With the completion of the formation of the eight major theaters one by one, the defense areas of the various group armies have been relatively fixed, especially the Gyeonggi Theater and the Central Plains Theater, which have been specifically stationed in each province.

In this way, it will be conducive to the building of the general headquarters of the group army, the military headquarters, and the division headquarters.

When this round of disarmament is completed, the Great Xia mainland will enter a period of strategic defense for a long time, and if nothing else, the war will gradually fade out of the lives of the people in the Central Plains.

In this way, a stable internal environment was created, which was conducive to the construction of internal affairs and the industrial revolution.

In addition, the successive formation of the eight major theaters actually depicted an imperial blueprint.

For a long time in the future, Great Xia will take this as a benchmark, and while strengthening the construction of internal affairs, it will actively expand externally, so as to enhance global hegemony and strive to be promoted to the Great Xia Dynasty as soon as possible.

It took a year for Daxia to complete "Condition 1" and unify the Huaxia District.

In the next eight years of Gaia, the eyes of the empire will overlook the entire Asian continent, and strive to complete "condition 2" as soon as possible and obtain the supremacy of the Asian region, so as to launch a final charge to the supreme throne.

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December 27th.

In order to cooperate with the eight major theaters, the imperial court carried out a unified adjustment of the ranks of the generals.

There are three generals on the first product, namely Bai Qi, Han Xin and Li Jing.

There are five generals of Yipin, including Sun Bin, Li Mu, Wang Qian, Wu Qi, four commanders of the theater and Zheng He, the commander of the navy. The rank of general of Huo Quai, the commander of the Praetorian Guard, and Xu Da, the commander of the Yulin Army, were demoted.

The two generals of the three dukes, namely the hussar general Huo Quai, the chariot general Xu Da, and the guard general Xu Chu.

The generals of the second and third armies, namely the general of the Fujun Zhou Yu, the general of the Chinese army Shi Lang, and the general of the Shangjun Fireworks and Demons, these three are all admirals of the fleet and deserve such a status.

Erpin and Erzhen generals, that is, Zhenjun General Evil Lai, Zhenguo General Shi Wanzai, these two are first-class fierce generals, and they are also Ouyang Shuo's henchmen, imperial veterans, and the name of Erzhen is appropriate.

The second-rank Zhongnan general, that is, Yu Dayou, the commander of the Yashan Fleet Naval Division.

In addition, Admiral Qi Jiguang of the Coastal Fleet Navy Division was awarded the rank of General of Erpin Zhenhai.

The generals of the two products and the four expeditions, namely Li Xiucheng, the general of the expedition to the east, the general Zuo Zongtang of the expedition to the south, the general of the expedition to the west, and the general Guo Ziyi of the expedition to the north, were the commanders of the field armies of the four main offensive directions of the empire.

The generals of the two towns and four towns, namely the general Yue Fei of Zhendong, the general of Zhennan Zhang Han, the general of Zhenxi Meng Tian and the general of Zhenbei Chen Yucheng, were the commanders of the field armies of the four major defensive positions of the empire.

Further down, there is General Sanpin.

Sanpin leading the general, that is, the female palace guard commander Mulan.

The three products and four security generals, namely the Anton general Zhang Xutuo, the Annan general Fan Lihua, the Anxi general Shi Dakai and the Anbei general Chang Yuchun, were the commanders of the border guards in the four major defensive positions of the empire.

General Sanpin Siping, namely Pingdong General Wolf Warrior, Pingnan General Yang Su, Pingxi General Hou Junji, and Pingbei General Xue Rengui, were the commanders of the frontier troops in the four main offensive directions of the empire.

Further down are some miscellaneous generals, which will not be elaborated on.

At this point, before the arrival of the eighth year of Gaia, the Great Xia Army finally completed a top-down reshaping from the beginning of the march to the establishment of a war zone on a large scale in the name of disarmament, and then to the adjustment of the rank of general.

In the next eight years of Gaia, the Privy Council will take the opportunity of setting up eight logistics support centers to provide more efficient logistics support services for the eight major theaters and strive to get rid of the dependence of war on labor as soon as possible.

Previously, the Privy Council War Readiness Department had only established a partial logistics supply depot, and had never set up a logistics support center on a large scale. Each time, it was necessary to wait until the outbreak of war to mobilize a large number of laborers to transport supplies to the front line.

This time it's a complete remakeover, a big deal.

Each logistics support center will serve one theater, for example, the logistics support center of the Central Plains Theater will be located in Luoyang.

To this end, Ouyang Shuo has authorized the Privy Council to select 320,000 soldiers from this round of retrenchment to form a separate logistics support force.

In this way, it can also save a retirement settlement payment.

The planned logistics support center will not only provide grain and grass, but also armor, weapons, war horses, muskets, artillery, ammunition, fighter planes, siege equipment, and other war materials.

