Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

Chapter 324 Our Daming is finally justified!

The central capital is Fengyang.

Standing outside the gate of Fengyang City, Zhu Yunxi looked at this city that shouldn't have appeared. There were only four words in his mind - magnificent.

Why do you say that this city should not have appeared?

Because this is completely a city built by Zhu Yuanzhang himself regardless of the opposition of his courtiers.

Construction began in the second year of Hongwu and continued until the eighth year of Hongwu, in which tens of thousands of peasants and craftsmen were mobilized.

Later, the craftsmen and civilian husbands were so miserable that they cursed under the palace. Zhu Yuanzhang killed tens of thousands of people in a fit of anger, leaving less than 1000 people.

But after that, Zhu Yuanzhang also stopped the construction of Fengyang, the central capital, and just used it as an accompanying capital.

Zhu Yunxi rode a horse and walked in Fengyang City, looking at the row upon row of houses, neat streets, and magnificent palaces on both sides, he somewhat understood why the emperor had to let him choose Fengyang when he was choosing a fiefdom.

In terms of the size of the land, Fengyang City is more magnificent than Nanjing City, regardless of the size of the city or the palace.

Fu Youde couldn't help asking with a smile when he saw Zhu Yunxi kept looking around.

"Did the grandson of the third emperor regret it?"

"Fengyang Mansion is much richer than Songjiang Mansion, but the grandson of the Three Emperors handed it over to others. What a pity!"

Zhu Yunxi smiled indifferently when he heard the words.

"No regrets!"

"Although this place is good, it is not a place to do business. It seems too narrow to stretch your hands and feet!"

Hearing this, Fu Youde praised sincerely.

"What the grandson of the three emperors said is true!"

"Although the emperor stopped work for the reason of wasting people and money, in fact, anyone with a discerning eye knows that this place is not suitable for a country's capital at all."

"The reason is the same as what the third emperor said, it's too narrow, it can't accommodate the millions of people in the capital, and it's not enough to be the capital of the world!"

"The geographical location is better than Jinling City. It is surrounded by mountains, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and has a certain defensive value."

When Fu Youde said this, it was as if he had opened up a chatterbox, and began to criticize the various capitals of the Ming Dynasty with Zhu Yunxi.

"Jinling is actually not suitable to be a national capital. The city wall is almost built into the Yangtze River. What will it look like?"

"Since ancient times, there has never been a capital on the edge of a big river."

Zhu Yunxi slammed a sentence when he heard the words.

"Isn't Kaifeng City right by the Yellow River?"

Hearing this, Fu Youde replied angrily.

"So Emperor Huiqin was captured by the Jinren!"

Zhu Yunxi shrugged helplessly when he heard this, and asked a question half-arguably.

"Then according to Lord Ying, where can Daming be the capital?"

"This is..."

Fu Youde pondered for a while, then shook his head helplessly.

"To be honest, there are advantages and disadvantages everywhere, and there is nothing too good."

Zhu Yunxi gave Fu Youde a blank look when he heard the words.

"Then what are you talking about?"

After Zhu Yunxi finished pissing off Fu Youde, he rode his horse into the Imperial Palace of Zhongdu.

The Zhongdu Imperial Palace was built in the shape of the Forbidden City in Nanjing, only larger in scale and land occupation.

Now in the entire Zhongdu City, Zhu Yunxi has the highest title, so he lived in the Qianqing Palace as a matter of course.

As for Fu Youde and the accompanying soldiers, they could only be stationed in the military camp in Zhongdu.

Even if there are redundant houses in the palace, they dare not live there, or even think about it.

Zhu Yunxi rested in Zhongdu for one night, and the next day went to pay homage to the ancestral mausoleum ten miles south of the city.

The ancestral mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty began to be built before Lao Zhu became the emperor, and it was not completed until the 12th year of Hongwu.

Lao Zhu's parents were buried in this ancestral tomb. Later, Lao Zhu felt that it was too desolate, so he moved the tombs of his three elder brothers, sister-in-law and two nephews here, and officially renamed it the imperial mausoleum.

The imperial mausoleum has three floors: inner, middle, and outer. The innermost one is called the imperial city. It is built of blue bricks and is two feet high and covers an area of ​​about [-] square meters.The second floor is also a brick wall, occupying a much larger area than the imperial city.The outermost layer is the rammed earth city wall, and its area is somewhat more magnificent than that of ordinary prefectural cities.

