On April 5th of the eighth year of Gaia, Zhou Yu, Admiral of the Royal Fleet and General of the Fujun Army, entered Beijing under imperial edict.
Zhou Yu came to Beijing this time to accept a new appointment.
A few days ago, in view of the imminent annexation of the Egyptian dynasty and Da Xia's return to the Mediterranean Sea, upon Ouyang Shuo's proposal, the imperial court decided to resume the designation of the Atlantic Fleet immediately.
In fact, as early as April of the sixth year of Gaia, the reconstruction of the Atlantic Fleet had already started, and the training of relevant personnel and the construction of warships have been in progress.
The African Protectorate is the headquarters of the Atlantic Fleet.
The restoration of the designation has been delayed until now because the situation in the Mediterranean Sea was unknown before. Even if the Atlantic Fleet was restored, it would do nothing, but it would arouse the vigilance of the European dynasties.
Zhou Yu is the new Admiral of the Atlantic Fleet.
While restoring the designation of the Atlantic Fleet, the imperial court will also withdraw the designation of the Royal Fleet. The Royal Fleet will be integrated into the Atlantic Fleet as a whole and become the first formation of the Atlantic Fleet.
This was also suggested by Ouyang Shuo.
The original purpose of forming the Royal Fleet was to protect Ouyang Shuo and conduct ocean voyages. Ouyang Shuo made two ocean voyages, laying the foundation for the empire to dominate the sea.
Among them, the Royal Fleet contributed a lot.
Today, Ouyang Shuo has no need for ocean voyages, because Daxia's territory has already spread all over the world, and it would be a waste to maintain such a fleet.
In the past two years, the Royal Fleet has basically docked in the Beibu Gulf and rarely has the opportunity to go out.
Merging the Royal Fleet into the Atlantic Fleet not only saves court expenses, but also sends a backbone formation to the Atlantic Fleet, which is very beneficial for enhancing the strength of the Atlantic Fleet.
In this way, the Great Xia Navy still maintains five fleets, the three ocean-going fleets operate independently, and the two offshore fleets are respectively affiliated to the Central Plains Theater and the Nanyang Theater to defend the coast of the empire.
Naval structure tends to be stable.
In addition to the Mediterranean Sea, the defense zone of the Atlantic Fleet will mainly operate within the Atlantic Ocean in the future, including South America in the west and Morocco in the east.
Especially South America will become the key defense area of the Atlantic Fleet in the future.
The flagship of the Atlantic Fleet, named Álvaro, in memory of the former admiral who died in action.
This is also a kind of inheritance.
This transfer, for Zhou Yu herself, also provided a platform to showcase her strengths.
After accepting the appointment, Zhou Yu will lead the former Royal Fleet across the Indian Ocean to Africa, join the other four formations, and re-launch the name of the Atlantic Fleet.
The first battle was to fight for control of the Mediterranean Sea.
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After sending Zhou Yu away, Ouyang Shuo began to review the memorial.
After the opening of the Yamen, the court implemented the major events decided by the military and political meeting a year ago. In the past three months, the Press and Publication Administration and the Sports Administration have been established one after another.
All kinds of newspapers and magazines have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, greatly enriching people's lives.
Subscribing to newspapers has become a new trend in market culture.
In the face of this new thing, the supervision standard of the Press and Publication Administration is relatively strict, and it is required that newspapers should not talk about state affairs or promote vulgar culture in newspapers.
Ouyang Shuo's attitude is that he would rather walk slowly than to walk too fast, so as not to be fooled.
Of course, for some excellent periodicals, the imperial court also gave great support. For example, "Poetry Weekly" and "Quyi Zatan" founded by the Writers Association received cultural support funds of 10,000 Da Xia coins respectively in order to distribute the publications overseas. area.
Ouyang Shuo even subscribed to these two publications, and would read them whenever he had time.
The people below can also see that His Majesty has spared no effort in promoting Chinese traditional culture.
As the saying goes: "If there is something good at the top, it will be worse at the bottom."
Ouyang Shuo's attitude set off a craze for Chinese studies in the local provinces, especially in overseas regions, such as the African continent. Learning Chinese, learning to write Chinese characters, reciting poems and composing Fu has become a trend.
Cultural assimilation is quietly sprouting.
Such a move, even in the federation era, is difficult to carry out. Because the game world is a blank board, let Ouyang Shuo paint on it, maybe it can really create a new situation.
