The palace of King Wu in Yingtian originally had only the outer court and inner court buildings in the middle road, and no palaces were built on the east and west sides. After the battle of Poyang Lake, Zhu Yuanzhang accepted Chen Youliang's territory. Most of these territory were in wealthy places in Jiangnan, and there were a lot of silver sent to the treasury every year. In addition, in recent years, Zhu Yuanzhang pursued the nine-character mantra of building high walls, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming king. The silver in the treasury was really abundant, so Zhu Yuanzhang started to build his own "imperial city".

After a lot of construction, the palace was 240 feet wide from east to west and 230 feet long from north to south. There were four gates, the south is the Meridian Gate, the east is the East is the West is the Xihua Gate, and the north is the Xuanwu Gate. The Meridian Gate is Fengtian Gate, and the inner is the Fengtian Hall, the inner is the Wen Tower and the Wu Tower. The back of the Fengtian Hall is the Huagai Hall, and the Jingshen Hall is the Ganqing Palace, the Kunning Palace, and the East is the Six Palaces."

But this also satisfies the atmosphere of the imperial city in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart. In his heart, this imperial city should be composed of two parts: the imperial city and the palace city, collectively called the imperial palace. The imperial city is outside, encircling the palace city. It reaches Zhuqiao in the west, east of Yixian Bridge, south to Guanghuamen in the south, and north to the area of ​​Foxin Bridge. It is about a hundred feet long from north to south, and fifty or sixty feet wide from east to west, and the entire imperial city is in a convex shape. The imperial city has six gates: the south is Hongwu Gate, facing the capital Zhengyang Gate (now Guanghua Gate); the southeast is Chang'an Zuomen, and the outside is Chang'an Street (now Babao Street); the southwest is Chang'an Youmen, Dong'an Gate in the east, and Xi'an Gate in the west; the north is Xuanwu Gate. The palace city is also called Da Nei, commonly known as the "Forbidden City", with six gates: the south is the Wumen (now Wu Chao Gate), the southeast is Zuoye Gate, the southwest is Youye Gate, and the east is Donghua The gate is Xihua Gate in the west, and Bei'an Gate in the north. There are two gates between the imperial city and the palace city, Chengtian Gate in the south and Duan Gate in the north. There are a hundred gates in total. This is undoubtedly a huge project, which requires a lot of manpower and is powerless and energy-saving. However, Zhu Yuanzhang is not afraid. Chen Youliang is not afraid of the 600,000 army of Chen Youliang, and Zhang Shicheng is not afraid of the 300,000 army. He is not afraid of the Tartars in the north. He is not afraid of anything he is afraid of in this world. What's the difficulty of an imperial city?

The palace has made good progress in the past two years, and several new palaces have been added. Zhu Yuanzhang saw this morning. The entire palace is full of palaces, with lush pavilions, carved beams and painted buildings, thousands of doors, magnificent and magnificent. It is indeed the momentum he wants.

After seeing the newly built palace, Zhu Yuanzhang entered a newly built bell tower alone. This loft is located in the center of the palace. What Zhu Yuanzhang wants to build must be the largest thing in this capital, and the loft is the same. The bell tower is imitated by the Tengwang Pavilion. The building is six stories high, three layers of eaves, a hundred feet of buildings, and a magnificent scale. It is enough to look down on the hundreds of buildings in the south of the Yangtze River. Standing on the top of the bell tower, you can see everything in Jinling. From outside the imperial city, you can still see this bell and drum tower standing in the sky, which makes people have to look up to it.

The attic is surrounded by overcast buildings, pavilions and trees, majestic and majestic, mountains, rivers, flowers and plants, all of which are carefully designed and produced, with small bridges and flowing waters, and a mist and rainy weather in the south of the Yangtze River.

The fifth floor of the bell tower is where Zhu Yuanzhang often goes, because standing here, you can overlook everything in Jinling City. The rivers are vast and the mountains are covered with green mists, all of which fall into his eyes. Only by standing here can he truly feel everything he has now.

The bell tower was newly built not long ago, and it was not as good as the decoration. It was just that according to Zhu Yuanzhang's preferences, the military advisor brought a group of literati who were good at painting and drew a picture of "The King of Qin Breaking the Formation Music and Dance" on the wall grid on the west. This blessing painting depicts Qin King Li Shimin defeating the rebel Liu Wuzhou, consolidating the thousands of atmospheres that had just established the Tang Dynasty and unified the Tang Dynasty, and immediately made the attic full momentum. Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at the picture, compared with Qin King Li Shi in this picture.

The people, Zhu Yuanzhang loved Liu Bang, the Emperor Gaozu of Han, and was a commoner, and he sat in the position of the 1955th Five. What kind of courage and glory is this? Isn’t it more courageous than the brothers of Qin King Li Shimin? Unfortunately, Liu Bowen’s literati did not like Liu Bang flying birds and hiding good bows; the cunning rabbits died and the lackeys cooked, which achieved Li Shimin’s fame. Alas, since ancient times, after pacifying the world, many emperors shocked the officials and the people?

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and turned into the study room in the attic. The study room contained the Analects of Confucius, Mencius, the Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, the Book of Songs, the Book of Songs, the Book of Rites, the Book of Rites, the Book of Changes, and the Spring and Autumn Annals selected by the literary master Song Lian for himself. He picked a book and slowly read it. A close-fitting guard stood with a knife outside the door.

The so-called governing a country must first govern the family. The family cannot be taught but can teach others. Therefore, a gentleman does not become a monk and becomes a teaching in the country. Filial piety is the reason why he serves the king; brotherly lordship is the reason why he is the leader; kindness is the reason why he makes the crowd. Kanggao says: "It is like protecting a child." If you are sincere in your heart, you will not be far away. If you have not learned to adopt a son and then marry. A family will be kind, a country will be kind; a family will be kind, a country will be kind; a person will be greedy and a country will be rebellious; a person will be greedy and a country will be rebellious: this is the purpose. This is to say that one word is a matter of turmoil (天: fèn), one person will be determined by the country. Yao, Shun leads the world with benevolence, and the people will follow it. Jie, Zhou leads the world with violence, and the people will follow it. What he wants is contrary to his preferences, but the people will not follow it. Therefore, a gentleman has to seek others through himself, and then he will not follow it. He has to seek others through himself, and then he will not be others through it. What he hides from his body and does not forgive him, but can be used to describe others. Therefore, the governing country is to control his family...

The sound of Zhu Yuanzhang reciting poetry and books came from the study. Since becoming the Queen of Wu, Zhu Yuanzhang has become more and more diligent in studying, and daily recitation is essential. At this moment, he started to recite the book "The Great Learning". The maids, eunuchs and guards in the attic knew that the King of Wu had read this book for at least ten times, and these days have never stopped, and they have become accustomed to all of this.

The palace maid brought a plate of fried peanuts and a pot of small yellow wine, and walked out of the room quietly. Zhu Yuanzhang didn't say much. The palace maid had already become accustomed to it and didn't care. But when she turned around, she would mutter: "Your Highness the King of Wu is really a frugal person?" Then she stopped talking, for fear that the sound she made accidentally would disturb the master's interest in studying.

Zhu Yuanzhang read a book called "The Great Learning" more than ten times before it was put down. Zhu Yuanzhang ate a few peanuts and drank some yellow wine, and hurried out of the study and turned to Jianzhai. The eunuch who followed him knew that the King of Wu was going to make poems while he was drunk.

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The third update is here, and there is another update. I will be sorry for the later I come back! Haha!
Chapter completed!