Honest, brave, wise and loyal, Duke has almost become synonymous with a saint in everyone's hearts.
In fact, apart from his cleverness as a time traveler, Duke's other three items are bullshit.
Duke never considered himself to have pledged allegiance to Llane.
As a modern man, Duke is a boss and an employee person in his bones. He has never felt the mysterious emotion of sacrificing his life for another person.
As a time traveler who is familiar with the course of history, Duke knows that life is impossible without money, but having too much money is actually useless.
The most important thing is strength. Your own strength and the strength of your subordinates.
According to history, the First War ended with the opening of the Dark Portal and the capture of Stormwind City.
Then, the orc army regrouped and headed north to cause trouble for all races and kingdoms on the continent, marking the beginning of the "Second Orc War".
Duke didn't know whether the orcs would continue to go against all races and all major forces on the continent as they did in history. Obviously, when Duke saw that the similarity of the Azeroth world dropped from 80% to 79% in the system evaluation, Duke realized that the nature of history would continue to be surprisingly similar.
Duke saved 50,000 more elite soldiers, and also saved Llane who didn't die in history. Of course, the poor Khadgar died, killing hundreds of thousands of orc elite soldiers, and also badly tricked Orgrim. With so many deviations in fate, the similarity dropped by 1%. It's crazy to think about it.
However, when I think about the majestic Burning Legion and the Creation Titan that will appear in the future, I suddenly feel that after doing so much, it is already remarkable to get a 1% change in the world.
Okay, back to reality.
At noon the next day, the first batch of ships arrived. This batch of ships also had sufficient space, and after replenishing some daily necessities and medicines for those who continued to wait on the island, they carried a total of 16,000 people.
On the boat, Duke was already busy.
Because the Horde did not pay much attention to the Western Wilderness, Duke was able to secretly transport the summer grain that had not yet been sent to Stormwind City to Southshore Town. This batch of grain could greatly alleviate the famine in Southshore Town.
In addition, there is the migration of murlocs and naga. In fact, the orcs can't do anything to the murlocs on the coast, but Duke has a place where murlocs are more needed - South Sea Town.
The entire Eastern Kingdom continent is actually divided into two continents, north and south, connected by a huge Sardor Bridge.
To the south of the southern continent is the Stormwind Kingdom and its territory, and to the north of the southern continent is the dwarf territory centered on Ironforge.
To the southeast of the northern continent is the Arathi Highlands, where the Kingdom of Stromgarde with Stromgarde as its capital is located.
To the south is the Hillsbrad Foothills, the territory of the Kingdom of Alterac, the weakest of the seven kingdoms of mankind. The place where the Stormwind refugees evacuated is the town of Southshore, which is located on the south side of the Hillsbrad Foothills by the sea.
A little west of the northern continent is the magical kingdom of Dalaran, and further north is the most powerful kingdom of Lordaeron.
Of course, the northernmost part of the entire northern continent is the kingdom of Quel'Thalas where the high elves live.
Now, Duke migrated the murlocs because he needed the murlocs to help him recover the murlocs there, as well as to fish as much as possible and provide the fish to the refugees in Stormwind.
About 50,000 refugees from Stormwind were taken in by the sea kingdom of Kul Tiras, and 100,000 of them headed for Stromgarde, Alterac, Dalaran, and even Lordaeron. The number of people who actually stayed in Southshore, including the 50,000 elite soldiers who were about to arrive, was less than 450,000.
Even so, it is a very heavy burden.
Through the system AI, Duke has calculated that even if he finds enough land to reclaim immediately, he will still be short of at least 20,000 tons of grain in order to survive until the first batch of grain harvest next year.
In this era, it is almost an astronomical figure.
This is far more food than can be purchased commercially.
Llane is evading reality and throwing the food problem onto Duke.
This gave Duke a lot of pain.
He had so many things to do, such as taking time out to go to the southernmost part of the Eastern Kingdoms to clean up the remaining Bloodsail Pirates. Another example was taking time out to practice magic.
After a lot of consideration, Duke finally decided to visit the Barov family in Alterac first.
Perhaps many people will wonder, since Southshore Town belongs to the Kingdom of Alterac, why didn't Duke visit the king but instead visited the Barov family?
This starts with the painful history of the Kingdom of Alterac.
The original history of the Kingdom of Alterac is very long, but the history of the current royal family is very short, only about the past twenty years.
The first King of Alterac was born into a wealthy family. He founded the Kingdom of Alterac in order to establish his own kingdom. He chose to build the kingdom on the steep Alterac Mountains. The land was barren and the living environment was poor. Few people were willing to follow him, which made the actual territory and power of the kingdom very small.
It is no exaggeration to say that Alterac is the weakest of the seven human nations.
The current King Aiden Perenolde took over such a mess, and the situation did not improve until the Barov family joined.
The Barov family of the Kingdom of Alterac is a wealthy family that controls a vast area of land east of the Alterac Mountains, including Brill, Tarren Mill, Caer Darrow, and Southshore. These places are their fiefdoms.
Their wealth is so great that they surpass the royal family of Alterac. They have the blood of the Arathi people, and their family members live in Caer Darrow County, the old castle of the Arathi nation, continuing this ancient and noble family bloodline.
In fact, it was the Barov family that Duke had been dealing with.
From the beginning, Duke did not put the goal of obtaining food above other forces. The food transportation in this era was too bad.
If they were a little further away, they would lose 50% of their food. Duke was lucky that most families had the habit of storing food because of the unstable harvest in this era. As long as he could deal with the wealthy Barov family, he wouldn't have to worry about food until next year.
A week later, Llane, Duke and his party arrived in Southshore.
Llane was extremely amazed at the expanded Southshore - the stone pier was built according to the standards of Stormwind City; going out of the town entrance was an endless stream of neatly arranged wooden houses; medical care, catering, fire protection, toilets, all kinds of living facilities were available; there was even a huge wooden wall under construction.
But after pacifying the people, Llane hurriedly set out for Lordaeron.
Duke left Windsor to help him train his private soldiers, and he took Makaro and others as his face to go to Caer Darrow County to meet Alex Barov, King Aiden's best friend and now Duke Barov.