Chapter 2126: The palace has changed
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Chen Zilong and Tang Yuanji arrived in Nanjing, and the next day they went to the palace to see Zhu Zhenzhen, Princess of the Kingdom of Supervision, and Emperor Zhu Heping, the grandson of the Kingdom of Supervision, and explained their intentions. Soon Zhu Zhenzhen and Zhu Heping summoned the chief assistant Ma Shiying and the court officials to discuss.
They discussed with them, Chen Zilong and Tang Yuanji completed the mission of the messenger, and they wandered around in Nanjing city, and they found that the ancient city of Nanjing had undergone tremendous changes!
The first is the imperial palace. The two ministers entered and visited the two imperial states of Daming, and in and out of the Ming imperial palace in Nanjing. They had all been here before and saw a big change.
After Zhu Yuanzhang was built, the Nanjing Imperial Palace was an absolute center of power. It was formerly known as the Forbidden City. The imperial city covers an area of 6.53 square kilometers and the palace city covers an area of 1.16 square kilometers. It is the largest palace complex in the medieval world and is called "the world's number one." palace".
As a master of Chinese palace architecture, Nanjing Imperial Palace is a model of ritual order. Its architectural form is inherited from Beijing Palace. It is the blueprint of Beijing Palace, the mother of Ming Dynasty official architecture, Ming Dynasty palace in China, and Jingfu in Seoul, South Korea. The layout and shape of palace buildings such as the palace, the Annan Nguyen clan, the Zheng clan’s palace, and the King’s City of Ryukyu.
With the rich and honorable mountain of Purple Mountain as its backing, it is magnificent and majestic for a while.
Beautiful, magnificent!
The Nanjing Palace and the Beijing Palace are so beautiful, even if Xiaoqiang Yan Changwu, when he built the palace, he did not dare to use the template of the two Beijing palaces, but took a different path, using Western-style architecture, greening and multi-gold architecture-such as He has a golden building, and the whole building is pasted with gold to show his soil, which is used to fight against the imperial palaces of the two capitals.
Because he knew that no matter how big and large he built, the Chinese-style palace complex would not be as spectacular and rich in content as the two palaces!
When Cheng Zuye moved northward and built a new capital, the Nanjing Imperial Palace was looked after by the royal family, but it was Wang Xiaoer who celebrated the New Year, and the year was worse than the year.
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In the fourteenth year of the Ming Dynasty (1449), a thunderstorm fell in Xia June, and the Jinshen and Huagai halls were struck by lightning and caught fire.
In May of the twenty-first year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty (1485), "Nanjing strong wind pulled the temple tree, destroying the beast kisses of the Great Sacrifice Hall and the gates of the imperial city".
In the first year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1522), "Autumn and July, storms, river overflow, suburbs, mausoleums, palaces, palaces and walls are all broken."
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The former Ming Dynasty is a BT country. The emperor is too poor to have money to pay his staff. In addition, the northern nomads have been making troubles, and the peasants in China have been uprising. Natural disasters continue. It is good to be able to maintain the Beijing Palace. It is not enough to take care of the Nanjing Palace. !
During the Jiashen Rebellion, after Ming Sizong Zhu Youjian was martyred in Beijing, the Daming royal family and civil and military officials in Nanjing were pointed at gunpoint by the power minister Yan Changwu, and the uncle brother of Zhu Youjian, the king of Jinhua, Zhu Youchan
On the third day of May, the government was in Nanjing.
After that, the ministers went to the table to persuade them to advance, and they accepted the three resignations. After Zhu Youchan sacrificed heaven and earth and Xiaoling on May 15th, he set the capital of Nanjing in the Wuying Hall of the Forbidden City in Nanjing, which is the emperor, and changed it to Yongmingyuan in the following year. Nian, meaning that the Ming Dynasty continues, and it is still the world of the Zhu family, historically known as "Xin Ming".
But what has become of the Nanjing Palace at this time?
Most of the temples in the palace have been destroyed, and Nanjing Taimiao has long been burned down.
At this time, Chen Zilong had entered the southeast and followed Yan Changwu to the capital, only to see the imperial palace, Jing Zhen is full of eyes, the former Fengque is majestic, and now it is ruined!
There was a feeling that the small building was winded in the east last night, and the country was unbearable to look back and fall into a dream!
Embarrassment and shabby, what kind of heaven-Chao-Shang-country!
Chen Zilong, the former Ming Jinshi, only feels heartbroken!
