In the first month of the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1368), Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, was proclaimed emperor in Nanjing Yingtianfu. In August, the general Xu Da led his army to capture the capital of Yuan, and Taizu of the Ming Dynasty demoted the capital of Yuan to Beipingfu.

In the third year of Hongwu (1370), Ming Taizu divided the prince as the king, and the eleven-year-old fourth son Zhu Di was named the king of Yan.

In the thirteenth year of Hongwu (1380), the twenty-one-year-old Zhu Di, the king of Yan, left Nanjing and entered his fiefdom of Beiping Mansion. After Zhu Di, the king of Yan, raised troops from Beiping Mansion to capture Nanjing and seize the throne, he upgraded Beiping Mansion to Beijing Shuntian Mansion in the first year of Yongle (1403), which was the first time that the name "Beijing" was used in Beijing.

"Shuntian", taken from the "I Ching and Hexagram", "Tangwu Revolution, according to the heavens and people". The Tangwu Revolution refers to the overthrow of King Xia Wei by King Tang of Shang, the overthrow of King Wu of Zhou, and the overthrow of Emperor Yongle himself by overthrowing Emperor Jianwen before seizing the throne, so he called this change "Shuntian Yingren". However, in Nanjing, a large number of former ministers of Emperor Jianwen resisted the Yongle Emperor, and there were assassinations by officials, so the Yongle Emperor decided to move the capital back to his former fiefdom of Beijing.

In the fourth year of Yongle (1406), the Yongle Emperor issued an edict to start building the Beijing Palace in the following year, and sent officials to various places to harvest large trees.

On the fourth day of November in the 18th year of Yongle (1420), Emperor Yongle promulgated the Edict of the Completion of the Beijing Palace, marking the official completion of the new capital of Beijing.

On the first day of the first month of the 19th year of Yongle (1421), the Yongle Emperor ascended the Fengtian Hall of the Beijing Imperial Palace for the first time to receive congratulations from hundreds of officials, marking that Beijing officially became the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

More than ten days later, Gao Jie and the other three finally arrived in Beijing City, Shuntianfu.

After Beijing became the capital of the Ming Dynasty, after years of construction, it has not only become the political and economic center of the country, with a surge in population, but also the area of the capital has also been greatly expanded, divided into the outer city, the inner city, the imperial city and the palace city.

Because the Mongol cavalry often invaded south, and Beijing was quite close to Mongolia, Sejong Zhu Houxi adopted the advice of the ministers in order to strengthen the city defense, and built an outer city in the 32nd year of Jiajing. The original plan was to build the city for 120 li, surrounded by the inner city on all sides, but due to lack of financial resources, only the southern suburbs were repaired, and it became a "convex" shape, with a total length of 28 li, and seven gates. In the forty-second year of Jiajing, the urn city of each gate was added and repaired, and the scale of Beijing city was completed at this time. The completion of the outer city has formed a straight avenue leading from Zhengyang Gate to Yongding Gate, and it is also the southern end of the central axis of the city. The central axis is nearly 8 kilometers long, starting from Yongding Gate in the south, passing through Zhengyang Gate, the center of the Forbidden City and the middle peak of Jingshan, and finally ending at the Drum Tower and the Bell Tower.

Gao Jie and the other three entered through Zhengyangmen at this time and arrived in the inner city along the central axis.

Ji Longfeng and Wukong both came to Beijing for the first time, and they couldn't help but be shocked by this magnificent and majestic huge city, and they couldn't stop looking around. Gao Jie had been to the capital of the motherland several times in his previous life, and now he stepped into this imperial capital again at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and he couldn't help but feel a lot of excitement and feelings.

All the way from Shaanxi, although it has also passed through some big cities, but compared with those cities and Beijing, there is still an insurmountable gap, in addition to the buildings, even the clothes worn by pedestrians on the street are more classy.

Gao Jie and the three of them are all dressed in gray cloth clothes, firstly, Gao Jie likes to be low-key, and secondly, he is from later generations, he has not worn any clothes, compared to silk and satin, he prefers comfortable cotton clothes to wear.

