The little emperor of Great Xia actually died like this!

Wen Jiming felt very incredible for a while after hearing the news.

Although this young emperor who killed his uncle with his own hands was already a mortal person in his mind, but just a few days after occupying Emperor Qiu, he heard the news of his death, which still made Wen Jiming feel very surprised and sudden!

So he couldn't help but ask Jiang Yan.

"What the hell is going on? Didn't he already escape, how could he suddenly die like this? ”

After hearing Wen Jiming's question, Jiang Yan took out a report and began to read the words on it.

"Fleming, commander of the Fourth Army Corps, telegraphed to the command center of the military department."

"On June 8, the third year of the Ming Dynasty, our army was ordered by the military department to pull out the camp and enter the territory of Jincheng County, and before arriving at the city of Jincheng, it encountered a 50,000-strong Daxia army, and the other department immediately surrendered to our department after discovering our legion."

"According to the military commander who commanded this Great Xia army, he was the lord of Zhangwu County, the former princes of Great Xia, and when the Little Emperor of Great Xia passed through their county and went to Dongyang County, the private territory of the Little Emperor, he designed an ambush and annihilated the Little Emperor of Great Xia and his 15,000 escort troops."

"He has now handed over to our ministry the head of the little emperor and the full set of the emperor's honor guards, together with all the materials and gold and silver treasures carried by the little emperor, and now I have sent someone to send them to the emperor to prepare to hand them over to His Majesty the king."

After reading this telegram, Jiang Yan once again gave Wen Jiming a surprise.

"This morning we also got another good news, after the murder of the Eighth Prince, the southern Lingnan, Lingxi, Guangnan, Guangxi, Liangzhou, Donghai, and the Seven Counties Alliance in the east have announced their surrender to our Ming Empire!"

"It's amazing!"

Hearing this good news, Wen Jiming couldn't help but shout loudly!

Of course, he was very happy, and the news definitely made him happier than the little emperor being killed.

Due to the surrender of this alliance of seven counties in the south, it has directly made it possible for the Ming Empire to unify the eighty-two counties of the country at this stage!

Because up to now, counting Zhangwu County, Jincheng County, Dongyang County, Tianmen County, Wenshan County and Nanxiang County, which the Ming army entered or was about to enter, there are less than twenty counties left that have not been occupied by the Ming Dynasty.

A few days ago, the Ming Military Department and Wen Jiming also decided to wait for a period of time before continuing the unification war, and now they are going to take the opportunity to expand the results of the war.

Wen Jiming immediately made up his mind and directly told Jiang Yan about his decision.

"Order the First Legion, the Second Legion and the Third Legion to immediately resume the attack on the remaining Great Xia Counties, and we must take advantage of this excellent opportunity to directly take down all the counties in the country that are still in an independent state!"

Wen Jiming really made the right decision at the right time this time.

Due to the powerful offensive of the Ming Empire, coupled with the death of the little emperor. In just a few days, it spread to all the counties, and on the 23rd of June, with the surrender of the last princes of Great Xia, the Ming Empire finally unified the entire territory of Great Xia!

This war took 23 days, but it achieved unexpected results.

The Ming Empire not only unified the entire territory of Bactria, but also made a fortune in this war.

At the end of June, Wen Jiming received a statistical report on the war made by the Ministry of War of the Ming Empire, and the Ming Empire captured a total of 1884 million gold and silver treasures worth 1884 million gold taluns, and captured 200 million gold talun worth of weapons and strategic materials. In addition, there are 49 million stone grains and grasses!

Among them, from the inner treasury of the Great Xia royal family alone, he got a gold deposit worth 200 million gold taluns, which was left for the Ming Empire without even having time to take it away when the little emperor of Great Xia fled.

The Great Xia Dynasty had accumulated all kinds of savings for hundreds of years, and in this way, they were all accepted by the Ming Empire.

Great Xia is finally gone!

The Ming Empire replaced the Great Xia Dynasty and became the orthodox Eastern Continent of Saturn.

On the first day of July in the third year of the Ming Dynasty, Wen Jiming was officially proclaimed emperor, and King Wen could be called the first emperor from now on.

Wen Shi Huang was very reluctant at the beginning, he thought that the title of the first emperor was very unlucky, but he couldn't come up with any reason to oppose the ministers, so he had to eat coptis dumbly, and he couldn't say anything about his suffering.

The first emperor is the first emperor, anyway, he can live for a long time, maybe it won't be long before he can become a god and live forever.

Considering this, Wen Jiming finally stopped dwelling on the argument about his name and began to go with the flow.