The announcement of the Empire's first sports meeting has also been sent to the whole country, setting off a wave of fitness craze everywhere. According to regulations, in order to ensure the fairness of the event, warriors are not allowed to participate in sports competitions.
What Ouyang Shuo wants is for the whole people to keep fit and promote the spirit of sports competition, not for warriors to show off. The stage for warriors should be the Martial Arts Conference held by the Martial Arts Department every year.
Before holding the Imperial Games, the provinces will hold local sports games around June. The first is to promote this new thing, and at the same time, it is also to select outstanding athletes to participate in the National Games.
For this reason, the newly established Sports Administration recruits a large number of professionals who have been engaged in sports in reality to guide the formulation of competition rules and train referees and other professionals.
The sports department at the provincial level also followed suit, and it solved the employment problem of many strangers at once.
Due to the hasty establishment, there must be loopholes that can be exploited, but Ouyang Shuo is not worried, as long as it is in operation, moths are cleaned up, and the order of the industry is standardized, it can be done slowly in the future.
In addition, after prioritizing the development of coastal cities such as Shencheng and Zhenhai, the imperial court began to increase support for these cities. In addition to financial allocations, it also gave preferential policies to attract talents.
The industrialization of the empire is heading towards a different fast lane than before.
The coastal city will burst out with power that attracts the attention of the world and become a new engine of the empire's economy.
The dismantling of government offices is also progressing in an orderly manner.
While abolishing a group of officials, the yamen at all levels will recruit a group of professional officials again, and the target is naturally also a group of aliens, so as to improve the professional level of the yamen at all levels.
Of course, recruiting other people can only treat the symptoms.
Ouyang Shuo's strategy is to start education for all as soon as possible while paying attention to the construction of universities, kick out private schools, ethnic studies and other institutions, and establish a bottom-up education system.
Elementary school, middle school, university, all in one sweep.
"Let all school-age children enjoy free compulsory education." This is Ouyang Shuo's promise.
As a wise old man said: "Education is the foundation of a century-old plan."
Gaia can impart knowledge to NPCs, but it cannot replace territories and establish a modern education system.
In the past seven years of Gaia, education expenditure accounted for 5.5% of the empire's gross domestic product (GDP). This year, this indicator has been raised to 6%, which shows how much Ouyang Shuo attaches importance to education.
Ouyang Shuo's ambitions for education don't stop there.
He hoped that in the not-too-distant future, after arriving on Planet Hope, NPC children would be able to sit in the same classroom as Alien children in this virtual world.
Since then, there has been no distinction between aliens and natives.
It has to be said that this kind of ambition hides Ouyang Shuo's unknown and shocking schemes.
It was also the biggest conspiracy Ouyang Shuo planted so far.
Ouyang Shuo was very clear-headed, despite the fact that the current group of aliens gradually merged into Daxia, he also had a certain degree of recognition for the empire. However, for this group of people who grew up in the federation era, it is impossible for them to approve of Ouyang Shuo's rule from the bottom of their hearts, with their thoughts of democracy and freedom in their heads.
Not to mention, continue this rule from generation to generation.
If Daxia hadn't controlled their distribution rights in Planet Hope, they would be dishonest now.
The elites in China resisted Ouyang Shuo's recruitment, and tried to divide Ouyang Shuo's power. These are the most obvious signs.
This was enough to arouse Ouyang Shuo's vigilance.
Therefore, Ouyang Shuo didn't expect much from this generation of strangers.
At best, the two sides can only be regarded as taking what they need, a bundle of interests, not anything else.
But Aboriginal people are different.
Their parents, from living in the wilderness, to falling into the embrace of the empire, the empire gave them a second life, from the bottom of their hearts, they regard the empire as their home country and Ouyang Shuo as their sage.
Great Xia has become a kind of belief.
Their descendants also grew up under the influence of the empire.
Under Ouyang Shuo's careful cultivation, some of the best of them have grown into feudal officials or military giants, and they are a force that Ouyang Shuo trusts most.
They are the cornerstone for Ouyang Shuo to govern the empire.
By firmly grasping this power, Ouyang Shuo's position will be unshakable.
Allowing their descendants to have the same educational opportunities as the descendants of aliens is to dilute the influence of this generation of aliens and assimilate them.
After two or three generations, there will be no difference between the two, and they will both recognize the only belief in Daxia.
This is Ouyang Shuo's ultimate pursuit.
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While Ouyang Shuo was reviewing the memorials, Bing'er walked in holding a bunch of memorials.