Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

It is exactly what the later generations will look like at three or four o'clock in the afternoon Beijing time.

Beijing is located at the northernmost tip of the North China Plain.It borders the Mongolian grassland in the north, and directly borders Liaodong in the east.From ancient times to the present, if the northern nomads go south, here and Datong in Shanxi will be their first stops when they invade.

Therefore, throughout history, this is not a suitable address for the capital.

The root of the Ming Dynasty was Jiangnan. Therefore, when the country was founded, Ming Taizu naturally made Nanjing the capital for the wealth of the southeast.

In the first year of Hongwu, the great general Xu Da conquered the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, and most of the capital was renamed Beiping.Xu Da moved some residents of the city to Kaifeng, destroyed the palace of the Yuan Dynasty, and built Jingshan on the old site; in order to facilitate defense, the northern city wall was moved to the south.Due to the silting of the canal, the materials in the south were mainly transported by sea and land.In this way, the originally prosperous Yuan Dynasty capital city became a relatively deserted northern border city.

In the third year of Hongwu, Zhu Di, the fourth son of Taizu, was granted the title of King Yan.In the 13th year of Hongwu, the kingdom of King Yan established a palace in Beiping, commonly known as Yanjing.After Xu Da's death, most of the frontier defense forces in North China were under the control of King Yan, and Beiping became the center of the northern frontier defense in the Ming Dynasty.

However, after Jingnan, Chengzu's base camp was in Beiping, and because the people in the southeast were not stable, the emperor thought of moving the capital back to Beiping.

In the 15th year of Yongle, after years of consultation and preparation, the Ming Dynasty officially moved the capital to Beiping and changed Beiping to Beijing.

Later, after nearly 60 years of renovation and expansion, the capital is now a majestic metropolis.

It had already entered midsummer, the sun was shining down, and the whole world was forced into a deathly silence by the Golden Crow's despotic power.There was no one to be seen on the road or on the pier, and they didn't even call out when they knew about it.

Su Mu got off a small boat and looked up. The majestic city wall was about 20 meters high, all made of huge green bricks, and it was shining brightly in the sun.

Everywhere was tanned white, and the air was slightly distorted.

There is no wind, and naturally there is no coolness, and sweat gushes out like spring water.

Looking around again, Xiaodie was also weak from the sun.

When they came to the capital this time, they didn't bring any luggage, just a few clothes and a few books. Su Mu is not a troublesome person.

Seeing that the little girl couldn't bear it, Su Mu shook his head helplessly, opened the fan, and fanned Xiaodie: "Is it too hot?"

"I really didn't expect that the capital would be so hot?" Xiaodie let out a sigh of relief. Although she was very tired, the little girl still looked around curiously, wanting to see what the capital looked like.

After seeing it, she found a strange thing, and couldn't help but shouted: "Young master, this capital is also strange, why can't I see a tree, not even a little green."

Su Mu also felt strange, but then he thought about it, Beijing has only been established for [-] years, and it is considered a new city in this world.In addition, there is a lot of wind and sand here, and it is normal that there are no tall trees.

Beijing in this era has a circumference of 45 miles, which is an area of ​​[-] square kilometers.After this calculation, Su Mu was surprised, the city is so big, even if the city is full of bungalows, it can still accommodate many people.

When he was in college, he happened to see a piece of historical material, which was the yellow book of household registration in the last years of Chongzhen.According to the above records, there were 35 people in Beijing at that time, and 45 agricultural people in Shuntian Prefecture outside the city, totaling 80.

This is still the last years of the Ming Dynasty, and it is now the most prosperous period of the Ming Dynasty. The population should be more, and it is estimated that it has exceeded one million.

Paris, the center of Europe in this era, only had a population of more than [-] people, which was comparable to an ordinary capital city in the Ming Dynasty, and even Baoding was not comparable.

Looking at the city gate of Beijing, Su Mu suddenly felt an indescribable excitement: This is the center of the world!

