Zhu Di laughed loudly and said: "I am most happy that the proposal to move the capital has been passed smoothly. As for the establishment of a prince, I can only decide the king of one generation. Gao Chi's temperament has been determined, so I don't need to worry. Although Zhanji is smart, how will he be different as an adult?
It’s unpredictable and we can’t do it for sure right now.”
Xia Xun said carefully: "The emperor's grandson is smart and talented..."
Zhu Di waved his hand and said: "I think Li Longji can be regarded as a young hero for taking back the Li family from the hands of Empress Zetian. But in his later years, a group of treacherous ministers were re-employed in the court, and a group of people who had long harbored lofty ideals were favored by the outside world.
Jiedushi, because of his stupidity, caused the Anshi Rebellion, which caused the Li and Tang Dynasties to go downhill from then on, and never rose again.
I like this eldest grandson very much, and I know all these strengths. What I am talking about is his character. Looking at it now, there is certainly nothing wrong with Zhan Ji, but he has not grown up yet, and has not yet decided on his temperament. Now he is older than Li Sanlang back then.
It's still a long way off, and there are still many unpredictable things in the future, so we shouldn't be arbitrary.
Zhu Di sighed leisurely and said: "Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings! One generation of virtuous people may not necessarily succeed the virtuous ones. I can't do anything about whether the descendants of future generations are filial or unworthy, virtuous or unvirtuous. But moving the capital is not the case. This matter can only be done by me.
If you want to manage it, you can definitely do it in my hands. In my opinion, in the golden land of Nanjing, the national destiny will not last long.
If the emperor sits in Jinling and controls the north, even if there is no external strife, there will definitely be internal strife. It is for this reason that the emperor conferred titles on the kings and the northern frontier to resist foreign enemies. However, although I have persecuted the emperor because the kings were bewitched by the traitorous ministers like Fang and Huang,
They had no choice but to raise troops to quell the situation, but in the end they made a bad start. The kings supported their troops and respected themselves, so it was hard to prevent them from having different intentions. Now that the kings can not afford to have different intentions, it is also difficult to ensure that their descendants will not have different intentions. This will be a big problem in the long run.
I moved the kings of the Northern Territory to relocate to the Central Plains. The Northern Territory was empty, and the border generals could not give them easy access. I mobilized the power of troops and horses. Whenever there was a big or small literary matter, military information had to go back and forth between Jinling and Jiubian.
In vain, we have delayed the opportunity to fight. Therefore, we cannot solve this problem without moving the capital to Peking. Once the capital is established in Beijing, unless we have a series of foolish emperors in the Ming Dynasty, and there are successive natural disasters, otherwise...it is expected that the country will be safe for three hundred years."
Xia Xun said in surprise: "Three hundred years?"
Everyone who is an emperor hopes that their family's legacy will last forever. Although they also know that this is impossible, most people are unwilling to face this fact and do not even have the courage to mention it. Xia Xun actually did not expect Zhu Di to admit it frankly.
This matter, and the assumptions made are actually not outrageous.
Zhu Di smiled and said: "The world will not always belong to one family. When the power is exhausted, the country will naturally change its owner. Since the first emperor Yingzheng unified the world, in more than a thousand years, has there been a dynasty that lasted more than 300 years?
None! So... if my descendants can protect the Ming Dynasty for three hundred years, that will be enough.
If Guo Zuo can last longer, that will be their blessing. If they cannot maintain the country for even three hundred years, then it will be a disgrace to their descendants. If the ancestors can earn a share of their family business for them, can this family business be sustainable?
It's their own business to defend it. Even if I give them an iron-clad country today, they will still make it riddled with holes. By then, I will have turned into a piece of loess, so what can they do?"
This is true, but how many people can be so rational? After listening to Zhu Di's words, Xia Xun couldn't help but secretly admire his magnanimity. However, Zhu Di could talk about the length and breadth of the country, but he couldn't interrupt randomly.
Zhu Di loosened the reins of the horse and let it run freely. His eyes slowly looked around. On the grassland, the sun was shining brightly, the autumn air was crisp, the universe was clear, and the world was clear.
