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Chapter 275 Banned
"Zhu Yuanzhang was able to deal with these opponents one by one after going through countless hardships. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Dynasty was hard-won, and he cherished the fruits of this victory very much."

"Among these opponents, Fang Guozhen's strength is not great, but Fang Guozhen's group has one characteristic. Their navy is very powerful."

"There is no way. Fang Guozhen himself started out as a smuggler, and his territory is in eastern Zhejiang, close to the sea, so the brothers under Fang Guozhen are all familiar with water properties."

"In this way, it is logical for Fang Guozhen to form a powerful naval force."

"After Fang Guozhen surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang, in fact, not all of Fang Guozhen's subordinates surrendered. They chose to continue fighting with Zhu Yuanzhang."

"Zhu Yuanzhang was also helpless, because the remaining troops of Fang Guozhen and Zhang Shicheng gathered together to form a powerful pirate force, and Zhu Yuanzhang's own navy could not deal with these pirates at all."

"And these pirates were also involved in Zhu Yuanzhang's second fault. I should talk about this issue later, but it is indeed related to a certain extent."

"These pirates are Japanese pirates, and they are a country that does all kinds of evil to our country. The people of this country are notorious in our modern eyes, and they are enemies of the country and the family."

"And the most terrible thing at that time was that the families of these pirates still lived in the Ming Dynasty!"

"So when they attack coastal areas, they can often get secret help from local people."

"Zhu Yuanzhang was troubled by this group of people, and later monarchs of the Ming Dynasty were also troubled by this. Especially during the Jiajing period, the strength of the Japanese pirates almost reached its peak."

"So how to solve this problem?"

"Zhu Yuanzhang finally decided to ban the sea!"

"The principle of the sea ban is very simple. No ship can appear along the coast. No fishermen are allowed to go into the sea to fish, and no merchants are allowed to go to sea for trade."

"In other words, the policy of isolation from the country has begun since the time of Zhu Yuanzhang. Its purpose is very simple, to maintain the rule of the Ming Dynasty."

"Logically speaking, the maritime ban strategy implemented by Zhu Yuanzhang was not a closed-door policy. In other words, the Ming Dynasty only cut off trade with neighboring countries, but cultural exchanges did not stop."

"If a country wants to develop, it must actively build good relations with neighboring countries. However, due to the actual situation of the Ming Dynasty at that time, implementing a maritime ban was also a wise move."

"Zhu Yuanzhang locked the country's gates. To be honest, it really didn't have much impact on the Ming Dynasty at that time."

"Why? Because the Ming Dynasty was a large agricultural country, and all the resources it should have were available in the Ming Dynasty. It could be completely self-sufficient in food and clothing."

"That's what the small-scale peasant economy is like. It's a bit like the Peach Blossom Spring written by Tao Yuanming."

"Many people may think it's wrong. Zhu Yuanzhang was closed to the outside world. Why did Zheng He go to the West during Zhu Di's time?"

"The scale of Zheng He's voyages to the Western Ocean at that time was quite large. Each time there were 3 to 200 people and more than 7 large and small ships. They made 30 voyages and passed through more than [-] countries in Asia and Africa."

"Didn't Zheng He's voyages to the West communicate with foreign countries? How can this be called seclusion?"

"Actually, this is not at all inconsistent with seclusion. The Ming Dynasty completely cut off non-governmental exchanges with foreign countries, but officials can still communicate with foreign countries." "In other words, ordinary people, just farm at home. It’s all imagination. Those who can really get in touch with foreign countries must be people from the imperial court, and only the confidants of Lao Zhu’s family have this qualification.”

"Even so, Zheng He's voyages to the West only lasted seven times and ended. After all, it was too expensive. After that, even the imperial court rarely had contact with foreign countries, and it was basically in a state of complete seclusion."

"The Qing Dynasty's seclusion was also very serious, but it was not completely closed, but the impact was also very great. Although Zhu Yuanzhang's move was a wise move, the impact was too great."

"Zhu Yuanzhang's sea ban strategy can well solve the harassment of some hostile forces and ensure the safety of the Ming Dynasty's waters."

"Although Zhu Yuanzhang defeated several other opponents back then, some remaining forces of those opponents fled overseas."

"When the maritime ban was not implemented, they often harassed the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, and sometimes went ashore to plunder. As a result, the Ming Dynasty also suffered a lot of losses."

"After the maritime ban was implemented, the remaining forces were no longer able to harass the Ming Dynasty frequently, which had a positive effect on the stability of the Ming Dynasty."

"The implementation of the maritime ban will enable the Ming Dynasty to monopolize many commodities and increase a lot of fiscal revenue for the Ming Dynasty."

"The maritime ban prohibited private people from conducting overseas trade with foreign countries, but the Ming Dynasty itself was able to conduct a certain amount of trade with neighboring countries."

"Therefore, many overseas goods that the people of the Ming Dynasty needed could only be purchased from the Ming Dynasty, which increased the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue a lot."

"There is another biggest factor. After the maritime ban was implemented, the Ming Dynasty had more power to deal with the remaining forces of the Yuan Dynasty in the north."

"Since Zhu Yuanzhang did not completely eliminate the forces of the Yuan Dynasty at that time, many of the remaining forces of the Yuan Dynasty just fled back to the prairie. They always wanted to compete with Zhu Yuanzhang again."

"If the maritime ban was not implemented, the Ming Dynasty would have to deploy a lot of troops along the coast, which would make it more difficult to deal with the Yuan Dynasty's forces."

"After implementing the sea ban, Zhu Yuanzhang was able to concentrate his main forces to deal with the forces of the Yuan Dynasty, and finally defeated them completely."

"Of course it's a smart move, but it's also a mistake for the country as a whole."

"The consequences of closing the country to the outside world are also very serious."

"In the past, many businessmen on land relied on foreign trade and fishing for seafood to make a living. Now that their financial sources have been cut off, they have no money to pay off their car and house loans, so they have no choice but to take risks and become pirates, which are later known as Japanese pirates."

"So, the more seclusion, the more serious the Japanese pirates will be. Especially during the Jiajing period, the Japanese pirates were very powerful. They were repeatedly violated along the southeastern coast and were banned repeatedly."

"I couldn't beat them, and Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou and other famous generals almost died from their work."

"In fact, the Ming Dynasty also realized the root cause of the repeated bans on Japanese pirates, but Emperor Jiajing did not dare to change the ancestral system easily. He was old anyway, so he just wanted to get away with it."

"After Emperor Longqing, the son of Jiajing, came to power, he immediately chose to open the country. The Longqing switch is a bit similar to the Ming Dynasty version of reform and opening up. Although it only opened a trading port like Zhangzhou Port, the effect was very good."

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