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After Stellagosa followed Valeera to Silvermoon City to report for the first time, there were some rumors in Quel'Thalas that Lord Sharlayan Deep Shadow (at the time) had a confidante of the blue dragon clan.

The nobles of Silvermoon City who were the first to know this information knew that this was not just a rumor, but the news deliberately released by the old king Anasteria.

There are not many races that can make the proud high elves bow their heads, and the powerful dragon race is one of them.

The dragon race is a truly extraordinary species, with an immortal lifespan, and can directly get rid of the restrictions of ordinary species through rituals after adulthood.

When facing dragons, the high elves will consciously put away their arrogance and lower their posture.

Sharlayan's intimidation, both hard and soft, made the more than 20 nobles present react differently. Some were annoyed, some were subdued, and some secretly smiled.

Salayan, who has excellent dynamic vision, can see the changes in everyone's expressions. With this combination of fists, he can roughly see which nobles can be wooed and which ones need to be suppressed.

What's interesting is that these nobles with different positions have different group positions.

At the front are the neutrals who are not yet firm.

If the chips offered by Sarlayan can impress them, these people don't mind lowering their stance and asking for cooperation.

The group standing in the middle is a group of hardliners with a firm stand. This group of nobles intends to unite to put pressure on Salayan and force him to give up his interests.

They didn't believe that a mere newly promoted earl dared to resist forcefully.

These people still want to gamble, bet right, but bet wrong... They think that Sharlayan dare not go too far.

The group of people standing at the back watching the show with folded arms had the calmest attitude. They had already decided to follow Sharlayan.

Most of these people are nobles who are relatively close to the Deep Shadow Family and the Windrunner Family, and I believe that Sharlayan will not deceive himself.

Thousands of thoughts flashed by, and Sarlayan smiled and motioned for the 26 people, including Vereesa, to sit down.

Sure enough, the positions chosen by the three groups around the big round table were completely different.

Sitting on the left of Sharlayan was Vereesa, who represented the Windrunner family, and on the right was the head of the family to which Valeera belonged—Viscount Sangunar.

Although it has not been officially announced yet, anyone with eyes can tell that Valeera will definitely become Sharlayan's partner in the future, and the Sangunar family can also use this to get closer to the Deep Shadow family.

The farther away a nobleman is from Sarlayan, the lower his recognition and trust in Sarlayan will be.

The old white-haired nobleman sitting directly opposite Sharlayan had been staring at him with stern eyes from the very beginning, as if he was planning to use the majesty of his elders to disown him.

However, after Sarlayan's two waves of performances just now, the old nobleman somewhat lacked confidence.

There were two dragons standing next to Sharlayan, and none of the nobles dared to jump out and pat the table before finding out the details of each other.

"Let's start the meeting."

Sharlayan signaled the maid working in the lord's mansion to close the door, and the hustle and bustle of Unicorn Town had nothing to do with this well-sound-proof meeting room for the time being.

"I know that all the seniors gathered here to further develop their territory and contribute more taxes to our motherland."

Sharlayan smiled and nodded to everyone present: "As the royal planner of Quel'Thalas, I would like to express my gratitude to all of you on behalf of His Majesty Kael'thas."

That's right, Kael'thas had long known about the noble conference that Sharlayan planned to hold.

According to the established rules of the feudal kingdom, the king has no right to intervene in the affairs of the aristocratic territory, but every aristocratic lord needs to pay the treasury all taxes of the year on time and in full amount every year.

Simply put, the more noble lords earn, the more taxes they pay to the treasury, and the richer the country becomes.

The Sunstrider royal family is definitely not poor, but to say how rich they are... that would not be the case.

Due to the crazy operation of sharing apples during the founding of Dath'Remar, most of the wealth of Quel'Thalas was concentrated in the hands of the great nobles.

After 7,000 years of accumulation, the family background of the four nobles is deeper than that of the Sunstrider royal family, and each of them can be called an incomparably rich country.

When the country was first founded, Dath'Remar and the nobles were in the honeymoon period, and the two parties were not aware of the problem of this dual leadership system.

After Dath'Remar's death, his eldest son succeeded him.

The short-lived (by high elf standards) king, who reigned for less than 100 years, was tragically killed in a brutal battle with the Amani trolls.

The third generation of kings, that is, Anasteria's father, King Homs, reigned for a long time and worked for more than 2,000 years.

