The Ming Dynasty started with saving the eldest grandson

Chapter 141 The sudden topic of moving the capital (please vote for more updates)
After reading Wu Yuan's secret letter, Chen Jingke finally knew what was going on.

But this result really made him a little confused about what to say.

Zhu Biao actually developed high blood pressure due to Zhu Xi's anger?
Who would believe this if told?

But there was another problem that he couldn't figure out. Zhu Biao was definitely not someone who punished himself for others' mistakes.

Even if that person is his biological brother.

Why are you so angry about Zhu Xi?
Zhu Yuanzhang sighed: "I wanted to recall Zhu Feng several times before to face severe punishment. Biao'er didn't know his crimes and persuaded me out of brotherly love."

"I also had a sense of luck, so I took advantage of the situation and took back the order."

"This time Biao'er went to Shaanxi and witnessed his atrocities with his own eyes, so he blamed himself..."

Chen Jingke understood that Zhu Biao was angry not only with Zhu Cang, but also with himself.

Judging from what was said in the letter, he probably felt guilty that he owed it to the people of Shaanxi.

Therefore, he almost had to do everything by himself, and he had to worry more about it than Prime Minister Zhuge.

If you are angry and guilty for a long time, it is no wonder that you will develop high blood pressure.

This is really... people don't know what to say for a moment.

But high blood pressure is neither serious nor light.

The treatment method lies more in nourishment, and the core is just six words:
Worry less and rest more.

This is not difficult for ordinary people to do.

But for the prince or the emperor, it is almost impossible.

Just think about Li Shimin and Li Zhi, father and son.

It was okay when I was young, but not so good when I got a little older.

Chen Jingke looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and felt very sympathetic.

History has changed. I thought he would be able to worry less in this life, but now it seems that there is no chance.

Looking at Zhu Xiongying again, this kid is really lucky.

Zhu Biao is only 28 years old. If he does not suffer from this disease, he can still work for at least three to 40 years.

In other words, Zhu Xiongying will have to be the grandson and crown prince for at least 30 years, and will not have the opportunity to ascend the throne until he is 40 years old.

The situation is different now.

With Zhu Biao's character, there is a high probability that he will abdicate directly if he is determined to be in poor health.

Even if he does not abdicate, Zhu Xiongying will be allowed to supervise the country.

In this way, Zhu Xiongying can take control of the country at least ten years in advance.

It is the time when you are most young and strong.

This luck is really good.

Zhu Yuanzhang, Queen Ma and Zhu Xiongying were all concerned about Zhu Biao's physical condition at this time and did not think of this.

I don't even know that Chen Jingke can think so far.

Empress Ma asked first: "Jing Ke, please go to Chang'an. Only when you go can I feel at ease."

Zhu Yuanzhang also said: "Yes, I only trust you in terms of medical skills. Only when you are by Biao'er's side can we rest assured."

Chen Jingke was very surprised that Zhu Biao was not asked to come back?
This is the situation, why don't you come back to recuperate?
Even if Zhu Biao wanted to make up for his guilt, three or four months would be enough, right?
What the hell happened over there?
Zhu Yuanzhang hesitated for a moment and said, "It doesn't hurt to tell you that the prince has a more important thing to do over there besides helping Zhu Fang deal with the aftermath."

"Inspect the details of Guanzhong on the spot and prepare for moving the capital?"

"Move the capital?" Chen Jingke and Zhu Xiongying exclaimed at the same time.

Queen Ma's expression did not change, she had obviously known about this for a long time.

Zhu Xiongying quickly asked: "Isn't Yingtian very good? Why do you want to move the capital?"

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "It is not a long-term solution for Yingtian City to be located in the south."

Seeing that Zhu Xiongying was still confused, he explained: "Yingtian City has a natural barrier on the Yangtze River, but there is only a natural barrier on the Yangtze River."

"Once the Jiang defense is broken, Yingtian will be exposed to enemy attacks."

"And while the Yangtze River protects the sky, it also restrains the people's hearts."

"It makes people become conservative and unwilling to make progress. Once there are changes in the north, I am afraid that the old events of the Southern Song Dynasty will happen again."

Zhu Xiongying half understood, but he understood what Zhu Yuanzhang meant.

But I still can't understand why it became like that.

Just changing the capital of the country can make such a big change?

Chen Jingke was surprised at first, and then looked thoughtful.

He naturally knew the necessity of moving the capital to the north, and also knew that Zhu Di had done so in his previous life.

Little did he know that Zhu Yuanzhang actually had such thoughts.

In fact, he was ignorant. From the day he ascended the throne, Zhu Yuanzhang had the idea of ​​moving the capital.

At first, I wanted to place the capital in Kaifeng. After on-site inspection, I felt that the place of the Fourth War was undefendable, so I gave up.

In the second year of Hongwu's reign, he wanted to move the capital to Fengyang and sent people to build a palace.

But due to various reasons, I gave up this idea.

