In the first year of Chengshun of Chu, at noon on October 23, the eighth year of Chongzhen.

After just experiencing fierce battles, there were traces of war everywhere. Even the city walls collapsed two places, and the direction of the city gate tower was even more bumpy and full of cannonball craters. It ushered in its new owner from a thousand years of history: Luo Zhixue, the emperor of the Great Chu Empire.

At the gate of the city, a large number of soldiers lined up to see him off, riding a maroon-red tall horse, wearing armor and military uniform, Luo Zhixue slowly entered the city. Behind him were a group of important civil and military officials of the Great Chu Empire.

Walking to the city gate and looking at the two big characters Wuchang, which were missing on the city gate, Luo Zhixue stopped moving forward with a war horse under his crotch, pointed to the two characters Wuchang on the city gate, and said to Guo Quanshu, who was one step behind, "Guo Aiqing turned around and repaired this sign. In addition, from today on, he established the capital of Wuchang, Hanyang Prefecture, Xiaogan County of De'an Prefecture, and Huangpo County of Huangzhou Prefecture, which was directly under the jurisdiction of the capital!"

After hearing this, Guo Quanshu, the minister of the civil servants and the Minister of Personnel, immediately bowed and said, "I obey the order!"

Everyone behind him had no words about this. After all, it was decided that the capital in Wuchang was established when the country was founded and the emperor was promoted.

The reason why Luo Zhixue went to Hanyang to proclaim himself emperor was to directly regard Hanyang and Wuchang as capitals.

After all, Hanyang and Wuchang are separated by a river, and can be regarded as one. Moreover, this place happens to be in the middle of the entire Huguang area, and is also along the Yangtze River. It is very important in military strategic places.

More than a thousand years ago, this place was a military center. During the Ming Dynasty, this place was also a military center, especially before the Ming Dynasty completely pacified the southwest region.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, in addition to its military role, the Wuchang area also became the political and economic center in the Huguang area. Wuchang on the south bank of the Yangtze River was mainly used as a military purpose and political center, while Hanyang on the north bank of the Yangtze River was used as a commercial and economic center.

And with the gradual development of Huguang, after Huguang became more mature, its economic status became more important.

The new Chu Empire had to choose a place in its controlled area as the capital, and there was no choice but to Wuchang City.

At the same time, it is not enough to just be a Wuchang City. It also requires Hanyang and Hankou areas to be added to the north.

To this end, Luo Zhixue simply combined the two prefectures into one, and then joined Xiaogan County in De'an Prefecture and Huangpo County in Huangzhou Prefecture, and merged these places into a central government-level capital.

At the same time, the name cannot be used in Wuchang or Hanyang.

The capitals of traditional dynasties are generally special. It is a routine operation with the word "Tian" and means the land of the emperor.

For example, Yingtian Prefecture, Shuntian Prefecture, and Chengtian Prefecture are commonly used.

For the same reason, it was also because the Baoxiang Army immediately changed it to Anlu Mansion after conquering Chengtian Mansion in the Ming Dynasty.

Because Anlu Prefecture is called Chengtian Prefecture, it is because this place is the hometown of Emperor Jiaqing and has strong political significance. The Great Chu Empire naturally needs to change its name as soon as possible.

The merged Wuchang and Hanyang areas also have the name of the word "Tian".

Yingtian, Shuntian and Chengtian were temporarily occupied by the Ming Dynasty, and there was another relatively good Fengtian that was not used yet. In history, this word was first used by the Southern Ming Dynasty and later used by the Eastern Abductee in Shengjing as the name of the accompanying capital. Luo Zhixue felt that this word was a bit disgusting, so he abandoned it.

After thinking about it, Luo Zhixue combined the local Hanyang and Hankou and other places, and at the same time, in order to show that the Great Chu Empire was an orthodox Han Dynasty, he took the character "Han" and combined it with the character "Tian" representing the emperor to merge into "Hantian". Therefore, the capital that merged from the Wuchang and Hanyang areas was also called "Hantian Mansion".

However, the Hantian Mansion is very large, and the real palace is still in Wuchang City.

Because this place is easy to defend but difficult to attack, the military significance is even more important. At the same time, there is also an intact Chu Palace here that can be used as an imperial palace.

At the same time, there are also official buildings of many administrative agencies such as the governor, the governor of Wuchang, and the Dusi.

These places can be used to resettle the central institutions of the Great Chu Empire.

It is also like before. Major institutions do not even have enough office space and have to occupy a large number of ordinary houses, and multiple departments are crowded together to work together.

However, in Luo Zhixue's mind, Wuchang City, the capital of Hantian Prefecture, is only temporary.

After all, Luo Zhixue's ambition to unify the Jiuzhou, the strategic goal of the Great Chu Empire.

As for a unified Jiuzhou book, Wuchang is a little bit of a meaning as a capital.

For a traditional feudal dynasty, especially now where productivity is relatively low, the location of the capital basically determines the strategic development direction of the empire.

For the Ming Dynasty, the capital of Jinling was established in the early stage because in order to better utilize the Jiangnan region, the same place was also the base of Zhu Yuanzhang.

