Li De named this machine with special significance the "Jenny Machine" and assigned the School of Engineering to develop a new spinning machine based on it.
After doing this, Li De originally wanted to visit Takshiro at night. But he thought it was a bit late and the old troll needed to rest after a long journey.
Only then did he invite Talanji and Takshiro to attend the regular meeting of the Protector of the Vast Sea the next day. After the meeting, Haggard immediately started to form a troupe of about thirty people.
Twenty of them are humans. Almost all of them have been exposed to theatrical performances or are literary and art lovers when they were in Stormwind City. Among the remaining ten, seven are trolls who are good at telling mythological stories, and three others
He is a goblin who is good at making fireworks.
Such a troupe, plus a dozen people selected from the monastery, became the first batch of students of the History Academy, accepting the teachings of Li De and Takshiro.
The teaching material used to teach these students is a brief history compiled by Li De himself in the Zanshuer History Museum with the help of Takshiro.
In this brief history of less than a hundred pages, it mainly records several major events: the guardians of the ancient Titans, the rise of the Troll Empire, the Night Elf Empire and the Great Schism, and the rise of the human Emperor Thoradin.
The records about the Titan Guardians belong to prehistory in Zandalari. Even the Loa know very little about them. Many of the contents are pieced together and guessed. It would be great if you can tell a smooth story.
As for the other parts, they were all collected and recorded by Zandalar in ancient times, and have relatively reliable accuracy.
In fact, Takshiro was very dissatisfied with Li De's behavior of making do with a thin booklet at first, thinking that Li De was too pragmatic. Such a booklet was obviously for the purpose of superficial historical science popularization, and
There is no attitude towards studying history.
But after coming to Tanaris and meeting the first batch of students, Takshiro could only agree with Li De's approach. The historical foundation here was too poor, and there was no environment for reading big books.
In fact, many subjects were quite simple and crude in their early stages. Fortunately, the dozen or so students selected from the monastery had a relatively high level of education. Takshiro only hoped that this booklet could be completed for them.
Enlightenment in history guides them onto the path of truly studying history.
Takshiro is an external honorary consultant and will not stay here for too long, so he will formulate a careful teaching plan and personally teach a dozen students from the monastery.
As for the theater troupe taught by Li De, their courses are much simpler. The four parts of history in the textbook are roughly divided into:
[Genesis, Infighting of the Guardians, Fall of Tyr]; [Rise of Zandalari, raging zerg, troll resistance, troll empire]; [Birth of the night elves, Arcane Empire, invasion of the Burning Legion, Great Schism]
;[The origin of the human race, Thoradin and Amani, Dalaran's independence, the layout of the Seven Kingdoms], these fifteen small parts.
Simply going through these fifteen small incidents would not even take two days. On this basis, Li De focused on several incidents in detail.
He had only one purpose for doing this, which was to ask the troupe to perform three plays within two weeks. To this end, Li De provided quite generous conditions to William, the director of the troupe, including but not limited to rehearsal space and funding.
2,000 gold coins, fifty extras.
You know, 20,000 gold coins can buy a sixth-level battleship. This 2,000 gold coins is a huge sum of money, which is enough to show Li De's determination to support the development of literature and art.
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There must be a brave man under a heavy reward. Li De made such a condition, so William naturally devoted himself to writing the script and rehearsing.
Dramas with historical themes often have advantages over other themes, because they have specific historical events as creative prototypes, which can save a lot of trouble in storylines and characters. On the basis of respecting history, as long as you can write wonderful lines,
Coupled with reasonable programming, there is a high chance that excellent works will appear.
The Hanhai Protectorate, which is built on the desert, is extremely lacking in entertainment methods. Under such favorable conditions of the right time, place, and people, if you can still produce an overturning work, it is really not something that ordinary trash can do.
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Apart from the theater troupe, Li De is most concerned about the production of military supplies.
The time to send troops to the Eastern Kingdom was set one month later, and the number of troops sent was set at 1,300, specifically 1,000 sand trolls, 150 humans, and 150 goblins.
There is no way around this. The population limit of the Hanhai Protector is here, and 1,300 people is already the limit to ensure the security of the Protector. Even so, among these people, there are still 100 servicemen.
Moreover, being able to send troops was thanks to Zandalar as an ally. In addition to participating in the war, Zandalar also provided ten square-sailed warships and some military supplies.
If not for this, the Hanhai Commandery alone would not be able to send troops to protect itself. We can only follow Li De's plan from the beginning and wait for the dust of the war in the Eastern Kingdom to settle before going there to absorb the refugees.
