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Since the Ming Dynasty, the Eastern Domain has never belonged to the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

This is well documented.

The Ming Dynasty's sphere of influence only stopped eastward in the Penghu Islands.

Before and after the Ming Dynasty, the Penghu Inspection Department was set up three times in Penghu, but they were all abolished, abolished and withdrawn, for no other reason, which lies in the Ming Taizu's "Emperor Ming Zuxun", which clearly announced that 15 overseas countries were listed as "countries that do not levy", including "Xiaoliu Seeking Country" and "Great Ryukyu State".

Among them, the Great Ryukyu Kingdom, which had frequent exchanges with the Ming Dynasty, can be called the vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.

The Great Ryukyu Kingdom came to pay tribute non-stop throughout the year, and the Ming Dynasty did not treat them badly, but all the sons of the princes and courtiers of the Great Ryukyu entered the Taixue School and were very polite.

And the Xiaoliuqiu Kingdom (that is, the Eastern Domain), because there has never been a country, so it has never been able to come to it, and naturally it has never paid tribute.

Zhu Yuanzhang believes that these fifteen countries basically have no value of conquest, after all, it was a planting industry at that time, and only the land that can be farmed is the land that the Ming Dynasty needs.

Therefore, before the Ming Dynasty, Penghu was included in the territory as Chinese land, and it was the Song Dynasty at the earliest.

At that time, Wang Dayou, an official of the Song Dynasty, sent soldiers and civilians to Penghu, calling Penghu "Pinghu", which was subordinate to Jinjiang County. Thus, the ownership of Penghu was officially announced.

After the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, the Penghu Inspection Department was officially set up. But it also stopped at Penghu and had no interest in the Eastern Domain.

Finally, Lao Zhu established the Ming Dynasty, which inherited the Penghu Inspection Department of the Yuan Dynasty.

But Lao Zhu is even more speechless, only five years, he abolished the Penghu Inspection Division, "Huang Ming Shi Law Record" recorded: "I believe in the country, with the remnants of the island, it is difficult to rebel, so the migration is in the truth, and there is no one in the lake." ”

In other words, Zhu Yuanzhang thought that it was difficult for the people on the sea to rule, so he moved all the people of the Penghu Islands to the mainland, making the Penghu Islands a desert island.

The implementation of this policy is actually to cooperate with the maritime ban.

The government yamen has been withdrawn, and the officers and soldiers have also been withdrawn, who is the happiest? Pirates, of course.

The emperor is far away, and the Penghu Islands have since become a base for pirates.

It was not until the Jiajing period that the inhabitants of the Penghu Islands began to increase again, and the pirates were really unseemly, invading the interior from time to time, and the Ming Dynasty decided to re-establish the Penghu Inspection Department, which was subordinate to Tong'an, and ruled and controlled.

It's a pity that it has only been more than a year before the imperial court revoked the Penghu Inspection Division.

The reason is still the same, the sea and the sky are separated, the people and money are lost, and they are abandoned!

Until the Wanli period, the Japanese invaded the coast, and the imperial court set up Penghu guerrillas to prevent the Japanese invaders.

But this time the Ming Dynasty's jurisdiction over Penghu was very weak, and Huang Chengxuan, the governor of Fujian, wrote in Shangshu that the Penghu guerrillas had the name of guarding, but they did not have the reality of guarding.

Until the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the Dutch invaded Penghu, and the Ming Dynasty was forced to increase the army, build a city in Penghu, set up a guerrilla one, a general two, a total of 3,000 troops, and build a fort to defend.

However, after the Japanese were pacified, the Ming Dynasty finally withdrew its troops and moved their salaries, and the Ming Dynasty still gave up Penghu.

Daming enjoyed the country for nearly three hundred years, and finally did not expand its territory overseas, and the only springboard Penghu Inspection Division was also withdrawn and withdrawn, which can be described as amazing.

The real reason for this is that the Ming Dynasty's ban on the sea made the Eastern Domain a terra nullius.

