Live broadcast: Azeroth Chapter 1039: Darkan is under great pressure
Dar'Khan Drasil is an old politician who has been struggling since the days of the Silver Moon Council. He is also a figure promoted by the die-hard conservatives in Quel'Thalas who are gradually declining.
Of course, Darkan does not consider himself to be the representative of any force, he always represents only himself.
However, this does not prevent Darkan from taking advantage of the situation. After all, his personal power cannot shake Kael'thas, who has already established a stable position.
After two rounds of purges in Anastria, the power of the old aristocracy suffered an unprecedented heavy blow, and the right to speak gradually fell into the hands of the still powerful Sunstrider royal family.
Since the time of Dath'Remar's rule, the stubborn and conservative thinking that has been used for thousands of years has gradually been abandoned by the people in Quel'Thalas today.
Under Kael'thas's determined reforms, talents from various industries began to emerge among the civilians who received equal education, gradually breaking the aristocratic family's monopoly on power at all levels in Quel'Thalas.
Because the reform period was still short, civilian officials were mainly concentrated in the middle and lower classes, and they were unable to have enough impact on the top-level structure that was firmly controlled by the nobles.
But anyone with a discerning eye can see that with the deepening of reforms, it is only a matter of time before the best civilian talents enter the highest decision-making levels.
A country can never have only one voice, unless the ruler is an out-and-out authoritarian authoritarian who suppresses anyone below him from speaking out.
Obviously, Kael'thas, who has a softer personality, is not such a person and cannot do such a thing.
To this day, the declining old nobles still have not given up their struggle. They still want to recreate the "grand scene" of the Silver Moon Parliament when the noble members dominated the sky with one hand and even fought with the royal family.
With the reorganization of the cabinet, the ministers promoted by Kael'thas were carefully selected.
Although Military Minister Lelessa comes from the Windrunner Duke family, in the eyes of those traditional nobles of Silvermoon City who have high aspirations, the Windrunner family that has long been rooted in the southern part of Yongsong Forest is just a mud-legged family and cannot be regarded as a real family at all.
Powerful people.
Foreign Minister Calpurnia and Finance Minister Solanlian come from the Sunshadow and Morningstar families among the four noble families.
In the eyes of those old nobles with outdated thinking, as the leaders of all nobles, they should stand firmly with them.
However, the reality is vastly different from their imagination.
After the defense of Quel'Thalas, which defeated the Horde, the four nobles who conspired to cooperate with the forest trolls suffered an internal purge.
The hard-liners against the royal family were completely cut off, and members of the royal party headed by Solanlian and Calpurnia completely took control of the family power.
Not only the cabinet, but the Fire Wing Legion and the Flame Eagle Legion, both in power of the four major families, also completely fell to the Sunstrider Royal Family. These two legions were elite troops second only to the Sunfury Legion directly under the royal family.
There are also the Minister of Propaganda von Delor, the Minister of Education Beloir Sarona, and the Minister of Health Eleanor Fontaine who were successively appointed by Kaelthas. They are also all die-hard members of the royal party.
Among the cabinet ministers with the highest authority, only Darkan, the prime minister, was specially thrown out by Kaeltha to appease the old aristocratic forces.
And anyone with some discernment can see that the power of Dar'Kan, the prime minister, is also under Kael'thas' control.
This seemingly gentle Sun King is basically using Darkan as a high-level tool, and has been secretly cultivating suitable candidates to succeed him.
If one day Darkan does something that goes against the development and reform of the country, the Sun King can punish him at any time.
Darkan himself also knew that the Backlight Blade, a secret intelligence agency directly affiliated with the royal family, had been closely monitoring his every move.
At least on the surface, Darkan has not...or dared not do anything that could easily cause Kael'thas to misunderstand. In recent years, he has been completing his part of the work honestly, serving as a lubricant to reconcile various issues in the cabinet.
A complex matter.
The influence of conservative forces has long been reduced to what it used to be, and they are somewhat relieved to have a nominal prime minister.
In the past few years, they have not dared to jump out and cause trouble openly. They have been hiding in the dark and silently licking their wounds, waiting for the day when the opportunity to counterattack comes.
Except for Dar'kan, the rubber-stamp prime minister, the most powerful ministers in the cabinet are all die-hard supporters of Kael'thas.
If no unexpected circumstances occur, in the foreseeable hundreds or even thousands of years in the future, the composition of power in the cabinet will not change drastically, and there will still be a few people who hold the most core power.
Darkan is self-aware, and he is the one most likely to be "optimized".
The ambitious Darkan did not intend to accept his fate. By chance, he secretly contacted an external force, a powerful existence that could satisfy him to have eternal power.
