"Cheng, it's all up to the master-" Zheng smiled, his expression extremely gentle.

My husband has indeed changed, he is magnanimous, calm, thoughtful and responsible.

Although his opinion was denied because of these changes, Zheng did not feel the slightest displeasure, but felt that this change was really good.

Most women like assertive men, especially women like Zheng, who have worked hard for this family for most of their lives, but now they found that their husbands have become assertive and calm, and suddenly there is a kind of relief that the heavy burden on his body has been unloaded.

Listen to him obediently, and you don't have to worry about everything.

It's a good feeling!

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The political center of the Ming Empire.

Beijing.

It was late, and now it was the end of winter and the beginning of spring, and the sun was not too long.

The last rays of the setting sun sprinkled on the rows of eaves tiles in the city of Beijing, and sprinkled on the walls of the storefronts on both sides of the streets and alleys, outlining a faint, dim yellow.

Whether it is red walls and white tiles, or green bricks and green tiles, the red beads, the blue brick walls, and the bright door window lattices are all dyed with a light layer of yellow.

The sunset is infinitely good, just near dusk, not to mention the winter sunset in the era of the Xiaoice River, miserable, groggy, mixed with the slightest vitality and vitality, some are just twilight, heavy.

It's like a dying old man, looking at the sky with cloudy eyes.

Isn't it a portrayal of the Ming Dynasty?

More than 200 years since the founding of the country, to this day, it is already faltering and declining. Maybe one day if you don't pay attention and step on the air, you will be destroyed.

Jiashen has changed, and it is only a few years away!

The streets are full of people, most of them in a hurry, some rushing to their homes, some to the store, carrying large bags or pushing small carts. Some of the peddlers who entered the city were hurriedly pushing the cart in the direction of the city gate, daring to go out before closing the city gate, if not to mention that they would be frozen this night, and if they were unlucky, they might be caught by the soldiers patrolling the city, and if they didn't take out some silver to let you go?

Some of the carriages that had gone out for an outing, only now returned, a luxurious carriage, surrounded by richly dressed slaves, who entered the city gate proudly. There was also a lantern with the official title of the master's family hanging in front of the carriage, and it was thought that the status of the family was not low, and the soldiers guarding the city did not dare to stop it at all, but helped to expel the people who were queuing up before them, so that the family could pass first.

There were three or five young people dressed in long robes, dressed in graceful and suave manners, and at a glance they were young men of the scholarly generation, hooking each other's shoulders and backs, giggling and swaggering, debauched and unruly. They found a green building with a wide façade and seven or eight rooms, and the decoration covered the lavish past. These people thought to be regular customers, and the turtle man standing at the door hurriedly greeted him with a smile, and a series of compliments spewed out without money, and welcomed a few people in. Thinking about these few, this night is going to be here for a while.

Opposite the Qinglou is a carriage and horse shop, the gate is open at this moment, and more than a dozen large carts are lining up and marching in turn. They had just entered the city, and the drivers in the car were all wearing fur hats and thick cotton jackets, their faces were red from the cold, and the small ones on their heads were all cracked, and their lips were cracked with a lot of blood lines.

Next to the Qinglou is a store that sells rouge gouache, and has begun to close the door board to close, suddenly a window in the easternmost part of the Qinglou opened, and a glutinous and soft voice said a few words, the store quickly responded to a few words, and then a young man who was not very old, about thirteen or fourteen years old, carried a large box of rouge gouache, and put a lot of small boxes into the Qinglou to send.

Rouge gouache shop next to two or three is a steamed bun shop, the front of the store wooden sign written 'Zhang Ji' two big words, the store is a century-old shop, from the Zhengde year in the opening here. The big bun is affordable, the hand is a little smaller to hold one with two hands, this bun, the skin is stuffed big, the outside is snow-white, smelling the fragrance, you can hear the sound of the oil soup swaying inside, a bite down, a mouthful of oil, a mouthful of incense. At this time, there are still more than half of the cages not sold out, and the anxious shop jumped to his feet, and saw the men who had just come back from the carriage and horse shop opposite, and his eyes lit up, and he shouted from the past with a steamer: "Big buns, big meat buns, eighteen folds of skin and stuffing, you have to swallow a bite of your tongue!" ”

After saying hello twice, a person from the store directly bought the rest of the buns and gave him the money, which made the store smile.

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This is Deshengmen Inner Street, and the Deshengmen Inner Street mentioned here is certainly not what later generations said about Deshengmen Outer Street, Inner Street and the like. As the name suggests, it is the street inside Deshengmen, but because there is no official name, it is called anything, and the people who live in this area are called Deshengmen Inner Street.

Desheng Gate is one of the nine gates in the city of Beijing, on the north city wall of Beijing, there are two city gates facing north, Desheng Gate in the west, Anding Gate in the east.

These two names, but they have a good background, one is victorious, the other is stable, and they are all related to war. The war must be won, and when the war is won, the country will be settled. According to the stars in the north, Xuanwu belongs to Xuanwu, and Xuanwu is the main sword soldier, so he sends troops to fight, and generally goes out of the city from the north gate. The reason why it is named Deshengmen means "winning with virtue" and "moral victory". In the event of a war, the troops were dispatched from the Desheng Gate, and the division was divided into the divisions, which respectively took the meaning of "winning the flag" and "being too safe and stable".

Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty went on a northern expedition from Deshengmen. In the Ming Dynasty, Deshengmen faced several invasions from the north head-on, and was the most important city defense position in Beijing.

And it was against the north - since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the dynasty that occupied the Central Plains has been fighting against the powerful enemy in the north almost non-stop. The Xiongnu of the Qin and Han dynasties, the Rouran Xianbei of the two Jin and five Hu and sixteen kingdoms, the Turks of the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Khitan of the Song dynasty, the Jurchen of the Khitans, the Mongols of the Jurchens, and the Tatar Wara of the Ming Dynasty......

Anyway, no matter how many times the nomads of the north have been defeated, they will always re-emerge stubbornly, and when a strong tribe and a powerful regime have fallen, a new one will emerge. It is endless, just like the weeds of the grassland, and its vitality is tenacious.

The nomadic people in the north coveted the prosperity and wealth of the Central Plains, and never stopped going south, and the dynasties of the Central Plains were naturally not to be outdone.

When the northern nomads were powerful, there was the siege of Baideng, which forced Gaozu Liu Bang to bribe Shan Yu's Da Yan clan to escape with his life; There were 300,000 iron horsemen who went south and ravaged the Central Plains; There was Emperor Yelu Deguang of Tianxian of Liao Taizong, who poured the Khitan army to the south, captured Bianjing, captured Emperor Jin, and stepped on the Yellow River; It is this dynasty, and there are also Wara Taishi also defeated the Ming Dynasty 500,000 Beijing camp army in Tumubao, the front of the army pointed directly at the city of Beijing, at that time it was under this Desheng Gate, there was a tragic battle.

What's more, some of the nomadic people who are brave and good at fighting, and have developed vigorously in just over a decade or so have been favored by God, and at the right time, it is precisely one of the most outstanding leaders in the ethnic group, taking them to occupy the Central Plains!

The Northern Wei Dynasty of Xianbei, the Great Liao of Khitan, the Jin Kingdom of Jurchen, and the Yuan Dynasty of Mongolia. Among these dynasties, the peak of the extreme, is none other than the former dynasty Mengyuan, although the founding of the country is only 97 years old, but it is the east to the sea, the west pole quicksand, south to Annam, north to today's Arctic Ocean. If the other three khanates are counted, it is nearly 36,700 li from east to west and more than 20,000 li from north to south, almost spanning most of Asia.

For thousands of years, there have been victories and defeats, but in the end, the Han people have always firmly occupied the richest and most prosperous land on the map of East Asia.

In the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Hongwu was eloquent, expelled Meng Yuan, and restored the Hanjia rivers and mountains. After the Yongle Emperor made five expeditions to Mobei, moved the capital to Beijing, and set the national policy of "the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies in the community", which has never changed for hundreds of years.

Even the last emperor who hanged the coal mountain, at the most critical time, did not listen to the advice of his subordinates to move south.

Before the Ming Dynasty, Deshengmen existed, but it was not called this name at that time, it was called Jiandemen. In the first year of Hongwu, the general Xu Da invaded the capital of the Yuan Dynasty and renamed it Beiping, and then changed the Jiande Gate on the west side of the Beiyuan to the Desheng Gate, and built a new earthen city wall in the south of the Beiyuan in five miles to prevent the Yuan army from counterattacking.

Desheng Gate Arrow Tower stands on the city platform of four zhang two feet high, the ash tube tile green cut edge heavy eaves rest on the top of the mountain, the face is wide seven rooms, after the hugging of the building five rooms, the building is even more than ten zhang high.

Deshengmen arrow tower, is the highest in all the city towers of the whole Beijing city except Zhengyang Gate, Zhengyang Gate city platform is four zhang high, the city tower is eight zhang high, and the pass is twelve zhang high. There are four rows of arrow windows on the three walls outside the Desheng Gate, with a total of 82 holes.

Hongwu abolished the north wall of the capital of the Yuan Dynasty in four years, widened and heightened the new north wall, opened two gates, and the west side gate is still called "Desheng Gate". From the first year of orthodoxy to the fourth year, the city towers, arrow towers, corner towers, and bridge gates of the nine gates of the inner city including the Desheng Gate were built. Since then, the Desheng Gate has been repaired until later generations.

In later generations, the city tower of Desheng Gate was demolished, but the arrow tower remained, but the city walls on both sides were gone, and only the tall city platform remained. It is still towering, and it is a landmark-like building. Deshengmen Inner Street, from entering Deshengmen to the south, until the Desheng Bridge on the fork river. This distance is about more than a mile long, but it is a rather prosperous area, on both sides of the shops row upon row, there are all kinds of people, people come and go, can be said to be shoulder to shoulder. In fact, this street is not straight from north to south, if you look at the map, you can see that it generally presents the northeast and southwest directions, but the angle between it and the north-south straight line is very small.

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