Archdemon

The largest province is almost three times the size of the smallest province.

It can be seen that the division of provinces is not a simple grid drawing, but a result of careful consideration by civil officials.

Shi Haoyu pointed to the names of these provinces and continued, "At present, we have preliminarily completed the government reform in the 21 provinces in the south, and a large number of officials have been mobilized and arranged in these provinces."

"Among the 11 provinces in the north, they are still under military control for the time being. It is estimated that it will take three to four months to gradually get rid of military control."

"At present, after a rough population survey, the total population of the 32 provinces under the new rule is more than 1.532 billion."

"Of course, this number is debatable, but the error will not exceed 30 million people."

"In these 32 provinces, there are still a large number of half-orc professionals. These professionals are the biggest problem our officials encounter in governing these provinces."

Speaking of this, Shi Haoyu looked at Huo Ling and asked, "Your Majesty, how should we deal with these half-orc professionals who are not loyal to the principality?"

Huo Ling was also a little overwhelmed when he heard this.

It was easy to take over all the territories of the orcs without a large-scale war. This has both good and bad things.

The good thing is that the strength of these orcs was preserved to the greatest extent possible, and Huo Ling could also use these orc soldiers in the future.

The bad thing is also here. These orc professionals will not have too much loyalty to the new regime.

Most of these orc professionals are silver-level and black iron-level.

As for the higher-level ones, they have basically been taken to the capital of the Broken Skull.

Huo Ling looked at Ren Jingchen and asked, "Does Jingchen have any good ideas?"

Ren Jingchen didn't think for too long, he suggested, "Why not expand the army?"

Huo Ling held his forehead, expand the army?

Expanding the army is a good idea for others, but not for Huo Ling.

He has no shortage of troops, and even the number of troops is a bit too much. Sometimes he even wants to reduce the army.

After all, for general wars, it is enough to arrange Huo Ling's undead army.

The number of troops in the principality is not small, which requires a lot of military expenditure. If some troops can be cut, he can save a lot of magic stones.

But the expansion of the army mentioned by Ren Jingchen is indeed a good idea.

Because after the expansion of the army, a large number of half-orc professionals can be used. Whether it is to transfer them from their original places or to use the army to brainwash, it is a good way.

Huo Ling sighed for a long time and said, "Expand the army!"

"Jingchen asked the military to come up with a plan and submit it to me."

Ren Jingchen's face showed joy. He quickly took out a scroll and said, "Your Majesty, the military has already made a plan. Please take a look!"

Huo Ling glared at Ren Jingchen, but still waved his hand and said, "Okay, I won't read it. Just tell me!"

In the entire Donghe Principality, if you want to say who has the most ideas about expanding the army, it is Ren Jingchen.

As the commander of the military, he thinks about building more troops every day and letting the military have more military establishments.

Ren Jingchen was not frightened by Huo Ling's eyes. He spread out the scroll and began to say:

"Your Majesty, the preliminary plan formulated by the military department is to build six Type A combat divisions and twelve Type B combat divisions."

"This total of eighteen combat divisions, starting from the company-level officers, will be transferred from other troops."

"Conscription will be carried out in the current thirty-two provinces, and those half-orc professionals who are loyal to the marquisate will be recruited into the army."

"At present, the military intends to build a recruit training base and a garrison base in these eight provinces!"

Ren Jingchen pointed to several points on the map. These eight points can be said to have included all the half-orcs in these thirty-two provinces in the alert range.

Ren Jingchen continued, "After training, these new recruits can be used as garrisons. When any problems occur in the surrounding provinces, they can set out on the same day and reach the corresponding target location within two days!"

"With these orc soldiers, our control over these 32 provinces will be greatly enhanced!"

"As for the recruitment of orc soldiers, I think they should be recruited from the already poor orc professionals."

"These orc professionals originally had poor families. Most of them came from tribes ruled by clans. After years of oppression, they have limited loyalty to the orc clans and are the best soldiers of the principality!"

Ren Jingchen talked freely and described the general expansion plan formulated by the military.

At the end, Huo Ling waved his hand and handed over the plan.The scroll was summoned to his hand and he examined it carefully.

After a long while, Huo Ling continued, "Not enough. Since the army is expanding, expand it more."

When Ren Jingchen heard this, his face was even more happy. He asked anxiously, "Your Majesty, what do you mean?"

"Give me twelve more Type A combat divisions and twelve Type B combat divisions!"

Huo Ling's eyes became deep. He looked at the ancestral lands of the eight clans on the map and said, "Recruit soldiers from these clan orcs!"

"Let the local officials cooperate with you! Recruit all the clan orcs who are not loyal enough and do not cooperate with government affairs into the army!"

"The officers will be the orcs who are now in the skull-crushing group! All the soldiers will be dispersed, and each company and platoon must have orcs from all clans."

"No need to replace their weapons, let them bring their own weapons."

"This batch of troops will be trained as soon as possible, I will use it!"

"Yes! Your Majesty!" Ren Jingchen nodded heavily.

Soon, the court meeting ended, and most of the generals and officials left the hall and started new work.

Ren Jingchen did not leave, he followed behind Huo Ling.

After a while, Ren Jingchen still couldn't help asking: "Your Majesty, what are the uses of the twelve Type A and twelve Type B combat divisions you arranged to expand the army later?"

Huo Ling walked forward slowly, he glanced at Ren Jingchen and said: "I thought you could hold back from asking."

Ren Jingchen laughed awkwardly and said: "Your Majesty, you know me."

"I want these troops to go to open up the wilderness! I want to use them as bait to find out the legends of the orcs who escaped!" Huo Ling's face became cold.

If the orcs of other tribes can live a better life than before under Huo Ling's rule, and thus be loyal to Huo Ling.

Then these clan orcs are different. They used to belong to the exploiting class, but now they belong to the exploited class.

In any case, their quality of life and mental state are not as good as before.

It is too difficult for Huo Ling to gain their loyalty, so he might as well use it up!