Zheng Jing: Angry with his father, fornicating with his nursing mother, Zheng Chenggong's rebel son, although he lost his small rules, he kept the righteousness for 20 years. In the turbulent years of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Zheng dynasty was founded by Zheng Zhilong, and Zheng Chenggong followed him to recover Taiwan, which is admirable. What is entangled is that although Zheng Chenggong's eldest son, Zheng Jing, has deficiencies in personal morality, he has made great achievements in guarding the wilderness of Julu and resisting the invasion of foreign invaders, and can be called a national hero. His story is undoubtedly thought-provoking: is a hero or an anti-hero when a family pays attention to small things and makes great contributions to the defense of the family and the country?
When it comes to the Ming and Zheng dynasties, the two heroes of Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Chenggong may appear in everyone's minds. However, for Zheng Chenggong's eldest son, Zheng Jing, many people may only know a little about it. I heard that he has done many astonishing things, such as fornicating with his younger brother and nursing mother, angry with his biological father, and so on. However, if Zheng Jing is judged only on the basis of such rumors, it is too arbitrary and one-sided.
In fact, Zheng Jing has been ravaged by war since he was a child, and has witnessed the conflict between his father and grandfather. In 1661, at the age of 19, he was entrusted by his father Zheng Chenggong with the important task of guarding Kinmen, Xiamen and other places. Despite the fault of fornicating with the nursing mother, Zheng Jing was humble and generous, and was quite popular among the soldiers. When Zheng Chenggong went on an expedition to Taiwan to recover the territory, Zheng Jing gave full support and commanded troops to defend his homeland. However, the Tang family slandered Zheng Chenggong because of the birth of a child between Zheng Jing and his nurse Chen Zhaoniang, which caused the old general to suffer a great blow.
It is the responsibility to defend the land, and the family is the most important. After Zheng Jing took the throne, he began to deal with the attacks from many sides. On the one hand, the Qing Dynasty regime, Wangzi Jackie Chan tried to eliminate Ming Zheng; On the other hand, the Dutch colonists who were driven out by Zheng Chenggong were eyeing up and trying to retake Taiwan. In the face of internal and external troubles, Zheng Jing resolutely fought a life-and-death defense battle. When he was only in his early 20s, he personally led the Jin Dynasty to block the Qing army and the Dutch many times, and finally although he lost Kinmen and Xiamen, he was able to retreat to Taiwan and keep this piece of Chinese territory for a long time.
The so-called "safety and danger support, survival and death". During the 20 years that Zheng Jing temporarily retreated to Taiwan, he never gave up his long-cherished wish to recover the mainland. During this period, he not only promoted new soldiers and reorganized armaments, but also developed the economy on a larger scale to build ships and artillery. Whenever the Qing army or the Dutch attacked, Zheng Jing personally supervised the soldiers to fight back. It was with such unremitting efforts that Zheng Jing was finally able to ensure the stability of the frontier and make full preparations for the counteroffensive.
I have to admire Zheng Jing's tenacity and perseverance in that turbulent era. As the prince of Yanping, he could have had no worries about food and clothing, and enjoyed peace. But he would rather be willing to fight against the odds and be displaced for a long time in his career, just to defend the territory of the motherland and hold the flame of hope against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.
perseverance led to Zheng Jing's later brilliant achievements. In the fifth year of Kangxi (1666), Zheng Jing gathered 60,000 troops in Taiwan and sent his generals to the sea to sweep the colonies along the coast. Then he personally led the army to attack Zhejiang, and took the Zhoushan Islands in one fell swoop, thus consolidating Zheng's rule in a corner of the southeast coast. For more than ten years thereafter, the Zheng clan set up a county in Zhoushan market town and established a maritime armed force, which became a stumbling block to the coastal areas of the Qing Dynasty.
In the seventeenth year of Kangxi (1678), Zheng Jing crossed the ocean with heavy troops and smashed the city of Malacca in Southeast Asia. At that time, Malacca was the largest Dutch colony in Southeast Asia and their most important naval base in the Far East. Zheng Jing personally supervised the battle and swept away the Dutch stronghold in Malacca. Later, he went to the South China Sea, recovering many colonies from the Dutch, and completely swept away the threat of foreign invasion in our maritime frontiers.
This is undoubtedly a remarkable achievement, and it shows the tenacity and courage of the Zheng family in the turbulent times. Although Zheng Jing's personal character is flawed, in defending national sovereignty and territorial integrity, he is unstained and untouched. As the successor of a generation of national heroes, he has indeed lived up to the expectations of his ancestors.
However, some people say that in the later period of Zheng Jing, he could only survive at sea, unable to counterattack the interior, and was gradually wiped out by the Qing army after all, so he was not a real national hero. I have reservations about that. After all, the situation at that time was indeed too unfavorable for the Ming and Zheng dynasties, and Zheng Jing was already going all out. And being able to persist for 20 years is already quite a feat.
Zheng Jing's life was magnificent, with ups and downs. Although he had black spots of personal misconduct, from a large historical point of view, he made great contributions to defending the territory of the motherland and perpetuating the integrity of national resistance. Although a generation of heroes can become new descendants, it is not easy to get out of their own world. Although Zheng Jing failed to completely regain the lost territory in the end, he was exhausted and exhausted. His story shows us that every human being is born a unity of contradictions, not black and white, English or Chinese. It is important to examine a person from the perspective of the big history, and to measure the characters of that era by the standard of right and wrong. #头条首发大赛#