"It's finally here!" Everyone on the grain ship was cheering.

In the distance, there is a dark building, which looks so large-scale.

This is the final destination of Sun Yuan's escort of autumn grain, the hometown of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and Fengyang, the central capital of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty had three capitals, the capital Beijing, the capital Nanjing, and the central capital Fengyang.

Beijing was the political center of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention, Nanjing as the capital, but it had a complete set of government teams, the same six ministries and various courts. As for Fengyang, the central capital, there are not so many institutions, only a dozen military offices, and a governor's yamen and a prefect's yamen. And all the military and political power belongs to the garrison eunuchs.

Whether it was in his previous life or in this life, Sun Yuan had never been to Fengyang, and he was still very curious about this place.

After a long journey of nearly a month and a half, the grain ship escorted by Sun Yuan turned into the Yangtze River through the Salt Canal, and then through the Grand Canal to Huai'an. Then he turned to Hongze Lake and headed west, and finally arrived at the land.

According to Sun Yuan's plan, he had planned to arrive at his destination during the Chinese New Year. Because, according to real historical records, Fengyang will have great changes on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

And at that time, it will be the moment for Sun Yuan to break the current predicament.

However, after there were three more people on the boat, Mao, Zhou, and Jiang, things changed.

The three of them had already been instructed by Lei Tai to keep a close eye on Sun Yuan, urging him to finish the errand at hand as soon as possible, so that he could return to Rugao as soon as possible. When the time comes, he will be able to commit a great sin to which he owes. And Sun Yuan has such a huge deficit, the capital crime must not be escaped.

Because of this, as soon as these three people got on the grain ship, they took away all the rights in Sun Yuan's hands without a trace, and made the grain ship fast.

The ambition of a thief, how Sun Yuan does not know. However, he also knew that it was not the time to turn against these three people. Moreover, the people on the ship are all members of the Mao family, although they are a little in awe of themselves, but they are their clansmen after all. Moreover, Mao, Zhou, and Jiang represent the official family. The people naturally took the lead of the horse, which was also something that Mo had no choice but to do.

Sun Yuan didn't want to compete with the three of them in the leadership of the grain pair, even if he got the leadership of the entire team, it would mean nothing to him. Moreover, these three people escorted food, and they didn't have to trouble customs clearance.

In the past month and a half, Sun Yuan has been working hard in the cabin all day long, but he is free.

He is only 18 years old this year, and he used to be weak, especially very lightweight. After so many days of exercise, I have gained more than ten pounds of weight.

Up to now, the whole person has become thick, changed his previous thin appearance, and poured out into a handsome guy with Peugeot.

It's just that because there is no sunlight, his face looks a little pale, but he has a more elegant temperament.

The people on the ship didn't notice these changes because they stayed with Sun Yuan all day.

Just because the three of them urged all the way, compared with Sun Yuan's original plan, the grain team arrived at the ground five days ahead of schedule.

The time has reached the twenty-fifth day of the seventh month of Chongzhen.

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"One thousand, one thousand and one, one thousand and two...... No more! Sun Yuan fell to the floor sweating profusely, gasping for breath: "I'm so tired, I must eat two more bowls of rice at noon...... What was that? ”

The cabins are so cramped that you can only do some simple physical exercises. First, 500 push-ups were used to exercise the strength of the upper limbs; This is followed by 500 sit-ups to exercise the waist and abdominal muscles; Finally, there is the sailor exercise, which does not need to be counted until it is tired and paralyzed, which is used to exercise internal organs and endurance.

At this time, the cheers outside came one after another.

Sun Yuan was puzzled in his heart, so he was busy and scared, and rushed to the deck after putting on his clothes.

Holding a pergola and looking ahead, I saw a ring of blue brick walls on the west bank of the river.

It's not really a city wall, but it's a bit like an arched bridge. I saw that the city wall was choking a waterway. Beneath the wall are four tall holes, through which ships are constantly coming and going.

The walls were a little dilapidated, with yellow rammed earth and clumps of withered thatch growing from the collapse above.

"Zhongdu has arrived, drive over, drive over!" The people, even Mao Cheng, Zhou Wu and Jiang Shisan, were all smiling and giving orders loudly.

Without waiting for Sun Yuan to speak, all the boatmen put away their sails and rowed their oars vigorously, and the whole fleet lined up in a line, one after another entered through a hole.

When the boat passed through the hole, it suddenly opened up in front of me.

But I saw a large plain in front of me, the riverside was full of neat buildings, all of which were blue tiles and powder walls, and occasionally exquisite pavilions and pavilions, deep house compounds, stretching for four or five miles, Huo Ran was a bustling metropolis.

The fleet leaned against the dock, waiting for the ship to come to a stop and look out. The wharf was full of people, there were sergeants and civilians, shoulder to shoulder, bustling, shouting, noisy, shouting and scolding.

As the capital of an empire, it may not be able to compare with the big cities in the Jiangnan region in terms of population, but it is much larger than county-level cities like Rugao.

The people on the boat are all from Quanshuitai, and many people have been to Rugao County as far as they have in their lives, when have they ever seen such a city, and it is also the central capital of the empire, and they all have a voice in their mouths: "Good place, good place, if you don't be a porter this time, you really can't come to this place!" ”

"It's strange, how can such a big city not have walls?" Suddenly, he screamed in confusion.

It's good that he doesn't scream, this shout, everyone looks at it, and at the same time shouts in their hearts: Sun Monster!

Sure enough, so many cities are still the ancestral tombs of the emperor, except for the wall when they entered the dock just now, there are no building facilities such as city walls, watchtowers, and arrow towers in ordinary cities.

In ancient times, the layout of cities had strict rules, and the emphasis was on smoothness and symmetry. There are clear latitude and longitude lines, and all the streets stretch from north to south and east to west. In this way, the planning in the city is extremely tight, like a big chessboard.

But although the Fengyang in front of him looks extremely prosperous, the city's appearance is scattered. The east is one and the west is in the west, and all the houses are in disarray. A lot of the streets are twisted and unruly.

Hearing Mao Cheng's surprised cry, the tall servant Jiang 13 smiled and said: "Mao Baozheng, you don't know, what kind of place is this, this is the place where the great grandfather Longxing is, and the feng shui is naturally excellent." If the city wall is built indiscriminately and the dragon vein feng shui is broken, our Ming Dynasty will be greatly bad. ”

Mao Cheng suddenly realized: "Brother Jiang is right, it is true that the city wall cannot be built here." ”

When Sun Yuan saw the situation in Fengyang City, he also felt very interesting, and said in his heart: Feudal superstition kills people, for fear of destroying the dragon vein of the Ming Dynasty, Fengyang did not repair the city wall. Twenty days later, Zhang Xianzhong and other 13 peasant troops of 72 battalions occupied the central capital of the Ming Dynasty with almost no resistance.

Today's Fengyang is like a naked woman, as long as you want to, you can easily pounce on it and ravage it.

But that's okay, it's my Sun Yuan's chance.