Japanese Pirates - Answer some readers' questions

Guyu Layman: Historical and military novels are mostly about patriotism, and this book seems to be the same, but there are a few things that are puzzled. Can you help answer: First, according to this book, most of the Japanese pirates in those days were Chinese pirates dressed as Japanese pirates. Is it said that most of the Japanese pirates destroyed by Qi Jiguang were actually Chinese? Second, after pacifying Liaodong, they provided many generous conditions for the female pirates, and vigorously suppressed Goryeo, which was a traditional ally, so that the female guilds could establish a more powerful Qing Dynasty faster. This is a bit unworthy of the loss, right? Third, Zhu Yuanzhang killed ministers back then because they had the ability to rebel. Could it be that Wu Anguo said that those people would stop without rebelling? Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang asked the army that he could not control to protect the security of the palace, which was outrageous? Please correct me.

Drunkard: Thank you for your attention. Regarding the issue of Japanese pirates, it has been discussed a long time ago. The pirates in the early Ming Dynasty were mainly Zhang Shicheng and Fang Guozhen's old subordinates, and they were unwilling to accept Zhu Yuanzhang's envoy. During this period, due to civil strife, Japan went to China to plunder with the support of temples and nobles. Sometimes they pretended to be a mission to pay tribute, and sometimes launched an attack directly on the shore. In Japan's "The Book of Taiping", there is a concentrated and vivid description of the above situation:

For more than 40 years, the dynasty was in chaos and foreign countries were not at peace. Taking advantage of this turmoil, thieves rose up everywhere. The bandits were on the road, and passengers did not dare to walk through the woods; pirates were inhabited, and merchant ships were afraid to be avoided by them. Greedy and insatiable men gathered together and occupied coastal islands. The post stations were not as long as the post stations, and the posts were in vain. Finally, the thieves set up several boats, headed to the ports of the Yuan Dynasty and Goryeo, plundered the treasures of Mingzhou and Fuzhou, and burned the officials and temples. In order to prevent this enemy from moving inward, the counties and counties on the coast of various countries were deserted.

No need to explain any more. This passage of written records has completely clarified the basic reasons for the breeding of Japanese pirates, the scope of plunder and its brutal nature. (The text is quoted from "History of Sino-Japanese Relations". Later, both true and false Japanese pirates were wiped out by Tang He, but Tang He's extermination policy adopted the migration of people and defending fortresses, which was not very clever. In history, Fang Mingqian did propose that the Japanese pirates came from the sea and conquered the enemy at the sea. However, because he was the son of Fang Guozhen, he was not valued. Later, with the development of the Ming Dynasty navy, Japanese pirates almost disappeared for a period of time. The drunkard imagined that with a huge fleet like Zheng He as a deterrent, Japan was somewhat more concerned.

The Japanese pirates in the middle of the Ming Dynasty were more complicated. After the trade of tribute to the tomorrow was interrupted in Jiajing, the situation changed. The great samurai who participated in the Japanese civil war required copper coins in great demand, and Japan used the currency in circulation for a long time to make copper coins. In Japan, it was not able to make coins in China. (There were once self-made copper coins in Japan, but the quality was extremely poor. Later, it had to be circulated based on weight) but the Ming Dynasty, which was regarded as the "Japanese Mint", closed the door and refused to trade, which was equivalent to cutting off the loss for them.

The channels for sending copper coins. For the needs of war and for their own survival, they not only no longer restricted the plundering activities of Japanese pirates, but also organized merchant fleets of both pirates and merchants to join the smuggling trade fleet of Japanese merchants. These "carry their local objects and appear in the seaways. If they have room, they will open their local objects and invade the barbarians; if they don't have room, they will be called tribute." It is difficult for the Ming Dynasty to defend Japanese pirate ships on the coast to distinguish which Japanese pirate ships were Japanese pirate ships and which were private merchant ships, so they were chased by ships. Zhejiang, they chased them directly, and they rushed to Fujian and Fujian to capture them.

