In 1662, Zheng Chenggong died of illness in Taiwan at the age of 39, this great hero of the nation, in his prime years of death caused countless people to regret, if he was alive, may create more miracles, but than his death, his dying orders are more confusing.
Before Zheng Chenggong's death, he ordered more than once that the then Shizi, that is, the last emperor of Ming Zheng, Zheng Jing, should be executed, so that it caused internal strife within the Ming Dynasty and led to the complete demise of the Ming Dynasty, so why did Zheng Chenggong make such a move?
Son of incest
Zheng Jing, the emperor of the Ming And Zheng dynasty, was the eldest son and son of Zheng Chenggong, the town keeper of Xiamen during Zheng Chenggong's attack on Taiwan, before Zheng Chenggong went to Taiwan, he was very optimistic about this eldest son, and chose to let him guard the base camp, which meant that he would give him all the rights in the future, but Zheng Jing did something that Zheng Chenggong could not forgive no matter what.
At the same time that Zheng Chenggong took Taiwan, good news also came from his distant hometown, Zheng Jing gave birth to a son, and the Zheng family had a successor, but Zheng Chenggong was not happy for too long, and the minister in charge of the messenger told him a bad news, this grandson, it was incest.
Incest is the relationship between the immediate family members within three generations, and zheng jing's child, that is, incest, he took advantage of Zheng Chenggong's outing, and his brother Zheng Rui's nursing mother had an adultery, and the most hateful thing is that the two also secretly gave birth to a child.
This incident made Zheng Chenggong thunderous, he has always been strict in governing the army, and now that his son has this kind of thing, how will he serve the public in the future, so he immediately came down with a strict order: Zheng Jing died according to the criminal law for adultery, and Zheng Jing's mother was directly beheaded because of poor discipline.
As for the nursing mother who had a relationship with Zheng Jing, she naturally could not escape punishment and needed to be immersed in a pig cage, as for this incestuous child, there was naturally no need to live, and he sank to the bottom of the sea with his mother, which should be the most serious punishment that Zheng Chenggong had ever issued in his life.
Death of Zheng Chenggong
From the perspective of governing the army and other aspects, Zheng Chenggong's order is very strict, and from a legal point of view, Zheng Chenggong's punishment is also very legal, but the problem comes, Zheng Chenggong dares to give orders, but the people below dare not enforce the law.
On the one hand, although Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan at that time, his mood was not good, his father was ordered to be executed in Beijing, and he himself was very irritable because of the disobedience of the soil and water, and everyone was not sure that zheng Chenggong was angry at this time, or seriously ordered.
On the other hand, Zheng Jing was zheng chenggong's son, Zheng Jing's mother was also the princess at that time, and the minister did not dare to breathe when he came to them, let alone execute the death penalty.
So his men could only keep asking Zheng Chenggong whether this order was carried out, which made Zheng Chenggong even more angry, was he going to punish a person or not, perhaps seeing that his men were not brave enough, he once again sent a group of people to Xiamen to carry out the order, but this caused infighting in Xiamen.
As a generation leader, there is no problem in making this decision from the perspective of the leader, but from the perspective of the emperor, Zheng Chenggong has harmed the interests of most people, as a son of the world, the future of Zheng Jing has long been not his future alone, but the future of many ministers, members of the royal family and foreign relatives.
While Zheng Chenggong ordered the killing of Zheng Jing, he also faced two situations, one was that Zheng Chenggong himself had a physical problem and could die of illness at any time, and at the same time, Zheng Chenggong did not designate a new shizi, which caused the ministers and generals in Xiamen to directly reject Zheng Chenggong's orders.
Zheng Jing could not die, resulting in the other three people in this order also could not die, one was Zheng Jing's mother, one was Zheng Jing's wife, and the other was Zheng Jing's child, but any of these three people died, and in the future, Zheng Jing succeeded to the throne, and those who carried out the order could not escape the result of the Nine Tribes.
The collective disobedience of the general became the last straw that overwhelmed Zheng Chenggong, and zheng Chenggong, who was ill, attacked his heart in anger and eventually died in Taiwan, and this order could only be stopped in the end.
The disappearance of the Ming Zheng Group
After Zheng Chenggong's death, Zheng Jing, as the son of the world, successfully succeeded to the throne after experiencing some twists and turns, and after succeeding to the throne, Zheng Jing established his "son of incest, Zheng Kezang", as the new son, and also gave him the daughter of the chancellor Chen Yonghua, which was considered to stabilize his position, but this incident also caused dissatisfaction among many people, including Feng Xifan.
Zheng Kezang is not the best candidate for succession in the hearts of many ministers, in terms of age, he is not the eldest son of Zheng Jing, does not meet the criteria for succession, in terms of blood, he is not orthodox, does not have enough royal blood, but because of Chen Yonghua's reasons, most of the ministers dare to be angry, but Feng Xifan is not afraid at all.
Feng Xifan is the father-in-law of Zheng Jing's other child, Zheng Kezun, before Zheng Kezang was made a son-in-law, Feng Xifan always believed that his son-in-law would become a son-in-law, of course, he could not accept this result, but he could not directly argue with Zheng Jing, and he was also very uncomfortable with roundabout tactics.
With the help of Liu Guoxuan and other ministers, Chen Yonghua gradually lost his military power and became a marginal person, which led to the fact that after Zheng Kezang officially succeeded to the throne, there was no support, at this time it was Feng Xifan's turn to act, he immediately launched a coup d'état, on the grounds that his bloodline was not pure, he was ousted from the throne and installed his son-in-law on the throne.
At that time, the Ming Zheng Group had already set over the Western Mountains, and sooner or later it would become the bag of the Qing Dynasty, and compared with Chen Yonghua, Feng Xifan was very powerful, but compared with Shi Lang and others, Feng Xifan was not enough to see.
So he once again joined forces with Liu Guoxuan and others to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and gave his son-in-law to Kangxi, in exchange for a lifetime of glory and wealth and the status of the Eight Banners, and from then on, zheng Chenggong's descendants also became the sons of the Eight Banners.
For the solution of Ming Zheng, there is a very popular novel in the folk, that is, "Deer DingJi", in this book, Chen Yonghua became the chief helmsman of the Heaven and Earth Society, Chen Jinnan, and Feng Xifan also became Wu Sangui's guest, after a fight between the two, Chen Jinnan lost a hand, Feng Xifan was killed, and Wei Xiaobao also stepped down from his official position and returned to his original place.
For these later events, Zheng Chenggong did not expect, he is like the embodiment of an era, all growth is to successfully recover Taiwan, after completing the mission, he retired, as for his son Zheng Jing, he can only say that his children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren.