The approach he adopted was simple, administrative reform! He constantly explained that the selection of suitable talents through open and fair examinations is more efficient and fairer than the traditional recommendation system.

These arguments are very marketable among the bourgeoisie, and in addition to the spiritual ideas, they also echo the interests of the bourgeoisie, because their descendants are the best educated, and if they pass the examinations, their descendants are more likely to become the ruling class.

Although there was pressure from the local nativists, they were not outright against it, because they were numerically superior and their children were relatively systematically educated, far larger than the unstable Greek bourgeoisie.

Use the general trend of administrative reform to suppress the liberals and support the promising next generation of localists to take power, and these young people who passed the examination to come to power are the real foundation of Zhou Chenggong, because he has the power to take the exam, so he has the loyalty of these people. In addition, he also needs to use power tricks to make it impossible for these people to form forces at the bottom.

The anti-corruption led to the dismissal of a large number of corrupt officials, and vacant positions began to be selected through a unified examination, with a complex composition of examiners, the most of which were of course nativists, but did not refuse foreign nationals, Greek immigrants from Ottoman territory to take the exams.

This basically moved the Chinese imperial examination system to Greece, and the imperial examination system had a very good reputation in Europe, and out of criticism of the rule of the aristocracy, the elites of the Renaissance and Enlightenment often sang the praises of the imperial examination system. The disadvantages of this system are actually huge, but at least the current Greeks can't find fault with them.

As a result, Zhou Chenggong quickly installed some key departments with real power on these students who came out of the exam, of course, he is not a fool, it is really unstable to let a group of students who don't know anything hold these real power positions. All those who passed the examination were personally interviewed by him, in order to strengthen his influence on these officials. Second, he really needs to have an interview, and select those who are sure to be capable, and the selection of talents is the original intention of the imperial examination system, of course, as a king, anything can become a political tool, and the political power of the imperial examination is beyond imagination.

The Greeks don't know this, but Zhou Chenggong knows it. There was a female emperor in Chinese history, that is, Wu Zetian, this is a phenomenon that ordinary people can not understand at all, why in the Tang Dynasty, the strong Tang people were able to accept a woman as the emperor, in the era of male superiority and inferiority, even the weak Song people could not accept a woman riding on the head of a man, let alone the Tang people.

Zhou Chenggong, who is familiar with traditional political science such as Zizhi Tongjian and New and Old Tang Books, knows the truth, and the reason comes from the imperial examination system. Before the Sui and Tang dynasties, China's popular political talent selection model was called the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, which was first established in the Cao Pi era during the Three Kingdoms period. The method is to select officials who are virtuous, insightful, preputable, and good at identifying talented people in each prefecture and county to serve as "zhongzheng," visit and evaluate people in the prefectures and counties, and divide them into nine categories, such as upper, upper, middle, lower, middle, lower, and lower, as the basis for conferring officials by the ministry.

This is similar to the recommendation system in the West, where the government selects staff and is recommended by nobles or officials. This kind of referral system has been preserved in Europe and has spread so much that it is difficult for not only government officials but also ordinary employees to get a job in the next company if they do not get a recommendation letter from their previous employer before leaving their job.

In ancient China, this system was implemented for a long time, in order to ensure that the government would not be monopolized by the so-called "local virtuous" with the right to select officials. But in a humane and patriarchal society, favoritism cannot be avoided. As a result, the implementation of this system later evolved into the phenomenon of selecting officials only from famous families, resulting in the monopoly of power of famous families with "no poor family in the upper class, and no family in the lower class", and China began to enter the era of gate valves.

Therefore, a fairer imperial examination system was born later, starting from the Sui Dynasty at the earliest. But the history of the Sui Dynasty was too short for the system to exert its power. In the Tang Dynasty, the power of the gate valve was still very strong, and in the early Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin compiled the world's famous family grades, and the grades of many Shandong big families were even higher than those of the Li Tang royal family. The eldest grandson Wuji, who followed the Li Tang royal family, and other Guanlongmen lords even monopolized the official positions of the imperial court, forming a trend that could not be dropped.

Li Shimin's generation of heroes insisted on adopting the imperial examination selection system, and every time he saw the phenomenon of scholars from all over the world enthusiastically participating in the college entrance examination, he would sigh with joy, "The heroes of the world are all in my ranks"! In this exclamation, in addition to the desire for talents of the majestic emperor, I am afraid that it also contains the concern about the monopoly of power by the gate valve.

After Li Shimin's accumulation, the positions in the Tang Dynasty government began to monopolize from the gate valve, and gradually turned to the mastery of the poor family from the imperial examination. In the era of Wu Zetian, the strength of the Hanmen scholars could already compete with the gate valve, but the gate valve forces still controlled the high-level positions with the help of historical advantages. At this time, Wu Zetian and his wife began to eradicate the forces of the eldest grandson Wuji and other gate lords, and they all used Hanmen scholars. It is precisely because of Wu Zetian's alliance with the imperial examination scholars and through the common enemy gate lord power that she has accumulated the political power to rule the world as a woman.

