Ming Dynasty Did Not Colonize

"The Ming Dynasty Does Not Colonize" is a historical fictional novel that takes the thirteenth year of Yongle as its starting point: Zheng He made his fourth voyage to the West and brought back the "Atlas of All Nations". The military generals of the DPRK and China advocated military expansion. Xu Hongyuan, a doctor of Qin Tianjian, with the support of the prince, established the "Four Seas Commodity and Colonial Accounting Institute" and tried to replace traditional conquest with a new system. Xu Hongyuan promoted the conclusion of the "General Rules of Trade in the South China Sea" to resolve disputes through arbitration tribunals; established a joint escort fleet to maintain common trade routes; exported agricultural, industrial and medical skills to transform plundered objects into partners; established overseas academies to replace religious propagation with civilized dialogue. However, this road faces multiple encirclements and suppressions by military generals from North Korea and China, wealthy smuggling merchants from the south of the Yangtze River, and eunuchs who oversee rituals. From the Old Port experiment to the artillery fire in Malacca, from the Monument of the Ten Thousand People at the Yangtze River Estuary to the deep-sea shipwrecks, Xu Hongyuan and his companions spent five years proving that the real territory can exist in the human heart. When Spain and Portugal promoted colonization with guns, slaves, and gold, the Ming Dynasty treasure ships chose to open up shipping routes based on rules, win-win cooperation, and civilized dialogue. This book is not only a "historical possibility experiment" five hundred years ago, but also reflects modern globalization and asks whether China's "view of the world" can provide the world with a way for civilizations to get along beyond the change of hegemony. Keywords: Zheng He's voyages to the West, decolonial expansion, institutional innovation, dialogue among civilizations Core conflict: Sword conquest vs. Rule-based co-construction, short-term plunder vs. Long-term win-win Unique highlights: Rigorous historical details combined with in-depth institutional design recreate a civilizational breakthrough that "should have happened".