I want to be emperor

Chapter 251 The capital of Han Tianfu

In the first year of Chu Chengshun, at noon on October 23rd in the eighth year of Chongzhen.

Having just experienced a fierce battle, there are still traces of war everywhere. Even the city walls collapsed in two places, and the direction of the gate tower is even more potholed. Emperor Luo Zhixue.

A large number of soldiers lined up at the gate of the city to see him off, and Luo Zhixue, who was riding a tall maroon horse and dressed in armor, rode slowly into the city. Behind him was a group of civil and military officials of the Great Chu Empire.

Walking to the gate of the city, looking at the two big characters Wuchang that had lost a corner on the gate, Luo Zhixue stopped his horse and pointed at the word Wuchang on the gate and said to Guo Quanshu, who was one step behind: "Guo Aiqing will fix this signboard later. In addition, starting from today, the capital will be Wuchang, and Wuchang Prefecture, Hanyang Prefecture, Xiaogan County of De'an Prefecture, and Huangpo County of Huangzhou Prefecture will be merged into Hantian Prefecture, directly under the jurisdiction of Gyeonggi!"

After everyone behind him listened, Guo Quanshu, the Minister of Civil Affairs in the queue of civil servants and Shangshu of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, immediately bowed and said, "I obey the order!"

The people behind him didn't say anything about it. After all, the Dingdu in Wuchang had already been finalized when the country was founded and proclaimed emperor.

The reason why Luo Zhixue went to Hanyang to proclaim himself emperor was to directly regard Hanyang and Wuchang as capitals.

After all, Hanyang and Wuchang are only separated by a river, and they can be regarded as one. Moreover, this place is just in the middle of the entire Huguang, and it is also along the Yangtze River. It is very important in military strategy.

This place was an important military town more than 1000 years ago. During the Ming Dynasty, this place was also an important military town, especially before the Ming Dynasty completely pacified the southwest region.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, in addition to its military role, Wuchang also became the political and economic center of the Huguang area. Wuchang on the south bank of the river was mainly used as a military and political center, and Hanyang on the north bank of the river was a commercial and economic center.

And with the gradual development of Huguang, its economic status will become more important after Huguang is well established in the world.

The newly born Great Chu Empire had to choose a place in its own control area as its capital, and had no choice but Wuchang City.

At the same time, Wuchang city alone is not enough, and Hanyang and Hankou areas in the north must be added.

For this reason, Luo Zhixue simply merged these two prefectures into one, adding Xiaogan County in De'an Prefecture and Huangpo County in Huangzhou Prefecture, merging these places into a capital directly under the Central Government.

At the same time, the name cannot continue to use Wuchang or Hanyang.

The general names of the capitals of traditional dynasties are quite special, and it is a routine operation to include the word Tian, ​​which means the land of the son of heaven.

For example, the names Yingtianfu, Shuntianfu, and Chengtianfu are all commonly used.

For the same reason, it was also the reason why the Township Protection Army immediately renamed it Anlu Mansion after they conquered Chengtian Mansion in the Ming Dynasty.

Because Anlu Mansion was called Chengtian Mansion, it was because this place was the hometown of Emperor Jiajing, and it had strong political significance. Naturally, the Great Chu Empire wanted to change its name immediately.

After the merger, the Wuchang and Hanyang areas will also have the word Tian in their names.

Yingtian, Shuntian and Chengtian are temporarily occupied by the Ming Dynasty, and there is a better-sounding Fengtian that has not been used for the time being. In history, this word was first used by the Nanming Dynasty, and later used by Dongyao. As the name of the accompanying capital, Luo Zhixue felt that this word was a bit offensive, so he discarded it.

After pondering for a while, Luo Zhixue combined the local Hanyang and Hankou and other places, and at the same time, in order to show that the Great Chu Empire was an orthodox Han Dynasty, he took the word "Han" and combined it with the word "Tian" representing the Son of Heaven, and merged it into "Han Tian". ', thus the capital formed from the merger of Wuchang and Hanyang is also called 'Han Tianfu'.

However, Hantian Mansion is very large, and the real palace is still in Wuchang City.

Because this place is easy to defend and difficult to attack, its military significance is even more important. At the same time, there is a complete Chu Palace here that can be used as a royal palace.

At the same time, there are also official buildings of many administrative agencies such as the chief envoy, the prefect of Wuchang, and the capital around the Chu Palace.

These places can just be used to accommodate various central institutions of the Great Chu Empire in the future.

It is still the same as before. The major institutions do not even have enough office space, so they have to occupy a large number of ordinary houses, and multiple departments are crowded together to work.

However, in Luo Zhixue's mind, Wuchang City in Han Tianfu was only temporary as the capital.

After all, the strategic goal of the Great Chu Empire, Luo Zhixue's ambition is to unify Kyushu.

As for the letter from a unified Kyushu, Wuchang, as the capital, is almost meaningless.

For a traditional feudal dynasty, especially now that productivity is still relatively low, the location of the capital basically determines the strategic development direction of the empire.

For the Ming Dynasty, Jinling was the capital in the early stage because it was to make better use of the Jiangnan area. The same place was also where Zhu Yuanzhang's headquarters was.

