Li Fengjie, the governor of Liangguang and the governor of Guangdong, was stationed in Zhaoqing, a native of Changzhou County, the capital of Suzhou, and a jinshi in the 32nd year of Wanli. This man has mediocre talents and a weak personality, and when he served as the governor of Liangguang, he always advocated the stability of the place.

When the Eighteen Zhi pirates ravaged the coastal areas of Fujian, he rejected the request of Fujian officials for the help of the Guangdong Navy Division in defending the southern Fujian coast. On the contrary, he strictly ordered the Guangdong sailors to defend the Chaozhou Mansion and not to cross the provincial border without authorization to provoke the pirates, and sat back and watched the pirates attack Dongshan Island and Tongshan on the edge of Fujian and Guangdong.

What is strange is that the Eighteen Zhi Pirate Group led by Zheng Zhilong also maintained a tacit understanding with the Guangdong locality, and except for some small raids, it did not launch such a large-scale raid on the coastal areas of Guangdong as the coastal areas of Fujian.

Li Fengjie's behavior naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of local officials in Fujian and Fujian officials in the DPRK and China, and Chongzhen's desk for his impeachment had long been piled up.

It's just that because of the sudden outbreak of the war with Lin Dan Khan, Chongzhen Shengsheng suppressed the impeachment of Li Fengjie, and the two Guang have nothing to do is obviously the most important thing at the moment.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has won the victory over Lin Dan Khan, and the Northwest Pass will also settle down in a short period of time, the impeachment of Li Fengjie will appear in front of Chongzhen again.

According to the information collected by the Imperial Secretariat for Chongzhen, Guangzhou is the most densely populated province in Guangdong, followed by Wuzhou, Zhaoqing, Huizhou and Chaozhou, with a total population of 5 or 6 out of 10.

Guangdong Province has a population of about 2 million, which refers to the population of the government and the people, and does not include the population of some ethnic minorities. However, Guangdong's topography is more favorable than Guangxi's, so the development is relatively smooth, except for the border area between Guangdong, Guangzhou, the population of ethnic minorities will not exceed 10% of Guangdong's population.

The Yao Rebellion broke out in Guangxi in the middle and early Ming Dynasty, which once posed a certain threat to Guangdong. After the Jiajing and Wanli dynasties, with the imperial court's subjugation of the werewolves in western Guangxi, and the establishment of a separate state in the border area between Guangxi and Guangzhou, Guangdong has been freed from the threat of being harassed by ethnic minorities in Guangxi in the past.

In Zhu Youzhen's view, this actually means that Guangdong has transformed from a frontier province to an inland province of the Ming Dynasty. As long as the Ming Dynasty continues to maintain Guangxi's social stability and economic development, Guangdong Province, which has gained security, will be able to go all out to develop its economy.

A prosperous and economically prosperous Guangdong will, in turn, provide sufficient manpower and material support to the Guangxi government. Then the Ming Dynasty could develop from the northern and eastern regions of Guangxi to the border areas of Yunnan and Vietnam, completely cut off the connection between the Tusi and the Vietnamese in Guangxi, and thus completely obtain the ruling power in Guangxi.

Li Fengjie's character of blindly seeking stability and being timid and afraid of things is obviously not suitable for serving as the supreme military and political commander in the border areas. The cabinet recommended that Wang Zunde, the governor of Guangxi, take over as the governor of Guangzhou, but Zhu Youzhen was also not very optimistic.

Wang Zunde has a good reputation, is upright and upright, and is also known for his honesty in finance. However, he didn't know anything about military affairs, and the reason why he said this was because when he was serving in Liaodong, he was attacked by Jiannu and behaved quite chaotically.

Guangxi is full of lofty mountains and mountains, and the terrain is very complex. There are more than 1 million people in the territory, of which half are werewolves, three points are Yao and Wu, and only two are Han people. The incalculable population of ethnic minorities located in the mountains and forests should not be less than one million.

Werewolves live in western Guangxi, while Han people mainly live in Guilin and Wuzhou in northern Guangxi, while most of the Yao and Wu ethnic groups live in eastern Guangxi. Qinzhou and Lianzhou, which are close to the coast in eastern Guangxi, are mostly Han Chinese because they were developed earlier and have a sea route connected to Guangdong. Therefore, the imperial court simply assigned these two places to Guangdong Province, and dispatched Guixi wolf soldiers to garrison the border area between the Han and Yao tribes.

According to the information in front of Chongzhen, except for the Guangxi enclave of Yong'an Prefecture in the south of Qinzhou, Guangxi basically had no coastline in this era.

If you want to develop Guangxi's sugar industry, you must find an official who dares to do things and has not yet been discouraged by officialdom. The Governor of Liangguang must have sufficient qualifications and experience to deal with emergencies.

Zhu Youzhen looked at these materials and thought for a long time, and suddenly said: "I want to take a look at the list of training officials from the Central Government Academy that Mr. Liu sent a few days ago." ”

Wang Chengen hurriedly agreed, and walked to the west side of the room, where several bookcases were erected along the wall, and the bookcases were piled with chapters, documents, and archives, covering the entire wall tightly.

In fact, under Chongzhen's continuous transformation, this upper study room is no longer like a study, except that the library in the back hall has not been changed, the front room has completely changed its appearance.

