A chat with Jiao Fang in Wanghai Garden made Jiao Fang completely return to Zhou Chong and began to do his best to assist Zhou Chong in completing the future layout of the Ming Dynasty. For a time, Jiao Fang's disciples all began to gather from the Ming Dynasty to Shuangyu.

Hong Kong, after all, since Jiao Fang fell, their lives have not been easy. Many of them were even implicated and dismissed from office and had to go back to their hometown to farm. Now they finally have a chance to make a comeback. How can they not be excited?

Seeing more and more people from Jiao Fang and his group entered the Governor's Office to serve, Zhang Cai was also very anxious. After all, in the officialdom, he was originally concerned about forming cliques. No matter how strong his personal ability was, if he did not have it,

If others help, it won’t be a big deal, so he also began to gather some of his old past and began to compete with people from Jiao Fang.

Strictly speaking, Zhang Cai is also a student backward of Jiao Fang. The reason why Zhang Cai was able to meet Liu Jin was thanks to Jiao Fang's support and introduction. However, Zhang Cai is a man with great ambitions. When Jiao Fang was the chief assistant in the past, he was a prime minister.

He had the idea of ​​replacing it, so Zhang Cai had already established his own family, and his disciples were not fewer than Jiao Fang in the past.

But unfortunately, most of Zhang Cai’s past old friends were related to Liu Jin. Now they are dead. Exiled. There are not many people who can reach Shuangyu Port, so they cannot compete with Jiao Fang and others for the time being.

This also made Zhang Cai hold his breath and began to show himself desperately in front of Zhou Chong, hoping to overwhelm Jiao Fang with him, so that his shortcomings of having few people on his side could be compensated.

Zhou Chong saw Zhang Cai's actions and thoughts. To be fair, Zhang Cai did do better than Jiao Fang. After all, Jiao Fang is too old. Many things are too hard to do, but Zhou Chong is still

There is no intention to promote Zhang Cai at all, because he knows that people like Zhang Cai can only use their talents, but they must not let him gain power. Otherwise, he, the governor, might be defeated by Zhang Cai, so he treated Zhang Cai.

Although he gave a lot of rewards for his performance, Jiao Fang would receive the same reward every time, which made Zhang Cai's intention to overwhelm Jiao Fang repeatedly fail.

The arrival of Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai made Zhou Chong's burden lighter suddenly, and at the same time, the operation of the Governor's Office finally got on track. He finally didn't have to spend too much energy on government affairs. He could have time to spend more time with his family.

By the way, consider your layout of the Ming Dynasty in three directions.

However, the arrival of Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai is not entirely a good thing. For example, they arranged their disciples and officials to the Governor's Mansion, which made nearly half of the officials in the Governor's Mansion controlled by Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai. This is not the same

This is a good thing, especially Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai are both northerners. They are very repulsive of officials in the south, which has led to confrontation between officials from the north and south in the Governor's Office, and even several minor conflicts have occurred.

Speaking of the dispute between the north and the south, this did not only occur in later generations. In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, disputes between the north and the south had already occurred. This situation first appeared in the officialdom. When Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty and regained the former Song Dynasty.

The lost old land in the north, the Han people here have been destroyed by countless wars over hundreds of years, especially the inheritance of civilization, which was greatly damaged. The most direct manifestation is that the talent of scholars in the north is worse than that of scholars in the south, and even once

During the exam, all the candidates who were admitted to the list were from the South.

The emperors in the early Ming Dynasty were also very distressed. After all, whether they were southerners or northerners, they were all citizens of the Ming Dynasty. If the court was full of southerners as officials, it would be unfair to the northerners.

Later, the two rankings were simply set up, and the north and south were admitted separately for each meeting. The admission ratio often changed, but generally speaking, it was always guaranteed that both the north and the south could become officials. The colleges and universities in the later generations admitted students in various provinces in proportion.

, also learned from the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty.

It is precisely because of the examination of the north and south that the officialdom is divided into two factions. Southern officials and northern officials dislike each other, and even senior officials from southern origins are promoted to southerners and northern origins are promoted to high-ranking officials.

The situation of northerners. And generally speaking, southern scholars are indeed one-of-a-kind in academics, so in the officialdom, the southerners are generally dominant.

For example, Jiao Fang was suffering from this kind of discrimination from the north and the south. He could have been able to enter the capital as an official because of his political achievements when he was young, but because several Shangguans were from the south, he suppressed him greatly.

He was so angry that he was unable to calm down. After Jiao Fang gained power, he suppressed the officials in the south, which also established many enemies for him. Later, the scholars in the south slandered Jiao Fang, which made Jiao Fang in history.

Not a good reputation.

