Is Kurtilas richer than Stormwind Kingdom?

Claudia is a little strange, in fact, it's not just her, most people don't know much about the sea country far away from the mainland, but as far as Claudia knows, how did Kul Tiras be so rich with a small territory and a population less than half of the Stormwind Kingdom?

"It's by sea trade."

Varian also knew that Claudia might not know much about Kul Tiras, so he first summarized it succinctly, and then explained Kul Tiras's condition in more detail.

Kurtilas is an island country with many hills and small arable land, so in order to survive, the islanders can only think of other ways to go other than farming, such as business, generations of Kurtilas merchants have driven merchant ships one after another, from Stormwind to Lordaeron, from Minahir Port to Quel'Thalas, earning the benefits of maritime trade, as a result, for hundreds of years, Kurtiras, who has the smallest arable land, has become the richest of the kingdoms.

Claudia has no doubt about the huge profits of maritime trade, she also knows a lot of examples in the history of the earth, such as Venice in the Renaissance, the Netherlands, Britain and other countries, all of which became rich for a while by controlling the maritime trade, take Venice in the fifteenth century as an example, obviously the mainland is just a small island with no arable land and little population, but the income of the Venetian government can reach more than 200 times that of France at the same time, and even more than the income of the Ming government in its heyday.

"The size of our Storm Kingdom fleet is also very large, can we also make up for the empty treasury through sea trade?" Claudia asked.

"Actually, we did have some of the income from sea trade before, but now we don't have it."

Varian took a sip of the cup in his hand, and when he noticed that Claudia was interested in these things, he continued, and Claudia learned more.

Originally, although it was not as good as Kurtilas, the Stormwind Kingdom also had a part of the sea trade market, and Stormwind City was also a big port, and a large number of the Kingdom's fleets also existed because of trade, but at the beginning of this year, not only did the Stormwind Kingdom not make money, but even Kurtilas had a hard time.

The peace and stability of the overall environment of the continent is a prerequisite for trade, and the destruction of Lordaeron and Quel'Thallas has seriously damaged the originally prosperous maritime trade since the beginning of this year.

With the assistance of the Sun Well, the High Elves are rich in food, fruits, and all kinds of magic props, and they are generally extremely greedy for enjoyment, and can consume most of the human crafts and various luxury goods every year, so the trade between humans and the High Elves was originally the most important link, but now the High Elves have suffered heavy losses, and the Sun Well has been destroyed, and the High Elves who rely heavily on the Sun Well may not even be able to support themselves, and the trade will not be carried out again for several years.

"Varian, I didn't expect you to know so much." After listening intently to Varian's explanation, Claudia looked at the other with some admiration and a slight compliment.

"What is this, although I am more interested in martial arts and military affairs, but this is also a state affair, and I will know something about it."

Although Varian was submissive, the curvature of the corners of his mouth showed that he was obviously very useful for the girl's compliment.

Claudia pondered what Varian had just said, and her eyes suddenly lit up: "Varian, after listening to what you said, I think the Night Elves may be able to replace Quel'Thalas and become our new trade partner. ”

"Night Elves? Can they sustain trade on such a large scale? Varian wondered, although he had the experience of fighting side by side with the Night Elves this time, but because of the short time they had been together, he didn't know much about the Night Elves, and he had reached a symbolic trade agreement with the Night Elves in previous meetings, but the scale of the transaction was small, and it was limited to a small number of items such as high-end fruit wine that Varian liked.

Claudia said while thinking: "Yes, it's the Night Elves, I've read the books of the Night Elves, I know a lot about them, the Night Elves are not short of food like Quettore with the assistance of the Druids, and the moon cloth dyed and woven with the water of the moon well is lightweight, warm and comfortable, and it will definitely be welcomed by us humans, but what should we use to exchange it for Cadore?" I always felt that Cadore was not very interested in crafts and luxury......"

Not only is he not interested in handicrafts and luxury, but he always feels that those Kadores have no desires!

Claudia thought of this, her voice became lower and lower, the night elves believe in druid culture, pay attention to self-sufficiency, nature can give them everything they need, they have plenty of food and fruits, wear soft and comfortable moon cloth, even the paper used for writing is made of fallen leaves of Nodashir, the quality of life is full of human beings, and because of the difference in beliefs and cultures, from the perspective of Drass Crescent, who is responsible for taking care of Claudia, Most Night Elves are not interested in human crafts and luxuries at all.

