Next, Li Xiao and his entourage, under the overwhelming cheers of the people on both sides of the street, walked through the streets and alleys, all the way to the Forbidden City of Nanjing, which had been garrisoned by troops.

The Nanjing Forbidden City, also known as the Ming Imperial Palace and the Forbidden City of Nanjing, is the imperial palace of Yingtianfu, the capital of the Ming Dynasty. It took more than 20 years to build, covering an area of more than 1,012,500 square meters, and was the largest palace complex in the world in the Middle Ages, known as the "world's first palace".

As the culmination of the palace architecture of the ancient Chinese capital, the Nanjing Forbidden City inherits its architectural form from the Beijing Forbidden City, which is the mother of the Ming official-style architecture and the blueprint of the Beijing Forbidden City.

The Nanjing Imperial Palace was built in the twenty-sixth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1366), and the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1392) was basically completed.

The Ming Palace was the imperial palace of the three dynasties in the early Ming Dynasty, which lasted for 54 years. Until the nineteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1421), Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, moved the capital to Beijing, and Nanjing set up Nanzhili, which was still garrisoned by the imperial family and important ministers, and its status was very important.

The whole Nanjing Forbidden City, sitting north to south, the general range is to the east to the Zhongshan Gate, the west to the Xi'an Gate, the north to the Houzai Gate, the south to the Ruijin Road, there are four gates, the south is the Wumen, the east is the Donghua Gate, the west is the Xihua Gate, the north is the Xuanwu Gate. Enter the noon gate for Fengtian, inside is the main hall Fengtian Palace, the front of the hall is the Wen Building, the Wu Building. After the canopy hall, the body hall. The inner court has the Qianqing Palace and the Kunning Palace, as well as the East and West Six Palaces.

Establishment of the Hongguang regime. However, at this time, most of the palaces in the Ming Palace have collapsed, and the Nanjing Temple has long been burned down, and Zhu Yousong has carried out some restoration work, building Fengtianmen, Cixi Hall and other buildings.

After the Qing army entered the customs and destroyed the Southern Ming Dynasty, Nanjing was changed to Jiangning, where the Liangjiang Governor's Office was located, the Ming Palace was changed to the Eight Banners garrison city, and the general and the two yamen of the capital were set up in the Ming Palace, and the city wall was added from the Taiping Gate to the Tongji Gate to isolate it, so that the Ming Palace Palace building was greatly damaged.

In the third year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (March 29, 1853), the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom set the capital of Nanjing, renamed Tianjing, but did not use the Ming Imperial Palace as the palace site, but chose a new site in the city to build a new palace, during which a large number of stones and bricks and tiles were demolished from the Ming Imperial Palace, so that the entire Ming Dynasty Nanjing Imperial Palace was more completely destroyed.

Qing Dynasty Tongzhi three years (July 19, 1864), Tianjing lost, after the Hunan army broke through Tianjing, the Taiping army was unwilling to fall into the hands of the Hunan army, so they set fire to the city, and the Hunan army in the wanton robbery, in order to destroy the crime, also set fire everywhere, the entire Nanjing suddenly became the Ming Imperial Palace was destroyed again to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom when the periphery, the palace and palace wall of the Ming Imperial Palace have basically disappeared.

Accompanied by the guards and a group of descendants, Li Xiao rode a horse from the Wuchao Gate at the entrance of the Forbidden City of Nangong, all the way through the Xuanwu Gate, the Donghua Gate, and the Chengtian Gate at the entrance of the Imperial City.

Here, Li Xiao turned over and dismounted, and with everyone, slowly entered from Chengtianmen, passed through Duanmen, Hongwu Gate, and finally walked through Fengtianmen, and then arrived at the first three halls.

The first three halls are, respectively, the Fengtian Palace, the Huagai Palace, and the Jinshen Palace.

The front is the Fengtian Temple, which is located on three platforms, with nine rooms wide and five rooms deep. Heavy eaves on the top of the palace. The left side of the temple is the middle left door, and the right side of the temple is the middle right door. In front of the palace is the wide court, the east is the Wen Building, and the west is the Wu Building.

