I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 897 Shocked and Dazed

Now that Zhou Chen's job has finally seen the light of day, in his opinion, there is nothing more important than this.

But no matter what, Li Tian's order is something he dare not disobey.

He quickly waved his hand and kicked everyone out.

After the gate was closed, Zhou Chen looked decent and was just about to kneel down to receive the imperial edict.

Yang Suwen hastily stopped him.

"My lord, what your majesty came down this time is not a decree, but a secret letter of Taoism, so there is no need for such a big gift."

Zhou Chen smiled awkwardly and didn't insist.

Yang Suwen took out the secret letter from his pocket and handed it over.

Yang Suwen had already translated the contents of the secret letter, even when he saw it himself, he was very surprised.

Surprised, he didn't even dare to tell the prince and others about this matter, for fear that if the news leaked out, it would cause irreversible consequences.

At first, he didn't understand why Li Tian wanted to tell himself and Zhou Chen such an important matter, but he didn't intend to tell Zhu Zhanji and others.

After more than half a day of thinking, he finally figured it out.

First of all, the fewer people who know about this matter, the better. If it can be known one day later, it must be delayed for one more day.

Secondly, for the time being, this matter has nothing to do with Ma Dazhong's matter, so even if they knew about it, it would not be of much help to the task at hand.

Instead of letting their own people mess up first, it's better to just hide it from them.

The last and most important point is that Li Tian revealed this news to the two of them just to let them find a way to stabilize Liu Bian and other insiders.

The negotiations between Zhou Chen and Liu Bian and others this time are extremely important, and may even be related to whether the entire Nanjing and even the Ming Dynasty can continue to be stable.

Therefore, Li Tian took the risk and told them this top secret matter, in order to let them make all preparations before the negotiation.

Otherwise, Liu Bian and others will catch him by surprise. In fact, it's not about losing everything.

Yang Suwen was shocked for a long time anyway.

He has temporarily escaped from this shocking information.

But Zhou Chen just found out at this time.

He glanced at ten lines, and quickly read one side of the secret letter.

However, after he saw the key information in the letter, he couldn't help but exclaimed, his hands trembling, and he said to Yang Suwen,

"Yang...Brother Yang! This officer is not mistaken, Your Majesty... He actually intends to cancel the accompanying capital of Nanjing and completely disband the Six Departments of Nanjing!"

Yang Suwen nodded slightly, and said calmly,

"That's right, Your Majesty does mean that!
After I learned the news at the time, I also thought that I misunderstood His Majesty's meaning. I even suspected that this was a secret letter written by someone else pretending to be Your Majesty.

But after careful identification, I found that this is indeed from the head of His Majesty, it is absolutely true! "

After getting Yang Suwen's confirmation.

Zhou Chen seemed to lose all his strength, and fell onto the chair all of a sudden, unable to straighten up for a long time.

"How did this happen? Why did Your Majesty do this? What is all this for?"

Yang Suwen shook his head lightly and said,

"Until now, I haven't thought about why His Majesty made such a decision.

But since His Majesty has made a decision, this matter is almost a foregone conclusion.

What we have to do now is how to get more benefits for the imperial court from this matter, and minimize the impact of this huge turmoil that is destined to sweep the entire city of Nanjing. "

After a long time, Zhou Chen finally recovered a little bit.

With trembling hands slightly, he read the secret letter back and forth carefully several times, after repeatedly confirming that the letter was not a forgery.

Zhou Chen was completely resigned to his fate.

As a civil servant, he was justifiably named as the imperial official of the governor of Nanzhili.

He was very proud of it, but he also felt pressured.

In fact, when he took over this official position, he had already figured it out. This was destined to be an extremely difficult battle.

However, even if he tried his best, he might not be able to completely control Nanzhili in his own hands.

I didn't see that such a powerful Ma Dazhong stayed in the defensive position of Nanjing for seven or eight years, but he only controlled half of the officials in Nanjing City, and he was far from fully controlling Nanjing City!
Among them, it wasn't that Ma Dazhong was weak and didn't want to completely control the city of Nanjing.

It's that he simply can't do it.

Not to mention, to continue to expand, many nobles in Nanjing agree with each other. Even if he has the ability to subdue all the nobles, he may not dare to do so.

By the same token, even though Zhou Chen is far superior to Ma Dazhong not only in power but also in the scope of duties, he still has no confidence to completely control Nanjing City.

At the time, he didn't quite understand why Li Tian put him in such an embarrassing position.

Isn't this equivalent to putting him on the fire?

No matter how strong I am and how sharp my wrist is, can I beat Ma Dazhong?Can do better than him.

How could he do things that he couldn't do even after so many years, how could he do them just better than him, and take on responsibilities that were several times heavier than him.

But now he understood.

It turned out that when Li Tian accepted his position as the governor of Nanzhili, he was already considering canceling Nanjing's status as the accompanying capital.

At that time, Nanjing will become a different city, and the honorables will no longer have privileges here. Only then will he be able to truly take charge of the entire Nanzhili.

"It turns out that His Majesty didn't intend to let me achieve any great achievements before this decision was announced.

Your Majesty is using this official as a shield to play a game of shocking chess! "

Yang Suwen saw that Zhou Chen seemed to be insane and started talking nonsense, he couldn't help shaking his head slightly.

There is no way, no matter who knows, after this news, knowing that he is actually just a pawn used as a pawn to deceive others, he will probably not be in a good mood.

But this critical moment is not the time for Zhou Chen to feel sorry for himself.

He took a deep breath, stepped forward and said to Zhou Chen,

"My lord, you can't think like that.

The reason why His Majesty did this is because of his own considerations.

The reason why the city of Nanjing is corrupted to the point where it is now is inseparable from the fact that the honorable men have got their hands on nearly [-]% of the industry in the entire city of Nanjing. "

(End of this chapter)