In 1368 AD, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, established the Ming Dynasty in Yingtianfu, which opened the last Han dynasty.
Although the Ming Dynasty practiced externally"The Son of Heaven guards the country"., but the Ming Dynasty always had two major opponents lingering: one was the nomads in the north, which were the old rivals of the Central Plains Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty suffered greatly.
Ming Taizu was defeated by Wang Baobao on the northern expedition that year, so Zhu Yuanzhang also realized that he could not fully inherit the territory of the Yuan Dynasty, so he has been in a stalemate with the nomads on the front line of the Great Wall.
In addition, the Ming Dynasty had a completely new opponent: the Wakou.
The Woko were obviously more difficult to deal with than the northern nomads, and unlike the nomads, they did not fight in large armies and were often wreaked havoc by small enemy forces.
But this is the case, but the entire Ming Dynasty is a headache, they often ravage the southeast coast, burning and looting on the southeast coast, but the southeast is the economic center of the Ming Dynasty.
But as soon as the large army went to encircle and suppress, these Japanese robbers ran to the sea again, which gave the Ming Dynasty a headache.
However, only a few decades later, the rebellion was completely quelled, and by the Qing Dynasty, the Japanese seemed to have disappeared, so what happened to make hundreds of Japanese invaders suddenly disappear from the world?
At that time, the Japanese invaders were ravaging the southeast coast of our country, but some of them were so-called"Fake Widows"., among which Wang Zhi was the most famous at that time"Fake widows".
Of course, in fact, at that time, there were still a lot of real Japanese pirates, and they often robbed homes and houses on the southeast coast, causing great trouble to the fishermen on the southeast coast.
In fact, many of these Japanese were ronins who came from exile at that time, and during the reign of the Ming Dynasty, Japan was at its most chaotic in Japan"Warring States Period".At that time, the heroes were divided into one side, and it was because of this that a large number of homeless people and ronins were produced.
And those defeated ronins wanted to make a comeback after being defeated by another force, so after that, they drifted at sea and crossed east to the Ming Dynasty to rob their homes.
However, with the rise of Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu in the Warring States period, the chaotic Warring States period gradually came to an end.
After Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Japan, he began to strengthen domestic control, and as a result, the number of people going to sea became smaller and smaller, which naturally restrained the number of Japanese ronins going to sea, and the Japanese rebellion was alleviated to a certain extent.
Tokugawa Ieyasu controlled the domestic outlet to the sea at that time, and controlled the escape of the Japanese invaders, but don't really think that Tokugawa Ieyasu is so kind, in fact, this country and nation have always been very ambitious, they will not let go of any opportunity to occupy other people's land, during the Tang Dynasty, Japan took advantage of the Tang Dynasty to attack Goguryeo when it wanted to take the opportunity to invade Korea, and as a result, Japan stopped for 500 years in the first war.
Five hundred years later, after Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan, his ambitions began to swell further, and he began to spy on the land of the Ming Dynasty, and he had one"Dreams".: Take their so-called emperor to Beijing, and then go to Ningbo to retire himself.
However, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is not beautiful, but he thinks it is quite beautiful.
After that, 150,000 Japanese invaded North Korea, as they did in the future"First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle".Generally, the whole of North Korea is invaded first, and then further used North Korea as a pedal to watch the Ming Dynasty.
In the face of Japanese provocations, the Wanli Emperor was not accustomed to them like the Japanese Cixi, he was well aware of the importance of Korea, and after that, he did not hesitate to use the treasury and the elite of the Ming Dynasty to go to Korea to resist the Japanese.
In fact, Toyotomi Hideyoshi did underestimate the size of the Ming Dynasty, he invaded Korea many times before and after, in the face of the Korean army, Japan at that time still had the strength to fight, but in the face of the well-equipped Ming army, Japan did not have any advantages, and finally the Wanli Emperor won the war.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi was also questioned because of this failure, and in the end the whole person became mentally abnormal.
Before Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou and others of the Ming Dynasty had almost beaten down the entire Japanese Invaders after many years of warfare, especially Qi Jiguang, who was used everywhere he went"None of them are left".Because only in this way can we completely eliminate the Japanese bandits.
And it was the efforts of Qi Jiguang and others that allowed the future Qing Dynasty to have a relatively stable southeast.
We all know that the Ming and Qing dynasties were, strictly speaking"Forbidden sea".In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang implemented a sea ban, which was actually a measure of "heavy agriculture and suppressing business", because if a large number of people were overseas, then the land would be uncultivated, which would lead to a lack of labor, and a lack of labor would cause a crisis.
Of course, although Zhu Yuanzhang's method has advantages and disadvantages, it is quite harmful to coastal fishermen, among which Emperor Yongle has been to the West many times, but after the Ming Dynasty, many emperors have not dared to break this ancestral system.
After arriving in the Qing Dynasty, their "sea ban" became more stringent, and in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong's fleet often operated along the southeast coast, which made the Qing Dynasty suffer.
They believe that these forces rely on the mainland's materials to develop their own forces, and the best way to combat these sea forces is to cut off their supplies, so they even cut off the external forces.
It was precisely under such a strict maritime ban policy that by the Qing Dynasty, the Japanese were no longer a threat.