On the seventh day of February in the 30th year of Hongxing's reign, outside the Chaoyang Gate in the east of Nanjing's inner city, there were crowds of people jostling each other.
At this moment, outside the Chaoyang Gate in the inner city of Nanjing, on the territory that originally belonged to Xiaolingwei, there were already tens of thousands of houses and houses living nearby. Before Jiashen moved south, Nanjing had nearly one million soldiers and civilians, making it the largest city in the world. Later, another 200,000 to 300,000 northerners moved in one after another. Coupled with the continuous influx of bankrupt farmers in the countryside around Nanjing, this number had already exceeded 2 million. Therefore, the originally desolate East City outside Nanjing has now become prosperous and lively.
Especially starting from the early years of Hongxing, the silk reeling industry in the Dongcheng area of Nanjing's outer city flourished rapidly due to the emergence of a large number of "Northern Army Silk Households" who were "cruel and ruthless" and did not care about killing (killing innocent silkworms). The territory that originally belonged to Xiaolingwei On the street, there have been countless residential buildings, markets, workshops, palaces, hotels, pavilions and pavilions. There are no strict rules for lanes and lanes. It is not like the buildings in Pukou, Jiangbei, which have strict planning. They are just messy and mixed together, which makes it even more complicated. Extremely lively. Moreover, the prosperity of Nanjing is far from over. Every year, countless people still move from rural areas and even small cities in the south and north of the Yangtze River to the city of Nanjing at the foot of the emperor.
Although the city of Nanjing has developed so prosperously and has gathered such a large population, there is no difficulty in providing food and clothing for two million people. This city and nearby Suzhou, Yangzhou, and Shanghai are truly the "chosen place" in the primary stage of capitalism. Relying on the water transportation of the Yangtze River, we can use the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Plain, the Jianghan Plain, the Dongting Lake Plain, and the Sichuan Basin as the hinterland to obtain a steady supply of low-cost food and raw materials.
Note that it is low cost and endless!
Compared with Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty and Beijing before the Jiashen Incident, Nanjing, which has a population of two million, does not need the huge shipping yamen (six-way shipping envoys) and canal army (numbering as many as 120,000) to maintain Supply, and even the Huaihe River has to be sacrificed to ensure the smooth flow of the canal...Nanjing can use very low transportation costs to obtain a large amount of food that can feed two million people, and there is still enough spare capacity. Supply the consumption of huge handicraft industry.
This abundant and low-cost supply is the basis for the development of the handicraft industry!
At the same time, these prosperous cities are close to Haikou, so they can obtain foreign technology, funds, commodities, raw materials, and markets from the vast sea, and they can also easily export excess population overseas... It is easy to export excess population, which is actually an important prerequisite for gathering a large number of people!
Because of capitalism...how can there be no economic crisis?
If there is no outlet for the pressure, when a crisis comes, the trouble will be big...
Therefore, Zhu Cihong, who moved the ruling center from Beijing to Nanjing, can easily lead the country on the road to capitalism.
However, there is something wrong with taking the wealthy and gentle land in the south of the Yangtze River as the center of the Celestial Empire. That is, the elites of a country are too easy to indulge in the life of wealth and forget that the world actually relies on guns and cannons to speak!
However, in the 30th year of Hongxing's reign, the warriors who created this prosperous age with guns and cannons were still alive, and the city of Nanjing was still filled with martial arts.
When the news of the reunification of the Ming Dynasty and the news that the Ming emperor and emperor were going to Xiaoling Guard to report their ancestors spread in Nanjing City, the northern immigrants living in the east of Nanjing's outer city, the retired Northern Army soldiers, and their children all Cheers erupted.
When the seventh day of February arrived, the long street outside Chaoyang Gate was already crowded with people. They were all the common people at the feet of the emperor who came to witness history. Everyone was wearing their most decent clothes. The foreign envoys and foreign businessmen living in Nanjing City and Pukou City on the other side also had expressions of emotion on their faces when facing this huge crowd of people.
