It is precisely out of awe of Wang Yangming's mind that Zhou Chong did not dare to disturb Wang Yangming before, but now it is different, Wang Yangming has been transferred to Nantaifu Temple as Shaoqing, Nantaifu Temple is located in Chuzhou, and the specific responsibility is to be responsible for breeding cattle and horses. Zhou Zhong felt that letting a talent like Wang Yangming raise horses was really a bit of a big talent and a little use, and only a person like Wang Yangming could shock Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai, so he wrote a recital to Zhengde, and as a result, Wang Yangming soon received a holy decree to be transferred to the Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas.

"Xiaguan Wang Shouren greets the Governor!" In the governor's palace in the spring of the ninth year of Zhengde, Wang Yangming, who was just over forty years old, gave a salute to Zhou Chongshen, Yangming is his alias, Wang Yangming's real name is Wang Shouren, the word Bo'an, and he only arrived at Shuangyu Port today, so he was the first to come to see his superiors.

Zhou Zhong also looked up and down at Wang Shouren, who could be compared with Confucius, and saw that the other party was a tall middle-aged man, with a long face, a tall forehead, good facial features, and a thick beard under his chin.

"Lord Wang doesn't have to be polite, this time the governor will ask His Majesty to transfer Lord Wang from the Taifu Temple to serve as an envoy, it is precisely with the help of Lord Wang's power to rectify the rule and justice under the rule of the governor of the four seas, and by the way, I can also help the governor share the pressure." Zhou Chong smiled and invited Wang Shouren to sit down and said politely, although they had just met, he was already impressed by Wang Shouren's temperament, and believed that there was a person like Wang Shouren who was both civil and martial as the inspector of the supervision of the officials. And the position is also higher than Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai. It should be possible to suppress the arrogance of the two for a while.

Wang Shouren is actually still a little strange. He was originally in the South Taifu Temple to be his own Shaoqing, in his spare time to go out to give lectures, to promote his own knowledge, now he has a certain influence in the southern Shilin, and even accepted a few students, but I didn't expect His Majesty to suddenly issue a holy decree, let him go to the Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas as an envoy, everything is subject to the governor's careful arrangement. This made Wang Shouren really a little confused.

Wang Shouren's previous Shaoqing was the fourth grade, but now according to the inspection envoy is from the second grade, suddenly promoted to three levels, and it is also the emperor's personal decree, this is a very rare holy family, even when the holy decree arrives, Wang Shouren can see envy and jealousy in the eyes of his colleagues, but according to the inspection of the envoy is a local branch of the Metropolitan Inspectorate, since he entered the official career, he has only served in the military department and the Taifu Temple. I have never held an official position such as imperial history, and I don't have any experience with it. And from the beginning, he was the inspector of the three products, which put a lot of pressure on Wang Shouren.

However, although Wang Shouren was full of questions in his heart, he did not ask in front of Zhou Zhong, after all, he has not been an official for nothing all these years, and he is still very clear about some taboos in the officialdom, and as a subordinate, he only needs to do his own affairs well, instead of asking why he was transferred to the governor's palace.

Wang Shouren didn't ask, and Zhou Chong didn't take the initiative to tell him the situation of the officials in the north and south of the Governor's Palace, anyway, he would soon know the Tao, so then Zhou Chong just briefly introduced the situation in various places under the Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas, among which the Taiwan Mansion has a vast area, and there are many officials under its rule, and most of them are new officials, so it is inevitable that the good and the bad will be uneven, so Wang Shouren needs to focus on rectification, in addition to Malacca and the old port, where the distance from the Ming Dynasty is too far, and the binding force on officials is lower, so it is relatively easy to have problems.

In addition to the affairs of officialdom, Zhou Zhong also briefly introduced the situation in Taiwan, such as population, economy and products. Wang Shouren had also heard of some of the actions of the Governor's Office of the Four Seas overseas, but he was also influenced by the thinking of some traditional scholars, and he did not attach much importance to this, let alone have an in-depth understanding, but now I heard Zhou Zhong talk about the impact of overseas immigration on the Ming Dynasty, especially to alleviate the problem of displaced people caused by land annexation. The entire Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas was built by this young man in front of him.

"Your Excellency the Governor, although immigration overseas can alleviate the problem of land annexation, but the overseas land will never be endless, in case one day our Ming population will also occupy the overseas land, how to solve the problem of land annexation?" Wang Shouren asked a question that Zhou Zhong was very familiar with, because he had been asked this more than once.

