After Zhu Di moved the capital to Beiping, Yingtian's palace was vacant. However, it was not completely abandoned, but was instead managed by the royal family and chamberlains.

When he arrived in the Renzong Dynasty, he once thought about moving back to Nanjing, and ordered the crown prince Zhu Zhanji to live in Yingtian.

During this period, Zhu Zhanji lived in the palace.

However, Renzong died in only ten months after he ascended the throne, and it was too late to do such a major event as moving the capital.

At that time, he died suddenly, and Zhu Zhanji hurriedly rushed back to Beiping from Yingtian. This is the story of Zhu Gaoxu trying to intercept him halfway.

After Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne, he still repaired part of the palace of the Emperor's Palace.

But since then, this place has gradually faded into oblivion, and there are no repairs or other people to live in, at most a few eunuchs are responsible for the daily cleaning, and several fires have caused serious damage to many palaces.

Since then, to today, after waiting for so many years, the palace of Zhengde, which is almost unattended, has finally been visited by the Son of Heaven again, and the people in the city are quite enthusiastic about it, and every household is waiting to see the dragon.

The innermost palace has also been prepared.

It's mostly clean because it's always cleaned.

From the outside, it looks almost identical to the Forbidden City in Beijing, with red walls, yellow tiles, and the cornices of traditional palace buildings.

The structure is similar, with both front-facing and backward sleeps.

But there are also differences, for example, when Zhu Yuanzhang built the Nanjing Imperial Palace, he placed the palaces side by side, he was like an old man in the countryside who loved his young son, while the Forbidden City in Beijing did not have these.

Anyway, because it was Zhu Hou who took care of it.

Therefore, the ministers and ministers all tried their best, from the beds and bedding to the palace doors and walls, all of them were completely new. The same is true for the harem where Concubine Xian and Concubine Jing stayed.

So when he opened his eyes in the morning, Zhu Houzhao had a sudden illusion that he had returned to Beijing.

You Ji didn't go far, and asked at the foot of the bed with a smile: "Your Majesty, how did you rest last night?" ”

Zhu Houzhao sat and reacted for a while, and then said, "I can see that I have used my heart, after Yongle, this palace has been so empty, and it is not easy to make this red wall still exist." ”

"It's good that the emperor likes it, so that those of them who are slaves and maids are not in vain."

"It's called Bao Shanyuan, right? I remember yes. ”

"It's him, it's a blessing in his life, the emperor actually remembers his name."

The person Zhu Houzhao said was the Nanjing garrison eunuch.

After the capital was moved, the imperial palace here was handed over to the management of the Nanjing garrison eunuchs, who were responsible for the management of the 24 yamen of Nanjing's internal officials, and their status was extremely important.

However, because he didn't participate much in court affairs, the status of the eunuchs in the Zhengde Dynasty was low, and the special address was only kowtowed, not to mention others. Therefore, the name of the eunuch Zhu Houzhao is not easy to remember, and only the important position of the Nanjing garrison eunuch is different.

The emperor did not have to wear a crown robe today, but only a regular garment.

When changing clothes, this Bao Shanyuan also came, he was short, thin, not young, and had many folds on his face, but with a pair of big eyes and a straight face, he could see that he looked good when he was young.

It was rare for him to see the emperor, and his attitude was even more flattering than that of Youji.

“…… I think it's still good here, Emperor Taizu spent a lot of silver back then, and it was a pity to build it with great difficulty, so it's a pity to waste it like this. Although I have no plans to move the capital, but in the future, I will definitely come again, Shanyuan, you are responsible for the management of the palace to be more meticulous, usually pay attention to cleaning, and control your subordinates, don't do some stealing things in private. ”

As soon as Bao Shanyuan heard that the emperor might come again, he immediately became excited, and replied again and again: "Your Majesty, rest assured, the slave maid will keep these eyes bright, and she will definitely guard the palace for Your Majesty!" ”

"The Tang Dynasty had Xijing and Tokyo, and the present dynasty had Nanjing and Beijing. I am considered to be a predecessor planting trees, and later generations enjoying the shade, and when I came to Nanjing, I felt that it was indeed much more convenient to stay with me. ”

After changing clothes, Zhu Houzhao walked outside with his inner servants, and said as he walked: "There is a tomb of Taizu filial piety in Nanjing, even if I can't come to worship every year, I should always remember it." And after the rise of maritime trade, the southeast is more important, and Nanjing is close to ......"

This passage is like saying it to others, and it is like saying it to himself.