In the 11th year of Hongwu's reign, he sent people to inspect Chang'an, Luoyang and Peiping.

After some weighing, Zhu Yuanzhang was actually most satisfied with Chang'an.

Not to mention anything else, the Guanzhong Plain is [-] miles away, and Tongguan is naturally dangerous.

It gave birth to the four great empires of Qin, Han, Sui and Tang Dynasties. There is really no reason not to choose it.

In the previous life, in the 17th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang sent people to Chang'an to build the Bell and Drum Tower. The purpose is self-evident.

In the 24th year of Hongwu's reign, Zhu Biao was sent to Chang'an for field inspection again, and he was actually ready to move the capital.

However, after Zhu Biao came back, he suggested putting the kingdom in Luoyang.

The specific reason cannot be tested, but it is extremely convincing.

Otherwise, Zhu Yuanzhang would not hesitate.

But before he could think it through, Zhu Biao died of illness, and the matter of moving the capital was abandoned.

Later, the operations of Zhu Yunwen and the ministers around him proved the correctness of moving the capital to the north.

It was finally achieved in the hands of Zhu Di.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Chen Jingke, who had been silent for a long time, and couldn't help but feel something in his heart.

Chen Jingke's thinking has always been different from others. Can he provide himself with some different reference opinions?

Thinking of this, he asked aloud: "Does Jing Ke have any ideas about moving the capital?"

Chen Jingke quickly shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, moving the capital is a major matter for the country. I can't comment on it."

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "There are several choices, each with its own advantages and disadvantages, and we still can't make up our mind."

"Your ideas are different from ordinary people, and we want to hear your suggestions."

"Don't worry, we don't have to listen to you, we just want to hear if you have any other opinions."

Chen Jingke then said: "In that case, I will just say a few lies."

"I divide different regions into four functions: one is the resource area, the other is the economic area, the third is the military area, and the fourth is the political center."

"The resource area provides certain resources, such as food production, gold, silver, and iron ore..."

“Economic areas and areas with convenient transportation are actually more suitable for economic development.”

"Generally speaking, the South is a natural economic area."

"Military areas are places where military tasks are undertaken."

"Currently Beiping, Taiyuan and other places are of this type."

"The political center, in a larger sense, is the capital of the country."

"On a smaller scale, the location of the Chief Envoy's Yamen is also the regional political center."

Zhu Yuanzhang said happily: "Jing Ke's summary is very insightful, and it can indeed be divided like this."

Queen Ma couldn't help but nod. This division was indeed very reasonable.

Zhu Xiongying didn't think so much. At this time, he only had one pair of ears and listened intently.

"Jing Ke continued, what's behind?"

Chen Jingke continued: "For a small country, because of its small territory, it is likely that one area can carry four functions at the same time."

"But for a large country with a vast territory like the Ming Dynasty, the functional division of these four regions is more obvious..."

"The military area and economic area are limited by the environment, and the resource area is limited by the storage. It is difficult for the human power of these three to interfere forcefully."

"Only the political center can be determined by human power."

It is not that there is no way to intervene in military areas and economic areas, but it is thankless to force intervention.Complying with the natural environment is the most time-saving and labor-saving.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while and nodded in agreement.

Chen Jingke took a sip of tea and moistened his throat:

"For Ming Dynasty, the political center must not be placed together with the economic center."

“The economic center already has a strong voice, so if we place the political center here again.”

"Other places will completely lose their right to speak."

"For a country with a vast territory, the harm is too deadly."

Zhu Yuanzhang said with great agreement: "Well said, this is one of the reasons why we have always wanted to move the capital to the north."

"The south is already strong enough. If we put the capital here, what will happen to the north?"

"We have three favorite places, Chang'an, Luoyang and Peiping. Which one do you think is the most suitable?"

Chen Jingke did not say directly, but said:
"In the capital region, first of all, there must be natural dangers that can be defended, which are easy to defend but difficult to attack."

Zhu Yuanzhang recalled the terrain of the three places and gave his judgment:

"All three places have natural dangers, Chang'an is the strongest, followed by Luoyang, and Peiping is the third."

Chen Jingke continued: "As a unified dynasty, transportation must be convenient."

"Otherwise, it will not be conducive to grain transportation and transportation to various places."

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Chang'an has the most inconvenient transportation, Peiping is slightly better, and Luoyang is located in the heart of the Central Plains and is the most conveniently connected."

Chen Jingke added: "There must be a certain economic foundation, otherwise the cost of rebuilding a capital city will be too high."

Zhu Yuanzhang believed deeply: "In terms of economy, Luoyang is the strongest, followed by Chang'an and Peiping."

"This is also the reason why we don't want to put the capital in Peking."

"Although the Yuan Dynasty placed most of its capital here, the Yuan people were not good at managing the city, so this place did not develop."

"The only palace was destroyed by the war."

"If you put the capital here, it would be equivalent to building a capital city from scratch. The cost would be too high."

Chen Jingke also agreed with Zhu Yuanzhang's views in his heart.

