The move to the capital has been a motion for a long time, and when the reunification was put on the agenda, Zhu Jinglun suggested that the cabinet consider the matter of moving the capital. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The reason is simple, the capital is set in Guangzhou, which is too far from the population center to control the whole country.

There are four places where the capital has a higher voice, Beiqi, Nanjing, Kaifeng (or Luoyang), and Xi'an, after several discussions, Henan and Shaanxi are excluded, Xi'an is too deep inland, everyone thinks that in today's era, the capitals of the world's countries are all in the big rivers or coastal areas, because the transportation is more convenient, more convenient to transport materials, must be in this kind of place, can greatly reduce management costs. Kaifeng or Luoyang in Henan, there are also many people to support, here is the ancient capital, traffic because of the railway, it is also a hub, but after all, the cost of railway transportation is much higher than that of water transportation, to maintain the operation of a capital, the transportation cost is very high. So the Henan region is also excluded.

There are only Beijing and Nanjing left, these two choices are deadlocked, and because at that time in the face of the possible outbreak of war with Russia, more support for the North Cent, this is not just a matter of the name of the Son of Heaven to guard the country, the capital is set in the North, which will bring great convenience to the mobilization of materials for front-line operations. But there are also people who oppose it because of this, because being too close to the front line also means that the capital is not safe, and the loss of the capital is not a trivial matter, especially when the country has just been unified and the people's hearts are fluctuating, the huge impact of the loss of the capital is likely to cause the overall turmoil, especially the Russians are still carrying the guise of helping the Manchu Qing to restore, which is able to envelop a large number of people's hearts.

Therefore, the capital of Beijing is controversial, and those who support it are very supportive, and those who oppose it are very opposed.

As for Nanjing, those who support it support it, and those who oppose it oppose it, but neither of them is fierce.

Therefore, Beiqian and Nanjing were deadlocked, so the government decided to make preparations with both hands, and the two cities prepared at the same time.

The palaces and government offices in Beiqi were renovated, modern facilities were added, telephones and telegraphs were connected, and the same was true in Nanjing, and the relevant institutions were renovated and renovated, and then the two places also focused on infrastructure construction, paved hard roads, and planned urban transportation.

In the end, the reconciliation with France and Russia made the cabinet unified, and Nanjing was more appropriate for comprehensive consideration.

That's why Nanjing was chosen as the capital.

The advantage of Nanjing as the capital city is that it can reach Beijing in the north through the Jinpu Road, and there are two railways directly to Guangzhou in the south bypass Shanghai. There is a major artery of the Yangtze River on the waterway, and the transportation cost is extremely low.

The political consideration is that although after the signing of the Continental Agreement, relations with France and Russia have been greatly eased temporarily, but the political environment in the Yangtze River basin is very complicated.

Therefore, after three years of political integration, the political form of Chinese mainland was basically unified, and the Daming government announced that the capital would be moved to Nanjing.

Various international interpretations have basically agreed that China's power will shift northward, and the focus will be on the Yangtze River basin, while many experts predict that the unified Chinese are about to challenge the British hegemony of the Yangtze River, and a war between the two countries is very likely to break out in the near future.

The changes in the international situation in recent years have made this kind of prediction deeply popular, and I don't know when it began, and the European powers began to yearn for someone to add some blockage to the British Empire.

Britain's "2C Plan", France's "2S Plan", and Germany's "Teutonic Africa Plan" all hope to connect their colonies and build railways through the African continent, but their territories are complicated, and the more they expand their territory, the greater the conflict.

After Germany made concessions to Britain with the interests of German East Africa, it did not improve relations between the two countries, in fact, as long as Germany expanded outward, it would definitely install a wall of the "British Empire card" head-on, but they themselves could not see it clearly.

In 1896, France sent Captain Marchand with eight officers and 120 African soldiers to the village of Fashoda in the upper Nile in southern Sudan, where the French flag was raised to signify "effective occupation". British General Kichena led an army into the Omdurman-Khartoum area. When he learned that the French had occupied Fashoda, he marched south and forced the French to withdraw. The two armies confronted each other, and war was on the verge of breaking out.

Portugal wanted to unite its colonies in Southeast and Southwest Africa and establish a "Pink Map Project", but the British sent an ultimatum to Portugal, and the Portuguese immediately canceled the plan.

Russia is still the target of the British blockade, and the shadow of Britain can be seen in all directions of expansion, and now it is mainly playing in Asia, after the Russian occupation of Xinjiang, the British invaded Tibet, which is not currently recognized by the Chinese government.

When all the great powers expanded outward, they found the high walls built for them by the British, so they gradually began to be dissatisfied with the British, and the glorious isolation that the British claimed was slowly beginning to become deliberately isolated by the continental countries in recent years.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty moved its capital to the Yangtze River Basin, although it was clear that the Germans also entered here, but everyone thought that the Ming Dynasty would have a conflict with the British, in fact, it was not necessarily based on logical judgment, to a large extent, the Europeans were tired of this stirring stick that constantly stirred up trouble in Europe, and hoped that someone could balance the country. This sentiment was reflected in the Boer War, when no one supported Britain's war in South Africa, leading Britain to abandon its isolation policy and choose Japan as an ally.

The outside world's interpretation of the Ming Dynasty has not been taken to heart for the time being, the short-term goal of the Ming Dynasty is to complete the integration of the country as soon as possible, and the relocation of the capital is also to serve this integration, as for the expulsion of Britain from the Yangtze River Basin, there is no timetable yet, even if it is to be expelled, war is the last choice.

At the same time as the capital was moved, the Ming Dynasty announced the change of the name of the country, but it did not have much impact.

Daming announced to foreign countries that in the future exchanges between Chinese and foreign officials, the official name of Daming will be "China Ming Empire", giving Daming the word "China" before the name to further unite people's hearts, and the English standard translation is "The, Ming, empire, of, China", abbreviated as the use of the word "China", English "China", in domestic official documents, the full name is also the Chinese Ming Empire, referred to as China, and words such as Daming and Daming are allowed in informal official documents.

No one abroad has done much interpretation, but the Ming government, and now the Chinese government, are very serious, thinking that they are expressing a meaning to the world in this way, that is, China is no longer a regional noun, and after experiencing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Ming and Qing dynasties, it will be unified into one country again, that is, China.

As for the use of imperial vocabulary, it doesn't have too much emotional overtones, just to illustrate a situation.

Because China has been an empire since ancient times.