If Zhu Yuanzhang had made Fengyang his capital, what would Anhui be like now?

Zhu Yuanzhang still attaches great importance to his hometown Fengyang. He tried every means to move the capital to Fengyang. I even asked Liu Bowen about it.

Liu Bowen shook his head, but Zhu Yuanzhang was not discouraged. In order to achieve his goal, Zhu Yuanzhang specially designated Fengyang as Zhongdu, which means that there was another capital besides Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty, namely Fengyang. His reason is also very simple. Nanjing is too close to the south, which is not conducive to the rule of the north. Fengyang is close to the Huaihe River, which is more conducive to the rule of the north.

As a result, Fengyang Zhongdu (several times larger than the Forbidden City), which covers an area of 382.3 hectares, has sprung up. Until the end of Ming Dynasty, Fengyang appeared as Zhongdu in history. So don't say that the Ming Dynasty didn't care about Anhui. Lao Zhu took great pains for the development of Fengyang!

1. Zhu Yuanzhang took a series of measures to develop Fengyang. Since it has become Zhongdu, should the corresponding supporting facilities keep up? Thus, the road to large-scale development of Fengyang was opened.

First of all, it is being built on a large scale.

You can't attract talents without infrastructure! Now, when selling a real estate, we all pay attention to comprehensive facilities such as business, schools and hospitals. Really not good. We can also dig a drainage ditch and build a mansion by the water. The Zhongdu Fengyang built by Lao Zhu naturally cannot fall behind.

Zhu Yuanzhang built a large number of palaces in Fengyang, and according to the specifications of Nanjing Palace, he also built palaces of the same level in Fengyang. This is to improve Fengyang's political status.

In addition to the palace, Zhu Yuanzhang also built a huge imperial tomb in Fengyang. After all, Zhu's parents are buried in Fengyang, and this grade can't be low.

It is not enough to rely on the efforts of the emperor alone, so Zhu Yuanzhang built a bunch of houses for the heroes here, so that they also have a place to live in Zhongdu.

These people have a lot of money. After retirement, they can spend money in Fengyang, which will definitely stimulate the local economy. Lao Zhu is farsighted!

In addition to architecture, Lao Zhu has also made great efforts in transportation. In order to facilitate everyone to come to Fengyang, Lao Zhu specially transformed the road from Nanjing to Fengyang and strived to achieve two-way eight lanes.

So after Zhu did so many actions, Fengyang's commercial economy did improve in a short time. At the same time, it also boosted domestic demand through large-scale construction.

Second, migrate the population to Fengyang.

Fengyang used to be a small county, but now it will become the capital. Apart from infrastructure, the most important thing is of course population. But is the population of Fengyang enough? Obviously not enough.

To this end, Lao Zhu also specially engaged in several large-scale immigration activities in order to improve Fengyang's economic level. It is not enough to move the poor, but the rich businessmen must also move.

At that time, Qin Shihuang moved all the rich people in the country to Xianyang and concentrated on developing this place, which actually inspired Lao Zhu a lot. After all, the land of Guanzhong has developed for just over ten years and has become the richest place in the world.

At that time, there were less than 20,000 people in Fengyang County, so Zhu Yuanzhang moved as many as10.4 million people to Fengyang from the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River. Since then, several groups of people have migrated one after another, and the population of Fengyang Prefecture has suddenly increased.

Many of these people who migrated to Fengyang are wealthy businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River, and they are rich in financial resources, which is absolutely helpful to the development of Fengyang.

Third, the policy dividend.

The most important thing for a region to develop is the macro-policy dividend. For example, the establishment of a municipality directly under the central government, the city's universities give priority to local students and so on.

Zhu Yuanzhang's policy dividend to Fengyang was relatively direct, and all tax corvees were exempted in 10. This made the local people very happy. Zhu Yuanzhang simply exempted Fengyang local residents from taxes and corvee forever.

Of course, not all immigrants have this treatment. Only local aborigines have such a policy dividend. Later, all the migrants left.

Second, why did Zhu work so hard and still failed to develop Fengyang? Lao Zhu's policy is really hard, but there are also many problems. First of all, many mansions are built for heroes. I thought the heroes would still be alive after they retired. What happened? How many heroes in Zhu's novels are left to retire? Almost all of them were killed by Zhu.

