Chapter 924 – Heir
After putting away the map, Ouyang Shuo looked at the talisman.
War Stopping Talisman: After use, during non-country war time, player can select an imperial city and prevent imperial city guard troops from participating in territorial war, lasting for a week.
After the war exempt card, Ouyang Shuo obtained another weird tool.
It was mentioned that imperial city guard troops could not proactively exit the city to fight with Lords in the territory. The only exception would be if a wilderness Lord sought protection and was willing to be under an imperial city.
Only then could the imperial city guard army come out in the name of protection.
The function of the war stopping talisman was that even if a territory sought protection, the imperial city would not be able to interfere for a week.
Without a doubt, if used well, this talisman could play a huge role.
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Shanhai City, Song Manor.
When Ouyang Shuo was out touring Somalia, the Great Xia Queen Song Jia went home to visit her relatives.
After the greetings, Song Family head Song Tianxiong had the following conversation with his daughter.
“Daughter, have the king and you thought about having a male offspring?”
Song Jia was stunned and said with surprise, “Offspring? Father, this is the game world….”
“Why not? You can still have a male offspring!”
Song Tianxiong’s words were actually true.
The intergalactic migration would take 10 years on the road. Gaia understood that and allowed people to apply to have children after they got married in the game.
The reason for an application was that this child would not be a virtual baby but a real life one.
In the game, after both sides applied and paid a fee, Gaia would use the game cabin to retrieve their sperms and eggs for artificial insemination.
With the current technology standards, the inseminated eggs would not need to be sent back into the womb and could be nurtured in pods.
The nutritional pods were specially made and could link the babies’ neural senses to the game and ensure that the baby was growing at the same rate in the game. Hence, for the nine months that the mother was pregnant in the game, the baby would be slowly forming in the nutrition cabin.
The moment the baby in the game was born, it would be a replica of the one in real life. The couple did not need to go offline and could take care of their kids in the game.
As a result, money needed to be paid, and the price was not little either.
There were two reasons behind this.
First, the nutritional fluid for the baby was not cheap. Secondly, they wanted to restrict the number of babies through the payments.
Everyone was travelling in the spaceships, but the ships had limited storage. If one did not add restrictions, the ships would not be able to fit all the new babies.
Hence, this was only available for the rich, and normal players were not fated for it.
As for why Gaia did not push out virtual babies, the reasoning would involve the problem of family theory. No one would be able to devote themselves to doting on a bunch of numbers.
Song Jia was a smart girl, “Father, why did you suddenly raise this up?”
“It’s not really sudden. You have married the king for a year and a half so getting a kid is normal. The king ascending means that he should have an offspring.” Song Tianxiong was adamant about the matter.
Song Jia took a deep look at her dad, “I’ll talk to the king about this, it is all up to him.”
Song Tianxiong shook his head, “Daughter, you should be the one to make this decision. Do not blame me for not reminding you, although the king does not have concubines, if you continue to not have children, the officials will demand for him to get concubines to ensure that the bloodline is passed on.”
“Although the king dotes on you, I’ve heard that he has connections to many girls.”
“He won’t.” Song Jia was really confident.
Song Tianxiong sighed, “Daughter, people change. His power grows daily, and the number of girls that wants him grows too. As time goes on, who knows? Don’t you know what’s happening with those brothers in the family?”
Song Jia did not believe that her husband was such a person. Thinking back to her brothers in the family, they were all just normal children, and many of them were fooling around outside.
Thinking about this, her confidence wavered.
When Song Tianxiong saw that, he said, “No matter what, only with a child can your position be solidified.”
Song Jia finally nodded, “Okay I’ll talk to him about it.” Speaking of which, she really did want a kid, as only then could her family be perfect.
“That’s great.” Song Tianxiong was delighted.
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8th month, 8th day, after spending just three days in Somalia Province, Ouyang Shuo returned to Shanhai City.
Different from the case with Morocco, during the Battle of Somalia, the officials of the Cabinet collected the cities behind the army. Along with the Somalia King losing his people’s sentiment, it made the rebuilding of the province really smooth.
With Pei Ju in charge, Ouyang Shuo did not need to worry about much.
Before leaving Mogadishu, the Black Snake Guards handed over the report from the Somalia King. The specifics described two interactions with the Silver Hand representative.
At this point, Silver Hand interfering in Somalia matters to destroy Friendship City was revealed.
Ouyang Shuo looked at the confession; then he passed it to Tsing Yi, “Pass this to Zi Luolan, it will be of great use.”
