Zhou's successful landing in Greece, like Otto I, was escorted by the fleets of Britain, France and Russia, not that the three countries supported him so much, but that this was symbolic, at least the British could not accept the fleet of European companies escorting Zhou Chenggong.

He was still accompanied by 3,000 soldiers, but unlike the Bavarian army led by Otto I, Zhou Chenggong brought Greek troops. To be precise, it was a mercenary of the Greeks he recruited in Crete with the help of European companies.

Although there were always rebellious Greeks in Crete, the system of self-government was supported by the majority, so there was no shortage of supporters among the Greeks in Crete. The officers were selected from the sons of large local families loyal to the company, and the soldiers were Greek civilians from stable regions, and basic loyalty was guaranteed.

Such a Greek army entered Greece and deliberately wore traditional Greek clothing so that the Greeks would not feel oppressed.

After landing in Greece, the first thing Zhou Chenggong did was not to build a palace, but to win over local forces. First and foremost was the religious power, and he frequently met with religious figures from all over the world at his temporary residence in Athens. After the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence, the Ottoman Empire's response was extreme, and in the process of repression, it even adopted a policy of genocide, such as the massacre of Caios, in which the Ottoman army slaughtered all babies under the age of 3, men over the age of 12, and women over the age of 40 on the island. About 50,000 people were killed and 50,000 were sold into slavery. This practice was not directed against the Greeks, but rather as a tradition, or rather a traditional form of rule by the nomadic tribes of Central Asia, which had been the case since the time of Genghis Khan, and men with no wheels higher than the wheel would remain.

This policy of slaughter did terrify the rulers of the conquered regions, but the Ottoman Empire's retaliatory measures against the Greek religion were foolish. Not only did they retaliate by massacring the Greeks in Istanbul, but they also executed the Orthodox Patriarch, Gregory V. But this Gregory V, who had always been an opponent of the revolution, immediately announced the excommunication of all the rebels when the revolution broke out. It is definitely not the right thing to do to kill such a religious leader who cooperates with him. On the contrary, it strengthened the determination of the Greek forces to resist and completely got rid of the control of the Ottoman Empire over the Greek religious forces.

Zhou Chenggong fully affirmed the power of religion, he did not show his piety in front of these patriarchs, because his conversion was only seen by the highest ordinary people, and it was impossible for these religious people to believe in these things, for them, Zhou Chenggong's willingness to convert was more of a political symbol, which was good for Zhou Chenggong and good for the authority of religion, so when they were electing, they mobilized a large number of voters to support Zhou Chenggong and his wife, and of course the donations that Zhou Chenggong sprinkled were also the reason.

After religion, there are liberals and nativists, liberals have always held the central power, but the central power without the support of local power is like a rootless pine; The localists, on the other hand, controlled local power, but were constantly suppressed by the central power, much to their dissatisfaction.

Zhou Chenggong could not satisfy the thirst for power of all factions, he only promised to maintain the status quo for the time being, he needed stability.

After obtaining the basic recognition of these forces, Zhou Chenggong began to cultivate his own forces, he wanted to master the country of Greece and realize his ambition to make contributions in his heart, naturally it was impossible to wander between various forces like this all the time and become a mascot, he had already done enough mascots, he needed to become the master.

He knows how to endure and wait for opportunities. So he was very low-key, he pushed his wife Connie in the foreground, and he silently retreated into the background. When he appeared in public, he always stood in the back of his wife's side. Together with his wife, he visited orphans in the church's charity hall and went to the slums to greet the people and bring them food and medicine. He was frequently active among ordinary Greeks, spending money in newspapers to promote his wife's kindness. He dressed himself up as a shadow, a puppet who didn't threaten.

But behind the scenes, he's extremely tough, he's in control. He is the general director of all actions.

It was only a month later that he began to raise his voice and never compete with his wife for popularity, showing a nationalism from the Greek point of view, condemning the Ottoman Empire's actions in the Greek War of Independence and lashing out at the Ottoman persecution of the Greeks in his country.

Yes, he was agitating for nationalism, which allowed him to begin to win the support of a large number of nationalist youth. The number of these nationalist youths is not large, but their influence is not weak, because these youths, who often have a high level of knowledge, are not only present in large numbers among liberals, but also have some representatives among local students.

But these people are not able to provide political support to Zhou Chenggong, at least not yet.

Zhou Chenggong's remarks aroused strong resentment and even threats from the Ottoman Empire. Further restrictions on the power of the Greeks within the empire, as well as prohibiting Greek merchants from trading within the Ottoman territory.

