The next morning, in the office of the Regent of the Tower of Sunfury, Michaela placed the sapphire necklace obtained from the Tower of Windrunner on Aqiang's desk.
As a former subordinate of Sylvanas, Aqiang had certainly seen this necklace. He immediately turned the necklace over and saw a line of small words engraved on the back:
"To Sylvanas, your ever-loving sister, Alleria."
Aqiang read the above text, then put down the necklace and looked at Mikaela, and said: "Minister Mikaela, I thought you were here to submit your resignation to me."
After this period of contact, both Aqiang and Michaela can feel the similarities between the other party and themselves, that is, they do not think that they are bureaucrats who should sit in the office.
Aqiang has always thought of himself as a ranger who should charge into battle, and Mikaela has always thought of herself as an adventurer who travels everywhere.
Michaela shrugged and said helplessly: "Your Majesty the Regent, I am now the minister of Silvermoon City, and I still have responsibilities that must be completed."
"Yes, our duty."
Aqiang looked at the necklace, then at Mikaela, and said, "During the last summit meeting, Sylvanas suggested to me that we blood elves join the tribe, and explained many benefits."
After all, in the official history of Warcraft, the blood elves chose to join the tribe, and now the Forsaken are already members of the tribe. If Silvermoon City wants to maintain the relationship between the two parties, it must also join the tribe and obtain support in all aspects.
However, for now, Aqiang has not agreed to become a member of the tribe. After all, in history, the blood elves were once a member of the alliance and were enemies of the orc tribe. Only in the past few years have they changed their minds. Of course, Aqiang felt There is a grudge.
"But time waits for no one."
Micaila said: "We have limited resources at hand and must restore the economy in a short time, so we need foreign aid, and the forgotten people alone are simply not enough."
Aqiang certainly knows that the Forsaken today are members of the tribe, and the blood elves have not yet joined the tribe. The two sides have only established diplomatic relations and cannot be considered allies. As a result, the support provided by the Forsaken to the blood elves is very limited.
so what should I do now?
There must be a way. First of all, of course, it is necessary to determine whether joining the tribe is beneficial to the blood elves. After all, political considerations are interests.
"This is the tribe's situation statement that Sylvanas gave me."
Aqiang took out a document, handed it to Mikaela, and said, "I hope you and the people in your department can study this document carefully and draw a suitable conclusion. Then, as the envoy, you will give the necklace to Give it back to Sylvanas."
After saying that, Aqiang pushed the necklace on the table to Mikaela.
Silvermoon City now only has one department, which is Michaela's Administrative Affairs Department, so all internal affairs and diplomatic relations must be handled by him.
"Understood."
Michaela put away the necklace and documents, and then said: "Your Majesty the Regent, as our diplomatic affairs begin to increase, can we set up a Ministry of Foreign Affairs to solve related problems?"
Before, the blood elves had not had any external contact, so Aqiang did not set up a diplomatic department. But now as the situation changes, external contacts have begun to increase. It is indeed necessary to add another department. It is impossible for Michaela to do everything. The Administrative Affairs Department will do it.
"That's right, Minister Michaela."
Aqiang agreed with Michaela's point of view: "It seems that I really need to consider establishing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."
"There must be no Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Minister!"
A moment later, in Michaela's Administrative Affairs Department office, Humphrey stamped his feet anxiously after hearing the above news.
However, Michaela didn't understand: "Humphrey, why are you so anxious? A normal country should have established a Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deal with external issues. Is there any problem?"
"Minister, why don't you understand!"
Humphrey said loudly:
"Today, Silver Moon City only has one department, the Administrative Affairs Department, which means that we have the power to control everything inside and outside. But if the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is established, wouldn't we give away our diplomatic power to foreign countries?"
Bernard on the side corrected Humphrey and Michaela: "It's not us, it's you."
Then he received a blank look from the two people and retreated obediently.
Humphrey continued:
"You are not a civilian now, you are a minister. Please think outside the civilian way and think about it. When we are the only department in charge of everything, we can expand our manpower and apply for more budgets. Then our authority It can be expanded. For example, this time, we can set up a diplomatic committee in the department to handle diplomatic matters."
"However, if the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is established, it means that we will lose the authority of the only department, lose expandable manpower and a larger budget, which means that we will lose our original status."
Michaela looked at Humphrey's anxious look and said calmly: "I'm not interested in any status. I just think it's necessary to establish a Ministry of Foreign Affairs now."
"What?"
Humphrey looked at Mikaela like a monster, unable to imagine the other person's logic.
Torina complained: "Michaela, Humphrey is a typical bureaucrat and a power freak. Taking away his power is simply more uncomfortable than killing him."
Michaela didn't feel anything about this. On the contrary, seeing Humphrey's uncomfortable look, she felt a little happy for some reason.
"Michaela, don't forget the business!" Torina reminded in a low voice.
