The weather was fine yesterday, the sun was shining brightly, and the sky was particularly beautiful against the red walls and palace tiles of Shenyang.
After the north wind howled overnight, Shenyang was already covered in silver.
"Today is the beginning of winter, and this heavy snow is really suitable for the occasion." Wang Yi, who succeeded Li Chixin as the admiral of the imperial camp in the 15th town of Liaodong, couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the thick snow outside the door.
Beginning of Winter means that winter will begin from now on.
Wang Yi, who was born as a poor scholar, actively resisted the Qing Dynasty with Zhang Huangyan, Feng Jingdi, Huang Zongxi and others. They formed an anti-Qing righteous army in Siming Mountain very early, participated in the establishment of the Lu Supervisor State, and later became a censor and served as Fang Langzhong. , military preparation, patrol inspection, minister of war and other positions.
Although he was born into a poor scholar, he was young and energetic, and was good at organizing and training the army, and commanding and employing troops. When he was in charge of military preparation, patrolling, etc., he actively organized and trained regiments and Baojia troops in the local area. During his term of office, he went around to eliminate bandits in the territory. Thief. He can also unite the gentry and the common people, protect farming and develop production.
The regiments he organized to train rural soldiers were not only able to fight, but also had good discipline. They could even organize rural soldiers to form military camps. In the places where he served, the locals were quickly stabilized, and there were no thieves or bandits. Lawsuits and prisons were even subsided, and the people An blocking.
With this ability, Wang Yi was promoted quickly.
At this time, Li Chixin, who had entered the court as the Left Governor of the Right Army Governor's Palace, was appointed as the Admiral of the Imperial Camp in the 15th town of Liaodong. Wang Yi, a civil servant with a scholarly background, took up a military post and was also the Admiral of the Imperial Camp. However, this appointment did not No one objects, because although Wang Yi is a civil servant, he knows the art of war and can fight.
He not only organized local regiment training, but also served as a supervisor in the imperial camp, and even personally commanded the provincial camp, all of which performed extremely well.
"The winter solstice hasn't even arrived yet, but it's snowing so heavily in Shenyang. Isn't it snowing up to your knees?"
Li Changxiang, the chief envoy of Liaodong Province, looked at the snow and said, "At the beginning of winter, I have to wear black clothes in the northern suburbs to welcome the winter. It's snowing so heavily that I can't even go out."
Li Changxiang is a native of Dazhou, Sichuan and an old friend of Wang Yi. He was a Jinshi in the 16th year of Chongzhen and was selected as a good scholar. Tianjin was guarded in order to mobilize the troops of the King of Qin.
Hongguang was founded in Nanjing, and Li Changxiang was appointed censor to patrol Zhejiang. The southern capital was destroyed, and King Lu of Hangzhou surrendered. Li Changxiang, who was patrolling the salt industry, went to Siming Mountain to recruit rebels. Later, he joined forces with Wang Yi and others to fight against the Ming Dynasty.
In the past few years, Li Changxiang has held important positions at the central and local levels, and has won the trust of Emperor Shaotian. Now that he is serving as the chief envoy to Liaodong, he and Wang Yi are reunited.
"It has been cold in the past few years. Although Taihu Lake has also frozen, it is really rare to see such heavy snow in the south of the Yangtze River. It snowed so heavily on the first day of winter. In the Central Plains, it must at least snow after the winter solstice."
"Well, it's such a heavy snowstorm. I don't know if any houses collapsed last night. I don't know if the soldiers and people were frozen."
Spring growth, summer growth, autumn harvest, and winter storage.
The beginning of winter, as the traditional "four seasons and eight festivals" in ancient times, has always been valued by people. Especially the beginning of winter, which represents the changes in the four seasons with the alternation of cold and heat, has a lot of emphasis in ancient culture.
According to the etiquette of the Han Dynasty, on the day of the Beginning of Winter, before the fifth watch of the night, all officials in Kyoto would put on black clothes to welcome the winter yin in the darkness of the suburbs.
This ceremony is also very solemn. The officials in charge of the celestial calendar must tell the emperor in advance the time of the beginning of winter. On a certain day, winter begins, and virtue is in the water. On that day, the emperor personally leads the ministers to the northern suburbs to welcome the winter.
After returning, he also rewarded the deceased, showed sympathy to the orphans and widows, and ordered help to the orphans and widows among the people.
Among the people, people wear black clothes and go to the northern suburbs to welcome the winter. Then they return to their main halls or ancestral halls, open the north-facing windows, and offer incense and worship.
