The twentieth year of the Xia calendar was a year of jubilation for the people of the Xia Kingdom.

In this year, the Xia Kingdom not only completely wiped out Goguryeo, the former overlord of the East China Sea, defeated the invasion of the powerful Turkic army of tens of thousands, and even the respected King His Majesty had his own direct heir, especially the birth of the eldest prince Wang Dong touched the hearts of tens of millions of people.

Although Wang Ze is not yet thirty years old this year, because Cheng Xueyan and Zhu Qingqing have not given birth to sons in the past, many ministers and generals are worried, after all, in thousands of years of customs, a direct male successor is the fundamental factor to ensure the stability of the country.

In the past ten years, Wang Ze has taken his two younger brothers with him to teach in turn, which has made many officials worried, and even some speculative officials are very close to Wang Hui and Wang Yu, in their opinion, if Wang Ze has no son, the successor to the throne can only be one of the two younger brothers.

However, now Wang Dong's birth has obviously broken many people's wishful thinking, while the vast majority of officials in the East China Sea are smiling and celebrating, there are also many officials who are secretly sighing, these people are obviously betting on the wrong treasure.

In ancient times, the infant mortality rate was very high, even the princes and princesses in the royal family often died before they reached adulthood, but because of the importance of medicine in Xia Kingdom in recent decades, Xia Guo's medical skills have been very developed, and the infant mortality rate has even dropped to more than ten percent.

And Wang Dong, as the eldest prince of Wang Ze, is obviously more able to be taken care of by skilled doctors, and it is impossible to expect a natural premature death, not to mention that Zhu Qingqing is still pregnant with one, according to experienced doctors, this is likely to be a boy too.

Wang Ze has a direct male descendant, which makes the people of Xia State happy, but the main ones who are most concerned about the whereabouts of the crown prince heir are the officials of Xia State.

Although the people of Xia Kingdom are also very concerned about the specific situation of their eldest prince, the topic that makes them talk about it even more is that the love between His Majesty the King and Pei Xiu, a beautiful female general of Xia Kingdom, that has lasted for more than ten years has finally blossomed.

In order to marry this female general, Wang Ze still held a big wedding according to the etiquette of the Xia Kingdom that was slowly taking shape, because the time of the wedding and the celebration of the meritorious generals and soldiers was relatively close, and the grand scene before and after the wedding made many people in the Xia Kingdom forget it for more than ten years.

Although there are also some people with dirty hearts who will secretly wonder whether their respected King Majesty is on it when they sleep at night, or Pei Xiu, a female general with a beautiful face and superior strength, is on it? Obviously, this is a challenging topic.

Although the people have a lot of respect for Wang Ze, everyone is obviously not optimistic about His Majesty's force, and they all agree that I am afraid that His Majesty will be reversed!

Of course, there are also many people in Xia Kingdom who use this to educate their daughters who are fierce and good at martial arts, and they know every day that they dance with knives and guns, no matter how good the martial arts practice is, they don't want to get married, if they are too powerful but no one dares to marry, then wouldn't they want to be a female bachelor for a lifetime?

I don't know if those girls listened to it, anyway, they are full of envy for Pei Xiu, and now Wang Ze, who is young and strong in leading a country, is definitely the fifth diamond king in the hearts of most girls in Xia Kingdom, anyway, at this time, the king can marry many concubines.

What do these girls think, but Wang Ze doesn't know, he will be busy!

This invasion of the Turks became an important turning point in the transformation of the Xia army, from this year onwards, the proportion of the infantry army that originally occupied the largest number gradually declined, and the cavalry and naval army with a small number began to form a new establishment on a large scale.

After the wedding, in order to deal with the powerful threat of the steppe overlord Turks and the drastic changes in the situation in the Central Plains, so that the Xia State could better confront these two powers in the future, Wang Ze began a new round of reorganization of the army in the summer of this year.

It is said that it is a reorganization, but in fact, it should be regarded as a large-scale expansion, and many of the temporary armies newly formed during the war against Goguryeo have been officially organized as the main force this time.

