>Not understanding inflation, Hongwu gave out so much paper money as rewards that by 1425, the state was forced to restore copper coins because the paper currency had sunk to only 1/70 of its original value.

>>14931608 (OP)

Sounds like a retard

>>14931608 (OP)

He was a peasant retard so makes sense desu

>>14931608 (OP)

based paper money is the tool of the greedy bankers and an extremely devious one

>>14931608 (OP)

imagine if in the 16th century, a century after the fall of constantinople, an impoverished orthodox greek monk born in anatolia one day raised enormous greek armies and rebelled against their ottoman rulers. he not only succeeds in retaking constantinople, antioch, trebizond, and all the territories that had been lost since basil ii, but he marches into central asia and kills so many turks it permanently neuters their presence as an ethnicity on the world stage, while re-establishing a greek superpower. he would surely be regarded as a hero equal to constantine. yet that is exactly what zhu yuanzhang accomplished.

Damn, based. And the northern barbarians were never a problem again, right?

No way this is real lmao i'll check the man

Well no, but they just built the wall and that fixed it.

Manchus are not Mongols, and it could be argued that the rise of the Manchu was only possible because the breaking of Mongol strength left a power vacuum for the Manchu to fill.



People like to meme about this because whether walls work or not has become a political thing in modern times, but yes, the wall policy did work. The invaders had to be literally let in by the wall garrison because they couldn't get past the wall otherwise.

Still northern, still barbarian.

>He was a peasant retard

yet he founded a dynasty while confucian nerds ruin china while wanking on being able to write. Forget the eunuchs, Zhu should have genocided those parasites called scholar-bureaucrats

Zhu Yuanzhang hated bureaucrats so much due to his experiences in the Yuan Dynasty that the Ming Dynasty did rely less on Bureaucrats and more on Nobles, who were usually Zhu clan relatives.



It turned the Ming into a snakepit of corruption, autocracy, and an extremely top-heavy parasitic administration (since nobles gave themselves huge stipends) that it was a fucking miracle that it was so stable even when shit like a dumb emperor getting captured happens.



Its army was even a greater mystery lol. Instead of mass conscription armies (like the Qin or Han) or huge standing armies (like the Song or Tang) it just opted to build a tiny Imperial Army in the capital while the provinces were all protected by locally raised forces (with the Emperor's permission) of mixed quality with generals just given a war chest, told to go to X provionce, and told to build their armies however they wanted. And yet the provincial armies and border troops- a weirdo collection of tiny provincial standing armies, armed civilian adventurers, mercenaries, and pardoned bandits/pirates- did well, even during the declining years of the 1500s. They were even considered better fighters than the main Ming Imperial army in the interior.



The Ming is fascinating for its combination of centralized government while knowing when to look away and allow for local flexibility.

Im guessing they all get there armors from mass produced workshops kinda lame. I know it's just a hobby but handmade kits have so much more feeling to them. Guy in second column looks stellar.
