After the commendation ceremony, Aaron stayed in Silvermoon City for a few more days. Anyway, there are still some coalition soldiers on Zul'Aman's side, so Aaron doesn't need to worry about any problems in his territory.
Before officially taking over its own territory, Aaron still has a lot of preparation work to do. After all, Zul'Aman now only has a large ruins. After the coalition soldiers withdraw, I am afraid there will only be an empty city left.
However, Aaron does not need to worry that his territory will become a ghost town. According to the previous decision of the Alliance, Lordaeron needs to help Quel'Thalas train a group of Paladin.
Sun King had no interest in the newly emerging Paladin professions among humans before. In the eyes of High Elfs who advocate the Arcane way, although Holy Light power can help heal injuries, Paladin The performance of the Es on the battlefield also seems very ordinary. At least in Anasterian's opinion, the new Paladin professions are no better than the elite Warriors of Quel'Thalas, and may even be weaker in terms of martial arts.
But that was a few years ago. The Paladin profession was founded not long ago. Firstly, the number of people was relatively small. Secondly, the training system of the Paladin profession was not as complete as it is now. This resulted in that although the Paladins could withstand the Orcss' Death Knights on the battlefield, their performance on other battlefields was not that amazing.
But this time the Zul'Aman battle is different. After several years of improvement, the number and quality of Paladin have been greatly improved compared to before. Coupled with the poor performance of each Legion team of Quel'Thalas during this military parade, Anasterian is determined to introduce Paladin into Quel'Thalas.
Although Sun King has always been considerate of the Alliance, especially the various human countries, and wanted to completely withdraw from the Alliance, it is precisely because of this that Anasterian was able to realize an obvious problem: the quality of Quel'Thalas's ordinary soldiers is not as good as Alliance's Paladin, Arcane Magic, which the elves are proud of, was taught to humans as early as three thousand years ago. Humanity has developed very rapidly on the path of Arcane over the past thousands of years. So if Alliance and Quel'Thalas conflict in the future, wouldn't it be High Elf that suffers?
It is with this concern in mind that Anasterian made concessions on the Zul'Aman issue and promised not to withdraw from the Alliance within fifty years in exchange for Lordaeron's help in training Paladin.
In order to prevent the new Paladin force from becoming a semi-private armed force controlled by the big nobles like other Legion, and thus causing the new force's combat effectiveness to become vulnerable, Anasterian decided to set up the training base of Paladin at the site of Zul'Aman, which to a certain extent prevented the nobles of Silvermoon City from reaching out to this army.
After the Paladin instructors and the recruits selected by Silvermoon City arrive at Zul'Aman, these people will definitely need other people to take care of their daily life. Not to mention, just providing the consumable materials needed for daily life training for such a Legion is a huge market, which will definitely attract a lot of businessmen to do business.
In fact, after the war, a group of businessmen arrived at Zul'Aman. They were originally doing business with the coalition forces, and some of them who were well-informed even got the news that Quel'Thalas was going to set up a Paladin training camp there. These businessmen had already begun to prepare for the future.
However, these people alone are not enough for Aaron to run his new camp well. After all, if Silvermoon City decides to move the Paladin troops one day in the future, the prosperity generated by these people will disappear immediately. After all, Zul'Aman is located in the southeast corner of Eversong Woods, quite far from the main road connecting Silvermoon City and north Lordaeron. Aaron still has a lot of work to do if he wants to make his territory truly prosperous.
According to Aaron's initial idea, he will move the headquarters of Ya-Mei Trading Company to Zul'Aman in the future. After all, the internal space of Gnomeregan is limited. The scale of Ya-Mei Trading Company will inevitably become larger and larger, and it will need to be moved sooner or later. It is better to move under the nose of Aaron while the scale of the company is still small, so as not to trouble you more when moving in the future.
However, Aaron still needs to discuss this matter with Tinkers' Court of Gnomeregan, especially Sicco Thermaplugg. What this ambitious dwarf is seeking is The dwarf race has a say within the Alliance. Aaron's move of the trading company headquarters from Gnomeregan may conflict with the goals of Sicco Thermaplugg.
However, to Aaron's expectation, when he mentioned this matter to Sicco Thermaplugg and Mekkatorque, neither of them showed any objection, which left Aaron a little confused, Mekkatorque's side is easy to say, but Sicco Thermaplugg's attitude is incomprehensible to Aaron. However, it is not a bad thing if the other party does not object. Aaron can only start implementing this matter when Zul'Aman settles down in the future.
After Aaron arrived at Zul'Aman, the foundation laying ceremony of the new city was put on the agenda. As the first city lord of this city, Ya personally set up a stone inscribed with the word "city" at the entrance of the new city, that is, in front of the gate of Zul'Aman. The stone monument that named the city, but this name was not decided by Aaron. This matter itself was the result of a compromise between the big bosses of the Alliance. However, he himself was junior and had no say. Many things were not up to him.
In fact, in order to commemorate Alliance's revision of the covenant, Alliance had already decided on the name of the new city - Covenant City.
After that, a stone tablet inscribed with the Alliance covenant written in four languages: Common, Thalassian, Dwarvish, and Gnomish was erected opposite.
However, except for these two stone tablets, there are no new buildings in the newly born Covenant City. Even the Paladin instructors sent by Lordaeron can only choose an altar originally dedicated to Loa to serve as a camp. The subsequent reconstruction work will have to wait for Quel'Thalas's funding to be in place before manpower can be hired.
Until then, these Paladins can only live in the altar made smelly by the Trolls. Fortunately, the Paladins have always lived in poverty, and they can still tolerate this environmental problem.
Aaron chose Hex Lord's Hall to temporarily serve as the city lord's palace, but currently he, the city lord, doesn't have half the manpower, and even the administrative officer to be sent by Lordaeron has not arrived yet. Aaron currently has to do it himself even collecting taxes from merchants. Fortunately, he worked as an office worker for a period of time before time travel, so he can still do such small things.