Speaking of Jiankang, the capital of Nanchen, many people may not know, it also has Jinling, Moling, Danyang, Jianye, Stone Town, Jiangning and many other names, the most familiar is of course the name Nanjing that everyone knows.

Since the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, Sun Quan listened to Zhuge Jin's words, moved Xingzai from Jingkou (Zhenjiang) to Moling, and changed it to Jianye in the following year, Jiankang has become the capital of the six dynasties of the Southern Dynasty for hundreds of years.

It was also the political, economic, military and cultural center of the Southern Dynasties at that time, and played a very important role in preserving the ancient Chinese Han culture.

Wang Ze and his entourage traveled up the river by boat, and it took two days to reach the river outside Jiankang City, if it weren't for the fact that Chun Yukun's sailor boat was too slow, Gu Bin would not have been able to reach Jiankang in less than a day.

Knowing that the ship had arrived in Jiankang, everyone in the ship couldn't sit still, and they came outside the cabin to see the legendary first city in the world.

Looking at the winding and undulating city wall in the distance, Cao An, who was standing beside Wang Ze, exclaimed: "What a place where tigers stand on the dragon plate!" ”

At this time, Jiankang City is adjacent to Zhongshan Mountain in the east, Qinhuai in the south, leaning on the river in the west, and Houhu Lake (Xuanwu Lake) in the north.

Although prosperous, but there is no erosion at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Qinhuai River is not the famous Rouge River in the Ming Dynasty, because the Qinhuai River at this time is wide and deep, and it is an important water route connecting Jiankang City inside and outside.

Boats from all over the Southern Dynasties and even from overseas countries traveled on the river, crowding the river densely, and a large number of materials were continuously transported to Jiankang City.

Cheng Xueying and Zhu Qingqing, the two 'girl' children, were very excited, they had long wanted to see Jiankang City, which had been in Xiao Jing's mouth for several years, but this time Xiao Jing was uncharacteristically quiet.

Wang Ze asked Xiao Jing in a low voice: "Mr. has a sad face and is in a bad mood?" But seeing things and thinking about people are nostalgic for the past? ”

Xiao Jing nodded and shook his head and whispered: "I think back then, I was weak and weak, and it was here that I greeted the Baekje envoy with Xiao Ying. At that time, Emperor Wu was in power, the Liang Dynasty was strong, and overseas countries came to the court, it was really a prosperous era like a 'flower' and a fire cooking oil, but it disappeared in a blink of an eye! ”

It seems that Xiao Jing's revisit to his hometown has been reminded of the past in his heart, Wang Ze thought about it and persuaded: "After all, the past cannot be traced, if there is no Chen Baxian to support it, I am afraid that the Southern Dynasty has been carved up by Qi and Zhou, and the 'life' of the clan cannot be guaranteed, Mr. should look at it!" ”

Hearing Wang Ze's persuasion, Xiao Jing replied with a wry smile: "Don't I know what Lang Jun said, Emperor Wu's recruitment of Hou Jing back then was also self-inflicted, but when I saw Jiankang City, which was extremely prosperous back then, became what it is now, I felt extremely sad in my heart. ”

Cheng Xueying asked strangely: "Mr. Xiao, I see that the boats outside Jiankang City are endless, and the people on the shore are also very prosperous, why does Mr. still say that this appearance is not good, and he is still sad about it?" ”

Xiao Jing smiled reluctantly at Cheng Xueying, and said, "Cheng Xiaoniang, you don't know that when Emperor Wu was the first emperor, there were at least 280,000 households in this Jiankang City, and there were millions of people in these alone.

What's more, there are hundreds of people in each of the major official families in the city, plus the Central Protector Army, the Forbidden Army and the troops stationed outside the city, I am afraid that there are nearly 1.5 million people.

Every day, the people who went into the city to sell vegetables, meat, and firewood blocked the six city gates. The Qinhuai River in the distance was also crowded with merchant ships from all over the world, and the five or six miles from the shore to Jiankang City were crowded with people. ”

Hearing Xiao Jing's words, not only Cheng Xueying and Zhu Qingqing were surprised, but even Wang Ze was also surprised, he couldn't imagine that Jiankang would be so prosperous back then.

Wang Ze has always thought that in the history of China and even the world, the first city with a population of more than one million was Chang'an in the Sui Dynasty, and he did not expect that when Emperor Wu of Liang during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the population of Jiankang City had reached more than one million.

Originally, Wang Ze also wanted to take a look at this important military fortress under the stone city in the west of the city, which guards the river and Qinhuai water, but because the central institutions of the imperial city and the imperial court were in the northern area of Jiankang City, they could not pass under the stone city, so they could not make the trip.