If you are anxious, you will go to Guangdong. This kind of merchant ship trading method is simple, with sheds on the ground, laying on it, selling goods, and contraband items like swords are hidden in the ship. Although Shangchuan, which focuses on both business and pirates, and the plundering fires are combined, their plundering fires have only been on the coast and not yet penetrated into the mainland. When the Ming Dynasty coastal pirates and private merchants colluded with the Japanese pirates, the plundering of the Japanese pirates took great changes. The Ming coastal pirates and private merchants took advantage of the Ming generals and officials' fear of Japanese pirates and defected to the Japanese pirates to fulfill their plunder and smuggling traitors; and the Japanese pirates also used pirates, private

The merchants were familiar with geography and internal affairs and were able to plunder. In this way, the plundering activities of the Japanese pirates not only reached the urgent power, but also went deep into the mainland from the coast. They used each other, colluded with each other, plundered, burned, killed, and lost their lives. The scope of the victimization affected six provinces including Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and other provinces, while the coastal areas of Jiang, Zhejiang, Fu and Guang were the most serious. The Japanese pirates combined into a huge armed group, and their leaders often acted as the Ming pirates with greater power. (Excerpted from the history of Sino-Japanese relations) The famous one is;

1. Originally a pirate: Xu Dong Group, Xu Hai Group, Ye Ming Group, Lin Guoxian Group

2. Originally a smuggler: Wangzhi Group, Hong Dizhen Group

3. Born or grown in Japan: Maolie Group, Chen Dong Group, Xu Haising Goro Group.

The Ming Dynasty was incompetent at that time, and he actually came up with the practice of sacrificing the sea god in anticipation of his pirates. It was similar to the Qing Dynasty's use of filthy objects to splash Western warships. As for the Qi family army later, I will not talk about the story that everyone knows. When writing about the pirates in the novel, in addition to describing Japanese pirates, the Drunkard also explores the final destination and direction of a national regime that destroyed the country. Drunkard does not advocate the killing of each other within a nation. The prototype of Yu Zuo in the article is Yu Youren, the leader of the Kuomintang, and the word "Youren" is directly used by Mr. Youren. I hope Mr. Yu will not blame the drunkard for being disrespectful. "Buried me on the mountain, look at my continent. The continent is invisible, but only crying. Bury me on the mountain, look at my hometown. My hometown is invisible, and I will never forget it. The sky is vast and the wilderness is vast. On the mountain, there are sorrows in the country." These words still make people cry.

After pacifying Liaodong, we should have reconciled with various tribes. Drunkards do not think that massacre and extermination of clans is a normal action for human beings. Drunkards believe that all ethnic groups are brothers. The cultures of various ethnic groups have been integrated together, which has led to the Chinese nation's leading position for nearly two thousand years. Qin itself is not a Central Plains nation, and Emperor Taizong of Tang Taizong's mother Duguhou and his wife Changsun were not Han people. If the Ming and Qing dynasties could open their minds and accept Western civilization, Eastern civilization would still be ahead of the West.

As for Mr.'s third article, the story described in the Drunkard novel is just a story, and of course there are many flaws. However, compared to the uncontrollable imperial guards, it seems that the army led by his son is more reliable. In the novel, Zhu Yuanzhang did not kill because Wu Anguo said that the ministers did not rebel, but because after breaking a equilibrium, a new equilibrium appeared. With Wu Anguo, the old and new officers represented by Xu Da and Li Wenzhong united to prevent Zhu from continuing to kill. In history, Zhu Yuanzhang killed the ministers many times and used their conflicts. At this point, it is considered a new thing that Wu Anguo brought to the Ming Dynasty, although Wu Anguo and his ideals paid a huge price for this. As for Zhu's methods in the novel, if you look through history carefully, this is not Zhu's original creation.

Love War: I hate the Zhu Ming Dynasty very much. It would have been great if Zhu Ming was replaced by the Qing Dynasty. At least the Qing Dynasty made more contributions to China's territory, which should be more than the Communist Party. So the Qing people sold the land they captured to the great powers, and we had nothing to say, of course, except Hong Kong and Macau. The land of our Han people used to be so much. In the Song Dynasty, the remarks were relatively open, and it was this Zhu Ming who ruined China. The Qing Dynasty later learned from Zhu Ming's experience and became more and more powerful. Finally, it became worse and worse.