“Yes!” Tsing Yi nodded.
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Ouyang Shuo was busy and needed to return to Shanhai City because there were four officials ready to see him. They were former Kunming Prefecture Governor Bai Hua, former Guilin Prefecture Governor Fan Zhongyan, former Shaozhou Prefecture Governor Huo Guang, and former Fuyong Prefecture Governor Xun Yu.
Using the chance of promoting Pei Mo to Somalia Provincial Governor, Ouyang Shuo decided to choose the Provincial Governors of Yunnan, Chuannan, Lingnan, and Minnan Province.
The imperial decree promoted Bai Hua to Yunnan Provincial Governor, Fan Zhongyan to Chuannan Provincial Governor, Huo Guang to Lingnan Provincial Governor, and Xun Yu to Minnan Provincial Governor.
The powers of these four Provincial Governors were more than a level higher than that of the Morocco and Somalia Provincial Governors.
Although the Provincial Governor was limited to one province of land, due to the 10 times expansion, even if one removed the population density factor, it was enough to compare to the Qing Dynasty Provincial Governors.
Out of the four, Bai Hua’s promotion was as expected, and no one argued about it.
Fan Zhongyan was the most experienced historical minister, and he had been the Administration Director, Wuzhou Prefecture Governor, and Guilin Prefecture Governor. He had made many contributions.
Balancing all the pros and cons, Ouyang Shuo decided to promote him to Chuannan Provincial Governor.
Huo Guang was a famous minister of an era. Although his experience could not be compared to Fan Zhongyan, his ability was enough to take charge of a province. Hence, for this upgrade to Provincial Governor, he did not face much objection.
Only Song Wen’s sadness was unavoidable.
Seeing Mulan Yue and Bai Hua become Provincial Governors, as Song Jia’s older brother, Song Wen obviously craved the position of Lingnan Provincial Governor.
Naturally, Ouyang Shuo would not let this happen.
Mulan Yue was promoted because she had merged into the Shanhai City System from the start and had learned a lot. Bai Hua used Kunming Prefecture as her chip to earn her rights for a promotion.
What about Song Wen?
Not to mention how his own family lost the Tianshuang County, he also needed Shanhai City to clean up after them. Although he had ability, it was not enough to rule a province.
Since that was the case, why would Ouyang Shuo be biased and promote him?
Even to say that because of his relationship with Song Jia, Ouyang Shuo would be more wary of his use of Song Wen.
If Song Wen understood that, he would not have any other thoughts.
It was Song Tianxiong who saw through this. Using the chance when Song Jia returned home, he asked her to get a child. Only with a child could she maintain the position of the Song Family in the dynasty.
As expected from that old fox.
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Out of the four of them, the only one faced with objections was Xun Yu.
It was not that he did not have the ability. In history, he was under Cao Wei for a long time as a prime minister, dealing with country matters.
Such a talent naturally had the ability to deal with a province.
They opposed his promotion because he had only joined the dynasty for a short time and had little experience here. If he was promoted so quickly, it would not adhere to the rules.
Ouyang Shuo did not care much about these objections and still promoted him. After all, out of the four Governors in Minnan Province, only he was skilled enough.
Someone suggested they temporarily postpone the appointment. After he had been here for a longer time, they would promote him.
Many of the officials agreed to this suggestion.
Ouyang Shuo still did not agree. After all, along with Great Sui moving into Quanzhou, Minnan Province needed a Provincial Governor to take charge of the big picture.
Ouyang Shuo did not want to spoil his plans because of some red tape.
Hence, this matter was decided.
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Along with the four Provincial Governors being promoted, the governing area was confirmed.
Yunnan Province had Consonance City as the governing area as expected. For anything to change, it would have to wait till after they took down Dali.
Dongchuan Prefecture Governor Cao Can would become Kunming Prefecture Governor and continue to assist Bai Hua.
Chuannan Province was set at Xunlong Prefecture’s Tianjing City. Xunzhou Prefecture Governor Bao Shuya would continue to take charge, and his position would be moved.
Lingnan Province’s governing area was Zhenhai City, and Song Wen would continue to be the Jiaozhou Prefecture Governor.
The last one was Minnan Province, and they chose Xunlong City for the governing area. Like Yunnan Province, only after they taking down Quanzhou would they change the governing area.
Longyan Prefecture Governor Xiao Ru would take over the position of Fuyong Prefecture Governor.
The four governor spots that were emptied would be promoted from local officials to fill up the gaps.