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The construction of Nanjing City in the early Ming Dynasty used the architectural form of "wall" to interpret the legal order of the capital as "the land within the country" and reflected Zhu Yuanzhang's ideological process of pursuing "the big picture in the house" in order to realize the traditional sense of "living in the center and planning all directions" in the founding capital of the Ming Dynasty. This book systematically sorts out the issues of establishing and establishing the capital in the early Ming Dynasty from the aspects of concept, planning, system, and construction. It especially explains in detail the relationship between the two capital systems and the establishment and abolition of the central capital, urban layout and building levels, and the two urban constructions of Nanjing and "the land within the country." By interpreting the Nanjing city wall brick inscriptions, it not only clarifies the relevant historical facts of the city wall construction, but also reveals the labor organization form and the operating status of the grassroots society in the early Ming Dynasty.