The infantry armies of Jiang Chuan, Xu Ning, and Zheng Kui were originally formally established with 20,000 men in one army and two divisions, but this time they were further expanded to 30,000 men in three divisions of one army on the basis of the original.

After this battle, the Blue Wolf Army was also officially divided into two by Wang Ze, and Zhang Hang and Chu Honghang were separated to form the Fourth Army of the Infantry Army, which was also expanded into three divisions of 30,000 people.

The second and fourth divisions of the Blue Wolf Army led by Cao An and Meng Yuan were still called the Blue Wolf Army after being merged, with a total of 30,000 troops, but the combat units at the division level were abolished and changed to five brigades of the First Army, each brigade had 6,000 people, and four battalions were set up at the lower level of the brigade.

In this way, together with the two divisions of the Ironclad Army with a number of 10,000 people, the Nanyang Garrison Division and the Yizhou Garrison Division, the infantry troops of the Xia Kingdom still maintain the scale of 180,000 people, although the number seems to have increased a lot, in fact, the relatively vast land area is already very small.

For the water army, it is the focus of Wang Ze's expansion!

Because the interests of the Eastern and Western maritime trade that the Xia State now controls are getting bigger and bigger, the ambitions of the countries in the South and Western Oceans that were originally intimidated by the Xia State have begun to stir again, and the pirates on the sea have shown signs of becoming more and more, so Wang Ze decided to expand the scale of the navy on a large scale to maintain the maritime trade routes that are becoming more and more important to the Xia State.

Because of Xia Guo's continuous investment in sea ship research over the years, Xia Guo has been able to build a very mature Wanshi-class killer whale ship, and so far a large number of shipyards have been established in Zhenhai County, Jiangkou County, Sakhalin County, and even the newly established Liaodong County. Lele Literature

At present, there are hundreds of ships with a displacement of more than 6,000 stone launched every year in the Xia Kingdom alone, and in the 19th year of the Xia calendar, there are 50 whale shark-class warships, 20 killer whale-class warships, and countless other 3,000-stone sea shark-class warships and hundreds of stone sea foxes.

The newly reorganized navy was divided into four major fleets, and the places of stationing also changed significantly.

With all the enemies in the northeast of the Xia Kingdom gone, the Xia Kingdom itself only needs to consider dealing with the naval armies of the Central Plains, Northern Zhou, and Southern Chen!

Therefore, after the First Fleet integrated the Jeju Island Detachment Sect, Sun Xing led the three main port bases stationed on Jeju Island, Port Arthur (Beisha Port), and Weihai Port, mainly to deal with the Northern Zhou naval army and support Wang Yong's war in the Central Plains.

The Second Fleet was still led by Qu Rokuro, and was stationed in Sing Chau (Singapore), Seoul and other places in the South Seas, mainly responsible for deterring the kingdom of Chenla and Charentra, which had begun to flood again, and he was also responsible for further developing the interests of the Xia kingdom in the kingdom of Sri Buddha.

Now there are nearly 500,000 Han people in Nanyang, plus Luhan and Borneo, compared to the scale of the entire Nanyang at this time, which is not more than 10 million, which is already a very large number, and Wang Ze is considering whether to set up counties in these places.

The rich Nanyang places have become an inseparable part of the Xia economy after more than ten years of development, just the rice, fruits, minerals, gold, silver, copper, iron, etc. produced here every year are becoming more and more important to the economic interests of the Xia country, and the Nanyang garrison led by Zhou Qiang alone can no longer fully guarantee the interests of the Xia country, Wang Ze must send a strong naval fleet to be stationed here.

The number of the First Fleet and the Second Fleet is nearly 10,000 if you include the port logistics personnel, while the number of the Third Fleet, which is mainly stationed in the Pearl Islands and Dingrong City, is even smaller, but it has also reached the scale of 5,000 people and 100 warships.

