Zhu Yuanzhang in history, from a beggar to the top of a country's ruler, his experience of hardships is difficult to describe, and his excellent talents such as Liu Bowen and Chang Yuchun have played a very big role in it. And the story we want to tell today is that after Zhu Yuanzhang established Daming, he wanted to further maintain his rule, so he prepared to send troops to conquer Japan, but he did not expect to be desperately blocked by Liu Bowen, so why did this move in the end? The reason is a little too realistic to say, let's take a look.
In 1328 AD, Zhu Yuanzhang was born in a poor peasant family, due to the poverty of the family, Zhu Yuanzhang had very few opportunities to study, almost from childhood to the landlord's family cattle, in order to seek a livelihood, but this dilemma worse and worse, for this Zhu Yuanzhang almost engaged in folk work, such as the beggar we know. By chance, Zhu Yuanzhang was invited by a friend to join the army opposing the Yuan Dynasty and surrendered to Guo Zixing's men.
Because of his repeated military achievements in battle, he was soon appreciated by Guo Zixing, entrusted with heavy responsibilities, and then established his great prestige in the army, and even formed a three-legged situation with Chen Youyu and Zhang Shicheng at that time. Later, Liu Bowen joined Zhu Yuanzhang's camp, and under his ingenuity, Zhu Yuanzhang defeated these two opponents and established the historical Ming Dynasty.
When the Ming Dynasty was founded, there were often troubles in the southeast coastal areas, causing great losses to the local people, and the people complained bitterly, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who was originally a peasant, naturally noticed this. At first, Zhu Yuanzhang also sent people to negotiate peace with Japan, but Japan did not care about this and continued to do evil, which angered Zhu Yuanzhang, so he decided to destroy Japan and never have any trouble, but this move was opposed by Liu Bowen.
This point is to make everyone quarrel, the Ming Dynasty is strong and powerful, I don't know how many Japans have been defeated, so why would Liu Bowen stand up and desperately oppose it? Liu Bowen put forward several reasons for this, and these reasons are too realistic. First of all, the Ming Dynasty has just been established, the domestic situation is not very stable, coupled with the previous perennial conquest, the civilian economy is not prosperous, so if there is a war again, the economy will inevitably regress again, so that the newly established dynasty will once again fall into a situation of collapse, so that some gains will not be worth the loss.
Secondly, Japan is an island country, and it is still far from the Ming Dynasty, if you rush to destroy them, under the rule of Emperor Tiangao, it is inevitable that another "Japan" will stand up, so it will be more than worth the loss. Moreover, if fighting at sea, the Daming army would inevitably be a little uncomfortable, and out of the consideration of "not afraid of ten thousand, just in case", Liu Bowen was unwilling to let Zhu Yuanzhang attack Japan.
Finally, there is a very realistic reason, we all know that most wars are related to the plundering of wealth, and Japan is an island country, its resources are not rich, otherwise they would not go around plundering resources, so even if Zhu Yuanzhang defeated Japan, the resources it can obtain are very limited, and even may not be able to make up for the military expenditure, for this practical reason, so Zhu Yuanzhang had to give up attacking Japan, and even later, he also listed Japan as a "country without conquest", what do you think?