This voice had left a deep impression on Li De before, so he immediately recognized who it was.
He turned around and looked over, and it turned out to be a bearded man holding a cat in his arms: Kel'Thuzad.
"Good day, Magister Kel'Thuzad."
Li De said hello to Kel'Thuzad with a normal heart. This was not the first time he had met a person in a similar situation. He had long developed a confident and calm mind.
"Please come with me. The Archmage has learned about your visit."
This is not surprising to Li De. Having learned the lesson of the stolen artifact, it can be said that Antonidas now takes every slightest disturbance in Dalaran to heart.
On the way to the Violet Castle, Li De did not have much communication with Kel'Thuzad.
What Li De didn't expect was that after meeting Antonidas and expressing his intention to come, the other party decided to send Kel'Thuzad to follow Li De back to Tanaris to build the portal.
Li De glanced at Kel'Thuzad in surprise. Kel'Thuzad smiled and bowed to Li De while hugging the cat.
"Please give me more advice, Protector Li De."
"Ding~, congratulations to the leader, Kel'Thuzad, who was inspired by the Hero of Wonders Oracle, will come to the Vast Sea Protector as a guest."
The system suddenly gave a reminder, and Li De couldn't help but feel disgusted. Is this something inspired by a spectacle? Isn't it too perfunctory?
Li De had no doubts about Kel'Thuzad's ability. Li De just couldn't help but think about how such a man with a strong thirst for knowledge would perform after he became the Protector of the Vast Sea.
After returning to Alterac with Kel'Thuzad, Lid and Pumillo told him to calculate an extra ticket when arranging it.
The next day, Lid and Kel'Thuzad, accompanied by four guards, boarded the ship from Nanhai Town to Tanaris.
Unlike the last ship that Li De didn't catch, this time it was a cargo ship from Kul Tiras traveling between the two continents. Moreover, this ship had to dock at Boralus Port.
Commerce will always continue to grow where it can leverage strength. After participating in the yarn trade established by Li De and Dailin, many Kul Tiran folk ships also took advantage of the opportunity to develop maritime transportation.
Food, cattle and sheep from the kingdom's mainland, fish catches and herbs from Kul Tiras, yarns and industrial products from the Vast Sea Protector, such a closed triangular trade loop was actually established with the joint efforts of the government and the private sector:
Kul Tiras escorts the ship's yarn and other industrial products from the vast sea. When it arrives in Boralus, it will first drop off part of it, and then bring the Kul Tiras' catch.
After arriving at the kingdom's mainland, all the cargo was unloaded and exchanged for grain, cattle and sheep. Among them, the cattle and sheep that could not withstand the long voyage would be unloaded after returning to the port of Boralus, and then loaded with some medicinal herbs special to the maritime country.
After the ship arrives at the Vast Sea Protectorate with food from the Kingdom Continent and herbs from Kul Tiras, these scarce goods can be exchanged for yarn and industrial products.
It can be said that the current Protector of the Vast Sea is basically dependent on Kozan for food. Although it is only replaced by Lordaeron for food, the human countries that are both members of the alliance are definitely more trustworthy than the goblin plutocrats.
.
But even so, Li De still did not stop buying grain from Kezan. Now the relationship between the Hanhai Protector and the Kezan Consortium is already very tense, and the slightest disturbance may trigger another conflict.
Li De has always maintained that if the enemy does not move, we will not move. Until Kezan shows no excessive behavior, maintaining the status quo is a wise choice.
Furthermore, what I bought from Kezan was food, and it was not useless. You can never have too much of a good thing like food.
Just after the Kul Tiras ship arrived at Tanaris and disembarked from Hope Port, Li De noticed a strange atmosphere.
There were obviously many more guards at the port than usual, and even the two newly refitted battleships, Dinghai and Zhenhai, were slowly cruising on the sea.
I have only been away for less than a month, why has the situation become so tense?
Li De felt a little strange. After returning to Gadgetzan, he learned what happened during the everyone's briefing meeting.
Although the racing track in Shining Plains has been rebuilt, the rift with the Goblin Rich Group has become difficult to bridge.
As a result, the motorcycle competition this time was actually quite dismal, with only a dozen participating teams in total. The tourism business was also severely damaged, and the revenue this quarter was less than a quarter of the previous one.
