The city of Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty is not small, with a circumference of ninety-six miles.

The whole city of Nanjing, like Beijing, is also divided into three city walls: the palace city, the imperial city, and the outer city.

However, later Zhu Yuanzhang considered that many highlands such as Zhongshan should not be outside the city, which put Miyagi at risk of being easily shelled.

Therefore, another outer city wall was added.

The whole city of Nanjing is four city walls from the inside to the outside.

The road that Zhu Youzhen is entering now is the Zhengyang Gate located in the south of Nanjing City.

Nanjing City is different from Beijing in that it is located between the Yangtze River and the Qinhuai River, and there is a large Xuanwu Lake in the north, and Zhongshan Mountain in the west.

Therefore, although Nanjing City is a place where the tiger is in the dragon's place, it is not as neat as Beijing City on a central axis.

After Zhu Youzhen entered the Zhengyang Gate, he could see Zhu Lou Yuyu on the bank of the Qinhuai River.

Hundreds of officials and scholars were also waiting on both sides of Zhengyangmen Street.

After Zhu Youzhen rode in, everyone knelt down, and the mountain shouted long live!

The streets have been paved with loess, and the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Beijing battalion are standing on both sides with spears.

The emperor's appearance in Nanjing City was a rare event that had not been seen in a hundred years for the people of Nanjing.

Zhu Youzhen could also see the excitement on their faces.

In the 100 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, although the people in the north have lost their hearts due to natural and man-made disasters, they still have a reputation in the south.

However, the officials were not as excited as the people, and from their low shouts of long live, Zhu Youzhen could feel the disappointment of many of them.

Zhu Youzhen smiled, waved his hand, and eagerly greeted the millions of Li Shu in the entire Nanjing.

As a result, the enthusiasm of millions of Li Shu has also increased.

Even the embroidery girls hiding in the attic poked their heads out and raised their handkerchiefs outside.

When he was young, he was thin in shirts, riding a horse and leaning on the bridge, and he was full of red sleeves.

Although this poem is not appropriate to use here, Zhu Youzhen's bright yellow robe, hundreds of gorgeously dressed and colorful concubines behind him, and tens of thousands of majestic soldiers did give a great shock to the officials and people of the entire Nanjing City.

At this time, the city of Nanjing can be said to be empty alleys, and even the banks of the Qinhuai River with bustle are not populated, and they are all gathered under this Zhengyang Gate.

This is the sensation that comes with being the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Even if there were many officials in Nanjing City who did not want the Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen to appear in Nanjing City, they did not dare to play any tricks when Zhu Youzhen entered Nanjing City.

As the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, his legitimacy and strong appeal are naturally something they do not dare to rebel against openly.

It can be said that from the moment Zhu Youzhen entered Nanjing City, it was difficult for any ghosts with ulterior motives to appear again.

Wang Duo, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, was in a complicated mood at this time, although he had to accept the fact that the Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen arrived in Nanjing safely, but he really hoped that the world would be directly ruled by the crown prince.

Gao Hongtu, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Officials, also sighed, and he thought that it was true as rumored that His Majesty the Emperor was killed in Dantu, but he did not expect to enter Nanjing City overnight.

Zhang Shenyan, the head of the household department in Nanjing, has never dared to leave the crown prince Zhu Cihong for half a step these days, just hoping to have a closer relationship with the prince, but what he didn't expect was that His Majesty the Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen could successfully break away from Liu Zeqing, Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo and others, and arrived in Nanjing City.

Zhu Guobi, the Duke of Baoguo, Liu Kongzhao, and Han Shoujing, the eunuch of the town guard, were also nervous, as the ministers of the Son of Heaven, they could be regarded as the retainers of the Son of Heaven, but because of the misleading of the Donglin civil official group, they thought that only the prince was on the southern tour, so they did not have time to go out of the city for dozens of miles to meet His Majesty the Ming Emperor.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the various complicated expressions on the faces of these civil and military officials, and couldn't help but smile contemptuously, and did not reprimand these people in front of millions of soldiers.

