Zhu Pingan went to the Tidings outer office to join Liu Mu Liu Dazhou and other people, with the official document of the Tidings Lord summoned the Tidings office of the thirty officers, rushed to yesterday’s coordination of fifteen horse-drawn carriages out of the office, rushed to the destination of Zhenwu camp.
Zhenwu camp is stationed with Yingtian City outer Guo, in the direction of the south of the outer city, between the old Imperial City and Zijinshan Mountain. The Tidings Division was located in the northern part of the city, and the Zhenwu Camp was exactly one south and one north, the distance between the roads was quite large.
Zhu Pingan and his party drove the carriage for half an hour before arriving in the south of the city, and from afar, they saw the Purple Mountain.
“Zhongshan is coiled by a dragon, Shicheng is perched by a tiger, truly the residence of an emperor.”
Zhu Pingan looked at the Purple Mountain from afar, the Purple Mountain is slightly curved, the mouth of the arc towards the south, winding like a giant dragon, could not help but sigh, when Hongwu Emperor would choose Yingtian to establish the capital city, it is in favour of the terrain here, right.
The outer city wall of Yingtian City snaked like a dragon, encompassing the entire Purple Mountain.
If you look at it from a distance, the old Imperial City is at the foot of the Purple Mountain.
Oh, I remember.
When the Ming Dynasty was first established and the capital was built in Yingtian, Zijinshan Mountain was not inside the city, but outside.
At that time, Hongwu Emperor built the capital of Yingtian, conscripted more than 200,000 people to build Yin Tiancheng, took several years to become, the city wall circumference of seventy miles, east of Zhongshan as a backing, south of the Qinhuai River as a natural moat, west of the Yangtze River moat, north of the Xuanwu Lake as a barrier, set of mountains, lakes, rivers, the three as one.
After the completion of Yingtian City, Hongwu Emperor was excited to take the Prince and the civil and military officials climbed the Purple Mountain, overlooking the Yingtian City, which is very satisfied, so firm city, when the foundation for the ages.
Hongwu Emperor of the Dragon’s great joy is not without complacency pointing to the Yingtian City on the Prince and the civil and military officials to show off, “heh heh heh, you think this is how to build the capital city? My capital city city high walls thick, circumference crowns the ancient and modern, a total of thirteen gates, east of Zhongshan as a backing, south of the Qinhuai moat, west of the Yangtze River moat, north of Xuanwu Lake as a barrier, solid as a golden soup, enough to hold for more than a year.”
“Your Majesty is wise, Yingtian City should be the world’s first firm city in the past and present.”
“Yingtian City is truly a heavenly city.”
“Your majesty has a discerning eye, with such a majestic city and a heavenly barrier, it can be said to be as solid as gold.”
“More than one year, ten or eight years is no problem.”
“……”
The civil and military officials echoed, praising Emperor Hongwu’s wisdom and the fact that Yingtian City was as solid as gold.
However, just as the civil and military officials were singing the praises of our Emperor’s brilliance, an incongruous, voice of a teenager in the metamorphosis stage rang out, “Mount the cannons on Purple Mountain, and the cannons will be fired into the Hauzai Gate.”
The Houzai Gate is the gate of the Forbidden City, and the teenager’s meaning is that cannons will be set up on Purple Mountain, and the cannons will hit the Forbidden City.
The teenager’s voice is like a phoenix flying into the mountains and forests and chirping, the noisy birds in the mountains and forests suddenly crows are silent, the civil and military officials heard the teenager’s this life review suddenly all quiet.
The crowd followed the sound to look, only to see the Hongwu Emperor’s fourth prince – Zhu Di stood there, a face of pride.
Teenager Zhu Di was in his teens, just the age when he liked to show off, he was very proud, proud that he had discovered the hidden dangers of the city’s defence.
At the moment, he proudly tilted his face up in anticipation, expecting his father and the civil and military officials to praise him.
The air was quiet, even a bit depressing.
How come you haven’t complimented me yet?
The rest of Junior Zhu’s eyes swept a glance at the civil and military officials, noticing that they had expressions of nervousness and uneasiness on their faces, well, they should be nervous and uneasy about their incompetence and failure to discover the hidden dangers of the city’s defences, fearing that they would be chastised by their father Emperor. Hurry up and praise me, this king will consider pleading for you.
