At the court meeting in early March of the eleventh year of Zhengde's reign, Zhengde rarely participated in the court meeting, which surprised the ministers who had long been accustomed to attending court meetings without the emperor. Speaking of which, apart from the few times that Zhengde had just ascended the throne, he attended the court meeting.

In addition, he would be absent from most other court meetings, and all the ministers in the court were used to it. Now Zhengde suddenly appeared on the throne, which surprised all the ministers who attended the court meeting.

But what surprised the ministers was yet to come. After they finished reporting some government affairs, Zhengde suddenly said: "My dear ministers, I have something important to announce today!"

As soon as Zhengde finished speaking, Gu Dayong personally stood up and read out the imperial edict. All the ministers in the court were once again surprised. After all, the content of the imperial edict that could be read out by Gu Dayong himself must be extraordinary.

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Sure enough, as Gu Dayong read out, the expressions of the ministers below all became wonderful. They never thought that His Majesty the Emperor actually had a younger brother who was separated overseas, and that he was the one who committed the crime overseas.

Zhou Zhong was in such a prosperous state that all the people who heard the news showed wonderful expressions on their faces.

A prince of the Ming Dynasty suddenly appeared, which made all the courtiers unable to believe it. Some people even doubted whether this matter was true or not. After all, Zhengde's character was not very good, and he was always used to being ridiculous.

, there are hundreds of adopted sons, and it is not impossible to create a fake brother again.

However, after the imperial edict was read out, Zhou Zhong supported the Queen Mother Zhang and walked in from outside the palace. The Queen Mother Zhang personally testified that Zhou Zhong was her second son who was stolen by the thieves. Then Li Dongyang also confirmed that the original Zhu Houwei was indeed

He was stolen out of the palace, and it was only to take care of the Tian family's face that he announced his death in infancy.

With the testimony of two heavyweights, Empress Dowager Zhang and Li Dongyang, no one doubted Zhou Chong's identity. At that moment, all the ministers shouted long live and congratulated Zhengde and the Empress Dowager on the reunion of their relatives. Zhengde was also very happy and announced immediately

He named his younger brother Zhu Houwei as King Zhao Kang, or Zhao for short.

Wang, the historical Zhao State was located in the south of Hebei, close to the capital. This honor can be said to be the first person since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. After all, generally speaking, the closest prince's fiefdom will be in Shandong, Henan and other places. As for Hebei

Because it is close to the capital, it is generally not granted to the feudal king.

In addition, because Zhou Zhong was stolen by thieves when he was a child, both the Queen Mother and Zhengde missed him very much, so Zhengde granted Zhou Zhong no need to go to the fiefdom, but to live in Beijing. Liu Jin's former Nine Thousand Years Mansion is now

It was renamed Prince Zhao's Mansion and became Zhou Zhong's residence in the capital.

Zhou Zhong restored Zhu Houwei's real name and identity. The news quickly spread from the court to the people. As a result, it also caused a huge commotion among the people. After all, Zhou Zhong was not an ordinary person. The Journey to the West he wrote had already been

It is widely spread among the people. In addition, he is the governor of the Sihai Governor's Palace.

During this period, he vigorously developed overseas immigration. Millions of disaster victims survived because of him. Many people even returned home in fine clothes after making a fortune in Nanyang, which attracted the envy and envy of others. All of this was attributed to Zhou Chong.

, so Zhou Zhong's popularity among the people is comparable to that of Zhengde.

It was Zhou Zhong's own reputation, coupled with his legendary life experience, that made the people very curious about Zhou Zhong. Even within a few days, some rumors about Zhou Zhong began to spread among teahouses and restaurants.

There are interesting legends, such as how Zhou Chong was stolen out of the palace, how he met the current majesty, etc.

Zhou Zhong had no time to pay attention to the rumors about himself among the people. He was also very busy during this period. Since his identity was revealed, the door of Prince Zhao's Mansion has been busy with traffic, and the roads several feet wide have been visited by these people.

The crowds were tightly blocked, and the situation was comparable to when Liu Jin was still alive.

Speaking of which, although Zhou Zhong was the prince of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty had always had strict control over the imperial relatives. They could enjoy various privileges, but they did not have any political power. The court even had regulations that prohibited foreign ministers from making friends with the imperial relatives.

However, Zhou Zhong was different from ordinary princes. For example, Zhou Zhong was granted permission not to go to the fiefdom to establish a vassal. In addition, Zhengde also

He did not have any scruples about Zhou Chong because of his identity. Instead, after revealing his identity, he handed over the management of the very important military academy to Zhou Chong. In addition, Zhengde had no heirs and he did not like government affairs, so

Some discerning people know that in addition to the emperor Zhengde, the Ming Dynasty will have another high-ranking prince in the future.

It is precisely because of the special nature of Prince Zhou Zhong that since he was named Queen of Zhao, there has been an endless stream of people coming to visit him. At first, Zhou Zhong even visited a few, but later there were too many people.

In desperation, Zhou Zhong had no choice but to ask Jiao Fang to find an experienced palace staff member who would be responsible for many people who came to visit. Only those with particularly important status would be received by Zhou Zhong, otherwise no one would come.

