Terenas established a three-person committee, a large part of the reason was Li De.
So far, the king has finally come to his senses. Li De is a shitty emerging nobleman. He is clearly the leader of a country rising overseas!
Whether it's the new trade rules instituted by Daelin or Lothar's military control in Alterac, Li De is involved in them.
What Terenas couldn't bear the most was that Li De initiated a joint meeting of all races and represented the human race on the Five-person Supreme Council!
In contrast, as the leader of the alliance, he is just an ordinary representative of the federation of various races. Antonidas is the strongest person in the human race and the leader of the mages, so it is understandable that he joins the Supreme Council.
But Li De, a descendant of the human race, stood over him as the founder, which Terenas could not accept.
It's not that he has never thought about suppressing Li De, but the hero's identity and his relationship with the dragon clan have become Terenas' concerns.
Not to mention that Li De actually manages a country, although this country has a population of less than 15,000 people. Compared with the size of Lordaeron, it is just an ant.
But such a small country with more than 10,000 people can produce enough yarn to supply half of the alliance! This made Terenas understand that the Protector of the Vast Sea cannot be treated as an ordinary country.
Just like the magical city-state of Dalaran, it has the smallest population among the seven human nations, with less than 50,000 permanent residents, but it is an absolutely transcendent existence in the alliance.
Terenas is determined to absorb the Protector of the Vast Sea into the alliance, and he must no longer allow Li De to wander outside the alliance and threaten his leadership position.
Li De has always been hesitant about whether to formally join the alliance.
To put it bluntly, if the Hanhai Protector does not join the alliance, he can always be away from home and earn money from the alliance without having to bear the obligations of alliance members.
For example, to prepare for a war, all countries in the alliance have to pay.
Although there are amazing gold reserves underground in Tanaris, most of them have not yet been mined.
The current prosperity of Hanhai Duhu relies on high-speed production to complete high-speed cash withdrawals, allowing money to be transferred to promote production and achieve dumping in other markets.
The money earned is needed to pay for the import of raw materials and food from Steamwheedle, as well as to pay wages to workers to stimulate consumption, not to mention the recent cost of renting ships in Kul Tiras and building Theramore.
big project.
The Protector of the Vast Sea, who has to spend money everywhere, really cannot accompany Terenas to waste money. A country like Gilneas with thousands of years of foundation cannot bear this, so how can the Protector of the Vast Sea, He De, accompany him?
But there are also opportunities within risks.
Joining the alliance means that other countries will be more open to the Vast Sea Protectorate, which will naturally provide a better business environment, and there will be much less resistance to immigrants from the Kingdom Continent.
And more importantly, if he doesn't agree to join the alliance now, if he wants to be active in the alliance in the future, the resistance will be much greater.
However, Li De did not forget that he was still the grand duke of the Kingdom of Stormwind. He had to join the alliance as an equal on his own, and he had to take Varian's feelings into consideration.
It was just such a hesitation, but it only took a few seconds, and Li De had already completely figured it out.
You may not get that much by joining the alliance, but you will definitely lose a lot by refusing to join the alliance. Lothar is also on the three-person committee, so why is he looking forward and backward?
Once you make up your mind, you find that there aren't that many things to consider.
"I would like to hear the opinions of other majesties first. I am still the Grand Duke of Stormwind Kingdom."
Li De asked tentatively.
"I agree with Protector Li De joining the alliance."
It was surprising that Varian would vote in favor without hesitation.
"The ability of Protector Li De is obvious to all. You should have a bigger stage. The situation in the south is precarious and we don't have much time to waste."
After all, he is a young man, and Varian seemed particularly enterprising when he attended the alliance leaders' meeting for the first time. Compared to the last joint meeting of all races, he is even more sharp now.
"It makes sense, and I vote in favor."
The second person to express his stance was Trollbane. In terms of straightforward personality, he was as generous as Varian.
Needless to say, Dai Lin and Lothar were partners who shared weal and woe with Li De.
The leaders expressed their opinions one after another, and even Greymane, who had always been accommodating, simply voted in favor.
From Greymane's perspective, the Alliance will usher in a new member who is a small country with few people but a lot of money. With such a new member sharing responsibilities, Gilneas's burden will be lighter.
In this way, the Hanhai Protector became a member of the alliance very smoothly, and also became an independent country recognized by seven countries at once.
At this point, the Alliance of Lordaeron has changed from the Seven Kingdoms Alliance to the Eight Kingdoms Alliance.
Li De couldn't help but think about it, wouldn't the Alliance Army become eight in this way...Forget it, this kind of term is too hellish.
After the first motion was officially passed, the next main discussion was about the Dark Portal and the orcs.
According to the battle report sent by Turalyon, the orcs were unexpectedly very restrained after the Dark Portal was opened. They did not immediately organize a large-scale invasion, but only some small groups of troops passed through the Dark Portal to harass.
Currently, the camp guarded by Turalyon and Khadgar is safe, but they don't know how long this security can last.