After Zhu Youchan took the throne, he carried out some restoration work, and built Fengtianmen, Cixi Hall and other buildings.
However, it was a drop in the bucket for the Royal Palace. The repair work was suspended and construction. Chen Zilong had been here several times, and the palace was a dusty place with a decadent appearance.
At that time, the imperial court had to fight again and build, so there was no money.
It's different now!
The palace complex has been repaired, the palace buildings have been repainted, the decorations have been replaced, and the roof tiles have been replaced with new ones. Pieces of golden glazed tiles and attached gold leaf shine in the sun, and the ground gold bricks have been burned again, and the old If the floor tiles are replaced, all the plants that grow out of the ground will naturally be wiped out and cleaned.
It took eight years to repair all the rooms in the Forbidden City once, and the palace was given a new lease of life.
The feeling for Chen Zilong is radiant, magnificent, magnificent, magnificent, magnificent with carved beams, beautiful dragons and phoenixes, and decadent.
The palace is so big, it uses a lot of bricks, glazed tiles, wood, stone and gold leaf and other building materials and labor. Each of them requires silver dollars, a huge amount of silver dollars!
Xinming is rich!
In Xinming, it is a woman who is in power, the princess Zhu Zhenzhen, who belongs to a "person with a foreign surname" in the words of the people in society. There is also a young man in charge, namely the sons of Yan Changwu and Zhu Zhenzhen, whose mother's surname is Zhu Heping. Orthodox in the emperor's home.
The difficulty of their management can be imagined, and the pressure they encounter is so great.
But they gritted their teeth and insisted a little. No matter what others say, they will not waver, that is, vigorously develop the economy and collect taxes fiercely, just like the South China Empire!
To give the people a chance to make a fortune, but if they don’t want to pay taxes, resisting taxes and not paying is to fight against the king’s law and go to the road to choose: send north to Ningguta and the armored men as slaves, and send south to Southeast Asia to repair the earth. Forgive me!
Both hands have to be hard. When the economy develops, taxes will go up. With more and more money, Xinming's taxation is a joy!
Like the financial situation of the former Ming emperors, some of the loyal ministers of Ming Dynasty saw that the state tax revenue exceeded 100 million silver dollars in the Xinming tax report. They bit their teeth with hatred of their former colleagues, and privately said that the Southeast King was not a thief. The big thief is the Donglin Party!
One hundred million silver dollars is equivalent to 70 million taels of silver. What is this concept?
Some data from the early Wanli period are more representative throughout the Ming Dynasty: "Commercial tax income includes salt tax 2.5 million taels~www.wuxiaspot.com~ tea tax more than 100,000 taels, municipal tax 40,000 taels, passing tax 600,000 taels, The business tax was 200,000 taels, and the total amount was only 3.4 million taels." These revenues increased for a while, but there was basically no big difference.
Commercial taxes are the main liquidity. The more commercial taxes, the more funds the court can use.
Xinming's 70 million taels of silver tax mainly comes from industrial and commercial mineral taxes, which means that there is more cash.
Cash is king!
If Qian Ming had so much money, he would have killed Li Chuang, the Eight Great Kings, and the old wild boar skins and young wild pig skins with silver early. It is likely that the Eight Great Kings were bought by silver dollars and stabbed Li Chuang, and Dol went to kill Huang Taiji. , And then dedicated Huang Taiji's wife to Emperor Daming!
Xinming has so much money, so what is it to get some money to build a palace, trivial, drizzle, this makes Chen Zilong come back with mixed feelings.
He said to Tang Yuanji in the premises: "The direct cause of the demise of the previous dynasty was the financial crisis!"
After returning to Nanjing, Tang Yuanji also learned a lot and nodded with deep feeling.
Chen Zilong regretfully said: "The tax revenue of the previous dynasty has not increased in almost two hundred and fifty years. Not only has it not increased, but has actually been continuously reduced. Agricultural taxes have decreased, and commercial taxes have decreased more.
"Yes, the country’s financial difficulties led to famines and there was no money to provide relief; when war broke out, there was no money to pay for the army. There was no money to provide relief to the victims, and the hungry people caused chaos; there was no money to pay for the army, resulting in starvation and rebellion. Large-scale domestic rebellion. The imperial court’s lack of combat effectiveness made it impossible for the country to eliminate external aggression or eliminate internal rebellions. The financial crisis led to a military crisis, and the military crisis led to a greater financial crisis. Such a vicious circle led to the end of the previous dynasty. "Tang Yuanji summed up and summarized heavily.