It's just that things in the world are often unsatisfactory, and it's not that Gao Jie can be low-key if he wants to, from the moment he entered Zhengyangmen, the three of them helplessly found that they had already become the focus of the eyes of the people in the capital.

All of this is because of Wukong's kindness and the three peerless horses.

A few days ago, Gao Jie sold the two horses brought by Puzhou in a town, and gave "Fa Ruxue", "Hong Tongtong" and "Wu Hu" each equipped with a suitable halterhead saddle, etc., because of Wukong's relationship, "Fa Ruxue" and "Hong Tongtong" have already recognized the master, Gao Jie and Ji Longfeng only really felt what a thousand miles of horses are after riding. The three horses are not only patient, but also extremely fast, walking on the bumpy mountain road as if walking on the ground, if it were not for Gao Jie and Ji Longfeng two people love horses, it is estimated that they can arrive in Beijing four or five days in advance.

Feeling the envious gaze of the passers-by on the side of the road, Gao Jie was very helpless, so he had to beckon Ji Longfeng and Wukong not to look around, and walked with his head bored.

Because of his cheap brother Xinwang Zhu Youzhen although he was crowned king this year, but there was no fief, the current emperor Zhu Youxiao and his younger brother who had shared hardships since childhood had a deep relationship, and left it in Beijing, and the place where the two brothers grew up - Ciqing Palace was assigned to Zhu Youzhen to live.

The imperial city of Beijing is not a place that ordinary people can easily go to, let alone the palace city, so when Gao Jie first arrived in Beijing City, he did not expect to enter the palace to see his parents immediately, but was ready to find a place to live before making plans.

After all, it was the first time to Beijing, and the people were not familiar with the place, so Gao Jie and the three of them led the horses around the street, wanting to find a clean and comfortable inn to live in.

Gao Jie is no longer the poor little hunter when he first came out of Shaanxi, but a veritable nouveau riche, with more than 200,000 taels of silver tickets on his waist, his waist is hard, and his vision is naturally a lot higher.

This scene is like a pedestrians in later generations who suddenly saw three luxury cars worth tens of millions on the street, if there is a camera or mobile phone at this time, it is estimated that those who come forward to ask for a group photo and take a selfie will appear.

The three men were depressed like monkeys watching, when they suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves, and the people around them suddenly gave way to a passage in a hurry, and saw four or five horses galloping five paces in front of them before they stopped.

Immediately there were a few young men in brocade clothes, the leader of the person looked Sven, tall and tall, if it weren't for the fact that his face was a little blue, he could really be regarded as a handsome guy, he didn't get off the horse, he looked Gao Jie and the three of them up and down expressionlessly for a while, and then said lightly: "The three little brothers don't seem to be from the capital, right?"

After Gao Jie and the others entered the inner city, they have been leading the horse, he saw that these young people dared to ride horses on the streets of Beijing, and naturally knew that they were not small, and it was estimated that they were the second generation of officials or something, so he arched his hand and said: "That's right, we have just entered the city and are looking for a place to live, I don't know what you have to say?"

The young man nodded slightly, and said with a smile on his face: "When you first come to the capital, you are not familiar with the place, and you are lucky to meet us!"

Gao Jie frowned slightly when he heard this, he really didn't like the young man's words after listening to them, but he didn't want to cause trouble, so he couldn't help but feel unhappy in his heart, looked at the young man without avoiding his eyes, and replied coldly: "How can you say this?"

The young man took out a delicate snuffbox from his bosom, sniffed it vigorously, and did not answer immediately, a young man in a green brocade robe behind him took a few steps forward, condescendingly, and said proudly: "These three horses you brought, it is rare that our brothers like them very much, you wait for the horses to be presented, and you can be regarded as our servants in the capital in the future, okay?"

Gao Jie secretly said that these people really came for three BMWs, as the saying goes, it is a disaster that cannot be avoided, it seems that he can't keep a low profile, he glanced at this young man who is not tall, fat head and big ears, and said with a smile: "First of all, we have no intention of selling horses, and secondly, what are you?"

The fat man didn't hear Gao Jie's last word "thing" clearly, still nostrils to the sky, and said slowly: "I didn't say that I wanted to buy your horse, but I wanted you to take the initiative to donate, I don't know how many people in Beijing want this kind of opportunity but can't, you are lucky today!

