On April 5, 2018, Gaia, the Royal Fleet Navy Admiral and General Zhou Yu of the Governor of the Army, came to the capital under the order.

Zhou Yu came to Beijing this time to accept the new appointment.

Recently, in view of the soon-to-be-acquisition of the Egyptian dynasty, Daxia was about to return to the Mediterranean. At the suggestion of Ouyang Shuo, the court decided to start immediately and restore the Atlantic Fleet number.

In fact, as early as April of Gaia's sixth year, the reconstruction of the Atlantic Fleet had already started, and relevant personnel training and warship construction were underway.

The African Protectorate is the base camp of the Atlantic Fleet.

The number was restored until now because the situation in the Mediterranean was unclear before. Even if the Atlantic Fleet was restored, it would do nothing. Instead, it would arouse the vigilance of the European dynasty and make a loss.

Zhou Yu is the new Atlantic Fleet Navy Admiral.

While restoring the Atlantic Fleet number, the court will also withdraw the Royal Fleet number. The Royal Fleet will be incorporated into the Atlantic Fleet as a whole and become the first formation of the Atlantic Fleet.

This was also proposed by Ouyang Shuo.

The original intention of the formation of the Royal Fleet was to protect Ouyang Shuo and conduct ocean voyages. Ouyang Shuo's two ocean voyages were laid the foundation for the empire to dominate the ocean.

During this period, the Royal Fleet made an indelible contribution.

To this day, Ouyang Shuo no longer needs to sail from the ocean, because the territory of Daxia has long been 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 has few opportunities to go out.

Incorporating the Royal Fleet into the Atlantic Fleet not only saves the imperial expenses, but also sends a backbone formation to the Atlantic Fleet. It is very beneficial to enhance the strength of the Atlantic Fleet.

In this way, the Daxia Navy still maintained the organization of five major fleets, the three major ocean fleets operated independently, and the two major coastal fleets were affiliated with the Central Plains War Zone and the Nanyang War Zone, protecting the coast of the Empire.

The naval structure is becoming stable.

In addition to the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Fleet's defense zone will mainly be in the Atlantic Ocean in the future, including South America to the west and Morocco to the east.

Especially South America will become the key defense zone for the Atlantic Fleet in the future.

The flagship of the Atlantic Fleet was named Alvaro to commemorate the dead former admiral.

This is also a kind of inheritance.

This transfer also provides Zhou Yu himself with a platform to show his strengths.

After accepting the appointment, Zhou Yu will lead the former Royal Fleet to cross the Indian Ocean, go to Africa, join the other four formations, and re-energize the name of the Atlantic Fleet.

The first battle was to compete for control of the Mediterranean.

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After seeing Zhou Yu away, Ouyang Shuo began to review the memorials.

After the opening of the yamen, the imperial court began to implement the major events set by the Military and Political Conference before the New Year. In the past three months, the Press, Publication and Sports Department have been established one after another.

Various newspapers and magazines have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, greatly enriching the lives of the people.

Subscribing to newspapers has become a new trend in urban culture.

Faced with such new things, the Press and Publication Administration's supervision standards are relatively strict, requiring that no one should discuss national affairs in newspapers, no vulgar culture should be promoted, etc.

Ouyang Shuo's attitude was that he would rather walk slowly than walk too fast, so as not to get rid of his own.

Of course, the court has also supported some excellent journals very much. For example, "Poetry Weekly" and "Quyi Miscellaneous Talks" founded by the Writers Association respectively received cultural support funds of 10,000 Daxia coins to be distributed to the publication overseas.

Ouyang Shuo even subscribed to these two publications and read them whenever he has time.

The people below also saw that His Majesty spared no effort to promote Chinese traditional culture.

As the saying goes: "If you have something to do with the superiors, you will have the greatest advantage."

Ouyang Shuo's attitude has set off a craze for Chinese studies in local provinces, especially in overseas regions, such as the African continent. Learning Chinese, learning to write Chinese characters, and chanting poems and essays has become a trend.

Cultural assimilation is quietly sprouting.

Such a measure is difficult to implement even in the federal era. Because the game world is a whiteboard, Ouyang Shuo can paint it, maybe it can really create a new situation.

