In the study room of the Tong'an Wangfu in Zhangzhou, Fujian, Zheng Zhilong, the king of Tong'an, politely let his eldest son, Zheng Shisen, the king of Haicheng, and Zheng Shizhong, the "second son" and the imperial guard, sit down, and then said with a lonely expression:

"Sen'er, did you just say your brother, Ju'er?"

"Father, it is Zheng Xian. There is no day when he doesn't want to go back to his father and do his ......filial piety," Zheng Shisen heard this, and hurriedly got up and replied.

"But now he's called Tagawa Nanazaemon!" Zheng Zhilong suddenly interrupted his eldest son's words and said in Japanese. Poor Zheng Shizhong couldn't understand a word!

"But father, our biological mother died tragically, and this revenge is not avenged, how can it be human?!"

Zheng Shisen, or Fusong, no longer cares about any etiquette at this time, and blurts out the words in his heart that have been held back for a long time in Japanese!

"Alas! Sen'er, I know the tragedy of your mother's death. Father can't stand her......" Zheng Zhilong changed back to Chinese and said seriously.

"It's just that the imperial court has canonized her as Mrs. Yipin, didn't it also hand over the wicked people of the year to you one by one?"

"Father, those people deserve it! However, he is still in Beijing in front of his ministers! Although Zheng Shisen changed to Chinese with his father, the murderous aura in his eyes did not weaken at all, and Zheng Shisen's mouth called "Beijing", not "Jingshi", but used the title of Qianming, and the intention is self-evident.

The "main master" mentioned by King Haicheng of the Great Qing Dynasty is Han Dai, the official of the Qing Dynasty today!

It turned out that it was completely different from what was generally thought to be decisive for more than 300 years in later generations, Zheng Chenggong's mother, Tagawa. It's not that you are ashamed and hanged yourself after being humiliated! This is mainly due to the fact that most historical accounts are mixed with anecdotal legends, which are seriously inaccurate. Even people at that time often did not know Tagawa's background and personality, only that she was from Oriental Japan. Some people look at Tagawa from a discriminatory eye, treating her as a "Yi girl" and "widow", and from this point on, they speculate and discuss the cause of her death.

The earliest person to record the death of Tian Chuan according to the news was Huang Zongxi. He said in the book "The Beginning and End of the Surname": "The northern soldiers went to Anhai and plundered a lot, and the successful mother was also promiscuous. Hanged himself. Success is hateful. Use the method of cutting out his mother's abdomen, remove the intestines and cleanse the filth, and re-admit them for burial. Huang Zongxi's Tian Chuan clan "committed suicide after being humiliated" said that it was widely spread. in the country. Qian Chengzhi's "Records of Knowledge", Zheng Da's "Wild History Without Text", Ling Xue's "Traces of the South Sky", Wu Weiye's "Luqiao Chronicle" and Ni Zaitian's "Continuation of the Ming Chronicle" and other books. All hold this view. In foreign countries, Japan's "Nagasaki Night Talk Grass", Lin Chunsheng's "Huayi Metamorphosis" and Saito Masaken's "Overseas Strange Biography" also cited the term "humiliated suicide".

In fact. Huang Zongxi's account of Tian Chuan's death, "his words are quite funny", and the rumors in this book are not credible [1]. However, due to the widespread and long-term circulation of Huang Zongxi's false statements, it has accumulated untrue and has been delayed to this day, affecting people's correct understanding and evaluation of Zheng Chenggong's mother, Tian Chuan, and covering up her true face of integrity and loyalty.

And today's Shunzhi Dynasty, in the heart of the Zheng family, naturally knows the true situation of the Tian Chuan family's death, and has great admiration for her chastity and martyrdom, and has great hatred for the Qing soldiers at that time. In fact, the Zheng Tian clan [Weng clan, Tagawa clan] did not "commit suicide by humiliation", but was not afraid of rape and died a heroic martyrdom after fighting against the murderous Qinggu Mountain Ezhen Han Dai.

At that time, Han Dai was ordered by Bolo, the son of Baylor, to command the Manchu and Han cavalry to Anping, Zheng Zhibao, Zhipeng and others were afraid of their military might, and did not dare to fight, or did not resist according to the agreement, but gathered the family, took the family and children to board the military ship, abandoned the city, and anchored in the open sea. But Weng was armed with a dagger and refused to go with them. Everyone repeatedly persuaded her, but this "widow" was uncompromising and righteous. In desperation, everyone could only leave her and disperse.

