Why did Ming Chengzu Zhu Di have to move the capital to Beijing? It's a smart move!

Zhu Di, the ancestor of Ming Cheng, who usurped the throne and seized the world, not only opened up the vast territory of Daming, but also established a great martial art. And also created the famous "Yongle Shengshi" in history. Just when Zhu Di could enjoy this blessing of peace, he made an unexpected decision. In 1421, the nineteenth year of the reign of Emperor Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, he decided to move the capital of the dynasty from Nanjing to Beijing.

We see that the policy implemented during zhu Yuanzhang's period was the system of one capital and three capitals, with Bieliang as Beijing, Fengyang as the central capital, and Yingtian as Nanjing. But this place, after years of war, is not an ideal capital city at all. So in the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, he sent the crown prince Zhu Biao to Xi'an to investigate, knowing that it was the capital of the Han and Tang dynasties. However, when Zhu Biao returned from the inspection, he fell seriously ill, and Hongwu gave up in twenty-five years.

Before Ming Chengzu Zhu Di became emperor, he was only a local vassal, and his fiefdom was Beiping, which is now Beijing. That place was very close to Mongolia, and he was a man of both culture and martial arts. The policy adopted during Zhu Yuanzhang's period was strategic contraction, while Zhu Di was not. Believing that the whole world could not be the land of the king, he specially set up the Nuer Gandu Division in the northeast. After many battles with the Mongols, he slowly adapted to the local climate. He knows that it is necessary to keep fighting to restore peace in border trade. So in the nineteenth year of Yongle, the Ming Dynasty officially announced the relocation of the capital to Beijing.

However, according to the system at that time, if the emperor had no heirs to inherit after his death, then he should have a younger brother to inherit, and if there was no younger brother, he would be inherited by his uncle or the like. However, at this time, Emperor Jianwen's younger brother was still alive, and even if his uncle inherited the throne, there were other candidates who changed his name and was right. Zhu Di was dumbfounded, and even more angry, so he ordered the execution of this "rebellious" person, but his body after his death refused to bow to Zhu Di and kneel.

It is enough to see how disobedient Zhu Di is to the title of emperor, and in addition to him, there are naturally people who do not obey Zhu Di's title of emperor, but there is no bold and blunt as him. Zhu Di naturally knew that there was still such a type of person in the imperial court, and there was no shortage of people among the people, especially those who lived in the capital, and they felt that Zhu Di's throne was really strange. Only by moving away from the original capital and moving the capital to other places will the subjects of the new capital not be so entangled in the question of the origin of the throne.

Then the advantage of moving the capital to Beijing was that it could fend off the enemy, and at that time, the power from Mongolia had always been a huge threat to the Ming Dynasty. This is a measure that began during the Zhu Yuanzhang period, and now Zhu Di continues, in fact, in order to emphasize the existence of external troubles and transfer the people's minds to external troubles, then the number of people who pay attention to Zhu Di's imperial throne will naturally become less and less. Defending against Mongol invasions at the same time was indeed a very serious problem, and if it was not controlled now, it would be a major problem in the future.