In 1662, at the age of 39, Zheng Chenggong died suddenly without warning. Before swallowing his last breath, he gave the last order: to execute his wife, son, and grandson.
What the hell happened that made a generation of national heroes so ruthless that they must kill their wives and children and kill their grandchildren?
This matter has to start from Zheng Chenggong's eldest son, Zheng Jing.
When Zheng Chenggong was 18 years old, he was ordered by his parents to marry Dong Yougu as his wife. Dong Yougu bore Zheng Chenggong five sons, of whom Zheng Jing was their eldest son.
For this son, Zheng Chenggong has high hopes. But Zheng Jing's life is "unorthodox", which can be described in one sentence, that is, the life of the pit daddy.
When Zheng Jing was nineteen years old, he married Tang Shi, the granddaughter of Tang Xianyue, the former bingbu Shangshu. Although Tang Shi looks "dignified and quiet", Zheng Jing does not like his wife.
At this time, Zheng Chenggong fought bloodily on the front line to defend his family and defend the country. However, Zheng Jing, who stayed behind, had an affair with his fourth brother's nursing mother, Chen Zhaoniang, and gave birth to an illegitimate child.
According to volume 5 of the "Taiwan Foreign Chronicle", one day Zheng Jing met Chen Zhaoniang, the nursing mother of the fourth brother Zheng Rui, at his mother's place, and was immediately attracted by her "eyebrows like a distant mountain, no powder, and a radiant and lovely appearance". This Chen Zhaoniang was already twenty-six or seven years old, but "she was frivolous and her language was rich", And Zheng Jing saw that she was "soul out of the sky".
From then on, Zheng Jing often went to Dong's residence on the pretext of asking his mother for peace, in order to be able to meet Chen's side. So back and forth, the two are good. It is said that at that time, the entire Zheng mansion was aware, and only Zheng Chenggong was hidden in the drum. Not long after, the two had a son, and Li Zheng successfully said that it was born of other concubines.
Originally, Zheng Jingna's concubine was nothing in the big family, but this Chen clan could not accept it. She was not only a widow, but also by generation, and Zheng Jing was to call her "aunt". At the time when feudal etiquette was prevalent, this was typical of "incest". The private life is not counted, the two also gave birth to a son, which was simply a "great shame" for the big family at that time. Therefore, everyone must hide from Zheng Chenggong. This is also the reason why Zheng Chenggong did not kill them.
Originally, Zheng Chenggong was very happy to have this grandson, after all, he was the eldest grandson and gave a lot of rewards.
But after all, the paper package could not hold the fire, and it was not long before someone exposed this matter to Zheng Chenggong, and the person who exposed it was Zheng Jing's relatives.
Zheng Chenggong's life is so wonderful and glorious. How can Zheng Chenggong accept such a disregard for the ethical guidelines and contrary to ethics and morality, which is an intolerable stain on him. More importantly, it is still the elders of the family who come to tell the truth, and the face is gone.
Zheng Chenggong, enraged, immediately ordered the capital Huang Yu to go to Kinmen to join the household official Zheng Tai (Zheng Chenggong's cousin) to execute Zheng Jing, Chen Zhaoniang, and their sons on the charge of "not governing the family strictly", and because the godson had no way, he decided to execute his wife Dong Shi at the same time.
An order, the execution of 4 people, are still Zheng Chenggong's close relatives, at the moment, no one dares to carry it out. Everyone is also hesitant left and right, and they don't know how to implement it. Moreover, he was also worried about his own safety, in case the general did not really want his son's life, but he risked his life to kill people, it was difficult to ensure that the general would not vent his anger.
Moreover, at that time, Dong Shi and Zheng Jing were already powerful figures in Zheng's army, and once they were not handled well, it would not only affect Zheng Chenggong's family, but also may bury the future of the entire army, so they suppressed Zheng Chenggong's orders without authorization and did not carry them out.
Knowing that his subordinates did not carry out military orders, the people sent also let Zheng Zheng be arrested, which made Zheng Chenggong's anger and blood surge and it was difficult to calm down. At this time, he also experienced that his father was chased and killed by the Qing court. All this bad news was superimposed on top of each other, making him sad and indignant, and it was difficult to let go.
In 1662, it was destined to be a year that Zheng Chenggong could not live, and his health was not good, so he was exhausted and eventually died suddenly.
There are also many theories about Zheng Chenggong's sudden sudden death:
It is said that it was poisoned. After all, there are many people who want to poison Zheng Chenggong. For example, the Manchu Qing, he has always been the biggest obstacle to the unification of the Manchu Qing, so the Manchu Qing more than once bribed the Assassins to assassinate him, so it is possible that he was eventually killed by Manchu Poison.
It may also be that Zheng Jing sent people to poison him, after all, Lao Tzu is going to kill himself, and it is not impossible to kill the killer in order to protect himself.
In any case, a generation of heroes Zheng Chenggong finally died young, which is really a sigh.
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