Xianxia version of Water Margin

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Yelu Yanxi's provocation annoyed Jiang Hongfei, even though he knew that with Zhu Wu in charge of Yundi, Yelu Yanxi, that loser, couldn't do much.

However, one thing is that Yelu Yanxi's contact with his former ministers could easily destroy the situation that had finally been stabilized in the Yanyunping area.

Jiang Hongfei asked Yelu Dashi, who had been transferred to the civil service: "Tian Zuo comes to knock on the pass, how should I respond?"

Yelu Dashi was eager to learn since childhood, was good at riding and shooting, and was proficient in Chinese and Khitan scripts. He could be called a versatile scholar in both civil and military affairs.

In the fifth year of Tianqing's reign, Yelu Dashi ranked first in the palace examination, passed the Jinshi examination, and entered the Hanlin Academy to serve as a Hanlin Yingfeng. Later he was promoted to Hanlin Chengzhi. He is the only Khitan scholar in the Liao Dynasty recorded in "History of Liao".

Because Hanlin is called "Linya" in Khitan language, Yelv Dashi is also known as "Dashi Linya" or "Linya Dashi".

About the sixth year of Tianqing's reign, Yelu Dashi went abroad to serve as the governor of Taizhou. At that time, the Liao and Jin wars were on the rise. Because he couldn't stand the repeated defeats of the Liao army, Yelu Dashi gave up his literary career and joined the military, and was promoted to the military governor of the Liao Xing army to guard Nanjing Road.

In other words, Yelu Dashi was originally a civil official.

In order to prevent this great, wise and talented man who established Western Liao in history and created a large world in northwest China and Central Asia from becoming a future trouble and being able to be used by me, Jiang Hongfei deprived Yelu Dashi of his military post. Let him become a member of Zhongshushe, responsible for drafting edicts, and participate in keeping secrets.

In other words, Jiang Hongfei put Yelu Dashi in front of him to help him advise on how to manage the Guiming people, that is, to help him advise on how to manage the ethnic minorities in the Yanyunping area.

Yelu Dashi knew that Jiang Hongfei's question was a test for him.

Yelu Dashi is not Medicine Master Guo, and he will not make the mistake of caring about the old master after choosing a new one.

Yelu Dashi immediately bowed and said: "Your Majesty, Tian Zuo did not prepare for war with the entire army in the Liao Kingdom. As a result, the entire Han Dynasty was owned by the Jin people, and all of it was captured by our government. The country is now so weak that if we strive to fight, we must There is nothing to be afraid of. Your Majesty, why not raise an army to attack them and avoid future troubles forever?"

Yelu Dashi's words were concise and comprehensive, but rich in connotation. He not only severely criticized Yelu Yanxi's wrong route of blindly escaping in the past, but also denied Yelu Yanxi's risk of going to war now, and also put forward the correct idea of ​​asking Jiang Hongfei to lead the expedition in person.

Jiang Hongfei nodded with satisfaction.

Seeing Jiang Hongfei nodding, Wang Lun, Li Chuwen and others who were eagerly waiting for Jiang Hongfei to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor became anxious.

Wang Lun hurriedly came out and said: "Tian Zuo is fatuous and incompetent, and he insists on pursuing his own death. He will never succeed. Why does your Majesty need to personally go to war? You can just choose a military advisor or a general to lead the troops to fight. Now is the time when Your Majesty has ascended the throne. At the critical moment, how can we lose big for small things?”

Li Chuwen then came out and echoed: "What the leader Wang said is extremely true. If the name is not correct, the words will not go well; if the words are not right, the things will not be done, and the rituals and music will not be popular; if the rituals and music are not popular, the punishment will not be appropriate; the punishment will not be appropriate. Then there is nothing wrong with the people. Therefore, a gentleman's name must be eloquent, and his words must be feasible. How can an emperor use his golden words to trick the people?"

What Wang Lun and Li Chuwen said makes sense. Jianyuan restructured the system and ascended the throne as emperor. It was impossible to joke about it, let alone change the time.

Besides, no matter how urgent it is, we can't miss the time it takes to ascend the throne.

To put it bluntly, all the extremely complicated wedding ceremonies have been completed, the bridal chamber has been entered, and even the pants have been taken off. It is just the last step. If Jiang Hongfei pulls up the pants now, what if someone If a loophole is taken advantage of, then Jiang Hongfei will die as a coward?

Therefore, Jiang Hongfei asked those who were preparing to ascend the throne to continue. At the same time, he ordered all the troops to prepare their troops. After he ascended the throne, he immediately sent out troops to capture Yelu Yanxi.

