The goblins' action has begun, but Stormwind City still doesn't know that the nobles don't take the goblins to heart at all.
What they mainly guard against is their own people.
In fact, he was not prepared for Li Ke.
Regarding this matter, Li Ke felt that it was quite interesting, although Varian did not think so.
"Sorry, I never expected that they would be so shameless."
Varian's body seemed to have been drained of the last bit of strength, and he fell helplessly on the soft couch, looking at Li Ke who was sitting on the side.
"I failed you."
Li Ke saw the apologetic look on Varian's face and immediately spoke with a smile.
"You didn't fail me, you just failed the people."
Varian covered his face in pain.
"This mouth of yours..."
He shook his head, but did not refute what Li Ke said, because he had indeed failed his people.
"Then follow your lead and let them understand the new rules."
Varian sighed.
He failed to stop the war because the nobles were not satisfied with just raising the price of food, they wanted it all.
So he chose Li Ke, although Li Ke's purpose was not simple either.
When Li Ke told him that he could give him a large amount of food, he knew that Li Ke must have something up his sleeve, otherwise he would have sent the food to him long ago instead of telling him when he was desperate.
He even gave himself another path before.
But he still didn't want those nobles to completely break with Li Ke. Many of them were former loyal ministers whose fathers and brothers died in the Battle of the Dark Portal.
These people are loyal ministers of Stormwind City, but the current situation does not allow them to be loyal to Stormwind City.
So he still wants to make these people decent.
But it's a pity that these people don't give him dignity.
Not only did they reject his request to stop the war, they even decided to send troops without his consent.
He is a king, not a god, and he cannot defy the united will of the nobles, even though many people will die.
But now he has Li Ke.
A paladin who is devoted to the people.
"But you'd better not disappoint me, Li Ke."
He felt complicated because when he made this decision, he knew that his time had passed.
But there is nothing to say or regret.
After all, he has never truly controlled the entire kingdom since he ascended the throne.
"You will always be the ruler of Stormwind, Your Majesty."
Li Ke gently caressed his chest. He didn't care much about Varian's attempts to persuade the nobles. He didn't believe in Varian's integrity. This guy's integrity was actually quite flexible.
What he believed in was greed.
Human greed.
The greed of these fools.
Varian can bring them benefits, but those of them who have already mastered the power and initiative, why should they give up and get more?
The real elites and mainstays of Stormwind City either died at the hands of the orcs, or they voted for the Silver Hand in order to defeat the orcs for the continuation of the family, and the rest...
Of course it's Shuo Shu.
This is a very tragic fact. Heroes die without fear of sacrifice, leaving behind naturally greedy fools who are afraid of death.
After that, it is a common history of bad money driving out good money.
This is a newly discovered fact by Li Ke.
The harm done by the orcs to the human world was not only killing a lot of people, they also killed a large number of moral, far-sighted, knowledgeable and conscientious nobles.
These people are the mainstay of the kingdom.
"Then let's start. Let the people of Stormwind City see how dirty the men above them are."
Li Ke chuckled and closed his notebook, saluted Varian, and then left the palace.
Varian watched Li Ke leave with complicated eyes, groped his chest, took out a thin slice, then broke it open, and reunited with his wife in the illusion again.
The real world is too cruel and complicated for him.
Li Ke, on the other hand, felt relaxed inside.
What he did was simple.
Just open a warehouse to store grain.
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"Mom, I'm hungry."
Eight-year-old Dimien looked at his mother and couldn't help but grab his mother's hand. It wasn't that he couldn't see his mother's pale face and dry lips, but he also knew that he did not have much food at home.
Already.
But, he was really hungry.
For three days, he only ate some mud cakes and wild vegetable soup. He really wanted to eat bread.
"I know, kid, but wait a little longer until your father comes back."
Dimion's mother, Ellie, sighed. It wasn't that she didn't want to feed her child, but she couldn't.
She had picked as many wild vegetables as possible, but the wild vegetables around her had long been picked by people who were poorer than them.
In fact, she had never felt this uncomfortable before. The money she had on her was enough to feed her and her children, and she could even hold a banquet when her husband came back from work.
However, the rising food prices have left her with less and less money. The money that could buy a whole loaf of bread a month ago can now only buy two or three slices at most.
This would not last long enough for the children's father to arrive, and they would all starve to death at home.
But begging is useless. Other towns are just as bad, and those who are officials in the towns are better off.
But even so, there is no problem in the first place. Their family still has a lot of stock, and it is not a problem to eat one meal a day.
However, new taxes are coming again.
When Dimion's mother thought of this, she couldn't help but want to cry.
Of course she knew that goblins and orcs had united to attack them. This was not an accident, after all, they had united before.
But she never expected that their lord would actually fight the goblins and orcs for them. Therefore, they had to pay taxes to support this war.
She knew this was necessary, but she still couldn't help but want to curse, because it was this order that caused her family's last bag of wheat and soybeans to be snatched away by the tax collector, who even beat her.
She lay there all day before she could barely get up.
She didn't know who to blame, so she could only shed tears and curse the orcs.
Cursing the orcs for taking away their decent lives.
"Damn orcs! Don't let me see you!"
She didn't dare to curse the nobles, because she would be hanged, and she didn't dare to curse the tax collectors, otherwise she would have to pay taxes again, so she could only curse the orcs.
However, just when she was holding her child's hand in despair, looking at his pleading eyes, and even wanted to commit suicide and let the child eat her flesh, a cry came out.
"His Majesty Varian has distributed relief rations! His Majesty Varian has entrusted us to distribute relief rations to give you food!"
She was stunned for a moment. Before she could realize what happened, the elders of their family were roughly pushed away. A woman who looked very beautiful and two strong men who scared her so much that she almost fell to the ground were there.
broke into her home.
Just when she didn't know whether to scream or tell them that there was nothing to rob at home, the woman spoke.
"Okay, put the food here. This is the relief food given to you by His Majesty the King. You no longer need to starve."
After saying that, she turned around and was about to leave, but she was afraid that this was a woman who was coming to forcefully buy and sell their family's farmland. She got angry out of nowhere, grabbed the woman's wrist, and asked eagerly.
"May I ask you are……"
She didn't know what the other person was thinking, and she was very afraid that after accepting the food, their family would suffer more misfortunes.
Too many things like this happened, and she really didn't dare to gamble.
"How cowardly."
She heard the woman speak, which made her shrink her neck, but she still looked into the woman's eyes.
"Well, it's okay to tell you."
The woman smiled and spoke.
"My name is Sironas, the tax collector of Tax Town, and the one who ordered us to give you food is our master, the agent of the Holy Light -"
The poor mother didn't know if she had seen it wrong. A green light flashed in the woman's eyes for a moment. But then she heard a somewhat familiar name.
