Today I went back to my hometown and went to my father’s grave to take a look.

For some reason, I haven't been to worship him for a long time. I didn't know why I had to pay tribute to him before. I always felt that this tradition was a bit hypocritical, and I even narrowly thought that these things were all for the sake of living people.

However, after I experienced it myself, I realized that the meaning of memorial service is not just nostalgia, but more about self-reflection and motivation, and responsibility.

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Zhongdu Fengyang is a new city, a new city built by an old man to miss his parents and relatives and to demonstrate his achievements.

From the second year of Hongwu to April of the eighth year of Hongwu, a total of 100,000 craftsmen and more than 700,000 civilians were constructed by consuming countless people's and material resources, national resources and financial resources.

It is another copy of the Ming Dynasty capital. All the capitals of the Ming Dynasty capital should have, Fengyang, and even those that are not in the capital, still have. It is not only larger than Yingtian Prefecture, but also larger than the capitals that Zhu Di later moved the capital to build.

Such a city is extremely magnificent and vast, magnificent and towering, like a temple in the sky.

However, he is located on the not-rich land of Huaixi, and is also based on the national conditions of the decline of people's livelihood after a hundred battles. Therefore, this majestic city is spectacular but abrupt, and even gorgeous but deserted.

If the old man really did something like not compassionate with the people's feelings and thieves in his life, it would be the construction of Fengyang, Zhongdu.

This city has made the old man truly become a thief who tends to be like slaves.

The important factor in making this decision is not only because this place is the old man’s hometown, but also because this place is the hometown of the entire Huaixi nobles and martial artists group.

If you are rich and noble, you will not return home, like walking in a night clothes with brocade.

The new Fengyang City is no longer a simple Haozhou, but has placed all the Huaihe River basins in the management scope when they first started, which has greatly encouraged the entire Huaixi nobles.

The chief official responsible for the construction of Zhongdu was Li Shanchang, the then Chief Minister of the Central Committee, Li Shanchang.

During the construction of the city, wood from all over the world was continuously sent to Fengyang. The transport of dense wood was made of 23 wheels and 200 people. The blue bricks used to build the city weighed fifty kilograms, and were fired by the twenty-one palaces of Zhili, Jiangxi and Huguang.

During the construction of Fengyang, the Huaixi generals in front of him were out of normalcy and no longer killed prisoners. Instead, they sent all the prisoners to Fengyang for work.

In the seventh year of Hongwu, Li Shanchang and other Huaixi nobles reported to the old man that after decades of war, Fengyang, his hometown Fengyang was sparsely populated and not lively enough. The old man cruelly moved 200,000 tenant farmers without land in Suhang and other places in Shanxi to Fengyang to enrich his hometown with fields and houses.

The entire Fengyang City is square and built on Fenghuang Mountain. The city wall is more than fifty miles long.

Even so, the Huaixi bureaucratic group led by Li Shanchang was afraid that the city would not be grand enough. In order to speed up the construction period, they even ignored the lives and deaths of the craftsmen and men.

This city is really just for the old man?

Or is this city a monument of the achievements of the entire Huaixi bureaucratic group?

Therefore, under the prosperous and magnificent appearance of this city is filled with bones and blood of the poor.

Zhu Yunxi and the old man's car frame slowly stopped outside Zhongdu City, looking at the city wall covering the sky and the sun. Thinking of the cause and effect of this city, two words appeared in his heart, retribution.

The reason why Korean Duke Lee Sun-chang and a group of Huaixi nobles ended up was that it was inseparable from the cruel and violent attempts to build this Huaixi city.

In the seventh year of Hongwu, I heard that the people were already in shape, so the old man had the idea of ​​returning home. He set out from Yingtian Mansion and led all civil and military officials to Zhongdu, Fengyang, and promoted the palace to the palace to discuss the matter in the newly built palace.

But before the old man sat firmly on the dragon throne, the Jinyiwei came to report it. Because the labor was heavy like a livestock, the overwhelmed craftsmen carved the curse of the Ming Dynasty and the Zhu family on the bricks when building the city.

When the old man hadn't understood what was going on, Korean Duke Lee Sun-chang wrote a letter in anger, wanting to kill all the craftsmen and men to serve as a warning to others.

It was Xue Xiang, the Minister of Works at that time, who tried his best to stop him and asked loudly, "Will the Taishi harm the world if he is like this? Isn't he afraid of harming his descendants?"

Facts have proved that Xue Xiang's words are correct. There is no incident in Fengyang Zhongdu in the case of Li Shanchang, but there is cause and effect.

At the same time, the consequences of building this city at any cost also made the old man have the first profound reflection when he became an emperor and was immersed in the great martial arts.

That year, in the magnificent palace of Fengyang, Zhongdu, which was as magnificent as a fairyland, the old man tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep. In the dragon robe, he remembered his unclothed childhood.

I even remembered the miserable scene of the people living in the late Mongolian Yuan Dynasty and starving people all over the ground.

