Since the age of the sea, the West has been growing stronger, and many people believe that the West has been invincible in the fleet from ancient times to the present, while China's navy is weak due to its closed policy. However, in fact, this view is biased, in the maritime age, the West is not weak, but China's maritime power was also very strong during the Ming Dynasty, and Zheng He's fleet was the most powerful fleet at that time. Moreover, by the time of the Qing Dynasty, China's maritime power was still very strong, and many people knew that the Zheng family's navy was very strong, but they did not know that his fleet was the most invincible in the world at that time.
In the era of Zheng Zhilong, the Dutch fleet was the most powerful in the West, but they were still defeated by the Zheng family, which was the first confrontation between the eastern and western navies, and the result was a victory in the east, which the Zheng family contributed to. Moreover, the Zheng family also produced the hero Zheng Chenggong, who was loyal to the Ming Dynasty, refused to surrender to the Qing Dynasty like his father, led his army to fight against the Qing army, and also drove out the Western colonists on Taiwan and recaptured the treasure island, which can be described as a monumental achievement.
However, it is this national hero who has always been stained in history: the Qing Dynasty history books record that Zheng Chenggong eventually not only betrayed the Ming Dynasty, but also killed the descendants of the imperial family. Many people are convinced of this, believing that Zheng Chenggong really betrayed the Ming Dynasty, but an accident in 1959 changed the situation.
In 1959, a farmer on the Golden Gate blew up a large mountain in order to open a way, but found an ancient tomb in the mountain, and the archaeological department quickly arrived and inspected the ancient tomb. There are not many precious cultural relics in the ancient tombs, not like the tombs of ancient nobles, so the archaeologists are a little disappointed. However, at this time, the archaeologists found a stone stele in the ancient tomb, and through the inscription on it, they found that the owner of the tomb was actually the last King Lu in the last year of the Ming Dynasty.
King Lu was a ming dynasty fief located in Yanzhou, which was at the forefront of resistance to the Qing army. In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the last generation of Lu kings succeeded to the throne, but he faced a menacing Qing army. After the fall of Yanzhou, King Lu fled to the south with his troops, and later, when the Capital of the Ming Dynasty fell and the Emperor committed suicide, King Lu became the leader of the remnants of the Ming Dynasty in the south. However, their strength is very weak and they can only rely on the powerful Zheng Chenggong.
In the history of the Qing Dynasty, King Lu was treated with courtesy when he first arrived at Zheng Chenggong, and Zheng Chenggong also respected him very much, but with the passage of time, the demise of the Ming Dynasty was a foregone conclusion, so Zheng Chenggong no longer respected King Lu and sank him into the sea and drowned. Therefore, Zheng Chenggong also became a perfidious villain and was scolded by Confucians and the people. However, the information in the ancient tomb found on the island in 1959 shows that King Lu died of illness, not by Zheng Chenggong. Zheng Chenggong has borne hundreds of years of grievances, and has finally been washed away.
When the Zheng family was at its strongest, it roamed the waters of Asia, and all ships must fly the Zheng family flag. The Zheng family set the rules of trade that even Western colonists had to abide by, otherwise they could not trade with the East. The Zheng family even counterattacked the Qing Dynasty in the end, almost capturing the capital of the Qing Dynasty, and its sharp edge made the Qing Dynasty very afraid. However, after years of ups and downs, the Zheng family gradually declined, and was destroyed by the Qing Dynasty and became a thing of the past.