Influenced by the "obscene" image of Zheng Keshuang in Jin Yong's famous book "Deer Ding", many people think that the Zheng family that was entrenched in Taiwan Province during the Qing Dynasty was not a "positive figure", in fact, although the Zheng family juniors were not very successful, Zheng Chenggong, who recovered Taiwan, was a well-known hero!
Zheng Chenggong was a military strategist in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, a famous anti-Jin general, and a famous national hero, and his greatest achievement in life was to drive out the Dutch colonists, bring Taiwan, which had fallen for more than thirty years, back into the embrace of the motherland, and lay a good foundation for Taiwan's economic development. ”！
However, such a figure died young in the second year of the reconquest of Taiwan, and before he died, he issued a strange order: to execute his wife and son!
What's going on? Why did Zheng Chenggong have such a "heartbreaking" move? Let's find out!
First, let's briefly understand Zheng Chenggong
Zheng Chenggong's real name is Sen, also known as Damu, originally from Nan'an, Fujian, his ancestral home is Gushi, Henan, born in 1624 in Heido Domain, Kyushu, Japan, his father is the anti-Dutch hero Zheng Zhilong, his mother is a Japanese woman Tianchuan clan, when the Ming Dynasty fell, Zheng Chenggong was only twenty years old, his father Zheng Zhilong introduced him to The Longwu Emperor, the Longwu Emperor greatly appreciated Zheng Chenggong, and did not hesitate to praise the words "Suwen Zheng family has a thousand-mile colt, and it is indeed worthy of the name." In order to show his favor, Emperor Longwu even gave the zhu surname to Zheng Chenggong, and Zheng Chenggong was also called "Guo surname Ye"!
Beginning in 1646, zheng chenggong, who was only twenty-two years old, led the army to fight as a xiucai, and led the army to defeat the Qing court many times, but the Southern Ming regime was in a remote corner, and internal strife was endless, and it was impossible to resist the Qing court at all, but only stubbornly resisted.
Therefore, in 1645, after the Qing army invaded Jiangnan, Zheng Zhilong chose to surrender, Zheng successfully dissuaded, parted ways with his father, and continued to fight against the Qing court, after the demise of the Longwu regime, Zheng successfully avoided kinmen and confronted the Qing army with naval combat strength.
In 1661, Zheng Chenggong, who knew that the trend had gone, led an army across Taiwan, defeated the Dutch colonists, recovered Taiwan, and opened the zheng rule in Taiwan!
Unfortunately, in the second year of the recovery of Taiwan, Zheng Chenggong died young, only thirty-nine years old, and historians agree that his death was related to an order he gave before his death! This order was to execute his wife Princess Dong and his eldest son Zheng Jing!
Second, a strange command
As the saying goes, the tiger poison does not eat children, Zheng Chenggong is not a cruel and murderous person, but Zheng Jing's behavior is too "shameless" to shame him! Zheng Jing was the eldest son of Zheng Chenggong, born in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, and followed Zheng Chenggong in the southern conquest of the northern war since childhood, and was quite favored by Zheng Chenggong.
Therefore, after Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan in 1661, zheng Jing, who was only nineteen years old, ordered Zheng Jing to "single out the big beams", guard Siming Prefecture, and dispatch coastal islands, and as a result, during the period when Zheng Jingzhen was guarding Siming Prefecture, an "ugly thing" occurred!
At that time, Zheng Jing had already married a wife, and his wife was the granddaughter of Tang Xianyue, the former military department Shangshu, tang was gentle and virtuous, but he was not favored by Zheng Jing, because Zheng Jing had been having an affair with Chen Zhaoniang, the nursing mother of the fourth brother Zheng Ruizhi, and the two also gave birth to a son, Zheng Kezang, in order to avoid the scandal, Zheng Jing hid the affair from Zheng Chenggong, and also said that Zheng Kezang was born of his concubine, zheng chenggong heard that the Zheng family had it, and was very happy, and also rewarded Zheng Jing!
