Shenyang is the ruling core of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong, Shenyang is the important town of Liaodong Fangcheng of Yan State in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and belongs to Xiangping County, Liaodong County, Yanguo, which is the beginning of the history of Shenyang.

During the Western Han Dynasty, it was called "Houcheng", which belonged to Liaodong County of the Han Dynasty, which was the beginning of the official establishment of Shenyang, and was renamed "Shenzhou" in the Tang Dynasty.

During the Five Dynasties, Liao Taizu immigrated here to build an earthen city, and production developed accordingly. During the Jin Dynasty, Jin Taizu captured Shenzhou and continued to use the name "Shenzhou".

In the third year of Yuanzhen in the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty rebuilt Tucheng and changed Shenzhou to "Shenyang Road", which was under the jurisdiction of Liaoyang Province. Because Shenyang is located in the north of Shenshui, according to the traditional Chinese orientation theory, that is, "the north of the mountain is yin, and the north of the water is yang", so Shenzhou was changed to Shenyang. Since then, the name Shenyang has officially appeared in historical materials, and it has a history of more than 700 years. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, it also continued to use the title of the Yuan Dynasty.

After the Qing Emperor Nurhachi defeated the Ming army in Sarhu, he moved the capital from Liaoyang to Shenyang, and began to build an imperial palace in Shenyang. In the eighth year of Tiancong, Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty respected Shenyang as "Shengjing", so it was called "Shengjing". In the first year of Shunzhi, after the little emperor of Shunzhi moved the capital to Beijing, Shenyang was the accompanying capital.

In the sixth year of Shenwu, Zhao Guodong recovered Liaodong by the decree of Zhu Hongsan, re-changed Shengjing to Shenyang, and became the residence of the governor of Northeast China and the administrative and economic center of the three eastern provinces.

Shenyang has become the center of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, according to the population statistics of Wanli ten years, there are more than 40,000 households registered in Shenyang, with a population of more than 180,000 people. Of course, these populations cannot be compared with Shenyang, which had a population of nearly 10 million in later generations, and even with the big cities with a population of one million in the Ming Dynasty at that time, but with a population of nearly 200,000, Liaodong, which is vast and sparsely populated, is already the largest city.

However, after a long tug-of-war between the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing in the eastern Liaodong region, the population of Shenyang was reduced to only 30,000 for a time. With Zhu Hongsan's reoccupation of Liaodong, in order to develop the economy of Northeast China, a population of one million was moved from Zhili, Shandong, and Shanxi to Liaodong, and Shenyang finally recovered to a population of 100,000.

Now that the war has been over for ten years, Shenyang is located in the northeast, and it is a necessary place for caravans to come to the northeast to buy medicinal materials and furs, so Shenyang has developed rapidly in recent years, and there are a total of 200,000 people outside the city, which has completely recovered to its heyday.

When Zhu Hongsan came to Shenyang, it was already November, Shenyang is located in the northeast, and the road was closed by heavy snow in November.

The second year was the fifteenth year of Shenwu, and Zhu Hongsan had lived in Nurhachi's palace for more than a month, and the Spring Festival was also spent here. Although the Shenyang Forbidden City is a palace, the scale and area cannot be compared with the Beijing Forbidden City, and there is nothing to play in the ice and snow, so Zhu Hongsan is very depressed, and he has nothing to do except study the body structure with his wives every day.

After the Spring Festival is the fifteenth day of the first month, that is, the Shangyuan Festival, according to the tradition, this day is the lantern festival, in the afternoon Zhu Hongsan's eldest grandson Zhu Shengduo came to Zhu Hongsan, wanting to go out to play.

Zhu Shengduo is a young man, and he has played all over the city of Shenyang for more than a month, although Shenyang is the largest city in Liaodong, but it is only a slightly larger prefecture-level unit in Guannai. Zhu Shengduo was born in Nanjing and grew up in Beijing, both of which are million-dollar cities, and they naturally play much more than Shenyang, so Zhu Shengduo is really depressed to death.

But today is very good, Zhu Shengduo heard that today is the Lantern Festival, from the afternoon onwards the city will hold dragon lanterns, lion playing, stilts, rowing boats, Yangge twisting and other traditional folk performances, as a young person Zhu Shengduo naturally wants to participate, so he came to Zhu Hongsan to run out to participate in the Lantern Festival.

Zhu Hongsan was also tired of staying in the small Forbidden City, and he also wanted to go out to see what Zhu Shengduo said, although Zhu Hongsan was a native of the Northeast in his previous life, but he had never seen how the Lantern Festival was celebrated in the Northeast during the Ming Dynasty.

The grandfather and grandson made up their minds, dressed up and took fifty guards to leave the back door of the Forbidden City and come out into the street.

The city of Shenyang was rebuilt by Nurhachi in the tenth year of Tiancong, and Nurhachi also built the palace into nine gates like the Beijing Imperial Palace. Zhu Hongsan and Zhu Shengduo came out of the Tianyou Gate of the Imperial Palace, and outside was the most prosperous Nancheng Market in Shenyang. At this time, there was no North Market in Shenyang, and the North Market was only formed in 1921. In the Qing Dynasty, Shenyang was the most prosperous is the South Market, where a large number of merchants who come to do business in Guanli are gathered, so the prosperity is abnormal, what taverns, green buildings, silk villages, rouge shops have everything.

Shenyang has two layers of inner and outer city walls, the outermost city wall is the first ring road of Shenyang in later generations, but in the late Ming Dynasty here is the outer city wall of Shenyang, and the south market is the five love market of later generations. Because today is the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, and it is also the only night without curfew, all kinds of people come out to see the lanterns, striving to please a good fortune, and be safe in the new year.