Therefore, in addition to warehouses, there are also corresponding arsenals, horse farms and other facilities that constitute the logistics support center, which is a very complex and systematic logistics support cluster.

In addition to the officers and men of the logistics support force, more of them are those workers who receive wages, so as to form a huge industrial cluster.

And this is also a booster for the empire to promote industrialization.

Throughout modern history, the role of war in promoting industry is really indispensable.

It can be imagined how complicated it is to set up such a logistics system, so Ouyang Shuo did not start in the seventh year of Gaia, but pushed it to the eighth year of Gaia.

The Privy Council had one year to complete the construction of the eight logistics support centers.

The most important task is to properly handle the tens of millions of weapons and equipment that the army has replaced after this disarmament, and establish corresponding warehouses for routine maintenance.

Some of these weapons and equipment, such as bows and crossbows, are no longer suitable for the battlefield, but they cannot flow into the civilian population, causing potential safety hazards to the management of local yamen.

For another example, the arquebuses that were eliminated earlier had to be stored and sealed.

Only after the completion of the construction of the eight major logistics support centers can the modernization of the Great Xia Army be regarded as a solid step. In the future, there will be all kinds of firearms and armor, which will be installed in the army.

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On December 30, the seventh year of Gaia, a system announcement resounded around the world.

"World Announcement: On the occasion of the seventh anniversary of the operation of "Earth Online", the game will be updated for the eighth time, effective immediately, and players can log on to the official website to view the specific content."

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As soon as the announcement came out, Ouyang Shuo logged on to the official website as usual to view the update.

[1] The global map returns to normal proportions.

The game world was generated after the surface area of the earth was expanded tenfold, with the aim of creating a vast wilderness with plenty of strategic space for thousands of lord players.

Today, there are less than twenty lords in the game world, and the wilderness has long been no longer a wilderness.

The map of Nuoda has become an obstacle to development, and with the technological level of the game world, if it were not for the existence of a teleportation array, the territory area would have been very limited.

Just like the current Great Xia, the territory span is too large, and it is already very difficult to govern, if it is not for the establishment of the four major capital protectorates and a festival envoy mansion, the imperial court will not be able to control it at all, and the whip is beyond the reach of the whip.

The map is too vast, and it also brings a disadvantage to the Gaia Tempering Lords, that is, it cannot threaten the survival of the people.

In the sixth year of Gaia, the city no longer refreshed the displaced people, and the territory of Nuoda was vast and sparsely populated.

Although the October natural disaster in the seventh year of Gaia brought a baptism to the global territory, through the reclamation of new farmland, the global territory was fully restored within a year.

Food and clothing never seem to be a big deal.

This, of course, doesn't fit in with the ancient context, and adjusting the map to its original scale can also help limit it.

Of course, Gaia's deeper purpose is to further intensify the global dynastic strife.

Taking Great Xia as an example, if it weren't for the goal of promoting the imperial dynasty, Ouyang Shuo would not have much motivation to continue to expand the territory of the empire.

Because even if you take a large territory, you have to manage it.

Instead of expanding unchecked, it is better to focus on internal affairs, especially to accelerate the industrial revolution and replace quantity with the development of quality.

It's a smart choice.

In modern society, a small place like Star Country can stir up trouble in the international community.

The fact that small countries such as Dongying and Goryeo can also claim to be kings and hegemons has revealed to a certain extent that in the face of a high degree of modernization, the size of the territory is no longer an important factor in measuring national strength.

Digesting the existing territory, Great Xia is enough to dominate the world.

In view of this, Gaia threw out such a bait, accelerating the industrial revolution while drastically reducing the territory area, so that the lords "couldn't eat", and their ambitions continued to swell and strangle each other.

Of course, the "zeroing" of the game world is relative, and all man-made facilities such as cities, farmland, and roads will not be reduced, otherwise all the previous hard work will be in vain.

Even so, this update will have a profound impact on the game world.

Taking Jingshi as an example, the Lianzhou Basin was already very vast, and there was still a large amount of open space under the premise of accommodating a giant capital.

After shrinking, the surroundings of the Jingshi were already very urgent.

Even the name Lianzhou Basin will become a thing of the past and cease to exist, and the rocky mountains to the north of the basin will disappear and return to reality.

For example, the game world, where the river is several times wider than reality, is one of the pillars that support inland transportation, and this time it will return to its original size, and the transportation capacity will be weakened at once.

Many rivers, since then, are no longer suitable for river transportation.

Another example is that after the map is "zeroed", the habitat of those monsters will be closer to the human settlement, and it will threaten the survival of human beings at any time.

The list goes on and on.

Gaia is really a big deal, and after this round of updates, it is enough for all dynasties to be in a hurry for a while.