873 Morocco Province (1/2)

Chapter 873 – Morocco Province

Ouyang Shuo did not bother about the clamor outside as he took the time to deal with the post-war matters. The devil duckbeak beasts escaped back into the underground world, and Ouyang Shuo had no way currently to deal with them currently. As such, he brought the Divine Martial Guards back to Rabat.

”My king!”

At the city gate, Baiqi led a group of generals to welcome him.

Ouyang Shuo smiled, ”Thank you for your hard work general; let's enter the city together.”

”Yes my king!”

Under the protection of the army, Ouyang Shuo entered Rabat.

After learning that Rabat had already recovered to its original state, the civilians started to return; they either stood on the sides of the streets or hid in their houses. They looked at this army with either worshipping or hateful eyes.

On this day, Morocco had a new Lord.

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Imperial Palace, main hall.

Ouyang Shuo touched the broken stone stele, and a System Notification sounded out in his ear.

”System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for leading troops to attack Morocco. Will you destroy, occupy, or transfer?”

”Occupy!”

”System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for occupying Morocco. Morocco is officially under the Great Xia Dynasty rule, player can reorganize Morocco. Will you rename it?”

”Rename it to Morocco Province.”

Compared to Singapore, which was just so small, Morocco was even bigger than the biggest Yunnan Province under his rule.

However, Morocco had limited usable land area. Ouyang Shuo planned to form four prefectures with the four cities as their core.

Naturally, Rabat city would still be the governing area of the province.

Different from Yunnan and the other three provinces, Ouyang Shuo planned to set up a Provincial Governor and build a Provincial Governor office.

Morocco's officials were also different from other provinces; they would become the strongest Provincial Governor office but the weakest Prefecture Governor office. In the future, the Provincial Governor office would be the key to ruling the entire Morocco province.

Ouyang Shuo had his reasons for such arrangements.

First, along with Morocco Province's establishment, the Great Xia Dynasty had five provinces of land, gaining the ability to start establishing Provincial Governors.

In history, the Qing Dynasty had only established eight Provincial Governors, so the Great Xia Dynasty was not that far away from the goal.

Secondly, Morocco Province was located overseas, and it had non-Chinese under its governance. Hence, its situation was really special. Compared to the other provinces in China, it needed a strong and powerful office to control everything.

Furthermore, Morocco Province was located in Africa and was connected to the Mediterranean. It was located in the Atlantis and opposite it was the America, so its situation was really complicated. The place needed a strong and powerful person to take charge.

This situation was quite similar to the Tang Dynasty's Provincial Governors at the border.

Thirdly, Morocco was just taken down and was not a core region. To set up a Provincial Governor here was a test to perfect the role and power of the job and to collect relevant data.

To establish the Provincial Governor here would be less sensitive and face less resistance.

Apart from that, Ouyang Shuo also had one arrangement, which was to build a new city apart from the four prefecture cities - Ceuta City.

In reality, Ceuta City belonged to the Spanish in North Africa and was located north of Maghreb. It was near the coast not far from the Gibraltar Straits. It was connected to Morocco and was 18.5 square kilometers in size.

Simply put, its geographical position was exactly the same as Jidian City. The two cities, one north and one south, had a stranglehold over the Gibraltar Straits.

In history, Ceuta was an important place on the trade route and was also a military base.

Ceuta port was also like Gibraltar port; it was really prosperous and busy.

Hence, after taking down Morocco, how could Ouyang Shuo not strengthen his presence in the area? With Jidian City and Ceuta City, it was like announcing that the Great Xia Dynasty had full control over the Mediterranean and Atlantic.

Any ships that came from the two ocean regions would have to answer to them.

In the game, due to the hidden pressures from the Spanish and other Lords, the Moroccan players did not dare build a base here. However, Ouyang Shuo did not care.

Since he already had problems with them, Ouyang Shuo did not mind playing around.

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”System Notification: Morocco has been successfully renamed. Will you rename the territories in the province?”

”No!”