As the central capital, Fengyang has very high standards for its city, official grades, and so on.
Fengyang stayed behind, and Fengyang guarded the eunuchs. Fengyang magistrate was the three most powerful people in Fengyang Mansion.
Especially since Fengyang was left behind, non-imperial relatives could not hold the post, and even honorable ministers were not qualified.
Fengyang Liushou was not only in charge of the armaments of the four prefectures in Zhongzhou, but also had the task of offering sacrifices to the ancestral mausoleums. He was a second-grade official, and was usually awarded the rank of Jianwei General from the first grade.
At this time, Shi Jing, who was left behind in Fengyang, was a relative of the emperor, Zhu Qizhen's brother-in-law, Zhu Jianshen's uncle, and the husband of Zhu Zhanji's eldest daughter, Princess Shunde.
Shi Jing's grandfather, Shi Ming, participated in the Jingnan Campaign with meritorious service. He was ranked as a military general and was awarded the title of Dezhou Guard Deputy Qianhu, while his father Shi Lin was awarded the Prefecture Army Vanguard Qianhu. There are many generals at this level in the capital, and Shi Jing It was after marrying Princess Shunde that he began his counterattack in life. He got married in the second year of Zhengtong, became the Prince Consort, and served successively as Datong General, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Liaodong, and Admiral of the Beijing Camp.
Princess Shunde was the daughter of the first empress of Xuanzong, Hu. The eldest princess of Shunde was married to Shi Jing by Zhu Zhanji at the age of fifteen. After the eldest princess gave birth to two sons, she died in the twelfth year of Zhengtong... ,
In the ninth year of Chenghua, Shi Jing was transferred to Fengyang and stayed behind in Fengyang.
Fengyang stayed behind, serving the ancestors' mausoleum, and also taking charge of the affairs of the inner palace of the Governor's Mansion.
Shi Jing is tall and burly, and is just over forty years old. Standing in the center of the crowd, she stands out.
To his left was Zhao Jin, the garrison eunuch, an old man who had come out of the palace, with the same qualifications as the deceased Zhang Bao. Standing to Shi Jing's right was Jiang An, the prefect of Fengyang.
In addition, almost all officials were present.
And Zhu Yong had already arrived in Fengyang City and took over Fengyang's defense from Shi Jing.
The soldiers outside Fengyang City were all generals from the former army.
When Shi Jing and other officials saw Zhu Jianshen's imperial convoy, they immediately began to arrange their clothes and lined up neatly. Behind Shi Jing were Jiang An and Zhao Jin.
Shi Jing turned back and glanced at Jiang An: "Have the arrangements been made over there? His Majesty has sent people to pass the order to visit the sects who have been demoted to common people. Don't dare to make any mistakes."
"Don't worry, sir. The lower official has made arrangements, and Eunuch Zhao is watching from the side. It's very safe." Jiang An quickly replied.
After listening to Jiang An's words, Shi Jing nodded, and then looked at the driver intently...
After Emperor Taizu Gao founded the Ming Dynasty, the first thing he did was to seek benefits for the people in his hometown, and he ordered to build the Zhongdu in Fengyang.
Although many ministers felt that Fengyang was a small place and there was no need to spend so much money on it, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care about it at all and directly ordered Fengyang to "build a city, palace, and palace like the capital's system."
This also made what was originally a small place in the Huaihe River Basin suddenly become the central capital of the Ming Dynasty, and was also nominally the third capital of the Ming Dynasty.
Since it is the central capital, its cards are also very big. Fengyang City is composed of three cities.
The first city is the outer city of Zhongdu City, with a circumference of 60 miles and a rectangular shape with an east-west flat shape. A convex corner was built at the southwest corner to wrap Fenghuangzui Mountain into the city. A total of nine city gates and eighteen water passes were opened.
The outer city of Zhongdu has nine gates: Hongwu Gate, South Zuojiadi Gate, Front Right Jiadi Gate, Changchun Gate, Chaoyang Gate, Dushan Gate, Back Right Jiadi Gate, North Zuojiadi Gate, and Tushan Gate.