There is also the tragedy of the people changing their sons and officials forcing the people to rebel.

"Above all the ages, those who are known as the great virtues are Yao. Later generations competed for luxury, and they were extremely entertained in palaces, palaces, terraces, and fun with horses and treasures. They wanted to sway their hearts, and they were unable to stop them, and chaos arose."

"In the past, the Yuan Dynasty was not in charge, and the heroes worked hard, and the people could not bear the fate. The emperor and the queen were sympathetic to the people's orders... I never forgot my heart. In the early years of Hongwu, I ordered all the ministers to meet, saying that the ancient Zhongli was the Zhongli, and built the capital here to match the ancient times, so that the two counties were named after these two counties.

Now that we have established a capital city for Fengyang, the civil and industrial battles are actually laboring the people and seriously injured people. There should be a department, and the traitors are caused by the traitors, and the more they are, the more they are, the crimes of this minister are inevitable."

These are the original words of the old man in the imperial edict of guilt.

He even stopped building Zhongdu despite the obstruction of the Huaixi nobles and the huge Huaixi bureaucratic group.

To this day, this magnificent city is only a semi-finished product.

It is in this city and is even more a prison in the old man’s heart.

Every year when the prince in the palace becomes an adult, including the prince Zhu Biao, the first thing he does before he becomes an adult is to hike from Yingtian to Fengyang.

It is said that the princes should know the difficulties of their ancestors in starting a business, but in fact, they are telling their children and grandchildren to go and see your children and grandchildren to go and see your children. They did such a big fool because of their complacent love. Look at how many people they killed because of their mother's stupidity!

"What I have done today is to seek peace and beauty, not to be gorgeous, and to be ingenious and ingenious, without any use of any carving and ingenious decorative arts. My descendants will follow the law."

Suddenly, Zhu Yunxiu felt that his hand was being grabbed by the old man's big hand.

I don’t know if it was because of the cold wind, the old man’s palm was not warm at all.

Moreover, it was a little trembling.

"Grandpa Emperor, are you cold?" Zhu Yunxiu asked.

"We..." The old man's voice was a little hoarse and he spoke with difficulty, "Now we suddenly understand a word, which is close to homesickness!"

"No, it's not this word, it's..." As he said, the old man no longer looked at the magnificent city, but said, "But, I feel guilty!"

"Grandpa Emperor, you have done a good job!" Zhu Yunxiu knew why the old man said so, comforted him softly and pinched the old man's hand.

"At the beginning, we joined the city of our hometown, and at the beginning we did a lot of things against our will." The old man whispered, "Later, we became successful, but we only thought about..."

"You used to exempt Fengyang from ten years of taxes, and after your grandson ascended the throne, you also exempted Fengyang from the imperial grain for five years." Zhu Yunsheng smiled and said, "It will be fine if you take your time!"

"But there are some things they will never forget!" The old man sighed.

At this time, Guo Ying jumped out of the cart in front, walked in with a smile and said, "Do you enter the city? If the two masters don't want the local officials to know, just live in my house!" As he said, he laughed, "I haven't lived in Fengyang's house several times in these years. I heard that the construction is better than the one in the capital..."

As he was talking, he suddenly found Li Jinglong shook his eyes at him behind the two emperors. He understood and stopped talking immediately.

Cao Zhen was still careless, "My house is here too. When it was first cultivated, it was your grace. My house was made of the Duke's house!" As he said, he grinned, "The garden alone covers an area of ​​two or three acres. The beams of the houses are all old wood for hundreds of years, and they are not afraid of insects and ants. There is also a farmhouse outside the city, with more than two thousand acres of land."

Speaking of this, he was full of energy, "If my ancestors knew about it and knew that I was so successful today, I would probably laugh out loud! When I held my head and tried hard, I didn't expect that today would be...."

"Come here!" The old man hooked up at Cao Zhen.

Cao Zhen suddenly woke up, but he didn't dare not go forward.

"More than two thousand acres, you damn it. At that time, your honorary field was only more than eight hundred acres!" The old man kicked Cao Zhen directly, "The extra fields fell from the sky? You live in the capital and have a wealthy family. What's the use of this kind of field?"

"My name..." Cao Zhen felt aggrieved and could not speak weakly.

"We have said a long time ago that you should be careful in your law and take me as the rule, and do not forget the poor and humble times, and do not do extravagant things."

The old man's eyes were cold, "Did you all forget it?"

Guo Ying and Cao Zhen quickly knelt down and apologized, not daring to raise their heads.

"Grandpa Emperor!" Zhu Yunxiu said, "Since the last time my grandson returned to Fengyang, I have also told them privately. They have returned a lot of land. Although there are many lands now, I have never heard of anything that oppresses good people!"

"You are just soft-hearted!" The old man snorted, and then said, "Like your father!"

In fact, it’s not that Zhu Yunyu is soft-hearted, but how long can these old ministers live?

After they died, whether to take it back or not was it just Zhu Yunxiu's words. He was just not as strong as the old man.
Chapter completed!