Why were there so many pirates in the Ming Dynasty? The Qing Dynasty was relatively few?

The main reason for the Qing Dynasty was that it was inconvenient for pirates to come over again, and when the Qing Dynasty came, the country began to implement the policy of closing the country, and the country was relatively open during the Ming Dynasty, so there were many pirates.

The Ming Dynasty was more frequent at sea, which naturally attracted the covetousness of many sea ronins, but the Qing Dynasty implemented a policy of closing the country to the outside world, with only one trading place, and other areas were all closed, not communicating with the outside world, and pirates had no chance.

There were a lot of pirates in the Ming Dynasty, but there were relatively few in the Qing Dynasty, which was caused by the implementation of the sea sealing policy in the Qing Dynasty, and the failure to implement this policy in the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty forbade the sea **, so the big families in the south staged their own pirates in order to make money, and the Qing Dynasty's strong control over the grassroots led to the disappearance of all these pirates.

There were a lot of pirates in the Ming Dynasty? The Qing Dynasty had fewer reasons, because the Qing Dynasty closed itself off from the country and did not allow maritime transactions, while the Ming Dynasty could allow maritime transactions.

Xu Hai. Xu Hai, a native of Huizhou. His wife was the famous prostitute Wang Cuiqiao at the time (it was this wife who inadvertently pushed him into the fire pit). Xu Hai's other name is Pujing.

Wang Zhi is Wang Zhi. A native of She County, Huizhou Prefecture, also known as Wufeng, the owner of Wufeng; In the Ming Dynasty, the first maritime merchants, navigators, and famous pirates had a great historical reputation because of the introduction of muskets to Japan. Ming's maritime ban policy interrupted the sea, and Wang Zhi summoned the gang and the Japanese ronin to form a smuggling team, claiming to be the king of Hui, but in the end, due to the loss of control, it caused a rebellion and was booby-trapped by Hu Zongxian.

Zheng Zhilong. Zheng Zhilong was a pirate in his early years. In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, he was a merchant and pirate who was active in southern China and Japan, and was known for his armed maritime group, the Yiguan Party, which originated in the Hirado Domain of Japan, and was the father of Zheng Chenggong, the founder of the Zheng Dynasty in Taiwan.

Chen Zuyi (a pirate in Southeast Asia during the Yongle period, later defeated by Zheng He's fleet, he himself was taken to Beijing and executed by order of the Ming Cheng group).

Wang Zhi's "or Wang Zhi" (a pirate during the Jiajing period, with considerable foreign power, was executed in Hangzhou, and his death was related to Hu Zongxian).

Xu Hai (also a pirate during the Jiajing period, can also be called a traitor, colluded with the Japanese invaders, and was later lured by Hu Zongxian to surrender, trapped and thrown into the water and died).

Zheng Zhilong (a great pirate in the late Ming Dynasty, founded a maritime kingdom, once defeated the Dutch through naval battles, and his son was also a famous national hero Zheng Chenggong).

Fang Guozhen, a pirate in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, was active in Jiangsu and Zhejiang;

Wang Zhi, a very famous pirate in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, sold Chinese things to Europeans in exchange for arms, and then sold them to Japan at ten times the profit, and it is said that he also occupied a territory in Japan, with troops and 10,000 men, and was later destroyed by the governor of Zhejiang;

Xu Hai, at the same time as Wang Zhi, was slightly inferior to Wang Zhi, but his strength was also very strong, he started as a smuggler, and was later killed because of a woman;

Zheng Zhilong, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the strength of his son Zheng Chenggong was the foundation he laid, although his son was very good, but he himself was surrendered by the Qing court, and was killed because he failed to recruit Zheng Chenggong.

Zheng Zhilong, Wang Zhi instead of Wang Zhi. Wang Zhi is a factory man in Xichang, how can he be a pirate? There is also Fang Guozhen, a pirate in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasty.

During the Japanese period, there were Wang Zhi, Xu Hai, and Mao Haifeng.

There is a man named Xu Wenlong, who seems to be a pioneer in the Ming Dynasty, who did not dare to return to the imperial court because of the defeat of the war, fled to an unnamed island in Japan, and made a living by robbing ships and ships, and was a famous pirate, and it is said that he also did arms trading with the Portuguese, and finally let Yu Qian peace.

Xu Hai, Wang Zhi, and the Zheng family headed by Zheng Zhilong.

