Preview VI: The Dynasty Ming
Dynasty Ming's Preview (Thanks to Hoggy for his models)
History:
Ming Dynasty (Chinese: 明朝; Hanyu Pinyin: Míng Cháo) was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644. It was the last ethnic Han-led dynasty in China, supplanting the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty before falling to the Manchu-led Qing Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty ruled over the Empire of the Great Ming (大明國; Dà Míng Guó), as China was then known. Although the Ming capital, Beijing, fell in 1644, remnants of the Ming throne and power (now collectively called the Southern Ming) survived until 1662.
Ming rule saw the construction of a vast navy, including four-masted ships of 1,500 tons displacement, and a standing army of 1,000,000 troops. Over 100,000 tons of iron per year were produced in North China (roughly 1 kg per inhabitant), and many books were printed using movable type. There were strong feelings among the Han ethnic group against the rule by non-Han ethnic groups during the subsequent Qing Dynasty[citation needed], and the restoration of the Ming dynasty was used as a rallying cry up until the modern era.
The Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty ruled before the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. Some historians believe the Mongols' discrimination against Han Chinese during the Yuan dynasty was the primary cause for the end of that dynasty. The discrimination led to a peasant revolt that pushed the Yuan dynasty back to the Mongolian steppes. But historians such as Joseph Walker dispute this theory. Other causes include paper currency over-circulation, which caused inflation to go up tenfold during the reign of Yuan Emperor Shundi, along with the flooding of the Yellow River as a result of the abandonment of irrigation projects. In Late Yuan times, agriculture was in a shambles. When hundreds of thousands of civilians were called upon to work on the Yellow River, war broke out. A number of Han Chinese groups revolted, and eventually the group led by Zhu Yuanzhang, assisted by an ancient and secret intellectual fraternity called the Summer Palace people, established dominance. The rebellion succeeded, and the Ming Dynasty was established in Nanjing in 1368. Zhu Yuanzhang took Hongwu as his reign title. The Ming dynasty emperors were members of the Zhu family.
Hongwu kept a powerful army organized on a military system known as the weisuo system, which was similar to the fubing system of the Tang Dynasty. According to Ming Shigao, the political intention in establishing the weisuo system was to maintain a strong army while avoiding bonds between commanding officers and soldiers.
Hong Wu supported the creation of self-supporting agricultural communities. Neo-feudal land-tenure developments of late Song times were expropriated with the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. Great land estates were confiscated by the government, divided, and rented out; private slavery was forbidden. Consequently, after the death of the Yongle Emperor, independent peasant landholders predominated in Chinese agriculture.
It is notable that, though an embracer of Confucianism himself, Hongwu did not trust Confucians. However, under the next few emperors, the Confucian scholar gentry, who were marginalized under the Yuan for nearly a century, once again
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Leader : Zhu Houzhao, or Zhengde, the 10th Emperor of Ming
The Ming dynasty benefits from the important Chinese population. Their troops are more numerous.
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Description of the units :
Chinese Heavy Infantry
They are equipped with a heavy armor, a spear and a round-shiedl
Chinese Recruits
They are peasant clothed with a garment and equipped with a spear
Chinese Archers
They are good in the handling of the bow
Chu-Ko-Nu Crossbowmens
They are equipped with a powerful crossbow
Chinese Cavarly Archers
They are horsearchers
Chinese Medium Cavalry
They are equipped with a light armor and a spear
Guanyu Cavalry
They are equipped without any armor and with the Chinese halberd
Chinese Heavy Cavalry
They are equipped with a heavy armor, a spear and a round-shield
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Re: Preview VI: The Dynasty Ming
Re: Preview VI: The Dynasty Ming
lease don't forget the Chinese handguner.When the AD 15-16th,The Ming army's 40% are handguners.