Zhu Di said in a manly voice: "Why do I never forget to move the capital? Don't think that I don't know anything because I am in the deep palace, hum! Those bastards hate me for moving the capital, and they say all kinds of ugly things, saying that I am not in the right position.
, I feel guilty and want to go back to the foundation of Beijing, saying that I killed too many people when I came to the throne and offended the Jiangnan nobles, and I am afraid...
What a joke! What a big joke!
In this life, when have I encountered an enemy and escaped? When I led 50,000 soldiers to fight against the imperial court's 500,000-strong army, I did not escape! When I led 20,000 soldiers to chase down 100,000 Tatar cavalry, I did not escape! I was in the south of the Yangtze River
, I have been in power for ninety-five years, and I am in control of the world's troops, but I feel guilty? If there is someone in Jiangnan who is secretly against me, I will not stay in Jiangnan, but I will avoid to the north, sit back and watch the disasters in Jiangnan, and lose half of the country.
?
When I ascended the throne, the only people I punished were a few traitors, Fang, Huang, Qitai, and their relatives. What did they have to do with the Jiangnan nobles? What relationship did these people have with the Jiangnan nobles? I have been on the throne for more than ten years, and I have no regard for the Jiangnan nobles.
Isn’t my control less than that of that yellow-mouthed kid who has accomplished nothing in four years of serving as king? I am opening up a new subject to recruit scholars, and the scholars from Jiangnan are flocking to me. Where will they turn against me?"
Zhu Di said with disdain: "If I were afraid of the Jiangnan nobles, so afraid that I would not even dare to set up the palace throne here, I would dare to send the navy to the east to send Xuan Fu to the sea, send a large army to the south to attack Jiaozhi, and send a heavy army to the west to resist Timur.
, and personally led the army to the Northern Expedition to the Tatars, and depleted all the soldiers and horses in the capital? Hey! In order to slander me, these shameless villains have done everything they can, but there are some idiots who have no brains, and they believe it without a doubt."
The more Zhu Di talked, the angrier he became. He pointed at Xia Xun and said, "Wenxuan, remember, the most filthy and filthy people in the world are those hypocrites who have read books!"
Perhaps it was because of Zhu Di's series of plans that he successfully controlled the entire world and achieved his goal in one fell swoop. He was very excited, so at this time, he was as high-spirited and heroic as every time he went to the battlefield in military uniform: "Wen
Xuan, hundreds of officials are opposed to moving the capital, using personal interests to benefit justice. I am not a vegetarian. The emperor guards the country! Haha, this sentence is what I used to deceive them!"
Xia Xun was shocked and lost his voice: "Liar?"
Zhu Di said proudly: "That's right! I want to move the capital to Beijing because today's territory is no longer what it used to be in the Central Plains. Less than two years after the founding of our country, Huang Kao, I had the idea of moving the capital because Huang Kao also saw that Jinling is not
It was a good place to build a capital. But at that time, the Beiyuan Dynasty had just fled abroad. They had been running the capital for hundreds of years, and the foundation of Huangkao was in Jiangnan. It was impossible to consider Beijing when building the capital. Otherwise, once the Beiyuan Dynasty counterattacked successfully, there would have been the chaos just now
It was a joke that the capital fell after the founding of the country, but it is different now.
How to guard the country's gates? You can only be a thief for a thousand days, but there is no reason to guard against thieves for a thousand days. At present, the Northern Di, Xirong, Southern Barbarians, and Eastern Japanese all have no strength to compete with our Ming Dynasty. However, although the Mongolian tribes have become weaker, in the east, west, north, and south
Among all the foreign countries in the four directions, we are still the biggest threat to the Ming Dynasty.
If the capital is located in Jinling, it will be inconvenient to communicate with the important towns in the north. This is another reason. Furthermore, since the Tang and Song Dynasties, Xifan and Beidi have become increasingly powerful. The old saying of "whoever conquers the Central Plains conquers the world" no longer works.
