We all know that from the middle and late Yuan Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, China experienced more than three centuries of Wokou plague. The Ming Dynasty's maritime strength was still relatively strong, and it was still impossible to solve the Problem, but there were very few such things during the Qing Dynasty. Interested readers can follow the interesting history of the small editor to read down.
In fact, this situation is caused by the situation on both sides, first of all, japan, the source of the Wokou. During the Qing Dynasty, Japan was not a period of turmoil like the Sengoku period, but a period of relative stability under the Rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, which was very similar to the Qing Dynasty and also implemented a very strict policy of "closing the country off the country". Most of the ports were closed, and Japanese ships were not allowed to trade and trade at sea. Only a few countries, such as China, trade with Japan in Nagasaki's ports, and unauthorized smuggling faces the death penalty.
It is precisely under this high-pressure policy that some Wokou who want to go to sea to cause chaos have no chance at all, and it can be said that the Wokou plague has been solved from the source. In addition, the two "locked countries" seem to have no intersection, but in fact there are still very important transactions.
The Qing Dynasty was known as "the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of heaven and rich in products", but in fact, the copper needed to make copper coins was mainly distributed in the relatively remote Yunnan-Guizhou region. However, although Japan's products are poor, it is a region rich in metal production, and it is obviously more convenient and convenient to trade by sea. And because of Japan's lockdown, the Japanese people's demand for many daily necessities can not be replenished, but the qing Dynasty's commodities can meet them, which can be said to be a mutually beneficial and complementary transaction.
In this case, even the two countries that are closed to the outside world attach great importance to this trade, and even encourage it. In the prosperous period of Kangqian, the naval strength of the Qing Dynasty should not be underestimated, but the stable life made these Qing rulers begin to slacken off, and they began to gradually abandon these huge ships and warships, which can be said to be an act of self-cutting feet. So that even without the Wukou Qing Dynasty, in the end, it was not only harassed by Vietnamese pirates, but also repeatedly defeated in the Later Sino-Japanese War and the Opium War, and was forced to make various humiliating treaties.