Chapter 505: The End of Stormwind
Stormwind was the largest and most populous city in Azeroth at that time. This honor previously belonged to Lordaeron, but Lordaeron suffered the Scourge of the Undead, the country was destroyed, and the population loss was as high as 70%.

The population of Lordaeron’s royal city has not yet exceeded 100,000, while the population of Stormwind City has now exceeded 200,000. At the same time, there are 300,000 people living around Stormwind City.

With such a large population, Stormwind’s food self-sufficiency rate does not exceed 50%. The remaining food is basically transported from Elwynn Forest, Western Wastes and other areas.

In the past, Elwynn Glade was an important grain producing area for Stormwind City. However, due to a series of problems such as the Scourge, its grain production plummeted, so the Kingdom of Stormwind City began to develop the western wasteland.

However, the Western Wasteland has now been occupied by Vanessa, and most areas in the north have experienced reduced grain production and poor harvests due to war and other reasons, and the Stormwind Kingdom has begun to suffer from food shortages.

Of course, when we say there is a food shortage, it is only the lower class people who have nothing to eat. The nobles are still living a life of luxury and debauchery.

After all, in the eyes of these people, how can the lower class be considered human beings? They are just a group of cattle and horses, no, they are talking tools.

When cattle, horses, and tools die, the old ones will be replaced by new ones.

So in this situation, the nobles of Stormwind unanimously decided to ensure the food supply for the army, and then take out a portion of the food to sell on the market.

However, the selling price has increased by more than ten times compared to before. As for what to do with the poor, they can no longer control it. They don’t want to control it. Even many civilians in the city don’t have money to buy food.

King Varian was naturally aware of these things, after all, he also knew about the problem of food shortage. For this reason, he specially invited a large number of nobles in the city, hoping that these nobles would take out some food to give to the lower-class people.

Just thinking about it will tell you what the nobles will do. Even if the king asked them to do so, no noble would agree to give out food to help the poor.

Even Lord Bolvar Fordragon came to advise King Varian.

“Your Majesty, things are very troublesome right now, and it is difficult for us to find a perfect solution in a short period of time, so we can only choose to sacrifice some people.”

“Bolvar, what do you mean?” King Var said with a serious expression.

“Your Majesty, our current situation is that there is not enough food to feed everyone, so we must make a choice.”

“When there is only enough food left in this country to feed some people, should we give the food to the army or to the civilians?”

“Leave it to the army. The soldiers will have enough food and will still be able to defend the country. Even if many civilians die as a result, this country will still be ours.”

“Give it to the civilians. If the civilians are well fed, the soldiers will starve. When there is no army, the country will perish.”

“Your Majesty, the question now is, what choice will you make?” Count Bolvar, the representative of the nobility, looked at the king.

King Varian was speechless for a moment. He really wanted to protect the civilians and troops under him, but now it seemed that he only had one choice.

Varian finally had no choice but to bow his head.

“Then I’ll leave it to you all.” Varian sighed and closed his eyes.

After hearing the words of His Majesty the King, everyone immediately stood up and saluted respectfully, saying, “We are willing to serve Your Majesty!”

Then, Bolvar and several other ministers slowly retreated two meters before standing up and leaving.

What Varian didn’t know was that Bolvar’s words completely overlooked a crucial issue. Perhaps Varian discovered it but was just pretending not to know, or perhaps he really didn’t notice.

That is, even if these foods are distributed to the soldiers, can it be guaranteed that the soldiers can defend the country?

You have to know that many soldiers are free men, belonging to the civilian class, and they also have families, relatives, and friends. And almost all of these people are civilians.

According to the moral principles of those nobles, they would not feed the families, relatives and friends of the soldiers.

These nobles would not waste food. They would only ask the soldiers to stay in the barracks and ensure the food supply of the barracks, rather than ensuring the food supply of the soldiers’ families and relatives.

The soldiers are not satisfied, so what will be the result?
So even if King Wa agrees to distribute food to the soldiers now, it will not solve the fundamental problem and may even intensify the conflict.

Because these soldiers will not let their families, relatives and friends starve to death, not to mention that these people have military power, so it is self-evident what will happen in the end.

After the army withdrew, Stormwind City became chaotic. The lack of food left many people hungry and public security became chaotic. On the other hand, the power struggle among the upper class nobles also affected the lower classes.

The filth between Reginald and Bolvar could not be resolved. However, nobles like Bolvar had more food, while Reginald’s faction had much less food.

As a result, the distribution of food in the army began to become unfair. The army belonging to Reginald’s faction had less food than Bolvar’s army.

All the dirty work was done by Reginald’s faction. After all, it was you, Reginald, who was defeated. You, Reginald, are the culprit that caused the current situation in Stormwind City.

Reginald wanted to change this situation, but he didn’t have enough strength.

After this situation lasted for a while, a bigger conflict finally broke out due to the food problem. Of course, Vanessa also contributed to this.

Vanessa’s propaganda made a large number of lower-class people begin to approach her, and the slogan of “Kill the nobles, divide the land, and pay less taxes” spread wildly in Stormwind City.

Vanessa announced that she would distribute land to all civilians and abolish all exorbitant taxes, requiring them to pay only 20% tax. This made the civilians, who had been squeezed and bankrupt, very eager.

Vanessa then took out a large amount of food and began to recruit refugees, and even sent many spies to Stormwind City to develop.

Over this period of time, Vanessa’s development can be said to be different every day.

The corrupt Stormwind Kingdom is now facing not only a shortage of food, but also internal power struggles among nobles, insufficient food for the army and civilians, the Northern Alliance eyeing it covetously from outside, and Vanessa’s continuous land revolution in the rear.

