Another brilliant victory.

More witnesses, more loot.

For three days in a row, the corpse of the leader of the Greyscale Naga hung in the harbor of Stormwind, as well as hundreds of fishmen.

"The Naga and the Fishmen within three hundred nautical miles of Stormwind have been wiped out by the great Lord Duke Marcus. Fishermen, you can fish as much as you like – if you join our Hurricane Chamber of Commerce, you will get better security and better profits. ”

"If you don't have a boat, we can lend it to you first, you just need to sign a five-year labor contract with our chamber of commerce, go to sea for no less than 25 weeks a year, promise to hand over 30% of each catch to the chamber of commerce, a brand new fishing boat is your property, as long as the contract expires, the fishing boat will be yours." ”

As one of Duke's tongues, Makaro has officially turned into a follower of Duke.

Now, he regularly encourages more fishermen at the docks for Duke, and more young men to join Duke's newly formed Hurricane Chamber of Commerce.

In fact, Duke's use of the tactics used by taxi companies to seduce fishermen or their descendants who can't find a job is really unstoppable.

More varieties of fish and seafood have also supported Duke's business expansion.

In particular, in the last month, Duke has assembled a whaling fleet.

On the big boat, Duke patted several huge wine barrels next to him.

"This is the pontoon, just stick the javelin tied to the rope and hit the whale, and then we don't need to duel this behemoth at all, we just need to stop it from diving, and when it runs out of strength, the victory will be ours. ”

Duke's explanation made Wendthor who was standing next to Duke speechless.

Yes, Wendthor is back, with the craftsmen Duke needs. Before he even arrived in Stormwind, he had already heard of Duke's reputation in Kul Tiras.

A pearl route.

In this age when diving is all about playing with fish-people, naga, and sharks, people can only try their luck to pick up pearls from the shells that wash up on the beach. But Duke continues to produce a variety of undersea specialties that drive nobles crazy.

The advent of the pearl route also stimulated the merchants of Kul Tiras, who ran the sea.

A 500 gold bet?

Add two more zeros than that.

So Wendthor simply said that he was sent by the owner of the pearl route to recruit craftsmen. In addition, Duke said that the Stormwind military lent a griffin and asked Makaro to fly over and bring a gold ticket of 20,000 gold coins directly to Wendthor.

As a result, Windthor came back this time, bringing with him a huge team of 200 craftsmen, and also cleaning up the inventory of all the shipyards in Kul Tiras.

Unexpectedly, when he came back, when he saw the big ship brought by Wendthor, Duke had a new idea - the whale hunting fleet.

People throw spears with their arms, and Duke is better at cheating, and he directly cheats and asks the mage's hand to stick the javelin into the whale's tail.

The sailors watched in amazement as the vats swayed on the surface of the sea, and they did not sink.

More than an hour later, the exhausted whale surfaced, and at the sight of this scene, hundreds of sailors on the three whaling ships erupted in enthusiastic cheers at the same time.

Wendsol and Makaro were dumbfounded.

"Reggie, do you know what this big guy is for?"

Reginald Windsor, nicknamed Reggie, is still very uncomfortable with Duke's almost blind trust in him and his self-acquaintance treatment.

He wanted to get things done, but remembered that he had lost a bet and that he was already a follower of Duke. With a sigh in his heart, Wendsol replied tentatively, "Can you eat it?"

Duke smiled and shook his head: "Most whale meat is not tasty. I want what's inside the whale. ”

Duke wouldn't say it, his target was sperm whale ambergris. That thing would make a perfume drive the noble ladies of the entire human kingdom of Azeroth crazy. In general, he still knows how to do it, and this will be a key stepping stone for Duke to open the door to wealth and convenience.

Duke continued: "Of course, I wouldn't waste such a big piece of meat. Drag it back, and I'll show you how to make it delicious. By the way, whale fat is also a good thing. ”

Duke already has a complete soy sauce brewing method, which is purely what Duke inadvertently remembered when he was bored in the past.

He would divide the craft into multiple parts, each operated by different masters. In fact, the first finished products have already come out, and the results are quite good.

A few days later, in the palace of Stormwind.

King Ryan Ureon and the Queen, the young prince and the little princess, and Anduin Lothar saw the royal chef serve him a dish he had never seen before.

"This is ......" the king looked up and looked strangely at his imperial cook.

"It's a new dish that has recently appeared in Stormwind – raw salmon. ”

"Fish, that smelly thing, and how do you eat it raw?"

In Azeroth, people don't know how to get rid of fish, and in most aristocratic concepts, fish is eaten by inferior people.

But in the same way that Duke taught him, the chef showed Ryan and Anduin how to pour lemon juice on chilled salmon and how to order mustard and soy sauce to eat raw.

With the mindset of trying, both Ryan and Anduin tried.

"Uh-huh, it tastes special, I think I kind of like it. Ryan wiped his mouth gently.

The little prince and the little princess even said again and again that they wanted to add one.

At this time, Anduin spoke: "Ryan, remember that showy Duke Marcus?"

"Of course I remember, the youngest earth mage in our kingdom. As he answered, Ryan also glanced at the fan-shaped red coral placed in the dining room, the fiery red coral had a radius of nearly a meter, which Duke had dedicated to his king: "What?"

"He's got this stuff too. ”

"Oh, isn't he a mage, how did he become a cook?" King Ryan wondered.

"In fact, this Marcus mage has done a lot. Anduin counted all of Duke's recent events to Ryan. From recovering the Naga and the Fishmen to form a pearl route, to expanding the fishing range of fishermen, to whaling, to making spices such as soy sauce and wasabi.

The more Ryan listened, the more he tasted: "I like this little fellow, my tax collector has mentioned him to me more than once, and he pays his taxes on time and in full in one lump sum. Well, it looks like we're going to have a good year. Pity...... Medivan is missing, otherwise I would have recommended this dish to him. ”

"The problem is that recently, he formally submitted to me his desire to form a whaling convoy of two hundred men, armed with javelins and ballistas, and to expand a large stone dock. ”