It was an affiliated market east of Stratholme City. This giant market covering an area of more than 100,000 square meters was divided into more than a dozen districts.
The market layout is quite neat, connected by arterial roads that are generally in the shape of a "king". The asphalt freight road extending from the train station is separated from the sidewalk by a fence that is as high as a person.
Large trucks can only load and unload cargo at designated locations.
Goods are transported in and out of the temporary warehouse, along dedicated channels, and transported to various wholesale warehouses in the market using flatbed trucks and other convenient vehicles.
With each wholesale warehouse as the center, there are various retail stalls spreading out.
The east area is a market open to the public, the middle area is a professional market for wholesale, and the westernmost area is the auction area with a more luxurious architectural style.
Kane and others were walking in the central area. It was clear that their status was quite distinguished. Kane discovered that Rivendell did not order the clearing of the area.
When the people around them saw their arrival, they looked normal. They smiled and greeted Rivendell and the others. They held the edge of their hats and nodded, as a salute, and then went about their own business.
Obviously, this is definitely not the first time that Rivendell and other great nobles inspect people's livelihood.
The central area is built in a huge 'sky garden' on the second floor.
It's a bit exaggerated to use this word to describe it, but that's what Lao Niu seems to be like.
There is no smell of smoke that offends the tauren, but it has a bit more natural beauty.
That's right, naturally!
Every shop here is carefully designed and sells all kinds of high-end goods from all over the world. Kane noticed that the most central and largest shop here was actually a shop dotted with green plants, and even the outer walls of the shop were covered with [climbing]
Wall Tiger]'s shop.
There are three languages clearly displayed on the store sign, namely Common, Night Elf and Tauren.
The big characters on the sign read [Green Waters and Green Mountains Engineering Co., Ltd.]!
"What does this mean?" Kaine asked Rivendell.
"The Scourge once destroyed half of Lordaeron. In order to remove the traces of death from the natural disaster, our country has used a lot of methods to restore the vitality of the land. We will concentrate the soil full of evil and dirt for holy light purification. But what about the purified land?
Resurrection, this is the domain of druids. We recruit a large number of druids every year, and the night elves' druids alone are simply not enough."
Rivendell glanced pointedly at the several druids following Kane.
Kane noticed keenly that several people in the shop were staring at his druids. Their eyes were not greedy, at least they were drooling. It was only when he saw that Kane and the others were accompanied by the Duke and his guards that he started to look at them.
He looked away.
"them……"
"Haha, they are one of the contractors of our country's wasteland [regreening] plan. As long as they find a druid, they dare to contract a mountain. Restoring barren land into green space is the most profitable business in our country now. Our country
If the organization cannot do it, His Majesty will outsource it to the businessmen below."
"Very profitable?" Kane asked.
"Of course." Rivendell casually pointed to a small hill in the distance that covered an area of about 10,000 square meters: "To put it simply, if you restore such a large mountain to green, you will receive a bonus from our Majesty. This bonus is enough to win the prize in the Alliance.
You can buy food for a thousand people for a whole year, and you can choose any type. There is also a special [greening certificate]. With this, you can enjoy various discounts throughout the alliance."
After careful questioning, Kane learned more. It turned out that he didn't even need to do chores such as land purification, tree planting, and transportation. He could earn so much just by performing the duties of a druid.
Speaking of this, Kane felt faintly moved.
The tauren were already overwhelmed due to food problems and various conflicts caused by the oppression of the tribe. Coupled with the possible war between the alliance and the tribe, Mogore was the first to bear the brunt.
If serving the alliance can earn enough food and even living space, this is not unacceptable.
However, Kane wanted to see more.
He did not go to the high-end auction area, but to the market full of vendors.
Vendors from all over the world, taking advantage of McDonald's coronation ceremony, gathered here to sell various products.
Various plaques are hung high in the market, marking the name of the area in human common language, dwarf language, gnome language, elven language, and draenei language, as well as various guidelines.
Here you can see all alliance races, and even neutral races such as walruses, vixen, and pandaren.
It's very interesting. It doesn't matter if you don't understand the language, as long as you have eyes and hands.
Needless to say simple food, of course, but more complicated ones, the boards above each stall have various extremely vivid pictures depicting what the stall sells, and then the vendors and buyers compare their fingers to the patterns of gold, silver, and copper coins, and suddenly
Understood in seconds.
A commotion in the small square attracted Kane's attention, and he asked Rivendell: "What's going on over there?"
The Duke curled his lips, and soon a guard came over and reported: "There is a human profiteer selling fake black dragon scales, and he is now being publicly executed."
Kane noticed that the person who was tied behind his back and kneeling on the ground with his head hanging down was a human. Not far away, there were more than a dozen dwarves cursing, spitting and clapping at the profiteers.
The security officer read out the crime of the profiteer in public, and then hung the guy on the southeast branch.
Everyone around cheered loudly.
Kane wondered: "The crime of selling counterfeit goods is so severe?"
Rivendell said solemnly: "Selling fake goods depends on the seriousness of the case. There is nothing wrong with selling fake goods, but selling fake goods leads to death, which is a capital crime. If a noble commits the crime, the most serious one can be deducted from the rank."
"Oh!" Kane, who seemed to be rugged and did not express any opinions on the surface, was very attentive.
This shows that at least McDonald's is not blindly partial to humans.
In any case, this visit to Stratholme is destined to be a spiritually shocking journey for the Tauren Chieftain and his son.
Kane didn't know it yet, but on the top floor of the castle less than a kilometer away from him, McDonald was observing every move of their father and son through the magic mirror.
"Is the Minotaur...worth...Master spending so much time?" Onyxia asked hesitantly, as if she noticed that McDonald was in a good mood.
McDonald touched the back of her head, and she immediately stopped talking and concentrated again. McDonald would not have told her this in the past. She knew her position as a mount very well.
Surprisingly, McDonald actually explained: "The Tauren and the Alliance have no enmity to begin with. On the contrary, they have a lot of overlapping views and interests with the Alliance. Why can't the Tauren leave the tribe and join the Alliance?"
Of course, a Niu brother is not worth McDonald's effort. The problem is that the alliance will most likely change MT at a later point in time!
