"Qin Saint" Chen Fengjiao left, walking in the snowy days after the New Year, before leaving, he looked at the "Poetry Saint" Yin Hualei, and only said: "Take care." ”

Yin Hualei didn't stop it, and he knew that he couldn't stop it, so he silently watched her slender figure gradually disappear from his sight. The weather was very cold, the cold wind was cold, blowing on the body like a whip, Yin Hualei's heart was even colder, as cold as frost.

Chen Fengjiao only carried the "ghost", and floated away alone, leaving Yin Hualei alone and melancholy, feeling that the sky was falling, he tightly held a Tang knife quenched with great poison in his hand, the small, black and shiny Tang knife was extremely sharp. From this day on, killing a particular person became the only reason for his survival. That man's power reigned supreme, far away in the capital. That person knew that he was by the side of Zài and the "Qin Sage" Chen Fengjiao, and he wrote a good poem, which was considered a great talent in the Ming Dynasty, but he was useless as a scholar, and Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, did not take him seriously at all.

But the "poet saint" Yin Hualei is sure that they will meet at some time in the future. The day they met, it was the day when Tang's knife was unsheathed, and he wanted to wash away his shame with that person's blood.

The Forbidden City in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City, is surrounded by a palace wall 12 meters high and 3,400 meters long, in the form of a rectangular city, surrounded by a 52-meter-wide moat outside the wall, forming a castle with strong barriers. Under the blue sky, the red palace wall extends all the way to the interior of the palace, and the Forbidden City has four gates, the main gate is called the Noon Gate. Its plane is concave and magnificent.

Noon Gate, commonly known as Wufeng Tower. The noon gate is the place where the emperor issued an edict and ordered an expedition. Every time the emperor's decree is read out, the almanac is issued, and the civil and military officials must gather in the square in front of the noon gate to listen to the decree. After noon, there are five delicate white marble arch bridges leading to the Taihe Gate.

The noon gate is 37.95 meters high, and the lower is the tall masonry pier platform, and the front of the platform is surrounded by a battlement wall, and the back is built with a wall. There are 3 doors in the middle of the pier, the front is rectangular, and the back is coupon-shaped. The five-wind building is built on the pier platform, surrounded by a white marble exquisite railing. The main floor is 9 rooms wide, the top of the palace is the heavy eaves, and the remaining 4 floors are the heavy eaves and the spire, the golden glazed tiles and the gorgeous color paintings complement each other, the momentum is majestic, magnificent and magnificent. In the Ming Dynasty, the emperor issued the following year's almanac here, and in the event of a large-scale expedition or triumphant sacrifice of prisoners, the emperor issued orders or was suspended here. There are bell and drum pavilions around the middle building of the noon gate, and every time the emperor presides over the ceremony in the Taihe Palace. Bells and drums rang in unison to demonstrate solemnity.

"Qin Saint" Chen Fengjiao came to the capital just in time for the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

On the fifteenth day of the first month of each year, the noon gate hangs the lantern and is colorful, the emperor gives a banquet to a hundred officials, and comes to watch the lantern in person, and the minister of civil and military affairs writes poems together, called the lantern car.

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty all loved lanterns, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, invited rich businessmen from all over the world to put lanterns on the 10th during the Lantern Festival every year. At that time, the city of Nanjing was full of colorful buildings. And on the Qinhuai River, ten thousand water lanterns were lit, and it was a grand sight for a while.

Ming Chengzu Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, and also brought this habit with him, and opened a two-mile-long lamp market in Donghuamen, Beijing. From the eighth day of the first month, to the fifteenth to reach a climax, the seventeenth ends, every night lanterns, fireworks shine all night. The drums are boisterous. "Ming Huidian" records: Yongle seven years (AD 1409) edict, the Lantern Festival from the eleventh day of the first month to give 10 days of leave to the hundred officials, in order to spend the festival. The palace celebrates the Shangyuan Festival. The lamp market is mostly outside the Qianqing Palace and the Wuchao Gate.

At that time, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di also came to the noon gate to watch, and made imperial poems, ordered Confucian ministers to serve and hate, the Dan Majesty in front of the Qianqing Palace, from the eve of New Year's Day to the fifteenth day of the first month, to stand a pair of tall carved dragon wooden lampposts, in the white marble pedestal with iron bolts to pierce and fasten, the lampposts are used to hang the lamp. According to the custom, on the night of the first month of the first month, it is necessary to make a "mountain of lights" and set off fireworks, which is very lively.

At night, the whole city of Beijing is immersed in a sea of joy, the Ming Yongle Year can be said to be a rare national peace and security in Chinese history, the Ming Dynasty is strong, the economy continues to develop, and the history is called the Yongle Prosperous Era. For the Ming Dynasty ancestor Zhu Di's eloquence, and after his accession to the throne, he made great efforts to develop the economy, advocated culture and education, and took many measures to vigorously develop the economy, so that the world was under great rule. "Qin Sheng" Chen Fengjiao still admires it very much, regardless of whether this emperor is a good emperor or not, he can let the people live a relatively stable life, instead of suffering all day long. Zhu Di is not simple because he has no details about everything, observes the people's feelings, and requires all local officials to have an in-depth understanding of the people's feelings, and reflect the people's sufferings to the court at any time and solve them.

