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Chapter 1078
"The number of votes is 13.7, and the number of people who support the establishment of a new government is 10.3. Therefore, the new government will replace the shogunate in the future, and the shogunate system will be abolished!" Tanaka Chengichi, who secretly manipulated the results of the referendum, announced the final result in public.

Although there are still people voting, but seeing the sunset, there is no suspense about the result.

The common people below who learned the result neither cheered nor booed, but were full of uncertainty and worry about the future.

Some farmers from surrounding villages who were encouraged by the Huaxia Society to vote went to work at sunrise and rest at sunset, and when the sun went down, they all dispersed.

"This is the choice of the people themselves, and they should be responsible for their own choice." Seeing that the referendum came to an end without any suspense, Zhang Yuan felt calm.

As an outsider, the Kyushu Army must gain the legitimacy of its rule here.

"The new order must be established as soon as possible, so that a series of new policies can be implemented as soon as possible. There is no suspense about the list of important officials in our government, but the question of the positions of the Western Kingdom daimyo, the Huaxia Society, and the Red Scarf Samurai in the new government. It is debatable. Theoretically, positions should be arranged according to their contributions, but the daimyo of the Western Kingdom contributed the most to our entry into Dongying. If their number is too large in the new government, they will form a faction. They are local If the influence is too great, I am afraid it will be difficult to manage."

"Those who can check and balance the daimyo of the Western Kingdom, Tanaka Chengyi, who hates samurai, and the Huaxia Association led by him are good candidates. Unfortunately, Tanaka Chengyi has too much power in the Huaxia Association, and too much reliance on Tanaka Chengyi will also cause hidden dangers. The red scarf warrior Ono Taro and the others have a handle in our hands, but their status is not very high, and it is difficult to convince the public."

After deciding to establish the Dongying Province, the first thing the newly appointed Civil Affairs Officer Shen Youlong faced was to establish his own team.

The highest civil affairs officials, magistrates, and judicial officers in the Eastern Province were directly appointed by the Kyushu Army, and a large number of officials from the provincial yamen were also airborne from the mainland of China.However, the people who came by airborne couldn't understand the words here, and it was the appointed Dongying officials who really did the work.Many of them have transformed from daimyo, bannermen, and literati into imperial bureaucrats.

The side that wins the war is distributing the fruits of victory by arranging official positions.

"The Six Parts Conference means that we hold secret meetings with various forces in Japan in private to carve up important positions in the new government to gain their support. Our Kyushu Army appoints and dismisses the majority, followed by the Western Kingdom Daimyo, the Huaxia Society, and the Red Scarf Warriors. We will establish a special selection system for civil servants later." Da Yuer interjected.

The secret meeting and the division of positions in the new government are the main reasons why the fallen coalition forces supported the Kyushu Army's entry into Japan.The forces of the Fallen Allied Forces in the new government will be second only to the Kyushu Army, and they are still one of the rulers of Japan.The Huaxia Society can also arrange for candidates to enter the new government through secret meetings to realize their political ideas.

The secret meeting was held secretly in Edo City. Shen Youlong led the team of the provincial yamen of Dongying to divide up the new official positions with the daimyo of the Western Kingdom, the Huaxia Society, the Red Scarf Samurai, and a few of the daimyo of the Eastern Kingdom who temporarily turned against the water.

"As a province, Dongying Province will re-divide the administrative regions. According to the arrangement of six departments, Dongying Province has six prefectures and 42 counties. The six prefectures are Edo, Kyoto, Nagoya, and Kyushu. Prefecture, Shikoku Island, Hokkaido, as for the division of the 42 prefectures, you can see this map."

Shen Youlong spread out a map of prefectures and counties in the province of Japan in front of everyone, which was much more detailed than the map drawn by the shogunate.

"Each prefecture has a magistrate, chief soldier, and judge, and each county has a county magistrate, chief arrester, and magistrate. Chengichi Tanaka has been appointed as the director of the Han Culture Promotion Department of the Provincial Yamen... Tadyoshi Yamauchi served as the chief soldier of Shikoku Island, Mitsuhisa Shimadzu was appointed as the deputy general of the provincial government... Soshige Tachibana was appointed as the magistrate of Kumamoto Prefecture..."

"The position of the general army is to maintain local stability. The number of security forces in each county has an establishment, no more than 500 people. The security force of each prefecture does not exceed 3000 people. The security force directly under the provincial government does not exceed [-] people. .”

Shen Youlong read to these supporters the preliminary arrangement and the change of the administrative area.

"There are four counties in Shikoku Island, and the number of county soldiers plus prefectural soldiers does not exceed 3000, but at this time there are more than 10 peasant troops on Shikoku Island. How can I, the general soldier of Shikoku Island, put down the local peasant uprising? ?" Tadyoshi Yamauchi, as the daimyo of Shikoku Island, found himself transferred back to Shikoku Island to quell the local peasant uprising, and couldn't help but frown.

Moreover, in order to prevent local rebellion, the Kyushu Army reduced the strength of the various prefectures and counties in Dongying to a minimum.

Yamauchi Tadyoshi now has more troops in the Tosa Domain than the Kyushu Army's security force of no more than 3000 people for the entire Shikoku Island, making it difficult for him to cook without rice.It is only possible to attack the [-] peasant rebels sweeping Shikoku Island with [-] security forces unless he is the reincarnation of the God of War.

"Mr. Yamauchi, please rest assured that we will form a temporary army to fight against the rebellion. We will even send a fleet to assist you to quell the peasant uprising on Shikoku Island. The farmers on Shikoku Island also rose up because of years of wars and food shortages. As long as we The rice merchants transported the grain to Shikoku Island for sale, and then used the contradictions among the peasant army to divide and recruit security. I believe that Shikoku Island will soon be restored to calm." Shen Youlong said, "The peasant uprising that broke out in the Central Plains in the past was more This is even more serious. The peasant rebels seem to have a large number of people, but in fact they bring their families with them, and none of them are good fighters. In contrast, we have to find a way to put down the rebellion that broke out from the samurai group.”

Tadyoshi Yamauchi, who is about to serve as the commander-in-chief of Shikoku Island, was relieved when he heard that the Kyushu Army would send a fleet to help him quell the peasant uprising.

Shikoku Island is surrounded by sea on all sides. With the fleet of the Kyushu Army dropping troops in the Seto Inland Sea, it is not so difficult for them to defeat the peasant uprising on Shikoku Island.

"Is it possible for the samurai on Kyushu Island to rebel?" Zhang Yuan, a representative of the military department, asked Mitsuhisa Shimadzu.

"It's not impossible. The lower-level samurai may kidnap some retainers to rebel. As the governor of the Shimadzu family, I cannot guarantee that the retainers will not be kidnapped." Mitsuhisa Shimadzu said.

After all, the abolition of the samurai system will harm the interests of the samurai group. The upper-class daimyos will hold high positions in the new government, while the middle- and lower-class samurai will inevitably feel resentment for being abandoned.

"There are counties in the Northeast where the rebellion will be even more serious." A daimyo pointed out that there is a possibility of greater rebellion in the Northeast, which has not yet been controlled by the new government.

"If the new government's 'Abandoned Sword Order' is issued, there will be warrior rebels, and they will use iron and blood methods to suppress them." Zhang Yuan said coldly.

(End of this chapter)