Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2219 Flower War (One Hundred and Twenty Eight)

On the sixth day of June, the clothes are exposed to the hidden water, and on the seventh day of the seventh month, there is a skillful floating needle. According to the tradition of the festival, every family with a woman should put a bowl of water in the sun. The girl should gently float the needle on the water, and then look at the bottom of the water. The shadow of needles, so as to predict whether the girl has a pair of skillful hands, in a sense, it is also predicting her future.

With the introduction of Buddhism and the rise of Taoism, the Zhongyuan Festival on July 15th, also known as the Obon Festival, has become another important festival in July. Buddha jackfruit, put river lanterns in Xiyuan.

Because both the Admiral and Cao Xi are not allowed to leave the mansion at present, the one who accompanied Wanning to the incense became Nick. It is said that the autumn leaves on the mountain where this temple is located are beautiful. In the Tang Dynasty, it was once called Gongde Temple because of those The beautiful red leaves were changed into Qixia Temple.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had nowhere to go, had been a monk for eight years. It was not until the Huangjue Temple where he lived was destroyed by war that he had nowhere to go again. He then obtained the auspicious hexagram of "becoming a hero and becoming prosperous" from Jialan Bodhisattva. He was greatly inspired, and then he went to Haozhou to join Guo Zixing's peasant uprising army. In less than a year after joining the army, he was highly regarded by Guo Zixing. In just three years, he was promoted from an ordinary soldier to a ninth and a centurion.

When he first entered Nanjing, Zhu Yuanzhang, one of the heroes at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, probably would not have thought about his future. The Nanjing people at that time were probably the same as Zhu Yuanzhang. How long to stay.

   Unexpectedly, this person surnamed Zhu actually became the emperor, and because of this person, Nanjing became the capital of China. In history, Nanjing has been the capital more than once. It has had the prosperity of the Six Dynasties and the scenery of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

   But it didn’t take long for Nanjing to become the capital of a unified country. After the Battle of Jingnan, Zhu Di moved the capital to BJ. Since then, Nanjing has always existed as BJ’s companion.

  Compared to the Forbidden City with red walls and golden tiles, the most striking thing about Nanjing is probably the city wall.

BJ is located in the Yanshan Mountains, just on the edge of the agricultural civilization circle, but the canal dredged in the Yuan Dynasty was too shallow to allow large ships to pass through. Therefore, in the process of the northward transportation of military supplies in the early years of Yongle, both water and sea transportation were used. Even at this time, because of Japanese pirates, sea transportation was Not very safe.

Nanjing does not have the political function of BJ, but its economic, cultural and foreign exchange functions are very prominent. Zheng He made decisions and set off on his voyages to the West. Tributary envoys flocked here in an endless stream. Even after the capital was moved, there were still many tributes by sea. Stop here before heading north along the canal.

Francis Xavier, a Catholic Jesuit missionary in the 16th century preached near Guangzhou, but was never able to enter the mainland. His successor, Matteo Ricci from Italy, worked hard to stay in Nanjing, make friends with famous officials, and established churches. , thus opened the prelude to the mission.

Zhu Yuanzhang had a grand blueprint in his heart. He might want to use city walls to enclose a huge city that surpassed Sui Daxing and Tang Chang'an, but Nanjing is a mountainous place, not as flat as the Central Plains. The shape of the mountain was built with twists and turns, not as square as the northern city, and a shape similar to a gourd appeared.

   From the point of view of actual combat, Nanjing's Tigers and Dragons are completely unreliable. It is difficult to complete a decent defense battle, but Nanjing's famous city wall can not be said to be useless, at least it is a symbol of national strength. The Osaka Castle built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi is far inferior to Nanjing in scale. It can be judged at a glance from the length of the city wall, but its main city Tianshou Pavilion is relatively intact and preserved, while the Forbidden City built by Zhu Yuanzhang is because of Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwenfang. A fire in the palace was burnt down in many places, and after Zhu Di became emperor, the palace in Nanjing was no longer restored, and only the royal family and ministers were assigned to manage it.

