Hello everyone, welcome to The Bragging Orangutan Blowing History. During the Ming Dynasty, there were two emperors who left eternal memories for history, one was The Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, and the other was the Ming Chengzu Zhu Di. To say that Zhu Di, the emperor, is really a strange flower in the history of the Ming Dynasty, originally a king of the clan, just at the age of comfortable and hedonistic pleasure, he had to work against his father Zhu Yuanzhang, and finally took away his inheritance, which is indeed a cruel person.
However, more ruthless is still to come, after Zhu Di became emperor, he was even more powerful than his own father, creating the famous Yongle prosperous world in history. When Yongle was fourteen years old, Zhu Di looked at his own Jiangshan and was very happy, so he prepared to move the capital to Beijing and build the grand Forbidden City in Beijing. Now when we go to the Forbidden City to play, most of the buildings seen are from the Qing Dynasty, but the Ming Palace Museum has laid all the foundations, especially the overall design and layout, according to the Nanjing Imperial Palace as the model, Zhu Di built the majestic Forbidden City.
The Forbidden City is a world cultural heritage, but also a treasure of our Chinese civilization, brick by brick, all condensed the hard work and wisdom of ancient craftsmen at that time. There was a legend in old Beijing that the floor tiles of the Forbidden City were made of gold, but when we went to the Forbidden City, we did not see the floor tiles made of gold. When experts had just repaired and protected the Forbidden City, they had studied the composition of the floor tiles of the Forbidden City, and they were surprised and broke out in a cold sweat. The Forbidden City built by Zhu Di is frighteningly luxurious with floor tiles alone, and if you calculate the value, the price of a floor tile is not cheaper than a piece of gold.
In that year, Zhu Di built a lot of civil engineering, in order to show the grandeur of the royal family, specially looked for people to choose thousands of people, and finally selected the most cattle floor tile raw material at that time, The Lu mu brick kiln in Suzhou. The soil in this place is particularly strong, and the burned floor tiles are not only strong and durable, but also have no bubble gaps, which greatly strengthens the security environment of the Forbidden City. Zhu Di was very happy at that time, and directly gave the name "Royal Kiln Village", and since then, he has used the floor tiles of this place to build the palace. But this alone is far from enough, the floor tiles of the Forbidden City, from excavation to firing, have to go through seven hundred and twenty days, go through seven complex processes, so that the fired floor tiles, the quality requirements are extremely high.
The most interesting thing is that at that time, in order to prevent quality defects, Zhu Di had to check each batch carefully, and one piece had a problem, and this batch was all invalid. Therefore, it was time-consuming and laborious, in order to ensure the absolute authority of the Forbidden City, Zhu Di really took pains. The craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty generally had a miserable end, and after the construction was over, Zhu Di often secretly killed them in order to seal his mouth, so this floor tile also witnessed the heartache and brutality of the feudal dynasty.