Where was the capital of the Ming Dynasty during the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang?

Yingtianfu, or Shi Jing, was the name of Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty. It was the capital in the early Ming Dynasty, and moved to Shuntianfu in the late Yongle period, and Yingtianfu was the capital. Yingtianfu has jurisdiction over Shangyuan, Jiangning, Jurong, Liyang, Lishui, Gaochun, Jiangpu and Liuhe.

In the 16th year of Yuan Dynasty (1356), Zhu Yuanzhang personally led the troops to attack Qing Ji Road (now Nanjing) in three ways, renamed Yingtianfu. In March, Lu Qing Road was renamed Yingtianfu.

In August of the first year of Hongwu (1368), it was built as Nanjing. During the 25-year period from the first month of the 11th year of Hongwu (1378) to the first month of the 1st year of Yongle (1403), Yingtianfu was the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

In the 19th year of Yongle (142 1), the Ming emperor moved northward, with Shuntianfu as the capital and Nanjing Yingtianfu as the capital. In the second year of Shunzhi in the early Qing Dynasty (1645), Manchu conquered Yingtianfu and changed its name to jiangning house.

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Since the capital of the unified dynasty was mostly in the Central Plains, Ming Taizu planned to move the capital to the north in the early Ming Dynasty. In the first year of Hongwu, the capital of song dynasty was regarded as Beiping and Jinling as Nanjing, following the Jingping story of Zhou and Tang dynasties.

In the second year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang established his capital in Fengyang, Henan Province, and ordered Jiangnan immigrants to move to the capital. However, Kaifeng and Fengyang are both war-torn and dilapidated places, and it is difficult to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the capital. Zhu Yuanzhang gave up the plan to move the capital to these two places. In the eleventh year of Hongwu, he stopped in Beiping and changed Nanjing to be the capital.

As a result, Nanjing once again became the political, economic and cultural center of China, and ushered in the peak of development in history.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the capital (Nanjing) had a total population of nearly one million, which was the largest and most populous city in China at that time, and also the largest city in the world. Nanjing Ming City Wall, which lasted for 27 years, is the largest city wall in the world.

There are nearly 10,000 students in imperial academy at the foot of Jilong Mountain, and there are also students from Japan, North Korea and other countries studying here.

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