By the time of the Southern Ming Dynasty, most of the palaces in the Forbidden City had collapsed, and the Taimiao Temple was also burned. Due to the limitation of national strength, only a part of the buildings including Fengtianmen were restored. Tong Er Yamen is located in the Forbidden City of Ming Dynasty.

After the Qing troops entered Nanjing peacefully, they first occupied the northeastern part of the city and divided it into the Eight Banners Barracks. The NJ citizens who lived there had to withdraw to the south and west of the city. Later, Emperor Shunzhi realized the division of the city into Manchu and Han, and simply divided the entire eastern part of Nanjing. A city wall was built, dividing the city in two as if cutting a cake. This city wall starts from the Taiping Gate, runs along the base of the old imperial city wall, and ends at the Tongji Gate. During the construction process, the east and south walls of the old palace were demolished. During the Kangxi period, stone carvings from the Ming Forbidden City were used to build the Putuo Mountain temple. At this time, the palace and palace walls of the Ming Forbidden City were basically gone.

One wall is enough to create two different cultures in one city. The whole city of Nanjing is like a huge military camp, which is not managed by local governments or counties in administration. General Jiangning is the highest commander of the Nanjing Eight Banners garrisoned. His responsibilities are military affairs. However, the daily life of the garrison bannermen, such as weddings, funerals, and support and relief, must also be dealt with. In addition to military service, the Manchus in the city did not perform any corvée service, including water transportation, and were not allowed to engage in industries such as agriculture, industry and commerce.

  The Han people not only had to raise these Eight Banner soldiers, but also suffered harassment by bandits, commonly known as "banner thieves". This did not mean that the bannermen directly participated in the theft, but some local mischiefs who took refuge with the bannermen, and they were very powerful. Most people are reluctant to be slaves, but later the atmosphere changed, and the Han people took the initiative to join their flags as slaves. There is a department called the "Council Office", which has members of the board of directors, who are in charge of all aspects of the affairs of the bannermen. If the flagmen commit crimes, the state and county officials have no right to make judgments, and they must be handed over to a specific judicial body, that is, the council office. .

The legend of Cao Xueqin, the author of Dream of Red Mansions, is related to Jiangning Weaving. Jiangning Weaving is composed of three parts: Jiangning Weaving Department, Jiangning Weaving Office and Jiangning Weaving Bureau. It turned out to be the military gate of the Admiral, and to the east is the Jiangning Weaving Bureau.

  The officials of the council hall are all full of people. If you look at it this way, it is impossible for the Cao family, who is a servant of the royal family, to live in the Jiangning Weaving Office, and it is impossible for Cao Xueqin to be born in the Jiangning Weaving Office.

   In the 33rd year of Qianlong’s reign, the Jiangning Weaving Department bought the houses in Huaiqing Bridge and rebuilt the new weaving department, but the director’s office was next to the Salt Road Department. When Prince Dorothy was alive, he had dealt with the delay in reimbursement of Zhengyangmen project funds. At that time, it involved a department called the Investigation and Handling Division of Imperial Orders, which was handled by the close ministers appointed by the emperor.

Being an official in the capital is actually very hard. Except for a few officials like Heshen, most people have to rent houses, and these official houses are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Qianlong gave him a subsidy.

   Being assigned by the emperor to send a minister to study politics is a kind of "benefit". You can make a fortune while traveling in the mountains and rivers. Yao Qin, who was sent away by Yangzhou rich and Cao Xi, is relatively clean.

   Another kind of imperial envoy is like Liu Yong and He Shen who went to Shandong to investigate the case, and they will be warmly entertained, but they can't find out how many silver taels are in short supply, so that's another matter.

Generally speaking, very few people will find a piece of wasteland to build a house. Most of them buy someone else's house and then renovate their house. Only the local officials, especially the royal merchants like Jiangning Weaving Langzhong, can afford to build something like the Grand View Garden. House.