The naval warships slowly approached the shore, because Han Zigao hung up the flag of the official army, the merchant ships on the water gave way, and Wang Ze and his party soon went ashore and arrived at the north 'gate' of Jiankang City.

The south 'gate' of Jiankang close to the Qinhuai River is called the Xuanyang 'gate', and Hou Jing attacked the capital from that city's 'gate', and then surrounded Taicheng and cut off Xiao Liang's rule.

Wang Ze carefully looked at the majestic city wall in front of him, although it was a rammed earth city wall, it was also four or five zhang high, and the traces left by the war over the years could still be seen on the city wall, and the people who were building the city wall and stomping on it could be seen on the city wall.

It seems that although Wang Lin's army was blocked by Chen's army in Beijiang Prefecture and failed to continue its march to the east, it still put great pressure on Jiankang City.

A section of the city wall near the city 'gate' is made of blue bricks, and the thick city 'gate' looks like it has been newly replaced not long ago, and the previous city 'gate' has long been damaged in the battle with Hou Jing, Xiao Liang of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Wang Shengbi and others.

Unlike the city of the Northern Dynasty, Jiankang City is not square, if it is a polygon similar to a quadrilateral from a high altitude, there are more than five miles of road on one side alone, which is much more than the Qizhou City captured by Wang Ze last year.

Seeing that Wang Ze looked carefully, Han Zigao smiled and explained: "Let Xiao Langjun know that this Jian'an City is about five miles long on each side, and twenty miles and nineteen steps in circumference on all sides, which can be described as the first important city in the southeast!" ”

Wang Ze also laughed: "Not only is it the first important city in the southeast, I think the most prosperous Yecheng in the Northern Dynasty may not be able to compare to the Jiankang City in front of me!" ”

Xiao Jing, who revisited the old place, pointed to the tall city wall and said to Wang Ze: "Although this Jiankang City has been an important place in the Six Dynasties, since the city was built in the Eastern Wu Dynasty, this outer city wall is just a fence made of bamboo, pine and cypress branches, which can be said to be the same as nothing, until the first year of the former Qi Jianyuan (479 AD) The imperial court built this city wall. ”

Wang Ze secretly slandered, no matter how strong the city is, it must be reliably guarded, and it is not a big deal that the Eastern Jin Dynasty did not build this city wall until Liu Song, but Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang, just asked for trouble and recruited Hou Jing to bring disaster to himself.

If it weren't for the collusion between his nephew Xiao Zhengde and Hou Jing to secretly open the Vermilion Bird Ferry so that Hou Jing's rebels could pass through the Qinhuai River smoothly, Hou Jing would not have been able to break through the natural danger and enter the city.

Entering the 'door' into Jiankang City, I saw a lot of traffic in front of me, and I couldn't see the traces of the war a few years ago, but if you look closely, you can see some traces of the war.

Although the buildings in the square near the gate and on both sides of the street have been largely repaired, the beams of the burned houses can still be seen in the distance.

When passing through the main street, you can still see some small alleys abandoned by the war on both sides from time to time, but the hundreds of Futu monasteries in the city, although most of them were burned down during the Hou Jingzhi 'rebellion', are now mostly rebuilt.

Although it has not caught up with the number of Emperor Wu of Liang, there are still three or four hundred monasteries, all of which show the greatness of our Buddha, but no one has seen the lonely and poor children shivering with cold outside the temples.

"Mr. Xiao, you can arrange for someone to collect the orphans in this city and send them all to our Jeju Island!" Wang Ze couldn't bear the suffering of these orphans so much, and arranged for Xiao Jing to deal with the matter.

After Han Zigao on the side heard it, he was ashamed and admired, Nan Chen didn't want to do this, but Chen Baxian had too many constraints after all, and he had to face many threats such as Wang Lin, Northern Zhou and Northern Qi, so he couldn't help the poor people.

Other generals or wealthy families did not dare to do these good deeds, because everyone knew the allusions of the Tian family on behalf of Qi, and if doing such good deeds aroused the suspicion of the imperial court, it would be a great disaster.

Therefore, there is a folk proverb in ancient China, killing people and setting fire to gold belts, building bridges and repairing roads without remains. That's exactly what I'm talking about.

Of course, Wang Ze didn't dare to make trouble about Jian'an County again, after all, this is the capital of Nan Chen, which is related to Nan Chen's face.

Further ahead, you can see the transportation of the Qinhuai River in the city, which is an artificial canal dug in Sun Quan's time to facilitate the transportation of materials from outside the city into the city.

Merchants on both sides of the strait kept coming and going, and Cheng Xueying and Zhu Qingqing couldn't help but yearn for a while, they had long heard that the 'big market' department stores in Jiankang City were all about rare goods from the Southern Dynasties, all over the world, and even overseas.

