For the Ming Dynasty, we cannot deny that the Ming Dynasty has a lot of backwardness, especially in many aspects, the Ming Dynasty is relatively dark, but most of us have a very bad impression of the Ming Dynasty, and compared to the Qing Dynasty, we ordinary people basically have a good impression of the Ming Dynasty.
Today we want to talk about a thing that happened at the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the Ming Dynasty's trade in Macao was mainly in cooperation with Portugal, and the British in that era had begun to show signs of rise, and the interests of the Far East were more and more valued by the British, so the United Kingdom always wanted to share a piece of the pie with Portugal in this part of Macau, so the two sides would always have some friction, and because Portugal and the Ming Dynasty dealt with it much earlier than the British, so in more times, the Ming Dynasty was more inclined to Portugal.
And in a conflict between Portugal and Britain, portugal suffered a loss was protected by the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army in the conflict, the British were driven away, which made the British very dissatisfied, thinking that the Ming Dynasty is really too unreasonable, the Great British Empire can not bear such a gas, so immediately sent a plea to the country, after getting the news, the British at that time was about eight thousand soldiers into the East, want to give the Ming Dynasty a little color to see.
At that time, the British expeditionary force invaded from Humen first, after taking Humen, the British army had a big appetite and directly invaded Guangzhou, and the British combat idea at that time was to enter the inland river from the open sea, and then go north, so that the Ming Dynasty could see its own strength, which was basically the same as the Qing Dynasty's thinking during the Opium War, except that the British army encountered not the Qing Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty.
Although the Ming Dynasty at that time was already in the last year, but to deal with this small number of invading British troops is still relatively resolute, and the Ming Dynasty's water army was not backward at that time, in the end, after a war, the British expeditionary force was taken up by the Ming army, and in order to punish the British, the Ming Dynasty immediately made a decision: completely terminate the Ming Dynasty's business trade with Britain!
In this way, the British could not stand it, because the trade in the East was still relatively important to britain, but now the British army could not gain an advantage on the battlefield, nor could it lose such a large market as the Ming Dynasty, so it had to negotiate with the Ming Dynasty, and finally symbolically took out a little indemnity, which was an apology to the Ming Dynasty, and after that, the Ming Dynasty also ended the trade ban on Britain.
Qinghui language: The reason why Britain in the 17th century did not get any benefits from the Ming Dynasty, I personally feel that there are two reasons:
First, although the Ming Dynasty at that time was in the last years, for other countries like Britain, the intensity of resistance was still very large, and it was also more important, plus the Ming Dynasty's firearms and water divisions were not backward at that time, and Britain was too far away from the Ming Dynasty, and the number of troops coming over was not large, so it was normal to be defeated.
Second, it was also related to the fact that the development of firearms at that time was not very strong, the British army did not have much advantage over the Ming army in terms of weapons, and there were still so few personnel, and it was not a very strange thing to be beaten by people on expeditions.
In short, the Ming Dynasty has always been very positive and resolute in foreign wars, which is very different from the Qing Dynasty.