Remember [New] in a second! When it comes to the harshness of the domestic environment, Alterac, whose core territory is located in the snow-capped mountains, is the first, followed by Stormgard, who settled in the Arathi Highlands.

It's not that the Arathi Highlands cannot produce food. The harsh environment of Stormgard is different from that of Alterac, which is located in a place of bitter cold, mainly due to human factors.

That's right, it is the third largest clan of forest trolls that are still active in the highlands—the deadwood trolls.

Oh, by the way, now we have to add the Stonefist ogres who fled and settled here after the Second World War.

Before the Troll War, the entire northern part of the Eastern Continent was a hunting ground for forest trolls. Quel'Thalas was once suppressed in the northern part of Eversong Forest in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and could only hide in the Bandinoril barrier. middle.

Emperor Thoradin, who turned out to be born out of nowhere, led the Arathor Empire to form an alliance with Quel'Thalas, and jointly defeated the once mighty forest trolls, greatly reducing their scope of activities.

But even so, the three major clans of forest trolls still retain a considerable degree of combat effectiveness.

The suzerain clan Amani has been fighting the high elf ranger in the southern part of the Eversong Forest. It was not until a few years ago that the newly created Dawnguard Legion broke through the capital Zul'Aman by surprise, and has been in a slump ever since.

The second largest clan, the Evil Branch, is domineering in the Hinterlands. They not only have long-term wars with the Wildhammer dwarves who live in Eagle's Nest Mountain, but also show no mercy to other small clans who are also forest trolls.

But this is not bad news for Quel'Thalas.

The Eviltooth clan, oppressed and bullied by the Evilbranch clan all the year round, was jointly persuaded by the high elves and the Wildhammer dwarves to open the port on the eastern coast of Cintra to Quel'Thalas, so that materials from Eversong Forest could flow down the river. Straight to the Hinterlands.

These high-quality supplies from the high elves have greatly enhanced the combat effectiveness of the Wildhammer dwarves.

For the past two years, Falstad Wildhammer has ordered the Wildhammer dwarves to switch from passive defense to active offense.

The Wildhammer dwarves set up a large number of outposts along the north and east of the Cintra Highlands to ensure that supplies brought in by sea can be delivered to the front lines smoothly.

Due to the inferior numbers, the Wildhammer dwarves are not yet able to pose enough threats to the capital of the evil branch trolls, Xin Saluo, but at least they can compete with them in the Hinterlands Highlands.

The Wildhammer dwarves, who had turned from defense to offense, drew a lot of attention from the Vilebranch trolls, and the pressure on the Vilefang, a small clan living by the sea, was greatly reduced.

This beneficial change made the patriarch of the Eviltooth clan affirm the correctness of his decision-making, and more firmly supported the Wildhammer dwarves in the front line.

Unlike the big clans like Xiezhi and Deadwood who are determined to compete for the suzerainty of the forest trolls, small clans like Evil Tooth can't think about such long-term things at all. It is a great idea to lead their clansmen to survive in the crisis-ridden Hinterlands. victory.

The last of the three major clans is the Deadwood clan.

Although not as powerful as the Xiezhi clan that established the capital, the Witherwood troll also has its own territory in the Arathi Highlands——Witheredwood Village in the southeast corner of the highlands.

During the heyday of the Stormgard Kingdom, most of the Arathi Highlands were under their control, and the Witherwood trolls were tightly suppressed in the Witherwood Village and could not go out for activities.

However, following the sudden death of the hero Solas and the lack of ability of the succeeding Garin, the Witherwood troll sees the hope of rising again.

They teamed up with the Stonefist Ogre, who had just arrived in Arathi, and pressed on Stormgard, whose control was weakening day by day. Meet money-minded syndicate thieves.

However, with the death of the leader of the Syndicate, Duke Faculest, the Syndicate was reorganized by Alterac's official recruitment and had already evacuated from Stromgarde.

After the Regency Council overthrew Garin's rule, they repelled the trolls and ogres who invaded the capital, and finally recaptured Stromgarde.

However, the dilemma facing Stormgard has not been resolved. The Deadwood Trolls and Stonefist Ogres, which are expanding their activities day by day, are bit by bit encroaching on the territory that should belong to Stormgard.

Calia sees Stormgard's problem very clearly. To put it bluntly, it is still a lack of money.

The Arathi Highlands produced a lot of high-quality ores and herbs, but because Lordaeron, which had the strongest purchasing power, cut off the trade routes with them, the goods hoarded by Stormgard, which was not strong at sea, could not be sold in large quantities.

From time to time, Kul Tiras would risk offending Lordaeron by sending merchant ships to the port in Fadil Bay to purchase minerals and herbs at low prices.

However, Kul Tiras, which is rich in the world, does not lack these resources. After breaking up with the big seller Lordaeron, the amount they can eat is relatively limited, and they cannot fundamentally solve the problems facing Stormgard. Financial problems.