In the middle, is the canopy hall, it is located on the top of the three platforms, after the Fengtian Palace, the face is five rooms wide, and the depth is five rooms. Accumulate spires.

The last one, is the body hall, is located on the top of the three platforms, behind the canopy hall, the face is seven rooms wide, and the depth is five rooms. Heavy eaves rest on the top of the mountain. The left side of the hall is the back left door, and the right side of the hall is the back right door.

Later, after the Qianqing Gate, it is the harem, there are many palaces inside, there are the Qianqing Palace, the emperor's dormitory, the face is nine rooms, five rooms are deep, and the top of the palace is heavy.

There is a provincial bow hall, which is the palace of the emperor's retreat to the Yan place, the face is wide and five rooms are deep.

There is Kunning Palace, the queen's sleeping palace, nine rooms wide, five rooms deep, and the top of the palace with heavy eaves.

Li Xiao and the others, after reading here, turned back and retreated to the front hall.

Other places such as the east and west palaces, such as the residence of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, the Eight Treasure Library, the Ancient and Modern Scripture Library, the Wenhua Palace, the Fengxian Palace, the Chunhe Palace (East Palace), the Taisun Palace and other places, have not been visited again.

Li Xiao and the others returned from the harem and came to the Taimiao located on the side of the Chengtian Gate.

This Ming Dynasty Taimiao, in the east of Chengtian Gate, there is a stone bridge in front of the temple, and there are east and west well pavilions in the door. Taimiao Dan Majesty threefold, the temple is nine, there is a spiritual position in the middle, one in the south, three in the east, and three in the west. Behind the palace is the dormitory, each has a spiritual bed, the bed hangs the lamp on the left and right, the plain wall in front of the bed, the square wooden chair is set up in front of the wall, the yellow mattress is set on the chair, the clothes are set on the mattress, and the shoes are set at the foot of the chair.

Seeing the decorations of this temple, Li Xiao couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart.

Unexpectedly, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, more than 230 years, if there is no self-crossing here, this Ming Dynasty Taimiao will only be completely destroyed by the hands of the Manchu Qing Dynasty as in history, and there will be no blood and food offerings.

Li Xiao immediately ordered to buy the most sumptuous sacrificial prison in the city, and the celebrant held a worship and sacrifice ceremony to these ancestors and ancestors of the Ming Dynasty on his behalf.

After coming out of the Taimiao, Li Xiao finally met with a group of officials and his own generals in the Fengtian Palace.

Sitting on this golden dragon chair and looking down at the worship of the generals and officials under the steps, Li Xiao's heart suddenly had a strange feeling.

Being bowed down like this, being so high, is really a pretty good feeling and experience, perhaps, in the depths of every man's heart, there is a dream that stands proudly above all people.

Here, Li Xiao officially issued the order that after crossing the river, the soldiers and horses of these towns would march together to all parts of the south of the Yangtze River.

Among the soldiers and horses who have crossed the river now, except for the sixth town of the Tang Army, which is still fighting against Zuo Liangyu's soldiers and horses in Jiangbei, the rest of the soldiers and horses of the seventh town, the eighth town, and the ninth town have all successfully crossed the river and gathered outside Nanjing, waiting for Li Xiao to give the next order.

Li Xiao ordered that Cao Bianjiao's soldiers and horses of the seventh town should go all the way south from Nanjing City, capture the entire Yingtianfu, and then occupy Guangdezhou, and then enter the boundary of Zhejiang, and asked the soldiers and horses of the entire seventh town to capture the entire Zhejiang within two months, and the soldiers and horses will be the most advanced and arrive at Xianxia Pass to Fujian.

Liu Zehan's Eighth Town Soldiers and Horses occupied the entire rest of the prefectures and counties in Nanzhili, such as Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou, Songjiang, Taiping, Ningguo, Chizhou, and Huizhou, within two months. After the occupation of the entire Jiangnan was completed, the whole army marched westward and joined up with Huang Degong's troops and horses.