If we cannot secure the horse-breeding land in Xifan and north of the Yellow River, we will have to fight against the nomads with our own flesh and blood, and we will have to pay a hundredfold sacrifice.
Beijing is located outside the Great Wall and at the throat of Liaodong entering the Central Plains. If I make Beijing the capital, I can deploy the main military force of our Ming Dynasty along the line of the Great Wall, push our defense of the Ming Dynasty to the front line of northern border defense, and transform the defensive capital into an offensive one.
The capital of the country has a great deterrent effect on enemies outside the customs.
With the capital here, the first thing foreign enemies will face when entering the customs is not the weak common people, but the emperor who dominates the world. How dare they go deep! If the capital is here, then even if some of my unworthy and unworthy descendants become emperors, they will
We cannot rest in comfort like we did in Jinling, we have to pay attention to northern border defense!"
Zhu Di's eyes sparkled and he said: "Everything has its advantages and disadvantages. Yes, the biggest disadvantage of making Beijing the capital is that it is too close to the enemy, but if you want to keep the capital far away from the enemy, is the only way to retreat? Retreating is really enough to protect yourself.
?Why retreat instead of expanding the northern territory?
The northern territory has expanded. Is Beijing still the gate of the country? Is it still too close to the enemy? Hundreds of armies compete to travel. If you don't advance, you will retreat. If a country doesn't make progress, it will only be replaced by others faster! Retreat? What a joke!
I moved the capital to Beijing not to protect the country, but to move the capital to Beijing and push the Ming Dynasty further north!"
Xia Xun looked at Zhu Di steadily and said in his heart: "So that's it, that's it. Emperor Yongle's five expeditions to Mobei, and the last three were just for the purpose of suppressing and containing the Tatars, there was no need to send more troops. He just said
Following in the footsteps of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he began to engage in military violence. It turned out that his intention was to completely annex the Mongolian grassland!
Unfortunately, no one is perfect. Yongle's two generations of emperors were good at civil administration and were less interested in martial arts. They also paid too much attention to the opinions of civilian officials. During their governance, they were influenced by the civil servant group. Annan's troops were withdrawn.
The Western ships were recovered, and the North's consistent policy of suppressing the Tatars and Oaras who were stronger, and striving to maintain mutual checks and balances between them, was also cancelled.
As a result, Walai rose again, and finally in the hands of the treacherous eunuch Wang Zhen, all the elite soldiers and generals of the Ming Dynasty were destroyed. The Ming Dynasty's military strength never recovered... However... Today's Walai and Liaodong are very different from their original history.
Big changes, maybe it will be as the emperor imagined..."
Just as Xia Xun thought of this, Zhu Di's voice suddenly rose: "The Tatars are weak, there is internal strife in Varai, and Liaodong is in hand. Why don't I seize this opportunity and make good use of it? Beijing is the connection hub between the inside and outside of the Great Wall, and the north and south of the desert.
The south has always been stable. With Beijing as the capital, I can not only rule the Central Plains and the vast areas in the south, but I can also intimidate the vast areas north of Heilongjiang, Lake Baikal, and the Altai Mountains, and let those who have been under the rule of foreigners for hundreds of years in the Liao, Jin, and Yuan dynasties
The northern Han people felt a sense of belonging to the imperial court and strengthened their control over the Jurchens, Tatars, Walas, and Uliangha.
Zhu Di stared at Xia Xun with burning eyes and said: "I established Nuergandusi in the far north, established Hami Guard in the northwest, controlled Jiaozhi to the south, and controlled Jiaozhi to the east... I sent a huge fleet to sea, not for the sake of learning.
Qin Shihuang asked for the elixir of life, but he wanted to use both kindness and power to control the countries in Southeast Asia.
I will rule the world with force. I will conquer the desert in the north, the sea in the South Pole, and the sunrise and sunset in the east and west. I will be able to reach everything by boat and chariot. I will be omnipotent and unyielding. I will surely make all the countries from far away come and submit. What I want to do is not just the Central Plains.
The Lord is the Lord of Huayi! How can my ambition be guessed by those ignorant people?"