"Zhu Yuanzhang can solve these opponents one by one, it can be said that he has gone through a lot of hardships, so Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Dynasty is not easy to come by, and he cherishes the fruits of this victory very much."

"Among these opponents, Fang Guozhen's strength is not great, but Fang Guozhen Group has a characteristic, their sailors are very powerful."

"No way, Fang Guozhen himself started as a smuggler, and his territory is in eastern Zhejiang, leaning on the sea, so Fang Guozhen's brothers are all people who are familiar with water."

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

"After Fang Guozhen surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang, in fact, Fang Guozhen's subordinates did not all surrender, they chose to continue to fight with Zhu Yuanzhang."

"Zhu Yuanzhang is also very helpless, because the rest of Fang Guozhen and Zhang Shicheng have converged together to form a powerful pirate force, and Zhu Yuanzhang's own sailors can't deal with these pirates at all."

"And these pirates are also involved in Zhu Yuanzhang's second fault, I should talk about this issue later, but it does have a certain connection."

"These pirates are the pirates, and they are a country that has done all kinds of evil to our country, and the people of this country are notorious in our eyes in modern times, and the existence of national hatred and family hatred."

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

"So when they attack the coastal areas, they often get covert help from the local people."

"Zhu Yuanzhang was made big by these people, and the later monarchs of the Ming Dynasty were also troubled by this, especially during the Jiajing period, the strength of the Japanese Kou almost reached its peak."

"So how do you fix this?"

"Zhu Yuanzhang finally decided, it's better to ban the sea!"

"The principle of the sea ban is very simple, not a single board of ships can appear on the coast, no fishermen are allowed to go into the sea to fish, and no businessmen are allowed to go to sea to trade."

"In other words, since the era of Zhu Yuanzhang, the policy of closing the country has been kicked off, and its purpose is very simple, in order to maintain the rule of the Ming Dynasty."

"It stands to reason that Zhu Yuanzhang's strategy of banning the sea is not to close the country, that is, the Ming Dynasty has only cut off trade with neighboring countries, and cultural exchanges have not stopped."

"If a country wants to develop, it must actively establish good relations with neighboring countries, but given the actual situation of the Ming Dynasty at that time, it is also a wise move to implement a maritime ban."

"Zhu Yuanzhang locked the gate of the country, 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, the Ming Dynasty had all the resources that should be there, and it was completely self-sufficient in food and clothing. ”

"The small-scale peasant economy is just like this, a bit like Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden."

"Many people may think that it is wrong, Zhu Yuanzhang closed himself off from the country, why did he engage Zheng He to go to the West during the Zhu Di period?"

"At that time, the scale of Zheng He's voyage to the Western Ocean was quite huge, with 20,000 or 30,000 people each time, more than 200 large and small ships, and went through 7 times, passing through more than 30 countries in Asia and Africa."

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

"In fact, this is not contradictory to the isolation of the country, the Ming Dynasty completely cut off the exchanges between the people and foreign countries, but the official can still communicate with foreign countries."

"In other words, ordinary people, you just have to farm the land honestly, don't think about it. The one who can really get in touch with foreign countries has to be people from the imperial court, and only the henchmen of the old Zhu family have this qualification. ”

"Even so, Zheng He's trip to the West was only carried out 7 times before it ended, after all, it was too expensive, and even the imperial court rarely got in touch with foreign countries after that, and it was basically in a situation of complete retreat."

"The closure of the country in the Qing Dynasty is also very serious, but it is not completely closed, but the impact is also very great, although Zhu Yuanzhang is a wise move, but the impact is too great."

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

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

"When the sea ban was not implemented, they often harassed the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, and sometimes went ashore to plunder, and the Ming Dynasty also lost a lot as a result."

"After the implementation of the sea ban, those remnant forces will not be able to harass the Ming Dynasty often, and it will still have a positive effect on the stability of the Ming Dynasty."

"The implementation of the sea ban can enable the Ming Dynasty to monopolize many commodities and increase a lot of financial revenue for the Ming Dynasty."

"The sea ban prohibits people from engaging in overseas trade with foreign countries, but the Ming Dynasty itself can conduct a certain amount of trade with neighboring countries."

"Therefore, many overseas goods needed by the people of the Ming Dynasty could only be bought from the hands of the Ming Dynasty, which increased the financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty a lot."

"There is also the biggest factor, after the implementation of the sea ban, the Ming Dynasty has more strength to deal with the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty in the north."

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

"If the sea ban is not implemented, the Ming Dynasty will have to deploy a lot of troops along the coast, so it will be more difficult to deal with the forces of the Yuan Dynasty."

"After the implementation of the sea ban, Zhu Yuanzhang can concentrate his main forces to deal with the forces of the Yuan Dynasty, and finally defeat them completely."

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

"The consequences of the closure are also very serious."

"Because in the past, many merchants on land relied on foreign trade and fishing for seafood to make a living, but now they have cut off people's economic resources, and they have no money to repay their car loans and housing loans, so they can only take risks and become pirates, which are later known as pirates."

"Therefore, the more retreated, the more serious the Japanese invaders, especially in the Jiajing period, the Japanese were strong, and the southeast coast was repeatedly violated, and they were repeatedly banned."

"I can't beat it, and I almost killed famous generals such as Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou."

"In fact, the Ming Dynasty also realized the root cause of the repeated prohibitions of the Japanese Emperor, but Emperor Jiajing did not dare to change the ancestral system easily, he was old anyway, so he wanted to mix it up like this."

"After Jiajing's son Emperor Longqing ascended the throne, he immediately chose to open the country, and the Longqing switch is a bit similar to the Ming Dynasty's version of reform and opening up, although only Zhangzhou Port was opened as a treaty port, but the effect was very good."

(End of chapter)