The imperial examinations continued as usual, and an unsuccessful coup d'état by the liberals made the king's purge of the liberals even more complete.

The positions left by the liberals were all filled by officials who passed the imperial examinations, one-third of the high-ranking positions were held by the administrators who had fled from the Ottoman Empire, and two-thirds were held by members of the natives' extended families.

This made the localists relatively satisfied, but this did not mean that the power of the localists at the local level was further strengthened, because the king had the sole power to appoint and dismiss all these officials, and he controlled the distribution of these personnel. In addition to the principle of arranging experienced administrative officials in important positions and leaving general positions to students with less administrative experience to accumulate experience, Zhou Chenggong also quietly promoted another principle, that is, the system of being officials in different places.

The Ottoman Empire sent a governor in Sofia to govern Greece, and the governor was divided into six districts, each of which was managed by a prominent local family in charge of taxation and security. As a result, six powerful local forces were formed, and their sons were the biggest beneficiaries of the imperial examination, so they chose to support the king in this coup, and when the king's counterinsurgency order was heard, they sent troops to suppress it.

However, they found that the king had placed none of the outstanding sons of their family in their own districts, and that the best were transferred to the central government, and the second were to serve in other political districts, and none of them were in their family's sphere of influence.

It is not enough to say that they are dissatisfied, because the local politics are controlled by these families, and their children go to serve in the spheres of influence of other famous families, and the children of other famous families will also enter their jurisdictions to serve, and everyone has an intricate relationship in the Ottoman era, and it is enough to take care of each other to solve the problem.

After the expulsion of the liberals, although Zhou's next goal was to limit the power of the local elites. However, under the current system, it is too difficult to complete the centralization of power. When the liberals were in power, they were also promoting Napoleon-style centralization, but even the president was assassinated, and the local forces were too entrenched.

The reason for these situations is that in addition to the strength of local tycoons like China to rely on the capital accumulation of land and clans, and in addition to the power accumulated by local nobles during the Ottoman Empire, in fact, the biggest obstacle is the parliamentary system in Greece.

As early as the beginning of the Greek War of Independence, local forces formed several local councils, with Greece as the center of the eastern region to form the Council of the Mount of Mars in the east, the Peloponnese Peninsula, the Continental Council in the west, and finally the parties united to form the National Assembly, these parliamentary seats must be held by local forces, the reason for the outbreak of the civil war that year was that the parliament removed the liberal President Capodiscolyas from office.

The civil war also ended in the victory of the local faction, and Capodiscolyas was captured. Had it not been for the fact that the local armed forces could not defeat the Ottoman army and were forced to release Capodiscolyas to re-lead the army, the liberals would have been suppressed at the beginning of the revolution. Through the revolution, Kapodiscolyas created a revolutionary army loyal to him, which allowed him to re-suppress the nativists after independence.

However, this kind of suppression is only at the central level, and local forces still control the local councils, and the central government cannot pour water into it, so it has no influence on the local government at all.

After attacking and replacing the liberals at this time, Zhou Chenggong still faced such a situation in which he had no control over the local area. Relying on the army to fight a civil war, he has no strength for the time being. Greece is heavily indebted, and the debt owed to the British financial group alone is as high as 300,000 pounds, and Greece's dilapidated finances make it difficult for him to repay interest every year.

In addition, Zhou Chenggong is still an ambitious and vengeful person, and he still needs to carry out a lot of construction. Thus, after successfully crowding out the influence of the liberals, he temporarily put aside the power struggle with the local forces and focused on economic development. In fact, this work has not been relaxed since he arrived in Greece, and the first officials he put into the liberal government were professional administrative officials in the field of economics and diplomacy, most of whom were sophisticated civil servants who had migrated from within the Ottoman Empire.

Due to the secession from the Ottoman Empire, the loss of trade advantages in the territory of the Ottoman Empire, so that the Greek economy is very weak, to solve this solution is not difficult, according to the situation, continue to promote Greece's advantageous industry shipping industry, do the Mediterranean and the Black Sea entrepot trade.

The area around the Black Sea is a famous grain producing area, Ukraine's grain can directly enter the Black Sea through the Don River and the Dnieper River, in the past, the Greeks monopolized the trade of grain here to the southern Mediterranean, France and Italy in the southern Mediterranean, the price of grain is much higher than that of Ukraine, so that this trade is very profitable, and promoted the rise of the Greek shipping industry, and now the Greeks have thousands of merchant ships, but most of them are only small ships under 600 tons, which are only used for short-distance trade around the Mediterranean.