Of course, the filth between the Ming Dynasty and the emperor, and the rampant nature of the ancestors, made the emperors of the previous dynasties have no possibility of using troops on the Eastern Domain.

So, in the past hundred years, who or who are tossing in the Eastern Domain Island east of Penghu?

Pirates, first pirates.

Here I have to mention a person named Yan Siqi.

Yan Siqi was originally a native of Haicheng County, Zhangzhou, but later went into exile for committing homicide.

He made a living by operating trade between the two countries, but after the Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, the maritime trade between the two countries was illegal, and Yan Siqi became a pirate.

Originally, this profession was very good, because the Ming Dynasty, which was the strongest at this time, had no interest in overseas, so Yan Siqi pulled a group of people, engaged in a few boats, and did business, and lived a life not too chic.

But the problem is that people's ambitions are changed by the change of status.

Yan Siqi is rich, and he also has people and boats, he wants to occupy the king, and the dove occupies the magpie's nest.

If he wants to occupy the Eastern Domain as the king, then we have to give him a thumbs up now, Yan Siqi must be earlier than Zheng Sen.

But Yan Siqi wanted to dislike the desolation of the Eastern Domain, so he hit the idea on the Wa Kingdom.

Yan Siqi actually plotted to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate, do what replaced it, and put it into action, it was too good, but it was a pity that Zhida was talented, and there was no strong enough backing, and finally ended in failure.

In this way, Yan Siqi lost his foothold in both countries, but fortunately the sea was his hometown, so Yan Siqi led the remnants to officially enter the northern part of the Eastern Domain, in order to survive and develop, he finally endured his temperament, and sent ships to Fujian to recruit immigrants many times, bringing advanced production technology and production tools, and developing the northern part of the Eastern Domain.

The sixth year of the Apocalypse is destined to be an extraordinary day.

In January, Qing Taizu Nurhachi led an army of 130,000 to besiege Ningyuan City, but was seriously wounded and retreated.

In May, there was a big explosion at the Wanggong factory in Shuntianfu.

In June, a strong earthquake struck Lingqiu, Shanxi.

In October, Nurhachi died, and Emperor Taiji ascended the throne.

Compared to these big things, pirates are small things.

But this pirate is really not to be looked down upon, because he is Zheng Sen's father, Zheng Zhilong.

If Zheng Zhilong can sincerely resist the Qing Dynasty after returning to the Ming Dynasty, then the Qing court will definitely not be able to unify the rivers and lakes, at least the Qing court will not be able to attack the Yangtze River, because at that time, the Zheng family sailors were invincible in East Asia.

Zheng Zhilong wants to take refuge in Yan Siqi?

In fact, it was very simple, there was no way to live, there was a severe drought in Fujian that year, and hunger was everywhere.

Zheng Zhilong, who worked part-time as a pirate, saw that it was no longer possible to wait for the imperial court to help, so he took advantage of Yan Siqi's recruitment of immigrants to Fujian, and actually summoned tens of thousands of hungry people from Quanzhou to go to the island to reclaim.

But this move completely made the Ming Dynasty angry, it is okay to starve to death, but it is not allowed to surrender to the enemy!

Xu Xinsu, an official in Quanzhou, advocated uniting with the Dutch Hongmao East India Company to deal with Zheng Zhilong.

The Imperial Court agreed, but the East India Company did not.

So Zheng Zhilong, with the support of Yan Siqi, took the opportunity to lead a large number of pirates to attack Fujian, defeated the defenders, killed Xu Xinsu, and vented his chest sulk.

Since then, Zheng Zhilong has officially taken refuge in Yan Siqi and settled in the northern part of the Eastern Domain.

However, Zheng Zhilong brought too many people from Quanzhou, and later became more and more powerful, and finally replaced Yan Siqi and became the pirate leader on the southeast coast.

But why is it said that Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong are only confined to the northern part of the Eastern Domain?

The reason is very simple, because at this time, the Fan people from the West have begun to get involved in the southern part of the Eastern Domain.