Zhu Yunxi followed the Shinto in the middle of the imperial mausoleum, passed the Red Bridge, Lingxing Gate, Beiming Building in the Brick City, the Shinto, the Royal Bridge, and the Golden Gate of the Imperial City, and then came to the Xiangdian of the imperial mausoleum.

In principle, this is the end point of his sacrifice.As for the mounds, Minglou and other places behind, don't go there unless necessary.

In fact, Zhu Yunxi also listened to Fu Youde's suggestion, and then remembered to pay homage to the ancestors in the imperial tomb.

According to Fu Youde, it was an emergency during the expedition, and it was fine if he didn't come to worship.Now that he has returned from the expedition and won a complete victory, if he doesn't come to the ancestral mausoleum to pay homage, he will be stabbed in the back by the people of the world.

When Zhu Yunxi passed by the stele of the imperial mausoleum, he stopped to look at it for a long time.

Originally, he just wanted to come over to make a point, offer three sacrifices, and leave after pretending.

However, when he read the inscription on the "Imperial Tomb Stele" written by Lao Zhu, he was immediately moved by Lao Zhu's difficult entrepreneurial journey.

Normally, the royal inscriptions of all dynasties were written by the great Confucianists of the imperial court.

However, Lao Zhu was afraid that those literati would write too elegantly, and future generations would not be able to see the hardships of starting a business, so he simply wrote it in vernacular.

In the past, my father, the emperor, lived here.

Agriculture is difficult, day and night.

Natural disasters are prevalent in Erer, and family members suffer.

Huang Kao finally had four out of sixty, and nine out of fifty imperial concubine died.

Brother Meng died first, and the whole family stayed in mourning.

The landlord's morality does not care about me, and he shouts loudly.

If you don't get it, the neighbors are melancholy.

Hu Yi's generosity benefits this yellow soil.

There is no coffin in the funeral, and the body is covered with evil clothes.

Float to cover three feet, lay He Yao pulp.

……

...

The writing on the Imperial Mausoleum Monument is plain and unpretentious, but the desolation and helplessness contained in it make people cry when they hear it and feel sad when they look at it.

Looking at the inscription written by Lao Zhu himself, Zhu Yunxi felt as if he understood the old man a little bit.

Grandpa Huang's life was too hard and not easy.

The reason why Grandpa Huang is so diligent in politics is not because he is greedy for power, but because he knows that everything he has won is hard-won, and he is too afraid of losing it, so he dare not let it go easily...

Zhu Yunxi stayed in front of the imperial mausoleum stele for a long time, until he had recited all the inscriptions on the stele, and then entered the hall of worship with a heavy heart, and earnestly performed the ceremony of offering sacrifices.

"Come here, take a pen and paper, and write the sacrificial text yourself!"

Fu Youde has been observing Zhu Yunxi's expression, just seeing Zhu Yunxi moved in front of His Majesty's imperial mausoleum, he felt that this suggestion was right.

Now that he heard that Zhu Yunxi was going to write the sacrificial oration himself, Fu Youde happily took over the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and polished the ink for Zhu Yunxi himself.

Zhu Yunxi pondered for a while, dipped himself in the ink, and then picked up a pen to write on the paper.

When Zhu Yunxi splashed ink, Jin Yiwei beside him had already taken out a small notebook and began to copy.

After Zhu Yunxi finished writing the last word, Jin Yiwei also sent out the sacrificial text.

Central Capital is very close to Jinling City. Zhu Yunxi had just finished the sacrificial ceremony here, and Jin Yiwei's small report was also sent out.

Xu Liuzi instinctively felt that the emperor would be very pleased to see the sacrificial oration written by the young master himself.

Therefore, I made my own claim and sent the sacrificial text back to the capital directly in the form of an expedited eight hundred miles.

After Lao Zhu sent Zhang Sloppy away, he couldn't calm down for a long time.

One is that he is happy that his grandson has a long life, and the other is that he is worried that he killed too much in the early years, will it affect his life and Ming's national fortune?

Before that, he didn't really believe in these things, but when he heard Zhang Sloppy say the same thing today, he couldn't help but not believe it.

Coupled with the loss of his wife in middle age and his son in his later years, he also had some doubts about himself.

Because of this concern, Lao Zhu didn't even eat lunch, shut himself in the palace alone, and seriously reflected on his life.

However, after thinking about it until midnight, Lao Zhu didn't think about it.

However, he only knows one thing, that is, if God gives him another chance, he will still kill, kill, kill...

Just try to kill as little as possible.

