And yet Manchu Qing still cant defend their own turf from the British. On the other hand Ming China chase out the Dutch and claim Taiwan, and that was during their weakest period.
Oh, of course they pretty much use up most of their treasury made out of the "trade" you mention to bribe and beg foreigners to spare their lives and let them remain on power
The UK was a global Empire, the Qing Dynasty was defeated by one of the greatest countries in the world. Taiwan was claimed by Koxinga, not the Ming dynasty. Besides the Dutch was not even a regular army, they were 'security'. They were defeated because their lack of manpower and used up all the resource in their castle.
Also what if I told you that the Ming navy even asked Portuguese
citizens in Macau to deal with those pirates they can't handle with -and those Portuguese had won several wars and scared those pirates away.
而且無論是港口建設,出入口產品以及對外貿易國家數目明朝都無法比得了清朝,
從乾隆22年到道光18年,單從廣州一個港口一年的貿易額甚至是明朝最強盛时期的50倍.
Ref:[中國對外貿易史]
唐朝首都被區區吐蕃佔領多次,
南明皇室甚至為了向羅馬求救而受洗,
明朝敗光宋金元的數理化天文學,領土由建國至滅亡一直在縮水,
清朝打敗了西方強敵準噶爾,把整個一直麻煩明朝的蒙古納入版圖,領土從開國以來一直在擴張,為民國留下的是廣大的領土和小量的重工業,結果呢.
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Irresponsible Google translate:
And whether it is port construction, import and export products as well as the number of countries foreign trade than got Qing Ming can not,
Qianlong dynasty from 18 years to 22 years, a single year from Guangzhou, a port of trade and even the most prosperous period of the Ming Dynasty 50 times.
Ref: [China's foreign trade history]
Tibetan capital of the Tang Dynasty was a mere occupation times,
Ming imperial Rome, or even to help and to be baptized,
Song Yuan Ming lost light of physics and chemistry astronomy, from the foundation to the demise of the territory has been shrinking,
Qing Dynasty defeated enemies quasi-Western Junggar, the whole has been incorporated into trouble Ming Dynasty Mongolian territory from the territory has been expanding since the founding, the Republic of leaving a vast territory and a small amount of heavy industry, the results do.
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清朝會比明朝差?我真的不這樣認為.