What about the Ming Dynasty?

In the fifth year of the Ming Dynasty, that is, 157 1 year, Wang Chonggu, a minister of the Ministry of War who was born in a famous merchant, said in "Discussion on the Issue of Tribute and Seal": "The northern Lu is scattered in the desert, and people do not plow and weave, and there is nowhere else to produce. If you want to get pots and kettle needles, you need to cast them in China, but you need to plunder them. Now I have vowed never to invade. What I did at the beginning of begging for tribute was to listen to selling Iraq so as not to be stolen. " Many ministers opposed the horse market, and Zhang pointed out that both the horse market and the tribute were beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, both strategically and economically, because it represented that the Mongolian war system was disintegrated by the market economy mechanism of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang: "I'm afraid I don't admire the honor of official rank or covet the interests of my country, but I can't help comparing my military with mine." Today, if you really want me, I will do it by chance, but if I have money, tens of thousands of people can do it. Considering that people are not enough to say such things at present, they think it is crazy and rebellious. "

Why does Zhang have such confidence? In fact, it is precisely because of the huge amount of silver held by the Ming Dynasty that predecessors simply could not imagine it. Mongolians were given silver to buy and sell, and the supply of silver was controlled by the Ming Dynasty. This policy actually disintegrated the Mongolian system more thoroughly than guns. Mongolia depended on the Ming Dynasty for money. At this point, the long-term campaign between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia in the northern mainland finally came to an end, and the border confrontation was replaced by trade and mutual market.