Chapter 27: The Light of Civilization, Protector of the Vast Sea
“Ding~, congratulations to the leader for invoking the Aspect Dragon Nozdormu. Do you want to spend 20,000 productivity points to create the religion ‘Light of Civilization’?
(Note: The leader currently has 32,700 productivity points.)"
After receiving Nozdormu's blessing, Eureka's voice immediately sounded in Lid's ears.
The productivity points triggered by Nozdormu's religion were twice as much as those of Cenarius' Druid's Way. If he didn't have enough productivity, Li De couldn't even afford it.
But even so, Li De chose "yes" without hesitation. Just kidding, he bowed eighty-eight times and still missed the last one? Even if the productivity points were not enough, Li De had to borrow productivity points to seduce Eureka. create.
If you don’t blame anything else, just the name “Light of Civilization” to cheer you up!
“Ding~, congratulations to the leader for spending 20,000 productivity stores to create the religious ‘Light of Civilization’!
This religion will bring the following benefits to the leader:
Everyone is united: Your citizens have extremely high loyalty, strong cohesion, and cultural centripetal force.
United as one: the comprehensive quality of your citizens has been significantly improved (production skills increased by 5%; combat effectiveness increased by 5%; cultural level increased by 5%).
Mind the world: When citizens of different races join your civilization, racial prejudice will be reduced by 50%.”
"Ding~, congratulations to the leader for completing the construction task: creating the religious 'Light of Civilization'. He received a reward of 1,000 productivity points, and currently has 13,700 productivity points."
Li De felt that his mind was already spinning. He did not expect that with Nozdormu's blessing, such a powerful religion would be created!
However, his surprise was not over yet, as he was followed by several messages from Eureka.
"Ding~, congratulations to the leader for completing his diplomatic mission: bowing his head and surrendering!
The city-state of Gadgetzan swears allegiance, recognizes you as its suzerain, and rewards you with 300 productivity points.
Ding~, congratulations to the leader for completing his diplomatic mission: bowing his head and surrendering!
The city-state Zul'Farrak has sworn allegiance and recognized you as its suzerain, awarding you 300 productivity points.
(Note: The city-state diplomacy task chain has three stages, and the leader has completed all of them. The vassal city-state will increase a certain productivity point for you every month. You can also sign in the vassal city-state army to enlist by consuming certain productivity points.)
You currently have 14,300 productivity points."
The allegiance of the goblins and trolls came naturally. The blessing of the Aspect Dragon brought Li De's prestige to an unprecedented height, which led to the submission of Gadgetzan and Zul'Farrak.
Nozdormu silently witnessed all this. In his vision, after receiving his blessing, a purple-gold cloud appeared on Li De's head, and the clouds above the goblins and trolls were also covered by Li De's head. The virtue absorbed it further strengthened the purple-gold cloud.
"I will always watch you silently and look forward to our next meeting."
After saying this, Nozdormu flapped his wings, blowing up gusts of wind and sand, and the dragon disappeared into the southern sky on the wind.
The guardian dragon left, but Li De and everyone did not rest.
If Li De had only created a prototype of civilization before, then from now on, his civilization will finally take the first step and embark on a journey towards the world of Azeroth.
He needed a more complete structure, so under the witness of thousands of people, Li De established the "Warden of the Vast Sea of Tanaris" and appointed himself Marshal of the Guard. The headquarters of the Guard was set in Gadgetzan.
Under this, Haggard was appointed civil governor, with Bigwitz and Van Cleef as his deputies; Nogfogg was appointed treasurer, with Anderson as his deputy; Niebuhr and Blade were appointed military governors.
, Angegagagu and Martinlei are the deputies.
These four officers are all directly responsible to Li De, who is in charge of the overall work.
After announcing this series of decrees, everyone who still had work to do tomorrow morning would go back to rest. Li De, on the other hand, kept the officers and chatted all night long.
