Thanks to the strong technical capabilities and huge production capacity of the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory and the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, in the first month after Lin Ziran took control of Luohai City, he had already obtained tens of thousands of brand-new Luo'an Type 3 rifles, 30 75-mm guns and 9 150-mm rifles through these two arsenals, and nearly 20,000 Nanhai rifles were modified into Luo'an Type 3 rifles.

In addition, the Luo'an Arsenal and the Aoyama Machinery Factory are also in normal production.

The sum of the three has greatly accelerated the comprehensive rearmament plan of the troops.

According to the Ordnance Department's projections, the army's rifle re-equipping plan is expected to be completed this year.

In terms of artillery, it will be delayed, but it will be possible to complete the refitting within half a year.

The rearmament plan of the troops is proceeding steadily, and at the same time, the training of the newly integrated units in new tactics is carried out in accordance with the training plan of the General Staff.

All aspects of the affairs of the army are developing according to a good situation, which makes Lin Ziran feel a lot more relieved.

At the same time, after settling the fighting on the east bank of the Luo River, about 5,000 Romanian navy troops stationed on the western defense line also announced their surrender at the end of September.

This also means that the entire Luohai County is now under the control of Lin Ziran.

On October 8, Lin Ziran entered the urban area of Luohaicheng for the first time and met with the local gentry and officials.

The next day, Lin Ziran officially ordered the establishment of the Nanhai Prefecture Governor's Mansion, calling himself the Nanhai Prefecture Governor.

This change is the same reason as the previous preparation for the establishment of the South China Navy Command and the South China Navy under its command, that is, to occupy the name of righteousness, and at the same time announce to the world the determination to unify the South China Sea Prefecture.

Although this would also attract the jealousy of other counties and towns, Lin Ziran still decided to directly proclaim himself the state order after thinking about it.

The opposition of the other feudal towns was inevitable, and since he occupied the Liangluo region, he has already become a thorn in the side of the other feudal towns in Nanhai Prefecture, and it is estimated that the other feudal towns are brewing a joint attack.

Therefore, whether or not he claimed to be a state decree did not affect the attitude of the other feudal towns towards him and the measures to be taken.

After proclaiming the state order, it can occupy the name of righteousness, and at the same time declare the determination to unify Nanhai Prefecture, which can not only attract the support of more people, but also stabilize the morale of the army.

After taking Luohai City, many people in the army, especially the younger generation of officers, were worried that they would stop there, which was not in line with their hope of unifying Nanhai Prefecture and Daheng.

Now Lin Ziran has announced the establishment of the Nanhai Prefecture Decree in a high-profile manner, calling himself the State Decree, which is equivalent to telling all the soldiers under his command.

My Lin Ziran's unification will not stop, rest assured and boldly follow Lao Tzu to fight the world!

The self-proclaimed state order caused a lot of waves within the Liangluo region, some people applauded, some people said that Lin Ziran was not self-sufficient, and some people waited to see the joke.

But within the South Navy, morale is getting higher and higher day by day!

And Lin Ziran doesn't care much about what outsiders think, he only cares about what insiders think, and the high morale inside and the desire for the future make him very happy.

The political education of the past six months has not been in vain!

Externally, the other feudal towns naturally have opinions on Lin Ziran's approach, and Xu Teng of Hetai County said in public that the state order in his heart is only Duke Meng.

To put it bluntly, it is not recognized that Lin Ziran is a state order.

Nonsense, you definitely can't admit it, and once you admit it, won't you say that you want to be a head shorter.

What's more, Xu Teng's troops are more than Lin Ziran's, how can he be soft?

The attitude of Anlong County is more ambiguous, they don't have any public statement, they themselves are busy rectifying the tens of thousands of Luo Navy that have come over, trying to maintain resistance in the future overall changes.

Ningmei County in the northeast is the same as before, ignoring the outside world, just a few passes on the border of the garrison, and continuing to live its own small life behind closed doors.