If it were just a bleak business, things wouldn't have turned out so bad. The problem was that during the reporting process of the motorcycle race, the rookie director of the Bilgewater Cartel, Gary Vickers, actually came to provoke!
Speaking of Gallywix of the Bilgewater Cartel, he can be considered an old enemy of the Protector of the Vast Sea.
In order to buy a warship from Rongsha, Li De had a conflict with Gallywix and took back the 50,000 gold coins from Tanmo Rongsha.
Although it is perfectly natural to pay back debts, the iron law does not apply to goblins.
Why should I exchange the money I owe based on my ability?!
From then on, Gallywix made a mental note for Li De and Hanhai Protector.
In the time that followed, the Great Protectorate gradually prospered, and Gallywix also became prominent among the Bilgewater Cartel with his extraordinary mind.
When the Warlord of the Vast Sea clashes with the Bilgewater Cartel, this guy may be the happiest person.
In this dismal motorcycle competition, few people from the Bilgewater Cartel were invited, but Gallywix bought himself a spot to challenge.
During this sensitive period, Nogfogg did not want to intensify conflicts for inexplicable reasons, so he adopted a calm attitude toward Gallywix.
But this guy finally crossed the line. He went too far with his arrogance, and even dared to offend Vereesa.
Vereesa, who was a guest of the Hanhai Protectorate, saw a motorcycle race for the first time, and naturally she wanted to join in the fun as she was naturally playful.
The appearance of the female elf caused quite a stir on the racing circuit, especially when he learned that the female elf was an official guest of the Hanhai Protector. Gallywix, who had been planning to provoke, found an opportunity.
Gallywix never imagined that in his eyes this weak and weak female elf was a powerful heroic ranger, and she was accompanied by the heroic monk Lao Chen.
The process of this conflict was lackluster, but Gallywix's attempt to create friction was achieved. Although the process was much more painful than he imagined.
Nogfogg was having a headache because of this. Gallywix had made it clear this time that he was here for trouble. He had been very careful, but this guy still found an opportunity.
In the end, Nogfogg had no choice but to send the seriously injured Gallywix out of the country as a gift. There was nothing he could do. Although Gallywix could be sentenced to detention according to the laws of the Lord Protector of the Sea for causing trouble.
But his status as the head of the Bilgewater Cartel, and the fact that he was beaten all over his body, meant that this matter could not be treated as an ordinary public security dispute.
"Gallywix, right? I have a pretty deep impression of this guy. When I forced him to pay the money with a knife, I could see that he was extremely courageous.
This time he dared to provoke us just to bet that we wouldn't really kill him.
He single-handedly instigated the conflict between us and the Bilgewater Cartel, and I began to appreciate his courage.
I just don’t know, did he do this on his own initiative, or was it under the instruction of the Bilgewater Cartel?
If it's the former, it doesn't matter, but if it's the latter...why does the Bilgewater Cartel think it's possible to defeat us?"
The situation suddenly became tense. Reed asked Kel'Thuzad to build the portal while preparing for the conflict with the Bilgewater Cartel.
But after being on guard like this for more than ten days, the Bilgewater Cartel showed no reaction at all, as if they had no idea that their supervisor was being beaten.
"Is this friction really just Gallywix's own initiative, and the Bilgewater Cartel doesn't want to just show off?"
Li De thought this in his mind, but although the warship of the Bilgewater Cartel did not arrive, the empty ship of Hotsand did.
This batch of cotton, the hot sand released the doves of the Hanhai Protector!
The explanation given by Hot Sand is that the production capacity of Hanhai Duhu is too high and the supply of raw materials is already insufficient.
But Li De didn't believe it at all. He realized that this was probably Hot Sand using raw materials to jam his neck!
The two sides argued about this for a week, and finally came to a result that Li De expected: the price of cotton increased.
At the same time, Kel'Thuzad's teleportation magic has also completed its preliminary prototype. Although it is not yet able to teleport people, simple language and text can be communicated across the endless sea.
Then the first message Kel'Thuzad translated for Li De was that the Alliance Army in the Cursed Land suffered a disastrous defeat!