Why did China stop their voyages under Zheng He? Was it due to

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Maybe the emperor was a bit worried about a muslim eunuch rapidly amassing wealth and foreign knowledge while commanding a veteran army on massive war ships.

I'd personally shit a brick after a year or two of hearing his exploits.

Because of internal court factions feuding with each other. Building the treasure ships came out of the state treasury but any profits from the expedition as well as the prestige went to the imperial family which was represented by the eunuchs. After Yongle died and many eunuchs of his generation including Zheng He, the bureaucrat faction had more power and chimped out, forbidding any further voyages citing needs for defense against Mongol steppeniggers and destroyed all the plans for the ships.
tl;dr it was due to internal political feuding and the bureaucrats chimping out

>>2678656

>amassing wealth

Wasn't Zhenghe giving away treasures though? The main purpose seems to be showing the world how benevolent China was and since all they encountered was Southeast Asian and African niggers it reinforced the idea that everyone outside China was uncivilized savage

He didn't bring back any good shit. I imagine if he came back with mountains of gold and silver like the conquistadores, the Chinese would've returned, but this time with boats full of soldiers.

>>2678639
The government stopped the ambassadors. The merchants and emigrants never stopped

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The Indian Ocean was then the most significant hub of commerce in the world. Zheng He's expeditions were not really voyages of exploration in undiscovered regions; they were meant to show off power and prestige in an established and highly cosmopolitan environment.

>>2679667
How the fuck did nobody colonise Australia before the eternal Anglo?

>>2678639
>wearing a couch as a hat

>>2679672
Because it's a giant, uninhabitable desert

Daily reminder that you should always pronounce his name the Western way, i.e. Zheng HEE, to get a rise out of Chinamen

>>2680097
It has inhabitable coastlines with valuable resources (sandalwood)

>>2680409
Yes, but those are at the Southern Coast.
If you were to arrive at the coast from the North, it would appear as a second New Guinea, a hostile dense rainforest full of poisonous animals and primitive savages

>>2678639
Too expensive of an endevour. Ming were seen as corrupt in the eyes of public.

he brought back a fucking giraffe, good waste of fucking good resources that you could use to fuck the mongols with.

>>2679753
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their technology was inferior so it wasn't economical

>>2679753

>not wearing a couch-hat

>>2679672
>>2680097
>>2680409
>>2680625

Indonesians did manage to establish contact with the Aborigines in the north, but they did not stay. All they did was use the waters for fishing. As for everyone else, it is simply too damn far from any centre of civilization. Only hunter-gatherer societies, Europeans, and Polynesians would travel thousands of miles to set up shop in the middle of bum-fuck-nowhere.