Chapter 1225 West Sea Province

Mongol Empire, Hara and Lin.

Genghis Khan has been paying close attention to the Battle of Xixia. When the Great Xia Army was invited to officially intervene in the Battle of Xixia, Genghis Khan knew that the empire had no chance of winning this battle.

Unless we add more troops to Xixia.

In that case, it is very likely that a local war will evolve into an uncontrollable all-out war. The empire can increase its troops, and the Great Xia can naturally increase its troops, and at a faster speed and on a larger scale.

"Send the order to drag the thunder, and immediately lead the troops to evacuate Xixia. You must not love to fight, otherwise you will be dealt with by military law."

"yes!"

Genghis Khan was more decisive than Tuo Lei, and he also knew how to choose. Although the battle was not complete, he looted a large amount of supplies, which solved the urgent need of the empire.

As for how to solve the remaining food shortage, there is only a long-term plan.

If the fight continues, not only will the ducks in hand fly away, but it may even be lost. Genghis Khan never wanted to do a loss-making business all his life.

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To Genghis Khan's military order, Tuo Lei dare not ignore it.

On December 19th, Tuo Lei joined Mu Huali's remnants, a total of 250,000 troops, escorted an uncountable mass of supplies, and quickly evacuated Xixia.

For this batch of supplies, the Mongolian Empire lost 150,000 elite cavalry, so it is not difficult to understand that Tuo Lei was unwilling and aggrieved when he left Xingqing Mansion.

Tuo Lei already hated Da Xia who picked peaches to the bone.

Seeing the retreat of the Mongolian army, Ye Liwangrong, who was more aggrieved than Tuo Lei, felt unwilling. Regardless of Li Yuanhao's dissuasion, he personally led an army of 50,000 in pursuit, trying to delay the withdrawal speed of the Mongolian cavalry.

Tuo Lei, who had been suffocating for a long time, joined forces with Mu Huali, brazenly led his troops to turn around to meet the enemy, and defeated Yeli Wangrong again. Even Nori Wangrong himself was shot dead by Tuo Lei.

This battle also became the end of the Battle of Xixia.

Three days later, Li Mu led his troops to Xingqing Mansion and took over the defense of the city from the Xixia Army, marking that the Xixia Kingdom had completely passed into history.

From this day onwards, the base of the Daxia Yingyang Army will be transferred from the province of Shu to the territory of Xixia, and it will become an elite army for the dynasty to resist the Mongol Empire.

With the surrender of the Shuhan Dynasty, there are no hidden dangers in the province of Shu, and it is enough to have the Feixiong army in charge.

Following the order from the theater command to the Privy Council, the rest of the Xixia Army, except for the Yingyang Army who recruited some to supplement the battle losses and formed the provincial garrison division, the remaining more than 200,000 people were all abolished.

With Daxia's current military strength, it is really inappropriate to expand the army. Therefore, even if the more than 200,000 Xixia troops who survived the war were first-class elites, Ouyang Shuo could only reluctantly give up.

Moreover, after this battle, the population of Xixia was withered, especially the young and middle-aged people suffered heavy losses. Arranging the retirement of these soldiers will also help to resume production in Xixia as soon as possible.

Ouyang Shuo has already given an order to the Civil Affairs Bureau to dispatch a group of Han people from Chengdu County in Shu Province to settle in Xixia to supplement the population of Xixia.

As for the arrangements for Li Yuanhao and Xixia, we still have to wait for the imperial order.

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As soon as the news of Xixia's attachment to Daxia came out, there were not many people who were envious and jealous.

On the surface, it seemed that Daxia occupied the great Xixia Kingdom almost effortlessly this time, and took advantage of it. In fact, not everyone can take advantage of such a bargain.

It's like Qin, which is adjacent to Xixia.

Even if Li Yuanhao is willing to lead Xixia to surrender to Qin, with the power of Qin, he is unable to protect Li Yuanhao from the Mongol Empire.

It is even more impossible for the Mongolian army to take the initiative to withdraw its troops before fighting like it is now.

The root cause is that Great Xia was able to successfully take over Xixia this time, and it was backed by its strong national strength and undeniably comparable prestige in China. It would be impossible for any other country to do so.

Moreover, accepting Xixia may not be a good thing in the short term. It means that there are more than 10 million people waiting to be fed, waiting for the government to allocate relief food.

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December 25th, Shanhai City.

After several days of deliberations, the imperial court's disposal plan for the Xixia Kingdom was finally settled.