Kangxi and Qianlong also lived in the Jiangning Weaving Mansion when they went to the south of the Yangtze River. If they were to expand to meet their needs, they would eventually squeeze out the Jiangning Weaving Office and go to Huaiqing Bridge to find a plot of land to build another yamen. They also took this opportunity to meet the directors The departments that knew about the conflicts between the bannermen and the Han people were separated, so that Cao Xueqin might have been born in the Jiangning Weaving Department.

  Nanjing can be said to be in southern Zhili, but the governor of Jiangsu is not stationed in Nanjing. Jiangsu does not need to be in the same city as Guangdong. He can go to Suzhou, even if the governor is a higher-ranking official.

The governor of Jiangsu, Yue Qi, who wrote a memorial to the Emperor Jiaqing and hoped to investigate the malpractices of water transportation, was of the Eji family and was a Manchurian from the Xiangbai Banner. Currently, he is acting as the governor of Liangjiang and with the help of Cao Xi, impeached Zhuang Gang and Liu Pu, officials of the Nanhe Project. Others embezzle public funds, engage in fraud for personal gain, and set up private stores, transporting goods to the dam construction site and hoarding them for extraordinary profits.

   Then there is Chang Yingcang. The Manchu Qing Dynasty's method of suppressing the White Lotus Sect was not like the battle of Jinchuan. Instead of sending a large number of soldiers into the deep mountains, they cut off their supplies, causing a large number of religious bandits to starve to death. The reason why the white lotus cultists who broke out from Fengjie and went down the river to attack Huai'an was also for the granary. Even if they couldn't attack Changyingcang, they could go to Taicang. If believers of the White Lotus Sect were mixed in with the government, and he was allowed to participate in the rectification of officials, causing chaos in Huai'an, the consequences would be unimaginable.

   Cao Xi's biggest problem is that he is a Han Chinese, especially at this juncture where the "anti-Qing Dynasty and Ming Dynasty" are everywhere.

  Writing secrets is not a person who can write it alone. As for whoever complained about the black form, I am afraid I have to go to BJ to find out.

  Funihan has wronged so many people in the Soul Case. What punishment did he get in the end? A Sichuan businessman wrote a seal for the British, what is the punishment?

   Even if it turns out to be a false accusation, there is still a way to get out, and Cao Xi's half-life is in it.

In fact, compared to Qixia Mountain, Zijin Mountain is a better place to overlook Nanjing, but the southern foot of Zijin Mountain is the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, where Zhu Yuanzhang and his empress are buried. There is a whole city in the distance, it will soon be desolate, and there are wild beasts, Nick would not take a girl to such a place, and without Wanning, he would not be able to go to Zijin Mountain.

   In the 80th chapter of Dream of Red Mansions, Mingyan holds a dream sweet incense in her hand, and Wanning also holds a stick of incense in her hand to worship Buddha. It was precisely because Wan Ning was a girl that she could leave the mansion at such a time and go to Qixia Mountain to burn incense and worship Buddha, praying for safety.

  God does not exist, and so does the Bodhisattva, but Nick did not tell her at this time that when the plaster is ineffective, hope is a good medicine.

  People not only need to live, but also have hope to live. Otherwise, those middle officials who hang themselves will have nothing to worry about in the palace, so why should they seek death?

   But the Qing Dynasty will not make the same mistakes as the Ming Dynasty. With their "learning from the past", it is still a miserable road to enter the palace as a maid.

   In comparison, Qing Deng Gu Buddha was lucky, or Nick took her out of the country, and after the house was raided, she would have nothing left, except her elderly father.

  Nick remembered his own father, a father who dared to resist.

He no longer looked at Wanning who was burning incense, and turned to look at the outside world. At this time, the sun was shining brightly, and cicadas were still chirping in the forest. Compared with Nanjing in Yangzhou, it was hotter. What if he could stay in this cool mountain to escape the summer heat? Cozy.

   (end of this chapter)