Why was navigation halted during the Ming Dynasty, and what are the ulterior reasons behind it?

There is no ulterior motive behind it, the reason is that there were too many Japanese pirates at that time, and they went to the coastal areas to burn and loot, so the Ming Dynasty implemented a sea ban.

Because Zheng He went to the West, the money consumed was very large, so the voyage that was stopped, and the purpose of promoting national prestige has been achieved.

The sea ban is a traditional policy, which existed before the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty's maritime ban policy was inherited from the Yuan Dynasty, and the Yuan Dynasty was the Song Dynasty that learned from it, and the Song Dynasty created the maritime ban, and the Song Dynasty imposed a maritime ban because the imperial court wanted to monopolize overseas.

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Clause. 1. The Ming Dynasty was forbidden to the sea.

On the one hand, the imperial court wants to monopolize overseas, hoping to crack down on the private sector through the "sea ban", bring the overseas rights of other countries into the hands of the people, implement monopoly, and directly collect high profits into the finance, so as to alleviate the financial dilemma. On the other hand, it was indeed to prevent pirates and pirates, in those days, there were many pirates and pirates, and it was difficult to distinguish between merchants, fishermen and pirates without a sea ban.

Clause. 2. For political reasons, avoid doing business with foreigners without the consent of the imperial court. It may seem strange now, but in ancient times it was a tributary system.

The fact that foreigners could come to China to do business was a political favor and an important diplomatic tool for the imperial court.

Clause. Third, economic reasons, from the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, is the silver standard to replace the original copper standard period, with the surge, a large number of people gradually replaced the copper money to become the main currency in circulation. And the production of my local ** is limited (in other words, **there is no way to monitor **circulation** from the source of production), and most of the ** circulating in the market comes from the outside world ** (these surge currencies, as is now popular, are the so-called hot money.

If you put it to the present day, you can use the method of financial control to monitor capital, but in the ancient imperial court, there was no way to play any financial control. Such a large amount of currency that is not regulated by the empire enters the imperial market, and it is naturally easy for the empire to be in a state of instability. So the empire adopted the simplest and crude method, the so-called sea ban, which mainly started from the source of entry, leaving only one or a few treaty ports.

Responsible for external **, so that it is relatively easy to monitor the inflow of **.

Because during the Ming Dynasty, there were many Japanese invaders who invaded the territorial waters and borders of the Ming Dynasty through the sea route, which had a great impact on the Ming Dynasty, so the Ming Dynasty chose to ban the sea.

Because the pirates of the Ming Dynasty were very rampant, they chose such a move.

The main reason is that at that time, I felt that I was already very strong, and I didn't need to go to other countries to have a series of exchanges and exchanges, so I chose this closed way to develop, but this is also the reason for my own destruction.

That was a misjudgment made by those in power, who were worried that foreign conditions would affect China's situation, so they closed the door of the country and developed it themselves.

Mainly because the political rule during the Ming Dynasty was not particularly stable, so they mainly wanted to develop their own interior.

Because it will not cause war, it will make people's lives more peaceful and there will be no homelessness.

There is a reason why the Ming Dynasty did not continue to sail after seven voyages to the West, and if these internal reasons do not change, there is not much point in sailing.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty went to the West was largely to hunt down and kill Zhu Yunwen, and by the way, show off his might. And Western countries sail to obtain direct benefits, such as finding treasures, opening shipping routes, establishing colonies, etc. From this point of view, even if the Ming Dynasty continued its voyages, it would be difficult to make use of the results obtained.

So why didn't the Ming Dynasty establish colonies and so on. Ancient China regarded itself as the center of the world, with superior geographical conditions and barbarians all around, so naturally there was not much incentive to bring other people's broken places under its direct jurisdiction (just like the United States did not let the Philippines join). After the flotilla broke through Sri Lanka, it did not continue to occupy either.

More importantly, the highly centralized **** does not want a force far away from itself and with heavy troops to appear.

At that time, science and technology in the Ming Dynasty were underdeveloped, and at the same time, the people of the Ming Dynasty did not have a long-term development vision, believing that China was vast and rich in resources.