No wonder the Ming Dynasty calls itself the Celestial Dynasty... The population of Nanjing City under the emperor's feet is greater than the total population of most countries in the world!
Ying Tianfu and the bodyguard army mobilized a large number of people to be on duty today. The soldiers stood facing the street, keeping the crowd of civilians behind them. These sergeants all looked very high-spirited - the Ming Dynasty was a renaissance for Zhu Youjian, Zhu Cixiang and his son, but for these Ming army soldiers, it was simply a founding of the country, no, not a founding of a country, but many. Found the country!
They are all warriors of the founding generation of the People's Republic of China. Of course they are brave and high-spirited!
Groups of cavalry selected from the bodyguards also patrolled Chaoyangmen Street in a splendid manner. All of them were riding tall Arabian or Indian fold-eared horses, carrying spears or flintlock guns on their backs, and wearing half plate armor and helmets. Anyone who knows anything will know that this cavalry is elite enough to dominate the world.
The Dong'an Gate in the east of the imperial city has been opened wide, and the officers and soldiers of the guard regiment have also put on bright armor, either on horseback or on foot, and they filed out one after another.
Behind them were ten golden four-wheeled carriages, with the windows closed and the curtains drawn. Looking in from the outside, only vague figures could be seen. There are people sitting in the carriages of each carriage. As for which carriage Emperor Zhu Cixiang is in...or whether he is in these carriages, only God knows!
Now is the era when rifled guns have entered the battlefield. They can probably kill them with a single shot from a few hundred meters away...
So Zhu Cixiang is becoming more and more careful now!
"Long live His Majesty the Emperor, long live long live..."
Seeing the golden four-wheeled carriage driving out of Chaoyang Gate under the leadership of the guard cavalry, the people on the street all bowed to the carriage and shouted long live the mountain at the same time.
Although the cheers were not uniform, they were extremely loud and kept coming one after another. It can be imagined that the soldiers and civilians on the street outside Chaoyang Gate all supported Zhu Cixiang, the leader of the Ming Dynasty's resurgence, from the bottom of their hearts.
Following these ten carriages were the royal family members and the civil and military personnel of the Manchu Dynasty, all riding horses... There were thousands of men and women!
As for the royal relatives, nobles and officials who cannot ride horses, they do not need to participate in today's worship activities. They are either too old to work hard, or they are too young to do anything...just stay at home!
The father and son, Zhu Cixiang and Zhu Youjian, had actually arrived at Xiaoling at this time - Zhu Cixiang would not risk being assassinated by openly passing by on the street!
He arrived early in the morning with his father Zhu Youjian, and Prince Zhu Hexing's half-brother Zhu Hexi (the rich king and the lucky prince were not here, so he was the virtuous grandson responsible for supporting the emperor). Xiamafang palace.
Grandparents and grandson all put on the Tongtian Crown Clothes - this set of clothes is a bit like the imperial clothes of the Song Dynasty and was worn during sacrifices.
The person presiding over today's ancestor worship is Kong Yinzheng. This descendant of Kong Laoer has been busy since last night and is currently conducting final inspections in various places in Xiaoling. After he finished the investigation, Zhu Cihong, Zhu Youjian, Zhu Heqi and his grandson should go to the Ming Taizu's Baoding to report on their work over the years.
Zhu Youjian and Zhu Hexi didn't take it seriously... Only Zhu Cixiang looked pious, holding a work report written by himself, and read it over and over again.
I feel a little uneasy!
Because he knew where he came from. Now that the Ming Dynasty has been completely restored, Xiaoling has also spent a huge sum of money to renovate... So can he continue to work as emperor? It's only the 30th year of Hongxing now. Why should we work until the 70th year of Hongxing?
So he wrote in the report... He planned to work for another 40 years to lay a good foundation for the eternal foundation of the Ming Dynasty!
When I was feeling anxious, there were heavy footsteps outside the door, and then Kong Yinzheng's loud voice.
"Long live the Lord, His Majesty the Emperor, His Royal Highness the King of Ao, the auspicious time has come. Please move outside the palace, and please follow me to the Golden Gate of Xiaoling Mausoleum..."