The antiques, calligraphy and paintings had been removed from the room, and all that remained was the globe, the two maps hanging behind the desk, and the bookcase full of papers. No matter how you look at it, this place is far from the study room used by the literati to play and write.

However, for a chief eunuch like Wang Chengen, it was much easier to find the materials needed by the emperor in such a arranged room. Of course, it's much harder for them to do something out of it than it used to be.

Wang Chengen looked at the label on the bookcase, and soon found the document that Chongzhen needed, he quickly took out the cardboard box placed on the shelf, and then turned around and hurriedly put it in front of Chongzhen.

The current role of the central government school has been expanded from educating officials who have failed in their duties to being a re-education school covering the entire bureaucratic system.

Before being promoted, officials must enter government schools for study and training, and new officials must study and train, and even those officials who have been reinstated in accordance with regulations must also go through study and training.

Several officials in charge of the management of the central government schools have also tried to bring the promotion and evaluation of officials into the management power of the central government schools.

Liu Zongzhou, who is known as Mr. Qishan, is already a little anxious every day just to prepare for the education of these officials. However, this also gave Chongzhen an unexpected result, a part of the Donglin Party led by Liu Zongzhou believed that the control of the educational power of the central government school was very beneficial to reshaping the atmosphere of the Ming officialdom and cracking down on the poison of the eunuch party, so they had no time to take into account the dispute with Chongzhen and how the imperial court should use people.

Of course, after the education and training of these officials, in any case, both sides can be regarded as having a reputation between teachers and students, which also makes some officials who are not involved in deep party disputes leave room for each other in the imperial court.

After Zhu Youzhen looked through the training resumes of these reinstated officials, as well as Liu Zongzhou's personal comments written on the side, he focused on the name Wen Anzhi.

Wen Anzhi, the word Tie'an, a native of Lingzhou, Huguangyi, was born in the twentieth year of Wanli and the second year of the Apocalypse. After that, he was selected as a scholar of the Hanlin Academy and practiced doing things; Soon after, he was promoted to the post of reviewer, reviewing the history of the country.

However, as the party dispute between the DPRK and China became more and more intense, he finally chose to return to his hometown to avoid the whirlpool of party dispute between the DPRK and China.

At the beginning of the first year, he was recommended by the imperial history to reinstate, and he should have been reinstated as the secretary of the Nanjing Guozijian. However, because the Guozijian in the south and north of Beijing were changed to universities, under the order of Chongzhen, Wen Anzhi was summoned to the capital to prepare for other official positions.

However, with the opening of the Central Government Academy, Wen Anzhi was first arranged to enter the Central Government Academy for training and study.

According to Liu Zongzhou's comments, Wen Anzhi is not only the best in this group of officials, but also has a very rigorous attitude towards learning, so it can be of great use.

Zhu Youzhen pondered this person's resume, and his resume was relatively innocent, and the few articles he wrote during his training in the official academy were quite in line with his own mind.

He immediately stamped the document and instructed Wang Chengen: "You go and summon now, Wen Anzhi, Xue Ren, and Wang Siyuan from the Central Official Academy, I want to meet them..."

When it was nearly noon that day, Zhu Youzhen finally finished seeing the three of them, and his original determination was a little clearer.

After lunch, Zhu Youzhen went to the Wenhua Hall and summoned Huang Liji in the apse of the Wenhua Palace.

After Zhu Youzhen and Huang Liji greeted him, he explained his intention, "Today, the DPRK and China continue to impeach Li Fengjie, the governor of Liangguang, what is the cabinet's view on this matter? ”

Huang Liji was sitting on a chair and habitually arched his hand at Chongzhen before saying: "The old minister thinks that the status of the Liangguang region is important, and it is an important barrier between the hinterland of our Ming Dynasty and the natives in the south.

In particular, Guangdong has both coastal and land defense, and Guangdong's taxes are used to quell chaos in the southwest. The old minister thought that if the governor of Liangguang used a non-human, then the southeast half of the Ming Dynasty would be at risk of turmoil.

Li Fengjie's handling of the coastal defense incident and his adoption of the beggar-thy-neighbor policy not only greatly hurt the face of the imperial court, but also gave officials in various localities a very bad start.

The old minister thought that he should take away the title of governor of Liangguang from Li Fengjie, and then ordered him to return to his hometown to live in the crown belt. Another man of outstanding talent was selected to serve as the governor of Liangguang. ”

Zhu Youzhen thought about it and asked, "So does Mr. Huang have any suitable candidates?" However, many people in the DPRK advocated that Wang Zunde, the governor of Guangxi, should take over as the governor of Liangguang, and then appoint a governor of Guangxi to go over. ”

Regarding the emperor's question, Huang Li thought quietly for a while. Since the cabinet was reshuffled, his power has indeed increased greatly, but what worries him is that there are too few powerful people in the DPRK and China who support him, and most of them are the wall grass that vacillates between the two parties.

He remembered the letter he had written some time ago from an official who wanted to get back to him. Now it looks like a good opportunity to recommend the officer's reinstatement, and his best man to find reinforcements.

Huang Liji then raised his head and said to Chongzhen: "The minister thinks that the former governor of Henan, Qi Shijiao, has profound qualifications and is old enough to seek the country, and he is really the most suitable candidate for the governor of Liangguang. ”