Chapter 1112: Lover's Island
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At this point in time, there is a very subtle magical effect.
As a black dragon who infiltrated the circle of mixed aristocrats in the human world, Onexia is worthy of being a strange dragon with quite high political attributes.
Knowing that it was impossible to deprive Duke of all her fiefdoms, she set her sights on the struggle for power from the very beginning.
It is not for nothing that the Marcus family has the power to fall into the Storm Kingdom, firstly, the Marcus family's direct domain is the largest, and secondly, the Marcus family has many ways to make money, and the tax revenue of the territory only accounts for less than one percent of the total income.
A family that controls almost all the economic lifelines of the entire kingdom is too fake if it doesn't fight back.
Duke's current approach is a typical lose-lose situation.
The nobles did control all the railroads leading to the Red Ridge Mountains, the Swamp of Sorrows, and the Cursed Lands, and declared that if Duke did not give in, he would continue to raise taxes, starting with 100% of tolls without limit.
Duke simply didn't let the train cross the border, and he didn't let any transport vehicles into the Elwyn Forest. You know, trains have been in the forest for more than fifteen years, and cheap train transportation has long since washed away all the traditional horse-drawn carriage transportation industry.
If it weren't for the fact that the technology of the steam engine was not yet mature, and there were no automobiles, perhaps even the horse-drawn carriage would have withdrawn from the Storm Kingdom. Most of today's horse-drawn carriages are responsible for feeder transportation, and they are suddenly required to bear the heavy burden of long-distance transportation, which is simply a drop in the bucket.
Duke stopped the train, which was a blow to the Marcus family's trade, but it also hurt the supply of Overwatch in the Cursed Lands.
The catch from Red Ridge Mountain, combined with the conversion of the Swamp of Sorrow into farmland, barely kept up with the needs of the defenders of the Watchtower, but it was peacetime, and once the war broke out, the army poured into the Watchtower, which was a drop in the bucket.
For the Overwatch to obtain additional supplies, it must now pass through the docks set up on the Reed Coast. But there's another problem, in the middle of the Swamp of Sorrow is the Temple of Atahaca, an area that Duke strictly forbidden. Therefore, the passage from the northern part of the Sorrowful Marsh to the docks of the Reed Coast is not completely safe.
Therefore, the high toll of the aristocracy must not be able to last long. In case of damage to the Alliance's largest defense system, the Watchtower, Duke pressed down the big hat of 'damaging the Watchtower's defense system and indulging the demons into the world of Azeroth' as the Alliance's commander, and the nobles could not eat and walk around.
The current Storm Nobles are much cleaner than those in the first year of the Dark Gate. Unfortunately, it's still not clean enough.
It was Duke who used the Blood Sail Pirates to destroy the nobles without Ryan's full support, and as a result, he left his tail. When Duke disappeared twice, perhaps out of a compensatory mentality, or because he felt that there was a space in the council chamber, Ryan also let many noble children with dead remnants inherit the main family and restore the family name before his death.
It's just that Ryan never thought that after the death of him and Lothar, the restoration of the aristocratic forces would be so ferocious. In addition, as the regent, Boval was also from a great aristocratic background after all, and as a result, a new batch of moths was born.
These guys don't have the courage to be tough with Duke, and in their opinion, as long as they keep their power, Duke can still pay them tolls, which is perfect.
After Duke's lose-lose move, voices for peace among conservatives also prevailed. The nobles all told Katrana to take it when she saw it.
The Black Dragon Princess is here to make trouble, and she doesn't want to tear her face until she fully absorbs the supreme power of the Storm Kingdom. So in her opinion, Duke is seeking peace in the name of the Valentine's Day Association.
"A good excuse. It is also very consistent with his identity as a duke of hunting beauty. The black dragon princess, who had taken the form of Katrana, smiled lightly.
A few dukes came up: "That...... What are you going to do?"
"Date? Of course I'll go. The essence of politics is compromise. Since it is not beneficial to both sides, peace talks are the only way out. If Grand Duke Marcus is willing to give up his few queen lovers and offer a high enough price, what if I marry him?"
If he only found out that I was a dragon on his wedding night, and then I tore me apart, he would only be left with half of his body as a great hero of the alliance...... Mmmm, that expression must be great!
Onexia's evil smile was seen by the nobles as confident.
The stagnation of logistics has caused a considerable degree of chaos within the kingdom, but there are two places that have not been affected:
One is the Western Wilderness, where the railroad still supplies the Pioneer Corps who are carving out territory in the Valley of Thorns.
The second is Stormwind City, although all the materials that should be transported to the Elwin Forest are piled up in the warehouse of Shining Gold Town, the cargo distribution center, but the daily necessities supplied to Stormwind City are still not lacking at all.
It looks like the upcoming Valentine's Day event on February 14 has not been affected in the slightest. The army has continued the tradition of giving holidays to all soldiers on non-emergency missions or alert units for more than a decade. Soldiers in civilian clothes poured into the streets of Stormwind, dressing up themselves with the military pay they had been dragging in their hands for months to show their affection, or buying gifts for their girlfriends who had been separated for a while.
As one of the large-scale series of activities to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Alliance, Stormwind City has a big Valentine's Day this year. The Marcus family took advantage of their well-developed seafood to get a large number of incomparably beautiful giant corals and shells from the bottom of the sea, and then specially built a 'lover's island' in the center of Mirror Lake outside Stormwind.
It was a hollow man-made island with a labyrinthine interior.
Couples can spend 10 silver coins to rent a beautifully decorated two-person dinghy and paddle into the cave of Lover's Island, in the deep but well-lit waterway, while listening to the melodious violin and piano concerto spread throughout the island, while admiring the various decorations on both sides of the waterway arranged like the Dragon Palace in a fairy tale, enjoying the romance and warmth.
There are a total of 1,024 waterways for the general public, each with a total length of 300 meters and a time limit of 10 minutes.
There are 108 waterways for the best people, each time charging 10 gold coins, but the time limit is 90 minutes, and there is a private small dock at the end of the waterway that can be uploaded, providing a variety of 'you know' services.
As for the highest-grade waterways, there are only 12 of them, and the toll is even more murderous - as high as 1,000 gold coins. I don't know anything else, anyway, it was opened as early as three days before Valentine's Day, and the nobles who used it all said it was good!