Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 758
The weather was fine yesterday, and the sun was shining brightly. Against the backdrop of Shenyang's red walls and palace tiles, the sky was extraordinarily beautiful.

After a night of howling north wind, Shenyang is already covered in silver.

"Today is Lidong, and the heavy snow is really appropriate." Wang Yi, who succeeded Li Chixin as the admiral of the Imperial Battalion stationed in No.15 Town in Liaodong, couldn't help sighing as he looked at the thick snow outside the door.

Lidong means that winter has entered since then.

Wang Yi, who was born as a poor scholar, actively fought against the Qing Dynasty with Zhang Huangyan, Feng Jingdi, Huang Zongxi and others. He pulled up a group of anti-Qing volunteers in Siming Mountain very early, participated in the establishment of Lu Jianguo, and was later awarded the Royal History and served as Fang Langzhong. , Bingbeidao, branch patrol, and minister of the Ministry of War.

Although he was born as a poor scholar, he is young and bloody, and he is good at organizing and commanding troops.When he was in military preparation, sub-patrol and other positions, he actively organized and trained regiments and Baojia troops in the local area, and wiped out bandits in the territory everywhere during his tenure.He can also unite the gentry and the people, protect farming, and develop production.

The regiments he trained and trained rural soldiers were not only able to fight, but also had good discipline. An block.

With this ability, Wang Yi was promoted very quickly.

At this time, Li Chixin succeeded Li Chixin, who entered the court as the governor of the right army and the governor of the left, as the admiral of the No. 15 town in Liaodong. Whoever objects, because although Wang Yi is a civil servant, he can fight even if he knows how to fight.

Not only did he organize regiment training in the local area, he also served as a military supervisor in the imperial camp, and even personally commanded the provincial camp, all of which he performed very well.

"The winter solstice hasn't even arrived yet, yet it's snowing so heavily in Shenyang, isn't it knee-deep?"

Li Changxiang, Liaodong chief envoy, looked at the snow and said, "In Lidong, we have to wear black clothes in the northern suburbs to welcome the winter. With such heavy snow, we can't even get out of the door."

Li Changxiang is a native of Dazhou, Sichuan, and an old friend of Wang Yi. He was a Jinshi in Chongzhen for 16 years. Guard to raise and mobilize the king's soldiers.

Hongguang was established in Nanjing, and Li Changxiang was appointed as the supervisory censor, and he visited Zhejiang.The southern capital fell, and King Lu of Hangzhou surrendered again. Li Changxiang, who was patrolling salt outside, went to Siming Mountain to recruit rebels. Later, he joined forces with Wang Yi and others to fight against the Ming Dynasty wholeheartedly.

In the past few years, Li Changxiang has held important positions in the central and local governments, and he has won the trust of Emperor Shaotian. Now that he is the chief envoy of Liaodong, he and Wang Yi are together again.

"It was cold a few years ago. Although Taihu Lake was also frozen, it is really rare to see such a heavy snow in the south of the Yangtze River. On the day of Lidong, it only snowed so much. In the Central Plains, at least it will not snow until after the winter solstice."

"Well, it's a big snowstorm. I don't know if any houses collapsed last night. I don't know if the soldiers and people were frozen."

Spring is born, summer is long, autumn is harvested, and winter is stored.

Lidong, as the ancient traditional "four seasons and eight festivals", has always been valued by people, especially Lidong, which represents the change of four seasons in the alternation of cold and heat, and has a lot of attention in ancient culture.

In the etiquette of the Han Dynasty, on the day of Lidong, all officials in the capital must put on black clothes to welcome the winter yin in the darkness of the suburbs.

This ceremony is very solemn. The officials in charge of the calendar at the time of the sky will tell the emperor the time of the beginning of winter in advance. On a certain day when the beginning of winter begins, Shengde is in the water. On that day, the emperor will personally lead the ministers to the northern suburbs to welcome the winter.

After returning, he also rewarded the dead, sympathized with the orphans and widows, and ordered to help the orphans and widows among the people.

In the folk, people also wear black clothes to go to the northern suburbs to welcome the winter, and then return to their halls or ancestral halls, open the windows facing the north, and offer incense and worship.

