I believe that many people will not be unfamiliar with Zheng Chenggong, he is a well-known national hero, he recovered the treasure island of Taiwan from the Dutch, which is a great achievement for the entire Chinese nation.
Zheng Chenggong was born in the late Ming Dynasty,
His real name is Zheng Sen
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Emperor Longwu of the Southern Ming Dynasty gave the country the surname Zhu, and the name was successfully changed, so everyone called him the national surname Ye. Zheng Chenggong's father, Zheng Zhilong, was originally a maritime businessman and the leader of a maritime smuggling syndicate, to put it bluntly, a pirate, and Zheng Chenggong was a Sino-Japanese mixed child born to his second Japanese wife. Zheng Zhilong is a person who sees the wind and makes the rudder, he first descended on Ming, felt that Ming will die, and immediately turned to Qing, and Zheng Chenggong is a person with a strong sense of loyalty and righteousness, all said that since the ancient zhongxiao dilemma, Zheng Zhilong's surrender made Zheng Chenggong completely chill his heart, so he could only endure the pain and part ways with his father Zheng Zhilong. However, the Qing court accepted Zheng Zhilong but only wanted to use him to recruit Zheng Chenggong, but unfortunately Zheng Chenggong was iron-hearted to rebel against the Qing Dynasty, so the surrender was unsuccessful, and the Qing soldiers, who were ashamed and angry, took the opportunity to kill Zheng Zhilong.
After that, Zheng Chenggong has been insisting on organizing the anti-Qing movement, but has been repeatedly frustrated, and can only retreat to Xiamen to recuperate. After everything was in place, another Northern Expedition war began to restore Daming, but in Nanjing, it was again defeated and caused great damage to the vitality, and also faced a serious shortage of material supplies, in order to solve this problem, Zheng Chenggong made a bold decision to seize Taiwan. There are two reasons, the first is naturally in order to solve the problem of logistical supplies, the second is that Taiwan belongs to China, occupied by the Dutch for a long time, this is also the homeland of the Ming Dynasty, but also the dignity of the nation, originally wanted to restore the Ming Dynasty and then solve the Taiwan problem, but everything seems to be doomed in the dark, the wind direction at this time had to let Zheng successfully fight the idea of Taiwan, it is also a last resort, plus Zheng Chenggong followed his father for many years of experience in naval warfare, and also knows Taiwan's important geographical location, sea supremacy is not the strength of the Qing army, If Taiwan can be captured, it will be difficult for the Qing troops defending Taiwan to attack it. This is also an important reason why he insisted on fighting Taiwan.
Sure enough, the emperor did not pay off, and with the unremitting efforts of Zheng Chenggong and others, he successfully recaptured Taiwan from the hands of the Dutch. Later, Zheng Chenggong had been engaged in a long-term confrontation with the Qing court according to Taiwan's natural danger. And his son is also very famous - Zheng Jing, in many film and television works we can see the shadow of Zheng Jing, after the death of Zheng Chenggong, Zheng Jing naturally continued Zheng Chenggong's knighthood and became the actual ruler of Taiwan.
But the relationship between Zheng Jing and Zheng Chenggong has not been very good, so bad that Zheng Chenggong once ordered Zheng Jing and his mother to be killed together? Why is that? Not in a hurry, listen to the editor I said in detail.
It is said that Zheng Jing, who was 19 years old at the time, married the granddaughter of Tang Xianyue, a former soldier of the Ming Dynasty, but Zheng Jing was very dissatisfied with this wife and often scolded his wife. And at this time, a scandal that the ancient people saw as unforgivable, Zheng Jing was in adolescence, and when the hormones were turbulent, his wife could not solve the physical problems for him, so he ran to find his fourth brother's nursing mother, and forced her to have a relationship with her privately, and also gave birth to a son. However, Zheng Chenggong felt that this unkind character would affect his prestige in the army and the hearts of the people, so he ordered the execution of the nursing lady and this bastard.
But later, Tang Xianyue wrote to Zheng Chenggong saying that he had no way to govern the family, that his granddaughter had never been treated well in the past, and that he was often beaten and scolded by Zheng Jing, and was very angry, accusing Zheng Chenggong of not even managing family affairs well, how could he command the army? After Zheng Chenggong read the letter, he was furious and immediately ordered zheng jing to be killed in public, because Zheng Jing's mother and godson Wufang should also be executed together to see it straight. At this time, everyone tried to persuade each other, and they begged to leave Zheng Jing's mother and son, and it was really not okay to kill the nursing mother and bastard, but Zheng Chenggong was already angry and could not listen to it, and was determined to kill his wife and children. Fortunately, the ministers have been dragging out time and delaying the implementation of Zheng Chenggong's order, and then ask for help when Zheng Chenggong's anger has subsided. Only then did he retrieve the life of Zheng Jing's mother and son. But soon after, Zheng Chenggong died of heartache, and Zheng Jing also successfully replaced his father as the ruler of Taiwan.