Varian was silent for a moment, then suddenly clapped his high-fives, and his voice became excited: "I thought of what we could trade with them." ”

"What's that?" Claudia hurriedly asked curiously.

"It's weapons and armor!" Varian's eyes lit up, "I have carefully studied the soldiers of the Night Elves, although they are all excellent warriors, but the weapons and equipment are not very good, most of the soldiers are still wearing leather armor, and the remaining small amount of iron armor is generally of poor quality, several grades worse than the stainless steel armor produced in Ironforge Castle, and the quality of their weapons also has the same problem!" ”

"yes, why didn't I notice that." The blonde girl also suddenly realized, she naturally knew the reason for the poor armor and weapons of the Night Elves, and also because of the belief in druid culture, the Night Elves preferred leather armor, even if they had to make a small amount of iron armor and iron weapons, because they could not make steel, the quality must be very poor.

You must know that dwarves and humans make steel on the premise of serious damage to the environment, through the large-scale mining of coal and oil as fuel, blast furnaces to reach a sufficient temperature, and the night elves cannot use fire magic, how can it be possible to make steel and steel when the temperature is not enough, and the few excellent weapons and armor that exist are probably the products left over from the elven empire.

"Because we focus on different things." Varian, who had solved the problem, was in a good mood and replied to the girl.

Claudia stuck out her tongue in embarrassment, as Varian said, she went to the Night Elves to pay the most attention to food, clothing, shelter and transportation, and before leaving, she didn't forget to ask the Great Druid for a few packets of seeds so that she could eat fruit anytime and anywhere, Varian's first priority must be military-related things, such as weapons and armor.

Claudia thought for a moment and asked again, "But weapons and armor seem to be difficult to destroy, can these alone support a large enough trade?" ”

"Yes." Varian said confidently, "They have a tense relationship with the tribe, and what we need is not valuable to the Night Elves, a piece of armor is enough to exchange for a large amount of food and cloth, the Night Elves need at least thousands of sets of armor and weapons to arm their army, enough for us to exchange for the resources we need, and although the armor and weapons are difficult to destroy, the steel arrows used by the archers are needed in large quantities all year round, not to mention that we can also sell some other weapons, such as artillery and cannonballs to them." ”

"Hmm." Claudia's mood was slightly depressed for a moment, and then she returned to normal, Varian's words reminded her of the reason why the Night Elves needed weapons, and she instinctively resented war, but the Night Elves and the inter-tribal form were like this, and she was powerless to change, not to mention that this deal could also feed her large number of fellow humans.

Varian didn't notice the momentary change in the girl's mood and continued, "The most important thing is that we won't have a competitor in our trade with the Night Elves. ”

"There will be no competitors? Isn't it okay for Kurtilas? Claudia was drawn to Varian's words and wondered.

"Kul Tiras can't do it, because we'll get the goods directly from Ironforge." Varian explained, "You may not know, but there is a mine subway between Ironforge and Stormwind, which is basically the only way for the dwarves to import and export their goods, and the convenient transportation between us and the dwarves is the biggest advantage. The dwarves like to brew spirits, but Ironforge doesn't produce food, so we can use the food we get from the Night Elves to exchange the dwarves for armor and swords, and then give it to the Night Elves, so that we can earn enough gold in one trip. ”

Claudia thought about it a few more times, found that there was no problem, and admired Varian: "Varian, I didn't expect you to know so much about these things, congratulations on solving this problem." ”

"Hahaha." Varian laughed and took the girl in his arms, "Thanks to your knowledge of the Night Elves, you helped me with a solution." ”

"No, even without me, as we communicate more and more with the Night Elves, there will definitely be others who will think of it." The girl said modestly.

Varian was in a very good mood, and he became more and more fond of the girl in his arms, and tonight he not only solved the problem of the disaster riot, but also got a stable channel for money, and after having money, many problems could be solved, such as forming a new army and fighting against Northern Alsace in the future.

If a new legion can be formed, because the main force of the new legion is composed of displaced people from various countries in the north, and the supplementary soldiers can also be replenished from all the countries of the alliance, this legion will be mainly responsible for battles outside the Stormwind Kingdom in the future, such as the battle against the Lich King, etc., in the case that the alliance now has six regular legions, this new legion composed of outcasts from countries such as Lordan Lundaran in the north is estimated to be the name of the seventh legion.