Smuggling Daming

The chat with Jiao Fang in the Wanghai Garden made Jiao Fang completely return to Zhou Zhong, and began to do her best to assist Zhou Zhong to complete the future layout of Daming. All of Jiao Fang's disciples began to gather from Daming to Shuangyu for a while. Hong Kong, after all, since the fall of Jiao Fang, they have had a hard time. Many people have even been implicated and dismissed from office, so they can only return to their hometowns 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's family entering the Governor's Mansion, this made Zhang Cai very anxious. After all, the officialdom always pays attention to forming cliques. No matter how strong his personal ability is, if he doesn't If other people help, it can't accomplish anything at all, so he also started to gather some old friends from his past, and started to compete with Jiao Fang's people.

Strictly speaking, Zhang Cai can also be regarded as a student of Jiao Fang who is a backward student. The reason why Zhang Cai and Liu Jin were able to get acquainted at the beginning was thanks to Jiao Fang's support and introduction. However, Zhang Cai has great ambitions. , he thought of replacing him, so Zhang Cai had already set up his own school, and the former disciples were no less than Jiao Fang.

But it's a pity that most of Zhang Cai's old stories are related to Liu Jin. Now he is dead and exiled. There are not many people who can rush to Shuangyu Port, so they can't compete with Jiao Fang's family for the time being. , This also made Zhang Cai hold his breath, and began to desperately express himself in front of Zhou Zhong, hoping to overwhelm Jiao Fang by himself, so that the shortcomings of his own lack of people can be made up for.

Zhou Zhong saw Zhang Cai's actions and thoughts.Even in all fairness, Zhang Cai did better than Jiao Fang. After all, Jiao Fang is too old and unable to do many things, but Zhou Zhong has no intention of promoting Zhang Cai, because he knows people like Zhang Cai A person can only use his talents, but he must not be allowed to gain power, otherwise he, the governor, may be ostracized by Zhang Cai.So although he gave Zhang Cai a lot of rewards for his performance, Jiao Fang would get the same reward every time, which made Zhang Cai's wholehearted plan to overwhelm Jiao Fang repeatedly frustrated.

The arrival of Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai lightened most of Zhou Zhong's burden, and at the same time, the operation of the Governor's Mansion was finally on the right track. He finally didn't have to spend too much energy on government affairs, and could spend more time with his family .By the way, let's think about his layout for Daming in three directions.

However, the arrival of Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai is not entirely a good thing. For example, they also arranged their old servants in 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 a good thing, especially since Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai are both from the north, they are very repulsive to the officials in the south.As a result, this also caused confrontation between the North and South officials in the Governor's Mansion, and even several small conflicts have occurred.

Speaking of the North-South War.This did not only appear in later generations. In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, disputes between the north and the south had already appeared. This situation first appeared in the officialdom. When Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty and regained the northern homeland lost by the former Song Dynasty, here The Han Chinese have been devastated by countless wars for hundreds of years.In particular, the inheritance of civilization is even more vital.The most direct manifestation is that the talents and learning of scholars in the north are inferior to those in the south. There was even a test, and all the students admitted to the list were from the south.

Regarding this situation, the emperor in the early Ming Dynasty was also very distressed. After all, no matter whether the southerners or the northerners, they were all citizens of the Ming Dynasty. If all the southerners were officials in the court, it would be unfair to the northerners, so Later, they simply set up two rankings in the north and the south. Every time they take the test, the north and the south are admitted separately, and the admission ratio often changes, but generally speaking, it is always guaranteed that someone from both the north and the south can become an official. , but also to learn from the imperial examination system of Ming Dynasty.

It is also because of this separate examination between the north and the south that the result is that the officialdom is divided into two factions, the north and the south. Southern officials and northern officials do not like each other. There are even high-ranking officials from the south who promote the southerners, and senior officials from the north. The situation of the northerners.And generally speaking, scholars in the south are indeed superior in terms of knowledge, so the officialdom is generally dominated by southerners.

For example, Jiao Fang suffered from this kind of discrimination between the north and the south. He could have entered the capital as an official based on his political achievements when he was young, but because the several officials were all from the south, he was severely suppressed. This made him very angry, which also made Jiao Fang suppress the officials in the south after he gained power, which also made him many enemies. The reputation is not good.

