Stratholme God

Chapter 286 I'm Not Interested in Crowns (1 more)
At four o'clock in the middle of the night, the royal study of the Lordaeron palace was brightly lit.

It wasn't that Terenas was up in the middle of the night, it was that he couldn't sleep at all.

Looking at the map on the desk, the Stratholme Territory has been additionally painted gold, and the Andorhal Territory has also been planted with a Holy Grail flag.

Duke Alexandros Mograine is an upright man. He did not hide Terenas's intention to lend the territory. Before he proposed to Macdonald, he sent an official letter to the royal family, stating that My own reasons - for the people!
He, his palace minister, and the civil servant group have been exhausted physically and mentally for the past three years at the Dark Gate, but there has been no good results.

The people need a lot of food.

Fertilizers and agricultural tools are needed to resume production.

Rebuilding a house requires a lot of craftsmen.

But more than half of Lordaeron has been ravaged by orcs, and the damned orcs burned all the houses that could be burned.

Andorhal is short of everything. Due to the absence of the Duke of Stratholme, he has posted many times, but only received a very low level of support.

Sadly, the royal family has no resources to lend Andorhal.

In the letter, Mograine almost wrote in tears:
"Your Majesty Menethil, my conscience cannot sit back and watch a humanitarian disaster that is almost certain to happen. I must guard the Dark Gate for mankind, but the people in my territory are dying day by day, and they curse the lord I. I am not wise enough to save my people."

"My poor wisdom is only enough for me to command the army to gallop on the battlefield. However, no matter how incompetent a general knows, a soldier who is hungry cannot fight, and a soldier whose relatives starve to death has no desire to fight."

"So, please forgive my capriciousness, and ask Your Majesty to believe in the loyalty of the Stratholme family for 2000 years!"

A long article was ghostwritten by Mograine's clerk, and personally stamped with the family seal, which shows its weight.

Is this forced palace?
Yes!No!
If the royal family can provide enough resources to help the Andorhal Territory tide over the difficulties, Mograine will definitely support the royal family without saying a word.

The problem is that the royal family cannot protect itself.

The savings of the royal family of Menethil for so many years were consumed in the war that just ended.

Not to mention anything, the army directly under the royal family suffered the most battle damage among all Lordaeron's troops.The five legions before and after were almost wiped out.

Although in this era, as long as you are not a mercenary, there is no pension at all.

The knights rushed to the street, so they could only save slowly in their own knight collars.

Lao Tzu died, and my son hit the top.

Given enough time, hereditary fiefdoms can always restore blood to the knights below.

But it's still a loss!
Terenas sent Mograine and Abedis to the south, of course he had to take care of it.

The royal family had no choice but to support the feudal aristocrats to annex Alterac, but the orcs there made a lot of noise.

The royal family had to rely on their own power to restore the people's livelihood in the two giant territories of Silverpine and Tirisfal, and then swallowed Alterac, it was completely powerless.

Who would have thought that the second attack of the orcs would take such a short time interval?
This is the moment when the royal family is stuck, and when I look back...

Huh?
Why does it seem like half of Lordaeron is gone!
Stratholme owns the mines, and there are troublemakers in the poor mountains and rivers, and the soldiers there are famous for fighting.

Andorhal has food, and there are a bunch of farms in the north of the city. The fields there are famous for being rich.

I really gave Andorhal to McDonald for ten years, and if I borrowed it every minute, I couldn't get it back.If McDonald is willing to fight for independence, no one will be able to control it.

What troubled Terenas the most was that he had a conflict with McDonald because of Kalia before, and the relationship has not been repaired so far.

Seeing King Terenas' psychological conflict, the Prime Minister knelt down on one knee and said, "Your Majesty, you must make a decision. Either simply agree to this matter, keep the Fortress of Andorhal, and at the same time immediately contact the Stratholme family Marriage, to show His Majesty's magnanimity! Or..."

The palace minister dared not speak any more.

The muscles on Terenas' face twitched.

Of course the palace minister is a good way.

The bet is that McDonald will not dare to rebel, and then Alsace will give birth to more than one grandson.

But Terenas is afraid!

"That idiot of Alsace, he believes in everything! Once I'm dead, he won't even know he's been sold! Damn it, God just gave me 20 more years of life!" Terenas was furious.

What else can the minister say?Did he make complaints about the late marriage and late childbearing of the old Taizi, which caused the kingdom's blood to be weak?
Terenas is over 60 years old, which is very old in this era when the average human life expectancy is less than 30 years old.In addition to the disaster of war, the life span of human beings is not long.In addition, in the past few years, King Terenas has worked hard, and his body functions have declined visible to the naked eye.

Not to mention other people, even Terenas himself did not believe that he could live another 10 years.

The most terrible thing is that Alsace was only 4 years old in the 17th year of the Dark Portal, and there were still five years before marriage at the age of 22 for men and 20 for women allowed by the noble law.

This is also the disgusting aspect of tradition. Children who are not born after a formal marriage are not recognized by other nobles.Those born before, even those born to unmarried couples in person, are considered illegitimate children.

An official collateral bloodline of the royal family has higher succession rights than illegitimate children.

Now that Kalia and McDonald are engaged, of course McDonald can stop for a few years, fearing that McDonald will be stuck in time to make trouble.For example, he and Kalia had just had a child, and Terenas and Arthas died unexpectedly...

As a king with high political acumen, how could Terenas allow this to happen?

"Write to MacDonald!"

When McDonnell received a letter from Lao Taizi, he couldn't help but smile wryly.

The letter is full of nonsense, and only a few words are written straight through the paper and hit the face-the royal family hopes that everything is for the people!
It is not difficult for the people to understand.It is to highlight the word royal family, which makes McDonald feel funny.

He casually circulated the royal family's letter to the important ministers, and everyone except Rivendell and Celijek, who were away on the expedition, read it all over.

There was weirdness written on everyone's faces.

When the letter came back, McDonald threw it aside, like throwing a piece of used toilet paper.

"Would you believe me if I told you that I have no interest in Lordaeron's crown or marrying Princess Kalia?"

This……

What a shocking statement!

Most of the important ministers were shocked, and there were two girls who were secretly delighted.

McDonald pointed to Lor'themar, then to the three Windrunner sisters, Liadrin and Valeera.

"I've said it since the day I took you out of Quel'Thalas. The orc invasion is just the prelude to a continuous conspiracy. The great demon of the Burning Legion is behind everything. If one fails, the entire Azeroth The destruction of the planet. In the face of such a big crisis, any crown or political marriage are trivial matters."

(End of this chapter)