Chapter Seventy-One: Five Years
Five years have passed since the end of the First Battle of Argus, and the Alliance has entered a period of unprecedented rapid development, especially in Stormwind.
With the Iron Legion, MI7 and his own high prestige, after losing the great enemy of the Burning Legion, Varian slashed at the nobles with the first sword, and one power after another was withdrawn from the hands of the nobles, and the noble council was completely turned into a decoration.
It was not that there were no nobles who tried to resist, but the result of the rebellion was that they were crushed to slag by the Iron Legion, and the nobles who were finally subdued could only reluctantly accept the status quo, and the Stormwind Kingdom entered an unprecedented era of absolute monarchy.
During the reign of the Ming monarch, the dictatorship system was actually superior, and the monarch could do what he wanted without constraint and let the whole country move in the ideal direction.
For example, the Kingdom of Stormwind, after Claudia's return, issued one order after another that was met with a lot of opposition.
Schools have been established one after another throughout the Kingdom, and the Kingdom will provide 12 years of compulsory education for all school-age children, including six years of basic education and six years of vocational education.
If parents dare not let their children go to school, then according to Claudia's "Compulsory Education Act", parents will be fined between 3 and 7 copper coins per day, in this case, a large number of parents are reluctant to send their children to school as "labor".
Among these children, the gifted, from the age of twelve will be transferred to professional schools to train in the methods of combat.
Those who are not gifted will enter professional schools and study engineering, alchemy, and blacksmithing...... and other expertise in the service of the Kingdom in another form.
A large number of mechanical gnomes were borrowed by Claudia from Mimiron to Stormwind City, and the industrial reform of the Stormwind Kingdom began, with nuclear power plants, magic machines, matrix computers, ...... Gems have appeared in Stormwind City, factories have sprung up, and human life has changed with each passing day, eventually affecting the entire Alliance.
In addition to the gnome technology, the Alliance's magic technology has also made breakthroughs, mainly due to Gianna's contribution to Karazan's book collection and the addition of the elves.
Although the elves have long since ceased production after the Naraksha engine was recovered, the number of elves that have been produced is close to 100,000, some of them choose to stay in the Stormwind Kingdom, and some go to Dalaran and Quel'Thalas, where they live happily with other tall races.
In this case, all kinds of magic products have emerged one after another under the alliance of Dalaran-Quel'Salas, and Hearthstone and portal technologies have begun to mature and popularize, and as long as you pay a little money, you can reach most corners of the Eastern Kingdom in an instant.
This is a glorious era, and it is not only science and technology that has been greatly developed, but also the strong have reached an unprecedented heyday.
With the power seeds obtained from the Battle of Argus, all kinds of masters in the world emerged in an endless stream for a while, coupled with the breech guns that had begun to be popularized, the monsters entrenched in all corners of the world have since fallen into blood mold, and one monster lair after another has been wiped out, and a large number of low-level monsters have been extinct, which has greatly increased the safety of mortals' lives.
You know, Azeroth is a fantasy world similar to Feron.
There are a large number of monsters entrenched outside the town, take the Stormwind Kingdom's Elwin, the Western Wilderness and other places as an example, there are fishmen, kobolds, gnolls, giant wolves, mutant boars, spider monsters and other monsters in the wild, the sheriff and guards only ensure the safety of the road, and mortals as long as they leave the road a little, it is easy to become a monster's meal.
Countless mortals die in the belly of monsters every year, and it is only for thousands of years that humans have multiplied.
After a large number of monsters in the world were exterminated, the alliance and the tribe had no intention of starting a war with each other, and for a while, the world was peaceful, and the whole world entered a new era of prosperity.
Stormwind Palace.
Angela is fourteen years old, with sparkling skin, smooth and shiny blonde hair, delicate doll-like features, and well-developed breasts like her mother, she has grown into a beautiful girl.
In the morning, after getting up at the repeated urging of the maid after delaying until the last moment as always, Angela rubbed her hazy eyes and asked the maid anxiously:
"Lisa, what is the Queen Mother doing, did she ask me?"
