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Chapter 187 Resolutions on Several Major Issues

Yunxi came to Jinshen Hall. At this time, the officials from the Ministry of Rites had not arrived, and there were only Yunxi's subordinate officials in Jinshen Hall.

When they saw Yunxi, they immediately knelt down and saluted and said, "I have met Your Majesty."

In order to frighten everyone in the harem and his uncle, Yunxi called his brother "I", but there was no need to do so in front of these cronies, so he said: "I haven't ascended the throne yet, please wait until I ascend the throne before calling me your majesty."

But Chen Xingshan said: "Your Majesty, the etiquette cannot be discarded. Although your Majesty has not officially ascended the throne, the late emperor has passed away, and your Majesty is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty." Others also agreed. Nonsense, who dares not to agree? Isn't that asking for trouble?

?

Yunxi was not very insistent, so he accepted it. Then what he wanted to say was something very important.

Yunxi said: "Chen Qing, I order you to serve as cabinet bachelor concurrently, majoring in "Records of Taizu"."

The cabinet organization has existed for a long time, but it was just an advisory body at the beginning, and it was actually just a sublimated version of the Hanlin Academy. The so-called bachelors were just fifth-rank officials, and they could not be seen as half of the prime ministers later.

The other half is the eunuch who is responsible for the ceremony and holds the seal.

Majoring in "Records" is not like later, it symbolizes great development prospects. However, studying "Records" still proves that the emperor trusts you, so everyone congratulated Chen Xingshan in their hearts. Chen Xingshan himself bowed and said: "

Yes, Your Majesty." Then he continued: "Then, Your Majesty has decided to designate the temple name of Emperor Daxing as Taizu?"

Yunxi said: "Yes." There were only two temple names for the founding emperor, so there was nothing to argue about. And in history, Lao Zhu was Taizu.

Yunxi thought of Lao Zhu and couldn't help but shed tears. He quickly raised his head and wiped it with a handkerchief. He waited until the tears stopped and then lowered his head.

Chen Xingshan, Zhuo Jing, Yang Ren and others below saw Yun Hei crying, and they all thought in their hearts: "Your Majesty can't stop crying when he mentions Emperor Daxing. He is really filial."

Then Yunxi said: "Taizu, with his wisdom, martial arts, and ambition to help the world and bring peace to the people, took advantage of the opportunity, followed the heroes, fought the chaos and destroyed the strong, and became an emperor in fifteen years. He rose up as a commoner, died in Haiyu, and after the three emperors

It has not yet existed! But it can be used to treat the elders with courtesy, examine the etiquette and determine the music, reveal the meaning of the scriptures, respect the true learning, add favor to the country, and clarify the administration of officials."

"In the name of the harem, the internal governance was purged, eunuchs were prohibited from intervening in government, the five government offices and six ministries maintained their positions, and guards were stationed in the fields. There were enough troops and food. Wu Ding was in trouble, Wen brought peace, and Taizu was responsible for it. As for the Ya Shang Zhi Jie,

I heard that Cai Ziying returned to the north. In his later years, he was worried about the people and spent tens of thousands on river and pond weirs a year to benefit farmers and mulberry trees and prepare for drought. This was beyond the reach of the Han, Tang, and Song dynasties! No one can compare with him.

"

As Yunxi spoke, he couldn't help crying. Chen Xingshan didn't understand the purpose of Yunxi's words, so he had to ask: "Your Majesty, what does this mean?"

Yun He didn't answer. Qin Song was smart anyway. He secretly tugged on Chen Xingshan's clothes. After Chen Xingshan turned around, he whispered: "This is what I want you to add to the end of the record as a compliment to His Majesty Taizu."

Chen Xingshan immediately said: "This, this, this, how could any successor emperor write this to the former emperor? Besides, this is really too much praise. At least the great ancestor of the Western Han Dynasty was born as a commoner. Besides, how could anyone record it with the three emperors?

Comparable?"

Qin Song said in a tone of hatred that iron cannot be transformed into steel: "If you don't say it, and we won't say it, who knows what your majesty means? In addition, why did Hengao come from a commoner background like Taizu of this dynasty? Hengao first served for the Qin State.

He was the chief of the pavilion, and later raised an army to rebel against Qin. After destroying Qin, he was granted the title of King of Hanzhong, Zhenba, Shu, and Hanzhong. Later, he avenged the death of Xiang Yu for the Righteous Emperor, and then he became the emperor with the unanimous recommendation of all the kings. Why?

Are you born a commoner?" As for the last one who compared Lao Zhu with the Three Emperors in the actual records, Qin Song really couldn't refute it and could only say nothing.

But Chen Xingshan still looked at Qin Song, with a big question mark in his heart: 'Is this okay?'

Seeing that Chen Xingshan still didn't accept it, Qin Song was worried. Unexpectedly, Chen Xingshan said next: "Okay." Although he was upright, he had been in the officialdom for a long time and knew that he had to compromise when it was time to compromise.

At this time Yunxi said: "It doesn't have to be like this, this is what I mean, there is no need to hide it."

Yunxi stood up and continued: "There is no great merit in Taizu's merits. Is it not as good as this kind of praise?"

Because the 'praise' listed at the end usually focuses on describing the merits and downplays or even does not mention the faults, so it is okay to write this praise, except for the sentence 'Three Emperors have never been seen before!' which is a bit too much, and Lao Zhu

It is directly compared with the three emperors Yao, Shun and Yu. Except that no emperor has done this before, the rest is more in line with the facts.

But Chen Xingshan still said: "There is no harm in writing this praise in the "Records of Taizu", but it must not come out of His Majesty's mouth. It will be detrimental to His Majesty's reputation. I am afraid that someone will use this to criticize Your Majesty a thousand years later."

