The maritime ban was not only the main reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, but also what influence did it have on later generations?

At any time, the maritime ban is a cowardly act of closing the country and self-sealing.

Why did Zhu Yuanzhang force the coastal people in Zhejiang Province to move inward and implement the strictest "no entry into the sea" policy in history?

First, because they could not get rid of Japan, they used the method of "shrinking" to avoid Japan's endless aggression and harassment of coastal provinces, and second, to realize the monopoly of foreign trade by the royal family in the Ming Dynasty.

Many people retort that, in that case, why did Zheng He go to the Western Ocean later? Many people don't understand that the Ming Dynasty was forbidden to the people, and Zheng He's voyage to the West was an expensive political show to publicize the legitimacy of the throne after Emperor Yongle usurped power.

The maritime ban is not only one of the main reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, but also directly affected the history of later generations for more than 300 years.

The maritime ban caused great losses to the Ming Dynasty itself.

At that time, the scale of the Ming Dynasty was dozens of times that of Japan. Why have you been bullied by Japan for more than 200 years? Instead, use the most passive avoidance tactics to deal with this enemy? When Zhu Yuanzhang learned that Kublai Khan, who was once more powerful, was defeated in two expeditions to Japan, he completely lost his intention to fight against Japan.

In order to give yourself enough face, the Ming Dynasty classified Japan as a "country that never crusaded". The Ming Dynasty gave in to Japan, but did Japan stop harassing the Ming Dynasty?

Compared with the opening and harvest of maritime trade in Song and Yuan Dynasties, the maritime ban in Ming Dynasty seemed brilliant, and it controlled all maritime trade in its own hands by tough administrative means, but in the long run, it was the Ming Dynasty itself that suffered.

At that time, an official in Fujian beat the imperial court in this way, hoping that the Zhujiajian Island imperial court could withdraw the order to enforce the maritime ban, but it was rejected by the royal family who only valued the immediate interests. Its contents are as follows:

"The sea, the field of Fujian people also. People by the sea, who have no physical access, are also recommended by hunger. Poor people often go to the sea to steal things and escape. As soon as the sea ban was opened, the coastal people had no food and clothing and turned to plunder the seashore. The seaside men and women are suffering from the blade, and they have everything for their children, which is particularly cool. "

This passage in classical Chinese is not difficult to understand. For the convenience of everyone, the author translated it again in popular language. My translation is like this:

"The ocean is the basis for the survival of coastal residents. In order to make money for his family, Zhu robbed the coastal people of their business. This makes you rich for a while, but how can tens of millions of people in several coastal provinces live?

As the saying goes, relying on mountains to eat mountains, relying on the sky to eat the sea, you have broken people's financial path now, isn't it forcing people to become pirates? You are taking advantage, but you have harmed future generations for a hundred years! "

As we all know, two out of ten officials working under Zhu Yuanzhang can die well.

Zhu Yuanzhang can change from a beggar monk to a generation of founding emperors, and his intelligence and decisive battle are absolutely first-class.

However, after becoming emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang was even more afraid of losing his hard-earned money and status. Like Qin Shihuang, Zhu Yuanzhang broke his heart for future generations in order to pass on his family business smoothly to future generations.

To this end, Zhu Yuanzhang not only restored the feudal system and the human sacrifice system, but also created unprecedented things in the imperial system, such as the Forbidden City, stereotyped writing, Neo-Confucianism, Royal Guards, Cabinet, and imperial aides.

Zhu Yuanzhang did these things for only one purpose, that is, to stabilize the country of the Zhu family.

Zhu Yuanzhang's enfeoffment system caused the princes around the country to encircle the land and harm one side. In the history of the Ming Dynasty, there were several major incidents in which the princes rebelled.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the empire had to bear a heavy burden because of raising a huge royal family named Zhu, which was one of the main reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

However, after the death of Zhu Yuanzhang and Judy, two political powerhouses, this cake became the focus of internal plunder in the Ming Dynasty.

After the "Minbao Change", the powerful royal family named Zhu was completely defeated by the civil service group, and since then, the maritime trade rights of the Ming Dynasty have been fought for hundreds of years.

In this nominal "enemy chaos", the imperial court spent decades, almost exhausted its national strength, and used the power of the whole country to pacify the "pirates" along the coast, but did it succeed?

What is the final result? After Jiajing's death, Qin Long made substantial concessions, opened the maritime ban and turned coastal pirates into legitimate businessmen.

After the transformation of Qin Long, the empire immediately entered a period of high tide and prosperity. Isn't that clear? When Lao Zhu's family wanted to eat the most profitable fat meat of ocean trade alone, they had no choice but to use armed smuggling against the coastal residents of the imperial court.

This not only greatly consumed the national strength of the Ming Dynasty and the prestige of the imperial court, but also plunged several coastal provinces into a state of war for decades. When Qin Long was forced to close because of too much pressure, everyone could make money together and all the problems were solved.

Who wants to be a robber as long as the people have a little way to live? The harm of the maritime ban is not limited to these, and it has a greater impact on future generations.

The influence of maritime ban on future generations

The maritime ban not only made the Ming Dynasty miss the era of great navigation, but also directly led to the emergence of Zheng Zhilong's family, the maritime overlord, and the painful consequences of coastal trade falling into the hands of foreigners.

Compared with the treasure ships of Columbus and Zheng He, Columbus's ship is like a stupid pig dancing in front of an elephant.

But the fundamental starting points of Columbus and Zheng He are different. One is to find a way to make a fortune for the western empire, and the other is to create a tribute system of "losing money and earning money" in the Ming Dynasty with the master's mission.

The Ming Dynasty forced the neighboring vassal States to trade through the official channels of the Ming Dynasty through the maritime ban, but the final result was that the Ming Dynasty earned face but lost money every time.

This arrogance and self-deception not only continued throughout the Ming Dynasty, but also successfully passed on this "stupid gene" to the Qing Dynasty.

If the Ming Dynasty opened the folk marine market like the Song Dynasty and established a regular port tax system, it would not only promote the folk exchanges between China and the West, but also prosper the coast, but it would not be in the interests of Zhu Yuanzhang's royal family.

It is precisely because of the constraints of the Ming Dynasty on the coastal people that super pirate empires such as Wang Zhi, Xu Hai and Zheng Zhilong emerged.

Zheng Zhilong, the overlord of the East China Sea, took advantage of the closed season of the Ming Dynasty to occupy one side and recruit mercenaries. Not only hundreds of thousands of mercenaries, thousands of warships, but also the Dutch and Portuguese had to surrender to the Zheng family.

Although Zheng Zhilong's family was nominally a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, they were always local emperors and were not controlled by the Ming Dynasty, but they always threatened the maritime security of the Ming Dynasty.

The biggest harm caused by the maritime ban in the Ming Dynasty to later generations was that the sweetness of this official monopoly made the selfish and conservative royal family see the benefits brought by the maritime ban. Why have we closed our doors for more than 300 years? Isn't this a continuation of history?

The sea ban not only led to the international trade depression of the empire, but also hindered the people from obtaining the latest information from the outside world. This kind of netting tactics was beneficial to the royal family in the imperial era, but what will be the consequences of this favorable result? It is humiliation and extinction again and again, and it is ignorance and backwardness of self-castration, isn't it?