Not to mention the corrupt Stormwind Kingdom, any other kingdom would most likely be doomed if faced with this situation.

Stormwind is no exception, unless they can resolve all conflicts in a short period of time.

Stormwind City now looks peaceful, but under the surface there are undercurrents. The entire Stormwind Kingdom is like sitting on a powder keg, waiting for a spark to ignite it.

In Stormwind City, in a dilapidated house, a large number of pale and skinny civilians gathered here. In addition to the civilians, there were even many strong soldiers, but these soldiers also had hungry looks on their faces.

Not all soldiers had enough to eat, and many of them secretly shared their food with their families.

At this time, in the center of the house, a young man in old linen clothes was giving a speech.

“My fellow countrymen, we work from sunrise to sunset every day, with almost no rest throughout the year. We have to work hard in the fields and in the workshops every day to earn a meager income.” “Then we rely on this meager income to support ourselves and our families.”

“At the same time, for every copper coin we earn, we have to pay a copper coin in taxes. We are at the bottom of this kingdom, and we have to do our best to barely survive!”

“Is it because we’re not working hard enough?”

“Why are we having such a hard time?”

“Those bigwigs told us that the country is in trouble now and we need to pay taxes to support the country in waging war and defeating the enemy so that we can survive.”

“But is that really the case?”

“Others told us that we had such a hard time because we didn’t believe in the Light.”

“So many of us went to church to believe in the Holy Light! But did we have enough to eat?”

“not at all!”

“We’re still hungry!”

“So those people told us that it was because we were not devout enough in our faith!”

“Haha! These people always tell us what we haven’t done and what we should do, but what about them?”

“They are high up there. They have endless white bread to eat. They can spread honey and jam on the white bread, and they can taste fragrant roast meat, sweet wine, and countless fruits that they can’t name. But we don’t even have a piece of black bread!”

“Now I want to know, why?”

“Why can they enjoy a warm house, wear gorgeous clothes, sleep on soft velvet, hold fair-skinned and pretty beauties in their arms, and enjoy the service of servants, while we have nothing!”

“I want to ask you, why?” the young man raised his right arm and clenched his fist and shouted loudly.

“Why!”

The others in the room also raised their fists and shouted angrily: “Why!”

“We work hard but cannot get enough to eat. We fight in wars but are poor and destitute. However, those nobles can enjoy things that we may never see in our lifetime just by having the title of nobility!”

“Why!”

The eyes of everyone in the room were red. At this moment, they thought of the difficulties they had encountered since birth, and then looked at the lives of those nobles. They could beat, scold and humiliate them at will, and even their food was not as good as that of the nobles’ dogs.

Those nobles would rather feed the food to dogs than give it to us.

At this moment, all the difficulties they had experienced were triggered, and everyone was furious.

“All our difficulties are brought to us by this corrupt country. They have taken away the last grain of food and the last penny in our pockets, and then left us to fend for ourselves.”

“Let us be like weeds, starving to death in an inconspicuous corner one night!”

“Tell me, are you willing to do this?”

Everyone looked at each other. They saw endless anger in each other’s eyes and the unwillingness in each other’s hearts.

“Not reconciled!”

Everyone shouted loudly.

“Then let’s take up our weapons. We must take up our own weapons, fists, stones, and sticks, and take back all the food and money that belong to us!”

“Take it back!” At this moment, these civilians who had been doing nothing and acting like lambs were completely awakened.

This scene was happening in every remote corner of Stormwind City. Eventually, led by these people, the civilians in the city who were almost starving to death began to take up various weapons to resist.

Soon, countless people holding various simple weapons began to gather towards the inner city. There were even a large number of soldiers among them. Many patrolling soldiers saw these people gathering and immediately felt like they were facing a great enemy, but soon some soldiers in the crowd came forward to speak.

After hearing what these soldiers said, a large number of patrol soldiers also joined in.

The size of these people grew rapidly like a snowball, and more and more people spontaneously gathered around them. When these people came near the inner city, they were finally known to the nobles in the city.

When the nobles heard that a large number of civilians had gathered together to steal food, they were immediately furious. Until now, these nobles still had no intention of giving away some of the food, and even decided to kill all these people.

The nobles immediately mobilized the army to suppress the “mob”. However, when the army arrived, many of the civilians who were originally supposed to suppress the “mob” directly joined the “mob”. Only those soldiers loyal to the nobles wanted to suppress the “mob”!
However, facing such a large number of rioters, these people also looked solemn. After all, there were too many people, and they did not dare to act rashly.

But at this moment, a roar rang out from the crowd: “Kill these noble lackeys!”

“We want bread! We want food!”

With a roar, the extremely tense situation suddenly broke out at this moment. Countless civilians rushed directly towards the noble soldiers.

The civilians attacked the soldiers with stones, sticks and other weapons. Even though the soldiers had armor and weapons, their numbers were too few.

However, in the blink of an eye, they were submerged, and countless civilians rushed directly into the inner city. These civilians, who were already tortured by hunger, burst out with amazing strength at this moment.

Everyone shouted and rushed into the inner city. The soldiers in the inner city had no time to react and were beaten to death by countless people. At the same time, a large number of soldiers joined in.

These people began to rush towards the granaries and the luxurious manors of the nobles. Caught off guard, a large number of noble manors were directly breached by these people.

Many noble guards wanted to resist, but they were defeated by the strong men hidden in the crowd before they could do anything. The result of Vanessa’s careful preparations for several months was revealed at this moment.

The entire Stormwind City was completely plunged into chaos.

(End of this chapter)