Datong, the capital division of the three dynasties, the head of the nine sides.

The capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty was in Datong, and Liao and Jin Datong were the capital of Xijing.

During the Ming Dynasty, Datong returned to the hands of the Han people.

For military purposes, the general Xu Da cut off a quarter of the original rectangular city of Datong in the Northern Wei Dynasty from the south to become a square of Zhou Thirteen Li. The outside of the city wall is all built with three kinds of green bricks, large, medium and small, and a buttress is repaired every one foot and five inches. All the city walls have 54 enemy towers, four corner towers, and four city gates in the southeast, northwest, and northwest.

There are four urn cities built outside the four city gates, and outside the urn city, there is a moon city, and you have to pass through three checkpoints to enter the city gate. Outside the city wall, there is a moat that is one zhang five zhang deep and three zhang wide. In addition to the moat, a small city was built on the north, east and south sides of Datong City, and became Beiguan, Dongguan and Nanguan.

The fortification of Datong City can be described as impregnable.

In history, the five years of Shunzhi, the general army of Datong Jiang Pin, rebelled, and the history was called "Wuzi's Change". The Manchu Azizi style red-coated artillery besieged Datong for ten months, and was helpless against the strong Datong city wall.

In the end, the food in the city was exhausted, and Jiang Pai's men killed Jiang Pai and surrendered. In addition to the rebels and their families of 600 people, Azig slaughtered 100,000 residents of Datong. In retaliation for the Datong city wall, Azig ordered to "cut down the city five feet". The massacre of Datong is as tragic as "Yangzhou Ten Days"; The difference is that it only took a few hours to attack Yangzhou Duoduo with red-coated cannons.

Datong and Yangzhou can be described as a pair of sister cities in distress in the Ming Dynasty.

The literati of the Ming Dynasty commented on the women of the world, the first to recommend the mother-in-law of Datong, and the second to the thin horse of Yangzhou. The best girl was actually killed by the Manchus, and with this alone, the Manchus should be cursed for 10,000 years.

According to the Italian Martino's "Tatar War Chronicle", the cause of Jiang Jian's "Wuzi Change" is Aunt Datong:

"The Datong woman is known as the most beautiful woman in China, and the Eight Kings (Azig) and his entourage rape and kidnap women at will. A bride with status was snatched from the sedan chair by them, and Jiang Hao personally asked them for someone and was beaten out. Jiang Hao couldn't bear it any longer, he was furious, and vowed to wash away the shame with Tatar blood, and immediately led his own soldiers to his mansion to kill people when they saw them. Frightened, Azig fled from the walls".

There's one thing Martino didn't figure out. The Chinese language is broad and profound, and the so-called Datong aunt is not a Datong woman, but a professional title.

During the Ming Dynasty, there were four kinds of people in Datong: there were more soldiers than civilians, and there were more beggars than merchants; There are more women than men, and there are more prostitutes than good families.

If there are more soldiers, there is more demand, Datong has lived in the fortress for a long time, the people are open, and there are many prostitutes.

The large number of employees will inevitably lead to industrial upgrading.

In Datong City, there are yamen at all levels such as the Acting Palace, Datong Town, Governor, Governor, etc., as well as the rich people of border trade in the city. These high-end people create high-end demand.

According to the literature of the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, "the rich are called heroes, the south of the Yangtze River pushes Xin'an, and the north of the river pushes the right side of the mountain." On the right side of the mountain, or salt, or resale, or cellar millet, its wealth is greater than that of Xin'an."

"Shanyou" refers to Shanxi, while "Xin'an" refers to Huizhou. The meaning of the above sentence is that Shanxi people were the richest people in the world during the Wanli period.

Wang Shixing, a native of Zhejiang in the Ming Dynasty, described the rich people of Shanxi at that time in great detail:

"Jin Zhong is frugal and simple, the ancient name is Tang, Yu, the wind of summer, the house of 100 gold, no cloth hat in summer, the house of a thousand gold, no long clothes in winter, the home of 10,000 gold, and the food has no taste. The rice is jujube, so its teeth are yellow. Eat sheep, so its body is meaty. Its wind is strong, so its color is dark. Its water springs are deep, so its strength is strong. ”

High-end low-key connotation, simple, strong and powerful, Shanxi tycoons naturally disdain Yangzhou thin horses.

Datong bustard carefully selected the appropriate shape of the urn, so that the young girl who bought it from a young age straddled the edge of the urn, called "sitting urn". Datong's mother-in-law has practiced hard for several years to sit in the urn and be a child, and after her debut, she has been re-embarking and swallowing freely.

After the experience, not only the rich, but also the scholars were fascinated by it.

So there is a proverb cloud, plugged with three uniques: the city wall of Jizhen, the school field of Xuanfu, and the mother-in-law of Datong.

Datong in the Ming Dynasty was definitely a comfortable nest protected by heavy troops and high walls.

The commander of the Datong army arrived at the north pass of Datong. The soldiers saw the commander's banner from afar, and hurriedly opened the city gates. The general army marched in.

The four city gates in the southeast and northwest of Datong City are facing the four main streets in the southeast and northwest, the east is Heyang Gate and Heyang Street, the south is Yongtai Gate and Yongtai Street, there are Qingyuan Gate and Qingyuan Street in the west, and the north is called Wuding Gate and Wuding Street. In the center of each of the four main streets, there is a building on the street, which is the Drum Tower, the Taiping Tower, the Bell Tower, and the Kuixing Tower. At the intersection of the four main streets, there stands an archway that is connected by four archways, which is called the four archways.