."

Yunxi really wanted to say to him: 'In less than five hundred years, China's analysis of the emperor will have changed dramatically, and no one will care about it by then.' But Yunxi still accepted Chen Xingshan's advice.

With good intentions, he said: "I understand."

The matter was settled. Seeing that the officials from the Ministry of Rites had not yet arrived, Yunxi asked him about another matter: "Do you think the current capital is suitable to be the capital?"

Yes, Yunxi had some thoughts about moving the capital.

However, Yunxi would never move the capital to Peiping, because Peiping is not suitable to be the capital now.

Some historians of later generations said that the pattern in China since the Song Dynasty was that the political center moved northward and the economic center moved southward. However, the southward movement of the economic center happened naturally, but the northward movement of the political center was an accident.

Let’s first look at the four countries that successively established their capital in Peiping: Jin, Yuan, Ming, and Qing. Among them, the Jin, Yuan, and Qing were all foreign regimes. The reason why they established their capital in Peiping was very simple. It was very close to their home base, in case the Han people rebelled.

It was possible to escape, and the Mongolian Yuan regime relied on this to escape back to Mobei. It was not that Jin and Qing did not want to escape back, but the trouble they encountered was not, or not entirely, Han rebellion, so they did not take advantage of it, which is not without this idea.

The Ming Dynasty was special. He moved the capital to Peking only after Zhu Di succeeded in his rebellion. A rational analysis of Zhu Di's two important reasons for moving the capital is: 1. He was used to life in the north; 2. Lao Zhu named Zhu Di the King of Yan during his lifetime, allowing him to move the capital.

It was his responsibility to protect the border. He did not dare to violate this responsibility, and he did not trust others to guard the border with heavy troops, so he continued to guard the border personally after becoming emperor, so he moved the capital to Peking.

This dispels the idea that having Peking as the capital is a political rule.

In addition, the natural conditions of Peiping at this time were not suitable for being the capital. First, Peiping was short of food. Historically, it had to be transported from the south of the Yangtze River, which caused a huge burden on the Ming Dynasty. Any action by the government in an agricultural society would cause extreme dissatisfaction among the people.

A big burden.

Second, Peiping is short of water. It was not obvious in the early Ming Dynasty. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the groundwater in Peiping City was very little, not good to drink and unhealthy. Everyone with some status ate water brought from outside the city. At this time, Beijing-Hangzhou University

In order to ensure navigation, the northern section of the canal was forced to use a large number of ship locks, and it was impossible to transfer water from the south. Yunxi saw a piece of information in later generations, saying that in 2014, Emperor Daxing, Daxing in Peiping

The emperor went to the emperor's territory and the rivers on the ground were on the verge of drying up.

Therefore, Peiping is not suitable as the capital. Yunxi feels that the current capital is much more suitable than Peiping.

Yunxi's preference was Xuzhou. Xuzhou was located on the middle line between north and south of China in later generations, not far from the south of the Yangtze River, and there was Weishan Lake nearby with no shortage of water. It was one of the few places in the north that did not lack water. As for the fact that there was no dynasty before

Xuzhou was the capital. Then Liu Xiu was the capital of Luoyang. Before that, no country had ever made Luoyang the capital? Didn’t he also create a 200-year history of the Later Han Dynasty?

However, Yunxi had not made up his mind to move the capital, so he discussed it with his cronies.

However, Chen Xingshan thought for a long time and said: "Isn't your Majesty going to open the sea?"

Yunxi also said doubtfully: "Yes, what's wrong?"

Chen Xingshan said: "The capital is now close to the Yangtze River, and the Yangtze River leads directly to the sea. It is also very close to Shanghu County. If there are any problems, they can be dealt with quickly. If the capital is moved to another place, how can it be done quickly if something happens in the south of the Yangtze River?

Do you want to know soon?"

Chen Xingshan woke up Yunxi with his words! Where is the capital? In this situation where transportation and communication are very underdeveloped, it actually affects the country's policy! Why did Zhao Gou choose Hangzhou as his place of business instead of Jingzhou after he could not escape?

, Wuchang and other places? None of these places have ever served as capitals! The very important reason is that the fiscal revenue of the Song Dynasty relied heavily on commercial taxes and customs duties, so you can keep an eye on them nearby in Hangzhou.

Based on the experience of later generations, Yunxi had decided to focus on developing sea power and find another way to deal with the northwest inland area. Therefore, he could only set the capital in the Jiangnan area and could not move the capital to other places. The most suitable place for the capital in Jiangnan was Nanjing.

. Thinking about it this way, even moving the capital to Xuzhou is a bit far.

On the contrary, if you want to develop land power, you need to set the capital in Xi'an. After all, Xi'an still has the Wei River and a little more water.

‘Did Lao Zhu also see the geographical advantages of Jiangnan in the future, so he decided to make the capital the current capital instead of Kaifeng, which he once wanted to make the capital?’ Yunxi thought.

Yunxi, who wanted to understand, raised his head and said to Chen Xingshan: "Chen Qing, thank you for waking me up. I want to thank you very much."

Then he glanced at all the subordinate officials and said: "There is no need to discuss the matter of moving the capital. I have decided not to move the capital anymore."

Qin Song, Yang Ren and the others breathed a sigh of relief. They didn't know what Yunxi meant, and they didn't dare to ask, and they were afraid of thinking in the wrong direction. Although Yunxi was very approachable, he probably wouldn't punish them for thinking wrong.

But it's still not good.

At this time, the eunuch who was guarding outside came in and said: "Your Majesty, the people from the Ministry of Rites have arrived. Do you want to announce their entry?"

Yunxi said: "They are here? Tell them to come in immediately!"


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