Right, down to business.
Michaela took out the tribal information document that Aqiang gave her and handed it to Humphrey: "We will talk about the Ministry of Foreign Affairs later. Take a look at this first."
"Tribe information file?"
While opening the file, Humphrey said: "In my image, those orcs are green-skinned, savage creatures with a pungent odor, and only know how to howl and kill. After the orc war ended, humans actually Instead of killing them all, choosing to imprison them is simply stupid. If it were me, I would kill all the orcs..."
In the middle of speaking, Humphrey happened to see the information about the orc city on the first page. He immediately said "hmm" and said to himself: "These green-skinned monsters actually have civilization?"
If these contents did not come from the Forsaken, from Sylvanas, and were absolutely true and reliable, otherwise the blood elves represented by Humphrey would never believe that the barbaric orcs also had their own civilization.
"interesting."
Humphrey put the document on the desk in front of him and looked at it carefully. The description of tribal civilization seemed to open a new door for Humphrey.
Michaela, who was opposite, had no intention of interrupting Humphrey, but waited patiently for Humphrey to finish reading the document.
An hour later, Humphrey, who had engraved every punctuation mark in the document into his mind, instinctively felt something with the intuition of an old bureaucrat:
"Minister, was this document given to you by the Prince Regent?"
Michaela: "Yes."
Humphrey already understood: "I think the regent's worries are unnecessary, we can join the tribe."
Afterwards, Humphrey stated his reasons. The first one was: "We blood elves are the descendants of high elves and will not join forces with barbarians. However, the fact that the orcs have civilization means that they are not barbaric, so we can consider it." Make an alliance.”
Blood elves have always been proud, so the first thing to solve is the issue of face.
Michaela nodded slightly and said: "Continue."
Humphrey then said:
"In addition to the Forgotten, the Orc Tribe has also assembled two major forces: Trolls and Taurens. It has a large population and occupies a large area of land. It is the best product sales market besides the Alliance. If we join the Tribe, then we The blood elves can get this market to export the enchanting products that we are proud of."
As early as the old Silvermoon City era, the enchantment industry was the pillar industry of the blood elves, earning Silvermoon City a large amount of gold coins every year, until the natural disaster war caused huge damage and caused the industry to wither. If the blood elves can get the big market of the tribe, then the restoration of the enchanting industry will be just around the corner, and the economic problems that have been plaguing the New Silvermoon City government will be solved!
And the last and most important point:
"The center of the Horde is Orgrimmar, and this city is located on the continent of Kalimdor on the other side of the Endless Sea."
At this point, Humphrey showed a smile on his face and asked Michaela: "Minister, don't you understand what this means?"
Michaela said a Chinese proverb: "The mountains are high and the emperor is far away."
"Minister, the height of the mountain has nothing to do with the distance of the emperor."
Who would have thought that Bernard jumped out: "And our elves have been a king system since ancient times, and there has never been an emperor..."
Michaela immediately rolled her eyes at Bernard and asked in a low voice: "So Bernard, how do you think I should express the distance?"
Bernard opened his mouth with an elf proverb: "The sun is out of reach."
Haha, don’t tell me, the meaning of Bernard’s words is really good.
Humphrey said bluntly: "Minister, those orcs can't control us."
Michaela recalled Humphrey's previous comments about the Alliance. One of them was that the Human Alliance would require the blood elves to send troops to regain Lordaeron, the former human territory. The orc tribe would not have such a problem. This is a great guarantee. The independence of the New Silver Moon City regime.
"Ah, indeed."
Michaela nodded and replied: "The orcs have nothing to do with us."
"So, it is feasible for us blood elves to join the tribe."
But in the next sentence, Humphrey changed the subject: "But there are two more questions."
Michaela: "What?"
Humphrey answered: "The first question is the trolls. We blood elves and the Amani trolls have been fighting for thousands of years. The two sides have an undying relationship. It is impossible for our people to accept a troll ally."
Mikaela said: "This is not difficult. The trolls who join the tribe belong to the Darkspear tribe among the jungle trolls, while our mortal enemy the Amani trolls belong to the forest trolls. The two are not the same category."
"Indeed, as long as we do a good job of publicity to the public, the above problems are not difficult to solve."
Humphrey said:
"But the next question is the key."
"That is, why should the tribe accept us?"
As soon as these words came out, Michaela raised her eyebrows.
yes!
The relationship between countries is not the same as the relationship between people. You can do whatever you like between people, but the relationship between countries is based on interests!
If the blood elves cannot bring enough benefits to the orc tribe, why would the other party absorb you into the tribe?
Whenever this happens, Torina will definitely give Michaela a fatal blow:
"Michaela, let me remind you that in the official history of Warcraft, the blood elves proved their strength by defeating Darkan, and then successfully joined the tribe, and you have already killed Darkan in advance."
Protruding!
The problem is actually me!