Because just after the Dark Portal opened, Khadgar bravely entered the other side of the Dark Portal and peeked into the world where the orcs lived.
It was an extremely desolate and dilapidated world. According to Khadgar's description, only such a world could breed such a ferocious race as the orcs.
The strange thing is that on the other side of the Dark Portal, there are not a large number of troops gathered as Khadgar imagined. On the contrary, there are only many empty camps.
But judging from the size and traces of the camp, the orcs still have the ability to organize an army of more than 10,000 people. Therefore, in order to deal with the orc army that will appear at an unknown time, the alliance must build a permanent fortress in the south!
The orcs have brought huge pain to the Alliance, so issues related to the orcs must be given top priority.
The difficulty of building a military fortress south of the Swamp of Sorrows can be imagined, but no matter how difficult it is, this fortress must be built.
At the same time, in addition to building a fortress in front of the Dark Portal, the reconstruction of the Kingdom of Stormwind must also be accelerated. If the fortress in front of the Dark Portal cannot hold for too long, then the Kingdom of Stormwind will be the second line of defense.
Stormwind City was destroyed by the first orc invasion, and now the Kingdom of Stormwind has just been restored. Facing another orc invasion, if they don't even try to resist, the alliance's morale will inevitably be severely depressed.
But this involves an ever-present question: Where does the money come from?
It is not a big problem for all countries to work together to build a military fortress, but to accelerate the reconstruction of such a large Stormwind City, the amount is very scary.
When Varian was determined to return to the Kingdom of Stormwind to rebuild, he did not seek much assistance from the alliance countries. Later, he obtained a large amount of gold coins from the nobles through market wars.
If we just rebuild slowly and step by step, the money may not be a problem.
However, the reopening of the Dark Portal has obviously disrupted the reconstruction plan of the Kingdom of Stormwind. In order to form a defense line for the Kingdom of Stormwind, a large amount of funds must be invested in a short period of time.
"Your Majesty, I believe that we must conduct a thorough investigation before deciding to invest funds. If we want to win a world-class war, we must allocate resources in the most reasonable manner. The details will determine our success or failure."
This is the benefit of joining the alliance. Li De can speak freely at alliance meetings and no longer has to be tied down as before.
"Yes, yes, it makes sense, I think so too."
Greymane was the first to agree with Li De's point of view. In fact, he had wanted to say this for a long time. He was not a truly stingy person, but he was opposed to investing funds in unnecessary places.
It's just that Greymane, who has a conservative personality, is good at practical work and can theoretically express his ideas appropriately, but this is not his specialty. This has led to his voice in the alliance being very small.
In addition to Greymane, the other leaders also looked at Li De, the new member, wanting to hear what he had to say.
"Preparing for a war, military pay, weapons and equipment, logistics, setting up defense lines... so many things require gold coins. However, these expenses do not have to be paid in one go. We need to arrange them in order.
The way of sorting depends on what kind of war we want to fight.
If it is determined that defense is the main priority, then the top priority must be to build a defense line. But I would like to raise a question, do we really need to fight a defensive war with the orcs?
After the first two orc wars, we already have a certain understanding of the enemy.
Facts have proved that as long as we have the right strategic and tactical strength and weapons ratio, we can defeat the orcs in an encounter even if the numbers are equal.
In this regard, I think Marshal Lothar has the most say."
Lothar nodded.
"Yes, if the enemy is still the same as the orcs before, we really don't need to be so conservative. In several years of war, we have accumulated a lot of experience.
Even the current training methods for new recruits still retain Orc-specific content.
The generals who once participated in the fight against the orcs are also active in the armies of various countries. They are all mature military strategists. It is time to gather some of them.
Of course, for the sake of safety, I think that in addition to field operations, we should also be prepared for defensive warfare. It’s just that the work of building defense lines is not that urgent.”
Lothar's words seemed to give the leaders a reassurance, and then they heard what Li De said.
"Assembling existing army generals will definitely save more effort than building a large-scale defense line from scratch."
"But when gathering troops from the north to move south, logistical supplies are also a big problem. Preserving food is a big problem along the long logistics route."
Old Trollbane frowned and analyzed that among the leaders, he did not know as much about the army as Lothar.
The Trollbane family is a family of generals. In the recent military operation against Grim Batol, it was because the wetland climate made it difficult to preserve food that Garin Trollbane's front advance was much slower.
It's just interesting to say that it was precisely because of the slow advance caused by logistical problems that Stromgarde's army did not allow the Stromgarde army to penetrate too far into the Northeron Highlands, which in disguise reduced the difficulty of rescue after Deathwing launched the Cataclysm.
Old Trollbane's question made Li De smile.
"The Hanhai Protectorate is an industrial and commercial city-state. We have a small population and a standing army of less than 1,500 people. We cannot provide more support to the alliance in terms of soldiers, but we are duty-bound to solve logistical problems."
As he spoke, Li De took out compressed biscuits, cans and new quilts from the magic package.