1252 TWO Chapter 1252-Personnel adjustments (1/2)
Chapter 1252 – Personnel Adjustments
The submissions of Song, Qin, and Tang brought a great quantity of population and officials, providing an extremely stable source of manpower for the dynasty's expansion in Africa.
Putting off the Africa appointments till today was partially due to such considerations.
A day ago, the Imperial Court had decided to shift over a total of 10 million civilians from Handan City, Xiangyang, Xianyang, and Chang An to the Africa Governor-General House. They would bring over China's advanced agriculture techniques to focus on developing Africa.
At the same time, the Imperial Court also wanted players to move over.
For this, the Africa Governor-General House worked together with the Imperial Court to establish a list of welfare policies like a year of tax-free agriculture, free cows, tools, and more.
The goal was to start a huge construction wave in Africa as soon as possible.
Apart from economical and agriculture development, Ouyang Shuo also placed a lot of attention on spreading Chinese culture. Hence, he instructed the Science, Education, Culture, and Health Department to work with the governor-general to set up schools there.
Any region under the Africa Governor-General House would have its official language changed to Chinese.
Ouyang Shuo hoped to use these two to three years of time to let a third or more of the African people and 90% of the school age children learn Chinese and how to write it.
He wanted to have Chinese civilization take root in Africa.
This was not totally impossible.
In the Nanjiang Governor-General region, this had already been pushed out. Maybe because Southeast Asia had deep roots with Chinese civilization, but learning and writing Chinese had already become the local trend.
Official schools all used Chinese and passed down the philosopher classics.
As they spread Chinese culture, they would also absorb the local culture to make it a part of the Chinese civilization.
The collision and mergers of cultures made Chinese civilization shine ever more brightly.
Chinese civilization was about to step onto the world stage.
To support the development of Africa, Ouyang Shuo instructed the Imperial Court to directly hand over 30 million gold.
This was something that was totally unprecedented.
The 30 million gold was not directly given to the governor-general house. Instead, it was used by the Great Xia business bank and Great Xia agriculture bank to flow into Africa.
These funds were enough to let these two banks gain a stable footing in Africa.
The financial organizations of the nine countries that were destroyed were bought over by the two banks. Following set standards, they were opened to the public to stimulate the financial market.
Hence, the two banks could absorb the spare cash of the African locals to support the second and even third rounds of development in Africa, forming a positive cycle.
30 million gold was far from enough for the huge Africa continent.
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As they developed the Africa continent, the Africa warzone was also adjusted under the supervision of the Privy Court.
Taking down nine countries within half a year was an exceptional achievement. Under the leadership of Baiqi, the four legion corps had become a pack of killer wolves, sweeping Africa.
Baiqi's nickname of Asura spread across the entire Africa, terrifying everyone who heard it.
After fighting so many successive wars, it was unavoidable that there would be a few tough ones. The four legion corps had suffered losses of varying extents. With the permission of the Privy Court, they replenished their troops with the surrendered soldiers.
After all of the legion corps were replenished, many troops still remained.
Due to that, to strengthen the African local's recognition of the Imperial Court, Ouyang Shuo instructed them to disarm one of the four legion corps to form the bailiffs and defending division.
The empty spot would be filled up by war prisoners.
After this adjustment, the percentage of African native soldiers to foreign soldiers was around 20%, at around 250 thousand.
In the future, this would become the standard.
For every governor-general house, the local soldiers must reach 20% to maintain stability.
Apart from increasing the native civilian recognition of the Imperial Court, they could also reduce the animosity of the surrounding countries because the Great Xia Army would not be filled with purely foreigners.
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The scorching hot sunlight shone into the Imperial Reading Room, signaling that time was being lost.
Just now, Ouyang Shuo and the three ministers had decided on the two spots for Provincial Governor. They planned to appoint Old Tang minister Zhangsun Wuji to the position of Tanzania Province Provincial Governor and promote Leizhou Prefecture Governor Yang Xiuqing to Mozambique Provincial Governor.
Zhangsun Wuji came from the Henan Zhangsun family and was raised by his uncle. When he was young, he was good friends with Tang Taizong. Later, they became in-laws. After Tang Gaozu started the coup, Zhangsun Wuji stepped forward to help, fighting alongside Li Shiming. He became his advisor and participated and planned the Xuanwu gate matter.
During the Zhuoguan years, Zhangsun Wuji held many important positions such as the position of Zuowu great general, secretary of personnel, and head of the secretariat. He was given the title of Zhao Duke and was the top official amongst the 24 in the Lingyan Pavilion. During the fight for the throne, he supported Gaozong and was appointed as a supreme government official, a Grade 3 official.