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Months of hard work have passed in a flash, and Lianzhou in the golden autumn and October is still very hot. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Although today's Chu State is nominally only a small land, it is now the largest and most powerful country in terms of territory and territory.

To Guangxi in the north, bordering the Ming Dynasty, to Aceh in the west, guarding the Strait of Aceh, controlling the passage into the South Seas, south to Java and even in Nanzhou also set up a governor's palace for management, east to Luzon, under the jurisdiction of thousands of islands of different sizes, after the integration of the countries, has changed a new look.

The traditional nobles of various countries have been put on the shelf, but at the same time they have given a very high courtesy, the royal family's annual internal funds are drawn by the treasury of Chu, and the nobles have also given a certain amount of money, and even some investments, such as the construction of roads and ports in various places, have also given them a certain share, the mining of mines, but also give them a certain share, at the same time, although their children and grandchildren may not be able to grant official positions, but the supreme official school of Chu has been opened, there are Chu University Hall, Wu has Water Master School and Lu Shi School, These schools will be the distribution center of elites in the future, and the students recruited are extremely demanding, but they have some preferential treatment for the children of some nobles from Nanyang countries with good talents.

Anyone who comes out of here, although he may not be able to rank in the court class with one leap, but the future is also bright.

In order to maintain the order of the South Seas, Liu Chengfeng threw down an unknown amount of silver, and nearly 500,000 young men began to recruit, of which the Han military camp could only recruit 200,000 due to population restrictions, and the feudal military camp 300,000.

Politically, although the state of Chu divided the whole of Nanyang into many prefectures and counties, and appointed prefects and counties to carry out administrative management, but militarily, it set up ten governors' districts, each of which established a governor's yamen to act in charge of military affairs.

The governor of the province ruled over the local Han military camps and feudal military camps to maintain local rule.

In addition, Nanyang is divided into ten major military camps and five military camps, the general and the local prefect yamen, the governor's yamen are different from each other, under the arrest and robbery department, the suppression camp, the prison court, the righteous forbidden house, and the investigation office, control the criminal prison judicial power, maintain law and order, spy on local intelligence, and consolidate security.

In a few months, with its abundant financial resources, the state of Chu has gradually penetrated its tentacles into all corners of the South Seas, not only the recruitment of officials and soldiers, but also hundreds of thousands of patrols, errand officers, detective captains, janissaries, and jailers.

In this case, a large number of merchants began to pour in, and they looked at the undeveloped virgin land in the South Seas, where a large number of mines and logs were to be sold, and even contained a large number of gold mines, silver mines, and diamonds.

To mine a mine, there must be roads to connect them, otherwise how to transport the goods out? Therefore, the Chu State Discussion Axe has embarked on a large number of plans to build new ports and build a large number of roads, and this time the construction of roads is no less than the scale of the Ming Dynasty's road construction, in the plan, the mileage of the roads built is more than 100,000 miles, and the new ports will also be more than 70 more. Where can the treasury afford it, Li Dongdong's guys are clearly eyeing Liu Chengfeng's private money.

However, in this matter, Liu Chengfeng is still determined to fully support, this is the era of the world, the entire Nanyang has been branded by the Liu family, and now that he is invested in it, it will flow back to the Liu family's pocket sooner or later, so Liu Chengfeng gritted his teeth, waved his pen, and directly took out more than 84 million taels of silver.

It is necessary to build roads and ports, it requires a large number of craftsmen, laborers, wood, mud and many tools and ironware, such a huge project, the cost is amazing, which merchants in the world want to get a piece of the pie, so the merchants are even more rushed, the merchants arrived in Nanyang, naturally with a large number of people to come.

On the Chu side, millions of Han Chinese poured in almost every month, and these people were diverted to other countries through the Chu State to Nanyang.

Where there are interests, there will be migratory populations, and the Han people began to buy a large amount of land, buy mines, and build workshops in Nanyang, which was very lively.

There is only time left for the Chu State to need, and the proportion of the Han population is gradually increasing among the Nanyang countries, and in time, the rule of the Chu State in the Nanyang will be even more solid.

But at this moment, in the palace, the report from the palace from the Beijing division caught Liu Chengfeng off guard.

Liu Jian, Xie Qian, Ma Wenshengren, etc. have resigned, and the palace has been approved, Yang Tinghe, Jiao Fang, and Zhang Cai were ordered to enter the cabinet, Xiao Jing told the elder, Liu Jin concurrently served as the chief eunuch and eunuch, Gu Dayong was the eunuch of Bingbi, Ma Yong became the eunuch of the master of ceremonies, and Zhang Yong was the eunuch of the imperial horse eunuch, as for the others, these old people in the former East Palace have become the rulers of the palace in the form of eunuchs.