The elder maid replied with a smile: "Don't worry, Your Highness, Her Majesty the Queen and Her Majesty have been out very early today, and they are said to have gone to the Silver Pine Forest, and they will not be back until at least two days later." ”
"Great!" With Angela's cheers, she stood up and spun around, her face was full of cheerful smiles, and her big lake blue eyes also showed joy and excitement that could not be concealed, "The queen mother is finally out again, Lisa, where is Brother Anduin now?" ”
After getting Lisa's answer, Angela didn't even want to spend more time dressing up, she combed herself in two double ponytails at random, picked out a trimmed white casual dress to put on, and ran to the library, where Anduin was debating with a beautiful brunette beauty.
"Brother." Angela's sweet call interrupted the two sides of the debate, and Anduin turned around, a doting smile on his face, and he led Angela over and introduced her to the brunette beauty.
"Angela, this is Lashio, the princess of the Black Dragon Legion."
"Rahio, this is my sister, Angela."
Angela gave a hasty salute to Lacio, and then, despite Rashio's presence, embraced Anduin's arm and prayed:
"Brother, I want to go to Dalaran for a day, can you come with me?"
"Don't you have a class in the morning, you shouldn't be planning to skip class again?"
"Yes," Angela nodded confidently, "Anyway, my mother is not here, so why study." ”
It makes sense.
Anduin was speechless for a moment.
In fact, in addition to Claudia's constant pressure on her daughter's studies, both Varian and Anduin condone Angela's laziness in skipping classes.
So much so that although Angela has a top-level bright bloodline, and has various professional heroes found by Claudia as teachers, she is still a veritable waste wood at the age of fourteen, and her strongest stunt is the coquettish and cute Hearthstone battle.
"Okay." Anduin touched Angela's hair dotingly, and smiled apologetically at Rahio:
"I'm sorry, Lahio, it seems that our debate has only been suspended for the time being, I have to accompany my sister to Dalaran, and if you don't mind, I suggest we come here again tomorrow to discuss the book."
"I have a better proposal, Prince Anduin," Rashio's soft, crisp voice sounded, "How about we meet tomorrow at the Mist Liquor Shop in Pandaria, where the panda people have a very different wisdom than here, and the sake in that shop is good." ”
"Then it's settled." Anduin smiled and agreed, and soon after, he took Angela and the two royal knights to the portal......
Angela had a good day in Dalaran, but when she returned, she couldn't be happier, and the maid Lisa whispered to her the last thing she wanted to hear:
"Your Highness, Her Majesty the Queen has returned early, she already knows about your skipping class, and she has instructed that you must go to see her as soon as you return."
It's over.
At this time, Angela's heart was broken, and after a long time, she finally did not dare to go directly to see her mother, and chose to go to Aunt Gianna's room to seek refuge.
Compared with a few years ago, Gianna at this time is much younger, she looks like a girl, as soon as she saw Angela, her face showed a look of understanding, and said with a smile:
"Angela, you've been caught skipping class again?"
Angela nodded pitifully and pleaded, "Help me, Aunt Gianna, or the Queen Mother will definitely kill me today." ”
"She won't, kid." Gianna smiled and shook her head, but she chose to help anyway and went to Claudia, who was with Varian when she arrived.
After listening to what Gianna had to say, Varian laughed disappreciatively:
"Okay, Claudia, why don't you skip class once, just ask Angela to apologize to Bishop Dravid tomorrow and admit her mistake."
"You two are too used to her," Claudia said helplessly, "Angela obviously has such a good talent, but she can't even use a light spell until now, isn't it all because she is lazy at every opportunity?" ”
Varian smiled, "What does it matter if the cultivation is slow, Claudia, anyway, the era of peace has come, and I don't need her much strength, just live happily, with our strength, can't we do this?" ”
Claudia admits that Varian has a point.
In the final analysis, isn't the biggest motivation for her to fight hard so that her children's generation doesn't have to live her own kind of swords?
Now her daughter is such a wastewood, although it will make Claudia feel very shameful...... But to some extent, it can be regarded as achieving Claudia's original intention.
"Even so, didn't we hunt monsters too cleanly in the first two years, you see, now our next generation can't find a place to sharpen." Claudia worried.
"Indeed," Varian nodded, recalling the official document he had read two days ago, "since last year, the Dawn Forest has had a much higher rate of professional births than other regions, probably because of its proximity to the Valley of Thorns. ”
Gianna blinked, "There's no way around it, we can't let the monsters continue to hurt our people, can we?" ”
"That's right." Claudia put the matter aside and called a maid, "Liz, go get Angela......"