Chapter 301

Perhaps it was Zhu Di, because the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum was completed during the Yongle era. Perhaps it was only after Zhu Di obtained the compass from Liu Bowen's tomb that he discovered the burial site of King Chu. Having already moved the capital to Yanjing, he naturally did not wish for Jinling to revive its imperial dragon energy, and thus simply sealed off the burial site by expanding the Xiaoling Mausoleum. Even if someone had discovered it later, who would dare to excavate the mausoleum of the founding emperor? Yet regardless of whether it was Zhu Yuanzhang or Zhu Di, neither could halt the march of time or alter the natural laws of dynastic rise and fall. The buried gold of King Chu could destroy Wu, but it could not make Chu prosper. The Yongle Emperor's northward relocation avoided Jinling's fate of a short-lived dynasty, but it still could not stop the hooves of foreign invaders riding south.