Zhou Chenggong's method of using the imperial examination to deal with liberals and localists was in the right direction. It's a pity that Wu Zetian borrowed the strength of the poor talents who had been reserved for countless imperial examinations in the Li Shimin era, but Zhou Chenggong hoped to finish his work and pass the imperial examination once, so that these new classes could help him take power.

And he focused on cracking down on liberals, one by one incompetent liberal officials were dismissed, and then very carefully replaced with those imperial examination scholars with administrative experience, and among these scholars, Zhou Chenggong preferred to use the children of those local big families, hoping to get the support of the localists.

Zhou's successful radical measures have stimulated the liberals, and it is not for nothing that the liberals have been able to suppress the localists all these years. Although those revolutionary meritorious figures were full of ugliness in their administrative positions, there was an unavoidable reality that they had a great influence on the army.

After Zhou succeeded in mercilessly dismissing several officials who had made meritorious contributions in the revolution, the liberals finally chose to fight back, and they launched an army to besiege the temporary imperial palace of Athens: the mansion of a wealthy merchant!

Perestroika led to a coup d'état, and with a high probability of bloodshed again, the news quickly spread around the world. Because if a Chinese prince dies in a coup d'état in Greece, the consequences are unpredictable.

Some of the cutting-edge officials who supported Zhou Chenggong were very frightened, and went into the palace to lobby the king to negotiate peace with the rebels, and Zhou Chenggong accepted the proposal for peace talks, but he still took a tough attitude in the negotiations, and replaced incompetent officials, which made sense in any sense, and he resolutely refused to compromise with the liberals.

Instead, he demanded that the liberals abandon this illegitimate method, and he pledged not to hold the rebel troops accountable, as well as to pardon the crimes of the officers involved. Obviously, his tough attitude is impossible for liberals to accept. Thus began the assault on the Imperial Palace.

At this time, the officials around Zhou Chenggong were even more frightened, they didn't quite understand why the king was tough. The king, on the contrary, comforted them, "but the death throes of a group of desperate gamblers, and such a rebellion is not worth worrying about at all." ”

His self-confidence was justified, his three thousand mercenaries were well-armed and well-trained, the officers among them had been tempered by a long period of suppression of rebellion, and the soldiers were reliable Cretan Greeks.

In any case, the rebels could not be so psychologically open-minded, and no matter how their officers instilled in them the rationale of the revolution, it was difficult for the lowest soldiers to accept that a well-known king and his wife were Chinese spies or puppets of the Ottoman Empire.

The lowest soldiers saw that the king and his wife had visited their barracks many times, sympathized with their living conditions, and allocated funds for them to build decent barracks, while the king and his wife themselves had not even built a royal palace.

Rebellions driven by profit-driven officers are generally difficult to succeed unless there is a disparity in strength.

The progress of the rebel offensive was slow, and more than 10,000 Greek revolutionary troops attacked the palace defended by 3,000 men, but they could not take it for a long time.

At this time, the local armies began to march east of the capital, the military tribes of Epirus, and the native armies of the Peloponnese, all of which were advancing towards Greece.

Within a month, the armies had reached the outskirts of Athens, the liberal chiefs announced their acceptance of the king's terms, the rebel chiefs ordered the soldiers to lay down their arms, and a group of liberal dignitaries left Athens by boat and went into exile in the West.

The king walked out of the palace and addressed the rebels who had laid down their arms, declaring that they were all being coerced, that they were only carrying out orders, and that they were not guilty of any crime. Tell the soldiers to rest assured that they will not be punished and prosecuted in any way. Then gather all the middle and high-ranking officers in the army, and there is no need to be polite to these people, and they will all be removed from their posts and imprisoned.

Zhou Chenggong first appeased the remaining middle- and low-ranking officers and ordinary soldiers, and then knew that the local religious leaders had come to visit them, assuring them of the king's mercy and hoping that they would not betray the king again. Only then did Zhou Chenggong send officers from his own guard to take over the Greek army. Under the king's leniency and the coercion of the local armed forces that surrounded Greece, as well as the softening of the spirit of the religious leaders, the middle and lower rank officers obeyed the king's orders and were willing to obey the high-ranking generals sent by the king.

A coup d'état not only failed to remove the king, but instead gave the king greater prestige, and at the same time gave him control of the Greek army formed during the war.

The king then met with the leaders of the local "captivators", and then the local army withdrew from Athens and returned to its original position.

The nativists and the king have joined forces to get rid of the liberals who have been pressing on their heads for a long time, but there is no room for two tigers in one mountain, and there are no more than two sharks in this small pond in Greece, and what the nativists don't know is that their king's next target has fallen on them.