Now the only one left in the cabinet is Li Dongyang, it is said that Liu Jian and others submitted the letter to Shi, but Li Dongyang chose to be silent, and the palace almost replied to these resignations as quickly as possible, and there was not even a little intention of retaining.

The sudden change in the situation of the dynasty is really unexpected.

On the Jinyi Wei side, someone has been specially sent to tell the truth of the matter. After Liu Chengfeng listened attentively, he finally knew what was going on.

He vaguely felt that behind this matter, it should not just be Liu Jin who arranged it so simply, Liu Jin was just a chess piece, who would be the real main messenger behind the scenes?

In fact, you don't have to think seriously at all, just look at the beneficiaries of this incident to know that the biggest benefit this time is the three newly promoted cabinet bachelors, Yang Tinghe is an old minister of the East Palace, and enjoys a high reputation in the court, Zhu Houzhao has favored him in the past, it can be said that Yang Tinghe will enter the cabinet sooner or later, and Yang Tinghe and Liu Jin and others have a very bad relationship, when they were in Zhan Shifu, it is said that the relationship between the two sides was tense, and at this time the emperor appointed Yang Tinghe into the cabinet, Liu Chengfeng faintly felt, This should be what Empress Dowager Zhang meant.

The biggest variable is that Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai, these two people do have a chance to enter the cabinet according to their qualifications, but their previous real job is just a squire, and they are disgraced in the court, but how can they say that they will enter the cabinet when they enter the cabinet?

These two people are the driving forces behind the scenes.

After Liu Chengfeng learned about this, he made a special trip to lock himself in the study, pondering about this matter, any change in the imperial court would not be without reason, and it was only when Liu Chengfeng sorted out the matter that he finally realized it.

Only after understanding these will you know that Liu Jian and these people are not unjustly killed.

In fact, at the beginning, Liu Jian's strategy was completely correct, taking advantage of the guerrilla general Liu Xian's affairs to make trouble, first press the army, wait until the time is ripe, go directly to the palace to find the Empress Dowager Zhang, and directly let the Empress Dowager Zhang come forward to get rid of Liu Jin, as long as this matter is done, the so-called Eight Tigers are not to worry.

But obviously, Liu Jian was still wrong, he misestimated the emperor's determination, the reason why Empress Dowager Zhang had the intention of getting rid of Liu Jin was because she thought that Liu Jin had hindered the emperor, and with Liu Jin here, the emperor would lose peace with the officials, so Liu Jin's life and death were not important to Empress Dowager Zhang.

But I don't know what the reason is, Liu Jin found Zhu Houzhao, and I don't know what kind of soup he fed Zhu Houzhao, at the court meeting, Zhu Houzhao suddenly made a difficulty, this time the trouble was very serious, at the beginning, Zhu Houzhao clarified Liu Jin's crime, and directly told Baiguan that this matter was instructed by him, so even if he wants to add a crime, it is also his Zhu Houzhao's crime.

The officials naturally refused to give in, especially Liu Jian, for Liu Jian, as the first assistant, the matter was provoked by him, if it was like this, what prestige did he have as the first assistant and the auxiliary government? Therefore, Liu Jian had to do this thing, so he naturally began to argue with reason.

This dispute is troublesome.

What is Zhu Houzhao's surname, Liu Chengfeng is clear, he is crazy, and he dares to say anything, so that Zhu Houzhao even said the sentence who wants to be the emperor and he is willing to abdicate and let Xian.

Things are finally running out of room for manoeuvre.

Liu Chengfeng could even imagine the mood of Empress Dowager Zhang after hearing about this.

Empress Dowager Zhang originally hoped to sacrifice a Liu Jin in exchange for harmony between monarchs and ministers, but what would she do when she knew that the contradictions between monarchs and ministers had reached the point where it was difficult to reconcile?

Empress Dowager Zhang has only one son, so in her opinion, no matter how much this son messes around, his son must also be the emperor, and once the contradiction between the minister and the monarch reaches the point where it is difficult to reconcile, who can guarantee that these ministers will not play Huo Guangyijun's tricks, you know, these people are auxiliary ministers, and cabinet ministers, and they are supported by the vast majority of people in the court, and their authority is not much different from Huo Guang of the Han Dynasty, once they feel that this emperor is stupid, Who can guarantee that they will not have the mind to choose another merit.

Empress Dowager Zhang must have begun to be moved, she must take precautions, no matter how mediocre the emperor is, no matter how many wrong things he says, no matter how many intolerable things he does, she must also protect this calf, so she immediately changed her mind, and chose to stay with Liu Jin without hesitation, getting rid of Liu Jin, hoping to make peace between the monarch and the ministers, but now leaving Liu Jin is hoping to use Liu Jin to check and balance the hundred officials, since the contradictions cannot be reconciled, they can only borrow Liu Jin to stabilize the emperor's dragon chair and achieve some kind of balance in power.

(To be continued)