1210 TWO Chapter 1210-Africa Warzone (1/2)

Chapter 1210 – Africa Warzone

Great Xia stopped their expeditions, but no one was happy about it.

Everyone knew that once Great Xia digested the newly added two million troops, they would strike out aggressively and start the war to unify China.

Just thinking about this sent a chill down one's spine.

As time went on and the 10th month arrived, Ouyang Shuo entered a busy state.

After taking down a vast amount of land, accepting two million troops, and obtaining the loyalty of many officials, how to play out this big chess game was his biggest problem.

Over a successive few days, Ouyang Shuo either gathered up the Cabinet to discuss matters or went to either the Grand Council or the Privy Court to have meetings. Apart from that, he had meetings with ministers alone and was really busy.

On the 10th month, 5th day, things were finally showing signs of being settled.

The first thing that Ouyang Shuo arranged was the civil servants. Although three dynasties had submitted to Great Xia, they were only three provinces, so they were easy to arrange.

Xiong Ba was removed from his role in the Administrative Mentor Court and was officially appointed as the Minnan Provincial Governor.

Minnan Province was next to Jiangnan Province, and Ouyang Shuo placed him there to monitor whether he would try to influence Jiangnan in the dark after everything settled down.

This was Ouyang Shuo's test for him.

The original Minnan Provincial Governor Xun Yu would join the Administrative Mentor Court as a Chief Secretary. Along with him was Shu Han minister Fa Zheng, but he was only appointed as a secretary.

The Administrative Mentor Court has such a stellar formation. Now, it was a little overpowered. Apart from head secretary Zhang Liang, there was chief secretaries Jia Xu, Pang Tong, and Xun Yu as well as secretaries Chen Gong, Jushou, and Fa Zheng.

Apart from Zhang Liang, they were all top strategists from the Three Kingdoms era.

Ouyang Shuo was already thinking about how to truly work the Administrative Mentor Court to not let some of them have nothing to do.

The role of Jiangnan Provincial Governor was taken by Gao Ying. The other Sui Dynasty minister Su Wei was appointed in Hedong Province where Great Jin had been located.

The two pillars of Great Sui were given high appointments.

Zhufu Yan was removed from his appointment as Zhongyuan Provincial Governor and moved to Wannan. Feng Qiuhuang would take over his role.

The situation in Zhongyuan Province has basically stabilized. Along with the Imperial Court taking down Wannan Province, the Zhongyuan Province had established connection with the Imperial Court.

Zhufu Yan was a minister of Great Han, and it was not appropriate for him to remain in Zhongyuan.

Feng Qiuhuang's appointment there showed the high hopes Ouyang Shuo had for her. Zhongyuan Province was the central pillar of the mid plains, and if she ran it well, she would gain a lot of credit.

Apart from the Provincial Governor appointments, the other officials were handled by the Cabinet. The rule was that the Han, Jin, Sui, and Shu officials, including those from Jiangnan Province, could only be appointed in provinces other than their own.

This was a complicated process that would take several months.

After settling the Provincial Governors, Ouyang Shuo temporarily placed down the civil servant matters and focused on the biggest and largest military reorganization in Great Xia history.

The vast things it involved was hard to keep track of.

Just dealing with the 2.29 million troops needed a lot of effort.

They had captured 120 thousand Han troops during the Battle of Luoyang. As Wei Qing had killed himself, there were no great generals obtained.

During the Battle of Qing, they captured 320 thousand troops. Similarly, there were no exceptional generals.

During the battle at Jiangnan border, they captured 350 thousand Ming troops and obtained God General Xu Da, Emperor Rank general Chang Yuchun as well as King Rank generals Feng Sheng and Deng Yu.

After Great Ming was destroyed, Xu Da and the others stopped resisting and surrendered to Great Xia.

With Jiangnan Province submitting, they obtained 300 thousand King legion corps troops and God General Wuqi.

With Great Jin submitting, they obtained a total of 340 thousand troops from the Guards and blazing legion corps, obtaining Guo Ziyi, Meng Tian, Ran Min, Wang He, and Zhou Bo.

With Great Sui submitting, they obtained 500 thousand Great Sui Guards, obtaining Yang Su, Han Qinhu, Yu Juluo, Yu Wenshu, and He Ruobi.

With the Shu Han dynasty submitting, they obtained 360 thousand Shu Han Guards, obtaining Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, and Jiang Wei.

Naturally, they could not keep all of such a large scale army, so a portion had to be removed. If not, even with the finances of Great Xia, they would not have the ability to maintain such huge military expenditure.

Furthermore, out of the 2.29 million troops, just the imperial city guards occupied 1.615 million of them for a total of 72%. It covered Han, Qing, Ming, Sui, and Shu, these five countries, and they needed to be disarmed.

With the current size of Great Xia, reorganizing the military was not a simple problem; it was not a numbers game. They had to consider the future strategy of the dynasty.

They needed to confirm the direction in which the dynasty would expand toward and what enemies they were going to face before they could settle on an reorganization plan.

All in all, it was led by the needs of the dynasty.