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What is the difference between the Ming Great Wall and the previous Great Wall?

I am a native of Qinhuangdao. The Shanhaiguan Great Wall is not too far from my home. I grew up under the roots of the Great Wall. I also thought about this issue when I was a child. Now I know the background of the construction of the Great Wall. Let me tell you in detail.

To put it most bluntly, because the capital of the Ming Dynasty was in the south when the Great Wall was built, and the Mongols were relatively powerful in the north, the territory in the north was still very unstable. By the time of Emperor Yuan Shun from the Yuan Dynasty, the primitive tribal system of the Genghis Khan era had already evolved into a mature Chinese-style bureaucratic regime. It was not a mobile tribe fighting guerrilla warfare, but a country with territorial concepts, taxation systems, and productivity. During the Hongwu period when the Great Wall was being built, the background was that China was constantly facing massive counterattacks by the Yuan regime. The entire northern territory of China was bordering Mongolia. At this time, the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty were in a stalemate. Under such a situation, they wanted to give up power as a whole. The Great Wall even said that it was unrealistic to push China's northern border line northward. Later, Zhu Di's accession to the throne and the large-scale conquest of Mongolia were beyond the imagination of Xu Da and Zhu Yuanzhang at that time, and they never expected that the capital of the Ming Dynasty would be moved from Nanjing to Beijing. The Qin Dynasty faced the primitive Xiongnu tribe that was not fully civilized. Its activity area was only the Mongolian Plateau, and its productivity and population birth rate were far inferior to those of the Mongols. Moreover, the wars between the people of the Warring States Period and the plateau nomads were ongoing. Hundreds of years ago. The Qin Dynasty's Great Wall to the north is largely due to the original Great Walls of other vassal states during the Warring States Period. Rather than the Qin Dynasty's Great Wall being to the north, it is better to say that the Zhao State's Great Wall was relatively to the north at that time. Moreover, the social conditions of the Qin Dynasty were different from today. Before the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the concept of China referred to the northern part centered on Henan and Shaanxi. The main territory of the Qin Dynasty was east of Gansu, west of Liaoning, south of Shaanxi, and south of Hubei. North place. Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Sichuan and other places were conquered at the same time as the Great Wall was being built, so the center of the Qin Dynasty was originally to the north. These two dynasties were firstly influenced by the surrounding diplomatic environment, secondly by the country's political, economic, and military conditions, and thirdly by issues left over from history, all of which determined that the Great Walls of the two dynasties would be different. As for the crop factor mentioned, it is not entirely accurate. The climate and soil in the entire Liaodong Bay are very good, and the soil quality is completely suitable for the growth of crops. It can be said that it is more suitable for living and farming than places like North China, where the vast areas are all mountains and hills. The geographical location is full of strategic advantages. It is connected to the Siberian Nurgandu Command in the north, the Mongolian Plateau in the west, and North Korea in the south. It is also a natural military port and an excellent strategic buffer zone. The Ming Dynasty had frequent foreign wars. It can be said that the biggest territorial failure was the construction of the Great Wall to the south of Liaoning with Beijing as the capital. Oara and Manchuria took turns to attack the vicinity of Beijing, largely because the Great Wall was built too close to the capital and lacked a buffer zone. So when Li Zicheng rebelled later, all the military focus and personnel of the Ming Dynasty were concentrated on the Great Wall to defend Manchuria.

The poster saw that I was typing word by word, and since it was hard work and my words were correct, he gave me the points as encouragement.