No matter what Dar'Kan's future plans are, Sarlayan Deepshadow, a half-dragon-blooded duke who is deeply trusted by Kael'thas, is a big trouble that cannot be avoided.
Darkan watched with his own eyes as Sarlayan climbed from a mere collateral descendant of the Viscount family to his current status step by step, and it only took a staggering ten years.
Darkan knows what Sarlayan relies on.
The ability to do things without being able to fake things.
In the past 10 years, Sharlayan has brought many changes to Quel'Thalas.
It was with his secret help that Kael'thas was able to escape from Dalaran with dignity, and after returning to Quel'Thalas, he smoothly took over the throne from the elderly Anastria.
Like this, there are many more changes that Sharlayan has made to Quel'Thalas.
Some of them can be clearly recognized by Darkan, while others are only slightly heard by him.
If Sarlayan himself did not have this ambition, the position of prime minister under Darkan should have been filled by him.
As Thalayan's title rose step by step with more and more meritorious deeds, his influence in Quel'Thalas also increased, reaching the point where even Dar'Kan felt a lot of pressure.
If Kael'thas' right-hand man can't be removed first, no matter how ambitious Dar'kan is, he won't have enough confidence that he can finally succeed.
Although he still didn’t know whether what Sarlayan said about something going wrong in his training was true, Darkan hoped from the bottom of his heart that it was true. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to figure out how to bring down a dragon descendant with red dragon blood and amazing vitality.
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When Sharlayan arrived at the Sunstrider Court, Valeela, who was a senior official of the Backlight Blade and also needed to report on her duties, also lurked in a corner of the conference hall and watched coldly, without being noticed by anyone except Welles.
When Darkan turned his back to Sarlayan, Valeela noticed the complicated and unreadable twinkling look in her eyes, and a cold look gradually appeared in her eyes.
‘Darkhan Drasil...this guy seems to have murderous intentions towards Sarlay?’
After all the cabinet members had left, Welles and Valeera emerged from stealth in the empty conference hall.
Noticing Valeela's cold eyes, Welles patted her shoulder with understanding.
"Don't worry, based on my understanding of that boy Sarlayan... I can't tell who is plotting who."
Valeera has always been with Sarlayan and knows better than anyone else the truth behind his so-called "cultivation gone awry".
"Ah"
A sneer appeared at the corner of Valeela's lips: "Perhaps it's time to let this white-eyed wolf who will never be well-fed come out of the game. Let's see how Sarlayan plans."
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"So that's what happened..."
After learning from Sharlayan the true story of his injury and the series of turmoil in the Emerald Dream, Kael'thas nodded thoughtfully.
"Varosen, I read about his deeds from the notes of our ancestor Dath'Remar. It is said that he is a sinister and cruel loyal dog of Azshara. I didn't expect... that he would also betray Azshara like Xavius.
Ra took refuge with Enzos."
Sharlayan was not surprised by this: "In the eyes of many people, Azshara herself is also loyal to En'zoth. As Azshara's subordinates, Xavius and Varothen turned to En'zoth.
Something wrong."
"But in fact, Azshara and the Ancient God are just using each other, and there is no clear affiliation. They are more like equal allies."
"Since En'Zos made a small move first and was unkind, Azshara, a person who never suffers losses, will naturally not give in. Secretly summoning me to Nazjatar for an audience is a clear signal."
"She wants to choose her side again."
Kael'thas took the words seriously and said: "In this case, Varoson, who is still loyal to Enzos, will look particularly annoying to her. Are you trying to kill someone with a borrowed knife?"
Sarlayan nodded: "We have this preliminary plan, but the specific plan has not yet been completed."
"Moreover, the 'surprise' I have prepared for Varosen is not just Azshara's anger, there are quite a few people who want to kill him personally."
For the ordinary people of Quel'Thalas, and even officials who do not reach a certain level, the demigod-level things happening far away in Kalimdor are not their turn to worry about.
But standing at Kael'thas's current height, he must have an overall vision of Azeroth.
When he was unable to go out at will, Sarlayan, who often traveled north and south to contact various ethnic groups, was his eyes to observe the world.
Darkan's guess was correct. If Sarlayan didn't like squatting in one place all the time and dealing with official duties in the same manner, Kael'thas would have given him the position of Prime Minister.
On the way back, Sarlayan learned more or less about many matters before and after the alliance was re-established through the channels of the Backlight Blade.
However, the information relayed by multiple hands is ultimately not as clear as the parties involved.
Through Kael'thas's personal account, Sarlayan learned more details about the Alliance Reconstruction Conference.
"Sure enough, Prince Liam was behind Gilneas's change of attitude..."