Chen Zuyi in the early Ming Dynasty.

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Hai, Wang Zhi.

Zheng Zhilong at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Hai, Wang Zhi: I knew that both of them were giant pirates.

1. The pirates of the Ming Dynasty included residents of the southeast coast of China, Japanese pirates, Portuguese pirates, Spanish pirates, Dutch pirates, and so on. They engage in robbery when they rely on the sea for their livelihood, but they also rebel against the government and local tyrants, and are known as pirates, pirates, foreign bandits, island bandits, and green criminals. They represent an emerging force in business.

2. At that time, there was no clear division between merchants and thieves, when there was business, it was business (smuggling), and when there was no business, it was theft. Sometimes they rob each other, and sometimes they go ashore to rob each other. When the sea ban is widened, pirates become maritime merchants; When the sea is banned, the maritime merchants become pirates.

3. Because the maritime ban of the Ming Dynasty was very strict, China's maritime commercial capital had no way out, so it could only be pirates, so these pirates could also be called "maritime groups". These pirate (Shang) groups were very powerful, and they could even influence the political and military situation of the Ming Dynasty.

4. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, there have been many heroes among the folk pirates, who have accumulated huge wealth by relying on various forms of maritime livelihood, and have a strong armed team, once controlled the trade routes and become a force to be reckoned with at sea. However, the information and records about these figures are hidden like snowflakes and fragments in foreign historical materials or various local chronicles. Some of the leaders of the Chinese pirates in the past generations showed no less resourcefulness and decisiveness in many battles than the elites of the ruling class who were clever and capable of conquest.

In the late Ming Dynasty, many talented generals devoted themselves to fighting the Japanese pirates, and achieved some success, so that the Japanese did not dare to invade for a short time, which also benefited the Qing Dynasty and led to a decrease in the number of pirates in the Qing Dynasty. At that time, there were Japanese pirates, who came to China to plunder grain because of Japan's own lack of materials, and some Chinese, who fled to the sea because of their mistakes, to avoid the pursuit of the imperial court, and also made a living by burning and looting. Qi Jiguang, a famous general and national hero during the Ming Dynasty, was in the southeast of our country, committed to fighting pirates, and has been on the front line of fighting pirates for decades.

The efforts of the Ming Dynasty were remarkable, and several of the largest pirate organizations were dismantled. This facilitated the Qing Dynasty, which led to a decrease in piracy during the Qing Dynasty.

During the Qing Dynasty, the Japanese implemented a strict policy of seclusion, which did not allow their own people to go to sea without permission, which led to a decrease in piracy. During the Qing Dynasty, there was a change in the Japanese rulers, and the new rulers believed that the frequent exchanges between natives and foreigners would bring new cultures back to Japan, which would undoubtedly be detrimental to the rule of the rulers. Therefore, Japan was strictly forbidden to go to sea at that time, and this also made the number of pirates who came to China much less.

During the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan, recruited a large number of troops in the coastal areas, and many pirates became Zheng Chenggong's subordinates. At that time, Zheng Chenggong was bent on fighting the Dutch, and gathered a large number of people to join his team in the coastal areas. And pirates are an important part of that.

Most of the pirates have no place to live, so many of them are extremely brave when they fight, regardless of their lives. Zheng Chenggong needs such subordinates. During the Qing Dynasty, the maritime forces were staggered, and there were foreign powers and larger organizations like Zheng Chenggong, and small pirate organizations could not survive, and many people chose not to be pirates.

That was before the Meiji Restoration. They have issued a ban on the sea in Japan, prohibiting these ignorant or nomadic people from going to sea, so these pirates are relatively few in China.

There were many pirates in the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty decreased a lot, indicating that the Qing Dynasty had made a lot of efforts to combat pirates.

Because the rulers of the Qing Dynasty put power in their own hands, they said something unique, and no one dared to resist.

Because the Ming Dynasty implemented a maritime ban policy, prohibiting the sea **, while the Qing Dynasty implemented a policy of closing the country, compared with the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty's policy was relaxed.

Because during the Ming Dynasty, Japan gradually developed and began to harass China's coastal areas, and at the same time, the development of Western colonies also brought a certain impact on China's coastal Jinggai banquet area, and the reason why there were few pirates in the Qing Dynasty was because the Qing Dynasty implemented a policy of closing the country.