Zhang Liang changed his words, "Of course, although the mainland is basically safe, the periphery of the empire, especially in East Africa, the Americas, and even southern Xinjiang, these overseas territories are still facing risks, and various challenges have always existed. ”

All of you listened thoughtfully.

As the saying goes, "crisis is opportunity", Zhang Liang's subtext is to suggest that the empire should focus on defense in Gaia for eight years, and focus its external expansion on Africa and the Americas.

If it weren't for the fact that the Indian Empire had asked for help from Bactria a few days ago, even the American continent would not have been among the Empire's key expansion targets.

Ouyang Shuo said on the spot, "Huaxia and Southern Xinjiang have just been reunified, and it's time to recuperate." ”

The destruction of the Six Kingdoms in one year by China requires a process of integration, eliminating estrangement, so that the remnants of the Six Kingdoms can forget their homeland and truly regard Bactria as their mother country.

Since then, Great Xia and Huaxia have been two sides of the same coin.

After the unification of southern Xinjiang, spreading and infiltrating Chinese civilization in the region and making the people of southern Xinjiang recognize Chinese orthodoxy is also a long-term major policy, which requires a relatively stable internal environment.

If you manage the mainland and southern Xinjiang well, the empire will have a stable rear.

In this way, in the future global battlefield, the empire can attack and retreat, and it is basically invincible.

Historically, one of the reasons why the United States was able to rise strongly after World War II was that the United States was far from the front lines of the war, and the war stimulated American industry and became the biggest winner of the world war.

It's a good object to emulate.

Jiang Shang and the other Wenchen's eyes lit up, and they all nodded in agreement. Li Jing, Wang Jian and Li Mu, the three commanders of the theater, had a trace of unwillingness flashing in their eyes, especially Wang Qian, who was even more disappointed.

But this is His Majesty's decision, they are not good, and there is no reason to refute it.

To be honest, the State of the Union address thrown out by the Senior Cabinet is of a very high level and convincing. Behind the release of the message is the support of the Senior Cabinet, the Black Snake Guard, the Shanhaiwei and other institutions.

Any decision is based on adequate intelligence.

Seeing this, Du Ruhui said with a smile: "If the silver hand and the blue badge really start an internal fight, then the empire will have a lot to do in Africa and South America." ”

All of you here are smart people, and you can naturally understand it.

The pattern of the African continent has been basically formed, North Africa is occupied by the Egyptian dynasty, South Africa is entrenched in the Bantu dynasty, East Africa is Bactria and West Africa is occupied by European dynasties.

Central Africa, with the exception of the Congo, was occupied by the Dawson dynasty.

If you want to ignite the flames of war in Africa, Congo will bear the brunt, and it is also the confrontation between Bactria and the Dawson dynasty. If you think of the South American continent, it's interesting.

Great Xia confronted the Dawson dynasty head-on, in the eighth year of Gaia.

This is also what Ouyang Shuo has been looking forward to, the Dawson Dynasty is the mainstay of the Silver Hand camp, and if you want to disintegrate the Silver Hand, you must first defeat the Dawson Dynasty.

That's the big premise.

"So, we need to be prepared." Ouyang Shuo looked at the generals on the right, "I will make a decision directly, and immediately transfer the Hanoi Army from the Nanyang Theater to the American Theater and change its name to the North American Army." ”

Wu Qi and Han Xin nodded in unison, obviously mentally prepared.

With the unification of southern Xinjiang, although it still faces the threat of the Dark Night Empire, there is no need to retain the four major group armies in the Nanyang Theater, and it is enough to have the Longxiang Army, the Heluo Army and the Southern Xinjiang Army in charge.

The Long Xiang Army guarded Hanoi Province and Hetao Province, the Heluo Army guarded Luzon Province and Heluo Province, and the Southern Xinjiang Army guarded Australia Province, and they could completely cope with it.

If it weren't for the Night Empire by his side, it would be fine to even dismantle another army group.

On the other hand, it is the theater of operations in the Americas, which needs to be strengthened.

After the transfer of the North American Army, together with the Tiger Army and the South American Army, the American theater suddenly changed from a framework to a powerful theater of operations, which could set off stormy waves in South America at any time.

Moreover, in the just-concluded Battle of Java, the total number of prisoners of war captured in Bactria reached 1.1 million, and the imperial court had decided to screen out 600,000 people from them to form the Australian Construction Corps.

The Australian Construction Corps is stationed in the southern plains of the Australian provinces, responsible for the development of the sparsely populated Australian continent, and at the same time becoming a reserve force for the defense of the Night Empire.