Forbidden City is the inner city, and the second city is Forbidden City with four gates: Chengtian Gate in the south, Dong'an Gate in the east, Xi'an Gate in the west, and Bei'an Gate in the north.
Chengtianmen is one mile away from Meridian Gate in the north and two kilometers away from Hongwu Gate in the south. About one kilometer to the north inside the gate is the Waijinshui Bridge.
The third city is the Imperial City, with four gates: Meridian Gate in the south, Donghua Gate in the east, Xihua Gate in the west, and Xuanwu Gate in the north.
Fengyang's political status became world-famous with the completion of his large-scale city buildings, and the layout of Fengyang's imperial city was almost exactly the same as that of Nanjing's imperial city.
Zhu Yuanzhang set up the left-behind department in Fengyang. There was a left-behind department and a prefect, one in charge of the army, one in charge of government affairs, and a garrison eunuch at the back.
At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang also took a series of measures to build his hometown.
During his reign, Zhu Yuanzhang often exempted people from taxes and corvee, and encouraged the people to cultivate wasteland. Many people migrated from Jiangnan and Jiangxi. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the population of Fengyang area was only more than 13,000 people. By the 15th year of Hongwu, its population The population has reached more than half a million, and the influx of people has made Fengyang prosperous for a while.
Not only that, Zhu Yuanzhang built a road to Fengyang, and a double row of eight carriages ran directly to Nanjing.
A series of policy subsidies have indeed brought great changes to Fengyang and allowed the people of Fengyang to live a good life for a period of time.
By the 22nd year of Hongwu's reign, Fengyang's field area reached 400,000 hectares, and its annual food supply exceeded 200,000 shi. It transformed from a little-known small county into one of the upper houses of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking about his hometown. After proclaiming himself emperor, he also took extraordinary care of Fengyang, which of course brought some benefits.
But Zhu Yuanzhang never expected that after his death, Fengyang Mansion would turn from prosperity to decline in just a few decades.
First, because Nanjing moved the capital to Beijing, Fengyang's political status has been greatly affected. Second, the huge palaces and rivers have made people in Fengyang and other places bear very heavy corvee labor. The third point is also the key point.
Disaster.
Since the death of Zhu Yuanzhang, the proportion of disasters in Fengyang has been much higher than in other areas.
Since the emergence of Emperor Zhu, there have been nine years of drought in ten years. This is not an alarmist, but a reality.
Fengyang, the central capital, was promoted in a short period of time, but after decades of disasters, it became even poorer than before.
In the third year of Zhengtong, a large-scale flood occurred in Fengyang. Tens of thousands of people fled their hometowns. The fleeing people went to Jining, Linqing and other places in Shandong to beg.
Then the famine continued until the 14th year of Zhengtong, and the population of Fengyang Mansion continued to lose.
In these ten years, Fengyang lost nearly 200,000 people, and large areas of land were deserted.
It was during this period that Fengyang Flower Drum spread to the north and south of the Yangtze River. Everyone among the people can hum it. The story of Emperor Zhu and Fengyang is widely spread among the people. It is because Fengyang raised a Zhu Yuanzhang who took away the creation of heaven and earth. It also greatly damaged Fengyang's luck, which led to frequent disasters now. In the past, when Emperor Hongwu, the great ancestor, was still alive, he could still control the situation, but since Emperor Hongwu passed away, God has begun to settle accounts. , so Fengyang has trouble every year.
When the new tax system just started, Fengyang started to implement it together with Beijing and Nanjing. Among them, participating in corvee labor and the government had to pay remuneration for the reform. This can be regarded as Fengyang's original serious population loss situation has been alleviated to a certain extent. contain.
Now Fengyang has a population of only 300,000, and there are nearly 20,000 young adults who do not farm, but are engaged in river dredging, palace maintenance, city wall repair, etc., which can be regarded as a slight improvement...
There are ancestral mausoleums in Fengyang. Even if everyone runs out, no matter how depressed it is, its standards will not decline. Of course, because it is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, in real history, Fengyang became a place frequented by rebels. The place.
Zhang Xianzhong has been here, and so has Li Zicheng...
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