A hearty conversation with Jiao Fang in Wanghai Garden, made Jiao Fang completely return to Zhou Chong, and began to do his best to assist Zhou Zhong to complete the future layout of the Ming Dynasty, for a while, Jiao Fang's disciples all began to gather from the Ming Dynasty to Shuangyu Port, after all, since Jiao Fang's downfall, their lives are not easy, and even many people have been implicated and dismissed, so they can only go back to their hometown to farm, and now they finally have a chance to make a comeback, how can they not be excited?

Seeing more and more people from Jiao Fang's family entering the Governor's Mansion to serve, this made Zhang Cai also very anxious, after all, officialdom originally paid attention to gangs, no matter how strong his personal ability was, but if there was no help from others, it would not be anything at all, so he also began to gather some of his old ones, and began to compete with Jiao Fang's family.

Strictly speaking, Zhang Cai is also a backward student of Jiao Fang, the reason why Zhang Cai was able to meet Liu Jin at the beginning was thanks to Jiao Fang's promotion and introduction, but Zhang Cai is very ambitious, when Jiao Fang was the first assistant in the past, he had the idea of replacing him, so Zhang Cai has long been self-reliant, and the disciples of the former disciples are not less than Jiao Fang.

But it's a pity that most of Zhang Cai's old days are related to Liu Jin, and now he is dead and exiled, and there are not many people who can rush to Shuangyu Port, so he can't compete with Jiao Fang's family for the time being, which also makes Zhang Cai hold his breath and begin to desperately express himself in front of Zhou Chong, hoping to overwhelm Jiao Fang by himself, so that the shortcomings of his own side can be made up.

Regarding Zhang Cai's actions and thoughts, Zhou Zhong saw it in his eyes, and even said it in all fairness. Zhang Cai did a better job than Jiao Fang. After all, Jiao Fang is too old. Many things are beyond his strength, but Zhou Zhong has no intention of promoting Zhang Cai at all, because he knows that people like Zhang Cai can only use their talents, but they must not let him gain power, otherwise he, the governor, will be overshadowed by Zhang Cai, so although he gave a lot of rewards to Zhang Cai's performance, Jiao Fang will also get the same reward every time. This made Zhang Cai's plan to overwhelm Jiao Fang repeatedly failed.

The arrival of Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai made Zhou Chong's burden lighter at once, and at the same time, the operation of the Governor's Mansion was finally on the right track, he finally didn't have to spend too much energy on government affairs, he could have time to spend more time with his family, and by the way, he would consider his layout of Daming in three directions.

However, the arrival of Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai is not entirely a good thing, for example, they also arranged their own officials to the governor's palace, which made the officials in the governor's palace controlled by Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai for nearly half, which is not a good thing, especially since Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai are both northerners, and they are very repulsive to the officials in the south. As a result, this has also led to a confrontation between the northern and southern officials in the governor's palace, and there have even been several skirmishes.

Speaking of the North-South dispute. This is not only in later generations, in fact, in the Ming Dynasty, the dispute between the north and the south has appeared, this situation first appeared in the officialdom, when Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, recovered the former Song Dynasty lost the northern homeland, the Han people here have been devastated by countless wars for hundreds of years, especially the inheritance of civilization, it is a great injury to vitality, the most direct manifestation is that the talent of the northern scholars is worse than that of the southern scholars, and even once when the exam, the admission to the list was all from the south.

For this situation, the emperor of the early Ming Dynasty was also very distressed, after all, whether it was a southerner or a northerner, they were all the people of the Ming Dynasty, if the court was a southerner as an official, it would be unfair to the northerners, so later it simply set up two lists in the north and south, and each time the north and south were admitted separately, the proportion of admission often changed, but generally speaking, it can always ensure that there are people on both sides of the north and the south who can become officials.

It is precisely because of this separate examination between the north and the south that the officialdom is divided into two factions, the north and the south, and the officials of the south and the north do not like each other, and there are even cases where high-ranking officials from southerners promote southerners, and high-ranking officials from northerners promote northerners. And in general, the southern scholars are indeed superior in learning, so in the officialdom, the southerners are still superior.

For example, Jiao Fang at the beginning suffered from this kind of discrimination between the north and the south, and with his achievements when he was young, he could have entered the capital as an official, but because several officials were southerners, he was greatly suppressed as a result, which made him angry, which also made Jiao Fang suppress the officials in the south after gaining power, which also set up a lot of enemies for him, and later the scholars in the south slandered Jiao Fang, which made Jiao Fang's reputation in history not good.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that another reason why Jiao Fang colluded with Liu Jin at the beginning was that Liu Jin was also a northerner, and the two also had to face a huge group of southern officials in the officialdom, such as Li Dongyang and Xie Qian, who were representatives of southern officials, so the two of them were natural allies. Later, before Jiao Fang's downfall, he deliberately increased the proportion of scholars admitted to his hometown, which also became an excuse for southern officials to attack him later.