Because Du Sheng was injured in the Battle of the Pearl Islands, Kan Le has been managing the Third Fleet since then, so the current commander of the Third Fleet is still Kan Le, adjutant Sun Yu, and Du Sheng, whose injury has improved, took the initiative to be sent to the Zhiyuan Islands as the chief officer of the Fourth Fleet.

The Fourth Fleet was stationed in the Zhiyuan Islands, because it was the farthest away from the Xia Kingdom, and it had to deter the Persian Empire, the Roman Empire, and the Axum Empire for a long time, and ensure the interests of the Xia Kingdom in Western trade.

Therefore, the number of Xia navies stationed here has also remained at more than 6,000 people, although there are fewer large warships, but the huge number of Whale Shark-class and Sea Shark-class warships combined is nearly 150, which also makes all Western countries maintain enough awe of them.

In addition to these four large fleets, Xia also had many detachments such as Ling Cheng's Division, which had been stationed in Penglai Island (North America), Zhang Feng's Division, which was stationed in Ryukyu, and Zhu Liao's Division, which was stationed in Yizhou.

After adding these detachments, the number of Xia country's navy has reached a terrifying 36,000 people, you must know that in the so-called great exploration period of European geography in the later generations, European countries with tens of thousands of navies can already dominate the global sea power.

Therefore, in the era of cold weapons, Xia Guo maintained a huge navy of more than 30,000 people, and the cost of maintaining ships every year alone was not a small amount, not to mention other messy expenses, it can be said that the navy of more than 30,000 people alone cost more money than the 180,000 infantry troops of Xia State.

However, in Wang Ze's view, this money must be spent, how did the Xia Kingdom now control the dominance of maritime trade between the East and the West? It's not because the warships of the Xia Kingdom are even more powerful!

The interests of the maritime trade between the East and the West are so huge, compared to the investment of Xia in the navy, his income is even more amazing, such an investment is completely profitable, not to mention the huge number of navies can ensure the smooth flow of Xia's foreign maritime trade.

In addition to the infantry army and navy, there were also 300,000 cavalry urgently formed to resist the invasion of the Turks, Wang Ze was still not ready to dismiss these cavalry after the Turks retreated, and in the future, Xia would face a more powerful Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang dynasties, as well as the Turks, the overlord of the grasslands, and he must keep these 300,000 cavalry.

In addition to the 30,000 cavalry who were selected into the Central Guard, the other 270,000 were divided into five cavalry corps, the cavalry army led by Hu Bingchang and Ji Xiang was about 60,000, and the three cavalry corps of Yang Wu, Yan Xiaowu, and Li Hongyu were 50,000 cavalry each.

These cavalrymen are all equipped with sophisticated leather armor, spears, crossbow arrows, thunderbolts, Zheng's rockets and other weapons, and the steel swords are the best nine forged steel produced in Sword Casting City.

Of course, while expanding these armies, Wang Ze did not forget to expand his central protection army, as the power of the country must maintain his control of the army at all times, the power out of the barrel of the gun is not only understood, the ancients all know that 'the emperor will have no kind, and the strong soldiers and horses will do it'.

After this expansion, except for the naval army and the cavalry, which only increased to 8,000 people, the other guards were expanded to 15,000 people, so that the total strength of the middle guard army was 123,000 people.

Because Zhenhai County has become the core part of the Xia Kingdom, in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the Zhonghu Army in the future, Wang Ze ordered that all the Zhonghu troops must take turns to garrison in the border areas, and only by participating in the war all year round can the combat effectiveness of the Zhonghu Army be guaranteed.

After such a reorganization, the total strength of the Xia State reached a terrifying 640,000 people, and in this way, the Xia State also had a National Guard with a population of 500,000 and a huge reserve force of nearly 2 million people.

Of course, the development of a country cannot completely rely on the strength of the army, he must also have a sound political system structure, military generals can fight, but let him govern the country's local people's livelihood, it is really a little difficult for him.

After the reorganization of the army, Wang Ze began to carry out a large-scale reform of the political system of the Xia State.