1294 TWO Chapter 1294-Plotting for the whole of mankind (1/2)

Chapter 1294 – Plotting for the Whole of Mankind

Gaia 8th year, 4th month, 5th day, Emperor Squadron Fleet Admiral Zhou Yu was summoned to the imperial city.

He came to accept a new appointment.

A day ago, due to the Egypt Dynasty submitting, Great Xia would return to the Mediterranean. Ouyang Shuo made a suggestion, and the Imperial Court agreed to restart the Atlantic Squadron name.

In truth, long ago, during the 6th year, 4th month, the Atlantic Squadron rebuilding work had already started. Relevant training and warship building had always been underway.

The Africa Governor-General House was the main camp of the Atlantic Squadron.

They had dragged the matter on till now because of the uncertain situation in the Mediterranean. Even if they restored the Pacific Squadron, it would not be able to do much and would instead cause the European dynasties to be on guard.

Zhou Yu would become the new Atlantic Squadron Fleet Admiral.

At the same time, the Imperial Court would also remove the Emperor Squadron. It would merge into the Atlantic Squadron and become its 1st division.

This was Ouyang Shuo's suggestion.

The Emperor Squadron existed to protect Ouyang Shuo on his voyages. Ouyang Shuo's two voyages had helped to set up a firm foundation for the Empire's ocean authority.

During this period, the Emperor Squadron had helped a lot.

In the current day and age, Ouyang Shuo had no need to go on voyages. As Great Xia's territory had spread across the world, keeping such a squadron was a waste.

In the recent two years, the Emperor Squadron had been parked at the Gulf of Tonkin, having no chance to sail out.

Merging the Emperor Squadron into the Atlantic Squadron would help the Imperial Court to save on a huge sum of expenditure, and it would also help send a core division over to the Atlantic Squadron. This move would help to raise the overall strength of the Atlantic Squadron.

As such, the Great Xia navy would still keep a five squadron system with three voyage squadrons and two sea squadrons.

The navy structure was still quite stable.

The defensive region of the Atlantic Squadron, apart from the Mediterranean, would mainly include the Atlantic Ocean, including South America in the west and Morocco in the east.

Especially South America, which would be one of their focuses.

The flag ship of the Atlantic Squadron would be named the Alvaro in memory of the fallen Fleet Admiral.

This was also a legacy of sorts.

This appointment was a new stage for Zhou Yu to show his skills.

After accepting the appointment, Zhou Yu led the Emperor Squadron to pass the Indian Ocean and head toward Africa to meet up with the other four divisions.

The first battle for them would be the fight for ocean supremacy in the Mediterranean.

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After sending Zhou Yu away, Ouyang Shuo started to reading memorials.

The matters decided during the meeting at the start of the year was executed after the offices reopened. In the 3rd month that had just ended, the News Publishing Department and Sports Department had been established.

All sorts of newspaper publications popped up and added a lot of excitement to the lives of the people.

Subscribing to newspapers had become the new trend of the cities.

Facing such new matters, the monitoring levels of the News Publishing Department was really strict. It had demands such as the newspapers not discussing country matters and not spreading lowlife culture.

Ouyang Shuo's attitude was to rather take slower steps than walk too fast and mess up.

Of course, for some elite newspapers, the Imperial Court showed their strong support. For example, the writers association established the poem weekly, entertainment bites, and the like; they obtained 10 thousand Great Xia coins in support to spread the papers overseas.

Ouyang Shuo even subscribed to these two and read them when he was free.

Everyone could see that Ouyang Shuo was saving no energy to promote Chinese culture.

Ouyang Shuo's attitude was to raise interest in the local provinces, especially overseas regions like Africa to keep Chinese and make it into a trend.

A cultural unification was slowly sprouting.

Even during the Federation era, such methods were tough to implement. As the game world was an empty canvas for Ouyang Shuo to draw on, he was able to create such a new situation.

The information of the empire's 1st Olympics had been spread through the country and had caused a huge athletic buzz. To promote fairness, martial artists were not allowed to participate.

Ouyang Shuo wanted everyone to be healthy and spread the spirit of sports. This was not an event for martial artists to brag and show off at. The stage for martial artists should be the martial completions held yearly.

Before holding the Empire Olympics, the various provinces would hold selection meets to select top athletes to participate.