Maritime trade was so profitable, why did the Ming Dynasty impose a sea ban?

<> in the history of our country, there is actually one kind of sea first, and it is actually a peak moment in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, countless small countries came to this large country to trade. It is really because of such a trading process that many small countries have learned knowledge from the Tang Dynasty and brought it back to their own countries.

This kind of ** is actually very good.

However, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, it began to change, and the sea ban was directly implemented. It was also at this time that our country began to be cut off from the rest of the world. Until someone opened the country with a cannon.

In the Song Dynasty, the emperor raised his glass to release the military power, because he was worried that the soldiers would rebel like himself. Policy instruments adopted. The effect is actually obvious, because there was indeed no rebellion of generals in the Song Dynasty for many years.

However, the consequence was that the force of the army went downhill, and foreign invasions continued for many years afterward.

So we can infer that when the emperor generally implements a certain policy, he actually prevents something that he is afraid of. But when we look at history, we will find that the more you are afraid of something, in fact, there is no way to escape for a short time.

During the Ming Dynasty, there were many pirates, and the imperial court actually spent a lot of effort on this. After all, this is a big deal for the country to invade by foreign enemies. This is an old problem about pirates, not something that happened only in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

It's just that in the face of such a problem, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty are surprisingly consistent. That is to enforce the sea ban.

I'm not the emperor, so I can't judge whether this must be right or wrong. Because in a way, this really made the dynasty less bothered by pirates. Let the country have less to worry about in this regard.

It was also during this period that Europe began to reform and became the new hegemon of the time. And our country is still in the illusion that it thinks itself is so powerful in its sleep.

To sum up, the Ming Dynasty implemented a sea ban in order to reduce the disturbance of encountering pirates. and the implementation of the policy. My personal opinion is that there are all kinds of ways to hide the bell.

Why don't you want to go pirates, why do you want to do it? No one has to do anything for no reason. It's like the heroes in the Three Kingdoms who were forced to go to Liangshan.

Is there a better way to deal with piracy? For example, to strengthen the strength of one's own country, or to solve the problem of the suffering of the people in the annex. Let the pirates live a stable life and solve the problem at the source.

1. The Ming Dynasty's maritime ban is a general term for a series of restrictive policies on maritime affairs carried out by the Ming Dynasty in the 14th century.

2. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese feudal princes divided their territories and attacked each other. The feudal lords, who had lost the war, organized samurai, merchants, and ronins to carry out armed smuggling, looting and harassment in China's coastal areas. In this regard, during the Hongwu period, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the implementation of the maritime ban policy that began in the Ming Dynasty in order to prevent the coastal warlords from being harassed by the remnants of the party and pirates.

3. In the early days, the main object of the sea ban was commerce (commercial ban), which prohibited Chinese from doing business overseas, and also restricted foreign merchants from going to China for ** (except for tribute). During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, although Zheng He had the feat of going to the West, it was only the tributary ** that was released, and private people were still not allowed to go to sea. Later, with the plague of the Japanese invaders, the maritime ban policy became more and more stringent, which played a role in self-protection, but greatly hindered the development of Sino-foreign exchanges.

During the Longqing period, the Ming Dynasty adjusted the policy and allowed the private sector to go overseas for trade, which was known as the Longqing switch in history. The lifting of the sea ban has opened up a new situation for the return of Chinese and foreign countries and Zhao regret.

4. The sea ban policy of the Ming Dynasty has undergone a changeable process from the beginning of the Hongwu period to the abolition of the sea ban at the end of the Ming Dynasty. From the strict sea ban policy in the early Ming Dynasty, the relaxation of the sea ban in the Yongle period, the re-strengthening of the sea ban policy after Yongle (Hongxi-Hongzhi), the high degree of leakage and strengthening of the sea ban policy in the Jiajing period, the rapid development of Longqing's opening up and overseas **, and the abolition of the sea ban at the end of the Ming Dynasty. These policies had a profound impact on the historical development of the Ming Dynasty.

Because the Ming and Qing dynasties wanted to protect their rule and imprison people's thoughts, they had to carry out a maritime ban policy.

The "sea ban" of the Ming Dynasty was mainly in the early years of the Ming Dynasty and the middle and late Ming Dynasty. Because Ming Taizu hoped that the maritime ban policy would play a decisive role in the consolidation of coastal defense. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the "sea ban" was mainly due to the rampant Japanese pirates.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang set up the ancestral motto of "not allowing an inch board to go to the sea", and later the "sea ban" was relaxed for a time (Zheng He's trip to the West happened in the Ming Dynasty). Later, in order to defend against the intrusion of the Japanese invaders, the "sea ban" was strictly enforced.