Zhou Chenggong established a bank, the Bank of Greece, began printing paper money, and granted preferential loans to the shipping industry, allowing the advantageous industries to recover first.

He also established schools, some of which were modeled after the Chinese government schools for the training of professional civil servants, as well as specialized schools of law, normal schools, and nautical studies in European history, which were used to train professionals on a large scale.

Only when the shipping industry is restored can Greece's traditional industries, such as olive oil, raisins, cotton, wine, leather and wool, be restored.

During this time, Europe had just passed the chaotic 1820s, the revolutions in Spain, Italy, Portugal and other countries were suppressed successively, France smoothly transitioned to the moderate Orleans era, Belgium broke away from the Netherlands and became a country, and the Decembrists in Russia were suppressed without the conditions for success, and suddenly Europe was completely calm, and stability was the basis of economic development.

In this environment, the economic development of the entire European region and even the whole world has begun to turn into a period of stable growth, and even China has survived the economic crisis for more than two years, and various industries have re-entered the growth cycle. This environment provides a good opportunity for Greece, which is dominated by entrepot trade.

Both entrepot trade and local industries began to grow after political stability was restored. This was the most important reason why Zhou Chengcheng easily quelled the rebellion, because the rebels had no economic basis for the rebellion. The coup d'état did not affect the momentum of economic recovery, but it was based on the old industries of the Ottoman era, on which Greece could not get out of its current situation.

Zhou Chenggong needs to make Greece's economy stronger, and he needs to build a stronger industry in Greece.

Economic development can bring political rewards, which he learned from his father's reform in China, as a Chinese of this era, in fact, is not sensitive to local autonomy, as long as the local government does not hinder the central government, Zhou Chenggong is willing to share power with local forces.

The problem in Greece is that the local powers are so powerful that they even have their own independent armies, which is obviously unacceptable. But it can't change quickly, it can only be temporarily divided, through the development of industry in the big cities, so that the population is out of the countryside, the cities around Athens, the central government is still very strong, so Zhou Chenggong set out to build an industrial area around Athens.

He came from England, and he recognized the industrial development of Britain, and he also found that most of the industries that could be developed in Britain seemed to be able to develop in Greece, so he launched a list of key industries to support based on the experience of Britain.

In the early days of the British Industrial Revolution, there was only one advantageous industry, that is, the wool industry, and the quality of British woolen was world-renowned. Zhou Chenggong believes that the mountainous terrain of Greece is not suitable for agricultural production, and the Greeks also have a tradition of raising sheep, and the quality of Greek wool is okay.

So he based on the creation of a wool textile industry, from the United Kingdom to introduce the most advanced full set of wool textile machinery, Britain completed the industrial revolution, has opened the export of machinery, using this convenience, imported British machinery, to create a Greece's first large-scale modern wool textile factory, located in the convenient port of Piraeus.

Not only did he introduce British machinery and equipment, but he also introduced British high-quality breeding sheep, established a breeding factory, and promoted high-quality sheep in Greece. Zhou Chenggong does not want Greece to be just a wool exporter, he wants to export processed wool and wool textiles, so that the economic benefits are better.

At the same time, diplomatically, Zhou Chenggong quickly strengthened ties with China, the current economic hegemon in the Black Sea region, and used his status to personally visit China's Kazakh steppes to successfully persuade the local government to promote the wool industry and offer some Greek breeding experts.

Greece has a long tradition of sheep farming, and the groups that later promoted sheep farming in the steppe areas of the Soviet Union were all of Greek origin. Traditional cattle and sheep farming in Kazakhstan is mainly for meat, and there is no advanced wool textile industry in the region. It's a win-win partnership.

Zhou Chenggong also imported coarse wool from Kazakhstan to process carpets and other products for export to the European market. Under the key support policies, the industrial revolution in Greece was born first in the field of wool textile industry. The quality of the products and production increased rapidly, and they began to compete with the British for the European market.

Zhou Chenggong, who grew up in England, was not conservative, and the main purpose of his government-run factories was to promote technology, encourage local Greek wool textile workshops to introduce new technologies, and give preferential loans.

As a result of the loss of Australia, Britain did not obtain a steady supply of high-quality wool from Australia, as it had historically done, and as a result, the source of raw materials was soon crushed by Greece, which could obtain raw materials from the nearby Central Asian steppes. Cheap Kazakh wool was processed in Greece and marketed to the European market, squeezing the sales of British products. Let a large number of low-end British wool textile industry begin to be unable to survive.