The first is the conferment on Li Yuanhao. In view of the fact that the Xixia Kingdom chose to belong to Daxia under special circumstances, and the background of Xixia is not deep, according to the cabinet's opinion, only Li Yuanhao was conferred the title of first-class marquis.

Moreover, Li Yuanhao was not allowed to stay in Xingqing Mansion, and had to move his family to live in Shanhai City.

This arrangement is also due to the fact that Xixia belongs to the gathering place of the Qiang people. Li Yuanhao has an incomparable influence on the Qiang people. The family seeks profit.

This is what Ouyang Shuo is unwilling to see no matter what.

Of course, the racial equality policy that Daxia has always pursued is also applicable to the Qiang people.

The second is the administrative division of the territory of Xixia Kingdom.

When Li Yuanhao founded the country, he took Xia as the title of the country and called it Daxia. Because it is in the west, the Song people called it Xixia.

In this way, the country title and place name of Xixia inevitably violated the taboos of the Great Xia Dynasty, and it must not be directly designated as the Xixia Province, and another province name needs to be thought of.

Originally, Ouyang Shuo was lazy and wanted to directly refer to the territory of the Qing Dynasty and name it Qinghai Province. Instead, Jiang Shang, the chief assistant of the cabinet, suggested that it be changed to Xihai Province.

There is a reason for this.

The name of Qinghai Province comes from Qinghai Lake in the territory. And West Sea, the ancient name of Qinghai Lake, was renamed West Sea Province, which not only has a more ancient charm, but is also far away from East Sea Province, which can be passed down as a good story.

Ouyang Shuo is naturally good at following others.

The next step is to delineate the candidate for the governor of Xihai Province.

This time Ouyang Shuo still insisted on boldly adopting the employment orientation of the aborigines, and promoted Cui Shousi, the former governor of Wuzhou County in the southern Sichuan province, to be the governor of Xihai.

As the pride of the Cui family, Cui Shousi joined the territory when he was a county seat. He has successively served as Yishui county magistrate, Tianfeng magistrate, Zhen'an County administrative director, and Wuzhou county governor.

This time he was promoted again, and finally became a great official in the frontier.

In just a few years, Cui Shousi grew from a county magistrate to a provincial governor of the third rank. He kept pace with Naijie Cui Yingyou and formed Cui's Shuangbi together.

This is because being an official in the local area has more opportunities for promotion than being an official in the court.

In this way, it is not difficult to understand why some Daxia officials who aspire to the central government always like to go to the local yamen to practice for a while, so as to increase their qualifications and obtain the capital for promotion.

The one who succeeded Cui Shousi as the prefect of Wuzhou was a more special person.

This person's name was Ouyang Huan, and before he was designated by Ouyang Shuo as the Governor of Wuzhou, he was just a little-known official in the court, and this promotion made him officially appear in the eyes of the court and the public.

It's not that Ouyang Huan is talented, but because of his special status.

Ouyang Huan is Ouyang Shuo's distant third uncle, he is considered to be half a relative of the emperor, and he is also an outstanding member of the Ouyang clan. This time he was promoted to the county guard, which indicated that the royal line was gradually emerging.

In this regard, from the cabinet to the ruling and opposition parties, there is a tacit understanding not to discuss it.

How can others criticize the emperor's family affairs.

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The royal palace, the royal study.

What Ouyang Shuo is meeting with is the recent focus person Ouyang Huan.

"Third Uncle, you will be put under a microscope when you come to work this time. There are too many people watching your every move. By doing this, my nephew is putting Third Uncle on fire." Ouyang Shuo was half joking and half serious said.

Ouyang Huan is a middle-aged man, with a resolute face, like a sharp knife, the kind of person who is very powerful at first glance, but he is rare to cherish words like gold, and never speaks falsely.

This is what Ouyang Shuo especially appreciates.

As a relative of the emperor, the most taboo thing is to run the train with your mouth full. As the saying goes, "too much talk will lead to loss", once you say something wrong, you will be ashamed of yourself, and it will also damage the face of the royal family, making it difficult for Ouyang Shuo.

The wheel of history has pushed Ouyang's family to where it is today, so we must always reflect on ourselves.

Hearing this, Ouyang Huan nodded and said, "Don't worry!"

"I know that Third Uncle is as good as gold and is not afraid of fire. If he goes to Wuzhou, he will definitely make a big splash." Ouyang Shuo is still very confident in his ability to judge people.

The two uncles and nephews looked at each other and smiled.

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In the blink of an eye, it was December 30th.

As usual, Gaia will release a new round of system updates on this day. I just don’t know what kind of surprise or fright Gaia will bring this time.