Ming Dynasty: I risked my life to teach the prince, the emperor begged me not to die

Chapter 548 President of the Chamber of Commerce
By the end of the year, news of the coup in Annan had reached the Ming court.

However, there was no subordinate relationship between the Ming Dynasty and Annan, so the Ming court could not say anything about the coup in Annan.

After Zhu Jiewei successfully helped Li Yi launch a coup, he immediately went to Wa Island from the Annan seaport, where he met King Xing Zhu Youlang again.

After Zhu Youqi told Zhu Jiewei the whole story of how they came to the Japanese island, Zhu Jiewei realized that she had been fooled by Chen Ce's half-true and half-false words.

The one who killed his father was not Prince Xing, but Chen Ce!
At that time in the capital, Chen Ce wanted to keep himself safe by sending people to capture her after the incident, but the lies he told were half true and half false, making it difficult for Zhu Jiewei to distinguish them.

After thinking all this through, Zhu Jiewei was furious, but now she definitely couldn't go to the capital of the Ming Dynasty again!
Thinking of how Emperor Hongzhi had taken sides and helped Chen Ce conceal the murder of her father, Zhu Jiewei hated the entire Ming Dynasty!

This time when she returns to Annan, she must use the country of Annan to compete with the Ming Dynasty at all costs!
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Li Dongyang has already made a preliminary plan of the candidates for the six new ministers, and plans to add Xing Min, the left vice minister of the Ministry of Personnel, to the ranks of the six ministries.

However, this was rejected by Emperor Hongzhi, and Li Dongyang immediately recommended several candidates.

It can be seen that the candidates nominated by Li Dongyang are all people he trusts or people who admire him, but this is not what Emperor Hongzhi wants to see.

After several failed elections, Li Dongyang finally realized that Emperor Hongzhi's purpose of adding candidates did not seem to be simple, so he simply stopped recommending candidates and left it to Emperor Hongzhi to decide.

In the end, Emperor Hongzhi promoted Zeng Jian, the Governor of Huguang, to the position of Minister of Works.

No one expected this result. After all, Zeng Jian was a local official and had no foundation in the court. What was Emperor Hongzhi planning to do by pushing such a person to the position?
After the candidates for the six ministries were determined, Emperor Hongzhi made adjustments to the cabinet, officially promoting Li Dongyang to the position of chief minister and approving Fei Hong, the Grand Secretary of the Eastern Palace, to join the cabinet as second minister.

At the local level, Wang Shouren was transferred to Huguang to serve as the governor to fill the vacancy left by Zeng Jian.

These personnel adjustments made Li Dongyang completely confused. If Emperor Hongzhi intended to tighten the power of civil servants, he promoted Li Dongyang to the position of Prime Minister of the Cabinet.

Although he trusted Li Dongyang, he pushed Fei Hong to join the cabinet and Wang Shouren went to Huguang.

These are all important positions, and neither Fei Hong nor Wang Shouren seems to have enough qualifications to match their current official positions.

They can just wait a little longer and gain some experience before moving up, so why is the emperor so anxious?

Li Dongyang really couldn't understand Emperor Hongzhi's intention.

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There have been many minor adjustments in the court recently, all of which seem insignificant and no one pays too much attention to them.

Perhaps only Chen Ce knew that Emperor Hongzhi had already begun paving the way for Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao was about to get married in February. During the first month of the year, he basically played around in various places in Peking every day. However, Liu Jin was very careful about the limits. Zhu Houzhao could do anything except go to brothels. This was what Chen Ce had told Liu Jin.

Early this morning, Zhu Houzhao came to a casino and had a great time.

This underground casino not only offers simple gambling such as cockfighting and dog fighting, but also a variety of other gambling options such as dice and leaf games.

Among them, dice is undoubtedly the most popular. Zhu Houzhao has recently become addicted to playing dice and often spends a lot of money in casinos. However, what he loses is his own pocket money, and he occasionally wins or loses.

After being conferred the title of nobility, Yang Yuzhen became famous in the business circle of Shuntian Prefecture and became the president of the Peking Chamber of Commerce without realizing it. With the development of commerce, private enterprises also began to set up chambers of commerce to supervise the behavior of local businesses.

Today is the day when Yang Yuzhen takes office as the president of the Peking Chamber of Commerce. He knows that he is where he is today thanks to Chen Ce's support, so he begged Chen Ce many times today before letting Chen Ce go to witness his success... Of course, just to show off in front of Chen Ce.

Chen Ce had no choice but to follow Yang Yuzhen to the Chamber of Commerce. After all, he was his so-called adopted son, so how could he not give him face?

The social status of this group of merchants rose rapidly, and they had already broken the class shackles of scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans set by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Those who can attend the Chamber of Commerce banquet at Cuiwei Tower in Linhu today are all well-known businessmen in the capital.

When Yang Yuzhen appeared, almost all the businessmen came to congratulate Yang Yuzhen. This guy has now grown into a very smooth person, with a very good EQ in interpersonal communication. He also did not forget to introduce Chen Ce to the people around him, saying that he was his benefactor and so on.

Everyone bowed to Chen Ce, wanting to get to know Chen Ce in order to flatter Yang Yuzhen.

Chen Ce knew very well what these businessmen were thinking. He was really at a loss whether to laugh or cry. This damn Yang Yuzhen, it turned out that he had called me here just to highlight his power.

This group of well-known businessmen in the capital all have some connections with the officialdom, but they are not enough in front of Chen Ce.

They didn't know Chen Ce and didn't know his status in the Ming Dynasty. Chen Ce was mysterious in the officialdom, not to mention that there were even fewer people in the community who knew him.

Seeing this group of businessmen coming to toast him, Chen Ce just refused and didn't drink a drop of alcohol.

A businessman from Shuntian Prefecture said to Chen Ce with a smile: "Brother Chen, you are not as good as our Chairman Yang. Look how much he drinks. Give us some face."

"It's a little unreasonable for you to come here and not drink a drop of wine, right? Come on, come on, drink some wine."

The businessman's name is Wang Youjia. In the past two years, he has taken advantage of the court's reform and has been thriving in Peking. His business covers casinos, docks, water transport, sand and gravel, etc.

These businesses are naturally not clean. If you don't have a group of powerful people under you, you won't be able to gain a foothold in Peking.

Ever since he became successful, people in the business circle have called him Master Jia. He is fat and has big ears, a shaved head, and a ruddy face. He raises a glass and shouts to Chen Ce.

"Come on, come on, don't be like a sissy, drink quickly."

Either Chen Ce didn't want to come to such a banquet, or the so-called chamber of commerce was still full of all kinds of people, and many businessmen didn't even have much education, and they only rose to prominence thanks to the reforms of the Ming Dynasty.

Chen Ce smiled and declined, saying, "I really don't know how to drink, and I'm not feeling well. I'm really sorry, you guys drink."

"Hey, Brother Chen, you're not going to give Master Jia face, are you?"

"What's wrong with drinking a little? You won't die. I'm having a great time today, don't spoil the fun."

Chen Ce pondered for a moment, then came to Yang Yuzhen. He was already drunk. Chen Ce said, "I'll leave first."

Yang Yuzhen pulled Chen Ce and said, "Come and drink, everyone is happy, let's have a drink!"

(End of this chapter)