Chapter 211 - Father and Son Debate the Way Forward

The father and son talked about how to settle down and re-establish their careers, and they tacitly agreed and started a sit-in.

Zheng Shisen, the ambitious king of Haicheng, has had an indescribable disgust and disdain for the so-called "father" who indirectly killed his biological mother since the third year of Shunzhi's reign, and the outstanding performance is that Zheng Shisen wrote a unique "godfather" family letter in Chinese history shortly after Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty: "My family started from the reckless, the game gathered people, the court did not punish him, and he gave the knight's life." …… Now that Kuang Jun is in trouble, he will fall to the ground in the sect, how can he bear to survive and face him? …… But adults love themselves, don't think about success. It can be seen from this that the son at that time stood on the absolute moral high ground.

It's a pity that the world is impermanent, as the Qing court played a set of combination boxing of "respecting the old Ming, sealing the two kings, avenging the mother, and fighting the outside together" under the instruction of the little Belle Ye Xuanye, Zheng Shisen finally got in the way of "righteousness" and had to commit to the Qing Dynasty. What is righteousness? It is a great righteousness to be loyal to the monarch and serve the Lord, and it is also a great righteousness to be filial to your parents. But don't underestimate the word "filial piety", in fact, filial piety is good, and it is difficult to be a son!

At the end of last year, his father Youzai entered Zhangzhou City, but he first sent a prisoner who killed his biological mother Tian Chuan who was generously handed over by the Qing court, and then read out the memorial text of the Qing Emperor Shunzhi to worship the late Ming Dynasty and Emperor Chongzhen, and then took out a secret decree, saying that he trusted and admired Zheng Chenggong. If he "King Yanping" acted recklessly and ignored the occupation of the entire island of Taiwan in the southeast coast by the red-haired Westerners, the people of Fulin were willing to turn the war into a jade cloth first, and work together to take the isolated island of the Chinese. Then the real sword and real gun will compete for the throne of the Central Plains co-lord and the king of China.

In this way, Zheng Sen was really forced to be helpless and suffocated!

Why do you do it? First, the murderer of the mother is in front of him, if the dignified seven-foot man does not wield the knife and results in them, how can he be worthy of the spirit of his mother in the sky? But if you kill these criminals instead of sending them back to the Qing Emperor Fulin for disposal, it is equivalent to bearing the friendship of Fulin.

Second, my father announced the sacrifice of the Qing Emperor in public, which made clear the historical status of the late Ming Dynasty and the orthodox inheritance position of the Qing Dynasty, which suddenly gathered the hearts of many old and young people in Jiangnan. Since the status of the former Ming is recognized. The point of view of Huayi's distinction can be deduced.

Three. A secret decree is even more devastating! If you Zheng Sen are entangled in the status of the former minister of the former Ming Dynasty, you will be said to be greedy for the king of Yanping, regardless of the loss of Taiwan's land to the hands of Westerners. Even if everyone still thinks that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is a Yi people, but the people from the West are even more Yi people, aren't they? Besides, the overall degree of sinicization is far inferior to that of Manchu!

But even if he submitted to the Qing court. Zheng Shisen was still unconvinced. In his eyes. None of this can hide the anger of the mother's murder. And the righteousness of royal orthodoxy! The Manchu court, on these two points, had an inextricable hatred with him from beginning to end. Zheng Shisen never understood. Will his father Weishenme be submitted to the Qing court? After being able to fly outside the cage and return to Fujian in the south, why do you still want to be the prince of the Qing Dynasty?

Today, after nine months of observation and reflection, my father finally talked to the deepest question in front of him for the first time - where is the Zheng family going? What is the future of my Zheng's Maritime Group?

In fact, the answer couldn't be clearer in Zheng Shisen's heart - your old man has completely gone into hiding, and he has thrown a group of old ministers under his command to me to take care of it. For those who have real talent and real learning and finally their own, it is natural to appoint. As for those shameless traitors who are loyal to the Qing Dynasty at both ends of the rat, they will all be killed without leaving any of them! The first to bear the brunt is the damn Shi Lang and Shi Zunhou!

And Zheng Zhilong, the scheming king of Tong'an, has long seen that he and his eldest son Zheng Shisen will have disastrous consequences if they coexist for a long time, not only because of the conditions in the Xiazhangquan area, but also because the factional struggle within the Zheng maritime business group cannot be eliminated. After thinking about it for many months, it was only today that the second son of the person combined with the latest "information" brought back from the capital division came up with a relatively safe solution. The main problem to be solved in this little family meeting tonight is how to get along with the father and son!

"The response strategy for the father is actually divided into the strategy of staying behind, the strategy of going east and the strategy of going south." Finally, Zheng Zhilong spoke after reweighing his own strategy and being sure that there was no omission.

"My son would like to hear about it!"