Seeing this, Wang Lun, Li Chuwen and other people who were looking forward to Jiang Hongfei's enthronement were all overjoyed and quickly seized the time to continue preparing for Jiang Hongfei's enthronement ceremony.

Finally, Jiang Hongfei ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor in the newly built Hall of Supreme Harmony on October 1st.

Jiang Hongfei named his dynasty "Dayuan", which comes from the "Yuan Ci" in the "Book of Changes": "The Great Qianyuan is the beginning of all things, and it is the rule of the sky. The clouds move and the rain spreads, and the goods are popular."

The word "大" in "Dayuan" had previously only had the meaning of honorific title, but Jiang Hongfei's Dayuan Dynasty added the word "大" to the official country name, becoming the first example.

——Previous dynasties such as Qin, Han, Tang, Song, etc. did not add the word "大" before their country names.

In the eyes of outsiders, Jiang Hongfei's adoption of the national title "Dayuan" not only reflected Jiang Hongfei's governance philosophy and ambitions for the Yuan Dynasty, but also reflected the inheritance and innovation of the Yuan Dynasty in the current political and cultural context.

In fact, it is really not that complicated for Jiang Hongfei to take the title of "Dayuan".

When Jiang Hongfei asked his ministers to name the country, some suggested using "Liang", some suggested using "Qi", and others suggested using "Han" or "Tang" as the country's name.

However, "Liang", "Qi", "Han", and "Tang" all appeared in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. If they are used again, there is a suspicion of making things worse.

The key point is that it is not good for the title of a unified country to overlap with that of other dynasties.

You see, if Jiang Hongfei's dynasty was also called "Liang", "Qi", "Han", and "Tang", when later generations mentioned these dynasties, they would first think of Zhu Wen, Gao Yang, Liu Bang, and Li Yuan, and then Only then can we think of Jiang Hongfei. Just like the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu, the destined son, had to be ranked behind Liu Bang. Therefore, it would be better to have a separate country title.

In fact, Jiang Hongfei likes "Da Ming" very much because he likes Lao Zhu.

But whether Lao Zhu's title comes from "Mingjiao", "Mingwang", or from the second half of the sentence "The Ming Dynasty ends in the Qianyuan Dynasty, all things begin, and they rule the sky. The clouds move and the rain spreads, and the goods are popular." "In the beginning, six people were born, and they rode on six dragons to control the sky." None of them had anything to do with Jiang Hongfei, so that Jiang Hongfei really didn't need the title of "Da Ming".

In fact, not only Jiang Hongfei was entangled before, but also Jiang Hongfei's ministers were so quarreling over the issue of the country's title that they almost exploded Jiang Hongfei's head.

Later, Jiang Hongfei simply stopped thinking about it and directly used the "Dayuan" after the Song Dynasty in history.

Moreover, it is auspicious that the Yuan Dynasty can end the Song, Jin, and Xixia and complete the unification. You can also follow the path of the Mongols, leaving the Mongols with nowhere to go and good luck.

If you think about it carefully, the word "Yuan" is simple and nice to hear. It means that the Great Yuan is one, and one Yuan is the beginning again. Everything is renewed, and the meaning is not bad.

Thinking about it more carefully, if Jiang Hongfei was like the Mongolians who pushed the whole world and used "Liang", "Qi", "Han" and "Tang" that others have used, I always feel that the momentum is a bit lacking.

But "Dayuan" is different, much more powerful.

It is worth mentioning that in the "Tui Bei Tu" that Luo Zhenren dedicated to Jiang Hongfei, there is also a prophecy in the prophecy that "Yi Wu will be self-reliant", and "Yi Wu" is the word "Yuan".

Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, Jiang Hongfei decided to use "Dayuan" as the country's title.

The era name is not so troublesome. Jiang Hongfei directly copied Lao Zhu's "Hongwu".

As for the capital, Jiang Hongfei decisively decided on Yanjing and changed its name to Dadu.

Why did Jiang Hongfei choose Yanjing as his capital?

First of all, of course, Jiang Hongfei has no other better choice at the moment.

The key point is that there is an iron rule in history, that is, any dynasty that established its capital in the south, such as if you established its capital in cities like Nanjing and Hangzhou, was either short-lived or settled in a corner, without exception, and historically The capitals of those great unified dynasties were all in the north.

In Jiang Hongfei's last life, there were always people on the Internet who hypothesized that if Chongzhen had moved the capital to Nanjing, would he have been able to preserve half of the Ming Dynasty?

The answer is, it's very difficult, you can even say no.

Because someone had done this. After Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, Zhu Yousong proclaimed himself emperor in Nanjing, but he only lasted for a year. The Qing army went south and captured Nanjing. Zhu Yousong was taken to Beijing and executed at Lingchi.

