Translator: ryangohsff Editor: Nora
Chapter 873 – Morocco Province
Ouyang Shuo did not bother about the clamor outside as he took the time to deal with the post-war matters. The devil duckbeak beasts escaped back into the underground world, and Ouyang Shuo had no way currently to deal with them currently. As such, he brought the Divine Martial Guards back to Rabat.
“My king!”
At the city gate, Baiqi led a group of generals to welcome him.
Ouyang Shuo smiled, “Thank you for your hard work general; let’s enter the city together.”
“Yes my king!”
Under the protection of the army, Ouyang Shuo entered Rabat.
After learning that Rabat had already recovered to its original state, the civilians started to return; they either stood on the sides of the streets or hid in their houses. They looked at this army with either worshipping or hateful eyes.
On this day, Morocco had a new Lord.
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Imperial Palace, main hall.
Ouyang Shuo touched the broken stone stele, and a System Notification sounded out in his ear.
“System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for leading troops to attack Morocco. Will you destroy, occupy, or transfer?”
“Occupy!”
“System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for occupying Morocco. Morocco is officially under the Great Xia Dynasty rule, player can reorganize Morocco. Will you rename it?”
“Rename it to Morocco Province.”
Compared to Singapore, which was just so small, Morocco was even bigger than the biggest Yunnan Province under his rule.
However, Morocco had limited usable land area. Ouyang Shuo planned to form four prefectures with the four cities as their core.
Naturally, Rabat city would still be the governing area of the province.
Different from Yunnan and the other three provinces, Ouyang Shuo planned to set up a Provincial Governor and build a Provincial Governor office.
Morocco’s officials were also different from other provinces; they would become the strongest Provincial Governor office but the weakest Prefecture Governor office. In the future, the Provincial Governor office would be the key to ruling the entire Morocco province.
Ouyang Shuo had his reasons for such arrangements.
First, along with Morocco Province’s establishment, the Great Xia Dynasty had five provinces of land, gaining the ability to start establishing Provincial Governors.
In history, the Qing Dynasty had only established eight Provincial Governors, so the Great Xia Dynasty was not that far away from the goal.
Secondly, Morocco Province was located overseas, and it had non-Chinese under its governance. Hence, its situation was really special. Compared to the other provinces in China, it needed a strong and powerful office to control everything.
Furthermore, Morocco Province was located in Africa and was connected to the Mediterranean. It was located in the Atlantis and opposite it was the America, so its situation was really complicated. The place needed a strong and powerful person to take charge.
This situation was quite similar to the Tang Dynasty’s Provincial Governors at the border.
Thirdly, Morocco was just taken down and was not a core region. To set up a Provincial Governor here was a test to perfect the role and power of the job and to collect relevant data.
To establish the Provincial Governor here would be less sensitive and face less resistance.
Apart from that, Ouyang Shuo also had one arrangement, which was to build a new city apart from the four prefecture cities – Ceuta City.
In reality, Ceuta City belonged to the Spanish in North Africa and was located north of Maghreb. It was near the coast not far from the Gibraltar Straits. It was connected to Morocco and was 18.5 square kilometers in size.
Simply put, its geographical position was exactly the same as Jidian City. The two cities, one north and one south, had a stranglehold over the Gibraltar Straits.
In history, Ceuta was an important place on the trade route and was also a military base.
Ceuta port was also like Gibraltar port; it was really prosperous and busy.
Hence, after taking down Morocco, how could Ouyang Shuo not strengthen his presence in the area? With Jidian City and Ceuta City, it was like announcing that the Great Xia Dynasty had full control over the Mediterranean and Atlantic.
Any ships that came from the two ocean regions would have to answer to them.
In the game, due to the hidden pressures from the Spanish and other Lords, the Moroccan players did not dare build a base here. However, Ouyang Shuo did not care.
Since he already had problems with them, Ouyang Shuo did not mind playing around.
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“System Notification: Morocco has been successfully renamed. Will you rename the territories in the province?”
“No!”
Ouyang Shuo obviously was not so free. As such, he kept the names of the original city to give the people of Morocco something to remember.
“System Notification: Morocco Province has been organized, officially opening the Rabat city cross country teleportation formation. Friendly Reminder: it can only connect to the territory teleportation formations and not to imperial cities or other territories.”