Then, he pointed to the young man with a blue face and said, "This is the son of Lord Liu, my father is Ye Cifu, and there are also the sons of Lord Zhao of the Ministry of Officials, Lord Sun of the Ministry of Rites and Lord Xiong of the Ministry of Rites, you can have the honor of being our servant, why don't you hurry up and thank you for the ceremony?!"

It turns out that these people are similar to the prince ~ party who flew in the capital in later generations, and the young man with a blue face was called Liu Xuanze, the youngest son of Liu Yijing, the first assistant of the cabinet, and the fat man was Ye Guyan, the only son of Ye Xianggao, the second assistant, and the son of Zhao Nanxing, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Sun Shenxing, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Xiong Tingbi, the secretary of the Ministry of War.

The first assistant of the cabinet is equivalent to the premier of the State Council in later generations, the secretary of the ministry is equivalent to the head of the organization department, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites is equivalent to the minister of foreign affairs, and the secretary of the military department is equivalent to the current minister of national defense.

Gao Jie didn't expect that the three BMW would provoke these second ancestors, although he had the bottom in his heart, and was not afraid, but he didn't want to make a huge storm just after arriving in Beijing, just thinking about it, he suddenly heard a sound of horses' hooves, and two horses galloped to the other end of the street, led by a strong man with a face like bronze, a big nose and thick lips, if he wasn't wearing a brocade robe, he looked like a farmer working in the field.

When Liu Xuan and Ye Guyan saw the visitor, their faces changed, and they suddenly became gloomy.

The strong man came to the front, flew off the horse, didn't look at Liu Xuanze, and came directly to Gao Jie and the others, staring at the three BMWs with his eyes shining, and shouted loudly: "Sure enough, it's a peerless BMW, Lao Tzu has opened his eyes today!"

Gao Jie frowned, it seems that there is really a lot of trouble today, and there is another wave of hot BMW owners.

As soon as the strong man's voice fell, he heard a crisp and pleasant voice say: "Let me see, can it be compared to my Qinghu?!"

Gao Jie followed the prestige, and saw a girl in a red power suit and a black cloak get off the horse and strode over. This girl is about sixteen or seventeen years old, her skin is not fair, but a typical wheat complexion, she looks very healthy, and her facial features are not delicate, but she has sword eyebrows and starry eyes, with a heroic spirit, and she also has a long sword hanging from her waist.

Gao Jie knows two girls who practice martial arts, one is the little nun Huijing, and the other is Li Jina, who makes him unforgettable. Hui Jing is quiet and quiet, with the temperament of the four emptiness of Buddhism, while Li Jina is lively and lovely, but her skin is whiter than snow, and she is delicate and strong.

And the girl in front of her knew at a glance that she was a decisive, pungent and willful "savage girlfriend" type, which brought men another wonderful feeling that was difficult to tame but wanted to conquer.

It was the first time Gao Jie had seen this type of beauty, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

The beautiful girl didn't pay attention to Gao Jie's expression at all, her attention was all on the three BMWs, she came to the strong man's side, her big eyes scanned back and forth on the three BMWs for a long time, and then her small mouth opened slightly, clapped her palms and exclaimed: "It's really a rare BMW in the world, my Qinghu is really compared to this time!"

At this time, Liu Xuan urged him to take two steps forward and said coldly: "Wei Liangqing, these three BMWs are the first few of our brothers to look at!"

When the strong man heard this, he turned his head and squinted at Liu Xuanze, and said, "You have already bought it?"

Ye Guyan jumped off the horse, his fat body was quite flexible, he walked in front of Gao Jie and the others, and said proudly: "These three boys have promised to give us three BMWs, and they will be our servants in the future, so you are late!"

When the strong man heard this, he turned around, looked at Gao Jie with disappointment and asked, "What this kid said is true?"

Gao Jie smiled slightly, turned his back to them, reached out and touched the white mane of "hair like snow", and said lightly: "I just said, first of all, we won't sell horses, and secondly, they want us to be servants, what are they?!"