Later, Zhu Di established his capital in Youzhou. One of the important reasons was that Zhu Di’s base camp was in the north. After Zhu Di led his army south to seize the throne, at that time you asked Zhu Di to stay in Jinling City. It's time to enter Jinling City...

Another secondary reason is that the main threat to the Ming court at that time was in the north.

At that time, the Northern Yuan Dynasty and later nomadic peoples such as Wacha and Tatar were the main threats to the Ming court for a long time.

Dingdu in Youzhou can also better deal with this threat, concentrate more resources, and at the same time command the northern war nearby.

This is the origin of the emperor guarding the country.

As far as the Great Chu Empire is concerned, the future capital is nothing more than Jinling City or Youzhou City.

The geographical location of these two places is more suitable as the capital, and the transportation is convenient, and the political meaning is stronger.

Specifically, Luo Zhixue personally prefers Jinling City.

After all, the economic conditions along the Yangtze River are relatively good. There is one Huguang and one Jiangnan. As long as these two places are well managed, the foundation of the Great Chu Empire will not be able to jump.

Even if one day the front line is defeated, Luo Zhixue is sure to use the money, food and human resources along the Yangtze River to arm a large army in a short time to continue the battle.

At the same time, if Jinling City is established as the capital, it can further stimulate the development of the shipping industry, industry and commerce, especially the development of shipping, and lay the foundation for subsequent overseas colonization and industrialization.

Another aspect is that the current basic territory of the Great Chu Empire is in the north of Chu, and the follow-up will be Huguang, and in the mid-term, it will definitely be the areas along the Yangtze River, including Jiangnan.

It is also very necessary to set the capital in the base camp.

Compared with Jinling City, Youzhou has the advantage of being able to better control the northern region, especially fighting with the grassland peoples.

However, the consumption of materials will be very large, and the consumption of national strength will also be great.

The reason why the water transportation in the Ming and Qing dynasties was so large was not because the capital was in Youzhou, and a large amount of materials, especially grain and grass, had to be transported from the south to the north, which cost a lot.

And it's freezing cold!

Youzhou City is very cold these days, and there is no air conditioner or anything.

Now is the Little Ice Age, and the Little Ice Age will last for a long time, at least Luo Zhixue will not see the end of the Little Ice Age in his lifetime, unless he can live for more than 200 years at a stretch.

And Luo Zhixue didn't want to spend the rest of his life wearing thick clothes and facing the stove in the first autumn.

The climate in Jinling City is much better. There are four distinct seasons throughout the year. There are spring breeze and light rain, midsummer scorching sun, autumn leaves and winter snow!
When Jiangnan is conquered, Luo Zhixue will directly move the capital to Jinling City.

As for places such as Huguang Wuchang and Youzhou in Northern Zhili, they can set up a government directly under the Central Government at that time.

Not only Wuchang and Youzhou, but Guangzhou in the south, Chang'an in the west, Chengdu in Sichuan, and other places can be directly governed.

Used to strengthen political, military and economic control.

In the end, Luo Zhixue didn't think it was necessary for the emperor to guard the gate of the country and the emperor himself to guard the frontier.

With that free time, Luo Zhixue managed the Yangtze River Basin well, and it wouldn't be better to push it with an army of 80...

Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, stayed in Jinling City, and he fought the Northern Expedition violently, and still overthrew Meng Yuan.

Chongzhen screamed so loudly in Youzhou that he hanged himself.

Regardless of whether it is defense or expansion, a strong national power is the kingly way, and everything else is small ways.

In a few decades, when Luo Zhixue gets out the railway, let alone the north, maybe the army of the Great Chu Empire can go all the way to the English Channel.

If you really want the emperor to guard the country, then Luo Zhixue has to move the capital to Paris...

That's not nonsense!
Regarding the matter of the capital, Luo Zhixue had already come to a conclusion. Today when he entered the city, he just said that in a symbolic way, and pretended to be coercive by the way.

After crossing the city gate, Luo Zhixue went straight to Chu Palace under the escort of a large number of soldiers.

Of course, the current Chu Palace has been changed to the imperial palace, and several other palaces of Ming vassal princes under the control of the Great Chu Empire, such as Xiangyang Mansion and Jing Wang Mansion, are unified as the residence.

Chu Palace, this is a palace built according to the example of the Jinling City Imperial Palace, with all kinds of buildings available, it is more suitable to be used as a palace.

After entering the imperial palace, Luo Zhixue held a grand banquet in the imperial palace that night, entertaining the ministers, to reward the civil and military officials under his command for their hard work in crossing the south of the Yangtze River and attacking the city.

Early the next morning, Luo Zhixue began to wash and dress under Hou Yunmeng's service.

It is said that Hou Yunmeng is serving, but in fact Hou Yunmeng just moves his mouth and occasionally takes a piece of clothing, and the ones who really serve are those court ladies who are familiar with the clothes.

After all, Hou Yunmeng is no longer an ordinary little court lady, but was awarded the title of talented person by Luo Zhixue.

Don't look at Cairen as a low-level title in the harem concubine rank established by the Great Chu Empire.

But this is already the highest-level harem title in the Great Chu harem.

The reason is also very simple, Luo Zhixue is not married yet!
(End of this chapter)