Peiping can indeed be regarded as the capital in terms of terrain.

But this is the 16th year of Hongwu, not 300 years later, let alone 600 years later.

Before the management of the Ming and Qing dynasties, this place was still a semi-barbaric land.

Putting the capital here would require too much upfront investment.

Zhu Di placed the capital here because, firstly, it was his home base, and secondly, he had no other choice.

Why do you say that? Just look at the map.

Chang'an is the territory of Qin King Zhu Xi, Shandong has Qi King Zhu Zhu, Henan has Zhou King Zhu Ji, and Taiyuan has Jin King Zhu Fan.

Although Zhu Fan and Zhu Xi were both dead at that time, their strength as kings of Sai was still there.

Zhu Di dared to put the capital in someone else's house?

Isn't that looking for excitement?
Peiping became the only and best choice.

There is his hometown, which can achieve the purpose of moving the political center north.

And you can completely get rid of the shadows of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yunwen.

It also has strong strategic value, so why not do it.

But Zhu Yuanzhang didn't have so many worries. He could place the capital wherever he wanted.

Which son would dare to object to giving it a try?
He just needs to comprehensively consider which place is more suitable.

And right now, Peiping is indeed not a good choice.

He had concerns about this in the first place, but now that he heard Chen Jingke's analysis, he gave up on Peiping completely.

Now only Chang'an and Luoyang are left.

Chen Jingke talked about three factors, economy, transportation and defense.

Luoyang has an absolute advantage in economy and transportation, but Chang'an has an absolute advantage in safety.

Coupled with Zhu Yuanzhang's preconceived ideas, he still agrees with Chang'an.

However, he still has not made a decision on this, and will wait until Zhu Biao returns from the on-site inspection.

Just when he was about to end the topic, Chen Jingke spoke again:
"There is a fourth factor, development potential."

Zhu Yuanzhang paused and said, "Development potential?"

Chen Jingke nodded and said: "Yes, the political center is developing rapidly and will soon become the most important town in the Ming Dynasty."

"If the development potential is insufficient to support such a huge population and economic aggregate, it will restrict the development of Gyeonggi."

Zhu Yuanzhang thought hard for a while and still couldn't figure it out, so he said:
"Can you tell us specifically, what aspects does this development potential refer to?"

Chen Jingke thought for a moment and said: "To put it simply, land carrying capacity is one of them."

"How many people can the Gyeonggi region support?"

"Take Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty as an example. Its population peaked at over one million."

"The peak population of the Tang Dynasty was about 6000 million, and the Ming Dynasty had [-] million people when it was founded. A hundred years later, the population will exceed [-] million."

"It is foreseeable that the population of Ming Dynasty's capital will also be in the millions."

"So Your Majesty must consider whether the new capital city can support the population of one million people in a hundred years."

"If we can't, we will leave a big problem for future generations."

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly understood and couldn't help but said: "Chang'an once accommodated a population of one million during the Tang Dynasty, and it must be no problem now."

Chen Jingke shook his head secretly.

Before he could speak, Queen Ma said: "I'm afraid not."

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned for a moment and asked in confusion: "Why?"

Queen Ma said: "Count how many times the emperor of the Tang Dynasty took his officials out to eat."

To put it bluntly, eating means going out to beg for food.

Every time there was a disaster, the emperor would lead all the civil and military officials out of the country to beg for food.

The [-]-mile Guanzhong Plain can no longer support so many people.

Every year, millions of grains of stone and grass are transported to Chang'an from all over the world, just enough to feed so many people.

The key is that transportation in Guanzhong is inconvenient, and almost all water transportation pressure is placed on the Guangtong Canal.

If the enemy can reach Tongguan, they only need to seal the exit to prevent a grain of grain from flowing into the pass.

It won't be long before people in Guanzhong will eat people.

Zhu Yuanzhang remained silent.

He has read history books, especially after meeting Chen Jingke, he loves reading history books.

Naturally, they also knew the embarrassing situation facing the Tang Dynasty.

But this was the ancient capital of thirteen dynasties, a place of destiny that gave birth to the glorious empires of Qin, Han, Sui and Tang Dynasties.

He really didn't want to give up.

Queen Ma continued: "During the Han and Tang dynasties, there were still large areas of forest and grassland in northern Shaanxi, which were suitable for living."

"Although northern Shaanxi began to become desertified during the Tang Dynasty, the climate was warm and rainfall was sufficient, so life was still possible."

"Now northern Shaanxi and Hetao have become seriously desertified..."

"If the temperature and cold changes are true, and the climate will become colder and rainfall will decrease in the future, northern Shaanxi will become even more uninhabitable."

"Without Chang'an in northern Shaanxi, the carrying capacity is even more fragile than during the Tang Dynasty."

"We must also consider the further damage to the local environment caused by the increase in population..."

"So, I think Chang'an is no longer suitable to be the capital of the Ming Dynasty."

Queen Ma finally expressed her conclusion.

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