The unreasonable law locked the dragon of the Ming Dynasty like chains, while the corruption of the administration was like a virus, eroding the body of the Ming Dynasty little by little. The entire Ming Dynasty had been tortured by this mortal enemy before.

It's almost dead. Fortunately, Zhou Chong's arrival has brought him some vitality. If he wants to fully recover, he must get rid of these two root causes, otherwise he will never want the Ming Dynasty to break out of the prosperity and decline.

Vicious circle.

Although Zhengde also agreed with Zhou Chong's opinion, he did not want to tie himself to the government, so he told Zhou Chong that if he wanted to reform, he would change it himself. He would give Zhou Chong the corresponding power, as for himself

, then he had to live the life he wanted since childhood, so later things happened. Now that Zhengde has left the capital, the power of the entire Ming Dynasty has been temporarily handed over to Zhou Chong. As for how he will use it

, that's not about Zhengde's business.

It's funny to say that Zhengde is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The entire Ming Dynasty is actually his, but Zhengde is a heartless guy. In his opinion, the country of Ming Dynasty is far less important than his own travels and wars, so although he is clear

I know that there are many problems in the Ming Dynasty, but I don’t care at all. On the contrary, Zhou Chong, the younger brother, cares about the Ming Dynasty very much, and it is a bit inaccurate to say this. Zhou Chong actually cares about the Ming Dynasty, but the welfare of the people of the world.

, He didn't want to wait until decades later, the entire China would become the hands of barbarians again.

To eliminate the ills of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to mastering the highest power of the Ming Dynasty, the most important thing is to have a group of loyal subordinates. Therefore, the first thing Zhou Chong did after becoming a state-controlled country was to promote Jiao Fang to a cabinet minister again.

. Then Jiao Fang secretly reached an agreement with Wang Qiong. As a result, there were two people in the cabinet for him to drive, and the officials contacted by Wang Qiong and Jiao Fang, which made Zhou Chong have a

A considerable force.

At Jiao Fang's age, Zhou Chong was a little worried that he would not be able to do it. After all, the affairs of the cabinet are notoriously heavy. Jiao Fang is already in his eighties. Although he is getting stronger, it is really too much to enter the cabinet again at this age.

As he was old, Jiao Fang promised Zhou Chong with great confidence. Although he was old, he was full of energy and would never miss things because of his age.

Seeing Jiao Fang eager to join the cabinet again, Zhou Chong had no choice. After all, thanks to Jiao Fang's advice around him in recent years, he calculated that he had worked hard and made great contributions, so in the end Zhou Chong could only ask Zhengde for help.

Jiao Fang entered the cabinet again. However, Zhou Chong did not put all his bets on Jiao Fang's guarantee. He had already given orders to Wang Shouren and Zhang Cai from Nanyang to arrange the affairs of the Sihai Governor's Office.

Hurry up to the capital and there will be new appointments for them.

Speaking of which, since the Ming Dynasty's navy defeated the invading Portuguese fleet, the entire Indian coast has also fallen into the hands of the Ming Dynasty. Although the Portuguese still occupied the east coast of Africa, they were unable to compete with the Ming Dynasty's navy. After all, the national strength of the two countries

Not to mention the same level, Portugal is hundreds of times different from the Ming Dynasty in terms of population alone, not to mention that the territory of the Ming Dynasty is extremely vast, but the small Portugal is not as good as a governor of the Ming Dynasty.

big.

It is precisely because of the above that Zhou Chong knew that in the next time, the Ming Dynasty's navy should not be under much threat. Even if the Portuguese Kingdom can send a navy to the Indian Ocean again, I am afraid that I will not dare to use the Ming Dynasty.

After all, with the national strength of the Portuguese, all the two fleets organized by the previous group were annihilated. If they wanted to organize another stronger fleet, they could not support them with their national strength.

Since there is no threat at the sea for the time being, the Sihai Governor's Office does not need to be watched by talents like Wang Shouren and Zhang Cai. Among them, Wang Shouren is the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet appointed by Zhou Zhong. After all, this person not only has outstanding talents, but also

He can also understand his ambitions best. With him in the cabinet, Zhou Chong's reform can be implemented smoothly. As for Zhang Cai, this person's talent is still above Wang Shouren, but unfortunately he is a complete villain. Zhou Chong

I was very worried about putting him in the Governor's Office in the Four Seas. In the past, there was supervision from Wang Shouren. Now that I want to transfer Wang Shouren back, Zhang Cai can no longer stay overseas, and it is better to be more at ease in front of him.

As for who will take over the Governor's Office after Wang Shouren left, Zhou Chong was also very worried about this. After all, there are many maritime affairs, which is related to the current financial lifeline of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, the Governor's Office leads three major fleets, so it can be said that there are

There is also someone else's money. If it is handed over to a wolf-like ambitious person, then there will be civil strife in the Ming Dynasty, so you must choose a loyal person to take responsibility. However, loyalty alone is not enough. If you want to be competent for the position of governor, you must have had it.

Human talent.