The reason for wearing black clothes on this day is related to the four seasons matching the five elements, five colors and five directions. Winter corresponds to northern water and black.

Dry, northwest also, the main Lidong.

In the beginning of winter, if you are a king, if you don't use the wind to do things, you should raise the frontier soldiers, rule the city, and execute the punishment.

Asking to cut after autumn actually refers to the day of Lidong.

On the October day of the beginning of winter, the water begins to freeze; if the water does not freeze, it means that there will be negative yin, and the country will be in short supply.The ground starts to freeze; if the ground does not freeze, it is a sign of disaster.A pheasant turns into a mirage; if it is not a mirage, there will be many whores immediately.

The ancient Zhou Shu even said that the beginning of winter is in October, and the water starts to freeze. If it does not freeze, then the country may have a financial shortage this year.The ground starts to freeze, but the ground does not freeze, that is a symbol of disaster.

At this time, if those big birds like pheasants have not disappeared, there will be more whores.

The conclusions of these ancients are very interesting and have certain truths. For example, the beginning of freezing in October is actually based on the normal weather in the Central Plains. If it does not freeze at this time, it means that the weather is abnormal, and disasters are prone to occur, and the national economy is insufficient. It's very possible.

Generally, at the beginning of winter every year, those big birds like pheasants will fly away. They say that they entered the water and turned into mirages. In fact, migratory birds have migrated south for the winter. They say that if these birds have not left after the beginning of winter, there will be more prostitutes , I don't know where this connection comes from.

Obviously, these solar terms are summarized according to the laws of the Central Plains, which is obviously not applicable to Liaodong outside the customs.

After all, on the first day of Lidong, there was a blizzard all night, and the snow covered up to the knees. This is not because the water is freezing.

The snow is still falling and the wind is strong.

The door was pushed open a crack, and the biting cold wind went straight in.

Quickly close the door again.

"Fortunately, there is a heated kang in this room, otherwise it will be frozen outside overnight, and it won't be frozen into popsicles!" Two people from eastern Zhejiang, although they can almost see snow every year in the south of the Yangtze River, when have they seen such a thing? Heavy snow, let alone this season, there is such a big snowstorm.

"It's still comfortable with a heated kang." There is no heated kang in eastern Zhejiang. At most, you can burn a charcoal basin to roast, but in this ice and snow place, if there is no heated kang, you really can't survive the winter solstice.

There is no need to worry about the Jurchen Tartars or Mongolian Tartars attacking in this kind of ghostly weather. After all, it is snowing and stormy. Who dares to march in the wild?

Not to mention freezing and stiff, the wind can probably blow people away.

At this time, they were in Shenyang City, and they could still sit on the heated kang to shelter from the wind and snow. If the Tartars really came, they would probably freeze to death under the city, so how could they attack the city.

Moreover, they had already swept across the Lower Liaohe Plain before, reaching Tieling in the north, Zhangwu in the west, and the upper reaches of the Hun River (Qingyuan) in the east. They were all garrisons recovered by the Ming army, and they were still three hundred miles away from Shenyang.

In this kind of weather, unless they can fly, it is impossible to come to the city of Shenyang.

Even if it was Tieling, Kaiyuan, Zhangwu and other outer front-line castles, the Ming army did not need to worry too much, because the weather hit the city, and it was courting death.

"Today, we don't need to go out. Let's warm up a pot of old Shaoxing wine here, then have a plate of pine nuts, and let's sit on the kang and have a cat winter."

"Well, even wearing a mink coat and moccasin boots can't handle this heavy snowstorm."

"Let's change into a sable coat in the house and just face the north direction."

"Qiuhou asked to beheaded, we now have no one to beheaded, let's save it."

As the former capital of the Tartars, Shenyang was named Shengjing, also known as Fengtian. Later, after entering the customs, it was changed to the accompanying capital. Although it was reduced to the accompanying capital, Shenyang City can still see the Tartars moving from Liaoyang to Shenyang. After some expansion and renovation, the city is very majestic.

Neat gray square bricks, tall gate towers, majestic crenels, the former Shenyang Zhongwei City, and later the Shengjing City, is still called Shenyang today.

Shenyang City was an important city when the Ming Dynasty managed Liaodong. It was an acropolis where the military and the government were integrated. It was planned as an important garrison for one king and five guards at the beginning of its design.

