NO.0356 STORM CITY
The fusion of the Storm Kingdom and the adventurers is just one of the routes that must be passed by the wheel of history, and Yang Long happened to encounter such a good time, so that the crisis that was almost unsolvable could not be solved.
Although there are still people who feel dissatisfied in private, and secretly plan to find ways to do something, but after all, that is a matter of the future, and there is no threat to the current Yang Long.
After walking back to the main road from the woods, Yang Long spent more than a dozen gold coins to buy a carriage and carry a few people to continue towards Stormwind City.
Without the chasing soldiers who threatened their lives, Yang Long and his party were very leisurely, and it took most of the day until late at night before they arrived in a small town more than ten kilometers away from Stormwind City.
As the capital of the Stormwind Kingdom, it is in no way inferior in scale to Lordaeron.
However, compared to Lordaeron under the rule of the great nobles, the capital of the Stormwind Kingdom is relatively more layered.
There are no large undulating buildings for several kilometers in a row, no tens of thousands of homeless people, no gangs in the area, and no aristocratic lords who take commoners at will, except for clean and tidy streets, just buildings of the same size.
Even after nightfall, the town was still brightly lit, and the shops on both sides of the street were crowded, and in each shop of less than 200 square meters, there were at least hundreds of merchants doing business, and the sound of bargaining could be clearly heard on the street.
Patrols of up to fifty people, every ten minutes or so. Patrols are dispatched once, and soldiers with an average strength of mid-level or above, as well as the occasional high-level professional, ensure the safety of the trading area.
Moreover, this is just an ordinary trade area, although the amount of currency in circulation is huge, but the amount of a single transaction, rarely more than ten gold coins, and the strong people who have the strength to commit crimes under the noses of the patrol team basically do not look down on these small coins.
For the vast majority of merchants, there are dozens of trading towns on the outskirts of Stormwind. It was already the end of their journey.
If you want to continue walking towards Stormwind. It is necessary to pass through a strictly inspected sentry post, and only merchants with at least a thousand gold coins and the nobility of the Stormwind Kingdom are allowed to enter.
After the sentry post is a large wasteland that has been deliberately set aside, about five kilometers long. Then you'll enter another trading town. The merchants who do business in these small towns. Most of them are noble.
After all, the nobles of the Storm Kingdom do not have a large area of territory and private army, so except for the children with strong potential. Business is the way out for some children of nobles with less talent.
Each transaction amounted to at least a hundred gold coins, tons of goods, which were carried by trained laborers, not carried by themselves as in ordinary trading areas, but transported to designated cargo storage points in the town.
A patrol team of ten people, there is one every five hundred meters, and the minimum strength of the soldiers is in the upper sixth order, and most of them are high-level professionals, maintaining the security of this high-level trading area.
The two trading areas inside and outside are the markets where Stormwind separates most of the trade volume of the Shining Gold City, and further inside is the old city wall that was destroyed a hundred years ago and has not been rebuilt since the restoration of the country.
The ruined walls are more than 80 meters high, and the front and back sides of the walls are covered with holes of different depths, which are the traces of repeated battles between humans and orcs a hundred years ago.
The soil within 500 meters below the walls was noticeably darker than far from the walls, as if the blood from the great battle a century ago had not yet completely dissipated from the soil.
As long as you cross this ancient wall, you will enter the area of Stormwind.
After the renovation was completed, the huge city gate, which relied entirely on magic switches, was a thousand soldiers of the Stormwind Garrison Regiment, dutifully guarding the gates of the capital, carefully and strictly checking everyone who entered and exited the city gate.
In fact, this old city gate was originally only used as a memorial to the war of a hundred years ago, and was not garrisoned by soldiers of the garrison, because after the reconstruction of Stormwind, about five kilometers from the interior of this defensive line, there was another more magnificent wall.
At the same time, because of the lessons learned from the orc war, when Stormwind City was rebuilt, it not only increased the size of the new city wall, but also left a huge artificial lake between the new city wall and the old city wall.
The only way to actually enter the interior of Stormwind through the new walls is through a stone bridge over an artificial lake that is two kilometers long and less than fifty meters wide.
If you encounter another strong enemy invasion, as long as you activate the magic array set up by building a stone bridge, you can directly cut off the enemy's way to directly attack the new city wall, so that the enemy army cannot use the sea of people to attack the city forcefully.
Ten years ago, after the destruction of the Kingdom of Lordaeron by natural disasters, a large number of nobles came to the Kingdom of Stormwind by boat, and under the arrangement of the king, they moved into a wasteland about three kilometers long between the old city walls and the artificial lake.
In order to appease the nobles who had overthrown the country, the Stormwind Kingdom rebuilt the huge gate of the old city wall, and stationed a small half of the soldiers of the garrison corps to garrison it, and only a part of it was at the city gate, most of which were distributed on the city wall with a width of tens of thousands of meters.
As long as you enter this long-standing line of defense, and then follow the stone bridge on the artificial lake, through the new city wall up to a height of hundreds of meters, you can come to the hinterland of Stormwind City, and enter the square area that is more than 2,000 meters long and thousands of meters wide.
The auction houses that resounded throughout the continent of Azeroth, as well as the headquarters of various large groups of various civil and official organizations, as well as most of the central administrative agencies, were set up in this square.
Stormwind is mainly divided into districts, which are separated by canals tens of meters wide, and the square area is only the smallest part of them.
To the south of the square is the Magic Zone, inhabited by thousands of magical professionals, of which mages occupy seven floors, warlocks have less than three, and there are a few druids left.
To the west of the square is the Diocese of the Light, home to a 20,000-strong Order of Knights, and a monastery in the Cathedral of the Light, where most of the priests of the Stormwind Kingdom come from.
To the north of the square is the Old Town, the site of the Great War of a hundred years ago, where the ancient aristocracy, including the Vortagan family, lived, and where MI7 had its headquarters somewhere.
To the northwest of the square is the Workshop District, where thousands of artisans live, hammering hammers in their hands for years to create exquisite weapons and equipment, and where the Stormwind Kingdom's Quartermaster Logistics Headquarters is located.
To the southwest of the square is the Garden District, which is home to the three major guilds of "Starfire", "Subversion", and "Prayer", as well as small and medium-sized guilds in the number of thirty or forty, which has become a base camp for adventurers.
In addition to these six areas, to the north of the Old Town and the Workshop District, there is a large area of well-layered buildings, and the northernmost part of the building, the Storm Fortress, which is built on the hill, is the residence of the royal family of Ureon.
On weekdays, the king will handle the affairs of the front hall of this palace, and in the event of an invasion by foreign enemies, this militarized palace will become an absolutely impossible fortress to be captured, perfectly protecting the bloodline of the royal family of Urien.
With Storm Fortress as the core, the building complex from the inside to the outside is a manor-like settlement with different titles, and the closer to Storm Fortress, the higher the status of the nobility, the larger the area of the manor.
The only nobles on the periphery can get are single-family wooden houses.
However, although the wooden houses of low-level nobles are quite embarrassing compared to those of middle-high nobles, the royal guards, which only belong to the royal family, still protect this area without discrimination.
Anyone who enters the area without permission is considered an Assassin and is mercilessly killed by the Royal Guard.
The family is getting worse day by day, and it seems that the next generation will be deprived of the title and reduced to a commoner, and it is because of this that she can live safely until now, and for the sake of the family title, she happened to be related to Yang Long
(To be continued......)