Invincible from the beginning of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 359 Chen Gong Effectiveness
Zhang Ming left Xuzhou and headed north.

This time, he saw the rise of Cao Cao.

Cao Cao has become the second largest in the world in terms of territory and population, and is next to Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao absolutely cannot tolerate this, and at the same time Cao Cao's ambitions will inevitably expand.

Soon, it will be time for Yuan Cao to fight.

Zhang Ming must prepare in advance.

On the way back, Zhang Ming was with Chen Gong.

"Gongtai, how about going out to help me?"

Chen Gong was very lonely, he really wanted to do something, since the chaos started, he has been planning.

Cao Cao assassinated Dong Zhuo, he was very excited, released Cao Cao overnight, and followed Cao Cao.

As a result, Cao Cao disappointed him.

After being disappointed, he supported Lu Bu again and led Lu Bu to conquer the world.

As a result, Lu Bu did not listen to his advice several times, leading to the current result.

And now another person?

Support Zhang Ming?

Chen Gong was tired, he didn't want to do it anymore.

"Thank you, General Protector, for saving me, but I have been fighting for years, but I have not been able to realize the wish in my heart. Instead, I see that I am getting further and further away from my ideal of peace and prosperity."

Chen Gong refused.

Zhang Ming wasn't surprised, it might be really disheartening.

"Then it's better to go to Youzhou from Gongtai and do some basic things for the people." Zhang Ming put it another way.

"what else can I do?"

"Mr. Lu, who is in charge of education, is old and unable to do what he wants. In addition, there needs to be someone in charge of the overall situation in persuading farmers and mulberry farmers. Why don't Chen Gong take care of the school and the cultivation of farmers."

Chen Gong felt that this seemed like a trivial matter, but it could really do something for the common people.

Chen Gong then said: "Forget it, General Protector has the grace to save lives, so it's good to do something for the people."

Chen Gong suddenly felt that it would be good to actually do something for the common people.

Zhang Ming plans to put Chen Gong in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Education.

One is to share the pressure of Tian Feng and Lu Zhi.

The second is the decentralization of power, at least the power of two departments will be separated from Tian Feng.

It is not a matter that Tian Feng has been managing all aspects for a long time.

In the future, if there are corresponding talents, Zhang Ming will divide them again.

Chen Gong didn't know yet, thinking that he was in charge of at least one county or one county, and he didn't know much about Zhang Ming's internal operating rules.

Zhang Ming didn't tell him clearly, but took him all the way north.

Finally arrived in Youzhou.

Back in Youzhou, Zhang Ming heard Cao Jun changing the arrangement.

They have the rhythm of dispatching to Yangzhou.

Now, Yuan Shu in Yangzhou is extremely weak and has not saved much strength.

In particular, Yuan Shu was outraged by the public and lost popular support.

Now Yuan Shu is sitting in Yangzhou, but in fact he is already a piece of fat beside Cao Cao.

And now, it's time for Cao Cao to swallow this mouthful of fat.

Cao Cao sharpened his knife and slashed at Yuan Shu.

After Zhang Ming came back, he began to arrange various affairs.

He first found Tian Feng.

"Tian Feng, I'll arrange for someone to take over the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Agriculture. You can hand it over and arrange someone to assist. I hope you don't have any grudges in your heart."

Tian Feng laughed and said, "My lord arranges this, so I am relieved."

Zhang Ming looked at Tian Feng in puzzlement.

"If I have been in charge of everything all the time, when the lord grows stronger, I should kill the donkey. My life is in danger. If you arrange someone to divide the power, at least I can have a good end."

It seems that Tian Feng saw very clearly that there were not many founding emperors who did not kill heroes.

This is a very common and inevitable step. It is not that the emperor wants to kill, but most of the time he has to.

Seeing that Tian Feng really didn't care, he was relieved a lot.

If Zhang Ming ascended to the highest seat one day, would he kill the hero?
No one can say for sure, Zhang Ming doesn't want to kill, after all, he is an old courtier following him.

However, in the past dynasties, things often got out of control and had to be killed.

"Okay, this person is Chen Gong. You have been to Youzhou for a while before, so you are familiar with it."

Tian Feng nodded, claiming that he would fully cooperate.

Today, there are three quasi-cabinet members, and Xi Zhi only manages half of the Ministry of War.

Why half?
The other half of the Ministry of War is personally in charge of Zhang Ming, and he is in charge of the promotion and transfer of officers.

At this time, Zhang Ming will not give the military power to others.

Back in Youzhou, Zhang Ming's career developed rapidly.

Zhang Ming used the silver dug from the Fusang area to make silver coins, and went outside to buy a large amount of food and hoard it.

Silver coins were not used in Youzhou on a large scale. Although so much money was dug up, it did not cause inflation, but greatly prospered the economies of the states.

Many princes also used silver coins, because Zhang Ming spent a lot of silver coins.

When Zhang Ming was overhauling his internal strength in Youzhou, there was a man who couldn't eat well or sleep well.

That is Mi Zhu.

Liu Bei failed and now has nothing, he is under Cao Cao.

And Cao Cao was on guard against Liu Bei, and he didn't treat Mi Zhu so well.

Now Mi Zhu has no official position, and many things are beyond his control.

At this time, the assets of their Mi family were slowly shrinking.

Because Mi Zhu is Zhang Ming's brother-in-law, so Cao Cao is also on guard against him.

Although Cao Cao knew why Mi Zhu became Zhang Ming's brother-in-law, he still had to guard against it.

Now that Liu Bei has fallen, who knows if Mi Zhu will fall to Zhang Ming.

So, now Mi Zhu is very sad.

His family property is also in danger of being annexed by Cao Cao.

Now Cao Cao didn't do anything to him, but he didn't give him any privileges.

Mi Zhu was worried, and had been thinking about how to transfer the assets.

Zhang Ming is developing rapidly.

Time passed slowly, and another half a year passed.

Chen Gong didn't know where he was until Zhang Ming arranged a job for him.

It's not a county magistrate, but a quasi-cabinet.

In short, it has a lot of power and manages many things.

Only after he actually took over did Chen Gong realize how powerful Zhang Ming's system is.

It took him a month to take over the Ministry of Education.

Chen Gong was extremely curious about how students study, and went to several schools to secretly attend lectures.

After that, he personally inspected many students, and only then did he know how good the students in Youzhou are.

Only now did Chen Gong know what Zhang Ming's confidence was in confronting all the aristocratic families in the world.

He can completely not rely on the family.

"My lord, I have some news for you."

On this day, Zhang Ming was inspecting the farming situation of the people, and a soldier came to report.

"Hey, this Yuan Shu is not far from death."

Zhang Ming knew that the start of the war was not far away.

It turned out that Cao Cao had already started to attack Yuan Shu on a large scale.

With Yuan Shu's current strength, he is no match at all.

After Zhang Ming read it, he put away the information and continued to investigate the farming situation of the people.

In war, food is too important, Zhang Ming attaches great importance to farmers' farming conditions.

Zhang Ming has a rule that farmers must obtain the approval of the county magistrate to buy and sell land, and the county magistrate must collect the materials every year.

In this way, put an end to land annexation.

But Zhang Ming also wanted to go down and see for himself whether someone had not transferred the land, but had actually taken possession of it.

(End of this chapter)