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Chapter 92 Talk about Fengyang, talk about Fengyang
Fengyang Mansion.

Stepping on the border of Fengyang, Zhu Biao first thought of the Huagu Ci, and Lao Zhu took a lot of blame for this.

The original word is:
Fengyang is really a good place, and the emperor's kindness is magnificent in all seasons.Not taking corvee or paying food, the banks of the Huaihe River were full of joy.

After rewriting, it becomes:

Talk about Fengyang, say Fengyang, Fengyang is really a good place, since Emperor Zhu came out, there have been nine years of drought in ten years.
It was written by Zhao Yi during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, "Kao Yu Cong Kao".

The middle and late Qing Dynasty was a period when the Qing Dynasty went downhill rapidly.Natural disasters combined with man-made disasters turned the Fengyang area from prosperity to decline.
This sentence is not a historical story of the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, but a true portrayal of the Qianlong period.

However, during the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong periods, because of the strict control of the imperial court, those victims did not dare to directly complain about the Qing court.

The literati took Zhu Yuanzhang, the most influential founding emperor in the history of Fengyang, to criticize Sang Huai.

But after such a change, the song of Fengyang Huagu became more famous and began to be handed down.

The version I heard was actually sung by someone outside Fengyang Mansion.

It is very likely that they are those who went out to escape the famine, or it may be the military households who went out from Fengyang.

Because during the Hongwu period, no Fengyang person dared to directly call Lao Zhu "Emperor Zhu" in open drum lyrics.

Neither will they.

Fengyang is not really ten years and nine famines after the year of Hongwu, it is obviously an exaggeration or irony.

Fengyang was originally a good place, and since Lao Zhu, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was born, it should be even better.

In fact, Lao Zhu's ancestral home was in Peixian County, Jiangsu Province, and he can be regarded as a fellow villager with Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty.

Later, his ancestors moved to Jurong and Sizhou, and his father's generation was displaced to Zhongli, Haozhou.

Lao Zhu was born in Dongxiang, where Zhongli lived, and his family moved to Xixiang soon after.

For Lao Zhu, he is full of deep affection for this Fengyang, just like everyone loves their homeland.

When the capital was first established, Lao Zhu told Zhu Biao that in his mind, Nanjing was not the ideal capital of the country.

The Song Dynasty's Kaifeng was dilapidated after the war, and the capital of the Yuan court was too far away from the Central Plains, and it was not captured.

He felt that Fengyang was the right place to build the capital.

After Zhu Biao and Queen Ma kept dissuading him, Lao Zhu gave up, but the plot of his hometown has not changed, and the policy towards Fengyang is very good.

Change the name first.

Both the phoenix and the dragon are used exclusively by the royal family. Lao Zhu told Zhu Biao that he regarded Fengyang as a treasure of geomantic omen, so he naturally wanted to give it an auspicious and noble name.

Fengyang Mansion is now established, governing 9 prefectures and 18 counties, with a vast territory, and imitating the practice of Han Gaozu Liu Bang, exempting Fengyang from taxes and corvees forever.

Liu De, who refused to help him bury his parents back then, out of love for his hometown in Fengyang, repayed his grievances with virtue, and gave Liu De the land of [-] yuan, and he was exempted from corvee for ten years.

For this matter, Zhu Biao kept telling him not to do this. He was not only the emperor of Fengyang people, he was the emperor of the entire Ming Dynasty.

Old Zhu just refused to listen, and Zhu Biao even scolded him several times, but he still immigrated to Fengyang from Shanxi, Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places, and summoned manpower from all over the place to build the central capital.

As long as they immigrate, they will be rewarded with 20 taels as a settling allowance, and some people are very happy to provide cattle, grain seeds, and housing.After all, there is no tax there.

Although Fengyang Huagu confirmed that Lao Zhu was being smeared by the blame.

Standing on the boundary of Fengyang with his hands behind his back, Zhu Biao said to Zhu Di: "Now Fengyang recovers faster than Yangzhou, but what the father did is wrong."

"Brother, this northern land is even more desolate than here, full of devastation." Zhu Di sighed.

"Fourth, I will go to the north with my elder brother for inspection after the next year."

