The Ming Dynasty Coastal Defence Policy And Dengzhou’s Coastal Defence Construction

As one of the few important parts in northern china,Dengzhou play an importantrole in the history of maintaining coastal defence and resisting foreignaggression.Early in the Warring States Period,Dengzhou was a main port of Qi. Thepart of coastal defence building for the first time climax began in northern songdynasty.At that time, to resist the Liao Dynasty,in Dengzhou built a series of militaryfortress.Saury village is its typical representative. For continued intrusion in China’scoastal, Dengzhou has the high degree of attention as a vault imperialtown,Dengzhou’s coastal defense construction reached an unprecedented high tide. Inthis period of coastal defense construction,Dengzhou largely changes along with thecoastal defense policy of the Ming Dynasty. In hongwu period,government putmaritime prohibition and weisuo system into practice,under the twopolicies,government buildt many weisuo in Dengzhou, Dengzhou navy、DengzhouWatertown、 barracks、bastions,all of these enhanced Dengzhou’s strength of coastdefence and played an important role to resist the Japanese Pirates.The construction ofthese military facilities lay a solid foundation for Dengzhou to resist the JapanesePirates.In yongle period,the capital moved to beijing, as an important area of protectcapital,more strengthened in coastal defense construction.Dengzhou camp and theheadquarter of resistance to the Japanese pirates strengthen Dengzhou’s unifiedmanagement of resistance to the Japanese pirates,Strengthen patrol sea,takinginitiative measures to attack Japanese pirates and this makes Japanese pirates dare toinfringe china in almost a century;The mid Ming dynasty national strengthdeclines,weisuo begin to empty,Equipment outdate,Coastal defense construction havelarger weakened,Although the government took some measures to make up,to a largeextent these can’t meet the needs at that time,Japanese pirates plague in chinaagain,In the face of such situation,Mingofficials take raising soldier substitute weisuosystem and implement yingshao system in navy,these two kinds of policy is verymatch and played an important role to resist the Japanese pirates.In the late Mingdynasty, although Dengzhou’s coastal defense construction faced manydifficulties,Japan launched the invasion war and houjin’s rise made Denghzou’scoastal defense construction more important.During this period,as an logistic base forKorea and Liaodong,Dengzhou made its own contributionon personnel supplies andplays a crucial role on the victory of the war. Not only continuously strengthenDengzhou’s coastal defense construction,Ming dynasty also develop Dengzhou as estrategic center of shandong.In Chong Zhen years,Setting up the artillery battalion inDengzhou reflect the advance of military equipment and military strength,butkongyoude’s rebel forces produce devastating breakup in Dengzhou and makesPrevious efforts nothing left,with the Ming dynasty perish,Dengzhou’s Coastal defense construction to an end.From the angle of the resistance to Japanese pirates,the coastal defence policywhich Ming dynasty taken are more successful and has taken many changes aimedat position,but we can also see the insufficiency of these policies.Forbidding sea voyages leda to close-door,this made Ming dynasty losechanceto contact with te outside world and lost the opportunity to follow the worldtrend before the ocean era.This circumscribed policy also profoundly affected chinahundreds of years.Dengzhou,in the influence of the ban on maritime trade orintercourse with foreign countries,Dengzhou’s trade almost ground to a halt,Thisseriously affected the state’s economic development,Also played a negative role on the side of coastal defense construction.In middleand late ming dynasty, the empty of wei-suo greatly weakened Dengzhou’s coastalmilitary strength and to the disadvantage of the state coastal defense construction.Theinstability of the government policy also greatly influenced the state coastal defenseconstruction,this makes coast defence has obvious characteristics of stage.Cannot becarried out in accordance with the a long-term plan for the construction of the systemandit is disadvantageous in the long team...