Are the richest and most powerful feudal dynasties in China the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty?
Judging from the economic strength and total amount, the Song Dynasty is undoubtedly the richest dynasty in China's history, and it also has the highest success rate (75%) in foreign wars, of course, this is because it is mainly a defensive war. In my opinion, the military strength of the Han Dynasty should be the strongest. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, only 65,438+10,000 cavalry could defeat the Xiongnu with "400,000 people who controlled strings" and forced the Xiongnu to move westward in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which was remarkable. The military and economic strength of the Tang Dynasty was not the strongest, but it was second only to the strongest, and the culture was undoubtedly the most developed, so it had a wide influence. As for the Yuan Dynasty, although Mongolia conquered Europe and Asia and prospered, its rise originated from the decline of the Eastern and Western empires at that time. The military strength of the Great Song Dynasty in the East was poor, and the once powerful Arab Empire also declined at that time. Therefore, Mongolian people have the opportunity to dominate the world with a mere 100 thousand cavalry. If put in the Han and Tang dynasties, the fate of Mongolia is no different from that of Xiongnu and Turkic. Of course, as for the Qing dynasty, it benefited from the peasant uprising within the Ming dynasty. It was not until Li Zicheng's army attacked and destroyed the Ming Dynasty that the Qing army was able to enter the customs smoothly. If the Ming Dynasty still exists, it will lose the territory north of Shanhaiguan at most, and the unification of the Qing Dynasty has many contingencies. Of course, when it comes to the Ming Dynasty, I don't think everything is the strongest. Despite its vast territory, the best year of economy is not as good as that of the Song Dynasty, and its military strength is tight, so it is necessary to deal with the invasion of South Japan and North China. In fact, the Mongolian problem in the late Ming Dynasty was solved by Jurchen, and a more powerful force appeared. However, there is one thing worthy of recognition in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, we were not behind. If the wheel of history continues to follow the luck of the Ming Dynasty, we will also enter the early capitalist era, because the technology, ideas and strata of the Ming Dynasty have already possessed some characteristics of the Western Renaissance, but the frequent dynasty changes in our Chinese civilization circle have ended all this. Once every emperor and courtier, times have changed.