Qiming 1158

Chapter 986 Arrive at the Central Capital
Facts do not change due to personal will, and human initiative is ultimately limited.

Just as it is difficult for Su Yonglin to rely on his own subjective initiative to make the Ming army completely change the gun to the gun, let alone Chen Kangbo and others trying to reverse the truth of the Ming kingdom with their own personal will.

Pure idiots dreaming.

Maybe they themselves realized that something was wrong, and they didn't even propose to go somewhere to take a look or to spy on some information during the next trip. They were just burying their heads and moving forward.

However, Lu You still maintained a strong interest, trying to see the real folk life of Ming Dynasty in depth, but could not achieve it because of the opposition of Chen Kangbo and Yu Yunwen.

"Our duty is to go to Zhongdu to meet the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, there is nothing else to do! Just go to Zhongdu to complete the mission, and other things can be done after Zhongdu, no need to say more!"

Chen Kangbo severely reprimanded Lu You, so that Lu You could not do anything, and he couldn't get permission to see the grassroots situation of Ming Kingdom along the way, and he was quite distressed.

At the beginning of September in the fourth year of Hongwu, the envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty arrived in Zhongdu. A few days before that, Su Yonglin returned to Zhongdu from Kaifeng and made some preparations to welcome the envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Although he has essentially torn his face with the Southern Song Dynasty, he has made no secret of his strategy of wanting to destroy the Song Dynasty, and allowed the "Hongwu Political Theory" to spread on a large scale in the Southern Song Dynasty, but the Southern Song Dynasty is still nominally a vassal state of the Ming state and the largest vassal state of the Ming state. There's still some work to be done.

Su Yonglin, through the information gathered by the Skynet Army in the Southern Song Dynasty, gathered information in the Central Capital, and learned a lot about the dissemination of "Hongwu Political Theory" in the Southern Song Dynasty. the son of an official.

Did he do it out of disappointment with reality, disgust with the imperial examination system, or did he genuinely identify and support his ideas through reading books?
Su Yonglin was not sure.

But he learned that the official's son did not beg for mercy before he died, but laughed instead, and he felt something in his heart.

No one knows what this person thinks, but his free and easy way really has the taste of a martyr.

Su Yonglin sighed deeply.

On the first day of September, Chen Kangbo led a delegation of the Southern Song Dynasty to the Garrison Pavilion in the south of the Central Capital City.

This is the place where Su Yonglin garrisoned troops when he led the army to attack Zhongdu. Now it is an important post station that many local officials must pass through before arriving in Zhongdu. live in it.

Twenty miles to the north from the Garrison Pavilion is the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

The envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty rested at the Garrison Pavilion for a day. On the morning of the second day of September, they set off for Zhongdu City. On the afternoon of the second day of September, they rushed to the outside of Zhongdu City in time for the sunset, and completed half of the trip. 's journey.

Looking at Zhongdu City, the members of the Southern Song Dynasty envoys were all shocked.

There is no other reason, Zhongducheng is really too tall and majestic.

As the original capital of the Jin Dynasty, Wanyanliang actually planned to move the capital south to Kaifeng before he had time to build the Zhongdu City. After Su Yonglin won the Central Capital, he officially carried out a series of expansions and renovations on the Zhongdu City, and built the Zhongdu City into a The first heroic city in Daming.

The reason for this is also very simple.

One is to enhance the military attributes of Zhongducheng, making Zhongducheng a military center in North China, a barrier to defend the Central Plains, and a springboard to control Liaodong and the Great Wall, not only as a capital, but also as a military center.

The second is to show the momentum of the Daming Empire. As the capital, it is not tall and majestic enough to reflect the strong national strength and prosperity of the Daming Empire. This is a symbol, similar to the way a person dresses himself when he goes to a formal occasion to participate in a social event. .

Although it is definitely not like this in normal times, you must dress up formally at critical moments to show your dignity and dignity as a social person.

