Stormwind Wizard God-Chapter 493: ’Occupied’

Many people think that fighting is a hard job.

No, in fact, post-war reconstruction is a hard job.

Thanks to Duke's advance planning and ruthless actions, the number of captured orcs was far less than in the original history. No one could count the number of orcs, and perhaps even Orgrim himself did not know how many orcs came to Azeroth through the Dark Portal.

There are many illiterate orcs, so when they count the number of people, they generally do so by clan.

Anyway, there are no less than one million orcs coming to the world of Azeroth.

Except for the 20,000 orcs who fled with Chieftain Kilrogg Deadeye and Kargath, most of the orcs died here. There were only 25,000 captives.

Historically, there were more than 200,000 orc captives.

The mere fact that the knights' creed did not require prisoners to be killed, and that they had to build shelters for the prisoners and feed these big eaters, caused the finances of both Dalaran and Stromgarde to collapse.

The key is that the orc captives still don't buy it.

In the following years, when the power of the demon blood gradually faded from the orcs' bodies, the orcs became less violent and dangerous. Some brainless philanthropists who had not experienced the first and second Dark Gate Wars completely ignored how the orcs massacred villages and cities in the human world and how much damage they caused, and instead spoke up for the orcs who were deeply oppressed and enslaved by humans.

Of course, this is no longer a problem.

Twenty-five thousand orcs who have lost their will to fight are a level that almost any kingdom in the eleven countries of the alliance can handle.

Moreover, according to Duke's proposal, except for the most broad-minded Lordaeron who is willing to accept 15,000 of them, the rest will be shared equally by countries that did not suffer serious damage in the war, either by paying money or providing manpower to open prisoner-of-war camps.

Duke's family planning policy package for the orcs was also passed by a large majority at the throne meeting.

As history has shown, the Alliance eventually decided to build a total of three small internment camps in Hillsbrad Foothills and Arathi Highlands.

Duke asked Llane to temporarily lend all the ships under the name of Stormwind Kingdom to Daelin, because Daelin was going to lead a large army to Stranglethorn Vale to find trouble with the goblins and Blackwater Pirates. It was because of the goblins, a group of money-hungry bastards, that the Horde had a large number of warships, which almost caused the Alliance to fail.

We may not go into a full-scale war with the goblins yet, but we must at least extract from these heartless guys a staggering amount of compensation that will make them suffer for years.

In exchange, Daelin transferred almost all of Kul Tiras' civilian merchant ships and cargo ships to Stormwind to support the restoration of the Stormwind Kingdom.

In this era, it is not an easy task to revive a kingdom with a population of one million. Even though Duke had prepared for this and had Edwin VanCleef start preparing before the counterattack on the southern continent, and even started preparing the materials needed to rebuild Stormwind before the large army landed in Stormwind.

Stormwind City was completely destroyed. The orc clan that owned Stormwind City was a bunch of unromantic bastards. They tore down almost every wooden pillar in the city to make firewood, and then piled up the stones to make animal pens. The entire old Stormwind City, except for Stormwind Fortress, was basically completely torn down. It needed the most thorough reconstruction.

Rebuilding Stormwind City, along with over a hundred settlements in Elwynn Forest and Duskwood, is an enormous undertaking.

Of course, this is not something that can be accomplished in a short period of time.

Logically speaking, Duke, an expert in internal affairs, should be extremely busy.

However, most of the time, the Stormwind high-ranking officials could only see Duke's butler, Makaro. This butler, who was a mercenary, became Duke's number one representative in handling Stormwind's internal affairs. The reconstruction of Stormwind was entirely handed over to the Stonemasons Brotherhood led by VanCleef.

Llane asked where Duke was more than once, but each time he only knew that Duke was wandering around in his own fiefdom, not knowing what he was doing.

As for Duke, Llane and Anduin had almost spoiled him and let him do whatever he wanted. They would never order Duke to do anything. Seeing that most of Duke's people were working hard to rebuild Stormwind, they just let Duke do what he wanted.

What is Duke doing?

In mid-December, many places in the Eastern Kingdoms were very cold. Elwynn Forest was a relatively warm area, and it was not spring-like all year round, but the temperature of about 18 degrees was suitable for hot springs.

Near Stone Lake in East Elwynn Forest, now renamed Windrunner Lake, Sylvanas was running fast in the forest.

"That bastard Duke! He has no sense of being the Grand Duke. Every time I need to find someone, he's nowhere to be found." Sylvanas was full of complaints.

With the surrender of the orcs and the restoration of Stormwind Kingdom, Duke, the Grand Duke, suddenly became worthy of the title. As the price of poaching the Windrunner family from Quel'Thalas at that time, Duke granted a large piece of fief to the three Windrunner sisters.

From the moment she got her fiefdom back, Sylvanas became the official Viscountess of East Duskwood.

Sylvanas had never enjoyed the luxury or happiness of an aristocrat for half a day, and was immediately shocked by the miserable situation of the territory. Darkshire had to be rebuilt, and more than a thousand human citizens had to be resettled. It was said that there were more than 3,000 former Darkshire citizens in Hillsbrad, eagerly waiting for the ship to arrive, eager to return to their former homeland to spend the winter.

After realizing what the New Year meant to humans, Sylvanas became anxious.

She once complained to Duke, but Duke dismissed her with the universally recognized rule in the aristocratic world that 'a great lord cannot directly command the lord's subjects'.

Now the complicated internal affairs have finally driven her crazy.

Who knew, when she approached the steaming lake, her pointed ears suddenly pricked up and she heard some terrible noises.

"Hmm...hmm...ah..."

Sylvanas blushed at the sweet murmur of his sister.

"Asshole! Here in broad daylight... Humph!" No matter what, Vereesa is still his third sister.

Sylvanas was also very sad. Ever since the passionate kiss in public at the Dark Portal, her eldest sister and third sister had completely fallen for her. She didn't become a fangirl, but being with her sisters and hearing them talk about Duke all the time really annoyed Sylvanas, so she dragged her fourth sister to Duskwood.

Originally she wanted to wait for Vereesa to finish, but she ended up waiting for half an hour with no sign of stopping. Sylvanas could no longer bear it, so she fired an arrow that drew a conspicuous arc and hit the lake, splashing water all over the sky.