Zhang Liang changed the topic, "Of course, although the mainland is basically fine, the periphery of the empire, especially in East Africa, America, and even the southern border, these overseas territories will still face risks and all kinds of challenges."
Hearing this, everyone fell into deep thought.
As the saying went, "Crisis is opportunity". Zhang Liang's subtext was suggesting that the empire focus on defense in the eight years of Gaia and focus on expansion in Africa and America.
If not for the Indian Empire asking for help from the Great Xia a few days ago, even the American continent would not be one of the empire's expansion targets.
Ouyang Shuo expressed on the spot, "Huaxia and the southern border have just been unified, it's time to recuperate."
Huaxia destroyed six countries in a year, it needed a process of integration, elimination of estrangement, let the survivors of the six countries forget their homeland, and truly see the Great Xia as their motherland.
From then on, the Great Xia and Huaxia would be two sides of the same coin.
After the southern border was unified, the spread and infiltration of the Chinese civilization in the area, so that the people of the southern border would recognize the orthodoxy of China, was also a long-term policy that required a relatively stable internal environment.
Managing the mainland and the southern border well, the empire would have a stable rear.
This way, in the future global battlefield, the empire could attack and defend, basically in an invincible position.
Historically, one of the reasons why the United States was able to rise so strongly after World War II was because the United States was far away from the frontlines of the war. The war stimulated the American industry, becoming the biggest winner of the world war.
This was a good example to emulate.
Jiang Shang and the other officials' eyes lit up, and they all nodded in agreement. Li Jing, Wang Jian, and Li Mu, the three war zone commanders, had a hint of unwillingness in their eyes, especially Wang Jian, who was extremely disappointed.
But this was His Majesty's decision, and they had no reason to refute.
Truthfully speaking, the State of the Union issued by the Cabinet of Ministers was of a very high level, and it was very convincing. Behind the State of the Union was the support of the Cabinet of Ministers, the Black Snake Guard, the Mountain Sea Guard, and other organizations.
Any decision was based on sufficient intelligence.
Seeing this, Du Ruhui said with a smile, "If the Silver Hand and Azure Badge really start fighting, then the empire will have a bright future in Africa and South America."
Everyone present was smart, so they naturally understood.
The structure of the African continent had basically taken shape. North Africa was occupied by the Egyptian Dynasty, South Africa by the Banto Dynasty, East Africa by Great Xia, and West Africa by the European Dynasties.
Aside from the Congo, the rest of Central Africa was occupied by the Dawson Dynasty.
If the flames of war were to be ignited in Africa, the Congolese Empire would be the first to bear the brunt of it, which would be the clash between the Grand Xia and the Dawson Dynasty. If he thought about the South American continent, things would be interesting.
The direct confrontation between the Grand Xia and the Dawson Dynasty occurred in the eighth year of Gaia.
This was what Ouyang Shuo had been hoping for all this time. The Dawson Dynasty was the central pillar of the Silver Hand. If he wanted to disintegrate the Silver Hand, he would first have to destroy the Dawson Dynasty.
This was the main premise.
"So, we need to prepare early." Ouyang Shuo looked at the generals on the right. "This Emperor has decided to immediately transfer the Hanoi Army from the Nanyang Theater of Operations to the American Theater of Operations and rename it the North American Army."
Wu Qi and Han Xin nodded in unison, clearly mentally prepared for this.
With the unification of the Southern Border, although they still had to face the threat of the Dark Night Empire, there was no longer a need to keep the four armies in the Southern Sea War Zone. The Dragon Stallion Army, the Heluo Army, and the Southern Border Army were enough.
The Dragon Stallion Army was stationed in the Hanoi and Hetao Provinces, the Heluo Army was stationed in the Luzon and Heluo Provinces, and the Southern Border Army was stationed in the Australian Province.
If not for the Dark Night Empire's presence, it wouldn't be a problem to disband another army.
The American Theater of Operations, however, needed to be strengthened.
After transferring the American army to the north, along with the Stalwart Tiger Army and the Southern Border Army, the American Theater of Operations would transform from a framework into a powerful theater of operations that could stir up a storm in South America at any time.
In addition, the Grand Xia had captured 1.1 million prisoners of war in the just-concluded Battle of Java. The Imperial Court had already decided to select six hundred thousand of them to form the Australian Construction Corps.
The Australian Construction Corps would be stationed in the southern plains of the Australian Province and would be responsible for developing the vast and sparsely populated Australian continent. At the same time, it would serve as a reserve force to defend against the Dark Night Empire.
The Fifth Imperial Guard Corps' Vice Commander, Tang He, was promoted to commander.