"I listened to my brother."

Behind him, Zhu Xing, Zhu Bian and Xu Da followed up.

As we got closer to Fengyang, we could see many pedestrians passing by on the official road. When we saw the Ming flag from a distance, we immediately knelt down and kowtowed.

Arriving soon after, Xu Da asked Zhu Biao to get off the car, and then the prefect of Fengyang came to receive him with the gentry from the village.

Compared with a few years ago, Fengyang has changed. Many people Zhu Biao doesn't know come to greet him and salute him.

The Fengyang magistrate who accompanied Zhu Biao on the tour was named Li Shan, and he explained in detail when he met someone Zhu Biao didn't know.

"Prefect Li, I'm here to return to my hometown to worship my ancestors, so there's no need to be extravagant. In addition, if I want to see Liu Jizu, go ahead and do it."

Li Shan nodded quickly, and ordered his men to invite Liu Jizu.

When the officials of Fengyang heard that His Royal Highness was bringing General Xu back to their hometown to worship their ancestors today, they did not dare to neglect at all. They dressed up and went to the mausoleum built by Lao Zhu for his parents and siblings.

There were even nine Taoist priests and nine monks. The old monk seemed to be 70 or [-] years old, but he was full of energy. Several monks bowed their heads and chanted sutras.

The monks wore scarlet cassocks, and the Taoist priests wore blue Taoist robes, standing by the mausoleum and waiting for orders.

When Zhu Biao offered incense to sacrifice, Liu Ying and Cao Xiu, mausoleum guards, prepared incense sticks as thick as two fingers and handed them to Zhu Biao with both hands.

Taking a few steps back behind him are the figures of Zhu Di, Zhu Fang, and Zhu Chen.

Because Zhu Biao ordered that these villagers not be driven away, the place not far from the mausoleum was full of people, crowded like a temple fair.

But Xu Daming's soldiers surrounded the mausoleum on the third floor and the outer three floors. The momentum was very solemn, and no common people dared to make noise.

At the end of the ancestor worship, Zhu Biao was accompanied by Li Shan, the magistrate of Fengyang, to play around.

Although there are many scenic spots in later generations, Fengyang is the place of blue mining and immortality, and it is also very interesting at this time.

"His Royal Highness, do you want to visit Huizhuang Diaoyutai?" Li Shan, the prefect of Fengyang, introduced in detail.

Zhuanghui Diaoyutai, it is said that Zhuangzi and Huizi once fished here.

Zhu Biao shook his head.

"Then Longxing Temple, is Your Highness going?"

"Longxing Temple? What do you say?"

"His Royal Highness, there is an idiom called Longxing Evening Bell, and Longxing refers to Longxing Temple. There is a big bell hanging in the bell pavilion on the mountainside behind the temple hall, which was cast when the temple was built.

On the top of the bell is cast a pair of strange beasts that look like dragons but not dragons. Legend has it that they are one of the nine sons of the dragon, called Pu Lao.Whenever the red sun falls in the west or the sun rises in the east, "Fengling rings the bell", the sound resounds through the sky, and the monks of Longxing Temple start morning and evening Buddhist lessons with the bell, and the environment on the mountain is quiet.It's a good place to go. "

Zhu Xi and Zhu Yan who were behind them heard the Fengyang magistrate's introduction to going out for fun, and immediately said they would go.

Zhu Biao said to them: "Then you go, it's safer to bring your troops, and you must come back when it gets dark."

"Yes, brother." Xu Da transferred a team to Zhu Chen and Zhu Chen.

"Fourth, what about you?" Seeing that he wanted to go, Zhu Biao said, "Go, go early and come back early."

"Hey, big brother." Zhu Di smiled and turned around to catch up with Zhu Yu and the others.

Zhu Biao said to Fengyang magistrate: "Where is Liu Jizu?"

"Go back to His Highness the Crown Prince, and take him down here." Li Shan, the magistrate of Fengyang, led the way respectfully.

　Speaking of Fengyang, saying Fengyang, since Emperor Zhu came out, a basket of monthly tickets has been collected.

　　Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, monthly tickets are recommended for one day.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)