Nanjing Imperial Palace was built in the 26th year of the Yuan Dynasty, and was originally called "Wu Wang's New Palace", and later called "Imperial City". Because Zhu Yuanzhang had not yet been proclaimed emperor at that time, the scale was limited, only the outer court and inner court buildings on the middle road, and no palace rooms were built in the open space on the east and west sides. The new palace is 790 meters wide from east to west, 750 meters long from north to south, there are four gates, the south is the noon gate, the east is the Donghua gate, the west is the Xihua gate, and the north is the Xuanwu gate. Enter the noon gate for Fengtian, inside is the main hall Fengtian Temple, the front of the palace is the Wen Building, the Wu Building; After the Huagai Palace, the Jinshen Palace, the inner court has the Qianqing Palace and the Kunning Palace, as well as the East and West Six Palaces.

In the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1368), Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne as the emperor, taking Yingtianfu as Nanjing and Kaifeng as Beijing, and built the central capital in Fengyang in the following year. Due to the concentration of manpower and material resources on the construction of the central capital city and the palace, the expansion of the Nanjing Palace was terminated again. In the years that followed, only necessary repairs were made to the existing palace. In the eighth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1375), Zhu Yuanzhang gave up the plan to build the central capital and concentrated on building Nanjing. In this construction, the left and right sides of the noon gate were added, the east and west corner gates were added to the left and right of the Fengtian gate, and the buildings such as Wenhua Hall and Wuying Hall were added. In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu (1392), it was added again, and the palace wall was added outside the imperial city, and the new wall was used as the imperial city, and the original imperial city was renamed the palace city. In front of Miyagi, buildings such as Duanmon, Jotenmonmon, and Jinsui Bridge were built......

In the summer and June of the 14th year of Ming orthodoxy, thunderstorms fell from the sky, and the halls of Jinshen and Huagai were hit by lightning and caught fire. In the autumn and July of the first year of Jiajing, the storm, the river overflowed, and the city walls of the suburban community mausoleum palace were all bad. In the following 100 years, the Nanjing Imperial Palace was rarely repaired, and the wind and rain were blowing, and the damage was serious.

When Cao Bianjiao escorted King Ding and King Yong into the imperial city, what he saw was full of devastation, since Chengzu moved the capital to Beijing, Nanjing was almost deserted, Cao Bianjiao was also embarrassed, even the central hall Jinluan Hall was in ruins, Cao Bianjiao was also very surprised, this is really not what the palace should look like!

"Your Royal Highness, the ministers have ordered someone to clean up the inner palace, and you can move in immediately." Shi Kefa led the way in front and led them into the Inner Imperial City, but also with an embarrassed face, no one expected that there would be such a day, Nanjing would really become the capital of the Ming Dynasty, as the foundation of the Ming Dynasty.

"Master Shi, let's go and discuss the matter of ascending the throne, this matter should be delayed sooner rather than later, if it is delayed any longer, the people's hearts are afraid that they will be separated, and they are all busy competing for fame and fortune, and the country's society has fallen to this point, isn't it sad, two highnesses, what do you think?" Cao Bianjiao also wanted to give this matter a decision earlier, and if it was delayed, it would be fearful that there would be variables, and there would be no stable organization to preside over the entire military and political affairs in the south, and it would be easy for people to take advantage of it, which was not what Cao Bianjiao wanted to see.

"Everything is subject to General Cao's arrangement, the palace guards, the defense of the outer city, are also responsible for General Cao, you are all my ministers of the Ming Dynasty, deeply favored by the country, you should do your best, Zhongxing Ming, General Cao in the group of thieves, rescue the king and the king's brother, loyal and brave, you and other trouble, listen to General Cao's meaning."

"Your Ministers obey!" Shi Kefa and the others also looked at each other, Cao Bianjiao went south all the way, I am afraid that they have already established their incomparable trust in the hearts of these two little princes, they want to restrain Cao Bianjiao, but I am afraid that these two little princes will not be with them.

"The minister should do his best to repay the emperor's kindness, and the minister is deeply favored by the emperor, and he is willing to bow down and die!" Cao Bianjiao also bowed down at the moment.

