Seeing off the Defia Brotherhood's sailboat, Yang Yi returned to the town center of Ratchet Town.

On the platform in the center of town was a large low table with three maps spread out on it.

These three maps are all Yang Yi's gains a while ago.

The first two maps are the map of the continent of Kalimdor and the map of the Barren Lands, both of which were drawn by Baoyu, who "has a great uncle".

These two maps look a little rough drawn, and Baoyu's painter Yang Yi does not dare to compliment.

The third map is a map of the future Ratchet City drawn by Van Cleef.

The former leader of the Stormwind City Stonemason Association was different, and in Yang Yi's opinion, the fineness of this picture was basically no different from that printed by a precision machine.

It can be seen from the planning map of Ratchet City that Van Cleef stayed in Ratchet Town for more than a month to investigate and investigate, and he really put his heart into it.

According to Van Cleef, if the Ratchet Fishmen were able to complete most of the construction on this plan, the future Ratchet City would not be much inferior to Stormwind.

Ignoring the construction plan of the urban area of Ratchet City on the drawings, the planning of the periphery alone made Yang Yi feel that Van Cleef's idea was very bold and forward-looking.

Van Cleef combined the actual situation of Ratchet Town and designed three satellite towns for the future Ratchet Town on the planning map.

The three satellite towns are located in the Stavest Oasis to the west, Warrior Island to the southeast, and Thorn Ridge to the north.

The towns of the Backwater Oasis guard Ratchet's main gateway to the interior, the towns of Warrior Island defend Ratchet's choke point to the sea, and the towns of Thornridge defend the high ground north of Ratchet and overlook the Raging River.

Not only that, but Van Cleef also designed transportation links for all three towns.

On the map, the Backwater Oasis will have a subway to Ratchet City, the Thorn Ridge Heights will be connected to Ratchet City by elevators, and Warrior Island will be mainly transported by boat.

According to Van Cleef's idea, Ratchet Town first occupied three strongholds and built a Fishman Village, and then the three Fishman Villages slowly developed along with the central Ratchet Town, expanding outward little by little.

When it grows and expands to the point that the three Fish-Man Villages and Ratchet Town are all bordered and fused together, it will be a Fish-Man Super City.

Yang Yi put aside the future planning of Ratchet Town.

The reason why he looked at the three maps together was because he was thinking about something, something important about the future direction of the ratchet fishmen.

To put it simply, Yang Yi decided to set a direction for the future of the ratchet fish people.

Whether it's hugging the thighs of the tribe, joining the alliance, or being neutral, the ratchet people themselves have to have a clear direction.

Setting the direction first, whether you can succeed is another matter, but at least you can take the initiative to work in this direction. You can't wait for someone else to come to you every time like you did before, and then passively pick up.

For this, Yang Yi has really worked hard in the past few days, he has read these maps on the table over and over again, and he can almost imprint the maps in his mind.

Yang Yi took out a piece of parchment and spread it flat on the low table, only to see a large ranking word on it.

Written on the top of the parchment are "tribe", "alliance" and "neutrality", which is the general direction that Yang Yi needs to choose.

Also below are "Thunder Bluff", "Theramore", "Ratchet City", "Senjin Village", "Undercity", "Stonemalt Ogre", "Terror Totem Minotaur", "Kokar Centaur", "Steelmane Boar Man", ......

Yang Yi listed all the races, forces, and organizations in the world of Azeroth that he had encountered, heard, and thought of. The reason why he listed these names on parchment was to use these forces as a reference.

Yang Yi's idea is very simple, instead of relying on his own thoughts, it is better to refer to the road taken by others.

If others fail to take this path, the ratchet fish man will hurry up and take a detour as soon as possible; If the others succeeded, the ratchet people hurried to see if there was a chance to follow.

The first is the simple method of elimination:

"Steel-maned boar man, eating and drinking, blocking the road and robbing, mixing too badly, fork off first"

"The Kokar centaurs, who are enemies of everyone, have also become public enemies, and have also been forked"

"The Stone Mallet Ogre, as one of the few ogre clans that still belong to the tribal camp, is quite so-so. Let's draw a circle first. ”

"The terrifying totem minotaur has a very bad reputation, but he hugged the thighs of the Thunder Cliff Minotaur, and his life seems to be quite moist. Let's draw a circle, too."

Yang Yi looked at the names one by one, and when he encountered something that could not be decided immediately, he drew a circle to be determined.

As a result, after a round, the whole parchment paper is basically circled.

"It's really hard to choose." Yang Yi was very helpless.

"I still have to find a military advisor." Yang Yi thought for a while, "A big chin is suitable." ”

Although the big chin has lost its memory, it has not lost its IQ. As the king of Stormwind, he should be very good at this analysis.

Big Chin did not follow the Brotherhood of Difia back to the Eastern Kingdom, after all, the two sides had a holiday, and it was not suitable to stay on the same ship, so as not to have any unnecessary accidents.

Yang Yi got the news that after a while, Dulongtal had a ship sailing to the Hidden Treasure Bay of the Eastern Kingdom. He had discussed with Big Chin that he would take that ship to the Eastern Kingdom, so Big Chin would leave later.

In view of the previous incident of "kidnapping the envoy", it seems that there are high-ranking people in Stormwind City who have betrayed the king, so Big Jaw feels that it is not appropriate to reveal his identity first at this time.