"The policy of staying behind is actually that we must firmly grasp our hometown in Fujian, no matter what changes the situation will be in the future, the three places of Xiamen, Zhangquan and Zhangquan, especially the land of Jinxia, must not be handed over. As long as we face the sea and have our back to Fujian, our Zheng family can stand! ”

"Father's high theory!"

"The strategy of going east is to comply with the promise of the imperial court to cross the sea and go east as soon as possible to recover Taiwan. In this way, the displaced people in central Fujian can be introduced into Taiwan more often, and they can work diligently and make more shipping trips. Fujian and Taiwan face each other across the sea, and they are mutually reinforced, and even if the wind and waves above the DPRK situation are great, we can land on the coast of Fujian when we advance, and we can close the entire island of Taiwan when we retreat, and it is a policy to protect ourselves from the left and right. ”

"Father's plan!"

"The strategy of going south is really a long-term plan for me to gain contacts. For hundreds of years, the Fujian people traveled to the sea, and seven or eight out of ten lost the South Seas, especially in Luzon, Java and other places are spectacular. Speaking of Luzon and Java, you and I both know that they have long been occupied by the Spaniards and the Dutch. The city of Little Luzon[1] was changed to Manila, and the coconut city [Jakarta] was renamed Batavia, but they were all Chinese people......

"Is Father going to take his place?"

And Zheng Shisen, who was in the first year, couldn't help but raise his head, and looked at his father who was twenty years older than him and fifty years away with a pair of puzzled eyes. Regarding this point, Zheng Shisen did not guess as early as the first two.

"Hehe, Sen'er is wise! If we recover Taiwan and occupy the South Seas, who will be the Zheng family in this maritime matter? Zheng Zhi Longzhi was full of pride, and he was very impressed by himself!

"......" Zheng Shisen was speechless and silent for a long time.

"Oh, Sen'er, what do you think is wrong?" Zheng Zhilong was really a little dissatisfied, but he patiently asked carefully.

Zheng Shisen is really dissatisfied! If it is said that staying behind and advancing eastward, they both laid a big wedge for the rule of the Qing court on the land of the homeland of China. If time will naturally shake its foundation, this southward strategy is very different from his "great cause of restoring the country" and runs counter to it! Although "the earth is round", he Zheng father and son have long known it, but this is too far and wide! For Zheng Shisen, going north, and only going north, is his only ambition!

"Sen'er, if you take Nanyang, the imperial court will naturally have no time to look south, and it will inevitably be handed over to us, by then. We are the kings of Nanyang! Ultimately. This king of the South Seas is not your brother's? Zheng Zhilong said half of his true thoughts.

"Father, why are you going south? The old country has not been restored, but what are we the king of Nanyang? Zheng Shisen was very disdainful.

Seeing that his son didn't understand, Zheng Zhilong said his wishful thinking in a hurry.

"Sen'er. After taking the South Seas and expelling the Dutch Westerners. From Coconut City in the south and Little Luzon. Then connect to Taiwan, and then go north to Japan, where you also know that there is your second brother Shen'er. The coast of China is all controlled by my Zheng family. Once something happens in the Central Plains, we will naturally have a lot to do! It's hard for the Hu people to have a hundred years of luck......"

I have to admit that the Chinese are indeed the smartest race! As an outstanding representative of the first generation of Chinese maritime merchants, Mr. Zheng Zhilong inadvertently said the "island chain theory" of the Chinese people three hundred years later, and the "first island chain" is almost complete, just the Indian Ocean!

"......" Zheng Shisen still didn't say a word, just bowed his head and pondered.

"Okay, tell me what you do?" The devastated King Tong'an was helpless, and turned to retreat - if you don't agree with me, I will deny you, and in the end, our father and son still had a draw!

"The son thinks that staying behind and going east can be done, only ...... Only this southward strategy seems to put the cart before the horse. Zheng Shisen didn't save face for his father at all.

"Oh, then how about you get to the bottom of it and tell your father about your good plan?" Zheng Zhilong made up his mind and was not in a hurry or impatient.

"Father, son is inclined to the strategy of the Northern Alliance!"

"What is Beilian?"

"That is, after staying behind and advancing eastward, through Zheng Shen, he will unite with the Japanese shogunate, in order to return to the mainland from the sea and drive out the northern captives!" Zheng Shisen's eyes were blazing and full of expectation, and he seemed to have seen a beautiful picture of uniting Japan to exterminate the Manchu Dynasty!

It is no wonder that Zheng Shisen has this "wonderful" idea of "borrowing strength to fight", as a Japanese, he still values half of his motherland - the small Japanese Japanese country Fuso! Moreover, in real history, our Zheng Shisen, that is, Zhu Chenggong, and his son Zheng Jing have indeed faithfully practiced their "beautiful" ideas of being half Japanese and relying on foreign aid to stand on their own!