Qingyuan County and Qiuhua County in the west, the attitude of these two counties is relatively ambiguous, on the one hand, they do not express their position publicly, but they have said a lot of good things to the envoys sent by Lin Ziran, saying that Lin Ziran's appointment as the state order is a good thing for Nanhai Prefecture.

In Guang'an County in the north, Du Zhikuan was very simple and directly increased his troops to re-enlarge the Guangcheng fortress.

He had spent a lot of time and energy recently, and he had finally wiped out the rebels of the Nanhai New Army in Gwangan County, and was able to free up his hands to deal with the changes in the Liangluo region.

At this time, the Guang'an army on the side of the Chongguangcheng fortress had directly increased from the previous scale of 10,000 to nearly 30,000.

What's more, the Gwangan County side has once again raised taxes on kerosene that is shipped to Gwangan County for sale, or through the Luo River in Gwangan County.

Now the kerosene under Lin Ziran's hand wants to pass through the Luohe River in Chongguang City, and the rest is not careless, so he has to pay taxes first, 20 yuan per barrel.

In response, Lin Ziran also reinforced a brigade to the northern defense line.

At the same time, the kerosene was simply cut off from being transported north, and all of it was shipped south to Luohai County, and sold through the sea outlet of Luohai City.

Nanhai kerosene, in recent times has been a certain reputation, many businessmen from other states know that Nanhai Prefecture has kerosene, this is a lot of people who come to buy kerosene, not only businessmen from other states, even other countries, such as the merchants of the Odisha Empire in the south will come to purchase kerosene.

Although the current sales channels are still relatively small and cannot meet the current huge production capacity, the export channels have been completely opened, and there is no need to worry about the kerosene not being shipped out.

Therefore, the increase in kerosene taxes in Guang'an County is actually not a big loss to Lin Ziran.

Anyway, his kerosene is in short supply, and as long as the transportation channels are opened, it will be the same for whoever he sells to.

Hexi County in the northwest, they often advance and retreat with Guang'an County, Guang'an Army increased troops to re-attack Guangcheng Fortress, Hexi County is also on the opposite side of the northwest defense line to increase troops, according to the estimate of the reconnaissance cavalry, the Hexi Army on the opposite side has at least 20,000 troops, and it is still further increasing.

Lin Ziran looked around, and finally set his eyes on Anlong County and Hetai County in the east, Guang'an Army in the north, and Hexi County in the northwest.

These four counties were the stronger feudal towns.

Relatively speaking, although the other three counties, namely Ningmei County, Qingyuan County, and Qiuhua County, are not small in area, they have a small population, basically no industry, and no other advantageous industries with any characteristics, so their troops are not much.

For example, in Qingyuan County, their strength is actually more than 20,000 people.

Qiuhua County did not have many troops, that is, only twenty or thirty thousand people.

It's pretty much the same in Ninmei County.

These three counties originally did not have the strength to dominate Nanhai Prefecture, and the county guards of the three counties were also self-aware, so many times they remained neutral and would not easily meddle in the affairs of other counties.

Of course, in order to protect themselves, Qingyuan County and Qiuhua County are allies, and they are also open alliances.

What's more, they have a close relationship with Ningyu Prefecture to the south.

Among them, Qingyuan County, to a certain extent, can be regarded as a buffer zone between Nanhai Prefecture and Ningyu Prefecture, after Lin Ziran directly took down Qingyuan County, he had to directly face Ningyu Prefecture, and the unpredictable risk was too great.

For these three counties, Lin Ziran's idea is to slow down first.

And among the four threatening counties, that is, Anlong County, Hetai County, Guang'an County and Hexi County, Anlong County is not easy to move first, and once Anlong County is moved, it will have to directly start a war with Xu Teng in the future.

To this end, Lin Ziran's next plan is to take Guang'an County, control Hexi County, and solve his worries.

In this way, he can better wave his army eastward to enter Hetai County and lay the foundation for the unification of Nanhai Prefecture in one fell swoop!

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