea, the three strongholds in Ratchet Town should be occupied first and the Murloc Village should be built. Then the three Murloc Villages will slowly develop along with the central Ratchet Town and expand outwards little by little.

Yang Yi put the future plan of Ratchet Town aside first.

The reason why he put these three maps together was because he was considering one thing, an important thing related to the future direction of the Ratchet Murlocs.

To put it simply, Yang Yi decided to set a direction for the future of the Ratchet Murlocs.

Whether it is to cling to the tribe, to join the alliance, or to be neutral, the Ratchet Murlocs must have a clear direction.

After the conflict with the orcs in the Dead Water Oasis, Yang Yi had this idea in mind.

Should the Murlocs in Ratchet Town make friends with the orcs?

Yang Yi had no idea in his mind and never told the old blind man and others, so the old blind man and others fought with the orcs as soon as they disagreed.

First set the direction. Whether it can succeed is another matter, but at least it can make all the murlocs in the entire Ratchet Town work together in this direction.

For this, Yang Yi has worked hard these days. He has read the maps on the table over and over again, and he can almost imprint the maps in his mind.

Yang Yi took out a piece of parchment and spread it flat on the low table. There was a large ranking word on it.

The top of the parchment was written with "Horde", "Alliance" and "Neutral", which were the general directions Yang Yi needed to choose.

Below it were "Thunder Bluff", "Theramore", "Ratchet", "Sen'jin Village", "Undercity", "Stonemaul Ogre", "Grimtotem Tauren", "Kokal Centaur", "Steelmane Quillboar"...

Yang Yi listed all the races, forces and organizations in the world of Azeroth that he had met, heard and thought of. The reason why he listed these names on the parchment was that he wanted to use these forces as a reference.

Yang Yi's idea was very simple. Instead of relying on his own random thoughts, it is better to refer to the path others have taken.

If others fail in this way, the Thorntooth Fishman will take a detour as soon as possible; if others succeed, the Thorntooth Fishman will see if there is still a chance to follow.

First, it is a simple elimination method:

"Steel Bristle Boarman, who eats and drinks for free, robs on the road, and is doing too badly, so cross it out first"

"Kokkar Centaur, who is hostile to everyone and has become a public enemy, so cross it out too"

"Stonemaul Ogre, as one of the few ogre clans that still belongs to the Horde, is doing pretty well. Let's circle it first and wait for decision."

"Grim Totem Tauren, whose reputation is very bad, but who clings to the Thunder Bluff Tauren, seems to be living a comfortable life. Let's circle it too"

Yang Yi looked at the names one by one, and circled those that he couldn't decide immediately.

As a result, after one round, the whole parchment was basically full of circles.

"It's really hard to choose." Yang Yi was helpless.

"We still need to find a military advisor." Yang Yi thought for a while, "Big Chin is suitable."

Although Big Chin lost his own memory, his IQ was not lost. As the king of Stormwind, he should be very good at this kind of analysis.

Big Chin did not follow the sailboat of the Defias Brotherhood back to the Eastern Kingdom. After all, the two sides had a feud, and it was not suitable to stay on the same ship to avoid any unnecessary accidents.

Yang Yi got the news that Durotar would have a ship heading to Booty Bay in the Eastern Kingdom in a while. He discussed with Big Chin and let Big Chin take that ship to the Eastern Kingdom, so Big Chin will leave later.

In view of the previous "kidnapping of envoys" incident, it seemed that some high-level officials in Stormwind City had betrayed the king, so Big Chin felt that it was not appropriate to reveal his identity at this time.

He planned to hide his identity and return to Stormwind City first, and then make plans after finding out the situation.

Yang Yi ran to find Big Chin, and then told Big Chin his problem.

"You want me to help you analyze it?" Big Chin carefully read all the words on the parchment before asking.

Yang Yi nodded. Currently, the only person in Ratchet Town who can rely on him is Big Chin.

"Let me tell you my opinion. It's up to you to decide." Big Chin said.

Big Chin put the parchment on the table first. He pointed at the map of Kalimdor and analyzed: "The Barrens where Ratchet Town is located is in the middle of Kalimdor, and Kalimdor is currently Dominated by tribal forces."