When he is old, Zhu is still quite ruthless. With a wave of his hand, tens of thousands of people died, and there were no heroes in those houses. It is not too much to call them haunted houses.

Secondly, Lao Zhu moved a large number of wealthy businessmen to Fengyang, originally hoping to develop the local area well. But the people's wealthy businessmen have homes and businesses on the original site. Why do people move to another unfamiliar environment to invest? Besides, are there any tax-free preferential policies? Nothing, just let Zhu's hometown people build it. This is not forced charity!

So these wealthy businessmen simply refused to pay. Every year, a large number of wealthy businessmen fled home from Fengyang disguised as beggars, which is also the reason why there were so many beggars in ancient Fengyang.

There is also a policy dividend. You only exempt the original aborigines from corvee and taxes, which makes the new immigrants very unhappy. Since there is no preferential policy, why should people work hard for you?

Therefore, Zhu's policy of developing Fengyang is basically a failure. Finally, Fengyang's population didn't keep up, leaving a chicken feather, and the waterfront mansion couldn't be sold. Shops along the road are labeled "Wangpu for rent".

Summary: The environment was destroyed, so Fengyang in Ming Dynasty was difficult to develop. Lao Zhu moved a large number of refugees to Fengyang, which led to the destruction of the environment here. People don't have so many fertile fields to plant, so they naturally cut down trees to open up wasteland for farming. Finally, the local soil erosion in Fengyang is serious.

Coupled with the rise of the Huaihe River, there will be more floods here. In other words, Zhu's obsession with Fengyang in Zhongdu was ruined by his support policy.

Now you know why, even if Lao Zhu decides Fengyang as Zhongdu, it can't save Fengyang and even Anhui's economy, can it? However, if Fengyang really became the capital, Anhui might look different in the Ming Dynasty. But with Judy dragging her feet behind, Fengyang can only be a flash in the pan.

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Ming History and Ming Shi Lu

If Zhu Yuanzhang really made Fengyang the capital, then we should be able to get a magnificent Fengyang Palace Museum now. In addition, it has limited influence on the development of Anhui. Maybe this is the scenery 300 years ago, but to be honest. Fengyang is not suitable to be the capital, because it is not easy to defend and it is not conducive to the access of government decrees. The whole city must be rebuilt.

It is too expensive to build a city in Fengyang. How big is Fengyang City in Zhongdu?

Zhu Yuanzhang chose Lin Hao as the capital. On the surface, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. But essentially I just want to go home and show off.

Beggar Zhu Yuanzhang is back, and now he is your master.

In order to build the capital, Zhu Yuanzhang mobilized a large number of craftsmen from all over the country and brought a large number of troops as construction forces. There are 26 guards in Nanjing alone, with about 200,000 people. Thousands of prisoners were sent to Zhongdu for hard labor.

Such a huge investment in human resources made the Ming Dynasty in a state of great waste feel very hard.

But no one wants to talk about it. It's all flattery

But five years later, Zhu Yuanzhang personally ordered: stop building cities!

The simple reason is that it is too expensive. Of course, this is the superficial reason, and the calculation behind it is that the generals in Huaixi are all good people in Lin.

If you build a capital here, it is equivalent to putting Zhu Yuanzhang's safety in the encirclement of your meritorious family.

At best, it is called vault; The worst-case scenario is surveillance.

No one would do that, so Fengyang's opportunity as the capital was missed.

If Fengyang is the capital, what will Anhui be like? Many people are thinking, if Fengyang is the capital, will Anhui develop greatly?

Yes, it will develop rapidly.

But from another point of view, this kind of development and construction based solely on the imperial city is doomed to failure.

Because there is a certain amount of money in the national treasury, the more you spend on palace construction, the less you spend on civil use.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought this very thoroughly.

War is a game made by the invaders with money.

The more victories, the more trophies and the greater contribution to the local area.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang also advocated the use of troops.

And only Fengyang is not suitable.

So he has no chance.