Seeing the expressions of the two, Wang Ze immediately said to them: "Go if you want, I'll let Gao Shi send someone to follow you, and buy more good things to take home, so that I can give a few aunts a point." ”

When Zhu Qingqing heard that Wang Ze let her and Cheng Xueying go shopping, she immediately cheered, she giggled and said: "I have already inquired, there are ribbed brocades in Jiangnan for sale, and I will buy a few horses later, my mother, eldest mother, second mother and sister Snow Goose will definitely like it." ”

Cheng Xueying shouted: "I heard that there are weapons made of 100 steels in the arsenal workshop in the big city, and I want to see which weapon is made with Cao Blacksmith later!" As he spoke, he took out a short sword made by Blacksmith Cao and compared it.

The second 'female' laughed and walked towards the big city under the escort of more than 20 people including Gao Shi, and Han Zigao took Wang Ze and others to continue to walk towards the imperial city.

Not long away, I met several 'guards' to greet Han Zigao, Wang Ze, and Feng Servants. As soon as these 'guards' saw Han Zigao, they hurried over, and the first one was a middle-aged 'guard' with a big beard.

He smiled and said to Han Zigao: "The Metropolitan Governor has made outstanding achievements this time, the King of Linjiang just received a reward from His Majesty from the north early this morning, and seeing that the Metropolitan Governor has not arrived, he sent me to urge the Metropolitan Governor to enter the palace quickly." ”

It turned out that these 'guards' were all the 'guards' of Chen Qian, the king of Linjiang, and they had known Han Zigao for many years, and they made jokes as soon as they met.

Although Emperor Chen Baxian of Southern Chen had already led a large army to the Northern Expedition, the future Emperor Wen of Chen, Chen Qian, as a general in the chariot and cavalry, was responsible for supervising the town and sitting in the imperial city of Jiankang.

Originally, Chen Qian had already heard that Han Zigao's fleet had docked, but because Chen Qian's long history had an important report on the front line in Beijiang Prefecture, Chen Qian did not go to greet her.

In addition, Chen Qian felt that Han Zigao would enter the city soon, so she waited for Han Zigao's arrival in the palace, but as a result, she was first and second, and she finished talking about it when she got to the middle lift, and she didn't see Han Zigao's shadow, so she sent someone to urge.

Xiao Jing, Cao An and Liu Wancheng and other Wang Ze generals were a little unhappy at this meeting, because Chen Qian obviously knew that Wang Ze also came with Han Zigao, but he didn't mean to receive him ceremoniously, and it was clear that he was giving Wang Ze a prestige.

What made Cao An and others even more angry was that Wang Ze and Feng Fu had just helped Nan Chen pacify the heroes in Fujian and Zhejiang, but Chen Qian did not have the slightest intention of attaching importance to courtesy.

Wang Ze didn't think there was anything, although he helped pacify all parts of Fujian and Zhejiang, but Nan Chen thought that the incident of the people going to sea in Jian'an was even more damaging to his face.

In addition, Nan Chenguang's strength has greatly increased after the restoration of Lianghuai, and some people may have inflated their self-confidence, thinking that as long as they return to the division, they can pacify the separatist forces in Fujian and Zhejiang, so they did not take Wang Ze's help this time to heart.

Even if the facts are really the same as Wang Ze guessed, Wang Ze doesn't care, as long as Nan Chen can maintain a confrontation with the Northern Dynasties, and his strength is not so bad, there will be opportunities to knock Nan Chen's bamboo pole in the future.

Besides, Wang Ze 'got' nearly 10,000 people from Jian'an, it can be said that he took a big advantage, regardless of whether he has face or not, the benefits are real.

Not long after Wang Ze saw the tall palace wall from afar, this palace was called Zhaoming Palace when Sun Quan, and was renamed Jiankang Palace after repairing in the Jin Dynasty, and the palace was rebuilt by Emperor Wu of Liang and called Taicheng.

The walls of the imperial city were higher than the walls of Jiankang City, five or six zhang high, and Hou Jing could not attack this fortified city after attacking Jiankang City at that time.

After two years of siege, Yang Kan, the main general who had previously guarded Taicheng, died of illness, and Hou Jingcai attacked the imperial city under the response of Dong Xun and Xiong Tan.

Now the walls of the imperial city have disappeared from the traces of the war at that time, and all of them have been renovated, and even the earth mountains built during the siege of Hou Jing have been transported again.

The battlefield was planted with 'flowers' and grasses back then, and it became a beautiful place, and they forgot how much blood and bones were buried under the prosperity.