Since the establishment of the Alliance, Terenas' pursuit is no longer land, and he will not allow other countries to threaten Lordaeron's status geopolitically.
"The seven countries in the alliance have equal status. One king will not annex another king's land. I think other kings also support me. Your Majesty Trollbane, what do you think of this matter?"
Deathwing obviously underestimated Terenas, and Trollbane was stunned when his name was called.
Everyone here, only he is the most suitable to annex Alterac based on personal emotions and practical conditions, but Terenas is obviously putting him on the fire by asking this.
After hesitating for a moment, Trollbane nodded slightly stiffly.
"Yes, times have changed, and the expansion of land is indeed not in line with today's alliance."
Archmage Antonidas was the least tempted, and quickly calmed down and supported Terenas.
Li De sighed secretly. As expected, Terenas' obsession with political unity overshadowed the influence of magic.
Seeing that his proposal failed to achieve the purpose of provoking the alliance, Deathwing was not discouraged. He had prepared two plans.
"I admire your majesties for your magnanimity, but Perenolde is obviously no longer suitable to rule Alterac. In addition, this person has disappeared now. It would be better to ask your majesties to designate a new king for Alterac.
"
When Presto said this, he secretly put a hand under the table, holding a magic wand less than 20 centimeters in his hand. The orb on the top of the magic wand gave off a faint light.
The magic increases its efficiency and confuses everyone present.
Deathwing attempted to manipulate the council and elect himself King of Alterac.
He knew that for the sake of overall interests, no one wanted to let each other annex Alterac, but they definitely wanted to win over a new ally.
As long as he becomes the king of Alterac, several countries will still fight openly and secretly in order to win over him, just like they did to Alterac in the past.
At the same time, Li De felt that the counterattack behind him was frighteningly hot, and he immediately realized that it was the influence of shadow magic.
He quickly bit the tip of his tongue to make his mind calmer.
He saw that Terenas's eyes were a little blurry, and knew that he would soon propose Prestor, who was related to Perenold, to succeed him as king.
It was his turn to speak at this time. Once Terenas spoke first, he would be at a disadvantage if he spoke out against it.
"Grand Duke Li De, do you have anything to say by raising your hand?"
Antonidas asked. In fact, he used to prefer Presto, because the other party's reputation was really good some time ago, but in recent days he has heard some different voices.
"Well, I think the top priority is not to elect a new king for Alterac, but to solve the crisis there.
Alterac's geographical location is crucial. If there is a problem in Alterac, it will greatly affect the smooth communication within the alliance.
So no matter what, Alterac must remain within the Alliance. I think your Majesty all know this very well.
It was the nobles led by Perenold who betrayed the human race. They should not be confused with all the Alterac people.
After the war, the order in Alterac completely collapsed, and the country was facing problems such as material shortages and management chaos. And I heard that there are still a large number of tribes active there. If there is no strong figure to stabilize the situation, the consequences will be
It’s unimaginable.”
"Yeah, that makes sense. I've also heard about this. The southern part of Hillsbrad Hills has been affected by the Alterac thieves' rebellion."
Somewhat unexpectedly, the first person to answer Li De was Greymane.
In fact, the banditry problem in Alterac is far more serious than what Li De saw with his own eyes. In addition to causing chaos in the country, there are also more thieves who abscond and steal supplies abroad.
To the north of Alterac are mountains and Lordaeron, to the west are lakes and powerful mages, and to the east is Thoradin's Wall under the control of Stromgarde. If those self-proclaimed Syndicate bandits want to rob, the best route is to go south.
, and robbed the wealthy Nanhai Town and other towns.
The southern part of Hillsbrad Hills happens to be within Gilneas's influence.
"So do you have any good advice?"
After that meeting, Terenas no longer regarded Li De as an ordinary nobleman, knowing that he had a vision that was very different from ordinary people.
"In a word, you need people and things. Perenold never imagined that his weakness did not win the mercy of the orcs. After the orcs crossed the border, the people's livelihood in Alterac declined.
Now they need an army there to bring stability to the locals, and at the same time, they also need a lot of living supplies to keep the people of Alterac alive, but money is not necessary in comparison."
When Li De said the last sentence, he looked at Greymane intentionally or unintentionally.
King Greymane is now on the verge of making Li De his confidant. This young man understands him very well. Gilneas is not as wealthy as other countries and cannot afford to spend so much money.
However, Terenas is a man of wealth and wealth. Since the establishment of the alliance, I have never seen his majesty calculating his budget, often spending ten gold coins to do one gold coin's work.
What makes Greymane even more uncomfortable is that Terenas also likes to bring other countries to spend money.
Li De indeed intended to retain Gilneas.
According to the original development of things, Gilneas left the alliance because it could not afford the huge expenses.
The departure of Gilneas was also a huge blow to Terenas. The chain reaction caused was that Terenas, who had originally completed the dimension increase, once again reduced the dimension and became greedy for land.
The year after Gilneas left the Alliance, Lordaeron de facto annexed Alterac.
This incident completely angered Stromgarde. It was equivalent to Lordaeron deceiving Stromgarde. They originally agreed not to occupy Alterac, but now they unilaterally violated the agreement.
