After nominally joining the Alliance, Khaz Modan's originally loose tribes were integrated together. Because this vast area has never been unified in history, and has complex terrain, cold climate, and poor transportation conditions, human economic plunder initially encountered many difficulties.
In order to further open up the market, establish an industry system that supplies minerals and agricultural and animal husbandry resources, and ensure that pro-alliance forces are in power, the upper echelons of the Alliance and the Light Church came up with a brilliant idea;
They used a large number of missionary priests who went deep into the mountains to spread the teachings of the Holy Light, misinterpreted the customs and original beliefs of the Khaz Modan people, and forcibly divided the residents here into three major ethnic groups; to be precise, they were three major castes, namely, the Bronzebeards and the Barbarians. Hammer and black iron.
Among them, Bronzebeard represents the army and bourgeoisie, Wildhammer represents farmers and small businessmen, and Black Iron represents miners and industrial workers.
The Church of Light has created a whole set of belief myths for this purpose, namely the famous Song of the Original Man: it claims that the Titan Kazgoros shaped this mountain range and finally collapsed from exhaustion. Later, the God King's head turned into the Bronzebeard tribe, his arms turned into the Wildhammer tribe, and his legs and feet turned into the Dark Iron tribe. Due to different bloodlines, there are differences between high and low; each tribe has a hereditary caste from generation to generation and cannot be changed.
There is actually very little difference in appearance between the three castes (if any dwarf is thrown into the source mine to work for more than a year, he will also get the dark and cracked skin of the Dark Iron dwarf), but according to the teachings and Ironforge laws, the rights of the high and low castes are , status and career are all determined and cannot be overstepped;
Of course, they are not allowed to intermarry, otherwise they and their descendants will be treated as low castes. The most famous person to be punished for violating this rule is Moira Bronzebeard.
During the Enlightenment Movement, this rhetoric was whipped and reviled by various schools of thought in turn, serving as a typical example of the absurdity and shamelessness of the Holy Light’s teachings. There are many fragrant words among them, so I won’t go into details here.
Time has come to modern times. With the magical industrial revolution in full swing in the human world, Khaz Modan, as the richest source ore mining area in the entire continent, has inevitably been involved in the wave of industrialization. This ancient mountain range and the people living in it began to bleed black blood like they did during the Titans' rule.
In the Yuan Mine, which is thousands of feet deep, miners work and live underground and can go without sunlight for several years. Breathe air full of filthy slag, drink water mixed with excrement and toxic waste. Water leakage and collapse accidents occur one after another, and the average life expectancy of workers is less than 30 years old;
Ironforge has been repeatedly expanded and is known as the "Source City". It has seven floors, making it the largest source ore smelting plant in Khaz Modan and even in the entire alliance. In each melting pot city, workshops and residential areas are mixed and built, and the internal space is overcrowded. Simple houses are crowded one after another, airtight, with narrow courtyards connected to narrow courtyards, and narrow streets close to narrow streets, like a maze.
Workers who work in dark mines and scorching furnace factories, in addition to harsh working conditions, inevitably suffer from severe radiation and curses for a long time; they suffer from various unbearable diseases and rely on liquor and drugs to survive . Most of them are low-caste dwarves, with a small number of ice trolls and orcs.
As for the dwarves, they are not an officially announced mysterious race, but Khaz Modan people who have been exposed to source energy radiation since birth and have mutated and dwarfed; they are a group of people with withered faces, weak bodies, who cannot grow up or live to adulthood. of child labor.
Gnomeregan is another hellish refinery and illegal chemical testing site, now abandoned. Because during a catastrophic leak a few years ago, more than three-quarters of the area was occupied by radioactive contaminated elements and crazy lepers.
In the Alliance's humming industrial and war machines, Khaz Modan is at the bottom of the industrial chain, weighed down and worn like cogs. In the industrial areas of the human world, the situation of workers is not much better.
Faced with the alliance's great achievements in conquering the world, the workers of the Mage Tower, who are the proud sons of heaven, cannot hold their heads high with pride.
Although the Human Alliance's invincible military power and developed and prosperous economy were created by the hard work of countless low-level mages, these creators do not have the freedom to use magic power because it is too expensive.
Since the promulgation of the first constitution to protect the sanctity of private property, and after years of free annexation, the divide between rich and poor in the human world has become very serious. Since Stormwind City succeeded Lordaeron as the leader of the Alliance, it has developed completely due to too many debts due to industrialization. Currently, 90% of the energy reserves are concentrated in the hands of the upper 10%;
Most of the people who are actually engaged in production are extremely poor and their income is barely enough to support their families. Most of the wages of ordinary workers are robbed by high prices, medical care, taxes, etc., leaving little except for expenses; after working all their lives, they cannot afford to buy a small house in Stormwind City, where land is scarce.
In addition, their working conditions are equally poor. Mage workers need to work more than ten hours a day, relying on low-quality magic powder that is highly addictive and shortens their lifespan to replenish their magic power. Once they are over age or lose their ability to cast spells due to injury, they will be immediately fired and abandoned. The magic powder becomes a heartless person or dies tragically and silently.
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance. About a year ago, in the 28th year of Stargate, Elvin broke out a great uprising of mage workers. The workers once captured the main city of Stormwind City, forcing the royal family to flee in panic hundreds of miles away to Stormwind Fortress. The rebels immediately declared the establishment of the Second Republic, confiscated the assets of the nobility and the church, and hanged those who were rich and unkind;
However, due to the lack of unified command and the lack of heavy magic equipment, the rulers reacted after a few weeks, and the uprising was quickly wiped out by the counterattacking Stormwind army.
As closely connected co-workers, the Dark Iron dwarf miners in the Blackrock Mountain area united with some Wildhammer farmers and herdsmen to stage a massive riot;
They were also suppressed by the Bronzebeard authorities, but the ruling power of Ironforge was obviously much weaker than that of Stormwind City. This rebellion did not die out, but achieved more fruitful results than Elwin.
After a bloody battle, the Blackrock Mountain rioters defeated the Ironforge army and moved northward, occupying the area around Loch Modan, Khaz Modan's eastern barrier, and the southern part of the wetlands, threatening the core area of Dun Morogh.
Along the way, the rebels expelled Tongbeard's industrial, mining and farm owners, liberated slaves of all ethnic groups, returned property and natural resources to labor unions and farmers' associations, and distributed them equally to farmers and herdsmen. The momentum was huge, shocking both the government and the public in Ironforge.
Many slave owners, factories, mines, and farmers took their families and fled to Dun Morogh to cry to the king. For a time, the rugged mountain road of the East Gate Passage was crowded with goat convoys of rich people who refused to give up their property and packed as much mithril and diamonds as possible;
Car accidents and robberies continued to occur, and from time to time, people screamed and fell off cliffs with sheep and cars. The scene was the same as during World War II, when East Khaz Modan was captured by the Orc rebels.
Facing the familiar scene, the Bronzebeard royal family was extremely frightened. In order to avoid repeating the same mistakes, they made an extremely foolish decision; they ordered the blowing up of the boulder dam and flooding the areas occupied by the rebels.