Shenyang City was first built in the Tang Dynasty, and it was called Shenzhou, Shenyang, and the Sun of Shenshui.Shenyang Road was built in the Yuan Dynasty, and Shenyang in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties was a rammed earth city wall.

In the early Ming Dynasty, it was expanded and rebuilt before it became covered with green bricks.

In the 12th year of Hongwu, the Shenyang area was appeased, and Shenyang and its surrounding areas were gradually brought under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

In the 21st year of Hongwu, Shenyang City was rebuilt. After the repair, it was nine miles and thirty steps around, two feet and five feet high, and the city had four gates.

Zhu Yuanzhang used the vassal kings to guard the north to prevent Mongolia from going south. He appointed thirteen princes in the north as vassal kings. In Liaodong, he named three kings, King Liao of Guangning, King Han of Kaiyuan, and King Shen of Shenyang. , No.20 a son Zhu Mo.

In addition to the center, left, and right guards in Shenyang, Zhongtun guards and central guards were added later, thus forming one king and five guards.

The three vassal kings, King Liao ruled the west of the Liaohe River, King Shen ruled the east of the Liaohe River, and King Han sat in Kaiyuan, commanding Sanwanwei, Liaohai and other northern areas north of Tieling.

King Shen sits in the center of Shenyang, and he can support the left and right sides to ensure that the Ming Dynasty ruled Liaodong.

It's just that after Zhu Dijing was difficult to succeed, this strategy was destroyed.

During the Wanli period, although the city of Shenyang was strengthened and the city gate was added to the city gate, Xiong Tingbi patrolled Liaodong twice in the late Ming Dynasty, and he also focused on strengthening the city of Liaodong. Divide the manpower to cultivate the fields, and get 130 million shi of rice that year.

After the Battle of Saarhu, the situation in Liaodong deteriorated rapidly. The imperial court then used Xiong Tingbi to comfort Liaodong, but before he left Beijing, Kaiyuan fell. As soon as he left Shanhaiguan, Tielingwei fell again, and the soldiers and civilians of the castles around Shenyang fled.

However, Xiong Tingbi arrived in Shenyang despite the wind and snow, and went to Fushun and other places to inspect, beheaded deserters, punished corrupt officials, persuaded the people to return to the village, held public sacrifices for the victims, held military parades, and repaired the city. The distribution of weapons and formation of troops finally stabilized the situation in Liaodong.

But in the first year of Apocalypse, the Shenyang city he managed so painstakingly was captured by Hou Jin's attack without even surviving for a day.

After Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, he rebuilt Shenyang City.

Increase the height of the city wall and expand the four gates to eight gates. The original Shizi Street was changed to Jingzi Street, and the standard central temple in the center of Shenyang City is still there.

The original two-foot-five city wall was also built and heightened. The wall was reinforced with strip stones and large blue bricks. There were 650 crenels, one enemy tower was built for each of the eight gates, and one turret was built for each of the four corners of the city. The moat was also changed from two generations. for one.

The drainage system in the city has also been improved, and 72 inner pools have been formed after transformation, and the water will not leak out.

In fact, the whole city has not become bigger, but after the renovation, the appearance has changed a lot. This project took five years to repair, which cost a lot of manpower and financial resources.

After the renovation of Shenyang City, the outer city was also built, and the Guancheng was built outside Shenyang City, but the project was relatively large, so it was repaired intermittently, trying not to delay the farming season and the use of troops. After many years of repairs, it was basically completed.

Guancheng is a circular, rammed-earth city wall with a circumference of 32 miles and 48 steps.

The inner city is home to relatives and clans, the outer city is home to generals and clan parties, and Guancheng outside the outer city is home to soldiers and newly attached people.

To put it simply, the palace city is naturally home to the family of the Tartar emperor, the inner city is the royal relatives, the outer city is the Buddhist Manchuria, and the Guancheng is the Yicher 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, and the construction of the Dazheng Palace, the Ten Kings Pavilion, and the Khan Palace, it has been more than 20 years. became the center of Liaodong.

But during the Ming army's Northern Expedition to Liaoshen, it was the same as the Qing army's attack on Shenyang in the past, and they were all broken in one attack.

(End of this chapter)