The civil and military officials didn’t come to compliment me for fear of Father’s chastisement, what about Father, how come Father didn’t compliment me?
Junior Zhu Di looked down at the direction of the Hongwu Emperor and found that the originally excited father’s face sank, Junior Zhu Di couldn’t help but be nervous, what’s the matter, does it mean that I’m looking at it wrong?
However, the next second Junior Zhu Di was relieved, because the father emperor who sank his face smiled again, smiled and took out an orange from his sleeve, peeled the skin, removed the meridian, and handed it to himself, letting himself eat the orange.
This was Father’s reward.
Father Emperor has never only praised Imperial Brother Zhu Biao, never praised me, this orange is the first time Father Emperor has rewarded me. This is the first time my father has rewarded me. It’s not as simple as rewarding an orange, my father peeled an orange for me to eat with his own hands.
I’m not even treated like this by my elder brother.
Junior Zhu, in the eyes of the crowd, smugly took the orange, put it into his mouth, and ate it.
Sweet, very sweet, very sweet, in the mouth, sweet in the heart.
Junior Zhu Di felt that he had never eaten such a sweet orange, and he could not forget it for the rest of his life.
After returning to the palace, the teenager Zhu Di greeted Empress Ma. Zhu Di was not born to Empress Ma, but was brought up by Empress Ma, who loved him as if he were her own. Zhu Di also treats Empress Ma like his own mother, and is not as close to his real mother as he is to Empress Ma.
Queen Ma saw Zhu Di a happy face, can not help but smile and ask him today with his father to tour the Purple Mountain, is not a good time ah, teenager Zhu Di with a proud face will be Hongwu Emperor in the Purple Mountain to ask all the people in the city of Yingtian thing to tell Queen Ma.
“How did you answer?”Empress Ma asked curiously with a smile.
“My son climbed up to the Purple Mountain, and from the Purple Mountain he had a good view of the entire Forbidden City, and at once he realised that something was not right, and that if there was an enemy occupying the Purple Mountain, wouldn’t he be able to set up a cannon on the Purple Mountain to shell the Forbidden City. So my son replied, “Mount a cannon on Purple Mountain and cannonball into the Housai Gate.”
Junior Zhu Di looked like he was waiting for Empress Ma’s compliments, smugly repeating his answer.
When Empress Ma heard this, she couldn’t help but change her face and nervously looked at Junior Zhu Di and asked, “Did your father say anything when he heard it at that time?”
“Father Emperor didn’t say anything, pulled out an orange from his sleeve, peeled the orange on the spot, handed it to me, and told me to eat the orange. Mother, do you know, I have never eaten such a sweet orange before.”
Junior Zhu Di said smugly, his face filled with happiness when he said that the orange was very sweet.
After Junior Zhu Di finished speaking, he waited for Empress Ma’s compliments.
But to Zhu Di’s surprise, he didn’t get a compliment and saw a greatly shocked Empress Ma instead.
There is no one who understands Hongwu Da Di better than Empress Ma, she understands Hongwu Da Di’s behaviour and also understands Hongwu Da Di’s mind. Hongwu Emperor is decisive, he will pass the throne to the eldest son of the two of them, Zhu Biao, and to give Zhu Biao a unity for ten thousand years of the solid mountain, Hongwu Emperor has more than once in front of her revealed to kill once helped them to take over the world, and now have the ability to threaten the countryside of the bow and the lackeys ……She knew what Hong Wu Da Di’s on-the-spot move meant.
“My son, run away, your father and emperor will not only kill you, but will also peel your skin and whip your tendons like an orange.”Empress Ma was instantly horrified, urging and arranging for Zhu Di to flee from Yingtian to Shuntian.
Hongwu Emperor found that Empress Ma let Zhu Di go, thinking that the Empress regarded Zhu Di as if he was her own son, and her feelings were very deep, and then thinking that Zhu Di, after all, was also his own son, and now he was only in his early teens, so he didn’t pursue the matter any further.
However, Zhu Di’s comments or let the Hongwu Emperor nagging, so the Hongwu Emperor decided to build Yingtian City, the outer wall of the city, the Purple Mountain, Yuhuatai, Mufushan all wrapped up in the city …….
And so it came to be what it is today.