For example, why did I kill so many craftsmen in the construction of Zhongdu in a fit of anger?
They are also under heavy corvee, which is unbearable, no different from their rebellion back then...

Based on this, Lao Zhu reflected on the various measures he had taken in power over the years. The more he thought about it, the less confident he became, and the more he thought about it, the more his spirit collapsed.

Just when he was so irritable that he wanted to burn down the palace with a torch, Erhu's eager voice came from outside the door.

"My lord, there is a secret report from the young master!"

Old Zhu said angrily.

"Then what happened to Ni Sun?"

"no!"

"It was the young master who paid homage to the imperial mausoleum in Central Capital and wrote the sacrificial text himself."

"Then Ni Sun personally wrote the sacrificial oration?"

Hearing this, Lao Zhu frowned, thinking that Jin Yiwei sent him to the palace so late, so he was sure that Nisun would say something outrageous again.

Therefore, he walked out of the bedroom angrily, and waved at Erhu.

"Bring it!"

"Hey!"

The two tigers offered it respectfully with both hands, and Lao Zhu grabbed it arrogantly.

Old Zhu was prepared to be pissed off by Ni Sun, but when he opened the sacrificial oration written by Jin Yiwei, his eyes were moist, as if he had found a confidant.

"In the past, my imperial examination, living is the right way."

"I'm too young to stand up, and I'm living in a foreign country."

"I live in a monastery, and I run out of food."

"Baina wears knots, sleep dew meal cream."

When Lao Zhu saw this, he seemed to have returned to the desolate, helpless and unaccompanied bleak situation when he was a child.

When he thought of the death of his parents, not to mention that there was no coffin, not even a decent dress, he felt even more sad, and sat on the threshold of the palace and cried.

"Russian red scarves are everywhere, Huang Kao hides in Tibet."

"Follow him in anger to fight against the Yuan Dynasty, and the blood of the battle stains his robes."

"Since ancient times, those who have achieved success in the imperial career have not been as miserable as the imperial examination."

When Lao Zhu saw this, he immediately stared at the words on the paper and cursed.

"Everyone is hiding in Tibet!"

"We are the right man, we are right under the eyes of the Yuan army, they can't catch us!"

Lao Zhu defended himself with a few words and then continued to read, and saw that the following were all about how hard and difficult it was for him to create the Great Ming Dynasty. He was very pleased to see it, and wished he could bring his eldest grandson over and kiss him fiercely.

It's still my good grandson who is sensible, knowing that it is not easy for us to build Daming!
Lao Zhu saw Dasun's self-reflection after watching Dasun's flattery of himself.

"I will be the emperor's grandson for the rest of my life, and I have been anorexic since I was a child."

"Looking at the hardships of the emperor's exam today, you will know that the past was useless."

"Today, I worship it with this article, so as to clarify my heart's ambition."

"From now on, you should take your father and grandfather as a model, be diligent in political affairs, live up to the expectations of the emperor, and live up to the expectations of the subjects of the world..."

After watching the last paragraph, Lao Zhu danced happily.

The sacrificial oration written by the grandson to pay homage to the imperial mausoleum not only swept away the depression in his heart, but also felt refreshing like never before.

So what if we are cruel and bloodthirsty?
So what if we killed the wrong one?
We have a great grandson, in the future our grandson can cover up for us, hahaha...

"Er Hu, take a look at the sacrificial oration written by our eldest grandson!"

Erhu hurriedly took it and looked it over carefully, and then praised repeatedly.

"it is good!"

"very nice!"

"that is really good!"

"Are you not going to say anything else besides saying yes?"

"I……"

"Don't be an eyesore here, go and call Qi Tai, Yuan Tai, and Chen Zongli over!"

"If you want to talk about flattery, it has to be that these civil servants do it comfortably!"

"promise!"

After sending the two tigers away, Lao Zhu sat on the threshold and looked over and over at the sacrificial oration written by the grandson, feeling more and more comfortable the more he read it.

"Our eldest grandson has grown up and knows that he loves our grandpa!"

"I really want to see your little Ni grandson right away!"

……

Three days later.

As soon as Zhu Yunxi's car drove around the Shanchuan Altar, he saw Lao Zhu's Luanjia parked outside the Zhengyang Gate. On both sides of his Luanjia, there were all civil and military officials who came to greet him.

When Lao Zhu saw Dasun's carriage, he immediately got off Long Yue, waiting for his reunion with Dasun with anticipation.