The group came to the nearby Wuying Palace, which is also a slightly neat palace, and the palace people have already cleaned up, Zhu Cijiong, the king of Ding, and Zhu Cijiong, the king of Yong, sit on the top, Cao Bianjiao sits a little below them, and on both sides are the officials of the six departments of Nanjing, and the military department is still the book of Shi Kefa; Zhang Shenyan, the secretary of the ministry, Gao Hongtu, the secretary of the household department, Jiang Riguang of the Hanlin Academy, and the right of the imperial Shi Lu Daqi and others all sat in columns.

"King Ding, is the first emperor and Queen Zhou's sister-in-law, the prince is now in the hands of thieves, I am afraid that he has been poisoned, the second son of the first emperor has been killed, ethics should be ordered, and King Ding should inherit the unification, this point, you have no objections, right?" Cao Bianjiao was also the first to stand up at the moment, laying out the facts and rules, and Dingwang Zhu Cijiong was a well-deserved heir to the throne.

When Shi Kefa heard this, he also agreed, got up and said, "You should be like this!" We have no objections, and the king will inherit the unification, which is justified and reasonable, and we are the most suitable candidates. ”

The rest of the people also chimed in: "We have no objection!" The king will inherit the unification and be justified! ”

Cao Bianjiao nodded with satisfaction and continued: "That's good! The next is the time to ascend the throne, I still mean that sentence, sooner rather than later, since the martyrdom of the first emperor, there is no owner in the world, and the people are uneasy, when should arrange this matter earlier, you talk about it, the enthronement ceremony, when can it be prepared? ”

"Half a month's preparation, when it is safe, the new emperor ascends the throne, and when the country is in danger, it should be solemn first, before and after, and it can be properly prepared in 20 days." Shi Kefa also replied that ascending the throne is not a trivial matter, everything must be prepared in order to be held smoothly, otherwise something will go wrong, and the face of the court will be lost.

"20th, 20th later, Li Zicheng's army is afraid that it has already hit the bank of the Huai River, five days, all must be done within five days, we don't have so much time to waste, Lord Shi, you also said, when the country is in danger, everything is simple and good, the most important thing for us at the moment is to stabilize people's hearts, so that the people of the Ming Dynasty can see and hear, the new emperor has inherited the unification, just in Nanjing, five days, all of you have to work hard, otherwise you will delay the big event, no one can escape the involvement!"

Twenty days, Cao Bianjiao can't wait that long, the current situation in the world is changing day by day, unpredictable, where can he wait until twenty days later, that is, five days, he feels that it is too much, it should be three days.

"General Cao, you are a foreign minister, you have been fighting all the year round, and you don't know the rules and etiquette of the imperial court, this enthronement ceremony is not a gathering of soldiers and horses in your army, a point will be a drum beating, it's fine, the cumbersome details in this have to be carefully considered, and things like dragon robes and dragon crowns also need to be prepared......" Gao Hongtu also retorted, Cao Bianjiao was so impatient, which made him very unhappy, and the scene on the ship today made him still hateful.

Without waiting for Cao Bianjiao to speak, Han Zanzhou on the side stood up first and said: "Otherwise, the year before last, I had been to Suzhou weaving, where I saw a set of almost completed dragon robes and dragon crowns, which were made by the first emperor in the third year of Chongzhen, and then the first emperor was exempted from the errand of the Weaving Bureau, and this set of dragon robes has been shelved in the Suzhou Manufacturing Bureau, because it is an imperial object, the Suzhou Manufacturing Bureau does not dare to dispose of it at will, and it has been shelved there, which can be changed slightly, so that people can make up for the next process, and it can be completed within five days." ”

"That's good! Now that it's solved, Master Gao has no objection! Cao Bianjiao sneered, looking at Gao Hongtu, also full of disdain.

Gao Hongtu was also silent when he heard this, what else could he say, seeing that he didn't speak, Cao Bianjiao also smiled and continued: "Five days later, the enthronement ceremony will be held in the Wuying Palace, and as for the Jinluan Palace, it will be rebuilt after the treasury is full!" Besides, after the year, Lord Jiang, what do you propose as the head of the Hanlin Academy? ”

"How's Hongguang? Hongzhi, Everbright and prosperous; The light, Ming also, implies the Ming Dynasty. After thinking about it for a while, Jiang Riguang also proposed the era name of Hongguang.

"What does Your Highness think?" Cao Bianjiao also asked Zhu Cijiong for instructions.

"Then Hongguang!" Where would Zhu Cijiong care about this, he accepted it happily at the moment.