Honesty, courage, wisdom, and loyalty, Duque had become a synonym for a saint in everyone's hearts.
In reality, other than his smarts as a transmigrator, Duque's other three qualities were all bullsh * t.
Duque had never thought that he had ever been loyal to Laing.
As a modern man, deep in his bones, he was a boss and a worker. Duke would never be touched by the feeling of sacrificing his life for the other party.
As a transmigrator who was familiar with history, Duque knew that money was not enough, but having too much money was useless.
The most important thing was still power. His own power and the power of his subordinates.
According to history, the First Orc War ended with the opening of the Dark Portal and the fall of Stormwind City.
Then, the Orc army regrouped and headed north, looking for trouble with all the races and kingdoms on the continent. This was the start of the Second Orc War.
Duque did not know if the Orcs would continue to go against all the races and factions on the continent like they did in history. Obviously, when Duque saw that the World of Azeroth's similarity had dropped from 80% to 79%, Duque realized that history would continue to be shockingly similar.
Duke had saved 50,000 elite soldiers, as well as Leon, who hadn't died in history. Of course, Khadgar had died as well. He had killed over a hundred thousand Beastman elite soldiers and had even ruthlessly tricked Orgrim. Even with so much Fate Deviation, he had only managed to reduce the similarity by 1%. Just thinking about it made one drunk.
However, when he thought about the mighty Burning Legion and the Creation Titans that would appear later on, he suddenly felt that it was quite amazing that he had done so much in exchange for 1% of the world's change.
Alright, back to reality.
At noon on the second day, the first batch of ships arrived. This batch of ships had more than enough space. After replenishing some daily necessities and medicine for the people waiting on the island, they carried a total of 16,000 people.
On the ship, Duque was already busy.
Because the tribe did not pay much attention to the Western Wilderness, Duque was able to secretly transport the summer grain that had not yet been sent to Stormwind City to Southshore. This batch of grain could greatly alleviate the food shortage in Southshore.
In addition, there was the migration of the Murlocs and Nagas. In fact, the Orcs couldn't do anything to the Murlocs on the coast, but Duque needed the Murlocs more — Southshore.
The entire continent of the Eastern Kingdom was actually divided into two continents, the North and the South, connected by a gigantic Sador Bridge.
To the south of the Southern Continent was the territory of Stormwind, while to the north of the Southern Continent was the territory of the Dwarves centered around Ironforge.
To the southeast of the Northern Continent was the Arathi Highlands, which was where the Stromgard Kingdom was located.
To the south was the Hillsbrad Hills, the territory of the weakest of the seven human kingdoms, the Alterac Kingdom. The place where the refugees of Stormwind City were evacuated was Southshore, which was located south of the Hillsbrad Hills by the sea.
To the west of the Northern Continent was the Magic Kingdom of Dalajan, and to the north was the most powerful Lordaeron Kingdom.
Of course, the northernmost part of the Northern Continent was the High Elves' Cuel Salas Kingdom.
Now, Duque was moving the Murlocs because Duque needed the Murlocs to help reclaim the Murlocs there, and to fish as much as possible to provide fish for the Stormwind refugees.
About 50,000 of the Stormwind refugees were taken in by the Maritime Kingdom of Kul 'Tiras, while 100,000 continued to move in the direction of Stromgard, Alterac, Dalajan, and even Lordaeron. Including the 50,000 soldiers who were about to arrive, there were less than 450,000 people left in Southshore.
Even so, it was a very heavy burden.
Through the System Elf, Duque had already calculated that even if they found enough land to cultivate, they would still be short of at least 20,000 tons of food before the first harvest next year.
In this era, it was almost an astronomical figure.
It completely exceeded the amount of food that could be bought in the commercial market.
Laing was running away from reality, and threw the food problem onto Duque's head.
This made Duque's teeth hurt.
He had a lot of things to do, such as finding time to go to the southernmost Stranglethorn Valley of the Eastern Kingdom to deal with the remaining Bloodsail Pirates. Or finding time to practice magic.
After much consideration, Duque decided to pay a visit to the Barov Family in Alterac.
Many people might wonder why Duque didn't visit the king of Alterac Kingdom, but the Barov Family instead.
It had to start from the history of the Alterac Kingdom.
The Alterac Kingdom had a long history, but the current royal family's history was very short. It only lasted for the past 20 years.
The first king of Alterac was born into a wealthy family, and in order to have a place of his own, he founded the Alterac Kingdom. He chose to build his kingdom on the steep Alterac Mountain Range. The land was barren, and the living conditions were terrible. Very few people were willing to follow him, and the kingdom's territory and power were very small.
It was not an exaggeration to say that Alterac Kingdom was the weakest of the seven human kingdoms.
The current king, Aiden Pirynold, inherited this mess, and the situation only improved after the Barov Family joined in.
The Barov Family of the Alterac Kingdom was a wealthy family that controlled a large amount of land east of the Alterac Mountain Range. Brill, Tarren Mill, Caer Darrow, Southshore. These places were all their fiefdoms.
Their wealth surpassed that of the Alterac Royal Family. They had Arathi blood, and the family lived in Caer Darrow County, which was an old castle of the Arathi people. They continued this ancient and noble family bloodline.
In fact, the Barov Family was the one that Duque had been dealing with.
From the very beginning, Duke had never set his sights on the other factions to get the food. The transportation of food in this era was terrible.
Even the slightest bit of distance would result in a 50% loss of food. The only thing that Duque felt lucky about was that most families had the habit of storing food because the harvest was not stable. As long as he could settle the rich Barov Family, he would not have to worry about food until next year.
A week later, Laing and Duque's group arrived at Southshore.
Ryan was very surprised by the expanded Southshore. There was a stone pier built according to the standards of Stormwind City, and there were neat wooden houses as far as the eye could see from the entrance of Southshore. There were medical, food, fire protection, toilets, and all kinds of living facilities available. There was even a huge wooden wall being built.
But after comforting the people, Laing hurried on the road to Lordaeron.
Duque left Windsor to help him train his private army while he brought Makarov and the others to Caer Darrow County to meet Alex Barov, Aiden's best friend, and now Duke Barov.
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