History's sublimeness of the cause is judged by its results. —Giovannioli
The story starts with the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang, after Zhu Yuanzhang ruled the world, in order to prevent the ministers from supporting the army and respecting themselves, he gave the task of leading the army to guard the frontier to his sons, after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, his grandson Zhu Yunjiao ascended the throne in Nanjing, Zhu Yunjiao began to cut the domain after taking office, zhu Di, the yan king who guarded the city of Beijing, was not willing to let the mermaid meat be slaughtered like this, so Hu rebelled against Zhu Yunjiao, and through step-by-step efforts, Zhu Di finally hit Nanjing as emperor. After becoming emperor, Zhu Di decided to move the capital after three careful considerations, so there is today's Beijing City, and today I will talk about the things caused by Zhu Di's relocation.
When Zhu Di was 21 years old, he was sent to Beijing by Zhu Yuanzhang to be the King of Yan, and took on an important task, that is, to prevent the invasion of the Mongols, Zhu Di later obtained the throne through the Battle of Jingnan, but Zhu Di's birth had already determined his fate, he could only be the king of the domain for a lifetime, he was not Zhu Yuanzhang's concubine, even if the prince died, it would not be his turn, the Battle of Jingnan was a rebellion, because the imperial throne came from an unjust name, in order to consolidate his position, Zhu Di wantonly slaughtered zhu Yunjiao's team in Nanjing. Although he sat firmly in the emperor, but Zhu Di was not very popular in the south at that time, and Zhu Di himself also had a deep sense of insecurity, because Zhu Di lived in the north for many years, did not adapt to the life of Nanjing, the most important point is that Zhu Yunjiao was still very popular in the south at that time, although his life and death are unknown, once he returns he may be doomed at any time, plus the frequent Mongol invasions and harassment of Daming, at that time there was Zhu Di Zhenshou, they did not dare to make a mistake, and now Zhu Di went to Nanjing as the emperor Gu Could not take care of it. And Zhu Di did not dare to send heavy troops to the border town to guard, compared to how he himself became emperor.
Zhu Di already has a return to his familiar Beiping as emperor in his heart, this is not a simple thing that Zhu Di leads a family back to Beiping, he is the head of a country, he goes to the north a series of people need to follow, civil and military officials, the national army, but also need a lot of money to support, when Nanjing's mountains and water are good, who will follow you to the place where the birds do not? Zhu Di asked the civil and military officials in the court about moving the capital, and none of them agreed, but Zhu Di was Zhu Di, and decided to move the capital in a voice of opposition, because Beiping had been in war for many years and could not accommodate so many people, so he began to rebuild, and when Yongle eighteen years ago, the Beijing Imperial Palace and the Beijing City were built, the Beijing Imperial Palace was modeled on the Nanjing Imperial Palace, the scale was larger, the newly built Beijing City was 45 miles in circumference, showing a regular square, and later the Qing Dynasty built it on the basis, which is the prototype of today's Forbidden City.
Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, both politically and economically had a major impact, at that time in the early Ming Dynasty, the north was quite poor and backward, Beijing's construction was the rapid recovery of the northern population and economy, but also the impact to this day, now Beijing has become a large city with a population of more than 10 million, but also one of the most prosperous cities in the world.