There are many loyal people, and there are many who can be competent for the position of governor, but it is not easy to find people who have both. Especially Zhou Chong not only needs to take over as governor, but also needs to meet the above two conditions, but the most important one.

He still needs to obey his own command, which is also his little selfishness. After all, the Governor's Mansion is the foundation he has built and the foundation of his own foothold. He doesn't want to make wedding dresses for others for nothing.

In order to find a suitable candidate for governor, Zhou Chong thought about it for several days, and finally slapped his forehead and cursed himself in a daze. Since he couldn't find a suitable candidate for governor, he wouldn't find it, whether it was Taiwan or

After several years of development, there has been a large number of Han people living there, and the Ming Dynasty's rule there has also stabilized. In this way, there is no need to set up a governor to take charge, but it can be directly classified as

In the formal territory of the Ming Dynasty, the governor and envoy were established to manage government affairs. As for the navy, it was directly led by the royal family and treated the same as the imperial guards.

Thinking of this, Zhou Chong was also shocked. The Governor was originally a temporary position, mainly to manage those remote frontiers. Various emergencies often occur in those places, so a minister in charge of military and political affairs must act cheaply.

Now that the rule of Nanyang has stabilized, it is time to abolish the post of Governor General of the Four Seas.

As a supervisor, Zhou Chong would deal with all government affairs as long as he did not rebel. Therefore, at the court meeting two days later, Zhou Chong officially proposed the idea of ​​abolishing the Sihai Governor's Office. In fact, the cabinet also held the position of the Sihai Governor's Office, which was held by the military and political affairs.

There are quite some complaints, after all, this position is rich and has soldiers. If it rebels, the entire Ming Dynasty will probably suffer. It is just that the Governor's Office of the Four Seas was founded by Zhou Chong, so if they directly raised it, it may cause Zhou Chong.

With Zhou Chong's current power, no one would easily offend him except those who have no brains.

But now it's different. Zhou Chong took the initiative to propose to abolish the position of governor of the Four Seas, which was exactly the same as the cabinet's intention, so Yang Ting and those people agreed without even thinking about it. Moreover, they might be afraid that Zhou Chong would regret it, so they should

This matter is very concerned. In just a few months, the places under the governor's office of the Sihai were divided into several governors, namely, Taiwan, Jinzhou, Java, Borneo and Malay five governors, namely Taiwan, Jinzhou, Java, Borneo and Malay

Although there are not many people under these governors, their products are extremely rich, especially spices and precious woods, which are very intimate commodities in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, if we talk about per capita wealth, these overseas cloths

The Political and Envoys were at the forefront in the Ming Dynasty.

Just as Zhou Chong was busy decentralizing the Ministry of Political Affairs overseas, Wang Shouren and Zhang Cai finally came to the capital. Zhou Chong also attached great importance to these two subordinates who were very capable of using them. Among them, Wang Shouren was old.

Therefore, he was promoted to the left minister of the Ministry of War by Zhou Chong and became Wang Qiong's deputy. As for Zhang Cai, when Liu Jin was in power, he had already served as the Minister of Personnel. However, the current Minister of Personnel was Yang Yiqing.

Zhou Chong respects this Yang Yiqing who is both literary and martial, and is actively trying to join his camp, so Zhang Cai cannot be his Minister of Personnel again, and his current name is not Zhang Cai.

, but named Zhang Yu, so he could only use Zhang Yu's name in the end and become the Left Minister like Wang Shouren, but he still served in the Ministry of Personnel. After all, Zhang Cai is more familiar with the Ministry of Personnel than anyone else.

Wang Shouren and Zhang Cai are two completely different people. This can be seen from their performance after entering Beijing. For example, after Zhang Cai returned to the capital again, he immediately paid homage to Zhou Chong, not only gave him many valuable gifts.

, and at the same time, he also said in his words that he would follow His Highness Zhao's leader, and even said nakedly that since Zhou Chong supervised the country, the atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty has changed, and the people of the world have also shouted that King Zhao's wisely,

Save all people in the fire and water.

For Zhang Cai's loyalty or encourage Zhou Chong to usurp the throne, Zhou Chong simply thought he was farting, and even scolded Zhang Cai sternly, asking him to control his mouth. Zhang Cai smiled and looked at this.

He seemed to think that Zhou Chong was just pretending to behave so as not to be bad for his reputation if it spreads out in the future.

Zhou Chong had already expected the behavior of a villain like Zhang Cai. In contrast, Wang Shouren's performance made Zhou Chong more relieved, because as soon as the other party entered Beijing, he immediately came to the Zhao Wang Mansion and then directly asked Zhou Chong to become a prisoner.

Zhou Chong did not hide the plan of the country from this, directly pointing out the corruption and disastrousness outside the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty. Since he became the governor of the Ming Dynasty, he would not let this situation go. The Ming Dynasty should have some changes.

It's time.

After hearing Zhou Chong's thoughts, Wang Shouren immediately stood up and bowed, and then solemnly stated that as long as Zhou Chong has the determination to reform, even if he is criticized by thousands of people, he will firmly support Zhou Chong to move forward!
Chapter completed!