"Lord Wang is too worried, you may not know much about the overseas world, I can tell you now, the overseas world is far larger than we imagined, and our Ming is not the center of the world, not to mention anything else, just the South Seas plus more distant Australia and other places, the total area of the land will not be smaller than our Ming Dynasty, in addition to the two American continents on the east side of the sea, where not only is the product extremely rich, but also the land area is several times that of our Ming Dynasty, just these places, It's enough for us to settle for hundreds of years, and this world is always changing, maybe we now see land as extremely important, but in the eyes of people hundreds of years from now, land is not the only important wealth! Zhou Zhong explained with a smile.

"Oh, and land isn't the only thing that matters?" Wang Shouren looked at Zhou Chong with some doubts, he felt that Zhou Chong seemed to have something to say, and immediately asked again, "Lord Governor, listen to the meaning of your words, it seems that you have some other physiognomy methods, the lower official took the liberty of asking, can you tell it and let the lower official learn a thing or two?" ”

"This" for Wang Shouren's requirements, Zhou Zhong is also a period of hesitation, his overseas immigration policy can indeed only alleviate the problem of land annexation, but can not fundamentally solve this problem, want to solve the land annexation, the most important thing is to liberate most of the people from the land, in other words, that is, to vigorously develop industry and commerce, after all, only industry and commerce can accommodate those who are liberated from the land, then people will find that land is not the only means of production, Most people can rely on industry and commerce to support themselves, or even live more excitingly, and then the profits from the land will become very pitiful compared with industry and commerce, and I am afraid that the court will encourage others to annex the land, after all, if there is no one to cultivate it, the land will only be wasted.

However, although Zhou Zhong knew that industry and commerce could solve the problem of land annexation, he never mentioned it to anyone, after all, in the era of the Ming Dynasty, industry and commerce were still low, and the social status of craftsmen and businessmen was still very low, if he was the first to propose to vigorously develop industry and commerce, it was necessary to improve the social status of craftsmen and merchants, which may attract the hostility of many people, with Zhou Chong's current identity, there is really no need to set up too many enemies for himself, now he only needs to vigorously develop sea trade, As long as trade is prosperous and there is a demand for commodities, industry and commerce will naturally prosper, and when industry and commerce develop to a certain extent, some people will naturally take the initiative to jump out and shout for industry and commerce.

"Okay, since Lord Wang wants to hear it, then I'll tell you what I think, but I haven't told anyone about this, and if these remarks come out, I'm afraid it will make me fall into other people's verbal criticism, so I ask Lord Wang to keep it a secret!" Zhou Zhong thought about it for a long time, and finally nodded.

Although Zhou Zhong has not told others about the vigorous development of industry and commerce, he can talk about Wang Shouren in front of him, because Wang Shouren has an important philosophical idea in his psychology, that is, the "New Four People's Theory". The so-called New Four People's Theory, that is, Wang Shouren's belief that scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants "should be all in the way that is beneficial to the living, and that it is only one", and further explained that "the ancients and the four people had different industries and the same way, and they were dedicated to the same thing", it can be said that he put the traditional concept of industry and commerce, which has always been regarded as a "cheap industry", to the same level as scholars.

It was the new Four People's Theory of Wang Shouren, who knew that he did not regard industry and commerce as a cheap industry like traditional scholars, so Zhou Chongcai opened his mind and expressed his thoughts on vigorously promoting industry and commerce.

Wang Shouren heard Zhou Chong's novel theories, which also made him very interested, combined with his previous experience, he found that Zhou Chong's ideas were not just utopian, but had great operability. Even in order to strengthen his persuasiveness, Zhou Zhong also took out the Song Dynasty as evidence, after all, the land area of the Song Dynasty was much less than that of the Ming Dynasty, and the population was not as good as the Ming Dynasty, but the treasury income of the Song Dynasty was several times that of the Ming Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty was the only dynasty that did not inhibit land annexation, but the entire Song Dynasty only had a few peasant uprisings, in contrast, the Ming Dynasty was simply a negative model, not to mention anything else, the peasant uprisings alone, almost from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to the present, have not stopped, The most critical reason for this difference is the attitude of the two dynasties towards industry and commerce.

Wang Shouren has studied through the past and the present, and naturally knows that what Zhou Chong said is the truth, and what Zhou Chong said today also made him very shocked, after all, what Zhou Chong said is all the concepts produced in the era of the Big Bang of knowledge in later generations, and Wang Shouren represents the concept of the top people in the Ming Dynasty. (To be continued......)