It is also worth mentioning that one of the reasons why Jiao Fang colluded with Liu Jin was that Liu Jin was also from the north. The two also had to face a huge group of southern officials in the officialdom, such as Li Dongyang and Xie Qian.

Everyone is the representative of southern officials, so they are natural allies. Later, before Jiao Fang fell, he deliberately increased the admission rate of scholars in his hometown, which became one of the later attacks by southern officials.

Excuse.

It can be said that the dispute between the north and the south in the officialdom has been a long history. From high-ranking officials in the court to officials under the prefecture, there is such dispute between the north and the south. Zhou Chong's Governor's Office is no exception. His previous subordinates

Most of the officials were mobilized from Ningbo and nearby, most of them were from the south, and there were almost very few officials from the north, so naturally there was no conflict.

However, with the arrival of Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai, the officials in the north have greatly boosted their power and began to control most of the power of the Governor's Office little by little, which naturally made the officials in the south very dissatisfied, such as Yang Tong, who was the governor.

He is the representative of southern officials, but although his official position is higher than that of Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai, his ability and reputation are far from comparable to Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai. As a result, the southern officials in the Governor's Office were soon suppressed by northern officials.

If you are at a disadvantage, you will not be able to move for a while.

Zhou Chong was also very worried about the dispute between the north and the south in the Governor's Office. He was from the north in his last life, but later lived in the south for a long time. As for this life, he lived in the south since childhood, but he was Zhengde.

My dear brother, so he is considered a northerner, which makes him not know who he wants to help. In addition, he has always been very opposed to this kind of regional dispute. After all, everyone is an official of the Ming Dynasty, so there is no need to do such a small matter.

dispute.

Unfortunately, although Zhou Chong felt that the dispute between the north and the south was a trivial matter, Jiao Fang and Yang Tong did not think so, especially Jiao Fang, who had been treated unfairly by southern officials before, made him very hostile to southern officials, even if it were not for Zhou.

If Chong's status is too high, he may be hostile to Zhou Chong, so this conflict between officials in the north and the south is difficult to resolve.

Zhou Chong could not watch his subordinates fight, and one side had an absolute advantage. After all, Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai were on the same front at this point. As a result, the southern officials in the Governor's Office were retreating step by step, and there were already several

The officials could not resist the resignation to Zhou Chong. Although Zhou Chong has been comforted for a while, it is not a solution for a long time.

So in this case, the way Zhou Chong could think of was to balance the power of the north and south officials in the Governor's Office. In other words, it was to introduce one or several southern officials who could compete with Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai, but this was not an easy task.

After all, most of the officials who can compete with Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai are high-ranking people in the court, and it is impossible for Qu Jie to come to him as the governor's mansion to serve.

But this is not absolute. For example, there are some people who have outstanding talents in history but are still not famous now. These people are potential stocks in Zhou Chong's eyes. Even if they do not have a particularly high reputation, these people can

In history, it is naturally not easy to be with him. At least it should be no problem to compete with Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai.

The first person Zhou Chong thought of such a talent was the famous Wang Yangming in history. This person founded the scholar of Confucianism and in Confucianism

Confucius, Mencius and Zhu Xi are the most dazzling figures in the entire Ming Dynasty. Looking at the five thousand years of history of the Central Plains, there is only one such Wang Yangming, and it is the only undisputed person who has established virtue, meritorious service, and immortality.

The saints, even the entire Ming Dynasty, became dazzling because of Wang Yangguang. Zhou Chong naturally remembered such a person in his heart.

Speaking of which, when Zhou Chong first became the governor of the Four Seas, he wanted to transfer Wang Yangguang to his post through Zhengde. After all, Wang Yangguang is not only a thinker and philosopher, but also a military strategist. He has been familiar with military books since he was a child.

He has been in the Ministry of War. If he could have helped a person like Wang Yangming, he would be more confident in defeating the Portuguese.

However, after careful consideration, Zhou Chong decided not to alarm Wang Yangming for the time being, because Wang Yangming was demoted to Longchang for the time being because he offended Liu Jin. That is, he understood his own way, which was later the study of the mind.

, This is the famous "Longchang Enlightenment" in history.

Zhou Chongsheng was afraid that his arrival would disturb Wang Yangming's enlightenment, so he endured it. After all, Wang Yangming was different from Tang Bohu. He could change Tang Bohu's life trajectory, making the world less a peerless painter, but more a person who serves the people.

In Zhou Chong's opinion, officials are more practical. However, Wang Yangming's mind learning is enough to change the world's thoughts, especially those scholars in the Ming Dynasty. Although Zhou Chong is not qualified to judge whether this change is good or bad,
Chapter completed!