Compared with the Zhongdu City more than five years ago, the current Zhongdu City has completely changed. Su Yonglin has almost rebuilt the outer city wall of the Zhongdu City, which is nearly three times larger than the original Zhongdu City.

This is not to mention that the outer city wall of Zhongdu has not yet been completed, and the scale will continue to expand in the future, making Zhongdu a real giant city.

According to the census report in March of the fourth year of Hongwu, the resident population of Zhongdu City has exceeded 80, counting the daily floating population, breaking through one million every minute.

Urban residents, non-local commercial population and handicraft population have revitalized the entire city. As a transportation hub to undertake the Central Plains, connecting Liaodong and the prairie, Zhongdu City has a prosperous and prosperous city that no other city has.

In the context of this anti-urbanization, the population of Zhongdu City has not decreased but increased, business has become increasingly prosperous, and the North China economic system with Zhongdu City as the core is taking shape.

This is enough to reflect the vitality of Zhongdu City under Su Yonglin's management.

Such a huge population scale, of course, also needs a giant city to accommodate it.

For now, Lin'an City in the Southern Song Dynasty is actually no worse than Zhongdu City in terms of population size, even a little more than Zhongdu City, and its business is quite prosperous, but no matter from which point of view the whole city is viewed, it is only You can see the beauty of prosperity.

And Zhongdu City can see not only the beauty of prosperity, but also the beauty of solemnity and majesty.

Yu Yunwen had a bit of military thinking and vision, and he quickly developed a sense of disloyalty in his heart.

Zhongducheng not only gives people a sense of prosperity, but also gives people a sense of solemnity, majesty, and inviolability. If they feel a little disrespectful, they will be severely punished, so they consciously make outsiders shrink their arms and abide by the law. Dare to mess around.

The Lin'an City in the Southern Song Dynasty gave people the feeling that it was more than prosperous, but lacked solemnity. It gave people the feeling that this prosperity could also belong to me. Just made a profit.

This strange sense of sight made Yu Yunwen very uncomfortable.

He didn't know what Chen Kangbo and Lu You thought, he was very uncomfortable anyway.

Chen Kangbo and Lu You didn't say anything, nor did the entire Southern Song Dynasty envoys. Maybe they were ashamed or unbearable. They bowed their heads and followed Wang Qi forward honestly.

Outside Zhongdu City, Daming Honglu Temple Minister Chen Guangyuan led the officials of Honglu Temple waiting. After seeing Chen Kangbo and others, they chatted for a while and brought them into Zhongdu City at Chengxuan Gate, which is due south of Zhongdu City.

When they entered the city, there were also some ordinary people and business travelers who were being inspected by the city gate guards, and they entered Zhongdu City in an orderly manner.

As diplomatic envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty, they could be inspected and quickly passed through the special channel. When checking the items they were carrying, Lu You had been observing a series of procedures for the normal Ming people to enter the capital city.

He found that the procedure for these people to enter Zhongdu City was very simple.

If it’s just an ordinary person, hand the city gate guard a piece of paper. The city gate guard glances at the paper, writes down a few pens, and returns the paper to the person, who can then enter Zhongdu City after tidying up.

If it is a business trip, a horse-drawn cart, an ox cart, etc., you need to get off the car for inspection. If you come with goods, you must also be inspected to ensure that the goods are no problem and not prohibited, and you must also hand over a piece of paper to the city gate guard. Record, and then you can pack up and enter Zhongdu City.

The city gate is very large and high, and there are many people entering Zhongdu City, so more than 20 inspection passages were set up at the gate of the city to ensure that people can enter Zhongdu at a faster speed.

What surprised Lu You was that he didn't see anyone paying the city gate guards, as if there was no such link, the piece of paper was obviously not property, otherwise it wouldn't be returned.

Lu You watched the envoy's inspection for a while. Chen Kangbo and Yu Yunwen were both staring at the gifts that the envoy brought to Su Yonglin, and they quietly approached Wang Qi, who was taken over by Chen Guangyuan.

"Master Wang, don't the people of Daming need to pay the city gate tax when they enter the Central Capital City?"

(End of this chapter)