Ming Dynasty was established with the efforts of the grassroots uprising leader Zhu Yuanzhang . Like the emperors of all dynasties, they paid great attention to the country and the country, adopted various people-friendly policies, quickly developed the economy, and stabilized the population growth.
When he achieved initial economic and social development results, Zhu Yuanzhang once asked his first counselor Liu Bowen , How many years of national destiny did the Ming Dynasty have. He replied to Zhu Yuanzhang with a little thought: "For thousands of generations", although it is a bit exaggerated reply, the Ming Dynasty ruled at one of the rare long-lived dynasties.
In the early Ming Dynasty, social development entered the fast lane and adopted various tactics to weaken the rights of military generals. At this time, the military strength was naturally very strong.
The first generation of entrepreneurial Ming Jun has just emerged from years of practical combat, and he feels not used to the days when he doesn't fight. By the time of Jiajing , the military strength was no longer as good as before. Is this arguable statement that more than a dozen Japanese pirates killed 6,000 Ming troops?
At the beginning of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, was it really vulnerable to the Ming army when it arrived at the Jiajing period?
Fifty-three Japanese pirates killed more than 6,000 Ming troops. It is not true that they killed more than 6,000 Ming troops. Because during the Jiajing period, many very powerful anti-Japanese generals emerged. With their strength, they were even more impossible to easily allow dozens of enemies to cross the layers of defense and break into the territory and kill in large numbers. According to legend, they almost reached the capital, and this situation is impossible.
Why is this statement untenable?
Let’s first analyze the situation at that time. From the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Japanese pirates began to prevail and activities were very rampant. The reason for this situation was that the Ming Dynasty began to implement a policy of retreat. After the Ming Taizu ordered that the film could not go to the sea, the people began to lose their livelihood. They originally went to sea to fish for a living, but suddenly they lost their livelihood of eating.
Also affected are fishermen from small countries nearby, often forced back by law enforcement ships of the Song Dynasty . This has been developed until during the Jiajing period of , and the pirate invasion gradually formed a scale.
, especially Japanese pirates attacked the southeast coastal areas in large numbers. Some people who could not live in the coastal areas also became internal thieves and joined the Japanese pirate team.
Although Japanese pirates were rampant, many famous anti-Japanese generals appeared during the Jiajing period, and these Japanese pirates did not form any climate. In the official history of the Ming Dynasty, there was no record of Japanese pirates defeating the Ming army by the Jiajing period.
This is normal. At this time, the famous anti-Japanese generals Qi Jiguang , Yu Dayou , Hu Zongxian , Deng Zilong and other famous generals, each of which can make the Japanese pirates frightened. How could a dozen Japanese pirates say that they killed people for a few days and immediately hit the capital?
There are all kinds of reasons for this, because the historical book that records the feat of Japanese pirates is not a historian of the Ming Dynasty, but a historical book of Qing Dynasty .
. There will definitely be a fabrication element in the compilation. The Qing court, which had already hated the previous dynasty, did not dare to praise the great achievements of the previous dynasty in its own history books. This is a clear signal of anti-Qing and restoring the Ming dynasty , and it is obvious that the crime of killing the whole family of the dynasty implicated the nine clans.
Therefore, the Qing Dynasty wrote about the Ming Dynasty, especially the things that wrote about history, were basically studied with question marks. But then again, the Qing Dynasty’s historical statement about the Ming Dynasty’s compilation was not credible, so the compilation of this dynasty during the Ming Dynasty should be true.
Romance novels of the Ming Dynasty rose up
Romance novels of the Ming Dynasty entered a period of prosperity. Many famous novels of Romance were published in the Ming Dynasty , and novels such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Journey to the West", " Investiture of the Gods ", "Jin Ping Mei" and other novels spring up like bamboo shoots after a rain. The Romance novels of the Ming Dynasty developed to their peak.
At this time, many writers who were not born often wrote unofficial history to practice their writing styles, which caused some hearsay things that were considered historical.
In particular, more than a dozen Japanese pirates killed thousands of Ming troops and rushed all the way outside the capital. This statement did not appear in the historical documents of the Ming Dynasty.
However, some officials who compiled the history of the Ming Dynasty actually let themselves go when writing this history and used Romance to describe the history of Japanese pirates harassing the border.
Why did the historian dare to write this at this time? He is not afraid of being known by the officials above, is he punished? Without the prevalence of Romance novels, according to common sense, a small historian would not dare to act rashly.
However, the development direction of the entire social literature at that time was an exaggerated legend, which caused some small-scale invasions of Japanese pirates to be expanded during this period.
Of course, the historian's Romance technique also has his own selfish intentions to describe the invasion of Japanese pirates. History itself is simple and boring. If you want to attract attention and spread the essay, it will be of no effect just by relying on plain and straightforward narration.
will naturally not attract attention. Therefore, the historian used this method to increase the reading volume and popularity of his own history, so he added fuel to the fire when compiling this history.
The real combat power of the Ming army
It is impossible for a dozen Japanese pirates to kill 6,000 Ming army members, because during the Jiajing period, Qi Jiguang, who guarded the area around Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, was the one who scared the Japanese pirates.
is usually impossible to put more than a dozen Japanese pirates. Qi Jiguang has adopted many tactics and tactics to fight Japanese pirates according to local conditions, and there are also many weapons. It is impossible for more than a dozen Japanese pirates to hide the truth.
More than a dozen Japanese pirates fought all the way to the periphery of Kyoto, which was even more nonsense. It was expected that Yu Dayou and Deng Zilong had the courage to be inappropriate, and Yu Dayou could even defeat hundreds of martial arts masters and sweep the people of Shaolin.
Deng Zilong fought south and was not inferior to Yu Dayou. If only a dozen Japanese pirates attracted the attention of the court, they would only send one of these two people to kill more than a dozen people Jiuquan .
In the regular Ming Dynasty records, few Japanese pirates had a victory record. Of course, this has a lot to do with the fact that the chronological history of this dynasty must be formal and legal. They dare not gain the ambition of others and destroy their own prestige. Because if you write randomly, you may not be sure to have different body and head, and you will not be able to protect your integrity in the later years.
summary
The records in the Ming Dynasty are the addition of the legend of the historian, and the Qing Dynasty even slandered the previous dynasty. The real reason is that hundreds of Japanese pirates invaded the border and were annihilated by the Ming army.
A small group of more than a dozen Japanese pirates began to make trouble. They used their sharp weapons to fight each other, burned, killed, looted, and robbed the Japanese pirates who started their business by robbing their families. This is their strength. Of course, it is easy to attack and kill unarmed people.
In this way, they plundered all the way towards the direction of the capital. They were small in number, and they came without a trace and went without a trace. Therefore, the imperial court had to completely wipe out them.
even sent troops to capture these Japanese pirates' raiders. In fact, it was not because of their strong combat effectiveness, but mainly because their guerrilla tactics and kung robbery skills had a place to use their skills on the shore. They killed 6,000 poor people, but not the Ming army, but the unarmed people.
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