Since Li Zicheng captured Kaifeng, this city, which has been devastated by successive natural and man-made disasters and often groaning in pain since the severe drought in the Central Plains, has had several years of peace.
Under the rest and reorganization of Dashun Army, Kaifeng not only restored its former glory and prosperity as the capital of Henan Province.
Moreover, because the Shun army had completely repaired and rectified the municipal administration of Kaifeng City very early, after Li Laiheng took charge of Dashun, he mobilized large armies for two consecutive years in the second year of Guangzhong and the first year of Tianfa to attack the surrounding areas of Kaifeng.
Several canals have been re-dredged.
As a result, the city exuded a glory unprecedented in hundreds of years, and many citizens vaguely imagined it and concluded that this was the fascinating Song capital in "Tokyo Dreams".
The new urban temperament will also shape new citizens.
After experiencing serious disasters since the late Ming Dynasty and several magnificent and fierce wars, the citizens of Kaifeng who used to be as numb and stubborn as clay sculptures and wood sculptures now have a new temperament.
They seemed to have returned to the era at the junction of the two Song dynasties, to the era of Zongze, Li Gang, and Yue Fei, and to the temperament and spirit of the people of Kaifeng in that era.
In short, it is a new kind of stubbornness: treat politics with a stubborn and serious attitude rather than a frivolous and mocking attitude, and treat life with an honest and taciturn attitude rather than a dissolute and frivolous attitude.
Lin Maomao has not been in Kaifeng for a long time, but it has been several months.
She has carefully observed the mental outlook of the people in Kaifeng. When these people refer to Kaifeng now, whether they are the court officials who go to the palace or government offices, or the street vendors, they are reluctant to use the word Kaifeng anymore.
, and like to use "Tokyo" and "Daliang".
It seems that by changing a verbal term of address, the lives of countless people in this city will undergo qualitative changes.
Lin Maomao tilted his head and thought for a while. This seems to be true. Hasn't there been a qualitative change in the lives of Kaifeng citizens?
However, many people are still worried about whether Kaifeng will lose its current capital status in the future.
After all, to this day, the emperor has not officially confirmed the status of Kaifeng as the capital. Even the palace where the emperor, the queen mother, the imperial concubines and their concubines live is still called the palace.
Kaifeng's current status in the Shun Dynasty has to be said to be somewhat coincidental and accidental.
According to the place of origin and habits of the founding fathers, they would of course prefer to use Chang'an as the capital of Dashun - after Emperor Tianfa ascended to power, he deliberately changed the name of Chang'an Mansion to Xingjing!
It's just that Yang Chengzu's fire destroyed Chang'an a little too much. Although Weinan has been revived through Sun Kewang's hands, let alone the capital, even if Chang'an is to be restored to the prosperity that a provincial city should have, I'm afraid it will still be difficult.
It will take several years.
The same is true for Beijing.
Beijing has been the capital of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, and many people tend to make Yanjing their capital.
In fact, if Daishan had not systematically destroyed the Jifu area when he led the remnant Qing army to withdraw from Beijing, Li Laiheng would have led hundreds of civil and military officials to move to Beijing long ago.
Chang'an and Beijing, the two most competitive cities, were both excessively damaged due to accidents, which gave Kaifeng the opportunity to re-enter the stage of history.
But as far as Lin Maomao knows, with the recent subsidence of the war in the southwest and southeast, many courtiers have petitioned to rebuild Xingjing and the two cities of Beijing.
Many officials proposed to either repair the old city, or simply abandon the old officials of the Ming Dynasty and allocate heavy funds to directly build a new city as the capital of Dashun.
It is not surprising that there were a very large number of Shaanxi people among the officials of the Shun Dynasty. However, there were also many people from the Gyeonggi area, or people from Yan who had lived in the Gyeonggi area for many years.
After all, Beijing was the capital of previous dynasties for hundreds of years.
Therefore, while the citizens of Kaifeng are proud of the residents of the most benign place in the capital, they are also often worried that if the memorial to restore the two capitals is approved by the emperor, Kaifeng's capital status will be the same as Nanjing's capital status in the early Ming Dynasty.
A passing cloud?
Lin Maomao felt that the possibility of Xingjing Chang'an becoming the capital was too low, not only because the city had been severely damaged, but also because of the farming conditions in Weinan, which seemed difficult to support a city the size of the capital.
If the canal is to be used to supply Chang'an, then the conditions in Kaifeng are much better than in Chang'an.
If geographical defense factors are taken into consideration, Chang'an is certainly easy to defend, but the emperor obviously has the ambition to conquer the world. Attacking all directions is not enough. How can he care about the defense conditions of the capital?
Of course, Kaifeng, as the capital of the Song Dynasty, was very disadvantageous in terms of national defense.
But that was mainly because the Song Dynasty did not have the land of Yanyun and Hebei lacked barriers, so it was passive everywhere.
Now that Dashun has restored the complete nine-border defense line of the Ming Dynasty except Liaodong, the Western Tartars and Eastern Barbarians want to invade Kaifeng, but they need to penetrate the entire Great Wall defense line first.
But Lin Maomao also believed that it was very possible for the imperial court to restore Beijing as the capital.
After all, the Qing Dynasty still had a certain amount of power in Liaodong. If the emperor wanted to deal with Liaodong affairs nearby, he might move to Beijing.
Compared with the Ming Dynasty, the territory of Dashun today has not changed much.
Then the successful historical experience of establishing Beijing as the capital during the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty may become a powerful argument for those who move to Yan.
"Lin Shanggong, are you looking for a businessman to hear local interesting stories again?"
Li Maoheng was quite impressed by this young but well-informed female official. He had just followed Liu Fangliang back to Daliang from outside the Great Wall, and after Emperor Tianfa came to the throne, he resumed the responsibility of governing the Forbidden Yulin.
Lin Maomao was very familiar with Li Maoheng. She asked, "General, have you seen Duke Xining? Recently, everyone is telling the story of Duke Xining and Duke Nan'an. I heard that Duke Xining, Li Dingguo, attacked with only three hundred men."
I went to Jianchang, is this true?"
Li Maoheng laughed and said: "Exaggeration, exaggeration, this rumor is a bit exaggerated. Jianchang was indeed captured by Li Dingguo for the Shun Army, but the three hundred people were just the vanguard of Li Dingguo's makeup and entered the city. After the city gate was opened, there would be follow-up
There are many armies.”
Lin Maomao sighed: "Many people say that Duke Xining helped the emperor take Sichuan, which is very similar to Fu Youde in the early Ming Dynasty. There are many famous generals in our dynasty. Does the general think that Duke Xining can be regarded as a figure like Fu Youde?"
Li Maoheng didn't read much. He probably knew that Fu Youde was one of the famous generals who founded the country in the early Ming Dynasty, but he didn't know exactly who Fu Youde was and what his achievements were.
Seeing that Li Maoheng was a little embarrassed because he couldn't answer, Lin Maomao smiled, pulled him to drink tea with him, and skipped the topic.
Li Maoheng himself felt very ashamed because of this. As one of the trusted generals of the Emperor's army, his knowledge was not as good as that of a young female officer. He really embarrassed the Dashun Army.
He secretly made up his mind that after returning home today, he must go to the Fuzhong Book Office and study hard. From now on, he must read a piece of history when he goes out and comes home every day!
Li Maoheng said with shame: "If you don't study for a day, you won't be able to catch up with Lin Shanggong. I feel ashamed."