Useless.

In addition to the headache of those people who blocked the door to visit, Zhou Chong did not forget about the military academy. After all, the military academy was Zhou Zhong’s first step in reforming the political situation of the Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately, it was now turned into a mess by Jiang Bin. Wei Guogong Xu Yan

Although he is old and virtuous, he is

Jiang Bin was sidelined and almost made the old man paralyzed from anger. Now he is trying hard to prevent chaos in the military academy. Fortunately, there are veterans like Xu Ren here, so when Zhou Zhong took over the military academy, the entire military academy seemed to be on the surface.

At least it's still functioning normally.

On this day, Zhou Zhong finally escaped from the palace and rushed to the military academy in the western suburbs of the capital with Jiao Fang. Speaking of which, after Jiang Bin gained power during this period, his ambitions grew greatly and he began to fight for power with various imperial agencies, including the military academy.

The most important part to him is that after all, he is not stupid. He knows that if he can control the military academy, when the cadets from the military academy enter the military academy in the future, he can rely on his control of the military academy to become the number one person in the army.

However, although Jiang Bin had good calculations, Xu Chu had always been in charge of the daily management of the military academy. After all, not just anyone can hold the position of school supervisor. If Jiang Bin wants to control the military academy, he must take Xu

It's a pity that Xu was pushed away

Xu Er was tougher than he expected. Even though he had obtained Zhengde's approval to intervene in the management of the military academy, Xu Er still firmly held on to the core power of the military academy. Even if he watched the military academy in chaos, he still had no choice.

Let go.

Originally, according to Jiang Bin's plan, he would use his identity to erode the hearts of the instructors in the military academy bit by bit. After all, he is now Zhengde's number one favorite. As long as he makes a show, few people will refuse his solicitation.

Therefore, in just a few months, Jiang Bin recruited nearly half of the instructors from the military academy, and most of the rest are waiting and watching. Even as long as Xu Chu gives up the management power of the military academy, these people will immediately join him.

Jiang Bin.

But it is a pity that with the arrival of Zhou Zhong, Jiang Bin's invasion plan of the military academy was completely ruined. After all, no matter how favored he was, he could not compare with Zhou Zhong, so when Zhou Zhong expressed his desire to Zhengde

When it came time to take over the management of the military academy, Zhengde agreed without even thinking about it, and even encouraged Zhou Chong to learn more about the government so that he could help him share some of the pressure in the future.

Zhou Zhong knows Zhengde's thoughts better than anyone else. Now Zhengde is encouraged by Jiang Bin and has always wanted to go to Xuanfu. However, there is no shortage of people in the capital. It just so happens that Zhou Zhong, the newly-confessed

King Zhao is the most suitable candidate.

Of course, because Zhou Zhong had just arrived in the capital, Zhengde couldn't just let Zhou Zhong supervise the country on his behalf. At least he needed to familiarize Zhou Zhong with the affairs of the capital, and at the same time let the courtiers adapt to Zhou Zhong's existence, otherwise those ministers would be

I won't let him leave.

However, although Zhou Chong understood Zhengde's eagerness to leave the capital, he did not intend to really interfere in the government affairs as Zhengde hoped. After all, he was just a vassal king and not an emperor, and staying in the capital was already very suspicious.

If Zhou Chong intervened in the government affairs as soon as he arrived in the capital, he could be sure that Li Dongyang, Yang Ting and other ministers would definitely attack him.

So Zhou Chongzai discussed with Jiao Fang and planned to devote all his time in recent months to the military academy. After all, the military academy is different from ordinary court institutions. In name, the military academy was built with private money from Zhengde and was merged with the imperial court.

There is not much correlation, and the cadets in military academies have already learned the relevant

Over time, some of the accelerated classes are about to graduate. As long as these people successfully graduate and enter the army, the military academy will be equivalent to laying some foundations in the army. As time goes by, this foundation will become more and more important in the future.

Deeper and deeper until it grows into a towering tree.

The military academy was first proposed by Zhou Zhong, but he only proposed to build a naval military academy. This army military academy was the product of Zhengde's own flash of inspiration. Zhou Zhong was also very curious about it. He wanted to know what Zhengde would do without his own guidance.

How did he build the military academy? As a result, when he came to the gate of the military academy and saw the huge Zhengde cavalry building,

I was also surprised when I saw the knight statue of Zhengde. I didn’t expect that Zhengde had already learned how to conquer the mind. Every student could see the knight statue of Zhengde when passing the gate of the military academy. This virtually increased the prestige of Zhengde and at the same time increased the number of students.

Their loyalty to Zhengde, although this may be an unintentional act of Zhengde, still made Zhou Chong amazed.

Zhou Chong and Jiao Fang had just walked to the gate of the military academy when they saw an old man with white hair and several instructors from the military academy standing in front of the gate to greet him. No need to ask, the old man in front must be Wei Guogong Xu

However, what makes Zhou Chong feel strange is that he is also a prince after all. It is normal for Xu Yan to bring people out to greet him. However, there are too few instructors around Xu Yan. There are less than ten people left.
Chapter completed!