Huang Degong's soldiers and horses in the ninth town attacked all the way west from Nanjing City, and attacked Jiangxi all the way from Nanzhili. It is necessary to bring the entire northern part of Jiangxi, such as Guangxin Mansion, Nanchang Mansion, Yuanzhou Mansion, Fuzhou Mansion, Linjiang Mansion and other places, into the territory of the Tang Army. In the end, his troops and horses, after converging with Liu Zehan's Eighth Town soldiers and horses, were divided into two divisions, the north and the Huang Degong division, besieged Jiujiang, and confronted Zuo Liangyu's department. Liu Zehan's troops in the south approached Ganzhou and oppressed Zheng Zhilong, who occupied the southern part of Jiangxi.

The generals of the three towns all went as promised, looking at the backs of these subordinate generals leaving, Li Xiao looked relieved.

Having traveled from his previous life, of course he knew what it meant to him to take this densely populated and economically prosperous Jiangnan region.

Judging from the current historical data, in the population distribution map of the Ming Dynasty, we can clearly see that in the Ming Dynasty, the main population at that time was Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Zhili, and part of Chengdu. In these places, it is the Jiangnan area that has the largest population and the highest quality.

For the Ming Dynasty, the area around the south of the Yangtze River was the real important grain-producing area, cultural center and economic center.

"There is heaven above, and there is Suzhou and Hangzhou below", it is not just a casual talk.

As early as the Song Dynasty, Jiangnan was an important base for the country's financial resources and taxation, and the Book of Song described Jiangnan as follows: Jiangnan is the prosperity of the country. …… The land is wide and abundant, the people are diligent in their own business, one year old or Minoru, then the number of counties forget hunger. …… Silk cotton cloth is clothed in the world.

In the Ming Dynasty's Lu Ji's "Prohibition of Luxury", he wrote with emotion: "Today's wealth is in Wu Yue. Wu Yue's luxury, Mo Sheng is in the people of Su Kang. "Only in the words of the lakes and mountains of the Soviet Union, its residents swim on time, and they must draw cabins, shoulders, delicacies, good brewing, singing and dancing, which can be described as luxury. And those who don't know how many of them are ......."

And at the end of the stormy Ming Dynasty, the financial tribute tax in the south of the Yangtze River was the foundation of the country's silver grain. In this era of precariousness, the taxes in the south of the Yangtze River have also increased rapidly, and they have also reached the point of being overwhelmed.

So much so that at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Gu Yanwu said in "The Weight of Su Song Erfu Tian Fu" (Volume 16 of "Rizhilu"): "Give the world, and Jiangnan is nineteen." From today's point of view, the east and west of Zhejiang live in the south of the Yangtze River 19, and the five prefectures of Su, Song, Chang, Jia and Hu live in 2 Zhejiang and 19 also. ”。 At the same time, he wrote in the article that the current tax is too heavy, and "the people can't afford it."

These words were written at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which was already the heavy tax period of the Ming Dynasty, which can also be seen from the side of the wealth of the Jiangnan area and how strong the support for the national finances is.

With the blessing of Jiangnan's population and wealth, coupled with Li Xiao's advanced economic foundation, even if it is only in terms of finance, in the entire East Asian region, Li Xiao's financial resources will be incomparably matched.

Therefore, if you can swallow the entire Jiangnan whale, the lifeblood of the wealth of the Ming Dynasty will also be in your own hands.

Jiangnan is in hand, and I have ...... in the world

From this point of view, Zheng Zhilong, as Li Xiao's closest opponent, has a much narrower and shallow vision. Compared with Li Xiao, he is like a rich man, who only has the one-third of an acre of land under his own hands in his eyes, and has no eyes at all to control the world with the overall situation.

When the Tang army sent troops from Shandong to the south, he not only did not immediately send troops, one was to hold the Hongguang prison country hostage, and the other was to occupy the entire rich Jiangnan, so that he only blindly guarded his own Fujian, Guangdong, and southern Jiangxi.

It is precisely because Zheng Zhilong is so short-sighted and unambitious that Li Xiao's road to the south is so smooth and fast.

