Far East 1628

If you were to return to the late Ming Dynasty in the year 1628, what would you do

The Jurchen barbarians beyond the pass have already risen, and in twenty years they will march into the pass, leading to the deaths of countless Han people at the hands of foreign invaders

The Ten Days of Yangzhou, the Three Massacres of Jiading, the policy of keeping hair but not the head, the literary inquisition, and nearly two hundred years of self-imposed isolation, along with the signing of countless humiliating treaties that compromised national sovereignty, preferring to ally with foreign powers rather than with domestic servants, resulted in the cession of 1.74 million square kilometers of territory, approximately equivalent to the area of three Frances

Assessing the material strength of China, uniting the goodwill of the nation, the total compensation to the great powers amounted to 1.95 billion taels of silver, a figure that set a world record, but it is not a glorious record; rather, it is a record of shame

If you had the opportunity to change all of this, would you still let it happen