Japanese Pirates And The Mindong Society Of Ming Dynasty

Pirates from the Yuan Dynasty on the harassment continue to China, the emperor promulgated the ban on maritime order and at the same time to send ministers to the coastal areas around the fortification defense, and ultimately to build a large coastal defense system. Greatly curbed the face of a complete coastal defense system established by the Government in the early Ming Dynasty, Japanese pirates harassment activities. It can be said that the government deliberately to strengthen coastal defense construction in the early Ming effective protection of domestic political stability, making the common people to rehabilitate war-ravaged and laid the foundation for the emergence of the Golden Age in the early Ming. Pirates activities did not completely stop, to Mindong for example, after the next medium-term the Mindong military strength has been continuously corrupted recession, coastal defense system is crumbling, pirates invasion increasingly rampant, rampant excesses and ultimately in the Jiajing to Mindong people bring great disaster.Ming Dynasty military strength of a severe recession, can not afford to resist pirates attacks. Faced with the pirates invade, often with heavy losses. Pirates easily succeed in China’s coastal areas, to further stimulate the pirates ambition, more Japanese participation in the pirates looted Chinese coastal areas. The same time, China’s coastal poor and maritime have joined them, making the situation increasingly worse. Until the Jiajing late, Chi Chi led his army into Fujian fighting with the pirates, finally prompted the Mindong Kangwo struggle to win the final victory.