The reason for wearing black on this day is related to the five elements and colors associated with the four seasons. Winter corresponds to the water in the north and black.
Qian, northwest, is responsible for the beginning of winter.
Lidong Qianwang, if you don't follow the rules, you should raise border troops, govern the city, and execute punishments and sentences.
After Autumn, Wen Zhan actually refers to the day of Beginning of Winter.
On the tenth day of winter, the water begins to freeze; if the water does not freeze, it means that there is negative Yin and the country is in short supply. The ground begins to freeze; if the ground does not freeze, it means disaster and disaster. The pheasants turn into mirages; if they do not turn into mirages, there will be many Whore.
The ancients even said in the Book of Zhou that at the beginning of winter in October, the water begins to freeze. If it does not freeze, the country may suffer from financial shortages that year. The ground begins to freeze, but the ground does not freeze, which is a symbol of disaster.
At this time, if those big pheasant-like birds have not disappeared, there will be more prostitutes.
These ancient people’s summaries are very interesting and have certain truths. For example, the freezing in October is actually based on the normal weather in the Central Plains. If there is no freezing at this time, it means the weather is abnormal, and disasters will easily occur, and the national supply will be insufficient. It's very possible.
Usually at the beginning of winter every year, those big pheasant-like birds will fly away. They say they are entering the water and turning into mirages. In fact, they are migratory birds migrating south for the winter. They say that if these birds haven't left at the beginning of winter, more prostitutes will appear easily. , I don’t know where this connection came from.
Obviously, these solar terms are summarized according to the laws of the Central Plains, and are obviously not applicable to Liaodong outside the Pass.
After all, on the first day of winter, there was a snowstorm all night, and the snow was up to the knees. It was not just the water that was freezing.
The snow is still falling and the wind is strong.
The door was pushed open a crack, and the biting cold wind penetrated straight inside.
Quickly close the door again.
"Fortunately, there is a fire pit in this house. Otherwise, if we had to freeze outside all night, we would not freeze into popsicles!" Two people from eastern Zhejiang, although they can see snow almost every year in Jiangnan, have they ever seen anything like this? It snows a lot, let alone this season, there is such a big blizzard.
"It's still more comfortable to have a heated kang." There is no heated kang in eastern Zhejiang. At most, you can burn a charcoal pot to grill yourself. But in this ice and snow, if you don't have a heated kang, you really won't be able to survive the winter solstice.
In this kind of horrible weather, there is no need to worry about the Jurchen Tatars or Mongolian Tatars attacking. After all, it is snowing and stormy. Who dares to march in the wild?
Not to mention freezing, the wind would probably blow people away.
At this time, they were in Shenyang City and could still warm themselves by the fire and sit on the heated kang to avoid the wind and snow. If the Tatars really came, they would probably be frozen at the bottom of the city, so how could they attack the city.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Moreover, they had already swept across the Lower Liaohe Plain, reaching Tieling in the north, Zhangwu in the west, and the upper reaches of the Hun River (Qingyuan) in the east. The Ming army recovered the garrison, which is about 30 kilometers away from Shenyang. There are still three hundred miles to go.
In this kind of weather, unless they can fly, it is impossible for them to come to Shenyang City.
Even for the outer frontline castles such as Tieling, Kaiyuan, Zhangwu, etc., the Ming army did not need to worry too much, because if the weather attacked the city, it would be courting death.
"There's no need to go out today. Let's warm a pot of Shaoxing old wine here, have a plate of pine nuts, and sit on the kang."
"Well, even if you put on a mink coat and moccasin boots, you can't withstand this heavy snowstorm."
"Let's put on a sable coat in the house and face the north direction."
"Qiu Hou asked to behead, we now have no one to behead, so we can save them all."
As the former capital of the Tatars, Shenyang was named Shengjing, also called Fengtian. Later, after entering the customs, it was changed to the companion capital. Although it was reduced to the companion capital, Shenyang City can still see the Tatars moving from Liaoyang to Shenyang as their capital. After some expansion and renovation, the city became very majestic.
Neat gray square bricks, tall gate towers, and majestic crenels, what was once the Central Acropolis of Shenyang, and later the Shengjing City, still retains its old name of Shenyang.
Shenyang City was an important town during the Ming Dynasty's management of Liaodong. It was an acropolis integrating military and political affairs. From the beginning of its design, it was planned as an important garrison for one king and five guards.
Shenyang City was built in the Tang Dynasty and was called Shenzhou, Shenyang, and Shenshui Yang. Shenyang Road was built in the Yuan Dynasty. In Shenyang during the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, it was a rammed earth city wall.
It was expanded and renovated in the early Ming Dynasty, and then it became covered with green bricks.
In the twelfth year of Hongwu, the Shenyang area was pacified, and Shenyang and its surrounding areas were gradually included in the rule of the Ming Dynasty.
In the 21st year of Hongwu's reign, Shenyang City was rebuilt. After the repairs were completed, it was nine miles and thirty paces around, two feet and five feet high, and had four gates.
Zhu Yuanzhang used the vassal king to guard the north to prevent Mongolia from moving south. In the north, he granted thirteen princes the title of vassal king to guard. In Liaodong, he granted three princes: the King of Liao in Guangning, the King of Han in Kaiyuan, and the King of Shen in Shenyang. , the twenty-first son Zhu Mo.
In addition to the three guards in the center, left and right, Shenyang later added the center guards and the center guards, thus forming one king and five guards.
Among the three vassal kings, King Liao commanded the west of the Liao River, King Shen commanded the east of the Liao River, and King Han sat in Kaiyuan, commanding the 30,000 Guards north of Tieling, Liaohai and other northern areas.
King Shen sat in the center of Shenyang and could provide support to ensure the Ming Dynasty ruled Liaodong.
It was only later that this strategy was ruined after Zhu Dijing failed.
During the Wanli period, although Shenyang City was reinforced and urns were built at the city gates, Xiong Tingbi inspected Liaodong twice at the end of the Ming Dynasty and also focused on strengthening the Liaodong City. He also built military garrison and used three out of 80,000 troops every year. He divided his manpower into farming and cultivated the fields, and he harvested 1.3 million shi of rice that year.
After the Battle of Saarhu, the situation in Liaodong deteriorated rapidly. The imperial court again appointed Xiong Tingbi to comfort Liaodong. However, before he left the capital, Kaiyuan fell. As soon as he left Shanhaiguan, Tieling Guard fell again, and soldiers and civilians in the castles in Shenyang fled one after another.
However, Xiong Tingbi braved the wind and snow to arrive in Shenyang, and also visited Fushun and other places, beheading deserters, punishing corrupt officials, urging the people to return to settle down, and held public sacrifices to the fallen soldiers and civilians, held military parades, and repaired the city. After distributing weapons and arranging troops, the situation in Liaodong was finally stabilized.
But in the first year of Tianqi, Shenyang City, which he had worked so hard to manage, was captured by Hou Jin's attack and did not even last a day.
After Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, he rebuilt Shenyang City.
The city wall was made taller and wider, the four gates were expanded to eight gates, the original Cross Street was changed to Ting Zi Street, and the standard central temple in the center of Shenyang City is still there.
The original two-foot-five-foot city wall was also built and heightened. The wall was reinforced with stone strips and large green bricks. Six hundred and fifty-one crenellations were set up. A watchtower was built for each of the eight gates, and a turret was built at each of the four corners of the city. The moat was also built. Two generations were changed to one.
The drainage system in the city has also been improved, and after renovation, 72 internal pools have been formed to prevent water from leaking out.
In fact, the entire city has not become larger, but after the renovation, its appearance has changed dramatically. This project took five years to build and consumed a lot of manpower and financial resources.
After renovating Shenyang City, we also began to build the outer city, and built Guan City outside Shenyang City. However, the project was relatively large, so we repaired it intermittently, trying not to delay the farming time and the use of troops. After many years of construction, it was basically completed.
Guancheng is a circular city with rammed earth walls and a circumference of thirty-two miles and forty-eight steps.
The inner city is inhabited by relatives and clans, the outer city is inhabited by generals and clan members, and the Guancheng outside the outer city is inhabited by soldiers and newly surrendered people.
To put it simply, the Tatar emperor and his family naturally lived in the palace city, the inner city was occupied by the emperor’s relatives, the outer city was occupied by Buddha Manzhou, and the Guancheng was occupied by Yiche Manzhou.
From the capture of Shenyang in the first year of Tianqi to the establishment of the capital in Shenyang in the fifth year of Tianqi, the construction of the Dazheng Palace, the Pavilion of Ten Kings, and the Palace of the Khans began. By this time, it had been more than 20 years. It further became the center of Liaodong.
But during the Ming army's northern expedition to Liaoshen, this place was defeated in one attack just like the Qing army's attack on Shenyang.
