Zhu Hongsan sent away these stinky old nine and led the team into the Forbidden City from the Hongwu Gate at the southern end of the palace. The Forbidden City is the collective name of the Forbidden City in Nanjing, which is divided into the Imperial City and the Palace City. Miyagi starts from Hongwu Gate to Chengtian Gate. On the royal road in the middle of the Miyagi city, there are five stone bridges, called "Outer Five Dragon Bridge", and under the bridge is the Outer Imperial River. On both sides of the royal road between Hongwumen and Waiwulong Bridge, is the central government office area of the Ming Dynasty. On the west side of the royal road is the high-level military command organization, including the Governor's Office of the Central, Left, Right, Front and Rear Armies, as well as Taichang Temple, Tongzheng Division, Jinyi Guard, Bannerman Guard, Qin Tianjian and so on; On the east side of the royal road is the central high-level official office, including the Zongren Mansion, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Industry, as well as the Han Academy, the Zhan Mansion, the Tai Hospital, etc. On both sides of the royal road between Chengtianmen and Duanmen are temple communities, the east side is set up to worship the emperor's ancestors, the west side is the shrine altar that worships the gods, and then go north to the noon gate.

Entering the noon gate, there are five stone bridges again, called "inner five dragon bridges", and under the bridge is the inner royal river. After crossing the bridge is the Fengtian Gate, from the south to the north there are the three major halls of Fengtian, the canopy and the body. There are Wenhua Hall and Wenlou on the east side of the three major halls, and there are Wuying Hall and Wulou on the west side, which are collectively referred to as the five halls of the "former dynasty". Fengtian Palace, which is often referred to as the Jinluan Palace, is the place where the emperor holds major ceremonies and accepts the congratulations of civil and military officials. Later, the three halls of Taihe, Zhonghe and Baohe of the Forbidden City in Beijing were built in imitation of the three halls of Fengtian, Huacani and Jinshen. After the three major halls, it is the place where the emperor and the concubine live, called "Houting". In the position of the central axis is the three palaces of Qianqing, Jiaotai and Kunning, there is the Rouyi Hall (East Palace) on the left, there is the Chunhe Hall (West Palace) on the right, and the two halls are opposite. The northeast corner is the East Sixth House, and the northwest corner is the West Sixth House. There is also the Imperial Garden on the west side of the Spring Harmony Hall. The "former court" and the "back court" are combined to form the "imperial court".

The Nanjing Forbidden City has been completely destroyed in later generations, Zhu Hongsan only participated in the enthronement ceremony with Emperor Hongguang in the palace city, and the imperial city has not been entered at all, and today is the first time to enter. Zhu Hongsan entered the noon gate, looked around, and felt very ordinary, not as imposing as the Forbidden City in Beijing.

What Zhu Hongsan didn't know was that the Nanjing Forbidden City covers an area of 1.02 million square meters, which is much larger than the 720,000 square meters of the Forbidden City in Beijing. There are several reasons why the Nanjing Forbidden City became like that in later generations, first of all, Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, which directly led to the abandonment of the Ming Palace in Nanjing. Although Nanjing was the capital of the Ming Dynasty at that time, because the emperor was in Beijing, there were only a few maintenance personnel for such a large Ming Imperial Palace. There are also rumors that Zhu Di dragged a lot of stones from the Ming Palace in Nanjing and destroyed some of the Ming Palace, but this view is unreliable, after all, the freight is too high, and it is not as cheap as taking local materials from around Beijing.

Secondly, the wanton destruction of the Qing army directly led to the unrecognizable appearance of the Ming Imperial Palace. After the Qing army captured Nanjing, they began to ravage the Ming Imperial Palace. First of all, the Nanjing Forbidden City has been transformed into a full city by the Qing court, and the banner people live in the original Nanjing Forbidden City. Secondly, large-scale changes were made to the Nanjing Forbidden City, some of the main halls were changed into generals and capital yamen, and some of the main halls were demolished and converted into houses for residents to live in. Basically, the Qing army repaired houses, as long as there was a lack of materials, they would be demolished from the Ming Imperial Palace, and in the more than 200 years of Manchu rule, I don't know how many were destroyed.

Third, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement broke out at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the Taiping Army had a fierce battle with the Manchu army stationed in the Ming Imperial Palace. Later, in order to build the palace of the king of heaven and the palaces of other kings, the Ming Imperial Palace was demolished a lot.

In addition, in the later years, the Nanjing Ming Palace was also destroyed by foreigners and Chinese, and finally only a remnant of the Ming Palace Park remained, and a few place names such as "Blue Flag Camp" and "Blue Flag Street" as evidence of the city. Thinking about Zhu Yuanzhang's expulsion of the Tartars to establish the Ming Dynasty, the palace where he lived was actually lived by the object he expelled for more than 200 years, and he only lived for more than 20 years, it was really heartache and shame.