It is also worth mentioning that one of the reasons why Jiao Fang colluded with Liu Jin at the beginning was that Liu Jin was also a northerner, and the two had to face a large group of southern officials in officialdom, such as Li Dongyang and Xie Qian. They are all representatives of southern officials, so the two of them are natural allies.Later, before Jiao Fang fell from power, he deliberately increased the admission rate of scholars in his hometown. As a result, this became an excuse for southern officials to attack him later.

It can be said that the north-south dispute in the officialdom has a long history, ranging from high-ranking officials in the court to officials under the state capital. This kind of dispute between north-south officials exists. Zhou Zhong's Governor's Mansion is no exception. Most of the officials were mobilized from Ningbo and its vicinity, most of them were from the south, and there were very few officials from the north, so naturally there was no fight.

However, with the arrival of Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai, the northern officials gained momentum and gradually began to control most of the power in the Governor's Mansion. This naturally made the southern officials very dissatisfied, such as Yang Tong, who was the chief envoy, 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 mansion were quickly suppressed by northern officials Downwind, unable to move for a while.

Zhou Zhong was also very entangled in the North-South dispute in the Governor's Mansion. He was a northerner in his last life, but he lived in the South for quite a long time.As for this life, he lived in the south since he was a child, but he is Zhengde's younger brother, so he is also a northerner, which makes him don't know who to help. In addition, he has always been very opposed to this kind of regional disputes. After all, everyone is an official of Ming Dynasty, so there is no need to argue over such trivial matters.

It's a pity that although Zhou Zhong thinks that the North-South dispute is a trivial matter, Jiao Fang and Yang Tong don't think so, especially Jiao Fang, because he has been treated unfairly by southern officials before, which makes him very hostile to southern officials. If Zhong's status is too high, I'm afraid he will be hostile to Zhou Zhong, so it is difficult to resolve the conflict between officials from the north to the south.

It is impossible for Zhou Zhong to just watch his subordinates fight among themselves, and one side still has the absolute advantage. After all, Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai are on the same front in this point. The officials couldn't stand it anymore and handed in their resignation to Zhou Zhong. Although Zhou Zhong calmed him down temporarily, it was not a solution for a long time.

So under such circumstances, Zhou Zhong could think of a way to balance the power of the northern and southern officials in the governor's mansion, in other words, to introduce one or a few 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 and powerful people in the court, and it is impossible for him to come to serve in the governor's mansion.

However, this is not absolute. For example, there are some people who have outstanding talents in history but are not well-known now. These people are all potential stocks in Zhou Zhong's eyes. To leave a name in the history is naturally not an easy generation, at least it should not be a problem to compete with Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai.

Born in the south, and with outstanding talents in history, the most rare thing is that he is not well-known now. The first thing Zhou Zhong thinks of is Wang Yangming, who is famous in history. The figures of Confucius, Mencius, and Zhu Xi can be said to be the most dazzling figures in the entire Ming Dynasty. Throughout the 5000-year history of the Central Plains, there is only such a Wang Yangming, and he is the only undisputed one. The sage, and even the entire Ming Dynasty became dazzling because of Wang Yangguang. For such a person, Zhou Zhong will always remember it in his heart.

Speaking of which, when Zhou Zhong first became the governor of the world, he wanted to transfer Wang Yangguang to his subordinates 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. And he has been serving in the Ministry of War. If he can have someone like Wang Yangming to help him, he will be more confident in defeating the Portuguese.

However, after serious consideration, Zhou Zhong decided not to disturb Wang Yangming for the time being, because at that time Wang Yangming was demoted to Longchang because he offended Liu Jin. , This is the famous "Longchang Enlightenment" in history.

Zhou Zhongsheng was afraid that his arrival would disturb Wang Yangming's enlightenment, so he endured it. After all, Wang Yangming is different from Tang Bohu. He can change Tang Bohu's life trajectory, making the world less a peerless painter, but more one who is a man of the world. In Zhou Zhong's opinion, officials are more practical.But Wang Yangming's philosophy of mind is enough to change the thinking of the world, especially the thinking of those scholars in Ming Dynasty. Although Zhou Zhong is not qualified to judge whether this change is good or bad, he knows that it represents the Chinese nation's understanding and thinking about the world, and even can affect the future direction of history. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)