As soon as the Qing soldiers arrived, they naturally found this unusual Japanese woman. Moreover, although she was older (she was forty-five years old at the time), she was still a, and her appearance still existed, and Han Dai, who was a member of the Manchurian White Flag Gushan Ezhen and a first-class auxiliary general, fell in love with her at first sight, [This guy has a typical mother-love complex! I'll go! I want to go away. The Tagawa clan, who had been waiting for these barbarians to come and fight with him, stood solemnly and said loudly:

"I am the wife of Daming An Nanbo and General Feihong, how can I be treated with vidity by you people who are captives and dolphins? The thief will put you out of gibberish and obscenity! ”

After speaking, he stabbed Han Dai with the dagger in his arms. Han Dai was in a hurry, and pulled out a matching knife to "go straight through his abdomen". What is commendable is that Tagawa is still standing at this time, enduring severe pain and scolding, Zuihou died of exhaustion. This scene can be compared with the tragic scene of Huang Daozhou's refusal to surrender and his head being cut off on the Jinling execution ground. It is a pity that the remnants of the Southern Ming Dynasty at that time, in order to highlight the tyranny and ferocity of the Qing army and the behavior of beasts, retained the historical truth of the Zodiac Zhou, and praised it as a "generation of strong martyrs", but deliberately extinguished the true character of a "martyr" of a "widow", and replaced it with a low-level interpretation of "adultery and humiliation and hanging" that is more acceptable to people.

It can be seen that Tagawa came to China to prepare to die for the motherland of her husband and son. When Zheng Zhilong descended to the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong and his mother Tian Chuan dissuaded him together, "Zhilong wanted to surrender, but he successfully cried and admonished him, but he didn't listen, and his wife didn't listen to his bitter advice." Zhilong surrendered, was coerced north, the Qing soldiers were everywhere, burning, killing, prostituting and plundering, and innocent people suffered tragic disasters. The atrocities of the Qing soldiers aroused the righteous indignation of the Tagawa clan, which is consistent with her zuihou holding a sword to resist violence and "die unyieldingly".

For this, Zheng Zhilong, who is the husband of the Tagawa family, and Zheng Chenggong, who is the son of the son, will never agree! Because, there is only one truth in history, that is, Zheng Tian was not humiliated, but did not change his temper and went to death awe-inspiringly, which can be called a generation of women's martyrs!

And the assassination of Tian Chuan Han Dai, although there were twists and turns after that, but the career was basically smooth, from the first-class auxiliary general to the auxiliary state duke, the town of the state duke, successively served as the ministry of officials, the criminal department of the full book, and now has been added to the title of the prince Taibao, and then led the ministry of the full book, it can be said that the high-ranking officials have to sit and be safe and sound.

When Zheng Zhilong heard that his eldest son had talked about the official book, he was a little jealous, and said slowly:

"Before my father left Beijing last year. Didn't the imperial court belittle Han Dai? ”

Indeed, in September of the eleventh year of Shunzhi, in order to make up for the grievances of the Zheng clan in the southeast, Fulin drew inferences from his son Xuanye's advice, and indeed punished a group of courtiers in the name of the defeat of Prince Nikan's expedition to Hunan, including Han Dai's share. Originally, after the council of the king and the ministers, the crime against Han Dai was planned to be "cut down from his family and demoted to a concubine". Although Zheng Tian has not been mentioned a word. is nameless, and it can be regarded as giving Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Chenggong face.

But with the smooth surrender of Zheng Chenggong, some people in the court seem to think that the general trend is settled, and it is in the first month of this year. The emperor was motioned to issue an edict to the ministry. said: "I am only a good person. Politics needs people. We must give up our shortcomings to learn from our strengths, and we should forget about our achievements. Specially issued a grace order, trying to serve as an old minister. Han Dai, the former secretary of the ministry, and the former Gushan Ezhen Yild Alashan, etc. All of them served when they were from Taizu Taizong. or to work diligently, or to work hard. If you end up with a glance [shěng, the meaning of fault], I can't bear it. Zitter reinstated to his original position. Han Dai is the secretary of the ministry. Ilde and Alashan are the true ones of the solid mountains. Forgive the sin, not only carry forward the grace of rain and dew, do your duty, and should benefit the frost exercise. If you still think about it, don't be disappointed. "Not long ago, not long ago, Han Dai, who had been cut to the title, was reinstated with the rank of general of Zhenguo, and he was almost unscathed. This is also one of the main reasons why this Chung Yeung Festival, Zheng Shisen, the king of Haicheng, angrily brought up the old things.

"It's clearly derogatory, but it's the same. With such unbelievable words, how can my father swallow this breath? Zheng Shisen did not give up, and vowed not to bow his head.

"Shi Sen, he is a clan after all!" Zheng Zhilong glanced at his second son Zheng Shizhong on the side again, and said in a low voice.

"Clan? Where did the clan come from? According to his son, the clan is dying in Guangxi at this time, but our courtiers confess their sins and do ......" Zheng Shisen was in a hurry, and almost blurted out words like "confess his sins and become a father".

"Presumptuous!"

Finally, regardless of the size of the official rank, Zheng Zhilong scolded in a low voice, trying to correct the position of father and son.

"Father's anger!" Seeing that the eldest brother was still stubborn, Zheng Shizhong hurriedly got up and persuaded both sides.

"Big brother, my father also has my father's hardships. I'm waiting for my son, and I have to uphold filial piety......"

