The Study On The Southeast Sea Bandits At The End Of The Yuan Dynasty

Yuan Dynasty marine activities are quite active.The pioneering of the grain trade by sea from the north to south,the development of the sea salt industry and the prosperity of foreign trade,which all show the ambitions of using the sea in Yuan government.The benefits of the marine economy have become an important source of government finance.However,in the course of the implementation of marine policy,the malpractice and the social contradiction are increasing,the shipowners are bankrupt due to excessive burden,the maritime community and the government are centrifuged,and the coastal private salt is becoming more and more rampant.The implementation of the marine policy eventually push the maritime group to the opposite of the government.Southeast coastal areas as the starting point of sea transport,the main origin of sea salt and the main port of foreign trade and the location of Bureau for Foreign Shipping,therefore the Southeast coastal areas is closely related to the marine policy.The bandits affected the stability and development of the political,economic and social seriously,accelerating the demise of the Yuan regime.The rise of the bandits in the southeastern coast of the Yuan Dynasty reflects the failure of the Yuan government to cope with the imbalance,the factor isolation system failed to establish an effective coastal defense military system,Because the Yuan army is not good at the naval warfare,the weak coastal defense forces were lost in the war of siege of the bandits.Yuan Dynasty constantly offer amnesty.In the situation of continuous destruction,the Yuan government recognized Fang Guozhen ’ s strong maritime power to the Yuan government,especially to maintain the importance of maritime transport,therefore Yuan Dynasty constantly offer amnesty to Fang Guozhen.The bandits forces,represented by Fang Guozhen,ultimately to cut the eastern Zhejiang,and always maintained an ambiguous relationship with the government.After accepting the amnesty,Fang Guozhen used his own maritime power to provide maritime transport for Yuan government,and actively carried out overseas trade and production of sea salt.The economy of the southeastern coastal areas did not end because of the rule of the bandits.But,the attitude of the Southeast coastal scholars is not as Fang Guozhen wish,most of the scholars or join the government,or migrate elsewhere,seclusion mountain forest,only a small number of scholars for various reasons,choose Fang Guozhen’ s plan.The shortcomings of the oceanic policy of the Yuan Dynasty eventually led to the disintegration of the Southeast Ocean in the late Yuan Dynasty,The influence of the bandits forces on the country,especially the coastal areas.In order to protect the country’ s strong control of the sea,Zhu Yuanzhang tried to fundamentally solve the existence of the bandits.However,in the long run,maritime bans have harmed the interests of the coastal people and led to the ultimate separation between the pwople and the government.