Along with the System Notification, the cracked stone stele was fully restored. The difference was that on the stele was not Morocco – Rabat City but Great Xia Dynasty – Rabat City.
After the fall of Morocco, Rabat was no longer an imperial city, and it was just a province governing area. Luckily, the Satellite City was born before the country war and Gaia would not take it back.
As there were no more players in the border, Ouyang Shuo could consider leading China region players here to explore the underground world.
After dealing with everything, the country war finally came to an end.
Of course, this was just the first step to taking over Morocco. The true post-war matters were aplenty and included military organization, appointments, and planning of the province.
Each matter was major.
Luckily, due to the teleportation formation, Rabat and Shanhai City was connected and a lot of problems were solved.
Ouyang Shuo was ready to wash his hands off this, passing it to the Grand Council and the cabinet.
The two of them would discuss and talk out a detailed plan to report to Ouyang Shuo.
Ouyang Shuo wanted to use this matter to test both of them. It had been a month since both pillar organizations were formed, and it was time for them to show their ability.
Many things could not be figured out without practical experience.
Since ancient times till now, the battle between the power of the official and the power of the emperor had been a recurring topic. As a king, Ouyang Shuo did not need to worry about being plotted against, but he wanted to explore a method that could act as the standard to ruling to ensure that the dynasty lasted for a long time.
As for the structure he designed for the Great Xia Dynasty, Ouyang Shuo was not certain to say it was perfect. In the last life, he was just an adventure gamemode player and did not know that much.
To really gain a good understanding of the system, Ouyang Shuo needed more experience and learning. This was also why Gaia was trying so hard; it wanted to train the Lords and improve them.
That afternoon, Grand Council Minister Du Ruhui rushed to Rabat to take charge of the military organization. Cabinet Deputy Kou Zhun also came along with a bunch of capable officials to observe the province to help them settle on appointments.
The two of them did not start work immediately but came to greet the king first. They knew that the king was giving them a lot of power this time, but they could not truly do whatever they wished.
Listening to the king before they started work was expected.
Ouyang Shuo was not surprised as the two of them were really experienced, and he did not need to give them any hidden signals. In his words, Ouyang Shuo told them about his thoughts regarding the military and provincial planning.
His thoughts became the framework for their work. If they did not understand what the king wanted, even if they tried their best, the plan they came up with would not be good.
The three of them talked and talked. Soon, it was noon.
After the chat, Du Ruhui and Kou Zhun understood the matter and could do their work with more confidence.
At night, Huo Qubing sent the news that Agadier had been taken down. As for why it dragged on to such a time, it was because more than 90% of the time was spent on traveling.
A day ago, after crushing the Spanish Invincible Squadron, Alvaro led his troops to smoothly take down Tangier. At this point, there were no more free territories in Morocco.
The only regret was that there was no news from Lu Bu, who was still chasing Mohammed the 6th. Ouyang Shuo was worried that they had already escaped to the east mountain region.
If that was the case, it would be difficult.
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At night, Ouyang Shuo held a feast in the palace to reward the soldiers. The palace would not be modified into the Provincial Governor office. Instead, it would be renamed as Rabat Palace, and it would be the place where Ouyang Shuo stayed on his trip to Africa.
Rabat Palace was Ouyang Shuo’s first palace outside of the imperial city.
The next morning, Ouyang Shuo gave orders. Apart from the 5th legion of the Dragon Legion, which would stay in Morocco, the remaining troops would immediately return to their own bases.
23rd day, Lu Bu and his men returned to Rabat.
As expected, Mohammed the 6th had escaped into the mountains. Even with the Black Snake Guards as a guide, Lu Bu could not find a trace of the enemy.
Helplessly, he could only return and seek new orders.
The following Black Snake Guards stayed behind and continued to search for tracks.
When Ouyang Shuo got the news, he ordered Black Snake that the mission to search and find Mohammed the 6th would be handed to the Black Snake Guards.
“Do not worry king. Even if I have to search the entirety of Africa, I’ll find him.”
Ouyang Shuo nodded.
In truth, Ouyang Shuo was not bothered about whether he found Mohammed the 6th or not. Even if he did escape to the other countries, he would not cause much of a wave.
In fact, there might not be any country who dared to support him.