“The tribe is mainly composed of the orcs from Orgrimmar, the tauren from Thunder Bluff, the Darkspear trolls from Sen’jin Village, and the Forsaken from the Undercity. Except for the Undercity in the Eastern Kingdom, the other three are all in Kalimdor. "

"Thunder Bluff is in Mulgore, which borders the Barrens to the west. Orgrimmar and Senjin Village are both in Durotar, which borders the Barrens to the east. In other words, the Barrens where Ratchet Town is located In fact, it is surrounded by the three main forces of the tribe. "

"Look at this map of the Barrens again." The big chin pointed at the map of the Barrens again, "Ratchet Town is located in Ratchet Bay. Leaving aside the wild boars, centaurs and other forces that are difficult to achieve, Ratchet Town In addition to the human forces in the south, the north, east, and west are also controlled by tribal forces. "

Yang Yi heard Big Chin's analysis and roughly understood what Big Chin wanted to express. He asked: "So, the current situation is that Ratchet Town is surrounded by tribal forces. Is it possible for the fishmen not to surrender to the tribe?"

"The Northern Castle in the south of Ratchet Town is surrounded by tribal forces just like the humans in Theramore. They have no time to take care of themselves." Big Chin said.

"Since humans are unreliable, is there any hope for Ratchet Town to take a neutral route?" Yang Yi asked again.

"Given Ratchet Town's location, if you want to be neutral, unless Ratchet Town is strong enough to not be afraid of the tribe's advance, or Ratchet Town has been so weak that its tribe has no interest in you at all, it will be extremely difficult."

The Ratchet fishman naturally does not have enough strength at the moment, but Yang Yi doesn't want to remain weak, so it is really difficult to be neutral.

"this……"

Yang Yi was speechless. After analyzing it like this, the only thing left was to surrender to the tribe.

Big Chin also saw his thoughts from Yang Yi's expression: "Speaking of it, due to the bad reputation of the fishmen and the past behavior of the major forces in the alliance, it is basically certain that they will not accept the ratchet fishmen. "

"It is true that the tribe has accepted the Darkspear trolls and the Forsaken before. You must know that the reputations of trolls and undead are much more infamous than fishmen."

"But Ratchet Town just had a battle with the orcs of the tribe, and the tribe is now led by the orc chief." Big Chin said.

"Then..." Yang Yi was stunned, "So Ratchet Town has no choice but to learn from Centaur and become the enemy of the whole world?"

Big Chin waved his hand: "I'm just telling you my opinion. As for how Ratchet Town will proceed, it depends on you."

"You still have to rely on yourself."

Yang Yi kept mumbling the same sentence. He looked at the map a few more times and found that apart from confirming that Big Chin's analysis was correct, he couldn't see any other way.

In the end, he could only pick up the parchment on the table and re-mark it one by one with charcoal.

"If you don't join the tribe or the alliance, you will still be as weak as the Ratchet Fishman in the beginning..."

Yang Yi crossed out each name according to this principle, and finally found that only a few names were left.

"The rest are all miserable races like wild boars, kobolds, lobster men, and jackals."

Yang Yi looked at the remaining names and smiled bitterly, but when he scanned the last name, his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Folbolg."

As far as Yang Yi knows, some furbolg tribes have alliances with the night elves, and they once joined forces with the night elves to fight against the Burning Legion.

Furbolgs have not joined the Alliance camp, but other races in the Alliance camp will not take the initiative to make enemies of the Furbolgs for the sake of the night elves.

In fact, races such as dryads and ancient trees are in a similar situation to the furbolgs. Although they have not joined the alliance, they maintain friendly relations with the alliance because they are allies with the night elves.

It can be seen that in the world of Azeroth, if weak races want to have a good living environment, hugging others is an effective strategy.

"The furbolgs are a semi-civilized and weak race just like the murlocs. If the ratchet murlocs want to follow the furbolgs' route, then the one who can form an alliance with them is..."

"Tauren of Thunder Bluff!"

Yang Yi immediately thought of the tauren. Most tauren advocate peace, and Bain Bloodhoof, the son of the chief of the Thunder Bluff tauren, has always had a good attitude towards the Ratchet fishmen.

"But we can work hard. Ratchet Town can use the Tauren Bain or the Backwater Tauren Village as a breakthrough to further build a good relationship with the Tauren. The Tauren's flag is still very useful. The last incident at the Backwater Oasis was also because of Baine arrived in time and the orcs finally decided to withdraw. "

Thinking of this, Yang Yi murmured: "If we replace the bear monster with a murloc, replace the night elf with a tauren, and then replace the Alliance with the Horde..."

Big Chin's eyes lit up, but he didn't say anything. He let Yang Yi make the decision himself.

"It seems a good idea for the murloc to become allies with the tauren, but not to join the Horde."

"That's it!".