989 An Lushan Rebellion (1/2)

Chapter 989 – An Lushan Rebellion

Li Hongzhang was in charge of building the Navy Academy for two months. Beihai City specially drew out hundred mu of land for the purpose of building the academy. By now, a rough structure was built up.

Due to the system update, this construction would be slowed down.

This was only the hardware problem. Getting teachers posed a greater problem. In ancient times, there was a lack of navy generals so to find a number of suitable teachers was harder than ascending the heavens.

However, the Navy Academy was the core to remodeling the navy, and it concerned the battle standards of the entire navy. As such, Ouyang Shuo gathered all the generals to the meeting so that they could recommend some talents over to teach.

Since the Great Xia Navy was built till now, it had been through hundreds of battles and trained up a number of elites, and young navy generals became the best choice to be teachers.

”Don't be unwilling to send men. Today, you send one teacher; tomorrow, the academy will send 1000 great students to the squadron,” Ouyang Shuo said that to the generals.

Since it was an instruction from the king, the generals could only bear the pain. If not, just Li Hongzhang who had just arrived, even with the appointment of Navy Minister, would not be able to handle them.

Apart from promoting internally in the squadron, Ouyang Shuo also asked the Black Snake Guards, Honglu Temple, the three imperial chambers of commerce, and others to dig people from the western nations.

Using huge sums of money and the name of Great Xia, they would definitely be able to hire some elites.

Great Xia was a place for everyone. Putting Alvaro at such a key position was enough to dispel the worries of the foreign generals.

To the stubborn but talented ones, Ouyang Shuo even secretly told the Black Snake Guards, ”Even if you kidnap them, bring them back to Great Xia.”

As long as they come, they would yield.

For the construction of the Navy Academy, Ouyang Shuo was going all out.

He had no choice. After all, the ancient Chinese navy foundations were simply too weak. Since Great Xia was destined to compete with the strong ocean powerhouses, he could only use such a method to reduce the disparity.

In the next few days, the generals came together to discuss the problems regarding the base construction, academy construction, and navy organization.

Many times, Ouyang Shuo would personally attend and listen. All of these generals were really skilled and many of their suggestions and thoughts gave Ouyang Shuo new ideas.

As the discussions deepened, a map of the future of the Great Xia Navy was being drawn up. Every participating general felt their blood boil and their fighting spirit burn.

They could foresee a powerful empire cruising on the ocean, ruling the seas.

The ten of them walking in and out of the Xia Palace every day naturally attracted a lot of attention. Really quickly, the news that Great Xia had gathered the navy generals for a meeting had spread throughout the China region.

Even some unrelated topics were dug up.

Of course, this was result of Ouyang Shuo leaking the news. If he really wanted to keep it a secret, with the secrecy of the imperial city, no one would be able to notice.

Ouyang Shuo wanted to use this chance to spread a message to the world that the goal of Great Xia was outside and not internally in China.

As expected, the moment the news spread out, the China region players heaved a sigh of relief. After professional analysis, the players felt at ease. Before the country war began, the China region should not have any internal battles.

The words 'All against the outside world!' became their motto.

The most direct relation was that on the forums in the vote for country war leader, Ouyang Shuo's votes soared and broke the ten million mark.

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Jingdu Province, Handan City.

”Is the old fox trying to misdirect us, or is he really aiming to expand overseas?” Difeng's Intel was more detailed than the ones on the forums, which was why Di Chen was worried.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Juedai Fenghua saw through the situation and said, ”If Ouyang Shuo does not want to lose support from the adventure gamemode players, he would not choose to send out such false news at such a sensitive time.”

”That's true.” The attitude of Great Xia toward the Yanhuang Alliance directly affected Plan Z. As such, it was no wonder that Di Chen was worried.

Luckily, the recent developments were better and better for the Yanhuang Alliance.

The moment the country war happened, the Yanhuang Alliance would have more time to execute Plan Z. The merit talisman Di Chen obtained during the auction had also reduced that preparation time.

Everything was going good for them.

”It will get better.”

Di Chen looked out toward the window; he was filled with confidence.

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Annan Region, Haiphong City.

Although he had already unified Annan, Ruan Tianque was not comfortable. All of this stemmed from their neighbor - the Great Xia Dynasty.

During Ouyang Shuo's second voyage, one trade agreement had tied up Johor, Siam, Piao country, and Brunei on the Great Xia ship.