The territory of Ming Dynasty included Han Dynasty, and reached the Sea of Japan and Waixing 'an Mountains in the northeast in the early Ming Dynasty. Later, it fell to the Liaohe River Basin; North to Yinshan, retreat to the Ming Great Wall; West to Hami, Xinjiang, and then back to Jiayuguan; It faces the Bay of Bengal in the southwest and then turns back to today's Yunnan. A detention center was also set up in the Qinghai-Tibet region to recover Annan.
The Ming Dynasty was the last unified dynasty established by the Han nationality in the history of China.
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Territorial changes in Ming dynasty
north
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, more than forty guards were set up in the border areas of outer Mongolia as border defense lines, including Dongsheng Guard, Wonan River Guard, Kaiping Guard and Daning Guard, all of which were important border defense areas in the Ming Dynasty, and their trends were generally Yinshan Mountain, Daqingshan Mountain and Xilamulun River.
After Yongle, due to the cold weather and poor farming, the border gradually moved south. In the middle of Ming Dynasty, with the revival of Mongolia, the border moved inward again, and the Great Wall was built to defend Mongolia, and nine important towns were set up along the Great Wall to strengthen defense. The Great Wall also became the dividing line between farming areas and nomadic areas at that time.
northeast
Zhu Yuanzhang set up Liaodong headquarters to manage Liaodong, and then Judy showed kindness to the Jurchen tribe. In the ninth year of Yongle (14 1 1), the Nurgan headquarters was established to administer 130 health centers. In the tenth year of Xuande (1435), Emperor Xuanzong of Ming Dynasty withdrew his daughter's six-pass garrison. However, since then, Nuzhen has been dominated by the Ming Dynasty, and the number of health centers in Wanli has increased to 384. At the end of Ming dynasty, after the rise of Jin dynasty, it gradually replaced the rule of Ming dynasty in northeast China and occupied Liaodong. ?
North Korea, China's northeast neighbor, expanded its territory in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and pushed its territory northward through imperial edicts, extermination and expulsion of Nuzhen tribes. 1393, Zhu Yuanzhang moved to Tielingwei, tacitly replacing the Li Dynasty to occupy the area east of Yalu River and south of Tumen River.
northwest
In the early Ming Dynasty, Hami, Shazhou, Anding, Antonie, Quxian, Jinchi Mongolia and Zuo Wei, Han Dong were successively established in the northwest, and the northwest border of the Ming Dynasty covered today's Xinjiang.
Hami Wei Chenghua was captured by Turpan in the eighth year (1472) and revived in the eighteenth year (1482). During Hongzhi period, three lost was recovered three times, and after Jiajing period (1528), the west of Jiayuguan was occupied by Turpan.
southwestward
1370, Tibet's propaganda envoy He Suo Nanpu and others led the Tibetan ministries to surrender, and then set up the Wu Si Tibetan and Duoganwei Command Envoy Department in the Qinghai-Tibet region, adopting the policy of collecting imperial edicts, sealing off more buildings and governing Tibet according to customs. ? After the unification of Tibetan areas, Ming Taizu asked Tibetans to throw manatribute, undertake corvee, or steam black tea and rent rice, emphasizing that "the people have gifts, and the soil has gifts, which is essential". ?
1407, Ming Chengzu sent Liu Zhao, heming and others to set up a post station in Tibetan areas. In 14 14, he also sent Yang, an official from China, to Tibetan areas, asking local officials to restore the post station. After years of hard work, the post road to and from Xifan is finally safe and smooth. ?
southeast
1553 Portugal leased Macao and obtained the right to berth ships, and 1557 obtained the right of abode. The Portuguese had to pay rent to the Ming government, and the Ming still had the sovereignty of Macao.
1624, Dutch colonists entered the south of Taiwan Province Province and built the city of Gireland. Spanish colonists entered the northern part of Taiwan Province Province on 1626. 1642 Holland drove out the Spaniards and occupied most of Taiwan Province province. 166 1 year, Zheng Chenggong attacked Taiwan Province Province, expelled the Dutch, and captured Taiwan Province Province the following year.
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