Question: Who moved the capitol from the city where the Yongle emperor greeted the person to whom the edict was addressed to Beijing?

The Information Office of the State Council of the PRC preserves an edict of the Zhengtong Emperor (r. 1435–1449) addressed to the Karmapa in 1445, written after the latter's agent had brought holy relics to the Ming court. Zhengtong had the following message delivered to the Great Treasure Prince of Dharma, the Karmapa: <SEP> The Xinhai Revolution led to the founding of the Republic of China in January 1912 with Sun Yat-sen as the first provisional president and Nanking was selected as its new capital. Yuan demanded the capital be Beijing (closer to his power base). However, the Qing Empire controlled large regions to the north, so revolutionaries asked Yuan Shikai to replace Sun as president in exchange for the abdication of Puyi, the Last Emperor. <SEP> the meiji government assured the foreign powers that it would follow the old treaties negotiated by the bakufu and announced that it would act in accordance with international law. mutsuhito, who was to reign until 1912, selected a new reign title—meiji, or enlightened rule—to mark the beginning of a new era in japanese history. to further dramatize the new order, the capital was relocated from kyoto, where it had been situated since 794, to tokyo (eastern capital), the new name for edo. in a move critical for the consolidation of the new regime, most daimyōs voluntarily surrendered their land and census records to the emperor in the abolition of the han system, symbolizing that the land and people were under the emperor's jurisdiction. <SEP> the city of beijing has a long and rich history that dates back over 3,000 years. prior to the unification of china by the first emperor in 221 bc, beijing had been for centuries the capital of the ancient states of ji and yan. during the first millennia of imperial rule, beijing was a provincial city in northern china. its stature grew in the 10th to the 13th centuries when the nomadic khitan and forest - dwelling jurchen peoples from beyond the great wall expanded southward and made the city a capital of their dynasties, the liao and jin. when kublai khan made dadu the capital of the mongol - led yuan dynasty (1279 -- 1368), all of china was ruled from beijing for the first time. from 1279 onward, with the exception of two interludes from 1368 to 1420 and 1928 to 1949, beijing would remain as china's capital, serving as the seat of power for the ming dynasty (1421 -- 1644), the manchu - led qing dynasty (1644 -- 1912), the early republic of china (1912 -- 1928) and now the people's republic of china (1949 -- present). <SEP> Norbu writes that the Yongle Emperor, following the tradition of Mongol emperors and their reverence for the Sakya lamas, showed an enormous amount of deference towards Deshin Shekpa. The Yongle Emperor came out of the palace in Nanjing to greet the Karmapa and did not require him to kowtow like a tributary vassal. According to Karma Thinley, the emperor gave the Karmapa the place of honor at his left, and on a higher throne than his own. Rossabi and others describe a similar arrangement made by Kublai Khan and the Sakya Phagpa lama, writing that Kublai would "sit on a lower platform than the Tibetan cleric" when receiving religious instructions from him. During his travels beginning in 1403, Deshin Shekpa was induced by further exhortations by the Ming court to visit Nanjing by April 10, 1407.