"The country will fall, how can it be home?" Unexpectedly, Zheng Shisen did not give face, and planned to strike first today to take the lead from a moral height.

"The kingdom will fall? The Qing Dynasty is stable, and the world is just around the corner, I don't know why King Haicheng said this? Zheng Zhilong still looked at his second son, and used the slick strategy of going to sea, but he didn't answer your words!

"Father! I'm waiting for the Han family, why do I want to take refuge in Manchurian North Dog? If you don't plan early, you will take the land of Xiazhang as the foundation, go east to Taiwan as the backyard, and go west to contact the Yongli Imperial Court, in order to plan the day of the Northern Expedition...... "Zheng Shisen will never forget to restore the Han world."

"Okay, Sen'er, my King of Haicheng, you are no longer the King of Yanping of Longwu! You keep saying righteousness and awe-inspiring, but you always ignore the affection of fathers, sons and brothers! Let me ask you, if you rebel, what will happen to the lives of your two brothers in the capital? Have you thought about it? Zheng Zhilong glanced at his second son again, full of anticipation.

"Big brother, what my father said is good!" Finally, the second child who opened his mind began to help.

"Big brother, today's things, people of insight in the world have their own insight. Although Emperor Yongli is a member of the Ming Dynasty, he does not have the ambition of Zhu Ming Taizu Hongwu, and only knows that he is hiding in Tibet, but he appoints traitors and does nothing. Selling for such an emperor is always a chicken and an egg! Besides, the younger brother has been in Beijing for the past two years, but he knows that the current emperor is indeed worthy of a generation of Ming monarchs, working hard and aiming at the world. ”

"Alas! Second brother, how much do you know? No matter how holy this emperor is, he is still a barbarian! Zheng Shisen couldn't get rid of the "Yixia debate" from the bottom of his heart.

"Sen'er, the one who knows the times is Junjie. The father only asks: If you have many soldiers and horses under your command, how many days can you last except for the maritime business? Zheng Zhilong began to solve the problem.

"This ...... However, father, now on the open sea, the imperial court is powerless to do it, and it is not the sea surface of the Zheng family? Zheng Shisen is full of confidence.

"Shizhong, let's talk about it."

"Yes, Father!" Zheng Shizhong, the imperial guard who had just gone south from Beijing, had an advantage over the eldest brother in the southeast in terms of intelligence mastery, so he gave a general idea of the major events in the imperial court since Zheng Zhilong went south.

"Big brother, judging from this, the imperial court has now begun to attach importance to firearms, and Mulan's martial arts performance is proof of this. In this case, the large-scale use of artillery by sea ships is inevitable and just around the corner. Besides, that young Lord Belle is indeed powerful, and he can always surprise people. Moreover, I also inquired and learned that he admired the Han family even more than the current emperor......" Zheng Shizhong's summary of the argument made Zheng Shisen mind very much, and he couldn't help but ask with suspicion:

"Oh? If so? ”

"Little brother is telling the truth!"

"Sen'er, let's be honest with you. This son is weird and magical, he speaks at a young age, and every sentence is reasonable! Before his father went south, he listened to his plan, and he came slowly all the way without hurrying or slowing, and sure enough, as he said, Li Dingguo's fight couldn't make the climate, and he didn't return in defeat? Zheng Zhilong smiled and affirmed the words of the second son.

When Zheng Shisen heard this, he knew that his father was saying that Li Dingguo and himself agreed to seek Guangdong last year, but because of his own various incidents, he failed to fulfill the contract, and as a result, he returned to the west in embarrassment.

"Father, what do you say? How could he be a baby in this matter? ”

"Exactly! It can be seen that the reincarnation of heaven is like this, and it is not something that we can resist by ourselves. Besides, as long as there are sea ships and can be a great maritime business, why should we care about the Central Plains, who is the main master? Zheng Zhilong is ready to get to the point.

Zheng Shisen knew that what his father said was right. Without maritime trade, where would his Zheng family stand?

"However, the imperial court did not pay enough attention to the matter of maritime affairs......"

"You don't have to worry about this, it's been more than half a year since my father came back, and I've been thinking about it for a long time, so I want to talk to you. After all, you are also the Prince of the Qing Dynasty, and my father and son need to support each other in everything. Oh, and your second brother, he is in the capital, he can also be an Olympic aid, right? Zheng Zhilong's sleek nature is also habitually revealed at home, even if his two sons are in front of him, neither of them will be ignored in the cold.

Hearing the word "second brother", Zheng Shisen remembered something and hurriedly said:

"Father, Zheng Xian's side said a few days ago that he wanted to come back to help his father, and he said, ......"

"No! This is absolutely unacceptable! ”

Unexpectedly, Zheng Zhilong suddenly stopped the words of his eldest son, who was also the prince of the Qing Dynasty, and was extremely anxious!

[1] See Xiao Yishan's General History of the Qing Dynasty, Part II, Chapter 14, Section 59, Shanghai Commercial Press, p. 341. (To be continued......)