Why did Zheng Chenggong only live to be 39 years old? How did he die? Why did he order to kill his son, grandson and wife before he died? What exactly did he go through before he died?
At that time, Zheng Chenggong led 25,000 people from this sea to recover Taiwan. Eight months later, the Dutch surrendered, and Zheng Chenggong demanded that the Dutch must leave behind the wealth they had plundered in the Chinese territory of Taiwan, and then roll up and get out.
According to historical records, on the day of the Dutch retreat, the local people of Taiwan sang and danced, firecrackers sounded in unison, and every household was full of joy.
Only those who have experienced the pain of the fall will understand the value of recovery. But in Zheng's eyes, his career has only just begun, and he wants to turn this land that has been ravaged by the Dutch for 38 years into a thriving home.
He set up six departments in Taiwan, customized laws, built new schools, spread Confucian culture, moved displaced people to Taiwan, and gave cattle and grain seeds to the people who migrated to Taiwan, and for the indigenous people in Taiwan who were backward in production technology, he sent people to teach them how to cultivate and work, demanded respect for the living habits of all ethnic groups, and strictly prohibited subordinates from harassing ethnic minorities.
Taiwan flourished under his development. At this time, he suffered the biggest blow in his life. His father, Zheng Zhilong, who had been under house arrest in Beijing for many years, and his family of 11 were executed by order of the Kangxi Emperor.
When the news reached Taiwan, Zheng Chenggong was deeply saddened, although he also hated his father's infidelity, but after all, the blood is connected. But the disaster was not alone, the blows came one after another, the last emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty was strangled by Wu Sangui with a bowstring in Yunnan, Zheng Chenggong learned the news, vomited blood on the spot, cried bitterly, and his health became worse and worse.
But he still travels all over Taiwan every day, supervising production, rectifying the rule of officials, and benefiting the people.
But he never expected that Zheng Chenggong, who involved his father and mother, had the last break in his life when he had incest with his son, his son Zheng Jing, fornicated with his brother's nursing mother, and gave birth to a son.
Zheng Chenggong's wife sang double reed with her son, falsely claiming that the child was born to a serious concubine. Zheng Ming's father couldn't be angry, wrote to Zheng Chenggong, told him the truth of the matter, in which he angrily rebuked Zheng Chenggong, you don't govern the family strictly, how to govern the country, and what to talk about Kuang Fu Sheji.
Zheng Chenggong was furious and ordered that his son Zheng Jing, grandson and his wife Dong Shi in Xiamen be all executed, in order to correct the style of the Zheng family.
Yet no one dared to carry out his orders. Under the successive blows, Zheng Chenggong finally couldn't hold on.
On the eighth day of May in 1662, when the storm was raging on the island of Taiwan, Zheng Chenggong uncharacteristically found out the official main uniform that had been abandoned for more than ten years, put it on his body properly, opened Zhu Yuanzhang's writing of the Taizu Precepts, and read it while drinking, sometimes laughing loudly, sometimes bursting into tears. At dawn, knowing that he was terminally ill, he sighed and said his last words.
Since the fall of my home country, I have wept blood, seven out of ten, there is no basis for progress and retreat, crimes are increasing, and famine is shielded, the world is rejected, loyalty and filial piety are ashamed, and death is not blind, what face do I have to see the emperor in the ground?
He scratched his face with both hands. A generation of heroes came to an end, dying young in Taiwan, when he was only 39 years old.