I, Carlos Barov, love nothing more than saying no to self-righteous guys... until I get an arrow in the knee.
Simply writing and drawing on paper, the alliance's generalissimo wrote down several major troubles currently facing the alliance in the order of his thoughts.
In no particular order, they are the disappearance of cousin Varian Wrynn, the internal review of the Expeditionary Force, the out-of-control development plan of the Eastern Kingdom, the financial crisis of Stormwind Kingdom, and the Northern Expedition (crossed out) interview with Anduin Lothar. .
Whether it is a country or a political entity, an individual or a gang, the most important thing is actually the issue of identity verification.
What is identity verification, worker/landowner/peasant/lord?
No, no, no, it’s not that complicated. Simplify, simplify, simplify again. In fact, it’s just two words: friend or enemy.
In identity verification, you or the group you belong to are used as the reference point. You only need to consider who is a friend and who is an enemy.
After understanding this simple basic logic, everyone can start solving questions, such as demonstrating the legal basis of Roman orthodoxy in Tongliao, or the natural legitimacy of Emperor Carlos's rule.
Joking aside, take it seriously. There is no neutral person in this kind of identity authentication that divides camps. Suspicious allies are also allies, and enemies with tacit understanding are still enemies.
As friends, we can compromise on dubious matters and give in to each other's interests.
If you are an enemy, you must attack. Even if you are in love with me one second, you will have to use a white knife to go in and a red knife to go out the next second.
Whether it is verbal neutrality or factual neutrality, it is not true neutrality, and there is no so-called neutrality.
Because the neutrality of a friend is called betrayal, and the neutrality of an enemy is called stupidity.
Although this kind of identity authentication seems too overbearing and very binary of black and white, it really works.
Especially for people like Carlos who have to constantly make trade-offs and have the courage to make judgments and decisions.
In terms of specific matters, if you keep suppressing your enemies and make your friends relatively satisfied, then the matter will not be too bad.
For example, the retreat of the expeditionary force.
It is impossible to interrupt Pandaria's ocean trade. However, the pandaren's desire for arms has been greatly reduced after their initial victory, and the Alliance is not prepared to carry out military colonization of Pandaria, so the quota trade is very nice for the Eastern Kingdoms. s Choice.
To put it simply, Carlos and the Pandaren reached a trade agreement that is revised every twenty years. The Eastern Kingdom and Pandaria, the Alliance and the Pandaren, the two major rights entities, namely the Golden Lotus and the Shado-Pan, reached a consensus on the use of Alliance gold coins. Taking the actual purchasing power of the Lordaeron region as the standard, the Pandaren and the Alliance negotiated a trade quota of at least 500 million Alliance gold coins that year, and completed the delivery of the port area before April of the following year.
The Pandaren, who had been isolated from the country for thousands of years, only saw Carlos' sincerity, but did not understand the huge trap in the supplementary agreement.
As the nominal overlord of Pandaria who lacks everything, the Pandaren export to the Alliance are all bulk commodities such as agricultural products, rough processed minerals, and raw magic stones, while most of the exports from the Alliance and even the Horde to the Pandaren are industrial products. Finished product.
Scissors are different, scissors are different, and the supplementary currency is better than straw paper.
Unlike the natives of Pandaria who use gold, silver and gems as trading currencies, the Alliance gold coins are simply useless except for their exquisite style. When a large amount of Alliance gold coins enter Pandaria, the pandaren and other local races must continue to expand the scale of trade if they want to turn over fixed trade settlement balances and pay for smuggled/customized goods.
Then the snowball started rolling.
The alliance's big plutocrats have long ceased to value trade itself. Hidden beneath the surface of a conscience agreement is the lack of financial supervision in Pandaria, which has no legal currency.
Anyway, the goblin consortium on the tribe's side is very clear. It has already taken the "Katou" worth 500 coins to trick Sal into handing over the power of the tribe to cast the "Saktou" to the goblins.
Although the Horde and the Alliance have not engaged in banking business, they have maintained an amazing tacit understanding on digging holes for the Pandaren brothers.
So Turalyon didn't understand that Carlos didn't care about the corruption problem of the expeditionary force at all, and Marshal Card didn't care how much money the official army made. The core point was that the alliance gold coins must not follow the expeditionary force back to the Eastern Kingdom.
