Seeing Danath promoted again, Galen was happy for him, but at the same time, he felt that he had also made contributions and deserved some benefits.
Looking at his father and cousin Danath, who were the only ones present, he knew that this was a great opportunity to get special treatment.
"Father, General Amarelin informed the noble lords today about the battle achievements of Danath and me. You have already promoted Danath. I have also contributed to the kingdom. Don't you think you should give me some rewards too?"
"Hahaha!"
As soon as Galen finished speaking, Thoras laughed first. Danath, who was beside him, was amused by Galen's eagerness to claim credit and ask for rewards.
Thoras calmed down and said to Galen, "Galen, then tell me, what kind of reward do you want? Do you want a promotion like Danath?"
Theoretically, Galen now has a title, which is a benefit brought by his direct membership in the royal family, but he only has the title and no fief.
The most important thing is that Galen has not yet come of age. When he comes of age and is officially designated as the crown prince by Thoras, he will receive the title of Duke and a corresponding fief.
Duke Thoras, an ancient title inherited from the Arathor Empire, the title originating from the legendary divine sword granted by Emperor Thoradin to Ignatius, the ancestor of the Trollbane family.
Although the Arathor Empire disintegrated, the titles originating from the Arathor Empire are still common in various human countries, and have the highest gold content.
The Trollbane family has always retained the title of Duke Thoras, leaving it to the crown prince of the Kingdom of Stromgarde, until the crown prince inherits the throne, and the title of Duke continues to be passed on to the next crown prince.
The implication is to remind the crown princes not to forget to revitalize Stromgarde and reproduce the glory of the Arathor Empire.
Danath's title is Earl, inherited from his father, which belongs to the title conferred on the royal family members by the head of the Trollbane family after Trollbane rebuilt Stromgarde and became king.
But Galen is not very interested in this.
Wealth, fame, titles, perhaps if he were reborn into a peaceful world, Galen would involuntarily enjoy the ultimate wealth and power of mortals.
But in Azeroth, he is not interested in getting promoted, he is only interested in enhancing his own strength.
Whether you believe it or not, Galen believes it anyway.
"Father, I have taken a fancy to a piece of land again."
"You have taken a fancy to a piece of land again?"
Thoras's expression was full of shock.
"Two months ago, I just pre-allocated the Southeast Mining Area to you as a fief, which is an earldom."
Two months ago, Thoras's consideration was to train Galen in advance, first give him the fief, and then officially make him the crown prince when he came of age, and grant him the title of Grand Duke.
Who would have thought that two months later, he would have taken a fancy to another piece of land? If this continues, wouldn't the entire Arathi Highlands be taken over by him?
Looking at his father's surprised expression, Galen knew that he had expressed himself wrong.
He didn't want to leave his father with the impression of being ignorant and greedy, so he quickly explained.
"Father, that's not what I meant. Didn't Chief Manager Bob propose a proposal to build a new town today? I want to contract this project."
Thoras was immediately interested after hearing this.
"Do you know how big this project is? My advisory group suggested that I take three years to complete this plan."
"From assembling a pioneering team, to building the town, reclaiming land, and finally relocating at least 50,000 people. The 50,000 acres of cultivated land mentioned in today's meeting are just the minimum standard. The northeastern area has not been developed and the land is fertile. In my plan, this will be the fourth largest grain-producing area in the Arathi Highlands."
The projects that can be proposed at the kingdom's parliament are all national-level projects.
The Kingdom of Stromgarde has millions of people, more than half of whom are concentrated in the southwest of the Arathi Highlands where the capital is located, and the remaining people are gathered in the three major farms and the towns around the Royal Road.
Stromgarde was built as a war fortress. War is its main function. In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the Arathor Empire's population surplus leading to the empire's division, Thoras plans to divert the growing population of the capital in advance.
There is a large undeveloped area in the east of the Arathi Highlands, so Thoras set his sights there.
Speaking of which, it has to be mentioned that Azeroth's development level is quite low, because the number of intelligent creatures on the entire planet is limited, and most areas are uninhabited.
Human history has only been recorded in writing for thousands of years, and was only unified by Emperor Thoradin a thousand years ago. For thousands of years, humans have been constantly developing land, from the Hillsbrad Foothills to the Silverpine Forest and the lands of Lordaeron.
Even so, the nobles and lords still have a lot of wasteland and forests in their territories.
Thanks to inheriting the ancestral land of the Arathor Empire, the Trollbane family does not need to rebuild the kingdom from scratch, but only needs to restore the former facilities.