The famous lamp market in Beijing in the Ming Dynasty was outside the Donghua Gate, and the lamp was two miles away, and it was a market during the day and a lantern at night. The treasures of Fujian and Guangdong overseas, the antiques of three generations and six dynasties, the costumes worn by the four people, and the food that is popular with all ages, the so-called "opening of the day market, and the goods are divided according to the category". At night, lights are lit up, drums are played, and fireworks are set off. Zhang Juzheng, the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, once wrote a poem "Yuan Xi Xing", describing the grand occasion of the lamp market: "The forbidden city is all the way through the long qu, in the lights of the nine gates and thousands of households, the flowers are timid and the spring is cold with the fire, the horses are rushing to the fog and the clouds are rising, the strings and pipes are sandwiched by the road, where the tourists do not meet, the lace dew washes the carved saddle and is wet, and the wind returns to the pearl and the green fragrance." ”

Since today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, will come to the lantern to have fun with the ministers outside the noon gate, so it is particularly grand. Zhu Di is a very unstable king, when he is happy, he will pay a private visit, mixed with the people, and go with the flow.

Today, Zhu Di was happy with the ministers at the noon gate, looking at the lights of thousands of homes and being happy, on a whim, he took off his yellow robe and put on cloth clothes and Liu Jing, the great eunuch who also changed into cloth clothes, walked up to the lamp market outside Donghua Gate, mixed with the people, looking all the way inside, "arrow god" Lan Lingxi followed closely with the brocade guard, riding on a tall horse, Lan Lingxi didn't have any intention to watch the lantern festival, although the lantern market was crowded, the colorful lanterns were dizzying, all his energy was on the emperor who was not far from him, Zhu Di and Liu Jing talked and laughed, and the two seemed to have a harmonious relationship, like brothers.

Not far away, "Qin Sheng" Chen Fengjiao was walking slowly, she covered her face with a light veil, wore a pearl and jade crown, and decorated it with gold, which was dazzling. The upper body wears a white fox fur, which is worth a thousand gold. The lower body is a large pleated jade skirt inlaid with gold threads, and a pair of deerskin shoes are pedal, which looks graceful and extraordinary. Attract the attention of passers-by. What is even more surprising is the saber on the woman's waist, slender, the scabbard is made of shark skin, very rough but very strong, the handle is engraved with patterns, and there are exquisite trinkets, if you look closely, it is a string of beads carved from red coral from the South China Sea, crystal clear. The woman's figure is Ona, although she can't see her appearance clearly, she should also be a beauty, and her bearing is extraordinary, judging from the pearl jade crown directly decorated with a golden hairpin on her head, it must be the daughter of a powerful family.

"Qin Sheng" Chen Fengjiao and Ming Chengzu Zhu Di are coming, there are many women and children in the crowd, everyone's attention is attracted by lanterns, no one will care about the people or things around them, but there are also many people who take the opportunity to come out to hunt for beauty, and pay special attention to the folk women with beautiful faces in the crowd, intentionally or unintentionally go up to tease, but they don't dare to be too presumptuous, after all, it is the capital, and there are still rules.

Chen Fengjiao didn't notice that she had been targeted by several swingers, and her attention was all focused on the oncoming person, who was extraordinary, although he was wearing civilian clothes, he couldn't hide his king's momentum.

Chen Fengjiao and Zhu Di met face to face, and Zhu Di's gaze swept over and stayed on her veil. "Qin Sheng" Chen Fengjiao felt it, it was very strange to feel this instantaneous, these eyes are very domineering, sharp as arrows, they can shoot through people's inner world at once, these eyes are also very arrogant, this should be a unique desolate and sad look when a person is close to the peak of power. "It's not cold in high places".

Later generations of the Ming Dynasty Chengzu Zhu Di evaluation is cruel, tyrannical, full of political wisdom, has a strong penchant for conquering the vast land, plus after the overthrow of Emperor Jianwen's regime, he tortured and killed the previous emperor's loyal ministers Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng and Fang Xiaoru and his family of more than 10,000 people, and large-scale use of eunuchs, the opening of the East Factory and the restoration of Jinyiwei, the formation of the eunuch government and the spy government of the dual system. He is also a falsifier of historical discourse, and has revised the "Records of Taizu" three times to falsify his life history and prove that he was born to the Empress Dowager and not the heir of the Empress Dowager.

From the current official version of the Ming Dynasty Taizong Zhu Di's full-body portrait, what we see is a black-faced and high-headed man, a pair of tiger-eyed eyes reigning over the world, his lips are very thick, his personality is violent, and he shows that he is a strong man everywhere. This kind of character is cultivated in a specific environment, and the brutal battle for the throne and the deceit of Yue Eryu made Zhu Di deeply understand the essence of this world, and only the strong can survive.

In order to avoid the pursuit of Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Di pretended to be crazy and bought stupid, in the battle of wits and courage with his nephew Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Di did not think about how to die, but how to put the opponent to death, his strategy was successful, on July 5 of the first year of Jianwen, Zhu Dizhi captured Zhang and Xie Gui who were stationed in Beiping, captured Jiumen, swore to raise troops, and began a three-year "Battle of Jingjing".

The final result has been very clear, in June of the fourth year of Jianwen, Zhu Di waved his army into Nanjing, officially ascended the throne, and established the Yuan "Yongle". For the throne, for the sake of his life, he must learn to schem and trick, he must deny his six relatives, Zhu Di must be stronger than the strongest bully, more scoundrel than the most scoundrel, he can't trust anyone. Zhu Di is such a bully and scoundrel, and he is also a good emperor. (To be continued......)