In fact, it is very simple to solve this problem. As long as Lordaeron reopens the trade with Stormgard, the pressure on them can be gradually relieved.

However, both Terenas and Alsace are determined to exert extreme pressure on Stormgard, and it is best to force them to surrender to Lordaeron, thereby annexing Stormgard.

But the Stormgardians, who have fought against trolls all the year round and have abundant martial arts, may lack other things, but they will not lack backbone.

To this day, the Regency Council of Stormgard still stands firm and does not bow to Lordaeron. When asking for compensation, it also straightens up and stretches out its hands to ask for it clearly, without the slightest intention of bowing its knees.

Calia is not Terenas, and she does not intend to annex other human kingdoms in a forceful way.

Moreover, the impact of this kind of economic sanctions is mutual, hurting one thousand enemies and eight hundred self-damages.

Without the high-quality minerals and herbs produced in the Arathi Highlands, Lordaeron could only purchase from Quel'Thalas, who had a friendly relationship on the surface, at a high price, but this was obviously not worthwhile.

Quel'Thalas did not intentionally increase the price. Due to the high population cost, the basic materials sold in Quel'Thalas will be more expensive than other countries.

Kael'thas actually didn't want to engage in this kind of relatively low-end basic material trade. With the technology of high elf craftsmen, it would be more profitable to directly sell the finished products after refining the materials.

In the later period of Terenas' rule, in order to realize his increasingly unrealistic dream, he would rather damage part of the national interests than continue to hold on.

Calia will not do this, she intends to resume trade with Gilneas, Stormgard, Alterac, Dalaran and Kul Tiras, exempting the Kingdom of Lordaeron from purchasing materials additional expenses.

The matter of rebuilding the alliance is relatively involved, and it is impossible to rely on these representatives as the mouthpiece, and the kings of various countries do not want to come to Lordaeron to discuss this matter with Calia for the time being.

Just like what Jialia said, they want to observe and confirm Jialia's governing style before making a decision.

But for such a major event that can revitalize their own economy, the representatives will definitely send the news back to their home country as soon as possible, and the home country will send a professional diplomatic team to discuss it with Lordaeron slowly.

Sarlayan spent almost the whole time in this congress. He had already discussed with Calia privately what should be discussed, and the rest was nothing more than a formality.

As Lordaeron, which has been self-enclosed for many years, reopens to the outside world, economic and trade exchanges in the northern part of the Eastern Kingdom will definitely become more frequent.

Without Lordaeron's sea blockade, Quel'Thalas' merchant ships can sail down the west coast to safely transport their own goods to Gilneas, Stormgard, and even further to Khaz Modan and Stormwind Kingdom for sale.

Calia's decision to open up trade is obviously more beneficial than harmful to Quel'Thalas, and Sharlayan, who is happy to see the results, will certainly not jump out to make trouble.

Not only Stormgard and Gilneas were enthusiastic about Calia's proposal to reopen bilateral trade, but Rhonin of Dalaran also rubbed his hands and reached a preliminary cooperation intention with Calia on the spot.

After Dalaran took off, due to geographical factors, other than Quel'Thalas, there was only Alterac, which had just been restored for a few years, to maintain direct trade with them.

Quel'Thalas itself is a magical country, and there is no shortage of special magic tools from Dalaran.

As we all know, Alterac is still relatively poor at this stage, and Dalaran can't make much money from them.

Again, economic sanctions will affect both sides.

Knowing that Calia plans to reopen the Lordaeron market, Luo Ning, who has hoarded a large amount of goods, can't wait to make a fortune from Lordaeron.

Eagle's Nest Mountain, Khaz Modan, and Gnomeregan, who have nothing to do with themselves, have little interest in the business issues discussed among human countries. The three representatives are now gathering together to whisper.

Seeing that Calia was still arguing with several other human nations for a while, Sharlayan simply left Valeera in place of him, and slipped to the side of the dwarves and dwarves alone.

The same alien race ~lightnovelpub.net~ The relationship between Quel'Thalas and dwarves and gnomes is not very good, but there are no contradictions, and they have always maintained normal trade with each other.

This time Sharlayan came here specially to find them, mainly for the representatives of the Wildhammer and the Bronzebeard dwarves.

"Two representatives, please forgive me for taking the liberty to find you. Someone entrusted me to forward a proposal to your respective kings."

To this day, Sharlayan Deep Shadow's name has long been very resounding among the top leaders of various countries.

Seeing that the legendary Duke of Deep Shadow came to discuss the matter on his own initiative, the three representatives hurriedly stopped whispering to each other and put on a posture of listening attentively.

Due to the good cooperation in the Hinterlands in recent years, the representatives of the Wildhammer clan are closest to the high elves.

He took the dwarven-style brown slate placed on the table by Sharlayan and flipped through it, then asked curiously: "Duke Deep Shadow, may I ask who this proposal came from?"

"sure."

Sharlayan smiled meaningfully: "It's your distant relative, the Dark Iron Dwarf."

"What?!" x2