After he and Xiaodie left Baoding, they were not in a hurry to come to Beijing, but traveled to Shandong with her for nearly a month.

Up to now, it is already the middle of July in the 16th year of Hongzhi, and it is the hottest days of the year.

After this month's long journey, both Su Mu and Xiaodie were tanned by the sun on Mount Tai and the seaside. Although their faces were dusty, they were much healthier than before.

Entering the city, the whole of Beijing is still on lunch break, and there are not many people on the street.

Naturally, there is no way to hire a car.

So the master and servant had no choice but to walk on the street under the poisonous sun. After only half a day, it was as hot as if they had just been fished out of the water.

According to the agreement with Boss Lin for more than a month, Su Mu and Xiaodie will live in his small courtyard in the south of Beijing after they come to Beijing.

This small courtyard is a branch of Lin Family Bookstore in Beijing, responsible for the market of the capital, a bit like the Beijing office of later generations.The inside is also clean, and there are a few guys in charge of reception.

Su Mu didn't think too much about it, he just hoped to get to the ground soon, take a good shower and change into clean clothes.

The capital is strictly divided into many areas, and the officials and citizens in the city live in different places according to their status and occupation.The north and center are naturally the imperial city, which is the emperor and the six departments of the Central Committee; the west is the royal garden; the east is the warehouse of the household department and the houses of the officials; the south is the commercial area.

After walking for about half an hour, I was exhausted and finally reached the ground.

Sure enough, it is the center of the CBD in the capital, and it is very popular. There are busy people everywhere, busy traffic; there are shirtless porters, businessmen with potbellies, and naturally there are well-dressed scholars.

There is still one and a half months before the township examination, and the capital will inevitably be crowded with many candidates from Beizhili and Shuntianfu.In addition to the Juren who lived in the capital for a long time and waited for the examination, Su Mu saw more scholars in this commercial area than he had seen in Baoding for two months.

Strange to say, once here, Xiaodie became energetic, looked left and right on the street, seeing everything was new, "Master, there are so many people, so many people!"

"Master, will we live here in the future?" The little girl looked forward to it.

"Why, you want to live here, it's so noisy."

Little girl: "It's good here. It's convenient to buy everything. You can find what you want to eat when you go out. It's not like Baoding old house, where you see those dead faces all day long. It's hard to find someone to talk to. You're so suffocated."

"After all, I'm a child, and I like to be lively." This kind of bustling sumu has been seen a lot in later generations, and I'm tired of it.But to the ancients, it was so fresh.He smiled and nodded: "Yes, I will live here from now on."

Xiaodie breathed a sigh of relief, she understood after traveling in Shandong with Su Mu, her young master, Xi Jing, specially ran to remote places, and even said "this is the original ecology", which was incomprehensible.

She hurriedly took out her handkerchief, and wiped the sweat off Su Mu's forehead carefully, with a smile on her brows.

"Wow!" After walking a few steps, Xiaodie screamed again.

Su Mu: "What's wrong?"

"There are a lot of people over there. They seem to belong to Boss Lin. I can recognize the character for 'wind'." Xiaodie said happily, "Amitabha, I finally got to the ground, but the young master was overheated. I really didn't expect Boss Lin to be here." The business in the capital will be like this, and there will be a long line of people buying books!"

I saw a large plaque hanging suddenly on a small shop by the street, with the words "Wind into the Pine" written on it, it was Boss Lin's bookstore.

However, there were many people standing at the door, all pointing at the door, squeezing the door tightly.

Su Mu hurriedly yelled "excuse the light" and squeezed in with all his strength, looked intently, but was shocked, but saw that the door was closed tightly with a white seal on it.

The signature of the seal was stamped with the big seal of the East Anti-Corruption Factory, and the ink was still fresh, apparently two days after it was seized.

This situation was like a thunderbolt from the blue sky, which shocked Su Mu dumbfounded, and he could not make a sound for a long time.