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The Ming Dynasty is known as the most backbone dynasty, in the nearly three hundred years of power, even in difficulties, it will never use women to exchange for peace, and no matter how badly it loses a war, it will not cut the land and pay reparations, even if the mob presses the border, the capital is besieged, and the emperor is captured, no one will surrender. This dynasty is the only one in the history of the entire world for more than a hundred years that has not signed any unequal treaties with other countries and has never succumbed to any power.
Zhu Yuanzhang, temple name Ming Taizu, era name Hongwu, reigned from 1368 to 1398 (30 years in total)
It can be said that the whole Ming Dynasty was a soldier, even after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the emperors and the people of the Ming Dynasty insisted on resisting the Qing, and this resistance was thirty-eight years. In Jin Yong's novels, "Deer Ding" is written against the background of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and there have always been anti-Qing forces active in it. The most impressive thing is an anti-Qing and restoration organization called the "Heaven and Earth Society".
The second, Zhu Yunjiao, temple number Ming Huizong, era name Jianwen, reigned from 1398 to 1402 (4 years in total)
The third, Zhu Di, temple name Ming Chengzu, era name Yongle, reigned from 1402 to 1424 (22 years in total)
Zhu Di's reason for fighting Vietnam is very simple, because from the beginning of the ming dynasty, Vietnam was a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang appointed the Trần dynasty as king of Vietnam, but there was a situation of usurpation of the throne in Vietnam, and the Ming Dynasty was not informed. Zhu Di was very angry when he learned of this, and in a fit of anger, he sent troops to attack Vietnam. According to historical records, the Ming army crossed the border as if it were walking on the ground, and completed the victory with a crushing presence.
Battle of Tuen Mun (Ming Portuguese)
At the beginning of the 16th century, the era of great navigation had just begun, and Portugal and Spain rose rapidly to become the "world hegemons" that dominated the world for a while. The frenzied plundering of Portugal arrived in China as early as the middle of the Ming Dynasty. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty at this moment is zhu Houzhao, the famous and absurd emperor in history. However, at this time, portugal and the Ming government were only small-scale frictions. It was not until the early years of Jiajing that the Great War finally broke out. In 1521, the Ming-Portuguese War broke out, and in 1523 the Ming army was victorious. The strength of the two sides in the battle was 10,000 ming troops, the Portuguese army was 700-800 people, and the main commander of the Ming army was Wang Feng. Although the Ming Dynasty won, it still sounded the alarm for the ming rulers and began to vigorously develop the firearms industry and increase military strength.
Battle of Sai Cao Wan (Ming Portuguese)
The Battle of Sai Cao Wan was a follow-up to the Battle of Tuen Mun. After the Battle of Tuen Mun, the Ming government ordered that "Chinese not allowed to have contact with the Portuguese. Instead, he issued an order that Chinese warships should be destroyed as soon as they came across a Portuguese-flagged vessel." Due to the ming dynasty's firm attitude of seeking war, and the Ming army had the upper hand at the beginning of the Battle of Xicaowan, after repeated battles, Portugal had to accept defeat. In the end, the two sides signed an agreement to open the trading market, but Portugal had to pay 10% interest every year.
Wanli Korean War
The Wanli War of Aid to Korea can be understood as another version of the "War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea." It's just that the United States was replaced by Japan, and North Korea is still that North Korea. At the beginning of japan's invasion of Korea, it crushed it with absolute superiority, attacked the capital of Korea in just one month, expelled the Korean king Li Fu, and the Korean side had to ask the Ming Dynasty for help. As soon as the Wanli Emperor waved his hand, the Ming army went, and finally the Ming army was victorious. The Wanli War of Aid to Korea had a profound impact on the political and military pattern in East Asia at that time, laying the foundation for peace in East Asia for the next three hundred years.
Battle of Pelao Bay (Minh Ho)
The Netherlands is only a small country, but it has the title of "coachman of the sea" and has also dominated for a time. The Battle of Qiluo Bay was a war between the Ming Dynasty and the Dutch, and one of the largest naval battles in ancient China. During the Chongzhen period at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty successively invested more than 150 warships and tens of thousands of soldiers, while the Dutch side sent dozens of the latest battleships with cannons to launch a fierce battle in The Bay of Luo on the southeast coast of Kinmen, Fujian. The naval battle was no less massive than the Opium War, which was ultimately defeated by the Dutch, and was the first time Chinese defeated a Western navy at sea. From then on, the Dutch side maintained stable trade with the Ming dynasty until the fall of the Ming Dynasty.
Ming-British War
"The Empire of the Sun Never Sets" Everyone has heard of it, and the Ming Dynasty did fight against Britain. After the Ming Dynasty traded with Portugal, the British also wanted to open up the Chinese market, but the Portuguese side did not want anyone to share a piece of the pie, and in front of the Ming Dynasty, they always slandered the British as Dutch. At this time, shortly after the Battle of Luowan, the Ming Dynasty did not have a good impression of the Netherlands at all, so it refused to trade. But the British king seemed to be "Shi Lezhi" and decided to open the market by force. Eventually, the Ming Dynasty and the British war broke out, and finally the Ming Dynasty won, the British lost, and the British compensated 2800 silver taels.
The late Ming Dynasty was really unlucky and ill-fated, with the above battles plus constant harassment by Houjin and the peasant revolt of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. Could it really be that the heavens are going to die? But! The Ming Dynasty really didn't instigate it!