However, this involves the issue of returning farmland to forests. Nature is restoring the ecology, and if humans want to grow food, they must compete with nature for living space.
Thoras said that this is a big project, which is to make Galen give up in the face of difficulties. Reclamation is not that simple.
Organizing manpower for reclamation is one aspect, and it is also necessary to organize an army to protect the reclaimed land. After all, humans have the troll enemy, who will always stare at human villages and carry out destruction and plunder.
Thoras has also tried to wipe out the trolls of the Woodpaw tribe. Ten years ago, he once gathered a large army to attack the heart of the Woodpaw tribe. However, the trolls saw that they were no match, so they escaped into the Alterac Mountains, and had no choice but to retreat.
Afterwards, the trolls retaliated against the kingdom, not only repeatedly trying to destroy the human villages on the border, but also sending assassins to assassinate members of the royal family. Thoras's queen died at the hands of a troll assassin, and the young prince was also seriously injured, and was possessed and reborn by the current Galen who came through time.
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This is also why the kingdom's focus has been on restoring the towns left by the Arathi Empire for hundreds of years, and the great nobles are more inclined to continue developing the land in their own territories, and have not developed the border areas.
Galen had not seen the reclamation proposal in Thoras's plan before, because this was a plan that Thoras and his advisors had just completed.
The kingdom's high-level officials saw an opportunity. This opportunity is also related to Galen. Rak'zan, the beast master of the Woodpaw tribe, gathered most of the young and middle-aged people to attack the Southeast Mine, and was wiped out by Galen's Scarlet Flame Legion and Danath's troops. The Woodpaw tribe suffered heavy losses.
The strength of the Woodpaw tribe has fallen into a low point in a hundred years. Thoras formulated this plan to divert the population in advance and alleviate the population pressure in the capital, while also creating a new grain-producing area.
There is also a strategic purpose: to establish a new army in the northeast reclamation area, cooperate with the militia guards of the Gesak Farm in the east, and the Scarlet Flame Legion stationed in the mining area in the south. From these three directions, gradually erode the living space of the Woodpaw tribe, and finally raze the Woodpaw tribe to the ground, and unify the Arathi Highlands.
How can others be allowed to snore beside the bed? It's a very simple principle, let alone the ambitious Thoras?
What a clever plan to kill three birds with one stone.
After Thoras finished explaining, Galen suddenly understood, and at the same time, his eyes lit up.
It would have been okay if he hadn't listened. At first, he just wanted to try to see if he could contract this project, and by the way, embezzle some project funds from the national treasury to recharge his Origin Heart.
After listening, Galen became more determined that he must get this project.
Listen! Listen!
This plan will relocate 50,000 people from densely populated areas within the kingdom.
Oh my god, when people from all the towns in the Arathi Highlands, from the southeast, northwest, gather together, except for those who come in groups from the same place, everyone else will be strangers. Is there a better opportunity to confuse the situation?
There's no need to bother Omar and Varokal to recruit soldiers everywhere, concealing the origins of the base's soldiers.
When my Scarlet Flame Legion pulls out more than 10,000 troops, I'll just say they were recruited from the relocated population. Would you believe it? In another two years, the kingdom will continue to relocate people to the new towns in the northeast. If my Scarlet Flame Legion pulls out 20,000 troops, all citizens from all over the Arathi Highlands, would you believe it?
As long as my father is okay with it, who would question a prince?
Amazing!
Too attractive, Galen was almost impatient.
"Father, I already know the difficulties involved. Please give me this opportunity. I am confident that I can build a good new city and turn it into a new grain-producing area."
"I am willing to sign a military order to wipe out the Witherbark Village before the new city is completed, removing it from the map and achieving the unification of the Arathi Highlands."
Faced with Galen's confident expression, Thoras looked a little moved.
A month ago, he volunteered to command the army, and he only thought he was doing it on a whim.
At that time, he agreed to him building an army because Thoras also had this idea. He was preparing to extract a few elite squads from the major legions as the backbone, and then recruit new soldiers to form a new legion to guard the newly developed land.
It just so happened that Galen returned to Stromgarde at that time, and volunteered to build an army, so Thoras went along with the flow and agreed to his request. On the one hand, it just happened to coincide with his own ideas, and on the other hand, he also wanted to train Galen.
Moreover, Thoras had already made complete preparations. The first was to transfer Amor into Galen's team, as a captain of the guard. Ninth-tier powerhouses are not cabbages, and they are still high-level generals above ten thousand people. Even if the handling of border diplomatic incidents is improper, they will not be demoted to the bottom.