However, "the paper can't contain the fire", the ugly matter of Zheng Jing and Chen Zhaoniang's adultery was still exposed, from the perspective of generations, Chen Zhaoniang was a generation older than Zheng Jing, so people at that time thought that Zheng Jing's move was "incest", Zheng Chenggong's face was lightless, the fire was three zhang, and Zheng Jing was ordered to execute Chen Zhaoniang, but Zheng Jing and Chen Zhaoniang had real feelings, preferring to disobey Zheng Chenggong's orders to save Chen Zhaoniang, Zheng Chenggong has always loved Zheng Jing, and he did not know how to deal with it for a while!
Tang Xianyue, who learned that his granddaughter had been greatly humiliated, sent a letter to Zheng Chenggong, reprimanding Zheng Chenggong for not being strict with his godson and insulting the door style, when zheng Chenggong had suffered such humiliations, in order to straighten out the family style, and also to give the world an explanation, Zheng Chenggong sent his eldest brother Zheng Tai to Siming Prefecture to execute Princess Dong, who had no way to execute Zheng Jing and his godson!
Third, did Zheng Jing and Princess Dong die under Zheng Chenggong's butcher's knife?
Zheng Tai was Zheng Jing's great uncle, could not bear to move, has been delaying in every way, many generals who followed Zheng Chenggong thought that Zheng Chenggong's move was too impersonal, and proposed to execute only Chen Zhaoniang and his son Zheng Kezang, Zheng Chenggong was not allowed, and taiwan actually appeared in the incident of the joint disobedience of the generals, which caused Zheng Chenggong to be greatly hit and could not afford to be ill.
At the same time, Zheng Chenggong learned that Zheng Zhilong, who had surrendered to the Qing court in the early years, had been killed in Beijing, the tomb of Zheng Jiazu had been excavated, and the Yongli Emperor Zhu Youluo had also been killed in Burma, and three major events in succession made Zheng Chenggong angry and attacked his heart, and he died soon after, according to the "Biography of Zheng Chenggong", Zheng Chenggong shouted before his death: "I have no face to see the former emperor underground", so he scratched his face and died, only thirty-nine years old!
After Zheng Chenggong's death, the Kangxi Emperor, who was an opponent, personally inscribed a pair of alliances for him, Lianyun: "Four towns and two hearts, two islands tun division, dare to fight for half of the wall to the southeast; the kings have no land, a corner of resistance, and know that there are lonely loyalties overseas"!
The highest realm of being a man is to make the enemy on the opposite side also have respect, although Zheng Chenggong's life is short but brilliant enough, worthy of the name of a hero, but it is a pity that "the tiger father gave birth to a dog"!
brief summary:
After his father Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing court, he single-handedly carried the banner of anti-Qing and became the most important military force in the late period of the Southern Ming regime, even if the general trend in the end, it was difficult to stand alone, Zheng Chenggong did not give up resistance, but crossed Taiwan, drove out the Dutch colonists, recovered the treasure island of Taiwan, and used Taiwan as the base camp of "anti-Qing and restoration".
During the year he was in charge of Taiwan, Zheng Chenggong not only won the respect of Taiwan's indigenous mountain tribes, but also took advantage of Taiwan's favorable geographical location to vigorously develop the economy and lay a good economic foundation for Taiwan.
Unfortunately, "the tiger father gave birth to a dog son", Zheng Chenggong hero I, but gave birth to a "incest" son, which made Zheng Chenggong, who was proud of his bones and his heart higher than the sky, feel deeply humiliated, and after Tang Xianyue wrote a letter reprimanding Zheng Chenggong, Zheng Chenggong finally "lost his mind" and ordered zheng Jing to be executed, presumably Zheng Chenggong was also extremely painful in his heart when he made this decision, otherwise he would not have been sick!
Now it seems that Zheng Chenggong did not necessarily want to execute Zheng Jing sincerely, otherwise he would not have sent Zheng Tai to carry out the order, Zheng Tai was Zheng Jing's great uncle, how could he easily kill the killer?
Poor parents in the world, Zheng Chenggong loves his son, Zheng Jing is rebellious and filial, and finally "angry to death" Zheng Chenggong, throughout Zheng Chenggong's life, although brilliant, it is inevitable to hang a "heroic ambition before the body dies first" the label of a tragic hero!
References: "Deer Ding", "Zheng Chenggong Biography"
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