Where is the capital of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty?

1368, Zhu Yuanzhang established Daming and made Nanjing its capital. The reason why he chose Nanjing as his capital is actually very simple. On the one hand, this is the suggestion of some ministers, such as Liu Bowen. They think that Nanjing is the forehead position of Long Mai on the Yangtze River, and the geomantic omen is very good. After all, Liu Bowen was a strategist at that time, and Zhu Yuanzhang still trusted him.

On the other hand, it was caused by the objective environment at that time. Nanjing, as Zhu Yuanzhang's long-term base, is relatively safe. After all, the whole country was unstable at that time. If it builds its capital in the north, it will fall into chaos. After all, when Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor, most of the north and a large number of sites were not in his hands.

But in fact, Zhu Yuanzhang was not satisfied with Nanjing. He hopes to establish a unified country, so Nanjing is a little too south for him, so he has always wanted to move the capital.

There are several choices in his mind, such as those once capitals, Xi, Luoyang, Kaifeng and even his hometown Fengyang.

For example, after Xu Da captured Kaifeng, Zhu Yuanzhang went there in person. He did this to see if Kaifeng was suitable for building a capital. However, at that time, most of the opponents thought that Kaifeng had no danger to defend, and there was also the problem of flooding in the Yellow River. At the same time, after years of war, Kaifeng is in ruins, and the transformation is very difficult. Finally, Zhu Yuanzhang gave up the choice of Kaifeng.

In the seventh year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang renamed Lin Hao Fengyang, and had the idea of taking his hometown as the capital. Before that, he had started construction in Fengyang. But then Zhu Yuanzhang stopped rebuilding Fengyang, saying it was a waste of people and money.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang never gave up and sent Prince Zhu Biao to Xi 'an for inspection. Prince Zhu Biao inspected Xi and Luoyang in detail and thought that these two places were feasible. But before long, Zhu Biao died of illness.

Zhu Biao's death made Zhu Yuanzhang completely abandon his plan to move the capital. Because he has no time, he needs to train a new successor as soon as possible. After all, moving the capital is a long-term project, not a short time.