Speaking of national heroes, we always remember Zheng Chenggong, a national hero written in history books, who was respected by everyone for recovering Taiwan and expelling Dutch colonists.
Zheng Chenggong family pirates, why has been committed to anti-Qing restoration?
To say that the political ecology of the Ming Dynasty is the most interesting, it is those officials who have been deeply influenced by Confucianism, one by one, greedy for life and afraid of death, and have no backbone, the former Wei Dezao in order to serve Li Zicheng, did not even dare to die, the latter Qian Qianyi when he was martyred, because of the cold water, terminated the suicide behavior.
These are still the best among the readers, and if you want to say that those capitulation factions have no bottom line, but the Zheng Chenggong family is an exception.
Zheng Chenggong's father, Zheng Zhilong, was originally a smuggling leader, and later recruited by the Ming court and successfully became a state civil servant, according to the reason, such a person should have no loyalty to the dynasty, but when the Ming Dynasty was about to collapse, Zheng Zhilong had been struggling on the front line.
After the Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself, Zheng Zhilong supported the establishment of the Fu King Zhu Yousong as emperor, and the history of the regime established was called the "Hongguang Regime", which was unfortunately overthrown by the Qing army, and later Zheng Zhilong supported the Tang King Zhu Yujian as emperor, and the history of the established regime was called "Longwu Regime".
Subsequently, Zheng Zhilong recommended his son Zheng Chenggong to the Longwu Emperor, and Zheng Chenggong was very talented and insightful, so he was deeply respected by the Longwu Emperor. In order to show his love and dependence on Zheng Chenggong, the Longwu Emperor gave the surname Zhu to Zheng Chenggong, whose original name was Zheng Sen, and in order to express his gratitude, he changed his name to Chenggong.
Zheng Chenggong also did not live up to the weight of the Longwu Emperor, his life was devoted to the anti-Qing restoration, showing a strong patriotic feeling, in 1661 Zheng Chenggong led an army across the Taiwan Strait, the next year defeated the Dutch East India Company garrison in Taiwan, after expelling the colonists, Zheng Chenggong began to carry out anti-Qing movements in Taiwan.
After the Kangxi dynasty of the Qing Dynasty ascended the throne, some people offered the Kangxi Emperor the strategy of "Five Strategies for Flat Thieves", and this strategy was mainly aimed at former dynasty defenders like Zheng Chenggong, and the Qing rulers wantonly killed Zheng Chenggong's subordinates;
Zheng Chenggong withstood tremendous pressure to recover Taiwan and resist the Qing army, but his son Zheng Jing was in the "pit daddy"
Later, Zheng Chenggong learned of these news in Taiwan, and he suffered a huge impact, and the most fatal blow was given to him by his son Zheng Jing, which is really a historical version of the pit daddy.
Zheng Chenggong's son was named Zheng Jing, and when Zheng Jing was 19 years old, Zheng Chenggong married Tang Xianyue, the Shangshu of the Southern Ming Army, so Zheng Jing married Tang Xianyue's daughter. However, the life of the two after marriage is not very happy, Zheng Jing opposes his parents to arrange marriages for him, and this newlywed wife is not the type that Zheng Jing likes, so Zheng Jing has always been very indifferent to this new wife.
At this time, first, the Dutch in Taiwan have been eager to move, constantly harassing the southeast coast, which makes Zheng Chenggong very distracted, and second, Zheng Chenggong wants to open up a safe rear for himself, so he decided to send troops to Taiwan and touch the Dutch colonists. He left his son Zheng Jing to preside over the overall situation in Xiamen.
The so-called "no tiger in the mountains, monkeys reign supreme", soon after Zheng successfully dispatched troops, Zheng Jing began to act recklessly. Dissatisfied with his wife, he had a relationship with his brothers' nursing mother, Chen Zhaoniang, who was still charming, which made Zheng Jing very infatuated, and soon after she became pregnant.
Zheng Jing was frightened after he knew it, he knew that if this matter let his father know, he would not let go of his own, so he wrote to Zheng Chenggong first to tell Zheng Chenggong that you are going to be a grandfather, one of my concubines is pregnant, but the letter did not mention that this child was with the nursing mother, and Zheng Chenggong read the letter, happy like a child, because Zheng Jing is the eldest son, in his lifetime, he can see the Zheng family has a queen, which makes Zheng Chenggong very excited, Zheng Chenggong on the spot ordered the reward of the three armies, to celebrate the good news together.
Zheng Chenggong was in his prime at the time, why did he suddenly die?
However, soon after, the mess between Zheng Jing and the nursing mother was known to Tang Xianyue, who was very angry and wrote to Zheng Chenggong in Taiwan. Tang Xianyue put all the things and the matter out, he said: "The three fathers and six mothers, the nursing mother is also one of them, so that Lang Fox has a son, and he does not hear the blame, but rewards him." He blamed Zheng Chenggong for teaching his son to have no way out, Zheng Jing violated ethics, and the people have spread the word about this matter, which not only humiliated Zheng Chenggong, but also involved the overall political and military situation of Nanming, which made Zheng Chenggong in Taiwan very angry and disappointed. Zheng Chenggong wrote a letter to Tang Xianyue, saying that he would definitely give an account to the Tang family and make up for the mistake of his godson.
He ordered the generals in Xiamen to execute Zheng Jing and Chen Zhaoniang, their son Zheng Kezang, and even let them kill their own wife Dong Shi, which shows how disappointed Zheng Chenggong was with their mother and son.
However, the generals in Xiamen considered that Zheng Jing was Zheng Chenggong's eldest son, and if killing Zheng Jing was only a decision on Zheng Chenggong's arrogance, it would be these generals who would suffer in the future, and Zheng Jing still held the military power in Xiamen at this time, and these generals did not dare to act arbitrarily, so they just killed Chen Zhaoniang.
Zheng Chenggong knew that these generals refused to listen to his orders, and he was even more frustrated, and that year, the Yongli Emperor was killed by Wu Sangui, and Zheng Chenggong knew that the Southern Ming regime he supported was finally overthrown, and he was infected with wind and cold. Therefore, soon after Zheng successfully recovered Taiwan, he died in Taiwan in his prime because of the collapse of the Southern Ming Dynasty and the appearance of unworthy descendants in his family.
summary
The cause of Zheng Chenggong's death is actually caused by a variety of factors. However, his son Zheng Jing and his nursing mother's mess undoubtedly made him lose the last line of defense, the Southern Ming regime ended, and Zheng Chenggong's life ended.