As the queen and the prince arrived in Beijing, Zhu Yicheng's life in Beijing gradually became accustomed to it. It seems that when you come to a new place, as long as you have the people you are closest to, people can often calm themselves and quickly accept the new environment.

In the next two months, other concubines, princesses and others in the harem gradually went north from Nanjing and arrived in Beijing one after another. Their arrival made the originally empty palace even more angry.

On the third day of the fifth day of the seventh year of Yongye, Zhu Yicheng's northward migration was initially completed. In other words, it took less than half a year to complete the entire harem movement from Nanjing to Beijing. This time seemed not short, but it was extremely fast from the perspective of the emperor's moving. You should know that the north and south are far apart, and the person who moved has different identities, so it would not be so easy if it was placed before.

You should know that it took nearly twenty years before and after Yongle moved the capital, and many more things happened. Of course, the situation at that time was different from now, and it also involved the construction of Beijing City and the imperial palace, etc., but even so, it took a very long time to officially move. Even because of the lightning strike in the Beijing Hall, the opposition of the ministers and Zhu Di's insistence, he was cut off a few heads and then forced to implement it.

With the completion of the overall capital of the harem, Beijing, as a new political center, also began its operation. Although Nanjing still has six officials left behind, everyone knows that Nanjing, as a political center, will slowly withdraw from the stage. According to Zhu Yicheng's vision, the two Beijing teams will no longer be retained, so in the future, the Ming Dynasty will use different administrative ruling methods together with the Ming Dynasty.

All the civil and military officials in the dynasty were clear about this and did not raise any objections. Because the current transportation environment is different from that of the past. If it were a hundred years ago, the two capitals in the north and the south could only rely on the canal transport and land for communication. The two capitals were thousands of miles apart, so it would be extremely inconvenient to travel. Moreover, because of the special nature of Nanjing, the system of two capitals and two teams was formed.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has launched maritime trade, coupled with the Daxing of port cities such as Shanghai, there are more and more sea ships traveling from north to south, and their transportation is not limited to canal transportation and land.

Not to mention the others, just from Beijing to Nanjing, from Beijing to Tianjin, then board the ship from Tianjin and then go down the coast, from Shanghai to the Yangtze River Estuary and up the river and head straight to Nanjing City. The shortest route only takes three or four days. Even if you walk slowly, you can get there for one tenth of a time. This greatly shortens the transmission of government orders and is more conducive to the direct and effective rule of Beijing as a political center over the south.

In addition, Zhu Yicheng began to repair the official roads since taking the south, especially after conquering Jiangbei, he adopted the method of labor-for-relief due to relief reasons. Not only did he repair the official roads in various places, but he also began to repair and plan water conservancy.

These are not only good things that stabilize local areas, promote production, and communicate between the north and the south. You should know that in the past dynasties, the court had one of the most important things in the assessment of officials, that is, the construction of water conservancy and local production. Zhu Yicheng did this to achieve this purpose, which made the central plains stabilize all regions in a very short time. With the smooth progress of various projects, the lives of the people gradually changed.

Speaking of which, the Chinese people are actually the best group to rule. Compared with the situation where Western countries attach importance to personal thoughts and religious beliefs, the Chinese people have always paid only attention to their own survival.

In later generations and even in this era, Western philosophers, theologians and even princes and nobles generally judged the beliefs of Chinese people based on Buddhists and Taoists. In fact, this judgment is absolutely wrong.

Western thinking cannot understand the Chinese people's ideas. When Westerners see Chinese people offering Buddha statues and Sanqing statues at home, they go to temples and Taoist temples to devoutly burn incense and make wishes, they often judge the beliefs of these Chinese people.

But in fact, Chinese believe in these things, not as crazy as Westerners. When Westerners accept a belief, they often regard faith as their lifelong sustenance and give everything for it. But this is not the case for Chinese people. Chinese people believe in Buddhism or worship Taoism on the surface, but in fact, the belief of Chinese people is very practical. Even Chinese people who believe in Buddhism will stop and worship a few times when passing by the land temple in the fields. When Chinese people who believe in Taoism meet monks who beg for alms, they will also clasp their hands together and call their masters, and provide help at the same time.

These manifestations made Westerners very puzzled, so Westerners had another illusion that Chinese people may have a multi-belief group. But this answer is also wrong. In fact, the beliefs of Chinese people are not as simple as they see. In fact, Chinese people are a very practical group, that is, they cannot offend any kind of god or Buddha. As long as they are beneficial to themselves, their beliefs can be adjusted anytime and anywhere.

For example, when a believer seeks a child, he will ask for a blessing from Guanyin when he asks for a child, while a Buddhist family will go to the Confucius Temple to pray for peace of mind before the scientific examination. Or, no matter who he believes, he will often offer ancestral tablets at home, and use three incense sticks to ask for blessing from his ancestors, etc.

These are something that Westerners cannot understand, but they really exist. The reason why Chinese people have unique ways of faith and can skillfully apply and transfer them in various beliefs is because of a special culture created by the people in their thousands of years of life.

To put it bluntly, it is the simplest and simplest truth. What the people hope for is nothing else, just to let them eat and wear warmth. Therefore, different beliefs and transformations are all for this purpose. This is also the best group to rule in the Chinese people mentioned earlier. They only need to let them eat enough, not be frozen, and be able to live and reproduce safely, and the country will naturally develop stably and continuously.

Looking at history, the biggest factor in the end of each dynasty is that the people cannot eat enough. When this happens, the people who survive will rise up and then lead to uprisings and wars sweeping across the country, leading to the change of dynasties.

Now, this possibility is extremely small. With the revival of the Ming Dynasty, the development of commerce and the Ming Dynasty's progress towards overseas, the pressure on land in China has greatly reduced. In addition, the continuous progress of agriculture has led to science and technology, and the large-scale promotion of emerging high-yield crops have also made great progress in the survival conditions of the people.
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