The Ming's inability to finance their armies during the silver-related cash crisis left them vulnerable to the Manchus, who defeated them and became the dominant power in the Chinese imperial zone.

“transferred the basis of exchange in their empire to silver when access to silver was cut off or at least minimized for a number of reasons during the first half of the 17th century the Ming at the worst possible time with the Manchu at the gates could no longer fund their armies they couldn't pay to put a military in place to hold them off so the Manchus moved in at a moment of supreme advantage blew out the Ming and replaced them as the”

“the new hegemons over the Chinese imperial zone.”