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Chapter 979 – Changes in Zhongyuan

12th month, 12th day, Auckland.

After receiving the reply from the old man, Ouyang Shuo finally signed his name on the agreement.

Based on the agreement, Jason was appointed as the Great Xia Dynasty Auckland Governor. Apart from politics, military matters, and diplomacy that would be controlled by Great Xia, the other matters would be left to Jason.

New Zealand’s imperial city had not been taken down and was not under Jason’s control. As such, this appointment targeted only his territory – Auckland region.

Jason was the most special governor in Great Xia as he was a regional governor.

Relatively, Great Xia had a purpose to ensure the safety of New Zealand.

Ouyang Shuo renamed Yanhuo Yaonie’s Xingzhou Squadron to the Indian Ocean Squadron. He did this to raise the strategic vision of the squadron and show the ambition of Great Xia to enter the Indian Ocean.

To ensure the ocean safety of Auckland, especially so that it would not be disturbed by Java’s Badong Squadron, Ouyang Shuo decided to move the 5th division of the Indian Ocean Squadron to Auckland.

Along the way, it could monitor Australia, killing two birds with one stone.

Military-wise, Auckland’s current army would form the Auckland Formation at an appropriate time, and it would be under the leadership of the Privy Court and the Grand Council. Of course, the choice of Lieutenant General would be decided by Jason.

At 10 AM, Ouyang Shuo and Jason attended a joint conference to announce the matter to the world. Very quickly, this news spread like wildfire across the globe, creating great uproar.

“Great Xia is so amazing. They are able to recruit little brothers overseas, well done!”

The China region players naturally felt pride. To them, taking down Auckland that was on the western side was much better than taking down Somalia and Morocco.

The media outlets in the country even reported that this was a milestone event.

“The wind of Great Xia sweeps toward the west.”

The European and American players were bitter and sour, and their words showed unhappiness toward William and Jack. They felt that they had lost face.

Without an exception, the western media did not have big news coverage on it, and they only briefly mentioned it in a small corner.

When Australia Lord Avera got the news, he let out a bitter smile, “What is this? Am I going to become collateral damage?”

Along with Great Xia moving in troops to Auckland, the future Australia would become one of the main battlefields, and this was not a piece of good news to Avera.

“It’s difficult.”

Surviving between countries tested the political intelligence of Lords.

The ones who felt the most complicated were the New Zealand players. On one side, they had a feeling of resistance toward Auckland for joining Great Xia.

On the other hand, with Great Xia protecting them, they suddenly felt at ease.

Such conflicting thoughts were difficult to take in.

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City in the skies, unnamed courtyard.

Silver Hand’s mysterious number 3 lived in this small courtyard. Upon learning that Auckland joined Great Xia, his eyes flashed, “The little monkey has jumped out of the cage.”

The matter of the Jason Family was planned by number 3.

Who knew what he was thinking, but number 3 looked at the east courtyard and muttered, “Old fox, what role did you play in this matter? Things are getting more and more interesting.”

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12th month, 13th day, Ouyang Shuo brought the Divine Martial Guards and teleported to Shanhai City from Auckland. The Emperor Squadron would return alone and would probably get to Beihai Port in the middle of the 1st month.

Xia Palace, Imperial Reading Room.

Ouyang Shuo asked Tsing Yi, “In the month that I was not here, what big matters have occurred?” Voyage travel communication was inconvenient. Apart from emergency letters, Ouyang Shuo had basically lost contact with country matters.

Tsing Yi thought about it and decided to report the worrying matters before the happy matters.

“A week ago, Wannan Province was taken down by Yanhuang Alliance.”

Ouyang Shuo frowned, “What happened?”

Without Ouyang Shuo in charge, many things had happened in the China region in the past month.

As a huge battle had just ended, Great Xia was busy resting up. Yanhuang Alliance expanded their military to try to resist the Great Xia that was getting stronger and stronger.

Everyone felt that the war matters in the 4th year of Gaia had ended.

Not long after Ouyang Shuo went out to sea, the flames of war in the wilderness were ignited once more, and the ones who initiated it was the Yanhuang Alliance.

11th month, 13th day, not long after Ouyang Shuo left Xingzhou Prefecture, Yanhuang Alliance gathered 300 thousand Alliance Army troops. Led by Wuqi, Lianpo, and Tiandan, these troops split into three, Jingchu, Jiangnan, And Donghai Provinces to enter Wannan Province.

Speaking of which, one had to talk about Wannan Province.

This matter started during the second year information piece. At that time, the Huangchao Uprising Army was destroyed by Xiongba and Zhan Lang.

