Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang is undoubtedly one of the most outstanding emperors in history, Zhu Yuanzhang from a cloth to the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, all this is very difficult. When he was a child, Zhu Yuanzhang ate the last meal and lived a miserable life, after which Zhu Yuanzhang chose to beg, and later went to the Huangjue Temple as a monk.
That is, in the Huangjue Temple, Zhu Yuanzhang's fate changed. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was influenced by his compatriots Tang He and Chang Yuchun and chose to join the Red Turban Army. Since then, Zhu Yuanzhang's fate has undergone a fundamental change. After joining the Red Turban Army, Zhu Yuanzhang began to make meritorious achievements and gradually received weight.
It is worth mentioning that during this period, Zhu Yuanzhang married Guo Zixing's righteous daughter Ma Shi, which was the later Empress Ma. Since then, Zhu Yuanzhang has made contributions to Guo Zi's construction. Later, when Guo Zixing died, Zhu Yuanzhang took over Guo Zixing's army. Since then, Zhu Yuanzhang's strength has continued to rise, and Zhu Yuanzhang's strength during this period has greatly increased.
Eventually, Zhu Yuanzhang established the historical Ming Dynasty. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, it was still not allowed to be peaceful. There is no doubt that Japan fought wars with the Central Plains Dynasty as early as the Tang Dynasty. One of the earliest wars in history was the Battle of Baijiangkou during the Tang Dynasty. At this time, Japan felt that its wings were hardened and could compete with the Tang Dynasty.
Japan sent more than 40,000 people and more than 1,000 warships to attack the Tang navy, and the Tang Dynasty did not think so, after all, the Tang Dynasty was a powerful dynasty, and the Tang Empire was not blown out. At that time, the Tang Dynasty only sent 13,000 men and more than 100 warships, and wiped out the Wei army, which was several times larger. In today's parlance, the Tang Dynasty crushed Japan.
After the Battle of Baijiangkou, Japan began to send emissaries to the Tang Dynasty. After the Battle of Baijiangkou, Japan did not dare to invade the Central Plains Dynasty. By the time of the Yuan Dynasty, Japan could not bear it again. The Yuan Dynasty Navy was choked by the wind and waves in the sea because of its lack of experience in navigation, and it was not an opponent of the Japanese Navy at all. The result, of course, goes without saying, and the big defeat ends.
Because Of Its defeat of the Yuan Dynasty, Japan began to burst with self-confidence. Although Japan did not send a large army, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, small armies continued to emerge. In just a few years, there have been dozens of incidents of Wokou invasions in Fujian, Guangdong and other places. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang began to organize a counterattack against Japan.
Crown Prince Zhu Biao, Duke Li Wenzhong of Cao, and others opposed this, because the Ming Dynasty had just been established and should not take the initiative to attack. At this time, the crown prince Zhu Biao and others suggested that Zhu Yuanzhang face Japan with the hand of "etiquette". Under the persuasion of the ministers, Zhu Yuanzhang calmed his anger. So the Ming Dynasty began to communicate with Japan. This also plays a role.
It is worth mentioning that before Zhu Yuanzhang died, he left the "Imperial Ming Ancestral Training", in which Zhu Yuanzhang listed 15 "never conquest", and Japan was one of them. Zhu Yuanzhang could never have imagined that it was this testament that would cause China six hundred years later to suffer the difficulty of national subjugation - Japan's war of aggression against China. It is well known that zheng he went to the West in the Ming Dynasty, but the main purpose was to promote culture rather than plunder.
It should be known that the sailors of the Ming Dynasty were by no means a joke, the Ming Dynasty had the largest and largest fleet at that time, and Zheng He's voyage to the West was only a small part. What is more serious is that in the nearly three hundred years of existence of the Ming Dynasty, it has never been defeated in naval warfare. Later, however, Japan began to have ideas about the Ming Dynasty.
However, the Ming Emperor at that time was not allowed to go to Japan even if he wanted to go to Japan. Because according to Zhu Yuanzhang's testament, the Ming Dynasty could not go to war with Japan. It is precisely because of this legacy that Japan six hundred years later has the opportunity to launch a war of Japanese aggression against China. If it were not for this legacy, the Ming Dynasty at its peak could easily defeat or even destroy Japan.
Even if Japan could not be eliminated, it would become a stagnant subordination to this, and under such circumstances, naturally there would be no subsequent Sino-Japanese War and the war of aggression against China. Then history will surely be rewritten. It is worth mentioning that the Ming Dynasty at its peak did not fight in Japan, not because of military strength, but because of Zhu Yuanzhang's will to "never conquer the country".