Some people may be dissatisfied and feel that Zhu Yousong's reputation is unfair and his abilities are incompetent. During his reign, he pursued a reactionary policy focused on suppressing the peasant army. He fantasized about negotiating peace with the Qing army that entered the customs. He reused Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng and excluded Shi Kefa and others. The political situation was thus turbulent. That's why. If this were replaced by the justifiable Chongzhen, the result would definitely be different.

Let's not talk about it for now. Although Chongzhen has great ambition and talent, his ability may not be better than Zhu Yousong's.

I just want to say that even if it were replaced by the legitimate Chongzhen, and Chongzhen suddenly became more capable, it would actually be difficult to defend Nanjing as the capital.

You know, there is a common sense in the ancient Chinese art of war: to defend the river, you must defend the Huaihe River.

In other words, if you want to defend the Yangtze River, you must first defend the Huaihe River. The area between the Huaihe River and the Yangtze River is the buffer zone for southern countries. Without this buffer zone, the Yangtze River cannot be defended at all.

Therefore, this is why, after the Battle of Chibi, Sun Quan still fought with Wei for Hefei, just to capture the Huaihe River in order to keep Jiangdong.

Historically, at the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Gou actively promoted the Four-Road Northern Expedition. In fact, it was not to restore his homeland, let alone to welcome back his parents, wife, daughter, brother, and tribesmen. He also wanted to capture the Huaihe River area, and other strategic goals were achieved. After that, Zhao Gou didn't want to fight, but Yue Fei still wanted to fight, so Zhao Gou killed Yue Fei.

Three years before the demise of the Ming Dynasty, Henan was occupied by Li Zicheng's rebel army. The Huaihe River defense line had long been opened. Therefore, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty no longer had any defensive force in the Huaihe River.

When the Qing army moved south, it pushed them to the edge of the Yangtze River.

Without the buffer zone from the Yangtze River to the Huaihe River, how can you ask Nanming to defend it?

Therefore, when the Ming Dynasty moved the capital to Nanjing, no matter who replaced it, they would not be able to hold it.

It must be said that the Ming Dynasty was actually a dynasty with a national destiny, because Zhu Di moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing. Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty would never be able to defend the north of the Yangtze River, and the Mongols would have to come back sooner or later. To put it bluntly, No, what Zhu Qizhen called was not the city gate of Datong. He should have stood on the edge of the Yangtze River and called the city gate of Nanjing.

Think about it, the capital of the Ming Dynasty was moved to Beijing. How many times did the Mongols, Tatars, Tumuts, and later the Manchus cross the Great Wall?

In history, even the city of Beijing was besieged three times.

If this capital was in Nanjing, I would come here more often, just like visiting my own backyard.

This kind of thing actually has little to do with whether a dynasty is strong or the emperor's ability is high or low.

——Except those emperors who unified the two plains (the Central Plains and the Grassland).

In ancient times, all the resources, food, money, and troops of a dynasty must be concentrated in the hands of the emperor, so that the dynasty can be stable.

In other words, these things had to be concentrated in the capital of the dynasty because the emperor lived in the capital.

You can't possibly say that if the capital is in Nanjing and the country's money, grain, troops and horses are all in Xi'an, then whoever is in Xi'an will rebel.

Jiang Hongfei knew better than anyone else that the biggest enemies of his Yuan Dynasty in the future would definitely come from the Jin Kingdom and Mongolia on the grasslands.

Even if he destroyed the Jin Kingdom in the future and unified all the grassland tribes, he would still have to sit in Yanjing to govern the grassland, just like the Qing Dynasty.

Let’s put it this way, the Ming Dynasty invested millions of troops in the defense line of the Great Wall from Shanhaiguan to Jiayuguan.

If all these logistical supplies had to be transferred from Nanjing to the Great Wall more than two thousand miles away, the cost would be absolutely huge and no dynasty could afford it.

Therefore, over time, the area north of the Yangtze River will be lost.

But if the capital is in Yanjing, it will be different. Yanjing is too close to the Great Wall. It is less than 200 miles to the Great Wall. The logistics transportation line is very short, and the cost is naturally low. Even going to Yundi is far cheaper than It's much closer from Nanjing.

Of course, there are also disadvantages of being close, that is, it is too easy to be threatened by Hulu from the north.

In order to prevent this, Jiang Hongfei ordered the reconstruction of the capital city, making it high and deep and impregnable.

Jiang Hongfei's request was that with this capital, even if the Hulu entered the Central Plains, they would not be able to stand.

