Back in the early Ming Dynasty, a strange thing happened to a farmer named Tang in Putai County, Binzhou, Shandong Province. The couple had not had children for many years, and they prayed to gods and Buddhas for medical advice. Soon the woman returned. Really pregnant.
Ever since his wife became pregnant, neighbors often smelled a strange fragrance lingering near their home, and the fragrance became stronger as the month went by. In the blink of an eye, I gave birth to a daughter. It was strange to say that other people's afterbirths were bloody, but the afterbirth of this girl was actually snow-white. No matter how you looked at it, it looked like a white lotus in full bloom. Even the neighbors thought that This girl must be the reincarnation of Fairy Bailian, and some people even whispered that this child is the reincarnation of Nezha.
After ten months of looking forward to giving birth to a daughter, the girl was cute and cute, so the girl's father named her Sai'er, hoping that she would be stronger and more independent than the boy. This Tang Sai'er not only likes reading, but is also fascinated by martial arts, so her father taught her to practice martial arts and keep fit early on.
Under his father's careful instruction, Tang Sai'er learned good martial arts and gained a chivalrous spirit. When I reached the age of marriage, I married a Lin San. Although I was not very wealthy, the husband and wife were harmonious and they lived happily.
It is said that Tang Saier got a box made of stone by chance. This mysterious box contained precious swords and military books. The clever Tang Saier regarded this book of war as a treasure, studied it with great concentration, studied it carefully, and relied on his superhuman understanding to get the essence of it, and became proficient in spells and tactics.
When Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, passed away and passed the throne to his grandson, his son Zhu Di launched an army to seize power and captured the Nanjing Palace. The palace was severely damaged. After ascending to the throne, Zhu Di always felt that he had fought hard. The palace was so gloomy that he even heard the voices of the ghosts of injustice at midnight every night. He felt that the Feng Shui royal aura here had been destroyed, so he decided to move the capital. This was the Yongle capital move in history.
The move of the capital of the Ming Dynasty from Nanjing to Peiping by Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, was an event of great significance in Chinese history. Its impact on Chinese politics, economy, and culture has continued to modern times.
Moving the capital to Beiping will help control the political situation across the country. It will also help fight against the southern invasion of the northern Mongols, and will also help manage the northeastern region. In the first year of Yongle (1403) after the Battle of Jingnan, Li Zhigang, the Minister of Rites, and others reported that Yanping and Peiping were the emperor's "land of dragon prosperity" and that they should follow the Ming Taizu's approach to Fengyang in Henan and establish it as a companion capital.
The Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty vigorously promoted the status of Yanjing's Beiping Prefecture, making Peiping the Beiping Prefecture. At the same time, he began to move people to enrich Peiping; those who were forcibly moved to Peiping included refugees from various places, wealthy households in the south of the Yangtze River, and Shanxi The merchants and the common people waited.
In the fourth year of Yongle, an edict was issued to build the Peiping Imperial Palace and city walls based on the Nanjing Imperial Palace (Nanjing Forbidden City).
(Zhu Di)
In the seventh year of Yongle, Ming Dynasty Emperor Chengzu used Beiping as his base to conduct a northern expedition. At the same time, he began to build Changling in Changping near Beiping. Building his mausoleum in Peking instead of Nanjing proved that Ming Chengzu had made up his mind to move the capital. In the eighth year of Yongle's reign, after returning from his personal expedition, Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty ordered a meeting to open up the river and open up water transportation from the north to the south.
It was completed in the thirteenth year of Yongle. From then on, the materials needed in Peiping could be transported relatively economically.
In the fourteenth year of Yongle's reign, Ming Chengzu summoned his officials to formally discuss the matter of moving the capital to Peking. Ming Chengzu dismissed or severely punished the ministers who raised objections one by one. From then on, no one dared to oppose the relocation of the capital.
The following year, construction of the Forbidden City in Peking, based on the Forbidden City in Nanjing, officially started.
In the 18th year of Yongle, the Peiping Imperial Palace was modeled on the Nanjing Imperial Palace and was slightly larger in scale. The newly built Peking City was forty-five miles in circumference and in a regular square shape, in line with "Zhou Li·Kaogong Ji" The shape of the ideal capital city. Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty issued an edict to officially move the capital, changing Yingtian Prefecture in Jinling to Nanjing, and Shuntian Prefecture in Beiping to be the capital. However, six ministries and other central agencies were still set up in Nanjing, which were called a certain ministry in Nanjing, with Nanjing as the remaining capital.
From then on, the palace was overhauled, manpower was organized, grain was transferred from the south to the north, canals were dug, and hundreds of thousands of people were recruited in Shandong. The peasants were burdened with hard labor. At that time, Shandong suffered from successive droughts and hungry people everywhere. The people were in urgent need of relief from the court. The newly established court was supposed to develop the economy stably, but unexpectedly it carried out large-scale construction and increased taxes and labor. This undoubtedly made matters worse, and Tang Saier's father was being drafted as a civilian husband. Death from fatigue.