King Ka, King Ka, why have you gone through so many years and not made much steel but instead followed the path of farming and domination?
Carlos looked at the problem little Penyu with the gentlest eyes.
Look at the shape of my mouth - shit.
On the way back to Alterac from the Hinterlands, Carlos naturally went to the Eagle's Nest Mountain, and also stopped by a processing factory deep in the snow forest.
Breathing the smell of fuel and oil fumes, the bleak current situation completely cut off Carlos's thoughts of "the torrent of steel".
No wonder the King of Steel would become a conqueror and then embark on the road to redemption.
Relying on subjective initiative to develop industry will not save Azeroth.
Producing a steam tank requires 137,544 hand-polished compact parts, 327 dwarf blacksmiths working for 41 days, and 176 dwarf buses. Fifty-three days of assembly and debugging required 1,642 human workers to smelt the raw materials, and nine intermediate mages were required to enchant the materials throughout the process.
Without a great alliance, it would be a joke to rely on the more than 800,000 people in Alterac to carry out an industrial revolution.
Carlos has indeed been promoting the development of productivity for a long time, but with little success.
Three steel mills and two alchemy workshops are already the most promising cards.
Then there was nothing more.
Any reform that is divorced from the grassroots level is destined to be just a castle in the air.
The biggest symbol of the industrial revolution is large-scale industrial production. If all seven million humans on the Eastern Kingdom are gathered together, a steampunk-style industrial revolution may break out with the blessing of magic, such as the Skyfire in the future.
But under the current circumstances, Carlos can only make this guarantee to his army: the swords and armor are enough.
Although this is already a remarkable achievement, it is useless.
Farming can't save Azeroth.
In the days after leaving, under the seemingly stable appearance of the Lordaeron Alliance, people's hearts were falling apart and the situation took a turn for the worse.
Carlos finally woke up. It was not the Cursed Cult or the Undead Scourge that ended the Alliance of Lordaeron, but humanity itself.
The work of the Silver Dawn has had little success. The Cult of the Damned suffered a righteous blow from the Holy Light in cultivating and spreading the plague. The undead plague has so far been contained deep in the mountains and forests far away from human habitation.
But the Alliance of Lordaeron seems to have foreseen its end.
This military and political organization that once defended mankind's last right to survival when fighting against the invasion of orcs is losing the legitimacy and rationality of its existence.
The once unbreakable alliance is now on the verge of collapse.
Because of a drought that won't be mentioned in the game.
It’s not the kind of severe drought that swept across Azeroth. The area north of Thoradin’s Wall has a big summer harvest this year. Even the cold-resistant crops on the Alterant Plateau have a very good harvest. The Kingdom of Lordaeron Food prices have even hit a five-year low.
But correspondingly, Stromgarde, Ironforge, and Stormwind City, the areas south of Thoradin's Wall, have experienced food harvest failures due to drought, and a foreseeable famine seems inevitable.
When the southern regime tried to ask for help from its Union compatriots, it discovered that times seemed to have changed.
It was only now that the political legacy of Terenas' assassination seemed to take on a horrific dimension.
Quel'Thalas is currently in a state of virtual seclusion, and it is obviously impossible to buy food from the high elves.
Although Gilneas has not formally signed the agreement, it has given up the disputed territory of Silverpine Forest with the Kingdom of Lordaeron, and has essentially left the Alliance.
Dalaran is only a porter of magic and does not produce food. Alterante has always been on the verge of food self-sufficiency and imports a large amount of daily necessities every year.
So actually only the Kingdom of Lordaeron has food in hand.
But after Terenas Menethil II's physical condition deteriorated, he no longer had enough energy to deal with this problem.
However, Alsace, who had hoped to deal with this problem, went to sea.
What was originally a purely commercial issue became a serious political issue after being mixed with the transition of royal power.
Due to the turmoil of the Masonic Brotherhood's armed wage-demanding turmoil, the Western Wilderness, which was once the main pioneer land in the Elwynn region, was not only unable to provide food to Stormwind City, but also had to consume a large amount of supplies due to the garrison.
But what can you accuse Varian Wrynn of?
His queens were stoned to death by the mob.
Terenas was dying soon, and all his limited energy was used to pave the way for Arthas' succession.
Everyone is responding to the so-called alliance meeting, but no one is organizing it.
Only then did Carlos realize that he had been too focused on the destruction of the Cursed Sect and ignored the discord within the alliance.
The most terrible thing is that he also attracted more than 20,000 upper elf immigrants from Elrethalas...
When Carlos thought about the 20,000 mouths that needed to eat and drink, he had no confidence to discuss grain trade with his friends in the south.
This is called taking your own life.
Before that, Carlos only hoped to awaken the alliance's sense of crisis through limited damage, thereby gaining leadership of the alliance.
But a drought tore apart the fragile ties within the alliance.
Carlos wasn't the only smart guy, many saw the threat of the alliance falling apart.
But what does this have to do with me?
The great lords and nobles of Lordaeron had a perfect excuse, and under the guise of Terenas, they hoped to tear off a piece of flesh from their compatriots in the south.
And Carlos said everything he said was wrong because his son cheated on his father and grandfather.
The only person designated to break the situation is still floating on the sea.
Although the food crisis will not break out so soon, until the food stocks everywhere are exhausted, the crisis is destined to be just a crisis.
But Carlos didn't dare to let down his guard against the cursed sect at all.
He has never forgotten that the biggest way the undead disease spreads is through the corruption of food.
Just when Carlos summoned the Silver Dawn to prepare for targeted prevention of possible plague ration issues, bad news came.
The largest granary in Stratholme City was maliciously set on fire by gangsters, and at least enough rations for 10,000 people for a year were burned.
At the same time, reports of granary fires came from all over Lordaeron, even the Alterac region was no exception.
Carlos takes this very seriously.
Although the current territory of Alterac seems vast, it is actually divided into two parts: the Hilbrad region and the Keldaron-Anhador region, through the Alterac Plateau Passage and Lordaeron Mir. The lake is connected by waterways.
At this sensitive moment, Carlos was unable to use the political influence of the Kingdom of Alterac to do more. He could only command the Silver Dawn to do what it could while waiting to see what happened.
Then, rumors that Lordaeron burned food to raise food prices spread widely in a very short period of time.
After being anxious for a long time, Carlos finally couldn't help but said to Calia: "I must go to Lordaeron to meet your father."
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