Later, Zhu Di established his capital in Youzhou. One of the important reasons was that Zhu Di's base camp was in the north. After Zhu Di led his army south to seize the throne, you asked Zhu Di to stay in Jinling City forever. Do you know if Zhu Yunwen's remaining troops would enter Jinling City one day...

Another secondary reason was that the main threat to the Ming court at that time was in the north.

The Northern Yuan Dynasty at that time and later the nomadic peoples such as the Wats and Tatars were the main threats to the Ming court for a long time.

Determining the capital in Youzhou can also better respond to this threat, concentrate more resources, and also command wars in the north nearby.

This is the source of the emperor's guarding the country's gates.

For the Great Chu Empire, the future capital is nothing more than Jinling City or Youzhou City.

These two places are more suitable for the capital, with convenient transportation and stronger political meaning.

Specifically, Luo Zhixue personally prefers Jinling City.

After all, the economic conditions along the Yangtze River are relatively good, one is Huguang and the other is Jiangnan. As long as these two places are managed well, the foundation of the Great Chu Empire will not be able to escape.

Even if the front line was defeated one day, Luo Zhixue was sure to use the money, grain and human resources along the Yangtze River to arm a large army in a short time to continue the battle.

If the capital of Jinling City is established at the same time, it can further stimulate the development of shipping industry, industry and commerce, especially the development of shipping, laying the foundation for subsequent colonization of overseas and opening up industrialization.

On the other hand, the current basic foundation of the Great Chu Empire is in northern Chu, and the subsequent Huguang will be. In the middle, if nothing unexpected happens, it will definitely be the areas along the Yangtze River, including Jiangnan.

It is also very necessary to set the capital in the base camp.

Compared with Jinling City, Youzhou's advantage is that it can better control the northern region, especially in fighting with grassland ethnic groups.

However, the material consumption will be very large and the national strength will be consumed very much.

The reason why the grain transportation in the Ming and Qing dynasties was so large was not because the capital was established in Youzhou, and a large amount of materials, especially grain and grass, had to be transported from the south to the north, which was a huge expense.

And it's cold and cold!

Youzhou City is very cold these days, and there is no air conditioning or anything like that.

Now is the Little Ice Age, and the Little Ice Age will last for a long time. At least Luo Zhixue will not see the end of the Little Ice Age during his lifetime, unless he can live for more than two hundred years in one breath.

Luo Zhixue doesn't want his second life to live. He has to wear thick clothes to face the stove when the autumn is just around the corner.

The climate in Jinling City is much better, with distinct seasons all year round, spring breeze and drizzle, summer days, autumn leaves and snow!

When Jiangnan is conquered, Luo Zhixue will directly move the capital to Jinling City.

As for places like Wuchang, Huguang, and Youzhou, northern Zhili, you can set up a direct government office at that time.

Not only Wuchang, Youzhou, Guangzhou to the south, Chang'an to the west, Chengdu to Sichuan, and other places can be directly under the jurisdiction of the government.

Used to strengthen political, military and economic control.

Luo Zhixue felt that it was unnecessary for the emperor to guard the country's gates and the emperor to guard the borders himself.

With that leisure time, Luo Zhixue managed the Yangtze River Basin well, and it would be better to push its army of one and one million to another...

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, stayed in Jinling City, and fought violently in the north, and still defeated the Meng Yuan.

Chongzhen shouted in Youzhou as if he was hanged.

No matter whether it is to defend or expand, a strong national strength is the kingly way, and the rest are all minor ways.

After decades, when Luo Zhixue got out the railway, let alone the north, it might be possible that the army of the Great Chu Empire could all go all the way to the English Channel.

If the emperor really wants to defend the country, Luo Zhixue will move the capital to Paris...

That's not nonsense!

Luo Zhixue had a conclusion about the capital. Today, when he entered the city, he just said something symbolically, and pretended to be a fool.

After crossing the city gate, Luo Zhixue rushed straight to the Chu Palace under the escort of a large number of soldiers.

Of course, the Chu Palace has been changed to an imperial palace. Several other Ming vassal palaces under the control of the Great Chu Empire, such as Xiangyang Palace and Jing Palace, are all unified as palaces.

The King of Chu Palace is a palace built according to the Jinling City Imperial Palace. It has all kinds of buildings and is more suitable to serve as an imperial palace.

After entering the palace, Luo Zhixue held a banquet in the palace that night to treat his civil and military officials to reward the fatigue he had put into crossing the river and siege the city.

Early the next morning, Luo Zhixue began to wash and wear under the servitude of Hou Yunmeng.

It was said that Hou Yunmeng was serving him, but in fact, Hou Yunmeng just moved his mouth and occasionally took a dress. The ones who were really serving the palace maids were familiar with him.

After all, Hou Yunmeng is no longer an ordinary little palace maid, but was awarded the title of talent by Luo Zhixue.

Although talented people are considered low-level titles in the harem concubine level set by the Great Chu Empire.

But this is the highest-level harem title in the harem of the Great Chu harem.
Chapter completed!