After Zhu Youzhen's southward retreat team entered the imperial city through Hongwu Gate, and then entered the palace through Duanmen, Zhu Youzhen issued an order: "Order, after noon, hundreds of officials will enter the pilgrimage to see them, Qian Qianyi, the former servant of the Ministry of Rites, Liu Zongzhou, the former imperial history of the left capital, Zheng Sanjun, and Xu Shilin, the former Shangshu of the Criminal Department, will meet with the old official rank, where is Han Shoujing, the eunuch of Nanjing?" ”

Han Shoujing, the eunuch of Nanjing, hurriedly ran to Zhu Youzhen: "Please give instructions from Your Majesty." ”

"Where is the prince, how many palaces in Nanjing have been cleaned up, and how will the palace concubines be settled?"

Zhu Youzhen asked, and walked up the steps of the Fengtian Palace.

The eunuch Shi Kefa in the court, the eunuch He Xin in the imperial horse eunuch, and the queen Zhou and the concubine Yuan followed.

Han Shoujing didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly replied: "Back to Your Majesty, the Fengtian Palace, the Huagai Palace, and the Jinshen Palace have all been repaired, and the Fengxian Palace, Qianqing Palace, Kunning Palace, and the East and West Six Palaces have also been repaired, and the current prince lives in the Qianqing Palace." ”

"From now on, the post of eunuch guarding Nanjing will be cancelled, and you will be transferred to the eunuch Bingbi and the eunuch Shi Kefa, the eunuch of the court, to exercise the right to approve the red, and the defense of the palace will be handed over to the eunuch He Xin, the eunuch of the imperial horse, and Wang Chengen, the commander of the imperial court, will return to the inner court!"

If you want to conquer the outside, you must first settle the inside, and the inner court composed of the 24 yamen of the Ming Dynasty is the backbone of the empire to resist the civil official group, and it is also the minions of his own imperial power.

Han Shoujing didn't expect that he could be directly transferred by His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youzhen to the celebrant as the eunuch of Bingbi, which was like a foreign court official joining the cabinet, which made Han Shoujing very excited, and he was busy giving a big salute to thank him.

Zhu Youzhen just smiled slightly, as soon as he entered Nanjing City, he first promoted Han Shoujing, the eunuch who guarded the town, and naturally had the intention of reining the hearts of the ministers in Nanjing.

If he does not take advantage of the alliance between the ministers and the foreign dynasties, and collect the eunuchs in Nanjing under his imperial power, if he allows the Donglin Party to unite with the eunuchs in Nanjing, Zhu Youzhen's emperor is afraid that it will still be difficult to continue.

Zhu Youzhen entered the Fengtian Palace, which is shaped like the Taihe Hall in Beijing, which is the place where he ascended the throne and performed the state ceremony, and it looks indeed brilliant.

At this time, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Zhu Cihong hurriedly came: "The child has seen his father and mother, and the child is one step late, please punish His Majesty the Father!" ”

Zhu Youzhen snorted, he naturally knew that it was impossible for this Zhu Cihong to have the scheming to frame his father, but he also guessed that Zhu Cihong should have a relatively weak personality and no opinions, otherwise he would not know that his father, the emperor, was also on the way south and did not know to send someone to inquire in advance.

"You are very noble, is it possible that I will go and ask you for peace?"

Zhu Youzhen deliberately said this harshly, just to scare this Zhu Cihong, lest he be bewitched by the civil officials to the point that he can really ignore his father.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong could hear Zhu Youzhen's anger, and he was so frightened that he knelt down and said: "Father, listen to the son's explanation, it's not that the son-in-law doesn't want to come to greet the father and mother, it is Mr. Wang and Mr. Zhang who said that the son-in-law is the prince of a country, if the situation is unstable today, the current situation is undecided, and he must not rush out of the palace, otherwise the society may have a big change, so the son-in-law thinks that state affairs are more important than family affairs, so according to what the gentlemen said, he has never taken a step here." ”

"When will you be able to be a little assertive!"

Zhu Youzhen said a word, and let Zhu Cihong get up by himself, and then went to the Fengxian Palace.

Fengxian Palace is the main palace of the Son of Heaven, the place where Zhu Youzhen's dragon dwelling, although it is not as solemn as Fengtian Palace, but it is also carved dragon and carved phoenix, golden and radiant.

"This kind of big bed is the imperial style!"

After Zhu Youzhen spoke, he instructed Shi Kefa, the eunuch of Suitang: "After noon, bring the ministers to meet at the Fengxianmen platform!" ”