Although Zheng Zhilong is now coercing Hongguang to go to Fuzhou, giving him an extra puppet in his hands, he let the Tang army occupy Nanjing so smoothly, and then take advantage of the situation to capture the entire Jiangnan, it is really a small loss, and the pattern and vision are too narrow.

Speaking of which, Zheng Zhilong can only be the existence of a small local overlord, and it is too difficult to expect him to have the bearing and mind to look at the world with the overall situation in mind.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong, a person in the official history, has always been selfish, only seeking to manage his own small territory in Fujian, without any concept of country and nation, so that as soon as the Qing army came over, he immediately thought of surrendering to the Qing court, so as to protect his own property and power and this corner of the territory. Even, this person not only went to the Qing court to surrender, but also did not hesitate to betray Zhu Yujian, the emperor of Longwu, and betrayed the lord to seek glory in order to be appreciated by the Qing court, which is really unethical, sad and ridiculous.

It's a pity that Zheng Zhilong was so painstakingly calculated, and in the end he only ended up in vain. It's just that I don't know if he will regret his mistakes when he was escorted to Beijing by the Qing army and finally beheaded at the entrance of the vegetable market.

After the generals dispersed, Li Xiaofu chatted with those officials in the palace for a while, and at this time, Qian Qianyi, the secretary of the Ministry of Etiquette, suddenly walked a few steps closer to Li Xiao with a hesitant face, and then said in a trembling voice: "King Tang, the old minister has something to play." ”

Li Xiao looked at it coldly, but when he saw that this person was Qian Qianyi, who had left a notorious name in the history books, he couldn't help but have an indescribable feeling in his heart for a while.

At the beginning of the Hongguang Puppet Dynasty, Qian Qianyi, Shi Kefa and others secretly promoted Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, and Ma Shiying, who strongly promoted Zhu Yousong, the king of Fu, to the throne. After the blessed king Zhu Yousong ascended the throne, Qian Qianyi was afraid of the death penalty, so he shamelessly wrote to Ma Shiying to sing praises to virtue, Ma Shiying saw that he knew the current affairs, although he was very despised, but in order to win over this so-called Donglin Liuliu, he recommended Qian Qianyi to serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites of the Hongguang Imperial Court of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Of course, in the official history, Qian Qianyi's most despicable thing is not this incident, but the very famous "The water is too cold." ”

In the official history, in May of the second year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, the Qing soldiers approached Nanjing. When the soldiers approached the city of Nanjing, his favorite concubine Liu Ru persuaded Qian Qianyi to throw himself into the water and die with him. Qian Qianyi was speechless in thought, and finally had no choice but to go down to the pool, and after trying the water, he said, "The water is too cold to go down." Liu Ru was ashamed and indignant, "trying to sink into the pool water", but she gave Qian Qianyi a stiff support.

And in addition to this famous water is too cold, this person also has a more shameless and immoral allusion.

On 15 May, Qian Qianyi led his ministers to open the gates of Nanjing in the pouring rain, and shamelessly surrendered to Duoduo, the commander of the Qing army.

Stun's "Miscellaneous Records of the Aftermath" recorded: "King Yu (Duoduo) went south to the south of the Yangtze River and ordered his head to be shaved. The people of Nanming have a lot of discussions about this. (One day), Qian Qianyi suddenly said: 'My scalp is itching terribly', and he suddenly went out. The family thought he was going to grate his hair with a grate. After a while, I cut my hair and came in with braids.

In the first month of the third year of Shunzhi, the Qing court appointed him as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and served as the vice president of the History of the Ming Dynasty.

In the face of such a shameless behavior of this person, a poem sarcastically said: "Qian Gong has a good heart, and Shandou is famous all over the world." The country is broken from the new dynasty to the north, and the official high is still the old Donglin. “

And now, seeing this old traitor who left a notorious reputation in history, looking at himself like this, Li Xiao's heart was full of resistance and disgust, but he had to pretend to be calm on the surface and say: "Oh, it turned out to be Qian Shangshu, but what did you do?" ”

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