This caused Stromgarde to no longer trust the Alliance, and the Alliance completely fell apart. Therefore, in the subsequent natural disasters, countries were slow to respond, causing heavy damage to the world.
It can be said that the beginning of all disasters is Terenas' poor political strategy. Li De believes that it is necessary for him to make efforts for this, not only to gain space for peaceful development for himself, but also because he cannot ignore the occurrence of disasters.
"An army, a lot of supplies..."
After hearing Li De's summary, all the leaders nodded in agreement.
It is easy to make a simple problem complicated, but it is very difficult to make a complex problem simple. With Li De's strong summarizing ability, the fog of a country's problems was cleared up layer by layer and settled on these two points.
At this time, Deathwing finally became a little anxious. He found that the situation was gradually getting out of his control, and the troublesome bug in front of him was hindering his plan.
"Haha, Grand Duke Li De summed it up very well. But I think what you said can be solved well within Alterac.
In addition to the sinners who followed Perenolde, Alterac also has many responsible nobles.
Our local militia can be organized, and the nobles will donate generously to help the civilians of Alterac tide over the difficulties.
In short, I am here to assure you that there are nobles in Alterac who are trustworthy."
While Presto was speaking, he was also increasing the power of the magic wand in his hand. He was using it on himself intentionally or unintentionally, hinting to all the kings that the problems Li De mentioned can be solved very well with him.
solve.
After Deathwing said these words, Li De smiled brightly. He visited Alterac in depth just for this moment.
"What I'm going to say next may be a little offensive. I hope Lord Presto won't take it offence."
Li De first threw an apologetic smile at the Black Dragon King.
"As far as I know, after the war, many nobles fled Alterac. Now most of the remaining nobles in Alterac are hiding in their mansions and ordering private soldiers to protect themselves behind closed doors.
The bandits who cause trouble every night in the capital leave them too busy to take care of themselves, let alone fend off the ogres and orcs outside."
In fact, Li De is doing this to leave some dignity to the nobles. After all, many of the kings here are from noble backgrounds. The syndicate within Alterac is probably controlled by some nobles!
Li De's words reminded Terenas that he had heard this from Faao before.
"Lord Presto, I heard that there are still orcs operating in Alterac. What do you think about this matter? Do you need the Alliance to send troops to assist?"
How could Deathwing know so many details? Why did he really care about Alterac?
"This may just be a small number of orcs wandering past, not a climate change."
Presto tried to excuse him, but Li De spoke eloquently.
"According to the orc language, their race calls itself 'orc'. The basic unit is a formation of 100 people. A centurion is also called '1orh'; 5 'orh' are a leader with 500 people, a', and has its own small flag;
a’ means a governor army has 2500 people, which is called ‘ork’ in the orc language, and has its own governor flag; 5 ‘ork’ means a clan, u’ has a clan flag with the clan’s totem painted on it;
All the clans united together are the tribe 'ORC', and the tribe's flag was successfully captured by us in the decisive battle on Blackstone Mountain."
What Li De said is clear to anyone who has fought with the tribe. At this time, the leaders are more concerned about what Li De will do next.
"In Alterac, some people said they had seen the orc warlord's flag, which shows that they are at least an organized party. What's even more terrifying is that some people said they had seen a blue wolf-headed flag!
This probably means that there is an orc clan hiding in Alterac! It is an orc clan that we have never come into contact with!"
According to the structure of the orcs, a full clan can have 12,500 people! Everyone here knows the destructive power of more than 10,000 orcs, and everyone's expressions suddenly became solemn.
"Lord Presto, why didn't you mention such an important thing before?"
Terenas was already a little dissatisfied with Prestor.
Deathwing was still trying to remedy the situation.
"Oh, Grand Duke Li De also said that these are just 'someone has seen' and 'heard someone say'. Such rumors cannot be believed. Common people always like to exaggerate."
What Li De just said was the Frostwolf clan living in seclusion in Alterac. This clan currently does not pose much of a threat to the local area. Of course, it was originally just to create explosive points. What follows is his trump card.
"The orcs may be chasing the wind, but I have seen the ogres there with my own eyes. Just north of Alterac, there are more than 2,000 ogres! They are constantly attacking the city of Alterac.
Alterac does have a responsible noble, his name is Duke Ravenholdt, but he only has a few hundred people under his command, and they are stationed at Broken Ridge Castle, and they are in danger of being attacked by ogres at any time!
I don't think Alterac can handle such a threat internally.
Lord Prestor, you said that the Alterac nobles are trustworthy, so let's make an assumption. Of course, it's just an assumption.
If we elect you as king, how many private soldiers does your family have? Can it resist 2,000 ogres?"
All fantasies are fragile in the face of real problems. Deathwing does have an army, and his Black Dragon Legion in Northrend. But after he went crazy in ancient times, the Black Dragon Legion no longer recognized him, and those who still followed him did not
Only blood relatives and draconian soldiers.
The combat capabilities of the dragon men under him are not bad, but does he dare to pull them out and show them to everyone?
Li De didn't wait for the other party to answer this question.
"The problem of Alterac really needs to be solved urgently, because if it is not solved, the place will be captured by the ogres! On the contrary, Alterac will become a ruin!
The entire north-central part of the continent will be cut off, making communication extremely difficult! Stromgarde in the east may even become an isolated island of the Alliance!"