Announcement to the first Imperial Games has also been sent to the whole country, setting off a fitness craze in various places. 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 national fitness and carry forward the spirit of sports competition, rather than letting warriors come out to show off. The stage of warriors should be the martial arts conference held by the Wuyun Department every year.

Before the Imperial Games, provinces will hold local sports meetings around June. First, promote this new thing and also select outstanding athletes to participate in the National Games.

To this end, the newly established Sports Department recruited a large number of professional talents who had been engaged in sports in reality, guided the formulation of competition rules, and cultivated professional talents such as referees.

The provincial-level sports department also followed suit, but solved many employment problems of Yiren.

Because of the hasty establishment, there must be loopholes to take advantage of, Ouyang Shuo is not worried. As long as it is started, clean up the borers, and regulate the industry order, it can be done slowly in the future.

In addition, after setting priority for the development of coastal cities such as Shencheng and Zhenhaicheng, the imperial court began to increase support for these cities. In addition to financial allocations, it also provided policy preferential treatment to attract talents.

The industrialization of the empire is moving towards a different fast lane than before.

Coastal cities will burst out with power that attracts the attention of the world and become a new engine of the imperial economy.

The government office’s layoffs are also being carried out in an orderly manner.

While abolishing a group of officials, yamen at all levels will also recruit another group of professional officials, and the targets are naturally different people to improve the professional level of yamen at all levels.

Of course, recruiting strangers can only treat symptoms.

Ouyang Shuo’s strategy is to start universal education as soon as possible while paying attention to university construction, kick off private schools, ethnic schools and other institutions, and establish a bottom-to-top education system.

Elementary school, middle school, university, all in one go.

"Let all children of appropriate age enjoy free compulsory education." is Ouyang Shuo's promise.

As a wise old man said: "A century-long plan is based on education."

Gaia can instill knowledge into NPCs, but it cannot replace territory and establish a modern education system.

In the past seven years, education expenditure accounted for 5.5% of the empire's GDP, and this year it has raised this indicator to 6%, which shows how much Ouyang Shuo attaches importance to education.

Ouyang Shuo’s ambition for education is more than that.

He hopes that in the near future, after arriving on the planet of Hope, NPC children can sit in the same classroom in this virtual world like the Inhuman children.

From then on, there was no distinction between aliens and natives.

I have to say that such ambition contains Ouyang Shuo's unknown shocking plot.

It is also the biggest conspiracy that Ouyang Shuo has laid so far.

Ouyang Shuo was very clear. Although the current alien group gradually integrated into Daxia, they also had a certain recognition of the empire. However, for this group of people who lived in the federal era since childhood, it was impossible for them to recognize Ouyang Shuo's rule with a brain-like democratic and free thoughts from the bottom of their hearts.

Not to mention, this rule will continue from generation to generation.

If Daxia hadn't controlled their distribution rights on the planet they hoped, they would have been dishonest now.

The Chinese elite recruited Ouyang Shuo, and even wanted to divide Ouyang Shuo's power, was a very obvious sign.

This was enough to arouse Ouyang Shuo's vigilance.

Therefore, Ouyang Shuo did not expect anything from this generation of strange people.

At most, both parties can only be regarded as taking their own needs, and are a bondage of interests, not anything else.

But the natives are different.

Their fathers, from wandering in the wilderness to throwing themselves into the empire, gave them a second life. From the bottom of their hearts, they regarded the empire as their family and country, and Ouyang Shuo as their sage king.

Daxia has become a kind of faith.

Their descendants also grew up all the way under the influence of the empire.

Some of them were the best, under Ouyang Shuo's careful cultivation, and grew into chief officials or military giants, and were the most trusted force Ouyang Shuo.

They are the cornerstone of Ouyang Shuo's governance of the empire.

If you firmly grasp this power, Ouyang Shuo's status will be unshakable.

To give their descendants and the descendants of Yi Ren to the same educational opportunities is to dilute the influence of this generation of Yi Ren and assimilate them.

After two or three generations, the two will have no difference and jointly recognize the only belief in Daxia.

This is Ouyang Shuo’s ultimate pursuit.

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Chapter completed!