Following which, the Chensheng Uprising Army that was in the Zhongyuan Prefecture was wiped out by Chun Shenjun and Di Chen.

Originally, using the situation, Yanhuang Alliance could have copied Shanhai City and taken the chance to take over the two provinces to extend their land.

Unfortunately, after the two wars, winter arrived, which made it tough to travel. As a result, they lost their chance to claim the two provinces.

In the blink of an eye, the 3rd year of Gaia had arrived and another information piece was released.

This had totally messed up the plans of Yanhuang Alliance. The empty provinces were taken over by aristocratic families, so Yanhuang Alliance totally lost their chances to occupy the two provinces.

At that time, be it Zhan Lang, Xiong Ba, or Chun Shenjun, they were all filled with regret.

As time went on, these two provinces were slowly filled with chaos, becoming a battle of hundreds of aristocratic families.

However, aristocratic families were aristocratic families. Although they fought within themselves, the moment an outsider tried to corrupt the two provinces, they would band together against the rest.

Of course, Yanhuang Alliance had never given up on the hope on reclaiming the two provinces. Long ago, when they wiped out the two uprising armies, they had planted many chess pieces in the two provinces.

The Yanhuang Alliance was an aristocratic family. In terms of going against other aristocratic families, their ability was something that Ouyang Shuo could not compare to. In the latter half of the 4th year of Gaia, Yanhuang Alliance’s prep work was basically complete.

Occupying the two provinces was also listed as a portion of Plan Z and was moved up their agenda.

Just as Yanhuang Alliance was ready to act, Ouyang Shuo suddenly started a war in the China region. Not to mention taking down Swordsman City, but they also merged with the two City-States.

This hurt Yanhuang Alliance, and all their plans were delayed.

Luckily, the heavens did not turn its back on them, and Ouyang Shuo went on their voyage.

Seeing that winter was coming once more, if they missed the chance and Great Xia rested up, Yanhuang Alliance would have no way to reclaim the two provinces in the 5th year of Gaia.

At this stage, Di Chen and the others had no way out. They expanded their troops and quickened their occupation of the two provinces.

Helplessly, Swordsman City was destroyed, and Yanhuang Alliance lost one arm. Outside of Swordsman City, 150 thousand of their troops were given to Great Xia, hurting the Yanhuang Alliance.

Their plan to take down the two provinces was changed to taking down Wannan Province.

This time, their gamble paid off.

300 thousand soldiers fought together. Using their chess pieces, they swept Wannan Province.

With that, Yanhuang Alliance recovered from their loss of Swordsman City, and their overall strength increased instead of dropping. The presence of aristocratic families in Wannan Province also meant a whole group of talents.

Taking down Wannan Province, not only did they obtain 200 thousand prisoners, but their military also strengthened once more. They also obtained a huge bunch of talents that improved the foundations of their territories.

If it were not for Ouyang Shuo rushing back to Shanhai City, Di Chen and the others were planning to take down Zhongyuan Province too.

This time, even the heavens were standing on the Yanhuang Alliance’s side. Even in the 12th month, winter had not arrived. As such, the Yanhuang Alliance could fully absorb Wannan Province.

Ouyang Shuo could not do anything about this. The fall of Wannan Province was already settled and Great Xia was reorganizing their troops. At the moment, they could not start another war.

Furthermore, winter was about to arrive and starting a war now was courting death.

“When they sent troops, we did not react?” Ouyang Shuo asked.

Although the Yanhuang Alliance’s main forces were not wrapped up in the battlefield of the previous war, their borders were definitely weak since they moved 300 thousand troops.

Logically speaking, Shanhai Alliance should have done something.

“This….”

Although Ouyang Shuo did not show his anger, his tone gave Tsing Yi a lot of pressure. However, since this concerned military matters, it was not something she could understand.

Ouyang Shuo laughed bitterly, “I was too anxious.”

Thinking about it, the reason was not hard to guess.

First, the Tiger Legion Corps was housed in Minnan Province, while the other legion corps were all being organized. They were either heading to new defense zones or swapping roles, which meant that everything was in chaos.

Furthermore, Ouyang Shuo was not within the country. At most, the Great Xia Army could be active at the borders and not enter Yanhuang Alliance territory to start another war.

Secondly, only Jiangchuan Province, which did not belong to Great Xia, was connected to Wannan Province. Gong Chengshi did not have the courage or ability to gather the troops there to enter the Battle of Wannan.

In the end, Ouyang Shuo being too strong in the alliance was sometimes a bad thing. Di Chen and the others probably saw through that and decided to take a gamble.

Ouyang Shuo took in a deep breath and asked, “Is there any good news?”