Is Zheng He's voyage to the West a money-losing business? No one with the slightest ability to think logically would believe such a low-level lie.
Did Zheng He go to the West in search of an incompetent Zhu Yunjiao, who had lost jiangshan in his heyday? People who can believe this hypothesis can be said to be dumber than the old sow.
What is the real western ocean? When you listen to the author's analysis, it is not difficult for you to find that Zheng He's voyage to the West is not only a good deal for every profit, but also a great feat that determines the fate of the Ming Dynasty and even the whole of Asia.
Why? Let's analyze them one by one.
Super-profitable Zheng He went to the West
If we cannot answer a question positively, we may as well think backwards and use established historical facts to reverse reasoning, and it is not difficult to find the true answer to history. What did Zhu Di do in his life? How much does it cost to do these things? Where does his money come from? That's the root of the problem.
1, Jing Nan played for four years, and the cannon sounded golden wan twice;
2. It costs more money to rebuild and move the capital than the war;
3. Zhu Di personally conquered the north of the desert 5 times, running through Zhu Di's life;
4. Cutting the domain and quelling the rebellion in the Yungui region is also a big battle;
5. The cost of compiling and repairing the Yongle Canon is more expensive than fighting;
6. Zheng He continued to transfuse Zhu Di's blood through 6 trips to the West, and poured foreign exchange into the Ming Dynasty;
If Zheng He's voyage to the West was a money-losing business, then where did the money spent on Zhu Di's 7 battles, capital relocation, and shushu come from?
If all this money came from within the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di would have squeezed and skinned the people of the Ming Dynasty, and he wouldn't have been able to squeeze out so much money from them, would he?
If Zheng He did not make money in the West, why did the territory and prestige of the Ming Dynasty decline rapidly as soon as Zhu Di died?
Who is smearing Zheng He's exploits in the West? The author summarizes that there are probably the following types of people:
1. The group of civil officials who have mastered the right to speak after the creation of the "Change of the Civil Fort";
2. The so-called literati doctors who made their fortunes by maritime smuggling, led by Liu Daxia;
3. Decadent dynasties that want to achieve absolute rule by closing off the country;
If Zheng He's shipping projects of this scale in the West did not make money, would there still be maritime overlords like Wang Zhi and Zheng Zhilong during the Ming Dynasty?
Pirates like Wang Zhi and Zheng Zhilong can dominate Asia, is Zheng He's strength and scale in the West smaller than theirs?
Why was Wang Zhi able to establish a state in Japan? Why does Zheng Zhilong dare to levy protection fees on merchant ships of various countries in Asian waters? Because at this time, Zheng He's voyage to the West has long become history.
The real Zheng He went to the West and what it was
Why can a people expand from the yellow river basin to the territory of dozens of provinces? How many wars have there been in between? How many people have been killed?
The territory is snatched, beaten, and killed bit by bit by your own fists, not sent by others, isn't it?
In the history of human development, Darwin's law will always be the truth, and only the most naïve children believe that we have always been victims.
What do capitalists do to set up factories? Isn't it robbery in disguise? It is the surplus value of the working people that is being robbed, isn't it?
In the ancient history of navigation, almost all the merchant ships that went to sea were both good and evil, soldiers and bandits, and whoever had the strength and opportunity would rob others.
Not only is it not shameful to rob someone, but it is also a manifestation of strength and bravery, isn't it?
The army that Zheng He carried in the West could not only dominate Asia but also dominate the world at that time.
Many people think that Zhu Di is only engaged in the kind of combined fleet to show off, and the essence of Zheng He's voyage to the West is a naked military-commercial integration of imperial armed trade, not a loss of money!
When Zheng He's fleet docked on the docks of Asian countries, for those small countries, was it a "black ship attack" again and again?
Would they dare not do business with the fleet of my Ming Dynasty? As for pricing power? From ancient times to the present, isn't it whose fist is big and who has the final say?
When a small country in South Asia tried to resist Zheng He's pressure by force, he faced the end of being captured by Zheng He and imprisoned by the Ming Dynasty for several years.
Under the deterrence of this super escort formation, is there still no reason why the Ming Dynasty will not make money when it goes out to do business?
As mentioned earlier, if Zhu Di had not relied on Zheng He to give him a continuous blood transfusion from overseas, he would not have been able to launch so many wars, nor would he have turned the territory of the Ming Dynasty into the maximum state, would he?
The political and historical significance of Zheng He's voyage to the West
Compared with Zhu Yuanzhang's extremely selfish mud legs, Zhu Di can be said to be an emperor of great talent and great talent.
When Zhu Yuanzhang killed all the heroes, established the Jinyi Guard, invented the court staff, and vigorously engaged in the worship of science and the policy of "no plates allowed to go to the sea", Zhu Di wanted to lay out Asia and even the whole world.
If Zhu Yuanzhang is compared to an upstart who knows how to get pork from his own home, then Zhu Di is a strategist with a world pattern.
Zhu Di went to the West through Zheng He to raise war with war, not only consolidating his power, but also expanding the territory of the empire throughout his life, and developing the territory of the Ming Dynasty to its peak.
If Zhu Di did not die, if Zheng He did not stop going to the West, what kind of changes would happen to the world? The answer is this:
1. Zhu Di turned Asian countries into economic colonies of the Ming Dynasty through Zheng He's voyage to the West;
2. The money earned through going to the West completely conquered the desert north, and constantly opened up its territory on land to the surrounding areas;
3. The money earned in the ocean below the Western Ocean is used as capital to continuously develop its marine business, and continue to open up to the rest of the world after dominating Asia;
4. With the Ming Dynasty as the center, using maritime hegemony as a means to establish a worldwide alliance, completely bringing mankind into a great contemporary with the great navigation mode as the core;
If this continues, will there be anything to do with the small countries of Europe, like Spain, Portugal and Britain?
Since Zheng He's voyage to the West has so many benefits, why has it been smeared again and again? The reasons for this are not surprising as follows:
1. Under the super-strong oppression of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, the civilian official clique is not willing to act as slaves forever, and they also want to share a piece of the big fat meat of the navigation industry;
2. After the successful seizure of power through the planning of the "Tumu Fort Change", the civilian official clique must negate and smear Zheng He's voyage to the West, so as to show their greatness;
3. Isn't it a contradiction to say that Zheng He did not make money in the Western Ocean, while killing the Zhengde Emperor who tried to restart the Western Plan, and at the same time frantically developing his own family's smuggling industry?
4. Whoever controls the marine industry at that time will grasp the economic lifeblood and the handle of power in Asia, and who is the real king of the Ming Dynasty, which is a naked power struggle;
5. If the king is defeated, the successful will certainly do everything possible to smear the loser, which is the inevitability of history;
After all this, wise reader, do you suppose that if Zhu Di's descendants also had the means and boldness of Zhu Di, would the Ming Dynasty become another "empire where the sun never sets"?