In the next few days, we will talk about the administrative division of local governments and the rewards for meritorious deeds.

Since the Ming Empire completely put an end to the feudal system and changed it to a centralized state, it was necessary to unify the administrative units of the whole country.

At present, there are 82 counties in the country, and they must all be changed into prefectures, and provincial-level institutions will be set up.

In the end, the Cabinet agreed that the country was divided into 16 provinces and two provinces directly under the central government.

The 16 provinces are:

Hanzhong Province, in charge of Hexi Province, Hedong Province, Shangchuan Province, Xiachuan Province, and Sichuan Province.

Henan Province, in charge of Jinshan Mansion, Hanyin Mansion, Chen County Mansion, Wu County Mansion, Yanshan Mansion.

Hebei Province, in charge of Montenegro Mansion, Lin'an Mansion, Quilting Mansion, Wujiang Mansion, Anyang Mansion.

Shandong Province, in charge of Yunshan Mansion, Qingyang Mansion, Anqing Mansion, Jingyang Mansion, Siping Mansion.

Yunzhong Province, in charge of Anyang Mansion, Changping Mansion, Genting Mansion, Shangdang Mansion, Pinglu Mansion.

Luyang Province, in charge of Chishui Province, Jiangyang Province, Lunan Province, Luxi Province, and Dai County Government.

Hajian Province, in charge of Hanoi, Quang Binh, Duong Binh, An Binh, Ha Jian Province.

Hanoi Province, in charge of Thanh Ha Province, Lok Binh Province, Tay Ha Province, Xinxing Province, and Cheng Duong Province.

Beiji Province, in charge of Beihai Mansion, Xiaoxiang Mansion, Changshan Mansion, Anqiu Mansion, Lingmen Mansion.

Taichung Province, in charge of Taixiang Mansion, Fuping Mansion, Gaotang Mansion, Danyang Mansion, Ancheng Mansion.

Qinghe Province, in charge of Xiping Province, Qingyang Province, Jiye Province, Zhangwu Province, Jincheng Province.

Tianshan Province, in charge of Tianmen Mansion, Dongyang Mansion, Wenshan Mansion, Nanxiang Mansion, Yidu Mansion.

Wu'an Province, in charge of Jianping, Shi'an, Wuwei, Nan'an, and Guangwei.

Liaozhong Province, in charge of Liang Guofu, Weiguo Fu, Lu Guofu, Shanggu Fu, Liaoyang Fu.

Nanhai Province, in charge of Lingnan Province, Lingxi Province, Quang Nam Province, Guangxi Province, Liangzhou Province.

Donghai Province, in charge of Donghai Province, Donglin Province, Pengcheng Province, Guangling Province, Yuyang Province.

The two prefectures directly under the central government are the two capitals, Zhongjing and Chengdu.

Sixteen provinces and eighty-two provinces were newly established.

For a time, there was a huge shortage of administrative staff.

Almost all the princes who surrendered were temporarily appointed as the prefect, and there were also a large number of old people from the Wenfu and the Jiang family, who were also driven to the shelves and temporarily served as the prefect of the first government.

Then it was time to reward meritorious deeds, first of all, Wen Jiming decided that all the original nobles of the Ming Empire would be promoted to the next level.

The six Shangshu lords, including Wen Li, were all promoted to marquis by Wen Jiming, and since then they have become the top nobles of the Ming Empire.

At the same time, Aristock was awarded the title of Marquis in recognition of his great contribution to Daming Technology.

Wang Xing, Benjamin, Belov, Andre and Newman were conferred the title of Earl by Wen Jiming in recognition of their exploits in several campaigns.

Fleming, the Carter brothers, Zheng Yu, Shi Zhiyan, Lucien, Wen Tong, Wen Heng, Nick, and Linton were awarded the title of viscount by Wen Jiming.

Wen Jiming's uncles Zhou Ji, Babutulin, Carlos, Da Qiao, Allen, Ma Chao, Wen Chengze, and Chen Ping were awarded the title of imperial baron by Wen Jiming.

All the princes who surrendered to the Ming Empire, including the Great Xia commander who surrendered in Diqiu, were awarded the title of Imperial Knight by Wen Jiming, becoming the lowest Ming noble.

Of course, the Ming Empire has just officially become an empire, and in the days to come, there will still be opportunities to make meritorious contributions, so everyone has no complaints about this meritorious reward.

However, with the unification of the Ming Empire, all kinds of problems will follow, and the new government of the Ming Dynasty will usher in new challenges!

PS: Today is a transitional chapter, but it must be explained in the book.