Seeing Lao Zhu getting out of the carriage, Zhu Yunxi also got out of the carriage, stood on the shaft and waved to Lao Zhu.

When Lao Zhu saw Dasun jumping and jumping on the shaft of the car, he was so angry that he cursed.

"This rebellious grandson can't make people feel relieved!"

After Lao Zhu scolded his grandson, a happy smile appeared on his face again.Looking at it from a distance from his perspective, it seems that the eldest grandson has grown a little taller and is about to become a big child!
Under Zhu Yunxi's repeated urging, the carriage drove at an accelerated speed of three hundred miles.Seeing that the carriage was less than ten steps away from Long Yu, Zhu Yunxi jumped off the carriage without waiting for the carriage to stop, and then galloped towards Old Zhu like a fat sparrow.

Seeing this, Lao Zhu quickly stretched out his arms and caught Dasun firmly.

However, just when he wanted to hug his eldest grandson as usual, he unexpectedly vacated his body first.

Just when Lao Zhu was at a loss, he only heard Dasun yelling happily.

"Grandfather, I can hug you!"

When Lao Zhu heard this, he slapped Dasun on the head angrily, and reprimanded majestically.

"Put us down quickly!"

"There are so many people watching, how decent it is!"

Zhu Yunxi put Lao Zhu down after hearing the words, but there was still a smug smile on his face.

"Grandpa Huang, grandson will be able to run around with you on his back soon, la la la!"

When Lao Zhu heard this, he immediately remembered the scene of carrying his grandson on his back last year, and a sweet repentance appeared on his face.

This little rebellious grandson is still thinking about this matter!
Lao Zhu rubbed Dasun's little head lovingly, and said deliberately angrily.

"We heard that you are so capable that you can still fight the enemy?"

"And killed two hundred Tartars?"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Yunxi hurriedly explained embarrassingly.

"Grandfather, it was all made up by my uncle. In order to put money on my grandson's face, my grandson actually only killed two..."

"both……"

"That's amazing!"

"You said that you have made such a great contribution, should we reward you with something?"

"Board or whip?"

"Humph!"

Seeing that Ni Sun's little face turned pale with fright, Lao Zhu stopped teasing him, took his little hand and went to Long Chuan.

"Go back to the palace with us first, we have prepared your favorite bear's paw, hehehe!"

Lao Zhu led his eldest grandson away, but the civil and military officials could not leave.

According to the official documents of the imperial court, Fu Youde was the main general who supported Datong this time, and Zhu Yunxie was just an addition.

Therefore, the certain triumphal ceremony must be completed, and there is no room for sloppyness.

The triumphant ceremony prepared by Lao Zhu's Ministry of Rites was very grand, not only with music, but also with singing and dancing performances presented by the Jiaofang Secretary, which made the nosebleeds of all the young soldiers who went to the expedition.

It's just that Zhu Yunxie was destined to miss these things, and he was being questioned vigorously by Lao Zhu in the carriage.

"Did you get hurt?"

"no!"

"My grandson is protected by the emperor, and mere arrows can't hurt me!"

"And my grandson cherishes his life very much. As long as he goes out, he must wear soft armor!"

Zhu Yunxi unbuttoned his clothes while speaking, revealing the soft armor inside.

Seeing Dasun attaching so much importance to protection, Lao Zhu let go of his suspenseful heart.But when he thought of this rebellious grandson, who had been frightening him for so long, the old man felt ruthless, thinking that he would have to deal with him when he returned to the palace.

"We've read your uncle's request for credit!"

"oh oh……"

When Zhu Yunxi heard this, he lowered his head guiltyly, and his face was even hotter.

"Grandfather, grandson has taken credit for it..."

"Actually, my grandson just went out for a walk on horseback. It's really not as good as they said..."

Lao Zhu looked at his silly grandson and happily hugged him in his arms and explained.

"You've done a great job!"

"Whether it's Sapphire or our spies in Datong Mansion, they all praise you as a flower, saying that you have the appearance of a sage!"

"spy?"

Zhu Yunxi looked at Lao Zhu in puzzlement.

"Grandfather, do you still have spies in Datong Mansion?"

Old Zhu laughed loudly.

"That's natural!"

"We have sent out a hundred thousand troops, how can we do it without sending a few people to watch?"

"You will also remember for us in the future, no matter how much you trust the leading general, you must bury a few more eyeliners in the army, and let them always report to you what is going on in the army, so that the leading general will not give birth to something that should not be done. Have thoughts!"

