The Supreme Commander and Foreign Trade in Guangdong
摘要
This chapter continues to present the context of the Ming government. It focuses on a powerful regional governor: the Supreme Commander of Guangdong-Guangxi. It describes the history of this office and its systemic tension with the Secretariat. It then describes the 1509–1517 clash between Supreme Commander Chen Jin and the Ministry of Rites over the legalization of foreign trade.