Therefore, Marshal Turalyon, who focused on loyalty and integrity, was suspended. The newly appointed director of the withdrawal office, Alleria Windrunner, took the purchase details issued by the pandaren and discussed the issue of tax repayment with the officers above the major one by one.
In the morning, the eldest sister Alleria had a meeting with a group of people, and at noon, the second sister Sylvanas had a meeting with the same people to talk about shipping and reasonable tax avoidance.
Although the officers and soldiers privately cursed Turalyon for having a lot of trouble in his life, the two generations of ranger generals had mastered their skills and did not end up committing suicide by being shot in the back.
So let Turalyon do the organizing, and his family members do the investigation, so that the noise will not cause a big mess.
This question is actually just a question of how much and how fast.
After thinking for a long time, Carlos crossed out the Expeditionary Force internal review on the paper, and then wrote a warning letter to Jaina Proudmoore. As an uncle, he talked about his father's contribution to the Alliance, and there was a tenderness between the lines. Two themes are condensed below.
First, your father is the ruler of Kul Tiras.
Second, the Empire (crossed out) alliance is not a lawless place, and it would be too ugly to be separated.
Well, I have worked hard on myself today.
Carlos filled a glass to comfort himself, and then sat back at the table. The wine in his hand instantly lost its aroma.
Varian Wrynn betrayed his family, Lordaeron's plutocrats grew wildly, Onyxia in the Kingdom of Stormwind caused trouble, and Anduin Lothar launched an attack. These four things seemed to be four problems, but Card Los's intuition told him that this was actually a problem, and there was a black hand behind it.
Taking out another piece of paper, he arranged and combined the four troubles according to the up, down, left, and right lines. Carlos wrote and drew and then threw the scratch paper into the brazier and burned it.
Something is wrong, the connection cannot be made, or the relationship is not close enough.
Anduin Wrynn was kidnapped, and Varian Wrynn went to pay the ransom. Although the black dragon princess Onyxia, disguised as Katarina Presto, was the most suspicious, Carlos always felt that there was someone there. question.
At least Onyxia's obsession with bloody battles on the Stormwind City Stock Exchange is problematic.
Even if Onyxia doesn't know that Carlos knows that Katarina Presto is Onyxia, with the current military strength of Stormwind City and the infiltration of the city by MI7 and Alliance Intelligence, plus The time when the expeditionary force is about to return home...
It's too much like a smoke bomb.
After several assassinations failed, Carlos had given up on solving Anduin Lothar's problem on the physical level.
Today, Sir Lothar is an open secret that cannot be told to the Alliance.
The city of Lordaeron has also transformed from a haunted ruin to the largest sweatshop in the Eastern Kingdom. The most disturbing thing is that the Awakened camp actually took the initiative to file taxes with the Alterac Tax Bureau.
Yes, instead of paying the franchise fee to the alliance, you will file taxes with the tax authorities of the Kingdom of Alterac.
Everyone thought that this was Anduin Lothar paying protection fees to Carlos Barov and Kaliya Menethil. But what could Carlos do? Let the National Taxation Bureau pay the taxes that came to their door. Money back?
The food and clothing of millions of farm workers depends on it, and the good thing of picking up money on the ground cannot be explained to friends.
As for the barbaric growth of the new industrial factions within the alliance and a series of derivative problems, they cannot be solved in the difficult environment of Azeroth both internally and externally. Just delay it as long as you can. After a few battles, how much of this problem remains is a completely new question. The problem.
Raising his head and glancing at the Heart of Y'Shaarj sealed in the Pandaren-style Snake's Sacred Cloth Box, Carlos twisted his mouth in silence.
The craftsmanship of the Golden Lotus Sect and the Four Heavenly Gods is really good, and Y'Shaarj's heart always wants to win over Carlos. However, after layers of seals, it can only make Carlos look at it with a move in his heart, but it can't even "dialogue".
So Carlos drank the drink in one gulp and let out a groan that seemed both pleasurable and constipated.
A decision must be made, whether to go to Theramore to find his little cousin, or to go to Stormwind City to meet the countess.
Heading west or east will directly determine who is a friend and who is an enemy.
This question is too difficult.