The Age of Discovery, also known as the Great Discoveries, refers to the extensive transoceanic activities and major breakthroughs in geography initiated by various parts of the world in the 15th and 17th centuries, especially in Europe. These ocean-going activities have facilitated communication between the continents of the planet and have led to the formation of numerous new routes. With the opening of new shipping routes, cultural and ** exchanges between the East and the West have increased greatly, and colonialism and liberalism have begun to rise.

Europe grew rapidly during this period and laid the foundations for prosperity that surpassed Asia's. Not only did people discover new continents in this era, but also increased a lot of geographical knowledge, and also greatly promoted the overseas development of Europe, and became one of the important links in the rise of European capitalism. The impact of the new sea routes on the development of the world's continents in the next few hundred years is also complex and contradictory for countries and peoples other than Europe.

Zheng He went to the West to take a look, the outside is not very good, I have what you have, I have what you don't, the most important thing is: the Ming Dynasty scholar class has always monopolized shipping, so it has been deliberately asking for the sea to be closed and the country closed, so that they can smuggle to obtain huge wealth.

Mao Yuanyi (1594, 1644?) of the Ming Dynasty. In his 1621 book, Wu Bei Zhi, the famous "Zheng He's Navigation Chart" was preserved. If the court's nautical archives were not destroyed and made available to researchers, it would be possible for the Chinese to accurately infer the shape of the earth from the different heights of the North Star from the equator to different parts of the northern hemisphere recorded in the above materials, making Zhang Heng's hazy conjecture of the Han Dynasty more credible.

Of course, this is only a hypothetical stately energy. In fact, because China's traditional civilization is essentially an agricultural civilization, the Chinese value the land more than the sea, and do not like sea exploration as much as seafaring and commercial peoples, so this assumption is difficult to realize. Economic and technological progress and difficulties began with Zhu Yuanzhang's policy of governing officials with fierceness and leniency, and in the 375-year history of the Ming Dynasty, with the concentration of land and wealth and the intensification of corruption in the officialdom, commodity production also developed accordingly.

These two trends are the whirlpool of two major convergences in social life, extending together in the coordinates of history.

Today, when we look back at the foreign relations in the early Ming Dynasty, we still cannot ignore the influence of non-economic factors. Many ways of thinking that are difficult for people to understand today were used to construct the worldview of policymakers at the time.

A considerable part of the Ming emperor's external contacts were to establish his authority. Especially there are cross-regional forces such as the Han and Tang Empires, and there are very outward-looking predecessors such as the Mengyuan Empire. The new emperor needs to make achievements in these aspects, show his ability, and proclaim his destiny.

Take, for example, Zheng He's seven voyages. Not only did they have to use the tributary model to go to various countries to buy spices, agate, precious stones and other luxury goods, but they also brought back lions and giraffes that were only for the emperor's own viewing.

It's just that this kind of tributary**, which is forced by external threats, is not so necessary after the threat gradually disappears. And the decline of the Timurid Empire was also unable to continue to organize a large tributary team to the east. The ** city, which has lost strong support, is rapidly falling apart in the case of ** shrinking forehead.

If the Ming Dynasty insisted on following the example of the Han and Tang dynasties in the early years of westward expansion, I am afraid that it would not have harvested these ruined lands in the sea of corpses and blood in the war.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, while restricting the northwest land**, most of the coastal ** was also eliminated through the sea ban. But Zheng He's generation, with the help of the last Muslims who had experience in going to sea, retook those 2,000-year-old routes. Traditional Chinese sailing boats were also structurally improved with the help of these descendants of Arab maritime merchants.

In order to adapt to long voyages over long distances. It was only because of a series of inevitable mistakes that this large-scale voyage finally stopped.

As for the canceled voyage to the West, it was more because of its own poor management. Excessive imports of bulk commodities have caused **** in the domestic market. The dilemma of making ends meet has been infinitely magnified, and the financial deficit caused by it has made the ** people who can't receive their wages complain.

Although it is a pity that Zheng He has no successor, it is also a certainty in the dark. The bases that remained in Malacca and Palembang were quickly abandoned as meaningless.