"oh oh……"

"The grandson understands. It's like the grandpa burying nails beside his grandson and staring at me, just because he is afraid that I will have thoughts that I shouldn't have."

When Lao Zhu heard this, his face turned green with anger, and he immediately turned Zhu Yunxi over and slapped his buttocks.

"To shut up!"

"Can that be the same?"

"We sent someone to watch you, because we are afraid that you will mess around!"

"Besides, didn't you turn us around once?"

When Zhu Yunxi saw Lao Zhu revealing his background, he could only giggle in embarrassment.

Lao Zhu just pretended to hit him a few times, and then continued to explain to Dasun.

"Let's say you did a good job this time because you didn't interfere with the deployment of the army and did your part."

"Let me tell you, you don't have to lead soldiers or fight wars when you are an emperor, but you must be able to employ people..."

The carriage drove all the way, Lao Zhu pulled Dasun and talked all the way.

After the two of them returned to the palace, Lao Zhu threw the grandson into the bathtub for a good scrubbing before taking him to eat.

After the meal, Lao Zhu showed the rewritten edict to his grandson as if offering a treasure.

"We wrote a canonization edict again!"

"This time you took such a big risk to go to Datong Mansion, rescued the soldiers of Datong Mansion, and won a big victory. If you don't write this in the imperial edict, you will suffer a lot, hahaha!"

At this time, Lao Zhu was no different from an ordinary country old man, wishing to show off with a loudspeaker to let others know how good his grandson was.

Zhu Yunxi took the imperial decree and looked at it, and sure enough, he saw that his credit book had been thickened, and Lao Zhu added several merits.

What saved Datong from water and fire, captured tens of thousands of people in Oala.Go into battle to kill the enemy, and kill the enemy chieftain under the horse.Pursue thousands of miles and save the people from all kinds of difficulties.

In short, my own grandfather, like Lan Yu's uncle, is not ashamed when he brags, and tries his best to put gold on his face.

After reading the imperial decree, Zhu Yunxi pointed to the jade seal above and said.

"Grandfather, your imperial decree is well written, but this Fang Yuxi is not good, why don't you try the one brought back by your grandson?"

"You brought it back?"

"Yes!"

"Grandson picked up a jade seal on the grassland. It looks better than yours."

Under Old Zhu's half-believing eyes, Zhu Yunxi ran out of the hall, took a box from Wang De's hand, and ran to Lao Zhu to offer the treasure.

"Grandfather, how do you look at this?"

When Lao Zhu heard the word Yuxi, he felt a little expectation in his heart.

The biggest regret in his life is that he failed to regain the Jade Seal of Chuanguo that belonged to Huaxia.

Qin Shihuang used the Heshibi to inscribe the seal of the state, which did not continue the state of the Great Qin Dynasty.

However, after the death of Qin Shihuang, the Chuanguo Yuxi became the supreme fetish of all dynasties.

Whoever owns the Jade Seal of Chuanguo is the Son of Destiny.

It was true in the Han Dynasty, it was true in the Tang Dynasty, it was true in the Song Dynasty, and it was true in the Yuan Dynasty.

Only since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, after all the painstaking efforts, there is still no trace of the Jade Seal of Chuanguo.

Therefore, Lao Zhu always felt that he was an unorthodox emperor, and he would have no face to face the previous emperors of the Chinese dynasties after his death.

Lao Zhu also tried his best to find it, but even if he won a big victory like Yuerhai, he still couldn't find the Jade Seal of Chuanguo.

As time passed, Lao Zhu felt that his luck was bad, and he might not see it in his lifetime.

When Lao Zhu thought of this, he lost his anticipation for the upcoming Yuxi.

However, when he opened the box and saw the corner of the jade seal inlaid with gold, he stopped breathing instantly, and his two long eyes stared round, as if they could fly out of the eye sockets at any time.

"This……"

"Is this the Jade Seal of the Chuan Kingdom?"

Lao Zhu carefully picked up the jade seal with both hands, turned it over and over to examine it carefully.Then carefully apply the ink pad and print it on the paper with a "slap".

When he saw the eight huge seal characters of "Ordered by heaven, long life and eternal prosperity" appeared on the paper, he held the jade seal excitedly and burst into tears.

"We finally see Chuan Guo Yuxi in our lifetime!"

"This is God's will!"

"We searched hard for more than [-] years and found nothing. You, a rebellious grandson, went to the grassland for the first time and found this thing!"

"From today!"

"Our Daming is finally justified!"

"Woooooo!"

(End of this chapter)