Zheng Chenggong was born in Japan and has lived with his mother in Hirado, Japan since childhood. It was not until the age of six that he came to China with his father. His father, Zheng Zhilong, was a merchant and pirate who had great power in the southeastern and Japanese seas of China at that time! Zheng Zhilong took his son to Shijingjin (石井津, in Nan'an County, Quanzhou Province) (formerly Anping Town, Jinjiang County, Fujian Province, now Anhai Town) to live and study and receive education. At that time, Zheng Chenggong, who had just turned 20 years old, had already shown a strong sense of family and country, loyalty and righteousness under the influence of Mr. Teaching, and the blood of heroism flowed in his bones. So he began to lead troops to assist Nanming and carry out the great cause of anti-Qing and restoration of the Ming Dynasty on the southeast coast.
But his father was just an old pirate, and he had no concept of the Confucian and grand ideas of the nation and the homeland, and he only established the Nanming regime to seize more power, wealth, and women. Generally speaking of Nanming, everyone will say that the emperor is too garbage, and there is no fighting spirit. However, the Longwu Emperor can be said to be an outlier among the Southern Ming Emperors. As a prince, Longwu has been ambitious since he was a child and wants to do his part for Daming. When Emperor Taiji hit Beijing, Chongzhen ordered all over the country to serve the king, and Zhu Yujian, who was not yet the king of Tang, gathered a bunch of people to go north to Beijing, and when the result came, the crisis in Beijing had been resolved, and Zhu Yujian was imprisoned for violating the decree that the king of the clan was not allowed to leave the fief without authorization. Saddled with a tragic life, Zhu Yujian's ambitions have not changed, and he still wants to restore the next tomorrow. Therefore, the two people who hit it off at the beginning created a rift because of their different ambitions. Gradually, in order to get out of Zheng Zhilong's control, Zhu Yujian began to target Boss Zheng in various ways. And Zheng Zhilong also had a new plan after finding that the card in his hand was not easy to control. Therefore, Zheng Zhilong decided to use Longwu as a chip to want the Qing army to surrender, as long as he could keep his number one in the southeast dictator. The plan began to be implemented, the Longwu Emperor naturally did not tie his hands and captured, decided to take the initiative to attack, and escaped from Fujian, but Zhu Yujian just left on the front foot, Zheng Zhilong surrendered, and in desperation, Zhu Yujian fled to Yanping, and finally was captured in Tingzhou and died of hunger strike. Zheng Zhilong's plan did not succeed, and was taken down on the spot by the Qing army and brought back to Beijing.
Father and Son, one on earth and one in heaven, doomed the historical tragedy of the Zheng family to be unavoidable. Zheng Zhilong was a mercenary pirate and merchant, so when the Ming Dynasty gained power, he encircled and suppressed Zheng Zhilong's forces several times, and was successfully recruited, but after that, the momentum of the Qing Dynasty became more fierce, coupled with the qing's constant promises: if he surrendered, he would no longer resist, and the high-ranking official Houlu would only be a matter of bending his fingers. So Zheng Zhilong decisively voted for the Qing Dynasty. However, the son resisted the Qing, Lao Tzu surrendered to the Qing, plus Zheng Zhilong's old traitorous giant, the Qing Dynasty was always at ease, not only let Zheng Zhilong's continuous letters Zheng Chenggong persuade him to surrender, but also threatened him with Zheng Chenggong.
However, for the sake of national righteousness, Zheng Chenggong had an iron heart to resist the Ming Dynasty and restore the Qing Dynasty. But Zheng Chenggong's mother, Tian Chuansong, stood on the same front as Zheng Chenggong, which angered the Qing Dynasty even more, so it allowed qing soldiers to defile her. Zheng Chenggong was full of grief and indignation, and after he snatched his mother's body, in order to make her innocent body safe, he cut open her belly according to Japanese customs, washed the filth, and then solemnly buried her body.
Since the dilemma of ancient loyalty and filial piety, The encounter of Tagawa Matsu is lamentable.