Inside the Ouchi Imperial Palace, in the Wende Palace.

Feng Yunshan looked at the five cabinet ministers in front of him, all of whom were familiar faces, and sighed a little in his heart.

Although Li Hongzhang has not met him many times, because this person's reputation in history is too great, Feng Yunshan knows him very well, but more of it is Li Zhongtang in the future, and the current Li Hongzhang can only be judged by the information collected by the Special Service Department. However, judging from the years he has served as the governor of Jiangsu, he has been a veteran in power, and he has an open mind and old methods, and it is precisely because of this that Feng Yunshan promoted him to the first member of the cabinet.

As for Luo Zenan, it is actually similar to Li Hongzhang, Feng Yunshan also heard his historical reputation first, and then used him. However, from the perspective of the development of Zhejiang Province, Luo Zenan's governance is also good, especially in education and agriculture, which has turned Zhejiang, which has a small population, into a large province for imperial examinations, not only building more than ten colleges and universities in Zhejiang, but also allowing many students in Zhejiang to be admitted to well-known colleges and universities throughout the empire. In addition, Luo Zenan's governance of Zhejiang's agriculture is also very set, he not only recruited villagers to build ditches and water conservancy, cofferdams to make fields, set up factories such as holy fertilizer, and expanded the use of holy fertilizer in Zhejiang, so that agriculture can be harvested year after year; In addition, the construction of sea ponds in Jiaxing, Ningbo, Wenzhou and other coastal areas, not only to prevent disasters such as typhoons and sea tides, but also to open up seafood aquaculture in the sea ponds, and even contracted the supply of seafood from the Ouchi Imperial Palace, which was transported to Shengjing by train every morning.......

As for the other three, Wu Chongyao, Liu Changyou, and Zhou Shengkun, these can be said to be Feng Yunshan's descendants, and they are more familiar than the other, and the other party is also more loyal to Feng Yunshan.

Wu Chongyao was originally the leader of the Thirteen Lines in Guangzhou, but after Feng Yunshan led the Taiping Holy Army to conquer Guangzhou City, he knew that the affairs of the time returned to Feng Yunshan, and he also donated all the property in his family. Later, Wu Chongyao became the head of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Holy Kingdom, responsible for the commerce and diplomacy of the entire Holy Kingdom, and made great contributions in the initial development process of Feng Yunshan, especially Wu Chongyao was also the general manager of the Nanyang Company, helping the Taiping Holy Kingdom to experience the initial development and growth, especially the purchase of various new firearms from Western countries, the purchase of various machinery and equipment, almost all rely on Wu Chongyao to build bridges from it, and the credit is huge.

And Liu Changyou returned to Feng Yunshan earlier than Wu Chongyao. He was still as early as Feng Yunshan had just crossed into this world, and when he had just captured Daozhou City with the rear army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he had made Liu Changyou submit to him. Since then, he has become the main staff member, following all the way, conquering the entire southern Hunan and Liangguang, until the destruction of the entire Manchu Qing Dynasty and the establishment of the Chinese Empire. Later, Liu Changyou served as the Minister of Agriculture in the Cabinet, helping the empire to divide the land and carry out land reform, and promoting holy fertilizer, further developing the empire's farms, and worked hard.

As for Zhou Shengkun, both brothers are Feng Yunshan's Guangxi brothers, and they were Feng Yunshan's loyal believers long before the Jintian regimental camp, and they followed all the way, and their loyalty was beyond doubt. Zhou Shengkun, as the original chief saint treasury of the Taiping Holy Army, and later known as the minister of finance and taxation of the Taiping Holy Kingdom and the Chinese Empire, was Feng Yunshan's chief manager of money and grain, and such a person was a henchman among his henchmen.

Therefore, Feng Yunshan is still extremely happy with the cabinet composed of these five people.

Although others are more loyal than him, older than him, and even more educated than Luo Zenan, no one knows better than him how to deal with complicated government affairs and foreign affairs, especially in the large-scale development of industry and transportation economy, and no one is bolder than Li Hongzhang. Liu Changyou was originally a very good candidate, but there were still some things that were not broad enough, too deep in Confucianism, and some prejudices against foreigners.

Luo Zenan is Feng Yunshan's emphasis on education, after all, this person can create his own doctrine in history, and now in the era of great social change mixed with China and the West, even if he can't create a new doctrine, at least he can summarize and refine the theory that adapts to this social change, and form a set of systematic theories, which is very important for the powerful Chinese Empire that is being explored. And Luo Zenan's status in the cabinet is like a theoretical think tank, not to mention, this Luo Zenan is like Wang Yangming in the Ming Dynasty, the unity of knowledge and action, and perfectly applies his knowledge of rationality to governance, and the army he governs is even more strict with himself, strict military discipline, and his subordinates are like beating chicken blood every day, and the order prohibits the whole army from being the same, so that Feng Yunshan once had the idea of transferring him to the General Staff or the Ministry of National Defense, and then thought about it a little wasteful before giving up.

Needless to say, Wu Chongyao, Liu Changyou, and Zhou Shengkun are Feng Yunshan's three heads and six arms. Although the focus of the entire cabinet was on Li Hongzhang, he initiated the large-scale development of the breeding industry and the establishment of factories to produce goods, and the heavy responsibility of this sale was entrusted to Wu Chongyao to check. Liu Changyou is the perspective of stabilizing the overall situation of agriculture, which is the foundation of the empire, needless to say, while Zhou Shengkun is the money bag of the empire. These together constitute the five-member cabinet in Feng Yunshan's mind.

"The five Aiqing, I summoned them today, without him, and there was no informal court, just chatting and making friends with all the Aiqing." Feng Yunshan opened the conversation: "Zeng Guanlan, the former prime minister of the cabinet, had left Shengjing the day before yesterday and went to Calcutta. Li Aiqing, have they all been handed over? ”

Li Hongzhang hurriedly replied: "Back to Your Majesty, Premier Zeng has carefully explained to Weichen, and all cabinet approvals and accounts have been handed over. ”

Feng Yunshan nodded and said, "That's good!" Do you know why I agreed to Zeng Aiqing's resignation as prime minister and the cabinet was formed by 5 people? You must know that Zeng Aiqing is also a hard-working person and has never slackened? ”

In desperation, Li Hongzhang knew that he was the leader, so he had to reply: "Your Majesty, Weichen boldly guesses that it is for the further development and growth of the empire!" ”

"Not bad!" Feng Yunshan clapped his hands, stood up, walked to the side of the main hall and lifted the curtain on one wall, revealing a huge world map behind him, pointing to the huge territory of the Chinese Empire above, and said: "Zhong Aiqing, please see, how huge the territory of the empire is now, and the population is the largest in the whole world, accounting for one-third of the entire world. Therefore, this is an unprecedented time, a good time for our Chinese empire to stand at the top of the world, for the Chinese people to live the best life, so that future generations can have the best place to survive and reproduce. And all this is a further strengthening of the empire!

The only way is for the empire to reinvent itself! And the innovation of this empire, since the establishment of the empire, although it has begun and has been promoted, but after a few years, I found that the intensity has slowed down, slackened, and cannot be pushed. Therefore, it is necessary to re-promote it further, and the most fundamental thing is the cabinet of the imperial court. A new cabinet must be reinstated, and a major restructuring must be carried out! ”