Because of this current situation, Li De paid special attention to the production of ordnance. Since the number of troops sent was already so small, it was necessary to ensure that every soldier had combat effectiveness. There was no need to have too many elite soldiers. One was better than ten.
Therefore, the equipment of the soldiers of Hanhai City is completely different from any current forces in Azeroth.
First of all, the armor has three layers: a layer of cloth is lined next to the body, followed by a layer of light scorpion shell armor to protect key parts, and the outermost layer is covered with fully armed armor.
Among these three layers of armor, the most core one is Tanaris' special scorpion shell armor. Li De was even somewhat grateful for this foresight.
As early as when they were still living in tent camps, the armor-making master Adler began to develop new armor. After the completion of New Gadgetzan, while Port of Hope was still under construction, Adler's armor-making workshop was the first to be moved.
A group of craftsmen who joined Gadgetzan.
Counting from then on, a batch of new armors have been accumulated in the past six months or so. Therefore, we can now ensure that all 1,300 soldiers, including orderlies, can wear the new armors before dispatching troops.
As for the outermost armor, in fact, both the goblins and the humans provide their own dry food. The hundreds of elite soldiers directly under Li De wear the plate armor of the Kingdom of Storm; the goblins also have engineering armor with quite mature technology.
Only 1,000 sand trolls are unarmored. Most of the trolls in Azeroth, except for the "tall, rich and handsome" like Zandalari, can only use wooden boards tied with ropes to protect key parts.
Therefore, the armor installation of sand trolls has become a big problem. With the current production level of Hanhai Protector, there is no ability to fill this big gap.
Although they are not capable of filling the gap, this problem must be solved. Troll soldiers are the main force, and they cannot be treated differently on equipment issues no matter what.
Fortunately, Li De had already thought of this issue during the Zandalar negotiation stage.
As a participating country in this war, Zandalari did not have to land and provide troops for the war. Instead, they chose to let the Hanhai Protector serve as "mercenaries." So, is it okay to lend 1,000 pieces of armor to the sand trolls? Li De promised that during the war
After it was over, all the armors were returned in full, so that the sand trolls had armor to wear.
Now that the armor issue is settled, the next step is the weapons listed by the soldiers.
In fact, according to Li De's most ideal design, he wished that all soldiers were equipped with muskets that represented the trend of future warfare. However, the goblin muskets still had problems with reliability, and the operation steps were very cumbersome, and the soldiers were undertrained.
If you rashly replace the weapons of different eras, your combat effectiveness will be drastically reduced.
Therefore, except for the goblin musketeers, the other soldiers still use cold weapons, but even the cold weapons have been improved.
The most indispensable thing in Tanaris is high-quality mineral deposits. Under Li De's personal intervention, blacksmith Argus produced a batch of new weapons.
The hundreds of elite soldiers of the human race are equipped with long-handled stainless steel swords. This kind of weapon is specially designed to deal with big guys. Brad holds this kind of sword and can even cut off the crystal scale monitor lizard in half with one knife!
The sand trolls are mainly hunters and shadow shamans, and their commonly used weapons are spears and crossbows. Thanks to the technology of the humans and goblins, their weapons can be made of better materials and have all been replaced.
Steel spearheads, steel arrowheads and lizard tendon bowstrings.
In addition, the food processing workshop also produced a batch of compressed military rations. The Hanhai Protectorate did not have arcane spellcasters, otherwise making magic bread with the army would also relieve a certain amount of logistical pressure.
Of course, even if there are spellcasters in the future, Li De will still vigorously develop the food processing industry. After all, when he was still in Stormwind City, Li De had eaten magic bread, and it was too unpalatable...
And compared to the work of kneading bread, spellcasters have more important things to do. Letting spellcasters serve as quartermasters is completely overkill.
Weapons and equipment, logistics and military supplies, these problems have been well solved. The soldiers are now undergoing intensive training. It can be said that everything is ready and all they need is the east wind.
As long as he waits a month for the second motorcycle competition in Shining Plains to end, Li De will lead his troops to the expedition.
The reason for this arrangement is not only to wait for the Scorpion Armor to be fully equipped, but also for confidentiality and security reasons. The motorcycle competition will have a large influx of foreign people, and having soldiers there can ensure that no vicious security incidents will occur.
There are also the goblins who can travel, most of them are human elves. If the fact that Tanaris is empty of troops is discovered, they will probably follow the clues and discover that the Hanhai Protector participated in the orc war.
The King of Steamwheedle in Kezan is originally a big speculator who bets on both ends. Once he learns about this, if the information is revealed to the orcs through the goblins in Stranglethorn Vale, it will bring huge danger to the expedition team.
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Even if the probability is extremely slim, Li De will not bet on the safety of his team.