Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen smiled, "Of course, I want to take my Zhou Ke'er to accept the worship of the people of Beijing, so that everyone in the world knows that I have a beautiful queen in the world." ”

Zhou Ke'er's pink face flushed slightly, and she said softly, "Your Majesty, is there such a boast?" Where are the concubines looking good at Queen Yi'an? ”

As soon as Zhou Ke'er said this, he regretted it a little, in fact, from that time the emperor was sick and didn't wake up, until Empress Yi'an Zhang Yan came, the emperor didn't wake up, and from that time, Zhou Ke'er was already very clear about the emperor's thoughts about Empress Yi'an.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen's heart moved, and he also deliberately avoided the words of Empress Yi'an Zhang Yan!

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen heard Zhou Ke'er talk about Chengtianmen, and was slightly unhappy, "Chengtianmen is a long story, and we have to start from the first year of Hongwu in this dynasty, the rule of the Yuan Dynasty was overthrown, and Taizu was proclaimed emperor in Nanjing and established our dynasty." At the same time, the general Xu Datong led the army to conquer the capital of Yuan and renamed it Beiping. At this time, the rulers of the Ming Dynasty carried out the destruction of the Yuan capital, especially the essence of the Yuan capital - the Yuan Forbidden City, in order to eliminate the "royal spirit" of the previous dynasty, resulting in the gold shop Zhu Hu, Dan Yingzao painting, the extremely brilliant Yuan Palace City disappeared.

Subsequently, Taizu died and was succeeded by Emperor Jianwen. At this time, there was a war for the throne within the Ming Dynasty. Taizu's fourth son, King Yan raised troops in Beiping, seized the throne, ascended the throne of the emperor, changed from King Yan to Ming Chengzu, and changed Beiping to Beijing in the first month of the first year of Yongle, temporarily called "Xing".

The first major event after Grandpa Cheng took the throne was the decision to move the capital from Nanjing to Beijing, his "land of dragon prosperity". The reason why he wanted to move the capital to Beijing. The main reason is that Beijing is "surrounded by the sea on the left, Taihang on the right, the river in the south, and the pillow in the north", "the pass is not less than 100", "it is convenient to pass through the water, and Tianjin is connected to the sea". In addition, it is also in order to control the northern and northeastern regions in order to maintain the stability of the whole country.

In the fifteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, Grandpa Chengzu, who was preparing to move the capital north from Jinling, recruited skilled craftsmen from all over the country. Large-scale reconstruction of the city of Beijing began. At that time. Kuaixiang, a native of Xiangshan, Wu County, Suzhou Prefecture, Jiangsu Province, was ordered to design and build the imperial palace, and his first task was to be responsible for designing and organizing the construction of Chengtian Gate, which was the main gate of the palace. ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen thought about the history of Beijing and the history of Chengtianmen, and felt a lot of pressure on his shoulders. The great achievements of our ancestors. In their own hands. has fallen into this situation, thinking about the tattered street in front of Chengtianmen, it is even more gloomy.

Zhou Ke'er probably guessed what the emperor wanted to say. didn't want the emperor to be sad, so he hurriedly followed the emperor's words, "At that time, there was a man named Marco. The famous Italian traveler of the Baltic came to Daming, and after seeing the magnificent palace and beautiful flower garden of the "City of the Great Khan" Yuan Dadu, he was greatly admired: the city is so beautiful and so cleverly arranged that it is impossible to describe her. He later wrote "Marco. Polo's Travels", because of the description of the capital, this ancient city has been spread and famous all over the world.

Kuaixiang is a typical son inheriting his father's business. His father, Kuai Fu, was the "carpenter chief" in charge of the construction of the palace because of his superb skills, and later Kuai Xiang also served in this position, and the official worshiped the left waiter of the Ministry of Works. Chengtianmen is an important building in the imperial city, at that time it was shaped as a three-storey five-room wooden archway with yellow tile cornices, and the plaque of "Chengtian's Gate" was hung high in the middle. ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen nodded, "Yes, the middle gate of the imperial city was renamed Chengtianmen according to the name of Nanjing City in the Ming Dynasty, and the end gate was built in Chengtianmen according to the layout of Nanjing City. The palace city moved south to the location of the Forbidden City, and the main gate was renamed the Wumen Gate from the Lingxing Gate in the Yuan Dynasty. At the same time as the construction of the Forbidden City, the left and right sides of the central imperial road in front of the noon gate were used to build two groups of strictly symmetrical buildings of the Taimiao Temple and the Shejitan according to the regulations of the "Left Ancestor and Right Society". In addition, open up a palace square in front of Chengtian Gate, the east, west and south sides of the square have built palace walls, so that the square is closed, and on the east and west wings and the south end of the protruding side, each open a gate, that is, the left gate of Chang'an, the right gate of Chang'an and the Daming Gate in the south. ”

Zhou Ke'er saw that the emperor's train of thought was diverted by herself, she gently leaned on the emperor, held the emperor's hand, and said as she walked, "Chengtianmen is an important building in the imperial city. When Chengtianmen was built in the eighteenth year of Yongle, it was just a three-story wooden archway of yellow tile cornices, and the memorial arch was hung in the middle of the "Chengtian Gate" plaque. The Gate of Heaven contains the meaning of "inheriting the heavens" and "being ordered by the heavens", implying that the feudal emperors were "ordered by the heavens" and exercised power for the heavens, and should be respected for all generations.

It was completed in the eighteenth year of Yongle, and in the nineteenth year of Yongle, Chengzu's grandfather issued an edict to officially move the capital to Beijing. The history of Chengtianmen is also the history of my Ming Dynasty. ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen also continued, "In the first year of the Great Ming Shun, Chengtianmen was struck by lightning and caught fire and burned down; After 8 years, that is, the first year of Chenghua, it was rebuilt by the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Baigui to rebuild the gatehouse with five rooms wide and three rooms deep, which also laid the shape of today's Chengtianmen. It's a pity that in my hands, the Ming Dynasty is not poor, but I can't afford to renovate the entire Jingshi, even this Chengtianmen, and the entire palace, it's time to renovate, my food is not enough, the food and clothing of the people in the entire capital, and even the entire Gyeonggi region can't be solved, how can I order the renovation of the imperial city? ”

Zhou Ke'er clenched the emperor's hand, "Your Majesty, it doesn't matter, you have only been in office for the first year, and in a few years, the emperor will definitely have the ability to make the capital and the Forbidden City change, the concubines believe in the emperor, besides, the Ming Dynasty is like this, it is not caused by the emperor, and the emperor cannot be blamed." ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen was not in a better mood because of Zhou Keer's comfort, he originally wanted to keep today's mood always the same as when he first came out of Kebaba, but things always backfired, the outside world is too realistic! Once you return to these harsh realities, how will you feel good?

Zhou Ke'er changed his face as soon as he saw that the emperor said that he would change his face, and hurriedly said, "By the way, the emperor, I heard that Yuan Guifei and Tian Guifei have prepared talents, and they will sing a paragraph to please the emperor and Mrs. Yingguo." ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen sighed, he was not very interested, and he was still thinking about the crisis of the Ming Dynasty! But he knew that today, he couldn't show his unhappiness in front of the palace, let alone his subjects! He must be in a good mood! This is the basic quality of an emperor! (To be continued......)