The commander of the corps was promoted by Tang He, deputy commander of the Fifth Army of the Yulin Army.

With Tang He's dedicated assistance, Lin Jing has basically left the division, and the next step is the actual combat test, and this time Tang He was transferred to the commander of the Australian Corps, which is a compliment to Tang He.

And Tang He also has this talent.

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After Zhang Liang finished his report, Ouyang Shuo looked at Jiang Shang, "Let's give a brief explanation of the cabinet on the reorganization plan of the local yamen organization, so that everyone can know in their hearts." ”

"No!"

Jiang Shang clenched his fists and began to explain this time, the largest institutional adjustment of the imperial court.

The motivation for the reorganization of the organization came from the map zeroing that Gaia had just launched, which can be said to be an adjustment made in line with the development of the game.

It boils down to one sentence: "Abolish the government." ”

Aside from the Metropolitan Protectorate, the local yamen in Daxia is divided into six levels: provinces, counties, prefectures, counties, towns, and villages, which can also be called five levels in view of the implementation of villager autonomy at the village level.

This is necessary in the context of a tenfold expansion of the map, as the province is so large.

If not, you can't manage it at all.

With the map being zeroed out, the territory has been greatly reduced, and the implementation of a five-level structure is a bit bloated, and it is also very unfavorable to the vertical management of the imperial court.

In view of this, the cabinet proposed to abolish the government level, which was approved by Ouyang Shuo.

This matter is simple to say, but if you really want to implement it, it is a thousand things.

According to the establishment of Great Xia, the province is blind to four to six counties, each county is blind to three to five prefectures, and each prefecture is blind to several counties, the number is uncertain.

In this way, there are more than a dozen to thirty government offices in a province.

From a management point of view, the best way to abolish the government is to upgrade some of them to the county guard yamen, and then demote most of the government to the county government.

Correspondingly, some of these county governments that have not yet developed will be downgraded to townships and towns.

Taking history as a guide, generally speaking, it is more reasonable to blind eight to twelve counties in one province, that is, it can be doubled on the basis of existing counties.

One county, then four to nine counties.

The specific number should be determined according to the actual situation of the provinces, not only considering the establishment, but also strengthening the historical origin and geographical barriers, but it is best not to exceed the upper limit.

After the adjustment, the three levels of provinces, counties, and counties have basically achieved flat management.

If this plan is implemented, only a few prefects can be promoted to county guards, and many more prefects will be demoted to county commanders.

The county order of the county that was abolished will also be deprived of the official hat.

"This is also a good thing, squeezing out the water in the yamen and making the entire internal affairs system more efficient." Jiang Shang was very optimistic, explaining: "Whoever is promoted and who is down, will be based on the year-end evaluation. ”

"Evaluation?"

Ouyang Shuo's expression was a little playful, and he said lightly: "The imperial court can't regard the evaluation as a golden rule, but I have heard that in the past two years, there are many cats in the evaluation. ”

Evaluation, in the final analysis, is still done by people.

In this case, there must be room for operation, especially at the county, government, and county levels, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and it is impossible for the imperial court to take care of it.

Over the years, how many officials have been promoted in a grand manner under the guise of evaluation?

Ouyang Shuo had roughly a number of points in his heart.

But even if the mountains and seas are all over the empire, they can't do everything.

If it weren't for the fact that the situation was too bad, Ouyang Shuo didn't want a secret agent organization like Shanhaiwei to extend its tentacles into the local grassroots, which would only raise a monster.

Shanhaiwei focuses mainly on the imperial court and provincial governors.

When Jiang Shang and the others heard this, their palms sweated slightly, knowing that His Majesty was using this to knock on the cabinet and the court.

"The cabinet will join forces with the four major courtyards and the imperial history platform to send a supervision team to the provinces, stationed in the local yamen, to supervise the evaluation and institutional adjustment." Jiang Shang made a statement on behalf of the cabinet.

Ouyang Shuo nodded, knowing that this was the only thing the imperial court could do, "The inspection team sent by the imperial court is limited to the Gyeonggi region and the Central Plains region. The four metropolitan protection areas are supervised by the metropolitan protection office. ”

Hearing this, Bai Hua, Mulan Yue, Zhu Li, and the siege lion nodded in unison, with different expressions on their faces.

There is no doubt that supervision is not only supervision, but also contains great power, which can determine the promotion of officials in the entire region and determine the pattern of this reshuffle of civil and official officials.

This was originally a privilege of the imperial court.

This time, His Majesty authorized this to the Metropolitan Protectorate, which can be described as the first time in the world.

This is both a test of trust and a test.

If they make a mess of the capital protection area in the end, they will have no face to return to Beijing.