Chapter 1: Recent Developments in the Empire

After Lu Zhongli came back from the Cave of Time, he rarely went out, and even when he did, he took the guards with him. www.biquge.info if you encounter an assassination, you don't have to do it yourself.

Five thousand years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the Thunder Empire has evolved into a behemoth that spans the middle of Kalimdor.

The territory is vast. The Stonetalon Mountains, the Etheles, the Mogore, and part of the Barren Lands, plus part of Firas, are a million square kilometers.

The population is at its peak. The total population of the Thunder Empire is as high as 10 million people, and the three major cities, High Cliff City, Etheresor City, and Solansar City, each city has a population of one million, and the most populous High Cliff City even has a population of more than two million.

Food is plentiful. Mogaulei itself is a large granary, and there are many pastures on it, which ensures that Mogaolei is indeed nutritionally balanced. After thousands of years of transformation, most of the Ethelsor can now be cultivated, and the Fireshield Fortress, the Ethelsor and the Saveris Coast are large granaries, with plenty of rain and fertile land. The barren land is now also covered with grass, and is the main pasture of the Thunder Empire.

Adequate resources. After thousands of years of exploration, the Thunder Empire has a lot of minerals for the entire empire. And the largest mineral is in the golden mountain on the Thunder Cliff. All kinds of metals on the gold mountain are inexhaustible, all of them have been piled up for thousands of years, and now the gold mountain is the first peak on the thunder cliff, up to 10,000 meters, and piled up to the entire exchange position, and even encroached on many places in the dry position and the kun position.

The soldiers are strong. There are more than a dozen standing legions of the Thunder Empire, and each army has at least 10,000 people. This is still an infantry legion, and the high-end corps such as the Kodor Beast Knights, the Frostblade Leopard Knights, the Bipedal Wyvern Knights, the Xiangyun Dragon Knights, and the Royal Guard have all expanded in size. The hidden Knights of the Quilin, the Old Legion, and the Knights of the Kirin are not counted.

Heroes are emerging. According to the Thunder Empire Hero Registry, hundreds of heroes have been registered, half of these heroes are Taoist priests, the remaining professional mages account for half, shamans are half, and the rest are other professions. Half of the races are half-elves, the Night Elves are evenly split between the Deer and the Minotaurs, the Panda People are slightly inferior, and the Bear Monsters and Boar People combined are only five.

There are not many major events in these 5,000 years, but there are still a lot of small things.

After the army stationed on the other side of the Valley of Spears is full, the Empire will need to attack Firas if it wants to train its troops again. Fortunately, with Solansar building a city, it is easy to send the army to Firas, and then fight the local centaurs and eaglemen, constantly accumulating combat experience.

The Minotaurs also made contact with the Minotaurs of Firas, but the Minotaurs there were more xenophobic and did not want to accept help. Maybe it's because they've been isolated by centaurs for thousands of years? The Minotaurs of the Thunder Empire have no choice, after all, they can't fully occupy Firas, and they can't help with the pole.

There were quite a few short men from Tanaris, who called themselves goblins. They say they were once slaves of trolls and have fled.

Lu Zhongli deliberately went to pay attention to Tanaris, and a small village appeared at the junction of Tanaris and the Thousand Needles Stone Forest. The small village grew quickly and soon became a city, but its development was limited due to the water source.

The goblins called this Garkison and established a trade relationship with the Thunder Empire, and these people are very good at making money, and they are desperate for money. In order to better establish trade relations with the Thunder Empire, they not only established a hot sand port on the east coast, but also established a passage between the Thousand Needles Stone Forest and the Barren Land.

The gang used gunpowder to blow up Agamagan's lair, resulting in a large litter of boar people blowing up from inside. The boar people had made holes in the Agamagan's lair when the flood came, and they had lived in it for 8,000 years.

The goblins blew Agamagan's lair in two, killing a lot of boar people, where would these boar people spare this group of goblins? The boar people attacked the route, but did not destroy it or the platform built by the goblins.

Along the lifting platform, the wild boar people also entered the life of the Thousand Needles Stone Forest, and by the way, they could also intercept a goblin.

At first, the goblins were hit with nothing to lose, and many goblins died tragically. However, they still make a lot of money through the hot sand port, and as soon as they have the capital, they will try to open up this shortcut, which will save them a lot of time.

The goblins also want to protect the trade route through the Thunder Empire, but Lu Zhongli did not send troops, this trade route is really dispensable for the empire, because the empire has been producing and selling itself for many years, and there is no shortage of things, and it is the same whether it is sold or not.

While goblins can bring a lot of goodies, the empire can find a substitute for these things, and there is no need to attack one's former allies for this. You must know that there are also some boar people who are also citizens of the empire, and these goblins have caused many people to anger when they blow up Agamagan's lair, including Lu Zhongli.

The relationship between Lu Zhongli and Agamagan is not very good, but after all, the hands of the people are short, and the materials given by Aga Magan have not been used up yet!

Later, the goblins paid for the protection of many wild boar people or minotaurs, and only then did they ensure peace for a while. Later, these guards and the boar people fought flesh and blood, and the feud between the two parties was settled.

In the northern Ashendale, some druids are also beginning to awaken from their emerald dreams. Malfurion has not woken up yet, and the power of the Night Elves is still in the hands of Tyrande, but there are also many druids who have studied in the past from the Thunder Empire who have also entered the Emerald Dream to help.

Graydale has also been in increasing contact with the Thunder Empire, with the Stonetalon Mountains, the Barrens, and the Black Coast all being places where the two sides often communicate. The Black Coast, as trade between the two sides increased, and the larger port of Auberdine appeared, which was the maritime trading point of the Grey Valley.

Overall, the Thunder Empire has gone through five thousand years smoothly, and Lu Zhongli is still very satisfied with these people under him. However, as the hearts of the people were not satisfied, many people began to pursue fiefdoms, among which several archdukes were the most eager, because if they could obtain fiefs, they would become dukes, semi-independent of the empire, just like the boar men of Razor Canyon and the bear monsters of Giant Wood Valley.

Lu Zhongli is not in a hurry, these people can't go to the sky for the time being, Lu Zhongli has too much high-end combat power in his hands. Each of the five great divine beasts is in charge of its own alone, and their strength is no worse than that of a demigod.

Perhaps Lu Zhongli was too peaceful, and Oz hurriedly found him: "Your Majesty, there is a bronze dragon named Anaklos looking for you."

"Anaklos?" Lu Zhongli thought for a moment, remembering that it was this Anaklos who found him when he went to the Cave of Time.

Could it be that the bronze dragon has found Nozdorm? (To be continued.) )