It can be said that the dispute between the north and the south in the officialdom has a long history, from the high-ranking officials in the court to the officials under the state capital, there is this kind of dispute between the officials of the north and the south, and the governor's palace of Zhou Zhong is no exception.

However, with the arrival of Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai, the northern officials were greatly invigorated, and they began to control most of the power of the Governor's Mansion little by little, which naturally made the southern officials very dissatisfied, such as Yang Tong, who was the political envoy, he was the representative of the southern officials, but although his official position was higher than Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai, he was far from being able to compare with Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai in terms of ability and prestige.

Zhou Zhong was also very entangled in this north-south dispute in the governor's palace, he was a northerner in his last life, but later lived in the south for a long time. As for this life, he has lived in the south since he was a child, but he is Zhengde's younger brother, so he is also a northerner, which makes him not know who Lu Dao wants to help, and he has always been very opposed to this kind of regional dispute, after all, everyone is an official of the Ming Dynasty, and there is no need to argue about such a trivial matter.

It's a pity that although Zhou Chong thinks that the dispute between the north and the south is a trivial matter, Jiao Fang and Yang Tong don't see it that way, especially Jiao Fang, because he has been treated unfairly by southern officials before, which makes him very hostile to southern officials, and even if Zhou Chong's status is too high, I am afraid that he will be hostile to Zhou Chong, so this contradiction between the north and south officials is difficult to resolve.

It is impossible for Zhou Chong to watch his subordinates fight, and one side has an absolute advantage, after all, Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai are on the same front at this point, and as a result, the southern officials in the Governor's Mansion are losing and retreating, and several officials have begun to hand in their resignations to Zhou Chong, although they are now temporarily pacified by Zhou Chong, but it is not a way to go on for a long time.

So in this case, the way that Zhou Chongneng could think of was to balance the power of the northern and southern officials in the governor's palace, in other words, to introduce one or several southern officials who could compete with Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai, but this was not an easy task, after all, most of the officials who could compete with Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai were high-ranking and powerful people in the court, and it was impossible for him to serve in the governor's palace.

However, this is not absolute, for example, there are some people who are outstanding in history, but they are still not famous, these people are potential stocks in Zhou Chong's eyes, even if they do not have a particularly great reputation, but since these people can leave a name in history, they are naturally not easy to match, at least it should not be a problem to compete with Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai.

Born in the south, and in the history of outstanding talent, the most rare is now not famous, such a talent Zhou Zhong first thought of is the history of the famous Wang Yangming, this founded the mind, in Confucianism and Confucius, Mencius, Zhu Xi side by side of the figure, can be said to be the most dazzling figure in the entire Ming Dynasty, throughout the Central Plains up and down 5,000 years of history, there is only such a Wang Yangming, and is the only undisputed virtue, meritorious service, three immortal saints, Even the entire Ming Dynasty has become dazzling because of Wang Sunshine, and for such a person, Zhou Chong has naturally kept it in mind.

Speaking of which, when Zhou Chong first became the governor of the four seas, he wanted to transfer Wang Sunshine to his subordinate through Zhengde, after all, Wang Sunshine is not only a thinker and philosopher, but also a military strategist, he has been familiar with military books since he was a child, and has been serving in the Ministry of War, if there is a figure like Wang Yangming to help, he will be more sure to defeat the Portuguese.

However, after careful consideration, Zhou Zhong decided not to alarm Wang Yangming for the time being, because at that time, Wang Yangming was demoted to Longchang because he offended Liu Jin, and it was there that he comprehended his own Tao, which was later Xinxue, which is the famous "Longchang Enlightenment" in history.

Zhou Chongsheng was afraid that his arrival would disturb Wang Yangming's enlightenment, so he endured it, after all, Wang Yangming is different from Tang Bohu, he can change the trajectory of Tang Bohu's life, so that there is one less peerless painter in the world, but there is one more official who has served the people in the world, which is more practical in Zhou Chong's view. However, Wang Yangming's psychology is enough to change the thinking of the world, especially the thinking of those scholars in the Ming Dynasty, although Zhou Zhong is not qualified to judge whether this change is good or bad, but he knows that this represents the Chinese nation's understanding and thinking of the world, and can even affect the trend of future history. (To be continued......)