After initially accepting the fact of surrendering to Li De, Noggenfogg was still a little uneasy. The leaders of the three tribes had always communicated and cooperated on an equal footing, although he also knew that this situation might not last long.
It's not like Nogfogg hasn't thought about uniting the trolls to check and balance each other and maintain an equal situation. But this is just to think about it. Niebuhr guy is totally out of the question. If Li De hadn't rejected him, he would have surrendered completely.
Already.
"Yeah, 'My relationship with the sand trolls is just like my relationship with the goblins.' That's what it means."
Recalling what Li De said at that time, Nogfogg finally understood.
The reason why he was worried was that he was afraid that Li De would ask him to hand over his property in the name of leader. If that was the case, he didn't know how to deal with it. The goblin civilians were now extremely supportive of Li De, and he had no power to resist.
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However, when Li De spoke candidly with the officers, Nogfogg realized that he had been overly worried. Li De ensured that the existing property of everyone in the guard would not be infringed.
Of course, in order to speed up the development of the Duhu, Li De encouraged Nogfogg to invest in a joint venture with the Duhu to open a shipyard and establish a foreign trade company. Of course, the specific method of joint venture and the number of shares held by the public and private parties will be discussed in detail later.
The second thing to do next is to form a golden army.
Li De thought the more than half a ton of gold was a lot before, but when he actually made the gold coins and put them in the treasury, he found that there were only less than 70,000.
In comparison, when Noggenfogg organized a competition, the dues collected from wealthy people reached an astonishing 150,000 pieces. In other words, Noggenfogg's private property is now richer than that of the entire Protectorate.
, is a truly wealthy country.
This made Li De realize the capital shortage of the Protectorate. If Noggenfogg was like this, how much money should those trade princes have?
So Li Decai ordered the formation of the Gold Army, which mobilized human warriors, goblin engineers and troll hunters to form a 50-man combat team responsible for security work and protect a 500-man team of miners exploring and mining Tanaris' rich gold mines.
They can't point to the few gold particles from the Zerg's body forever, it's too slow to accumulate gold like that.
The Protectorate now does not have to worry about population growth and food issues, so the short-term development direction is maritime trade and the navy.
Li De gave full authority to Nogfogg, asking him to freely contact the direction of Kezan Island and purchase a batch of shipbuilding timber or directly buy a ship: Tanaris is most lacking in timber, although there are coconut tree plantations.
However, most coconut trees are far from meeting the standards for felling, and even if they can be cut, the coconut wood is not suitable for shipbuilding.
Building large ships has extremely high requirements for wood, which requires trees that are more than a hundred years old, and they cannot be cut down before they can be used. They must be dried in the shade for at least three years.
Li De doesn't have that long to wait now, so the most realistic way is to buy a batch of large-scale ships. However, he learned from Noggenfogg that not counting the various weapons on the ship, one of the lightest level six
The price of a battleship must be around 20,000 gold coins. As for the most expensive first-level battleship, the price is as high as more than 70,000 gold coins!
This means that even all the gold coins in the treasury are not enough to buy a first-class battleship. In desperation, Li De could only take aim at the ship they were on.
The sea ship has been docked at the seaside since they arrived in Tanaris, and now it is parked in the corner of Hope Port.
In order to build a settlement in the beginning, all the sails on the ship were removed to make tents. Now all three masts are bare. In addition, the hull is generally well preserved. No matter how difficult the conditions were at that time, Li De would not give up.
It was only after the wooden boards were removed that it was preserved.
After Nogfogg's inspection, the goblin looked a little surprised.
"The construction level of this ship is very high. It is a double-decker three-masted sailing ship. After repair and modification, it can even become a fourth-level battleship!"
Anderson said slightly proudly.
"This is the ship King Ryan purchased from Kul Tiras, which has the most advanced shipbuilding technology in the human kingdom."
This was great news for Li De. He left the work of modifying the ship to the engineers, and Li De handed over the work of the governor to Haggard. He himself followed Noggenfogg and took a merchant ship to Kezan.