Drunkard: History cannot be understood by hatred and liked. History cannot be changed. Drunkard's novels only imagine a "wormhole" that cannot prove its existence. In terms of land area, the Qing Dynasty was much stronger than the Ming Dynasty. However, both dynasties were at the end of the monarchy society, that is, the system designed in the Qin and Han dynasties was completely unable to suit the development of the times, and they still did not want to reform, and they would inevitably perish. As the Ming Dynasty, there was still excuse for China, because at this time, China was still among the first few in the world, and the Ming Dynasty could not come into contact with too much external culture. As the Qing Dynasty, it could not be avoided. The current braid show only praises the so-called wise kings, which was actually very one-sided. At that time, the whole West began

Capital Revolution, while the Qing Dynasty was still immersed in the beautiful dream of the Celestial Dynasty. Qianlong, who was holding a stinky word, wrote poems everywhere, would not talk about the firearms sent by the West as strange tricks. Also as the emperor who seized the throne by destroying the Regent, Peter of Russia chose to learn Western technology and promote Western industry. Kangxi chose to close the country. History is best to look horizontally, otherwise people will always be immersed in their dreams. In fact, even if you look vertically, the Ming Dynasty was not much behind the Qing Dynasty. According to cultural relics unearthed in Inner Mongolia, the artillery used by Xu Da in the Ming Dynasty to the Northern Expedition of Daning was a flowering bullet. In the Qing Dynasty, he actually returned solid shells. The Yongle bell, which represents the peak of the foundry industry in the Ming Dynasty, weighed 49 tons, while Kangxi and Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty

The bronze bells cast during the year weighed only 6,000 kilograms (all displayed in Dazhong Temple in Beijing, you can go and have a look). After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude towards the Mongols was to warn his ministers that Mongolia, as a dynasty, was once a country of parents. Whenever he celebrated his military achievements, the old ministers of the Yuan Dynasty were allowed to not participate. The Qing Dynasty shaved all Chinese braids and changed all Chinese clothing. The Manchu and Han Dynasty were not allowed to intermarry. In the early days, except for the Three Feudalists, few Han officials were above the fourth rank (some say it was prohibited), while the senior officials of the Ming Dynasty included Islamists like Zheng He; the Ming Dynasty's "Yongle Encyclopedia" did not destroy and tamper with any books, and the Qing Dynasty's "Siku Quanshu"

There are countless books sold out. Let’s not talk about the remaining ten days of Yangzhou and the Three Massacres of Jiading. Most people forget all of these. It is said that there is no new history book (Shanghai version). Drunkards do not believe that the things done by ethnic minorities in the past need to be responsible for the current ethnic minorities. However, Drunkards believe that many people admire the largest Yuan Dynasty and the so-called Kangxi and Qianlong periods, the Han people in China were actually slaves of the country. Because they were born to be ruled in politics and did not have equality with the ruler nation. Only a China with equal ethnic groups, no nation is a country that is destroyed. This is the People’s Republic of China. At least the drunkards believe that the Communist Party of China is better than any dynasty in history in this regard.

As for freedom of speech, the Song Dynasty's freedom of speech was actually based on its civil service system. But it does not mean that the Song Dynasty had institutional advantages. Drunkards believed that by the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the ancient monarchy based on the agricultural economy had reached its peak in the East, and no matter which nation was in power, they would go down. Unfortunately, our ancestors did not take a suitable path of change and kept wandering around. Moreover, the Song Dynasty's freedom of speech was a typical moral gentleman who had the right to speak, and had great weaknesses in itself. The literati of the Song Dynasty attacked each other, hoping to kill their opponents, just to knock their opponents to the ground, regardless of the facts, and to erase the correct views of the opponents when they were victorious. No great scholar of the Song Dynasty had ever expressed: "I do not agree with your point of view, but I respect your right to speak."

Qatrej: There are many errors in details. The author should still pay attention to it. For example, Xu Da was unable to be a king when he was alive! This is the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and his ministers were granted a title of a prince and a death. It was not until the Southern Ming Dynasty that Zheng Chenggong broke the example, and that was the time when the title of king was worthless.

Drunkard: Thank you, you are right. I was paying attention to it, but I forgot it as I wrote it. But can the Duke's daughter be called the princess?

Same: I joined VIP, sigh, I have to wait slowly for someone like me who has no money. Of course, I still strongly support you. Money is not omnipotent, and it is absolutely impossible to have no money.

Drunkard: This book starts with VIP, not a recent addition. Pirates refuse to pay for the Drunkard’s royalties, so they have to make some small money. Drunkards need money very much now, and there is no way.

To Dark Revelation: It would be meaningless to keep writing about wars, and if it is not the main war, it will pass by. The war to regain Yunnan in the Ming Dynasty began in Chapter 6. If you like it, please support it.

Toloki; there are no precise navigational instruments, and no fruits that can prevent scurvy.

To Dream Snow Elf: That's what Feng Ziming, Jiang Ye, Zheng He and others did. Don't let Lao Wu take all of it.
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