The Ming Dynasty is a very wonderful country in the long river of Chinese history, but such a legendary dynasty has not escaped the fate of extinction in the end. For a long time after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, there were still some places that did not recognize its demise, including the Taiwan region. The living habits of the Ming Dynasty still affect Taiwan, and the person who can influence Taiwan so profoundly is a person, this person is still a great general of the Ming Dynasty, he is Zheng Chenggong. He insisted on restoring the Qing Dynasty, but this dream did not come true until his death.
Zheng Chenggong's half of his blood is Japanese, his mother is a Japanese woman, and Zheng Chenggong's father is a pirate and maritime merchant who traveled along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, so most of his father's life is at sea. Zheng Chenggong was born in Japan, and when he was young, he only saw his father a few times a year. Zheng Chenggong's father, Zheng Zhilong, has always lived a life of drifting on the sea, but after a long time, he gathered a strong force in the South China Sea, the Bohai Sea and other regions, and finally the Ming Court took a fancy to Zheng Zhilong's navigation ability and network, so he recruited Zheng Zhilong as an official of the imperial court, and Zheng Chenggong also followed his father back to the mainland at the age of 6.
Zheng Zhilong attached great importance to Zheng Chenggong's studies, he asked Zheng Chenggong to study at a private school in Fujian, and later Zheng Chenggong passed the Xiucai examination and became a reader. With the help of his father, Zheng Chenggong went to guozijian to study, and he was able to study in Guozijian, but he was a figure with a head and a face. However, the good times did not last long, the fate of the ming dynasty still came, Li Zicheng attacked Kyoto, and Wu Sangui turned against the Qing army, and within a few months the imperial court underwent earth-shaking changes, and finally the Qing army captured Kyoto. The remaining officials of the Ming Dynasty also elected Zhu Yousong as emperor in Nanjing, but they were soon captured by the Qing army that followed and later killed.
Zheng Zhilong led his subordinates to flee to the Fujian region, where he elected Zhu Yujian as emperor, and Zheng Chenggong was also a teenager. Zheng Chenggong showed a strong leadership ability, so he was also appreciated by the Longwu Emperor, but Zheng Zhilong saw that the Qing army was like a bamboo and did not want to engage the Qing army head-on, so the Qing army did not resist at all in many parts of Fujian. The Qing general Hong Chengyu was a fellow countryman with Zheng Zhilong, and he recruited Zheng Zhilong on behalf of the Qing army, and promised to reward him with the position of Third Duke as long as Zheng Zhilong brought troops to vote. Zheng Zhilong, lured by the Qing army, ignored the opposition of Zheng Chenggong and others, and secretly surrendered to the Qing army with part of the army.
However, Zheng Zhilong did not get the glory and wealth he wanted, and the Qing army betrayed his faith and escorted Zheng Zhilong and others to Yanjing. Although Zheng Chenggong still insisted on not surrendering, there were not many soldiers, and he was taken away by his father, which undoubtedly gave Zheng Chenggong a huge blow. Zheng Successfully gathered strength to rebel against the Qing army, but because of the disparity in strength, it ended in defeat. Zheng Chenggong continued to lead the army to shift positions, but as the positions shifted, Zheng Chenggong's city became less and less. Later, Zheng Chenggong guarded Xiamen and Kinmen, and Zheng Chenggong knew that it would be difficult for the Qing army to compete with the Qing army on the mainland, and eventually he targeted Taiwan, which had been occupied by the Dutch.
Zheng successfully built hundreds of warships, and then went to Taiwan with tens of thousands of troops. At sea, Zheng Chenggong fought a naval battle with the Dutch, and finally defeated the Dutch warships, Zheng Chenggong led his army ashore and defeated the Dutch army on the island. Because of the disparity in the number of troops, the Dutch eventually surrendered to Zheng Chenggong and withdrew from Taiwan. Zheng Chenggong took Taiwan to continue to compete with the Qing Dynasty, but the Qing Dynasty also adopted a series of measures to block Taiwan's economy and trade, and Zheng Chenggong died of an acute illness in the face of external and internal troubles.