When Yun Xi left Beijing, his first stop was Fengyang, because he had to go to worship the emperor's tomb. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum was built in the twenty-sixth year of Yuan Zhizheng (1366), completed in the twelfth year of Hongwu, and the construction took more than 13 years; The Imperial Mausoleum covers an area of more than 20,000 acres (more than 100 hectares), which is twice the size of Gyeongbokgung Palace in North Korea. The bones of Zhu Yuanzhang's parents, brothers, sisters-in-law, and nephews are buried here.

Although Yunxi does not believe in ghosts and gods, he still believes in traditional Chinese feng shui. Yun Xi originally thought that feng shui was nonsense, but after learning more, he felt that there was still some truth. Not to mention anything else, the ancient feng shui masters alone can see that there is a complete plate under the ground of Beiping City, and there is an ancient saying: covered turtle, Yun Xi feels that Feng Shui has some doorways.

Therefore, Yunxi respectfully worshiped the stone tablets of Emperor Chun (Zhu Wusi), Empress Chun Chen, and Zhu Yuanzhang's elder brother Zhu Xinglong (Zhu Chongwu), the king of Nanchang (Zhu Chongwu), the second brother Xuyi (xu, yi) Wang Zhu Xingsheng (Zhu Chongliu), and the third brother Zhu Xingzu (Zhu Chongqi), the king of Linhuai.

After paying homage to the Fengyang Emperor's Mausoleum, Yun Xi stayed in Fengyang for a few days. At this time, the environment here in Huaibei was not as bad as it was in the late Qing Dynasty. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was blocked, but this is not a bad thing here in Huaibei because the amount of water is reduced; In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang planted a large number of mausoleum forests in Fengyang, resulting in a very high forest coverage rate in Fengyang; So the natural environment has recovered a little bit.

In addition, Fengyang also has a peculiar place, that is, there are countless criminals planting rice in the ground. Fengyang here because it is the main battlefield of the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there is not much population left, although Zhu Yuanzhang migrated a lot of people from southern Jiangsu here, but the population is still not large, Zhu Yuanzhang let a large number of criminals who are not guilty of death come here to farm, even if a considerable part of them are sent to the border areas, there are still many criminals here. This can be regarded as 're-educating the poor and middle peasants' for them.

After on-the-spot investigation, Yun Xi found that sayings such as "since Emperor Zhu came out, there have been nine years of famine in ten years" were all made up blindly during the Manchu Qing Dynasty, at least the people of the Fengyang generation are living well now, no worse than the generation in the capital. And the people who are officials here don't dare to do anything that Lao Zhu doesn't allow, and the officials are also very clear.

Yun Xi later met with Fengyang's father. This is also a tradition, Lao Zhu came to worship the imperial tomb several times to meet Fengyang's father, and Zhu Biao also met Fengyang's father twice when he visited Fengyang. In a few years, the people of Fengyang can meet one of the people with the highest status in the Ming Dynasty today, which is also one of the reasons why the officials who are here are Qingming.

On the day of meeting Fengyang's father, the army of Fengyang Zhongwei arrived at the place early and cooperated with the Fengyang prefect to arrange it. When Yoon-hee arrived at the place at Shin-shi, the drums immediately sounded. Fengyang's father, that is, the representative of the people, seems to be very experienced, and when he heard the sound of drums, he immediately knelt down on the mountain and shouted: "I have seen His Royal Highness the Imperial Grandson, Chitose Chitose Chitose Chitose." ”

Yun Xi was taken aback, if he hadn't been able to maintain his composure with some experience over the years, he would probably have jumped up now.

Yun Xi has never been called "Chitose" by so many people at the same time, and after being frightened for a while, he suddenly felt so majestic! All of a sudden, I was intoxicated by this boundless majesty.

No wonder Liu Bang went to Guanzhong once and saw Qin Shi Huang traveling, so he said with emotion: Woohoo! The husband should be like this! It turned out to be really cool! Yun Xi thought.

After that, Yunxi made a few speeches and met with more than a dozen representatives of the people.

Yun Xi said: "Fathers and elders, although Your Majesty is in the capital, but he has not forgotten his hometown for a moment. ”

The leader is nearly seventy years old, named Xu Xin, and it is said that the person who wanted to have dinner with Lao Zhu said: "If you go back to His Royal Highness Taisun, our life is good, there are no officials who are lawless, and there are no officials who are not honest, but the population is too small, and it is difficult to see so many fields in the wilderness, and there is no one who wants to reclaim it." Your Highness, can you ask the magistrate to repair the waterways here again, so that we can use water more conveniently? ”

Yun Xi pondered and said, "I will definitely talk to Your Majesty when I go back." But although Yun Xi said so, he was sure that Lao Zhu would not agree.

The water conservancy facilities in Fengyang are already the most renovated places in the country, and they are more frequent than the Su Song generation, which is a major grain production area, and it is not appropriate to have more.

After that, it's just some nonsense, and it's useless. Yun Xi originally wanted to ask Lao Zhu what he was like when he asked for food, but thinking that Xu Xin might dare to brag with his children and grandchildren, but he didn't dare to say anything about asking for food with outsiders, so he just gave up.

