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Zheng He's colleague is sent on a mission bearing gifts to Bengal [26] 1416: 19 November: Yongle Emperor bestows gifts upon ambassadors from 18 countries [27] 19 December: Yongle Emperor issues orders for the fifth voyage [28] 1417: autumn: Zheng He departs China taking the previous route to Hormuz, and then Aden, Mogadishu, Barawa, Zhubu, and ...
Zheng He's treasure ships as depicted in the Tianfei Jing (天妃經), dated to 1420 (C. Y. Tung Maritime Museum) The Chinese treasure fleet as painted by Vladimir Kosov, dated 2018. The imperial order for the second voyage was issued in October 1407. [note 2] [42] [56] The edict was addressed to Zheng He, Wang Jinghong, and Hou Xian (侯顯). [56]
The main ships of Zheng He's fleet were instead six-masted 2000-liao ships. [85] [86] That would give burthen of 500 tons and a displacement tonnage of about 800 tons. [85] [87] Traditional and popular accounts of Zheng He's voyages have described a great fleet of gigantic ships far larger than any other wooden ships in history.
Treasure voyages: Orders are issued to Zheng He to provide Hong Bao and envoys from 16 countries passage back to their countries; the Treasure fleet takes its usual route to Ceylon where it splits up and heads for the Maldives, Hormuz, and the Arabian states of Djofar, Lasa, and Aden, and the two African states of Mogadishu and Barawa; Zheng He ...
He rewarded his eunuch supporters and employed them as a counterweight against the Confucian scholar-bureaucrats. One eunuch, Zheng He, led seven enormous voyages of exploration into the Indian Ocean as far as Arabia and the eastern coasts of Africa.
The emperor honors Ma He with the name Zheng He. 1405 Zheng He departs from Nanjing with 27,800 men on 255 ships for a voyage of two years. The fleet visits Champa, Java, Malacca, Aru, Semudera, Lambri, Sri Lanka, Quilon, and Calicut. 1407 Zheng He departs from Nanjing with 247 ships for a second voyage of two years. 1409
English: Voyages of Zheng He (1405 - 1433) during Ming Dynasty. Date: 8 January 2018: Source: ... Timeline of the Ming treasure voyages; Zheng He; Global file usage.
In 1479, the vice president of the Ministry of War burned the court records documenting Zheng He's voyages; it was one of many events signalling China's shift to an inward foreign policy. [102] Shipbuilding laws were implemented that restricted vessels to a small size; the concurrent decline of the Ming navy allowed the growth of piracy along ...