However, in this time and space, the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not have that kind of good luck, Nanjing here the Manchu Qing Dynasty only occupied three years, and now the Nanjing Forbidden City is still largely intact, but several of the halls were temporarily changed to the general yamen by the Manchus. However, when Zhu Hongsan worshiped the filial piety tomb, Li Chengen, the great eunuch of Dongchang, had already taken some tigers and wolves from Dongchang to clean up the Forbidden City, and most of the Manchurian family members were arrested. However, not all of these Manchu family members are Manchurian, most of them are Han Chinese. These poor women are all women who have been robbed by the Manchurians, and they are basically women from large families in the north. There are still hundreds of underage Manchurian cubs left, and Zhu Hongsan is much more ruthless in dealing with these people than his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang. When Zhu Yuanzhang caught the Mongols, the man was castrated before he reached twelve, and he was beheaded more than twelve. Zhu Hongsan doesn't care about these, as long as he is a Manchurian, all the men are beheaded, regardless of the old and weak, the young women are sent to the teaching workshop as prostitutes, and the old ones are given a good knife, saving a waste of food. It is much more gentle to deal with Zhu Hongsan, the Han military banner, after all, a large part of the surrender of these guys back then was due to the imperial court's inadequacy, so the Han military banner was sent to Luzon regardless of whether he was old or weak.

When Zhu Hongsan entered the city, most of the people in the Forbidden City had been cleared, but there were still a few people hiding in the dark, and Han Sanqiang was leading people to clean up. Zhu Hongsan came to the Qianqing Palace, which had been cleaned up, and prepared to sleep.

Wang Wan'er followed Li Chengen and those Dongchang fans into the imperial city as early as noon, and in the afternoon she saw that Dongchang fans were cruel to those Manchu families, and she couldn't help but feel unbearable, but he was a concubine of Zhu Hongsan, and he didn't even have an identity, so he could talk there. Now seeing Zhu Hongsan coming back, he hurriedly stepped forward to change Zhu Hongsan's clothes.

Zhu Hongsan took off his armor, changed into light clothes, and smiled at Wang Wan'er: "How is it?" Can you get used to it? Now the army is clearing out the remnants of the Manchurians, it will be fine in a few days, the palace is very big, and there are many houses, you can live there if you like! ”

Now that the palace is in chaos, there is no preparation, Wang Wan'er just brought Zhu Hongsan a cup of tea, sat next to Zhu Hongsan and did not speak.

Zhu Hongsan saw Wang Wan'er like this and asked, "What's wrong?" But the killing in the East Factory in the afternoon scared you? ”

Wang Wan'er shook her head and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the concubine felt uncomfortable when she saw that Dongchang Fanzi treated the Manchurians cruelly in the afternoon!" ”

"I thought it was, that's all it was, come on! Let me give you artificial respiration! After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he was going to play hooligan.

But Wang Wan'er now has this on her mind, pushed Zhu Hongsan's hand away and said, "Your Majesty, it's okay to deal with those adults, but it's to be so ruthless to children!" In the afternoon, the concubine saw a child who was only four or five years old being cut off half of his head by a fan of Dongchang, and the child's mother was a Han Chinese, and she was frightened crazy! Such... Isn't that too cruel! ”

Zhu Hongsan smiled: "Those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me die!" Since these Manchurians want to enter the customs and seize my flowers, they will have to pay the price! As for whether it is cruel or not, you can go to Yangzhou when you have time, there are more than 800,000 people in Yangzhou, and only more than 400 people were left in the Manchu Qing Dynasty to pull corpses, and the others were killed, as well as Jiangyin and Jiading, there are veterans who participated in the bloody battles of Jiangyin and Jiading in the Praetorian Guard Division, you go and ask them, have the Manchus ever let my Han children go? So I won't let them go today! ”

"The Manchurians don't say it, but what about the Han women in the Han military flag? They're Han Chinese! ”

"In troubled times, people's lives are like mustard, I can still care about their lives there, and it would be good to leave them alive! The younger ones were sent to Luzon to be enslaved by the local Han people, and the older ones went directly to open mines! The lives of these Han army bannermen are no less than those of the Manchurians, and it is good if I don't kill them, do I still have to ensure that they have enough to eat, and how many more daughters-in-law can I marry? ”

Wang Wan'er was ruthlessly hit by Zhu Hongsan's cold-blooded and ruthless speechlessness, and at this time, Li Chengen outside the door asked softly: "Your Majesty, Lord Tong is here to ask to see!" ”

What are you doing at such a late hour? Zhu Hongsan thought that something should be the matter!

"Lao Li, clean up a room, I'll go out!"

After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he said to Wang Wan'er beside him: "Don't think about other people, isn't your father an official in Shandong?" Tomorrow you write a letter to him, saying that you have remarried, and let him come to Nanjing to be an official! After speaking, Zhu Hongsan ignored Wang Wan'er, got up and went out to see Tong Yangjia.

The gate area of the Qianqing Palace is very large, there are a total of nine rooms, and there was originally the emperor's throne in the main hall, but after several years of war, coupled with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the throne has long been gone. Li Chengen had no choice but to clean up a room inside and temporarily use it as a reception room.

Zhu Hongsan opened the door curtain and went in, and saw that Tong Yangjia was already sitting in the room, Zhu Hongsan smiled and said, "What's the matter with Mr. Tong!" Lao Li, serve tea to Mr. Tong! ”

Tong Yangjia saw Zhu Hongsan enter the house and quickly stood up and said: "Your Majesty, today the minister is here to ask for instructions on tomorrow's arrangements, and there is also the aftermath in Nanjing City!" ”

Although Zhu Hongsan has been called the emperor in Guangdong, Guangdong is not the capital after all, and now he has to regain Nanjing again, so as to prove the legitimacy of Zhu Hongsan's emperor.

"Mr. Tong, this kind of thing can be done in your cabinet, you don't need to ask for my opinion, that's the case anyway!"

Tong Yangjia nodded, and then asked: "There is also the aftermath, now that Nanjing has been recovered, most of the central officials are missing, and the minister wants to ask what to do with the vacancies of these officials?" ”