He planned to hide his identity and return to Stormwind City first, and then make plans after the situation was clarified.

Yang Yi ran around to find the big chin, and then told the big chin about his problem.

"You're going to let me do it for you?" Big Chin carefully read all the words on the parchment before asking.

Yang Yi nodded, at present, the only thing that can be relied on in Ratchet Town is the big chin.

"I'll tell you what I think, and it's up to you to decide." Big chin said.

Big Chin put the parchment on the table first, he pointed to the map of the Kalimdor continent and analyzed: "The barren land where Ratchet Town is located is in the middle of the Kalimdor continent, and the Kalimdor continent is currently dominated by the power of the tribe. ”

"The tribe is mainly made up of Orgrimmar's orcs, the Minotaurs of Thunder Bluff, the Darkspear Trolls of Senjin Village, and the Forsaken of Undercity, all of whom are in Kalimdor except for Undercity in the Eastern Kingdom."

"Thunder Bluff is on the western side of the Barren Lands at Mogore, and Orgrimmar and Senjin Village are both on the eastern side of the Barren Lands at Durontal. In other words, the barren land where Ratchet Town is located is actually sandwiched between the three main forces of the Horde. ”

"Look at this map of the Barren Lands again." The big chin pointed to the map of the Barren Lands, "Ratchet Town is located in Ratchet Bay, aside from the wild boar people, centaurs and other forces that are difficult to achieve the climate, in addition to the human forces in the south, Ratchet Town is also controlled by the forces of the tribe in the north, east and west. ”

Yang Yi heard the analysis of the big chin here, and roughly understood the meaning of the big chin, and he asked: "So, the current situation is that Ratchet Town is surrounded by tribal forces, and the fishmen can't take refuge in the tribe?" ”

"The northern castle south of Ratchet Town is surrounded by tribal forces like the humans of Theramore, and they are self-sufficient." Big chin said.

"Since humans can't be relied on, is there any hope for Ratchet Town to take the neutral route?" Yang Yi asked again.

"If you want to be neutral in the position of Ratchet Town, unless Ratchet Town is strong enough to resist the advance of the Horde, or Ratchet Town has been so weak that its tribe is not interested in you at all, it will be extremely difficult."

Ratchet fish people naturally don't have enough strength at the moment, but Yang Yi doesn't want to be weak all the time, so it's really difficult to be neutral.

"This ......"

Yang Yi was speechless, after analyzing it like this, there was only one thing left to take refuge in the tribe.

The big chin also saw his thoughts from Yang Yi's expression: "Speaking of which, due to the bad reputation of the fish-man clan, with the previous behavior style of the major forces of the alliance, it is basically certain that they will not accept the ratchet fish-man. ”

"But the Horde has a precedent for accepting the Darkspear Trolls and the Forsaken, and the Trolls and the Undead are much more notorious than the Fishmen."

"But Ratchet Town just fought with the Orcs of the Horde, and the Tribe is now led by the Orc Chieftain." Big chin said.

"Then ......," Yang Yi was stunned, "In this way, Ratchet Town has no way out but to become the enemy of the whole world like a centaur?" ”

Big chin waved his hand: "I'm just saying my opinion, as for how Ratchet Town will go down, it's up to you." ”

"You're on your own."

Yang Yi kept repeating the same sentence, and he looked at the map a few more times, and found that he couldn't see any other way except to confirm that the big chin analysis was correct.

In the end, he had to pick up the parchment paper on the table again and re-mark them one by one with charcoal.

"If you don't join the tribe or join the alliance, you're still as weak as the ratchet fish people at the beginning......"

Yang Yi crossed the names one by one according to this principle, and finally found that there were only a few names left.

"The rest are all miserable races like boar people, kobolds, lobster people, and jackals."

Yang Yi looked at the remaining names and smiled bitterly, but his eyes suddenly lit up when he swept over the last name.

"Bear monsters."

As far as Yang Yi knew, some of the Bear Monster tribes had alliances with the Night Elves, and had joined forces with the Night Elves to fight the Burning Legion. However, the bear monster did not join the Alliance, so it was not an enemy of the Horde.

"The Bears are also a semi-civilized and weak race like the Fishmen, and if the Echinodons want to follow the Bears' route, then the one who can ally with them is ......"

"The Minotaur of Thunder Cliff!"

Yang Yi immediately thought of the Minotaurs, most of whom advocated peace, and Bane Bloodhoof, the son of the Minotaur Chief of Thunder Cliff, had always had a good attitude towards the Ratchet Fishmen.

"Ratchet Town can use the Minotaur Bane or the Dead Water Minotaur Village as a breakthrough to further establish a relationship with the Minotaurs. The Minotaur banner is still very useful, and the last incident in the Backwater Oasis was because Bane arrived in time to make the orcs finally decide to withdraw. ”

Thinking of this, Yang Yi muttered, "If you replace the bear monster with a fish man, the night elf with a minotaur, and then replace the alliance with a tribe......"

The big chin was also bright, but he didn't speak, he let Yang Yi make his own decision.

"It seems like a good idea for the Ratchet Fishmen to be allies with the Minotaurs, but not to join the Horde."

"Bears are to the Alliance, and Fishmen are to the Tribe."

"That's it!"