You know, before Li Zicheng surrendered, the Manchus had entered the customs five times, but it was because of the existence of Beijing that they did not dare to be too wild, just get a vote and go back to spend a good year.

And if the capital is in Nanjing.

When the Manchus first entered the customs, they could fight directly to the Yangtze River. At that time, Li Zicheng was still working at the post station.

In short, in the long run, Yanjing is the most ideal capital.

Therefore, Jiang Hongfei chose Yanjing as his capital and built a magnificent palace here.

Building a new city, even a capital city, actually doesn't take much time.

What is really rare is to build a palace.

After all, sometimes it takes more than ten or twenty years to build a palace.

The Nanjing Imperial Palace built by Lao Zhu lasted for twenty-six years;

The Beijing Imperial Palace built by Zhu Di also took fourteen years.

When Jiang Hongfei designed this place, it also had nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rooms.

If we wait for the entire palace to be built, it will take at least ten to eight years.

Jiang Hongfei can't wait that long before ascending the throne and proclaiming himself emperor, right?

Therefore, Jiang Hongfei asked people to pick a few important palaces to build first, and use them while building them without any delay.

Although the officials of the Ministry of Rites have made Jiang Hongfei's enthronement ceremony as grand as possible, the existing conditions and time are here. No matter how the people of the Ministry of Rites dress up, they can't hide that Jiang Hongfei ascended the throne in a construction site. The truth of God.

In response, Jiang Hongfei smiled slightly.

How can there be so many perfect things in the world?

In the choice of dragon robe, Jiang Hongfei did not follow the Song Dynasty and used red dragon robes, but chose yellow dragon robes.

The Song Dynasty used red dragon robes because the Song Dynasty was a fire virtue, which corresponded to red.

And Jiang Hongfei's Yuan Dynasty is Jinde, which corresponds to white.

If one chooses a dragon robe based on the Five Virtues, Jiang Hongfei should wear a white dragon robe.

But in traditional Chinese culture, white is often used in funerals and funerals.

Therefore, the white dragon robe is a special kind of dragon robe that is only worn on specific occasions.

For example, in the Han and Tang dynasties, the emperor would wear a Baigon crown when offering sacrifices to heaven and earth. In the Song Dynasty, it was stipulated that the emperor should wear a Baigon crown or a white dragon robe when offering sacrifices to ancestors.

With such a tradition, Jiang Hongfei couldn't use a white dragon robe as his regular dragon robe, so he could only accept the suggestion from the Ministry of Rites to choose red, yellow or black.

Jiang Hongfei compared them and found that the yellow one was quite good, so he chose the yellow dragon robe.

Although the place where he ascended the throne was a bit rough, Jiang Hongfei had a lot of the proper etiquette.

In short, after a grand enthronement ceremony, Jiang Hongfei officially became the emperor.

Jiang Hongfei appointed Gaoliang as empress, Wang Lun as grand prime minister, Xiao Jiasui as young prime minister, Xu Haozhong as privy council envoy, Chen Yuan as fellow privy council member, Li Gang as Shangshu Zuocheng, Li Chuwen as Shangshu Youcheng, Chai Jin as third minister, and Li Ying as The deputy envoys of the three divisions are Hu Rong Yantie, Jiang Jinghu, Chen Kangbo Duzhi, Gongsun Sheng as the national adviser, Zhao Ding, the minister of the Ministry of War, Qiu Cang, the minister of the Ministry of Hubu, Meng Kang, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, Xiao Rang, the minister of the Ministry of Personnel. Zhang Shi, Pei Xuan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, Chen Gongfu, Yushitai, Liu Yanzong, Yanshan Prefecture Yin, and other civil and military officials all received promotions.

Then, Jiang Hongfei issued an amnesty order: "Except for those who commit heinous crimes, disobey the emperor's orders, and conspire against the emperor, all other criminals will be pardoned, regardless of the size of their crimes."

Later, Jiang Hongfei issued an order to promote talented people: "Anyone with skills, not limited to civil and military, all kinds of craftsmen, all kinds of craftsmen, state and county officials will discover and report them, and the Yuan Dynasty court will use them as appropriate."

Finally, Jiang Hongfei issued a land reward order: "For those who have no land in the territory, regardless of gender, age or child, they will be rewarded with two acres of grain land."

——Including the fields provided by the work-for-relief program, the family’s fields together, as long as they work hard, can definitely ensure food and clothing for the whole family.

With these three orders from Jiang Hongfei, the whole country celebrated the new emperor's enthronement! ! !

In addition, it is worth mentioning that Jiang Hongfei also issued a land restriction order: "No one is allowed to have more than one hundred acres of land under their name..."

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