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Fujian Province's history was very strange. Before the Tang Dynasty, this place was called the Savage Land of the Bai Yue.

Mountains, coasts, roads … There was no way for agriculture to develop here!

However, due to the gradual rise of the maritime trade, a series of trading cities rose along the Fujian coast! And the name Fujian started from Tang Dynasty.

As the tall and big continuous Wuyishan s were obstructing the expansion of the Central Plains, the war and chaos from previous dynasties did not affect this place. It was very peaceful and peaceful in Fujian during the time of the five generations and ten nations.

When they entered the Song Dynasty, the development of maritime technology once again ignited the business atmosphere in Fujian. At that time, Quanzhou was honored by the merchants of the Arabian as the City of Light, which continued all the way until the Yuan Dynasty.

The war that Fujian experienced from the Tang Dynasty was only a few years after the end of the Southern Song Dynasty. The remaining time was very peaceful, and the peaceful environment stimulated the development of business.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the scale of the Ocean trade was even more unprecedented in Fujian.

However, the good news was that after China entered the Ming Dynasty, its policy of closing the gates and sealing the gates completely destroyed China's Ocean trade. Since then, not a single Chinese caravan took the initiative to leave the country for trade.

China's right to trade in the sea has fallen into the hands of Western merchants and even pirates!

After losing the ocean trade, Fujian's economy was in ruins, and even its population had plummeted. This was not a good place to develop agriculture, and without the support of the Ocean trade, the Great Depression was unavoidable.

He had been going downhill since the Ming Dynasty, and now he was even more unlucky when he reached the Qing Dynasty!

In the early days of the founding of the country, the Nan-Ming forces fought with the Qing, and then Zheng's forces joined in. After the chaos of the three vassals, there was the battle of Pingtai-Taiwan, and the whole of the early Qing Dynasty became a great battlefield in Fujian.

The Manchu really didn't have the ability to fight on the sea. Facing the soldiers of the Zheng Family of Taiwan, he could only passively take a beating, and in the end, had to rely on General Shi Lang's strength.

In order to defend against the Zheng Family's fleet, the Qing Dynasty issued a very strict sea ban. Not only was the sail unable to go into the sea, it had to relocate all the people along the coastline.

This was the historical and controversial ban on the sea and the order to move to the sea!

These two bans were too cruel. They directly destroyed all the roots of the Fujian Ocean trade, especially the order to move to the sea and blow away the people who were tens of kilometers away from the coast.

This move was too extreme!

Back in the days when the sea ban was in place, the citizens were able to engage in smuggling business for the sake of their own interests. Although it was illegal, it at least preserved the vitality of commercial life!

There were merchants, mature sailors and captains, and a group of skilled shipbuilders!

The roots of these Ocean trade can hibernate for a while, but they will definitely rise up easily once they encounter a chance in the future!

However, the migration had destroyed the structure of the population and the foundations of the Ocean trade. It could be said that all the foundations of Fujian's foreign trade had been completely destroyed.

Poverty, what remained was only poverty. The Qing Dynasty had reclaimed Taiwan in exchange for a province of Fujian that was completely destitute. The foundation of business and trade accumulated over the past millennium no longer existed.

After the First Opium War, Xiamen and Fuzhou were forcefully opened by the British, but by that time, the glory of the Song and Yuan dynasties had long disappeared.

It had been decades since the port of Fujian opened, but economic development was still very slow. The restoration of basic necessities was not going to happen overnight.