Chapter 1287

Zhang Liang changed the subject, "Of course, although the mainland is basically safe, the outer territories of the empire, especially East Africa, America, and even southern Xinjiang, these overseas territories, are still facing risks, and various challenges have always existed."

All of you here are thoughtful after listening.

As the saying goes, "Crisis is an opportunity", Zhang Liang's subtext is to suggest that the empire stay in Gaia for eight years, focus on defense at home, and focus on external expansion in Africa and America.

If it weren't for the past few days, the Indian Empire's request for help from Great Xia, and even the American continent, would not have been among the empire's key expansion targets.

Ouyang Shuo stated on the spot, "Huaxia and Southern Xinjiang have just unified, so it's time to recuperate."

China's annihilation of the six kingdoms in one year requires a process of integration to eliminate barriers and make the survivors of the six kingdoms forget their homeland and truly regard Daxia as their mother country.

From then on, Great Xia and Huaxia existed as one body with two sides.

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 policy that requires a relatively stable internal environment.

If the mainland and southern borders are managed well, the empire will have a stable rear.

In this way, in the future global battlefield, the empire can attack when it advances, and it can defend when it retreats, 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 away from the front line of the war. The war stimulated American industry and became the biggest winner of the world war.

This is a good emulation object.

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

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

To be honest, the State of the Union address presented by the Ministerial Council is of a very high level and convincing. Behind the release of the speech is the support of the Zizheng Pavilion, Black Snake Guard, Shanhaiwei and other institutions.

Any decision is based on sufficient intelligence.

Seeing this, Du Ruhui said with a smile, "If the Silver Hand and the Azure Badge really start fighting among themselves, then the empire will have a lot to do in Africa and South America."

All of you here are smart people, so it’s natural to see clearly.

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

Central Africa, except for the Congo, was occupied by the Dawson dynasty.

If the flames of war in Africa are to be ignited, Congo will bear the brunt, and it will also be the confrontation between Bactria and the Dawson Dynasty. If you think of the South American continent again, things will be interesting.

The direct confrontation between Daxia and the Dawson Dynasty took place in Gaia for eight years.

This is what Ouyang Shuo has been looking forward to. The Dawson Dynasty is the mainstay of the Silver Hand camp. To disintegrate the Silver Hand, the Dawson Dynasty must be defeated first.

This is the major premise.

"Therefore, we need to make preparations early." Ouyang Shuo looked at the generals on the right, "I've just made a decision. 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 keep the four major armies in the Nanyang Theater. It is enough to have the Longxiang Army, Heluo Army and the Southern Border Army in command.

The Longxiang Army guards the Hanoi and Hetao provinces, the Heluo Army guards the Luzon and Heluo Provinces, and the Southern Border Army guards the Australian Province.

If it wasn't for the Dark Night Empire, it wouldn't be a big deal to abolish another army group.

On the contrary, the American theater needs to continue to strengthen.

After the transfer of the North American Army, together with the Huben Army and the South American Army, the American theater has changed from a single framework to a powerful theater that can set off stormy waves in South America at any time.

Furthermore, in the just-concluded Battle of Java, Daxia captured a total of 1.1 million prisoners of war. The imperial court has decided to screen out 600,000 of them to form the Australian Construction Corps.

The Australian Construction Corps is stationed in the southern plains of the Australian province, responsible for developing the vast and sparsely populated Australian continent, and at the same time becoming a reserve force for defending against the Dark Night Empire.

The commander of the regiment was promoted by Tang He, the deputy commander of the fifth regiment of the Habayashi Army.

With Tang He's dedicated assistance, Lin Jing has basically left the army, and the next step is the actual combat test. This transfer of Tang He to the head of the Australian Corps is a compliment to Tang He.

And Tanghe also has this talent.

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After Zhang Liang's report was finished, Ouyang Shuo looked at Jiang Shang, "The cabinet will give a brief explanation on the restructuring plan of local government agencies, so that everyone can understand."

"promise!"

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

The motivation for organizational restructuring comes from the reset of the map just launched by Gaia. It can be said that this is an adjustment made in line with the development of the game.

It can be summed up in one sentence: "Abolish the government office."

Aside from the Duhufu, the Daxia local yamen is divided into six levels: province, county, prefecture, county, town, and village. In view of the implementation of villager self-government at the village level, it can also be called five levels.

Under the background of the map being enlarged ten times, such a setting is very necessary, because the province's territory is too large.

If not, it's impossible to control it at all.

With the map being reduced to zero, the territory has been greatly reduced, and the implementation of a five-level structure will become a bit bloated, which is also very unfavorable to the vertical management of the court.

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

This matter is simple to say, but if it is really going to be implemented, it is complicated.

According to Daxia's compilation, four to six counties were assigned to the province, three to five prefectures were assigned to each county, and several counties were assigned to each prefecture, and the number was variable.

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

From a management point of view, the best way to revoke government offices is to upgrade some of them to county government offices, and then downgrade most of them to county offices.

Correspondingly, some of the county governments that have not developed will be downgraded to townships.

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

One county, and then four to nine counties.

The specific number should be determined according to the actual situation of the provinces. It is necessary to consider the establishment, but also to strengthen 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 realized flat management.

What followed was the most troublesome personnel problem. If this plan was implemented, only a few prefects could be promoted to county magistrates, while more prefects would be downgraded to county magistrates.

The county magistrates of the abolished counties will also lose their official hats.

"This is also a good thing. It squeezed out the moisture in the yamen and made the entire internal affairs system more efficient." Jiang Shang was very optimistic, explaining: "Whoever is promoted and whoever is demoted will be based on the year-end evaluation."

"Evaluation?"

Ouyang Shuo's expression was a bit playful, and he said lightly: "The imperial court cannot regard the evaluation as a golden rule, but I have heard that there are a lot of tricks in the evaluation in the past two years."

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

That being the case, there must be room for operation, especially at the county, prefecture, and county levels. The sky is high and the emperor is far away, so it is impossible for the court to take care of it.

In these years, how many officials have been promoted grandiosely under the guise of evaluation?

Ouyang Shuo had something in mind.

But even if the Shanhaiwei were all over the empire, they couldn't do everything in detail.

If the situation wasn't too bad, Ouyang Shuo didn't want a spy organization like Shanhaiwei to extend its tentacles into the local grassroots. It would only breed a monster.

Shanhaiwei's focus is 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 beat the cabinet and the court.

"The cabinet will unite with the four courtyards and Yushitai to send a supervisory team to various provinces and stay in local yamen to supervise the evaluation and organizational adjustment." Jiang Shang made a statement on behalf of the cabinet.

Ouyang Shuo nodded, knowing that the imperial court can only do this, "The inspection team sent by the imperial court is limited to the Gyeonggi area and the Central Plains area. The four major guard areas will be supervised by the guard house."

Hearing this, Bai Hua, Mu Lanyue, て砆 and Siege Lion all 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 civil reshuffle.

This was originally a royal prerogative.

This time His Majesty authorized this to the Duhufu, which can be said to be the first time in the world.

This is both a trust and a test.

If it is adjusted in the end and the capital protection area is messed up, they will have no face to return to Beijing.