In fact, the Japanese Edo shogunate has always maintained an attitude of non-intervention in the anti-Qing struggle of the military and civilians of the Southern Ming Dynasty. However, due to their special blood relationship with the Zheng family, they treated Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Jing differently, and always supported the anti-Qing struggle led by them from the "moral" and economic aspects.

In the sixth year of Shunzhi, that is, in the third year of King Lu's reign (1649), Zheng Cai, the founder of the country, sent a letter to the shogunate, asking for trade. In his letter, he said: "Our country and your country are closely intertwined, and the domain and your country are close to each other." When Zheng Chenggong wrote to the shogun of the Japanese shogunate, he also talked about his "birth at sunrise", which means that my mother is Japanese, and I myself was born in Japan. In Japan, both official and non-governmental, it is believed that the Tagawa clan and his son Zheng Chenggong "are the property of Hirado, China." The two sides of "Zheng Ri" have concluded a very close relationship through such "friendship".

In the eighth year of Shunzhi, that is, in the fifth year of Yongli in the Southern Ming Dynasty (1651), Zheng Chenggong convened a meeting of generals to discuss "sending envoys to Japan": "Chenggong saw that there were many soldiers, the place was narrow and narrow, the equipment was not prepared, and the food and salary were insufficient. Cheng Shi said: 'Fang Jin's food and salary are sufficient, and there is a lot of lead and copper, which is not as good as the Japanese ....... The former Mrs. Weng, since the king thinks that she is a woman, she is kind, and she will be good with her, and she will obey. If the lord of the feudal domain does not repair the book and treats himself as a nephew, the king will be overjoyed. And borrow the grain from other places to help us, and then sell Luzon, Siam, Cochin and other countries, in an endless stream, then the grain is sufficient and enterprising. 'Success is it, let the brother Tai build a big ship, Hong Xu Zuozhi, and send a nephew to make a good trip to Japan. The king is happy, and he helps lead and copper. The commander shall handle the casting of bronze coins, eternal money, armor, instruments and other things". [See Jiang Risheng's "Taiwan Foreign Chronicle"]

And the material support of Little Japan for Zheng Chenggong is also "necessary to ask, so Zheng's mansion is surging". In addition to Japan's official support for Zheng Chenggong, Tagawa's hometown also helped. There was a man who was a Tanaka blacksmith in Hirado who crossed the sea to Xiamen, Fujian Province, and forged the famous Japanese sword for Zheng Chenggong to arm the army. The sword he forged played a role in Zheng Chenggong's army's fight against the Qing Dynasty and the expulsion of the Dutch colonists.

At the beginning of June of the 28th year of the Yongli calendar, Yang Ying, the left-behind officer, on behalf of Taiwan's Zheng Jing, sent a letter to Japan's "Nagasaki King" Yun: "Japan and its own country are good, and beryllium is like a family." The Japanese shogunate is also known as "economic friendship". This kind of "friendship" between Zheng and Japan lasted for a long time. Some people say that at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, China and Japan "had no exchanges," but the "Zheng-Japan exchanges" "filled" this historical gap, and "wrote a brilliant chapter in the history of Sino-Japanese friendly relations with close friendship." [Writing this, Hongyi suddenly wants to hear how you understand this historical material? I think that as Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Jing, who have Japanese ancestry, it makes sense to be closer to Little Japan, hehe. 】

Zheng Shisen was immersed in his beautiful vision of the hegemony of other countries and Japan and Japan, but unexpectedly, a bowl of warm tea came to him, which just extinguished the heat in his heart! It turned out that it was the old man Zheng Zhilong who was furious and threw it hard!

"A limerick poem. Look at the first word of each sentence》

Looking at recent history, I am disappointed

I was saying that there was an opportunity back then

Outside the map, it has been sharpened

It's hard to know what you're going to do

I got up and wore Rokkazi

Point out the world's pain and joy

China's brilliant ten thousand idiots

The Wenwu Dynasty was the only Qing Dynasty

[1] Manila was only 80 years old at that time, so the name "Little Luzon" was still quite popular among the Chinese diaspora. In 1571, the Spanish colonizer Rigesby landed from Manila, invaded and occupied the Philippines, and then established a castle and fort in downtown Manila, on the south bank of the Bashi River. Since then, it has been the capital of the Spanish colonial authorities. As for "Batavia", the Dutch name only began in 1621, which is too young compared to the history of Jakarta in 1527, when the Kingdom of Banten conquered Coconut City and changed its name to Chayagarda, which means "Triumphal City". If we talk about the ethnic composition of the two places at that time, it can be said that the local indigenous people were basically just mere laborers. Compared with the white people, the Chinese occupy the absolute majority and the main position of the economic pillar, but they are in a dominant position because of the deliberate disregard of the central power of the mainland of the motherland! (To be continued......)