If Zhu Yuanzhang makes Fengyang its capital, Fengyang's position in Anhui will definitely be improved. After a city built Nanjing with Zhu Yuanzhang as its capital, it vigorously built Nanjing. 1368 Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor. At this time, Nanjing has begun to take shape, but it is far from what Zhu Yuanzhang thought. He recruited 300,000 migrant workers to build the city wall in order to let future generations sit firmly in the country. In the construction of Nanjing city wall, in order to keep improving, huge lath stones are used as the cornerstone, and high-quality clay must be used for firing city bricks. In order to ensure the quality and quantity, craftsmen are also required to sign and accept each city brick, with clear rewards and punishments. The project took a long time and was not completed until 1393. Zhu Yuanzhang used 350 million bricks to build a strong city with a length of 33 kilometers, a width of 10 meters and a height of 60 meters. If Fengyang had this treatment at that time, the urban pattern and scale would be very different. Second, the capital of a unified dynasty with a large urban population is bound to be prosperous in business travel and the scale of the city will increase exponentially. Thanks to the short life of the Southern Song Dynasty 150 years, Hangzhou developed into what Kelpolo called "the most beautiful and luxurious city in the world" in the Yuan Dynasty. The population base of a city determines the upper limit of its development in the next N years. Thanks to the positioning of the capital, Fengyang's population attraction must be the highest in the country at that time, so the development of this city is bound to enter the high-speed runway. There is no if in history, and if there is, then such a problem will not occur.

Well, let's assume that Zhu Yuanzhang really made Fengyang his capital, so the history of the next few hundred years will be completely rewritten. This is the butterfly effect.

Fengyang has a good geographical location. There are plains, hills and mountains, rivers and lakes. Natural and climatic conditions are not much worse than those in Nanjing. Although the geographical conditions were not bad, there was nothing in Fengyang at that time, whether it was hardware or software, not to mention that even the general state capitals were much better than Nanjing and Beijing at that time.

To build a capital in Fengyang, it is undoubtedly necessary to rebuild a huge city. Even if the city is built, it can't be built in a day or two. It really plays the role of the imperial administrative center, and it really lacks historical details.

Fengyang became the capital of the Ming empire, and the history behind it will be rewritten, at least there will be many changes. Whether there will be a later Qing Dynasty, and of course whether there will be today's Anhui Province, is also a question. Then let's assume that the administrative structure of Anhui and the whole country remains unchanged today.

Fengyang has been the capital of the Ming Empire for hundreds of years, and it will certainly become a super city like Nanjing, and perhaps the capital of Anhui today. There are also cities that used to be capitals in history but didn't do very well. Fengyang will certainly be rich in the Ming dynasty, but no one can say what will happen in the future.

Even if Fengyang is mixed up like Nanjing, Hefei will definitely be beaten back to its original shape. The overall situation in northern Anhui will be much better than today, and the status quo in southern Anhui may be maintained. In this case, Anhui may be better than today, but the overall gap will never be too big.

Assuming Fengyang is the same as Nanjing, Hefei is still Hefei today, and the situation in Anhui will be much better. However, Fengyang will never become Nanjing. With its innate and acquired conditions, it can be mixed into Xuzhou at most. Anyway, the overall impact on Anhui is very limited.

If we look at Jiangsu today, its development does not depend on Nanjing or any city, and then look at Hebei Province surrounded by Beijing, we will know that no matter how powerful a city is, it may not necessarily drive the development of a province.

If Zhu Yuanzhang makes Fengyang his capital, he must first harness the Huaihe River to avoid flooding. In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang moved a large number of people to Fengyang in order to develop his hometown. As a result, there are more people and the ecology is seriously damaged. The famous Fengyang Flower Drum is a witness, "Fengyang Road Fengyang, Fengyang is a good place. Since the Emperor Zhu, there have been nine famines in ten years ... ". Zhu Yuanzhang's kindness turned into disaster. Throughout the prosperous dynasties of China, most of the capitals were built to avoid the flood-prone rivers. One of the reasons why Nanjing was the capital of many dynasties and its life span was short was that the Yangtze River was prone to floods. After liberation, the great man appointed Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province, instead of Anqing. If Zhu Yuanzhang insists on making Fengyang its capital, it will be meaningless to Anhui in the future. Isn't it deserted after the Manchu Dynasty? It is impossible for people to make the land of Longxing in the previous dynasty prosper when they were Manchu.

Fengyang, Anhui Province is likely to develop rapidly because of geopolitics, just like Kaifeng Luoyang, the ancient capital of the Central Plains. It may become the capital of Anhui today, or it may become a new front line like Nanjing, and Anhui's status and economic development will be further improved accordingly!

Huaihe River is north of Fengyang. From the perspective of geomantic omen, Xuanwu Square is empty, so it is not taboo to be a palace.

Many Ming palaces in Fengyang