Zhu Yuanzhang joined the Red Scarf Army. He fought in the south and the north.
1364, Zhu Yuanzhang claimed to be the king of Wu, which was known as the Western Wu regime in history.
1368, Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor, established the Ming Dynasty with Yingtianfu as its capital, Daming as its title and Hongwu as its title.
Soon, he ordered Xu Da, Chang Yuchun and other generals to explore the Yuan Dynasty and occupy Dadu, while Yuan Shundi fled north.
There were twenty emperors in the Ming Dynasty.
The territory of the Ming Dynasty once included the so-called 18 provinces in the mainland, reaching the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk and Wudi River basins in the northeast, and later changed to Liaohe River basin; West Silla Mulun River-Hami, later changed to Jiayuguan; Northeast China, eastern Xinjiang, * * *, have all had detention centers. During the reign of Cheng Zu in Ming Dynasty, he even conquered and ruled Annan briefly.
In the 19th year of Yongle (142 1), Ming Taizu moved the capital to Beijing, and Nanjing was changed from Yingtianfu to Beijing.
In the early Ming dynasty, the national strength was strong. Ming Yingzong ascended the throne when he was young, and Yang Pu, Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong presided over the political situation in North Korea, and "the country was peaceful and clear".
The period from Taizu to Xuanzong in the early Ming Dynasty was the most stable and prosperous period of the Ming Dynasty (such as the reign of Yongle and Ren Xuan), and it was also one of the most prosperous times (golden age) in the history of China.
In the seventh year of orthodoxy, Zhang became a queen and died. Ming Yingzong was only fifteen years old. Eunuch Wang Zhen took the opportunity to start arrogating power; In the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, the civil fort changed, which destroyed the military superiority since Yongle and greatly damaged the national strength, but Emperor Jingtai appointed Yu Qian to defeat Vara.
Hongzhi period was a period of political clarity in the middle of Ming dynasty, which was called "Hongzhi rejuvenating the country" in history.
Zheng De and Jiajing Dynasties began to decline gradually, and social contradictions sprouted, facing the invasion of Mongolia and Japan.
During the reign of Qin Long, the maritime ban was opened.
In the early days, it flourished with the help of the famous Zhang.
The economic scale of the Ming dynasty, including the annual income of the contemporary court, is the first in the world.
In the middle period, the emperor idled around, officials became more corrupt, and the landlord class searched for people's fat and paste everywhere, which led to the rebellion in the south of the Yangtze River and the Manchu Dynasty outside the customs. The finance of the Ming Dynasty deteriorated and began to decline.
During the Apocalypse, Emperor Xizong of Ming Dynasty trusted eunuch Wei Zhongxian in everything, which accelerated the process of corruption in Ming Dynasty.
During the Chongzhen period, courtiers fought fiercely, the emperor made a mistake in decision-making, killed Yuan Chonghuan, and the Qing army also broke through the Great Wall defense line.
After years of famine, civil strife broke out in various places, and the number of rebellions was easy, and the officers and men were exhausted.
On March 17th, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1April 23rd, 644), Li Zicheng, a native of Yulin, Shaanxi, led an army to capture Beijing. /kloc-on the morning of 0/9, Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself, and the rule of the Ming Dynasty in the whole country came to an end. In the same year, the Qing army entered the customs.
Later, the imperial clan of the Ming Dynasty successively established the Ming Dynasty's * * * Department in Jiangnan, which was called Nanming in history and lasted for sixteen years (1662). Wu Sangui was strangled in Kunming, Yunnan, and Nanming perished.
However, the Zheng Group of Taiwan Province continued to use the number to establish * * * until the thirty-seventh year of the Ming Dynasty (1683), when Shi Lang * * and Zheng surrendered, and the Ming Dynasty Wang Zhu Shugui committed suicide and the Ming Dynasty perished.
The economy and culture of Ming Dynasty belong to a relatively developed stage in the history of China.
In the early Ming Dynasty, the centralization of monarchy was strengthened, and the emperor monopolized the power.
However, after Xuande, the imperial power began to weaken, and there was a power struggle between the cabinet and eunuchs.
In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, with the Renaissance, the great geographical discovery and the religious reform, the West began to be on an equal footing with the East in the world, and gradually surpassed China.
At the same time, western learning came to China with a group of missionaries, which opened a window and opportunity for the cultural exchange between the East and the West.