With Tang He's dedicated assistance, Lin Jing had basically completed his apprenticeship. The next step was to be tested in actual combat. Transferring Tang He to commander of the Australian Corps was a reward for Tang He.
In addition, Tang He had the ability.
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After Zhang Liang finished his report, Ouyang Shuo looked at Jiang Shang. "The Cabinet will give a simple explanation of the reorganization plan for the local government offices so that everyone will have a rough idea."
"Yes, Sir!"
Jiang Shang cupped his fists and began to elaborate on the large-scale reorganization of the Imperial Court.
The motivation for the reorganization was due to Gaia's newly launched map zeroing. It could be said that this was an adjustment made to adapt to the development of the game.
It could be summed up in one sentence: "Abolish the prefectural government offices."
Excluding the protectorate, the local government offices in Great Xia were divided into six levels: province, county, prefecture, county, town, and village. Since the village level implemented the villagers' autonomy, it could be called a five-level system.
In the context of the map expanding by ten times, such a setting was very necessary because the territory of the province was just too big.
If not, there was no way to manage it.
With the map zeroing, the territory would be greatly reduced. If the five-level system was implemented, it would be a little bloated and would be very disadvantageous to the Imperial Court's vertical management.
In view of this, the Cabinet suggested abolishing the prefectural government offices, which received Ouyang Shuo's approval.
This matter sounded simple, but if it were to be carried out, there would be a myriad of problems.
According to the Great Xia's organizational structure, a province had four to six counties, and each county had three to five prefectures. Each prefecture had a number of counties, and the number was not fixed.
As such, a province would have more than ten to thirty prefectural government offices.
From an administrative point of view, the best way to abolish the prefectural government offices was to upgrade some of them to county governor offices, and then demote most of them to county offices.
Correspondingly, some of the county offices that had not developed would be demoted to towns.
With history as a guide, it was reasonable for a province to have eight to twelve counties. That was to say, it could double the existing county's foundation.
One county would have four to nine counties.
The exact number would be determined according to the actual situation of each province. It had to consider the organization, as well as the historical and geographical barriers, but it was best not to exceed the upper limit.
After the adjustment, the three levels of provinces, counties, and counties would basically achieve flat management.
What followed was the most troublesome issue of human resources. According to this plan, only a few prefectural magistrates would be promoted to county governor, while most of them would be demoted to county magistrates.
The county magistrates who were demoted would also lose their positions.
"This is also a good thing. We have squeezed out the useless people in the yamen, making the entire internal affairs system more efficient." Jiang Shang was very optimistic. He explained, "The promotion and demotion will be based on the year-end evaluation."
"Evaluation?"
Ouyang Shuo's expression was a little playful. He said lightly, "The Imperial Court cannot treat evaluation as a golden rule. I have heard that there have been many tricks in the evaluation in the past two years."
In the end, evaluation was still done by people.
Since that was the case, there was definitely room for maneuver, especially for the three levels of counties, prefectures, and counties. The Imperial Court could not take care of them.
Over the years, how many officials had been promoted under the guise of the evaluation?
Ouyang Shuo had a rough idea.
However, even if the Mountain Sea Guards were spread throughout the Empire, they could not do everything in detail.
If the situation was not too bad, Ouyang Shuo did not want to let a spy organization like the Mountain Sea Guards extend their tentacles into the local grassroots. That would only raise a monster.
The Mountain Sea Guards were mainly focused on the Imperial Court and the provincial governors.
Hearing this, Jiang Shang and the others sweated slightly. They knew that His Majesty was using this as a warning to the Imperial Court and the Imperial Court.
"The Imperial Court will work with the Four Great Halls and the Imperial Censorate to send a supervisory team to the various provinces. They will be stationed in the local yamen to supervise the evaluation and organizational changes," Jiang Shang said on behalf of the Imperial Court.
Ouyang Shuo nodded. He knew that this was all the Imperial Court could do. "The supervisory team that the Imperial Court will send will be limited to the Gyeonggi region and the Central Plains. The Protectorate will be responsible for supervising the four protectorates. "
Hearing this, Bai Hua, Mu Lanyue, Tao Wu, and the Siege Lion all nodded with different expressions on their faces.
Without a doubt, the supervisory team was not only a supervisor, but it also contained great power. It could decide the promotion of the officials in the entire region and the pattern of the reshuffling of the civil officials.
This was originally a privilege of the Imperial Court.
This could be said to be the first time that His Majesty had given this authority to the Protectorate.
This was a trust, but also a test.
If the final adjustments were made and the protectorate was in a mess, they would not have the face to return to the capital.
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