Throughout thousands of years of history, we can find that although China has long been the most powerful hegemon in the world, it has never taken the initiative to attack other countries, of course, the Yuan Dynasty is only an exception, because the Yuan Dynasty itself is dominated by aggressive nomadic peoples, not the real Central Plains Dynasty. Our neighbor Japan has invaded China many times in history, but why didn't China take the initiative to attack Japan? Have all the dynasties in Chinese history loved peace? Obviously not, otherwise there would be no change of dynasty, and the main reason is that we still have to start with the Yuan Dynasty
The Yuan Dynasty was the largest dynasty in Chinese history, spanning three continents in Asia, Europe and Africa at its peak, kublai Khan launched two attacks on Japan, but both times were defeated by a sudden typhoon on the sea, thus abandoning the idea of attacking Japan, and Japan also avoided the danger of being destroyed. The Japanese believed that the typhoon was caused by the ghost of Emperor Shenmu, so there was a kamikaze special team at the end of World War II.
In fact, the origins of Japan and China are quite deep, the earliest can be traced back to the Qin Dynasty period, especially the Tang Dynasty, when the dynasty of all nations, Japan also sent a large number of Tang envoys to China to learn advanced culture and technology, and later with the help of the Tang Dynasty, Japan's national strength was greatly enhanced, so Japan began to be restless, enveloping the Goryeo Kingdom and the Baekje State to openly oppose the Tang Dynasty, when Japan's 40,000 navy and Tang army met and were destroyed by the Tang army. However, Japan did not change its will, and in the Ming Dynasty Japan made a comeback, not only harassing China's borders but also sending troops to attack Korea, which made the Ming Dynasty angry and decisively sent troops to counterattack, and soon Japan collapsed again. In modern times, Japan has invaded China one after another in an attempt to take over the whole of China.
Some people may wonder why China did not directly wipe out Japan to put an end to the troubles. In terms of strength, in addition to the relatively weak strength of the Qing Dynasty, all the dynasties have the strength to destroy Japan, so there is no problem with strength, and the real reason is that Liu Bowen of the Ming Dynasty has long given the answer
After zhu Yuanzhang established Daming, he also wanted the Ming Dynasty to become like the peak of the Tang Dynasty under his leadership, so while sending troops to clean up the sins of the former dynasty, he sent ambassadors to Japan to negotiate, the purpose of which was to make Japan submit to Daming, but at that time, Japan had a great hostility towards the Central Plains Dynasty, and after the envoys arrived in Japan, they were also very rampant, directly saying to Japan that they would destroy Japan if they did not yield, which angered the shogunate general and directly killed the envoy. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious when he knew this, and immediately gathered his army to personally destroy Japan, and Liu Bowen immediately came out to block and gave three reasons not to attack Japan
The first: traffic jams
There is no land connection between China and Japan, and if you want to reach Japan, you must cross the ocean, and the level of navigation at that time was limited, and attacking Japan was bound to lose a lot of national strength, and if you take Japan, you would have to send troops here for a long time, which would be inconvenient.
Second: Japan is difficult to assimilate
Although Japanese culture has many similarities with China, it is difficult to assimilate precisely because it is so similar, not to mention that Japan has also derived many sects and is difficult to manage.
Third point: no value
Japan is an island nation composed of many islands, and its natural resources are very scarce, and it takes a lot of effort to attack an island that has no use value and loses more than it loses. After hearing Liu Bowen's views, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he still had a vision, so he gave up the idea of destroying Japan, and other dynasties also tolerated Japan from three aspects.