There is a saying in the world that the south does not live in the north, and the east does not live in the west. Because the north house is heavy and the west is mainly killed, Emperor Taizu also wants to build the palace in the east.

In this way, the selection of the palace site is also based on the theory of Feng Shui, Zhongshan Mountain surrounding the palace city is like a dragon, and the dragon head is in the location of Yanque Lake, so in order to occupy the dragon head, Yanque Lake must be filled.

Starting from the theory of the I Ching gossip, the east of the city where the palace is located belongs to the direction of the earthquake hexagram, which is in line with the "Zhou Yi" said that "the emperor is out of the earthquake". ”

"The emperor was shocked!?" One of the generals exclaimed.

Tianlang nodded, "And what people say" moving the three mountains to fill the bird's nest " means that the three mountains in the west of Nanjing City were bulldozed and the Yanque Lake was filled, and the three mountains in the west of the city are the white tiger direction, so that the position of Xuanwu and Qinglong is surrounded by high mountains, and the high mountains in the direction of the white tiger have also been bulldozed, and there is a lot of water there, a simple description can show that the Nanjing Imperial City has been changed by Liu Bowen, Tieguandaoren and Emperor Taizu, and the feng shui layout is already impeccable. ”

Is it really impeccable? Tianlang paused, considering whether there was absolutely flawless feng shui in the world, and then whispered:

"Liu Bowen built Nanjing into a gossip map, and Nanjing's internal and external bureaus are all green dragons, white tigers, vermilion birds, and Xuanwu pools, which should be enough to make up for the lack of artificial carving.

Although it is rumored that the reclamation project of Yanque Lake cost huge material resources and hundreds of thousands of manpower, and it was mainly spent on what the folk call "moving three mountains to fill in the birds". ”

Speaking of this history, Tianlang not only admired Zhu Yuanzhang's ambition to win the day, but also felt that he was a little naïve, he said:

It is said that in order to fill the lake project smoothly, Emperor Taizu Gao - the old man Zhu also named Tian Deman, who lived on the shore of the Yanque Lake, was first named the god of the lake, and then threw it into the lake alive, hoping to fill it up.

The fill is filled, but what happened later made our old man Zhu even more troubled.

Half of the Ming Nanjing Imperial Palace was formed by filling in the lake, and after that, the second half of the Ming Imperial Palace began to sink soon after.

The palace began to become a kind of high in front and low in the back, so that every heavy rain would turn the old man's sleeping couch into a pond and vegetable field, so the great grandfather found a large number of craftsmen to repair the ground of his house, and it was to pad stone slabs and drive piles.

The engineering team is busy every day, but it still can't stop the terrain from sinking. ”

There is an anecdote, Tianlang did not say, saying that in order to improve Nanjing's feng shui, too much effort was put into it, manpower, material resources, financial resources or something.

As a result, in the end, Old Man Zhu was busy without saying anything, and from one day, he even dreamed when he was sleeping, as if he was falling into the ground in a dizzy state.

Dreams are unpredictable, big or small, but don't forget that grandpa Tai's first profession is a monk, of course he believes in ghosts and gods.

So, he thought that this dream was a reminder of the arrival of the national crisis, so whenever he saw this vegetable field in the palace, the shadow in his heart became proportional to the vegetable field.

From this moment on, what he wanted to solve was no longer a feng shui problem, but a huge crisis to avoid the death of the Ming Dynasty like Qin Sui.

Why did Taizu at the time of the founding of the country make the brothers feel that he is upright, righteous and honest, so the founding generals of the Ming Dynasty have almost no traitors, almost all of them swear to follow in the footsteps of Zhu Yuanzhang, and they admire his authority and personal charm beyond measure.

Later, why did he gradually become so suspicious of the generals and kill good ministers, for fear that the throne of future generations would not be guaranteed? This is intriguing.

After Taizu built Nanjing City, while facing the collapse of the imperial palace, he pondered the move of the capital to Fengyang, and Fengyang City was half completed, but somehow gave up the plan to move the capital.

The original Zhu Yuanzhang has always planned and then moved, building high walls, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming king, never unprepared for such a big battle, how can he be anticlimactic?

Has he changed? tossed until his death, he did not find the cause of his personality change, nor did he understand the toss of the imperial city of Nanjing.

In desperation, he did a tricky thing, and simply wrote a sacrificial essay for Yanque Lake, which reclaimed the lake and made land, and then he loved it and didn't care about it anymore.

There's nothing to be done if you want to, and having nightmares every day is really head-headed.

Is the problem solved? At least except for Zhu Yunwen who was overturned by Zhu Di and got off the dragon chair, the Ming Dynasty did not die twice.

It's just that since the day Grandpa Tai built the Nanjing Palace into a vegetable field, until his death, the whole person's temperament has changed dramatically, becoming more and more tyrannical, and becoming murderous.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the four major Hongwu cases all occurred during this time, such as the empty seal case, which was a trivial matter for officials to make it easier for them to work and make it convenient, and they actually killed so many people that it was almost impossible to find his motive for killing.

Zhu Biao, Zhu Di and other four princes were all raised by Queen Ma who had nothing to do, so they can all be called sisters-in-law, Zhu Biao was made the prince by him, and he also cared about the most, just like Empress Lu killed Mrs. Qi, so he scared his own son to death, because of Zhu Yuanzhang's murderous nature, the prince was scared to death.

After Zhu Biao's death, he set up his son as the emperor's grandson, and some people say that in addition to the rules of establishing a successor, there is also Zhu Yuanzhang's guilt towards Zhu Biao.

But when Zhu Yunwen became the emperor, like his grandfather, he felt that his position was very stable.

It's okay to be prepared for danger in times of peace, but if you don't have a stable foothold, you listen to the words of Fang Xiaoru, a stunned green nerd, and cut the domain, that is, you are doing.

That's right, Emperor Xun Yunwen only served as the emperor for four years and more than ten days because of Taizuo, and he lost the throne.

Tianlang didn't tell everyone this anecdote, but he still said what he thought was the crux of Nanjing's feng shui.

"On top of this internal situation, I think another deficiency of Nanjing's feng shui is in the Taiping Gate, the dragon vein of Nanjing City is from the Yangtze River to the Jinchuan River, then to Xuanwu Lake, Yanque Lake, and to Shenlie Mountain. If there is no strip of water connecting Shenlie Mountain, then Shenlie Mountain is a lonely mountain, and the lonely mountain cannot be relied on, which is the most obvious truth in Kanyu science. ”

After listening to Tianlang's words, Hong Chengchou thought about it, he really didn't think about this problem when he was an official in Nanjing for a long time.

"In addition to a lonely mountain, that is the water of Nanjing, Yanque Lake was originally connected to a stream of water from Shenlie Mountain, but it was filled by Liu Bowen, and a Taiping Gate was built between Shenlie Mountain and Xuanwu Lake."

(End of chapter)