Zhu Hongsan looked at the sky and said to Zhu Shengduo: "Boy, let's come out early, find a place to rest, wait a while to see the fireworks!" ”

Ding Wei, as Zhu Hongsan's personal bodyguard, naturally did not dare to be careless, and when he heard the emperor say this, he quickly found a very large restaurant to let the emperor and grandson rest.

This restaurant is called Yuehai Building, you don't have to think about it, it is Cantonese people to do it, Zhu Hongsan walked in and saw that it was Guangdong decoration.

Today is the Lantern Festival, there are a lot of people who come to eat and play, the first floor of Yuehailou is full, but money can be channeled, under the high price of Zhu Hongsan paying ten silver dollars, the restaurant prepared the best room on the third floor for Zhu Hongsan to rest.

Zhu Hongsan led Zhu Shengduo to the box on the third floor, this location is very good, open the window and you can see the entire South Market, at this time the sky is getting dark, some merchants have begun to prepare lanterns at night, and the streets are brightly lit.

When he arrived at a restaurant in Guangdong, he naturally ordered Cantonese food, Zhu Hongsan has lived in Guangdong for more than ten years, and he is naturally familiar with some dishes. Zhu Hongsan casually ordered seven or eight side dishes, and he and his grandson Zhu Shengduo ate and drank here, while waiting for the fireworks to be set off after dark. Although this Yuehailou is located in the northeast, it seems that this shopkeeper is really from Guangdong, and several Cantonese side dishes are prepared very well, and there are already seven or eight points of Cantonese cuisine, which is very inappropriate.

Zhu Hongsan was in a very good mood, chatting with Zhu Shengduo, drinking wine, and sharing the joy of family. At this moment, there was a noise downstairs in Yuehai Building, and Ding Wei, who was the head of Zhu Hongsan's guards, frowned, and glanced at a brocade guard beside him, who hurriedly went downstairs to see what was going on.

After a while, the brocade guard walked up again, and said a few words in Ding Wei's ear, Ding Wei frowned, and Zhu Hongsan asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Ding Wei heard the emperor's question and hurriedly bowed down and replied: "Back to the emperor, a gangster below made trouble, drank too much and didn't give money, and the shopkeeper reported to the official, but the inspection department didn't come, and the gangster's brother arrived, so he was in a mess downstairs!" ”

Zhu Hongsan didn't think much about it, the inspection department must be understaffed in this lively season, Zhu Hongsan said: "Send a few people to drive that gang of gangsters away!" ”

Ding Wei nodded and sent two Jinyiwei down to solve this matter, who is Jinyiwei? Those thugs were so frightened when they saw Jinyiwei's waist card that they immediately scattered and fled. Afterwards, in order to thank Zhu Hongsan, the shopkeeper of Yuehailou came up in person to thank him.

The shopkeeper knew that the person who could use the brocade guard was either rich or expensive, and now that the emperor was in Shenyang City, this middle-aged man must be a relative of the emperor, so it was better to be careful.

The shopkeeper didn't call him any old man, and said directly: "The villain thanks the adults for breaking the siege, if it weren't for the prestige of the adults' guards, those gangsters would still not leave!" ”

Zhu Hongsan heard that the shopkeeper's accent was Cantonese, and he couldn't help but ask in Cantonese: "It turns out that the shopkeeper is also Cantonese, I don't know where he is from Guangdong?" ”

The shopkeeper was stunned, I didn't expect to meet a fellow villager in Liaodong, but the shopkeeper didn't take it to heart, now because the new emperor is from Huguang and made a fortune in Guangdong, so Huguang and Guangdong have a large number of nobles, and the middle-aged man opposite is a Cantonese person, so it can explain very well why his guard is Jinyiwei.

The shopkeeper quickly stood up and asked respectfully: "The villain is from Guangzhou, I don't know where the adult is from?" ”

Zhu Hongsan smiled and said: "I am from Huguang, but I have been in Guangzhou with His Majesty the Emperor for more than ten years, and you and I are half a fellow countryman!" ”

The shopkeeper understood even more when he heard Zhu Hongsan say this, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "It turned out to be the royal family, please forgive the villain for being rude!" ”

Zhu Hongsan waved his hand and said: "What kind of imperial family, back then, the old man was just an old man from Huguang of His Majesty the Emperor, and His Majesty rewarded the old man with a bite to eat after the Ming Dynasty!" ”

After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he didn't want to say anything more about his identity, and then asked: "Shopkeeper, the old man heard that the security in Shenyang City is very good, why did the inspection department come so late today?" ”

Shenyang is located in Liaodong, where there are many ethnic minorities, and these guys are very combative, so the number of inspection departments in Shenyang is twice as large as in other places. Twice as many as the inspection department can still be late, Zhu Hongsan can't help but feel that something is wrong.

The shopkeeper heard Zhu Hongsan say this and said with a smile: "In the past, the inspection department came quickly, but today is the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, and tens of thousands of people have gathered here in the south market, and the inspection department is understaffed!" "The shopkeeper didn't know what Zhu Hongsan's identity was, so he still said a good word for the local inspection department, after all, the shopkeeper wants to do business in Shenyang, so it's better not to offend the local snakes of the inspection department.

Zhu Hongsan heard the shopkeeper say this, thinking about it, probably because he was suspicious, thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan also put his mind at ease and let the shopkeeper go down.

By this time, it was completely dark, and it was time to set off fireworks. Zhu Shengduo hurriedly opened the window and saw fireworks everywhere in the entire South Market, which was very beautiful.

Zhu Hongsan also came to the window to watch, and suddenly Zhu Hongsan heard a special explosion in the sound of fireworks, which was very dull. Zhu Hongsan has been fighting all his life and is very familiar with this kind of sound, which is not the sound of fireworks exploding, but the sound of the army's eight-pounder gun.