A veritable world financial center
Mr. Zhu Yuanzhang's "no-debris policy" was shrewd to see the great benefits at that time.
So, like salt and iron, only the imperial court is allowed to run, and civilians are not allowed to go to the sea.
Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to eat all the meat himself and not give the coastal people a way out, which was also the reason why the coastal "pirates" flooded in the middle and late Ming Dynasty and fought for more than ten years.
In fact, fishermen and businessmen who want to make a living at sea are also called smuggling groups.
Judy made full use of the sea power monopolized by the royal family to conduct large-scale international trade, which provided a steady stream of economic security for his decades of war.
It is said that Zheng He's voyages to the West are a waste of people and money, and it is those civilian groups who write history with their pens.
Because later Zheng De, Jiajing, and Apocalypse all wanted to resume their plans to sail to the Western Ocean, which might harm their family's smuggling interests, they wrote books to discredit them.
And themselves, such as Liu Daxia's family, Zheng Zhilong's family, a coastal official, the father of the later maritime overlord Zheng Chenggong, and Wang Zhi and other huge smuggling and piracy forces, were born in this way.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty was the manufacturing center of the world.
All ethnic groups came to Korea in the Ming Dynasty.
China's writing is extensive and profound, while the emperors in feudal times like to deceive themselves and others, being hypocritical and arrogant.
For example, it is clear that in the Song Dynasty, for the prosperity of the Zhao family, they tried their best to "send money, goods and women" to the outside world, but they were euphemistically called "ancient coins", which were lucky money for children.
In the Ming dynasty, even in the Tang dynasty, the core content of the so-called "tribute system" and "all nations come to Korea" was trade. Who can do bad things in this world? Between countries, the interest relationship is more naked.
Because the Ming dynasty had the absolute right to speak and the best quality goods in the world at that time, the Ming court had the right to choose who to trade with.
Although other countries can only export precious heavy metals such as real gold and silver, they even had a civil war in their own countries, such as Japan, in order to trade with the Ming Dynasty. Daming is also puzzled that other countries simply forge credentials.
For example, in 1745, the Swedish Gothenburg set out for Sweden with 700 tons of goods, mainly tea, porcelain and silk, which were purchased from China. After returning home, it was the goods of this ship that were auctioned, and the price was as high as 250 million Swedish silver coins, which was their income from international GDP for two years.
According to the research of Gunde Frank, a famous German scholar and disciple of the Nobel Prize winner in economics, more than half of the world's annual silver output flowed into China at that time.
The Ming Dynasty was a silver-based empire, but it produced very little silver by itself. At that time, 85% of the world's silver was produced in the United States, and Japan was also a big silver producer. 16 ~18th century, the global silver output added up to138,000 tons.
During this period, 60,000 tons of silver flowed to China. According to this logical reasoning, China is the richest and the best. Why didn't you enter the industrial revolution?