After that, Yunxi met with the civil and military officials of the Central Capital Left-behind Division. At this time, the Zhongdu with the highest official position in the Zhongdu region was left behind, and the first person who walked in surprised Yun Xi, because this person walked in and saluted and said: "The ministers are all left behind to command the envoy and the commander Sheng Yong has seen His Royal Highness the Imperial Grandson. ”

Yun Xi was shocked: "Are you Sheng Yong?" ”

Sheng Yong said strangely: "The minister is indeed Sheng Yong. ”

Yun Xi came back to his senses, Sheng Yong, this is a famous general of 'Jing Nan', he has fought with Zhu Di repeatedly, although he has the advantage of having many soldiers in the head-on battle, but it is not easy to face Zhu Di, who is a famous general, to win or lose. Although now because Lao Zhu did not carry out a second purge of the founding generals, there is no shortage of generals in Yunxi, but one more is good after all.

Yun Xi then talked to Sheng Yong cordially, Sheng Yong thought to himself, thinking that it was the lord of the court who mentioned his name to Yun Xi that made Yun Xi pay so much attention.

After that, several people Yun Xi met normally, and then another person aroused Yun Xi's idea, this person was Guo Hongtao, who had served as the commander of the Jinyi Guard before.

As mentioned above, the Jinyi Guards in the late Hongwu period did not have so many secrets in their hands, so there were not many Jinyi Guard commanders in this period who died (Note 1). But Guo Hongtao is the person who has been the commander of Jinyiwei for the longest time since the end of Hu Weiyong's case, and it is not easy to save his life.

Yun Xi remembered that Guo Hongtao's ability was still very large, and he was still competent to do reconnaissance work. Although Yun Xi will not let him be the commander of the Jinyi Guard again, it is still possible to be the chief officer in charge of foreign intelligence work.

So Yun Xi had a good attitude and talked to Guo Hongtao. Guo Hongtao's own attitude is very peaceful, just like when Yun Xi saw him when he was the commander of the Jinyi Guard.

After Yun Xi met with Fengyang's officials, he rested for another day and continued north.

Continuing to the north from Fengyang, Yunxi went to Sizhou to worship the ancestral tomb of the Ming Dynasty.

The ancestral mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty was built in the nineteenth year of Hongwu (1386), and the main body was completed in the second year, which was personally supervised by Zhu Biao, the prince of Yiwen; After that, other facilities were built one after another, and finally completed in the 11th year of Yongle (1413).

Yun Xi also honestly worshiped Lao Zhu's great-grandfather, great-grandfather and grandfather, and for Yun Xi, it was his sixth ancestor, fifth ancestor and great-grandfather. Then Yun Xi also inspected the Sizhou generation. However, the focus of the investigation here is not on people's livelihood, but on the location of the ancestral tomb.

When the ancestral mausoleum was first built, Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid that his luck would leak out, so he didn't even dare to touch his grandfather's grave, but buried his clothes and crown in the underground palace. But the problem is that the terrain here is not good. Yun Xi read a novel about the Ming Dynasty in his previous life, which mentioned that the terrain of the ancestral tomb of the Ming Dynasty was nine gangs and eighteen depressions, which was not a treasure of feng shui at all; Three hundred years later, it was flooded, so the location was extremely bad.

After a field trip, Yun Xi had already decided to go back and tell Lao Zhu to change the place and rebuild the ancestral tomb, and just like Lao Zhu asked Liu Bowen to investigate feng shui when he built the imperial palace and Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum, he must let the most brilliant feng shui master find a place with excellent feng shui.

After Yunxi was in the upper north, he arrived at Xuzhou Mansion, and then went north from Xuzhou to the boundary of Shandong.

After passing Sizhou, Yun Xi didn't want to disturb the people, so he stayed in the post station. As soon as I stayed that night, I heard a noise outside. Yun Xi wondered: "The people at the post station know that I am stationed here, and they dare to let other people in?" Is there another war in the north now? ’

At this time, Chen Xing said outside: "Your Highness, the Marquis of Yongping passed by here, and I heard that Your Highness is here, so I came in to meet Your Highness." ”

Yongping Hou Xie Cheng, Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown, has made many military exploits, was named Yongping Hou, and was counted as the Blue Jade Yu Party in history was killed. Although Yun Xi didn't know why he was killed, he must have died in front of Zhu Yuanzhang. Because he was also a general, Yun Xi thought about it and agreed to his visit.

Xie Cheng walked in and saluted Yun Xi. Of course, Yun Xi said: "Yongping Hou is exempt. ”

Xie Cheng got up after saluting, the two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and Yun Xi asked, "Why is Xie Hou in Xuzhou at this time?" ”

Xie Cheng said: "Your Highness, I returned to Beijing from Liaodong at the behest of His Majesty, and I happened to pass by at this time. ”

Yun Xi just asked casually, and he just asked after asking. The two talked some nonsense again, and Xie Cheng retired.

Yun Xi said: "Xie Hou will also rest here today, one or two rooms can still be vacated." ”

Xie Cheng said: "There are a lot of ministers' entourage, but they still don't bother His Highness." Then he withdrew from the house. Then I went out of this station and went to another station.

But not long after he left the station, he said to one of his attendants: "You rush to Yanzhou immediately, tell him that His Royal Highness the Imperial Sun is about to arrive in Yanzhou, and let him restrain for a few days." ”

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Note 1: Volume 142 of the History of the Ming Dynasty, the thirtieth of the biography, Song Zhong once served as the commander of the Jinyi Guard and then was transferred to the Fengyang Zhongwei as the commander, so I wrote so.