He planned in his heart that maybe he should come here every two or three years in the future, deal with the affairs of the south, and whip and whip the ministers of the south.

With the development of the situation in the future, it is an inevitable phenomenon that the south is more important than the north.

In the past, it could have been said that the military was in the north, because the main threat was in the north. But in the future, it is uncertain, perhaps, as Li Dongyang said, the real hidden danger is at sea.

"Seon-won."

"The slave is here."

"Go outside the palace and call in my courtiers."

"Yes."

Zhu Houzhao rubbed his hands, he took a look at the palace city here again with a certain mood of looking back at history, the red wall was so dazzling under the scorching sun, this is not only a palace, it is a palace group, a group of contiguous pieces, extremely magnificent.

If you look closely, the glazed tiled roof, the exquisite cornices and corners, and the white marble steps are delicate and shiny, all of which are not only the beauty of the building, but also the majesty of the imperial power.

Back then, Zhu Yuanzhang commanded the world here and became the emperor for 31 years.

"I should have come a few years earlier."

You Ji said: "Your Majesty, is it thinking of Emperor Taizu again?" ”

"yes."

"Whether it is Nanjing or Beijing, they are all left by the ancestors, and Your Majesty can live wherever he wants."

It's time to come a few more times.

A good palace, complete administrative function, should also play its role.

Soon after, Wang Bing, Yang Tinghe, Gu Zuo, and Gu Renyi all came.

At Mukdengate, the emperor moved a stool for one of them.

"The officials in Nanjing, I haven't called any yet, let's discuss it ourselves. Two things, the first is to plan when to go to Fengyang, the capital of China, which is the land of ancestors, and you must go. Second, I have already said in the memorial message that the Han people guard the Han land and protect the Han people, but this matter cannot be left only as a slogan, but must have specific practices. Anyway, it's brainstorming, and you can talk about it. Ah, by the way, if there is anything important outside, you must report it to me in time. ”

The key to this lies in the second point.

Shaping the concept of a nation is not a simple matter, not even a matter of one or two years, and the formation of an idea is often completed in a long historical period, unless it is a fierce war year, because at that time everything changes drastically.

But no matter how difficult it is, there must be a beginning.

The so-called modern concept of the nation originated in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, where the nation-state was born, and some thinkers began to study this issue.

In fact, we also have these connotations, so we accept this Western concept of nationality very quickly, easily, and even feel that it is no different, because we have done it in the first place, but no one says it.

Now Zhu Houzhao is going to say it.

For example, there is a lot of work that can be done in the area of language, and it is actually somewhat difficult for people to communicate with each other in this period by turning the language used by the ruling class into the official language, and the local dialect.

If we want to develop a common linguistic concept, we need to define the official dialect, for example, it can be called Chinese, which includes the official dialect and dialects, and it is also necessary for linguists to study the pronunciation evolution of the official dialect and the dialect and their influence on each other. These things seem to have no economic value, but after doing them, there will be a concept that the person who speaks the same language as me is my compatriot, and I don't understand his words, but he is also Chinese.

And that's just the language aspect, there's a lot more. Why do Han people just want to farm? Westerners just want to trade? The prairie people want to herd cattle and sheep? There are differences, which reflect common values, and these commonalities can allow each individual to find their own home and spontaneously form an inner sense of belonging to the ethnic group.

At this point, you can't be a foreigner if you want to, because you don't agree with their ways, and you can't forget your roots, and this concept is constantly reinforced by each other, coupled with the stimulation of real role models such as heroes born in the community, cohesion rises.

Sometimes, this spirit, concept, and identity are not as unimportant as the steam engine, because technology surpasses each other, you are powerful in this century, and he is powerful in the next century, but the spirit is eternal, in the words of later generations of cultural people, this is called the power of culture, which is a really powerful force.

Zhu Houzhao is going to discuss this point today.

But before that, Wang Bing really had something to report.

He also deliberately stood up, "...... The emperor, when the holy car passed through the Huai'an Mansion, there was a case of Zhou Huai, which was a shocking case, and now it is known to the whole world, affected by this, most of the ministers of Nanzhili were panicked, for fear that there would be adverse things under the rule to anger the emperor, in addition, the people around the country were also restless, making the situation slightly uneasy, and the ministers thought that the task of the moment was not to stabilize the people's feelings and people's hearts? ”

Zhu Houzhao's tone changed, "What?" Is there more people who are subordinate to the south as Zhou Huai? ”