This has greatly damaged the actual interests of even more Greeks living in Albania, Bulgaria and other places in the Ottoman Empire, even more than in Greece. He gave spiritual comfort to those Greeks, declaring Greece to be the homeland of all Greeks, their last haven.

He declared that Greece would open its territory unconditionally to all persecuted Greeks, and that all Greeks would be welcome to return to their homeland, and that the government would resettle them.

Under the banner of national righteousness that he had raised, his actions were praised not only in Greece but throughout the West.

The liberals, who were expatriates, had a deep sense of being under the fence of a foreign land, so they had great sympathy for the Greeks in the Ottoman Empire and supported the king's decision. In the midst of a difficult financial situation, funds were earmarked to resettle the fleeing Greek refugees. Diaspora was also mobilized to raise funds to support the return of the Greeks.

Under the impetus of these policies, a large number of Greeks began to flee, ordinary people actually have the ability to flee, and those who can escape from the Ottoman Empire are often wealthy families with a certain amount of capital power, and these people bring back a lot of money, which is of great help to the Greek economy, but this help is a long-term effect, even if the industrial revolution is imminent, it will take time to digest.

Zhou Chenggong can not take into account the long-term problems now, and his most urgent thing is to build his political power as soon as possible.

He valued the large number of officials in the Ottoman Empire who had administrative ability. These Greek officials, some of whom had actually converted to Islam, served in various government departments of the Ottoman Empire, especially the diplomatic and economic branches. After the independence of Greece, these people were implicated, lost their positions, and persecuted. The Ottoman Empire lacked the ability to understand foreign languages and economics, and after deposing a large number of Greeks, they were given their vacancies to another culturally and economically powerful ethnic group in the Ottoman territory, the Armenians.

A large number of Ottoman administrators' families fled to Greece, and Zhou Chenggong tried his best to accommodate them. Greece is in ruins, and there are indeed some government vacancies, but the real power departments are controlled by the liberals who started the revolution, and the local institutions are in the hands of the nativists, so it is difficult to cram the real power departments into them.

But some emerging departments, such as the diplomatic and economic departments, still need these professionals, which happen to be the strength of these people, so these people gradually enter these departments. Use their knowledge and experience to slowly gain power. These are the biggest political assets of Zhou Chenggong.

But the problem of the real power being held by the department is still unsolved, and Zhou Chenggong has no patience to wait for his officials to succeed in replacing the liberals, and he needs to further grasp the power.

The army he had three thousand, which was enough for a country with a population of 800,000 and not yet fully controlled the entire Greek region.

After patiently spending a year installing fugitive Ottoman officials in various departments, Zhou's supporters already had a certain amount of power. But compared to the two giants of liberals and localists, it is still far behind.

At this time, Zhou Chenggong finally decided to attack the two factions, and the stupid people would attack the two factions at the same time, and it was the right thing to do to pull one faction to fight the other.

Zhou Chenggong decided to support the localists, because the localists are the largest in number, but lack the backbone, and he hopes that he can become the core of the localists by reorganizing the localists.

After the Greek War of Independence, a large number of high-ranking positions were held by liberals, which is a situation that cannot be avoided in any country. Therefore, a large number of positions come from those revolutionary officers, but among these revolutionary officers, in addition to having excellent qualities such as patriotism and loyalty, there is also no lack of bad behaviors such as recklessness and impulsiveness, and after they take power, there will inevitably be a large number of bad deeds, and anti-corruption is a very effective political means.

But after the anti-corruption, it is not up to the liberals and localists to be sent, Zhou Chenggong needs to send his own people, he lacks a reasonable name, and his own descendants have no foundation, and those officials who fled back from the Ottoman Empire are limited after all.

He chose to select talents from a large number of enthusiastic young people, and the means were basically the same, and he constantly expressed his opposition to corruption, creating a general trend of anti-corruption, and building momentum through public opinion propaganda, so that no faction could resist. But he doesn't blame liberals or nativists for corruption, because it exists in both.

Moreover, the local faction is a decadent faction, during the reign of the Ottoman Empire, it was they who collected taxes and maintained law and order, and they belonged to the grassroots of the Ottoman rotten ruling system, and they had long been contaminated with the smell of decay. Now Zhou Chenggong still has to rely on them to fight the liberals, and naturally it is impossible to use anti-corruption as a weapon to offend the entire localists.