Amor was Thoras's backup, who would take over command when Galen's situation was most critical, at least to protect Galen from danger.
At the same time, he also had an emergency signal flare in his hand. Two thousand-man teams of cavalry had already quietly stationed behind Threeway Town, just waiting for Amor's arrow to pierce the clouds, and thousands of troops would come to support.
At least the backup was not used, right? Galen did a good job, far exceeding Thoras's expectations, and at the same time, he knew that there was a specialization in art, so he directly handed over the command of the battle to Amor.
What surprised Thoras the most was the appearance of Gandalf. This mage was too powerful, and his strength advanced quickly. He didn't know where Galen found him.
According to Amor's probing, he only knew that this high-level mage did not belong to Dalaran, and it was also the first time he had publicly appeared in the human kingdom.
It is said that his teacher is called Vala Nienna, and his teacher's teacher is called Olórin, inherited from a wild mage named Eru Iluvatar. For hundreds of years, it has been passed down through one line. Their magic knowledge comes from a notebook called "Simillarion". They have been studying magic knowledge in the deep mountains of Alterac for hundreds of years.
As for the reason for staying with Galen, it was because Grand Master Gandalf was attracted to Prince Galen's qualifications and had already accepted the prince as his magic apprentice.
Just as Thoras was preparing to send a letter to reprimand Amor's investigation report, he saw the last sentence of the investigation report: Under the guidance of Grand Master Gandalf, Prince Galen successfully cast Blizzard and Summon Water Elemental, two spells.
Thoras couldn't be more clear about Galen's magic talent. He had an extraordinary mental power, but he couldn't cast spells. This was confirmed by Earl Dabyre and Antonidas of Dalaran.
Amor couldn't be careless about this matter, so being able to do something that even the strongest mages in Dalaran couldn't do shows that this Gandalf has his own unique features, and the apprenticeship should not be a lie.
Let's continue to observe for the time being.
There is no way to avoid being suspected by Thoras and Amor.
Galen had already started making up a background for the Archmage as early as when he summoned the Archmage. After all, the possibility of a high-level mage appearing out of thin air, who is not a registered mage in Dalaran, is very small in itself.
Mages need a lot of knowledge accumulation. Talent determines your upper limit, and how much magic knowledge you can access determines your lower limit.
Creating magic and researching magic are abilities that high-level mages have only after accumulating a certain amount of magic knowledge.
Human magic originated from the high elves, and they would only teach humans magic out of necessity. If humans want to learn magic, they cannot do without the magic holy land, which is Dalaran.
Back to the topic, Thoras decided to let Galen try first, but even between father and son, accounts must be settled clearly.
"According to the calculations of the advisors, the initial investment is 100,000 gold coins to recruit stonemasons and purchase building materials to build the framework of the new town."
"My advisors will recruit personnel in the city after the project starts, using favorable conditions to attract citizens to go to the new city to develop new land. The first batch will depart at the end of the year. You must build the housing needed for 10,000 people within half a year."
Galen silently calculated in his heart. The internal dormitory of a farm has six bunk beds and can accommodate twelve people.
10,000 people need more than 830 farms. A farm costs 80 units of gold and 20 units of wood. Even if a farm costs 100 units of gold, Galen needs to spend more than 80,000 units of gold, which is about 40,000 gold coins.
There is still half of the gold coins left, um, I must embezzle it. This project is a sure profit.
As for time? Galen never questions the creations of the Heart of Origin. It only takes forty farmers working in two shifts, one person for one farm, and it can be completed in a month.
In an instant, after silently calculating the simple data in his mind, Galen nodded.
"No problem, Father."
"The second batch of residents will be relocated in the middle of next year, and then the third batch at the end of next year. The funds will be gradually invested in the project. Three batches of people are planned to relocate 50,000 people. You must ensure that they have enough food and clothing before these 50,000 people can be self-sufficient."
Galen nodded.
"No problem, Father."
I, Galen, am not afraid of running out of food.
"I allow the Scarlet Flame Legion to expand. How many people you can recruit and how many people you can support depends on your ability."
"No problem, thank you, Father."
Galen continued to nod. The Heart of Origin is very capable! But I won't say it, I'm just playing! Making a fortune in silence is the kingly way.
Galen became a nodding machine without any emotion.
I hope that when I pull out tens of thousands of troops in the future, my father won't regret today's sentence of recruiting as many as I can is my ability, hehe!