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Chapter 1296 - Spain Dynasty Facing Enemies on All Four Sides
Accepting the Egypt Dynasty was more complicated than expected.
That was because Egypt's submission was not through war. Great Xia did not even exact any pressure onto the Egypt Dynasty, so hidden problems were left behind.
Perhaps, in the eyes of the Egyptian people, such a submission was the same as a betrayal.
Luckily, Great Xia and the Egypt Dynasty had signed an legally binding agreement.
4th month, 18th day, 11am, Great Xia assistant secretary Kou Zhun and Mulan Yue arrived in Cairo City to officially take over.
The current Cairo defenses were taken over by the Wolf legion corps.
The Africa warzone command headquarters and Wolf legion corps headquarters both shifted to Cairo. Without a doubt, Cairo would become Great Xia's core in Africa.
Along with Mulan Yue and her group arriving, the Egypt Dynasty officially disbanded. The royal family members would temporarily seclude themselves in the palace and would not even take a step out.
Based on the arrangements by Azure Badge, they would live in the Ottoman Dynasty from now on.
All of the officials were also sacked.
Great Xia's strategy toward Egypt was like using warm water to cook frogs. Hence, be it the Egypt Dynasty officials or the native officials, the Africa Governor-General House tried to keep all that could be kept.
Trying their best to use local officials was Great Xia's strategy.
As such, the Egyptian people would have feel resistance toward Great Xia, which would help to stabilize the situation. Two to three years later, this resistance would basically disappear.
Even at that time, utilizing local officials would be the main action.
Africa was not like Nanjiang, where their recognition of Chinese civilization was so high. To force them to accept Chinese culture was much more difficult, so they could only try their best to rope in the locals.
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Imperial Capital.
Just as Mulan Yue and her group were taking over the Egypt Dynasty, the Imperial Court was discussing relevant appointments.
Apart from Sudan Province merging, the newly establishing Egypt Province and Libya Province both needed Provincial Governors.
The role of Egypt Provincial Governor was particularly important.
The Cabinet suggested to move one of the five current Provincial Governors in Africa over. As they were familiar with the Africa situation, it would be easier for them to get into the role.
Ouyang Shuo supported the Cabinet's suggestion.
Out of the five, Pei Yun and Cao Can were 'exiled' over there. Naturally, they could not be moved.
All that remained were Du Sijing, Changsun Wuji, and Yang Xiuqing.
Due to Du Sijing having always worked under Mulan Yue, Ouyang Shuo excluded him to prevent gossip.
Moreover, Ethiopia Province had an important strategic position, and he could not be moved.
Changsun Wuji was appointed last year, and he was not that familiar with the Africa situation. As such, Yang Xiuqing was the only choice.
Ouyang Shuo did not hesitate, deciding right away to move him over.
He, who was the core of Taiping Country, could also be called a long-serving official of the Empire. Be it in terms of talent or ability, he was a great choice.
Yang Xiuqing's experience in Taiping Country meant that he was good at caring for the people, which would help in him ruling Egypt Province.
As such, Ouyang Shuo had no reason not to choose him.
Replacing him as Mozambique Provincial Governor was Caiyun Zinan.
After the Imperial Court removed Houses and increased the Prefecture level organizations, the grade of the Prefecture Governor fell. To be promoted to Provincial Governor was a huge leap.
Caiyun Zinan was the former Caiyun City Lord and was also a core person of the Xiangnan City-State. They had a long confrontation before eventually submitting to Great Xia.
Logically speaking, such a person would never receive a promotion. Keeping his Governor spot would already be rare, much less him becoming a Provincial Governor.
Ouyang Shuo made such a choice because Caiyun Zinan had been doing a good job running Xingyi Prefecture. As a Lord, for him to reach such a level showed that he did have the ability.
Secondly, it was to send a message.
Ouyang Shuo wanted to tell all the past Lords that Great Xia did not bother about their past. As long as they submitted to Great Xia and put in effort, they would have a chance.
The Imperial Court would not be biased against them.
The new Libya Provincial Governor was the original Zhaoqing Prefecture Governor Hao Jiancheng.
Similar to Gu Xiuwen and Zhou Haichen, Hai Jiancheng was brought up by Ouyang Shuo and was the top few amongst the naive officials. Before becoming a Prefecture Governor, he had been the construction director.
He was moved over to Libya Province for a reason.
95% of Libya consisted of desert. Only the north ocean region had plains that could be used for farming and living.
However, Libya was next to the Mediterranean, and just this alone made Great Xia focus on it. Not to mention that like Egypt, Libya was also rich in oil.
Apart from that, Tunisia, which was also drawn into Libya Province, was located north of Africa and was located central to the Mediterranean naval route, directly opposite to Italy. It was a strategic position for oil from the Middle East to reach West Europe and America.
The Atlantic Squadron would be housed in Tunisia's Etna; they would build a navy base there.
After learning of Egypt's submission to Great Xia, the Caesar Dynasty's intense reaction was not without reason. Once the Atlantic Squadron returned to the Mediterranean, the Caesar Squadron would face problems.
Controlling the Tunisia straits would be controlling the Mediterranean naval route.
Along with the Suez Canal and Gibraltar Straits at the front and back, Great Xia basically controlled trade in the Mediterranean.
Such a Libya Province was naturally worth Ouyang Shuo sending out one of his most trusted officials.
At the start, Old Chen did not dare to make the decision of giving up the Egypt Dynasty due to such considerations.
Sadly, although the Egypt Dynasty controlled Suez Canal and Tunisia, they did not have a navy, and as such, they could only hand over the ocean control.
In the end, they let Great Xia profit from it all.
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In the middle of the 4th month, just as Great Xia was taking over the Egypt Dynasty, the 500 thousand strong Egypt Dynasty army had gathered up in Cairo City.
4th month, 22nd day, the 500 thousand of them made use of the night sky to teleport away; they reappeared in Jidian City.
Based on the game rules, the Egypt Dynasty had submitted to Great Xia, so the 500 thousand troops naturally belonged to Great Xia. As a result, they could use the teleportation formation.
This allowed them to teleport from Cairo to Jidian City.
The next morning, the 500 thousand Egypt army disembarked onto Spain Dynasty land. Along the way, they were protected by the 2nd division of the Atlantic Squadron housed in Gibraltar port.
As such, the Egypt army's conquest of the Spain Dynasty began.
At the same time, the Great Xia North Africa legion corps housed in Libya moved south to attack Algeria, which was under the Spain Dynasty's rule.
The word from the North Africa legion corps was 'revenge'.
Ouyang Shuo had not forgotten about Silver Hand and Azure Badge making use of Algeria to force Great Xia to give up on Morocco Province.
Two years later, Great Xia was here for revenge.
4th month, 24th day, based on the agreement, after purchasing a batch of firearms, the Indian Empire launched their attack on the Spain Dynasty controlled Argentina region.
All of a sudden, the Spain Dynasty was facing enemies on all sides.
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