The four main streets divide Datong into four corners, in addition to eight small streets, a number of alleys, the so-called "four avenues, eight alleys, seventy-two alleys" will be Datong City divided into a typical Li Fang structure. In addition to many yamen, most of them are courtyard houses.

The general soldier of Datong did not return to the general soldier's mansion, but went directly to the eunuch of Datong. The eunuch's mansion is next to the splendid palace of the king, which is a humble courtyard.

That sounds reasonable. The palace of the king of Dai was the palace of the original Northern Wei Dynasty, and of course it was splendid. Eunuchs, only one minion, naturally have to live closer, although shabby, you can be on call.

But everyone who understands knows that the main task of the eunuchs in Datong is to monitor the acting king, and they live close to facilitate monitoring. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the vassal kings had no military power, were not allowed to engage in the business of the four people, were not allowed to go out of the city without authorization, were not allowed to make friends with officials, and could only be pampered and pampered, eating, drinking, and having fun.

The acting king of the Ming Dynasty has gone through ten generations in five years to Chongzhen. The tenth generation of the king's surname is Zhu Mingyi, who has just been sealed in April this year, and the excitement has not passed.

The chief soldier of Datong respectfully asked for a report, and the concierge of the eunuch's mansion replied: The eunuch and the king went to Quail Lane together.

The chief soldier knew that these two must be fighting quails, and it may not take long to come back, and it is normal to have a good time and not come back after a night.

The chief soldier left a letter and hurried to the Yamen of the governor of Datong.

The Governor was not there. There was a royal history of Lord Chen in the capital, and the governor entertained Lord Chen in the outer house.

The general soldier simply dismissed the family and took only one retinue to the governor's house with a letter.

The Governor's Outer Residence was given to the Governor by the Governor in March last year when he first took office, along with his mother-in-law and aunt in the courtyard.

The general soldier was familiar with the way, so he first turned around and bought a fine sea otter skin hat in the leather goods street, and then went to the copper goods street to buy a delicate copper hand stove.

When he arrived at a quiet courtyard, the chief soldier lowered his voice and asked the gatehouse to see, is it inconvenient for the governor to be now?

After a while, the porter came back: "My lord, my lord, let my lord go in and talk." ”

The chief soldier took his fur hat and hand stove and came to the back hall.

The governor was roasting meat in the courtyard, and there were words in his mouth:

"Witnessing the smoky sand grass with frost,

The weather is cold and the twilight is vast.

Kangtou charcoal burnt yellow squirrel,

Immediately bend the bow and shoot the white wolf. ”

The governor was about the same age as the general soldier, in his sixties, and by the standards of the Ming Dynasty, both of them were dying.

The general soldier hurriedly stepped forward to snatch the governor's roast yellow squirrel, "Junmen, how can you do such things yourself, I'll come!" ”

The governor wiped his sweat and pointed his fingers lightly to a chic chamber. In the wing, the green smoke curled, the curtain hung low, and there was a maid standing at the door.

The chief soldier turned over the squeaky roast yellow squirrel and asked in a low voice, "From the capital?" ”

The governor nodded slightly, "After facing the saint, go to the governor of Yansui and pass by Datong." ”

The chief soldier breathed a sigh of relief.

The governor then revealed: "Wanli forty-four years jinshi. The surname is Chen, the name is Qiyu, and the word Yuxuan. He has been a politician in Shaanxi Province and is a native of Baodezhou, Shanxi. ”

The general soldier stopped the roast squirrel in his hand.

The governor of Datong is a jinshi in the twenty-ninth year of Wanli, and in comparison, the new governor of Yansui who passed by is a descendant of the younger generation.

The governor of Datong signaled to the general soldier of Datong not to stop: "General Ma, at the age of you and me, don't care too much about external affairs, just do what you want." ”

Mr. Ma was stunned, and then lowered his head and was busy turning over the barbecue: "Master Zhang, is there any news from Jingshi?" ”

"Sun Yuanhua and Zhang Tao are going to be beheaded."

"Sun Yuanhua and Zhang Tao are both believers in God. Catholicism has always been loyal and patriotic, how could the two of them rebel in Shandong? ”

According to this Lord Chen, these two people are not against each other at all! The rebels in Shandong were two petty officers named Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde. Sun Yuanhua was captured by the rebels and failed to commit suicide. The rebels admired Sun Yuanhua as a person, so they let Sun Yuanhua come back. ”

"Then the emperor still wants to kill Sun Yuanhua?"

"Someone has to carry the black pot. Sun Yuanhua asked Francophone to cast cannons to build big ships in Shandong, and the emperor spent a lot of silver. Now that the cannon ship has been hijacked by the rebels, the emperor's hard work for several years has been wasted, Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde are both Sun Yuanhua's subordinates, who will carry this pot if Sun Yuanhua does not carry it? Sun Yuanhua is the second Yuan Chonghuan! The Manchu Dynasty attacked and annihilated Sun Yuanhua and rebelled, which was nothing more than Wen Tiren taking the opportunity to attack Zhou Yanru, and the emperor took advantage of the situation. ”

"That Lord Zhang, you ......"

"Now they all say that I, Zhang Tinggong and Sun Yuanhua, are Zhou Yanru's cronies, hehe, I'll obediently suspend and wait for better participation."

Governor Zhang said and then recited the poem:

"One hundred and two company battalion Qin barriers,

The five original locks were sealed by the Han Dynasty.

There is nothing to do in the borderlands,

Sit and listen to the sound of the sunset. ”

This poem was written by Yu Qian, a famous minister of the Ming Dynasty, for Datong, and the title of the poem is "Things in the Clouds", which is meaningful to Governor Zhang.

The chief soldier handed over a letter: "Junmen, I'm afraid you don't have time to watch the sunset." ”