Hongwu Sought to Streamline His Newly Reconstituted Bureaucracy by Concentrating

question 1

Multiple Choice

Hongwu sought to streamline his newly reconstituted bureaucracy by concentrating power and governmental functions around __________________.

• A) foreigners
• B) religious leaders
• C) the emperor
• D) the scholar-gentry

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