During the king's reign, the rise of Taranas Windrunner and the formation of the ranger army laid a solid foundation for the steady development of Quel'Thalas.

In order to collect the large amount of resources consumed by the establishment of the ranger army, King Holmes paid for subsidies from the internal treasury of the Sunstrider royal family many times.

Taranas lived up to the trust of King Holmes, and he led the ranger army to drive the Amani trolls out of the northern part of Eversong Forest forever.

It was during this period that Bandin Norrell's enchantment was established.

As the external environment gradually stabilized, King Holmes finally found energy to take care of internal affairs.

If you don't check, you don't know. If you check, you will be shocked.

When the royal family of the Sunstrider was clinking with poverty, those great nobles who claimed to be contributing to the country made a fortune in war, and they were full of food.

That's not to say, after all, people make money by their skills.

What annoyed King Holmes the most was not this, but that these greedy nobles tried their best to evade taxes, and smuggling without official channels had become commonplace.

After finally establishing the foundation of the dynasty, the old and exhausted King Holmes had no energy to fight with the nobles, so he had no choice but to leave this hidden danger to his son, the fourth-generation Sun King Annas Tria.

When he first took over the throne, Anasterian knew that this mess would be difficult to deal with, and that if it was not done properly, it would trigger a civil war in Quel'Thalas.

While the young Anasterian was treading on thin ice playing political games with the Silvermoon Council dominated by great nobles, the Amani trolls backed by the Zandalari rose again.

The arrogant troll coalition army even attacked the gate of Silver Moon City at one point.

The powerful external threat made the Silvermoon Council and the royal family put aside their conflicts and work together.

Anasterian sent people to get in touch with Arathor, the human empire that had just completed its unification.

The two countries with a common enemy successfully reached a cooperation agreement, and jointly led the shocking reversal, defeating the Amani troll.

The invincible Zandalar was also severely damaged in this war. Even a few of the Loa were killed, and they could only flee back to the overseas Zandalar Islands in disgrace, closing their doors to recover.

Cleaning up the external threats, Anasteria, who was still young and powerful at the time, decided to fight against the nobles in the name of the meritorious king, weakening the authority of those lawless nobles.

In order to avoid the unscrupulous nobles who were desperate to jump over the wall, Anasterian, who was widowed in the early years, sent Kael'thas, the only immediate family member, to Dalaran for refuge.

With no further worries, Anasteria won over the nobles who had risen in the troll war, and let go of their hands and feet to challenge the founding aristocratic forces in the country.

This battle between the royal family, the emerging nobles and the founding nobles lasted for more than 1,000 years, and finally ended with the conspiracy of the four nobles being discovered for treason.

Taking the surrender of the four great nobles as an opportunity, the power of the old nobles has never recovered.

After struggling for more than 1,000 years, the moths in the country were finally cleared by the opportunity of the orc war. The aged Anasterian was satisfied and at the same time tired and wanted to retire.

Afterwards, there were many events that Sharlayan had personally experienced. The old king retired after his success, and the new king Kael'thas, who insisted on reforming the old system, came to power.

Anasteria has been in power for 3,000 years, first fighting trolls, and then fighting with domestic nobles for a long time. External wars and internal conflicts consumed a lot of resources, and the royal family's internal treasury was never filled.

When Kael'thas came to power, the national treasury still had a little reserve, and the internal treasury of the Sunstrider could be described as impoverished, only keeping some magic weapons specially used to award meritorious soldiers.

Can Kael'thas sell these weapons and armor?

Of course not, isn't this a slap in the face of the royal family?

Kael'thas didn't care about personal enjoyment, what he worried about was how the empty treasury would fill the gap when the treasury was once again unable to make ends meet.

Sharlayan found it difficult to understand Kael'thas's strange brain circuit.

Why use the exclusive royal treasury to fill the loss of the treasury? Wouldn't it be enough to find a way to expand the revenue of the treasury?

Quel'Thalas' treasury income mainly depends on taxes, and the more the lords earn, the more taxes the treasury gets.

The answer Sarayan gave was to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.

Not to mention throttling, Anasteria has been doing it since he was in power.

And open source is nothing more than making the cake bigger, cracking down on smuggling, and reintroducing wealth that already belongs to the country into the national treasury.

This noble conference was just a foreground, and Sharlayan had informed Kael'thas in advance.

If this meeting is successfully completed as planned, Kael'thas intends to copy the homework directly, and apply this template to the whole country with a little modification, so as to make Quel'Thalas great again.

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