As Hongyi expected, on December 16, the 11th year of Shunzhi, Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, and Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, reported to the imperial court, and the official army defeated the remnants of the western thief Zhang Xianzhong (who was dead at that time) Li Dingguo[1] in Xinhui. At the time of breaking the thief, Li Dingguo did quickly contact Zheng Sen in Zhangzhou, imploring him to send troops as soon as possible as promised to join the Qing army, but the result was a distant silence......

Earlier, on December 10 of the 11th year of Shunzhi, Zheng Zhilong, the king of Tong'an, and his entourage had just entered Zhangzhou City. Zheng's father and son saw each other, hugged their heads and cried. Zheng Zhilong cried, and went against common sense, taking the lead in kneeling down for his three sons, saying that although he was in charge of the Chinese plan, it also separated the father and son and hindered the brothers, which was really the hardship and helplessness of being a father. In this way, Zheng Sen, Zheng Du, and Zheng Yin's three sons knelt in front of their father one after another, kowtowing frequently, and the scene was also poignant and tear-jerking.

That night, Zheng Sen's mansion in Zhangzhou City.

Zheng Zhilong looked heartbroken and regretful. Looking at the three sons under the head, especially Zheng Sen, who was born to himself and the Japanese girl Tagawa clan, after wiping away his tears for a long time, he said in Japanese (Japanese, grandmother's):

"Fusong, I brought those more than ten prisoners, who were the first evildoers in the third year of Shunzhi, when the Qing army entered his hometown of Anping and plundered, causing your mother Tian Chuan to commit suicide. After a few years of conquest, there are still a few people left to live in the world, and there are still a few of them who have made the six products of the door and the camp of the thousand. Before his father's trip, the emperor issued a strict decree and ordered the military department to inspect and verify, and finally found them out and handed them over to his father. ”

Zheng Zhilong saw the look of surprise in Zheng Sen's eyes with satisfaction, and then continued:

"The emperor also said, 'The person who broke the city and plundered the army that day was a general under the martyred general Nikan, and he had already died with Nikan. But the responsibility for negligence lies with me, I am ashamed of the Zheng family, and I have no shame to see King Haicheng. Now I will give the sinners who are surviving in the world to the king of Haicheng, but by fate. If the king is still angry, he can also raise troops to come to Beijing, and I will lead the neck to the blade! ’”

When he said this, Zheng Zhilong naturally stood in front of him, and every time he said the word "I", he clenched his fists and went north, with a look of respect and obedience, which was clearly declaring the emperor's dictation. After speaking, he quietly looked at Zheng Sen, who had just called him by his name and was sitting on pins and needles in his seat at the moment, while the other two sons were already prostrating themselves on the ground, and they kept saying "The emperor is sage!" ”

"When he was about to leave for his father, the emperor once said with great embarrassment that a group of ministers of the king of parliament had to appoint Prince Jian to command tens of thousands of troops and go south to fight with you. He couldn't bear it, so he had to delay. However, I'm afraid it won't last long. Zheng Zhilong dug out another bombshell at the right time.

Finally, Zheng Sen sighed secretly, and also straightened his clothes, at this moment, he was naturally dressed in the Ming Dynasty, knelt on the ground and said: "Minister, Zheng Sen, thank the Holy Grace!" Heavenly grace is vast, Zheng Sen shyly occupies the throne, and he should serve the imperial court, open up the sea for my Qing Dynasty, recover Taiwan, and guard the southeast gateway forever. ”

When Zheng Sen looked up at his father again, he was already in tears. Of course, this is not tears of gratitude, but an unwilling grievance.

"Father, for the sake of the present, this is the only way. It's just that now Li Dingguo of the Great Western Army has just sent an urgent war report, urging me to go to reinforcements. Since Erchen has received the emperor's order, he naturally can't go back on his word, but this treacherous name is really difficult to do......" Zheng Sen got up and returned to his seat and continued.

Zheng Zhilong's face was red and white, so he was not embarrassed. These four words of "treachery" are like thousands of steel needles, inserted into one's heart one by one. Yes, my own history is a history of constantly "treacherous" fortune!

It turned out that when Zheng Zhilong was 18 years old, he and his brother Qi went to Macau to study business with his uncle Huang Cheng, and received Catholic baptism in Macau, traveled to and from Southeast Asia, and then went to Kyushu, Japan, because of the practice of swordsmanship, he met and married the righteous daughter of Fujian overseas Chinese blacksmith Weng Yihuang Tagawa as his wife. At the beginning, he followed the overseas Chinese pirate merchant [Li Dan] on Hirado Island in Japan, and worked as a translator at the beginning, and gradually became Li Dan's right-hand man and won his trust. After Li Dan's death, Zheng Zhilong gradually received his shili. After the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1624, Zhilong moved the focus of his business from Kyushu Island, Japan to Taiwan, and attached himself to the "Japanese snails" (the leader of the Japanese Kou) [Yan Siqi]. Shortly thereafter, the Dutch East India Company landed on the island and expelled the other Shili based in Taiwan, and Zheng and his wife settled on the mainland. In 1625, Yan Siqi died, Zhilong combined with the pirate leaders, known as the Eighteen Zhi, with the most powerful military and commercial team along the coast of Fujian at that time, leading tens of thousands of pirates, operating smuggling and looting business, rampant in the Taiwan Strait, but was extremely merciful to the people of Quanzhou, not only did not kill people, but even relieved the poor, and the prestige was higher than that of the officials.

In 1628 (the first year of Chongzhen of Ming Sizong), the imperial court recruited pirates, Zheng Zhilong wanted to surrender, and through Cai Shanji's arrangement, he accepted the Fujian governor Xiong Wencan to recruit An, became an official, led the original department, and garrisoned the coast for the Ming court to prevent pirates and Dutch from attacking, and led the army to crusade against other pirates who worshiped their brothers in the past, including Li Kuiqi, Zhong Bin, and the official to the general army. Soon after, he returned to his hometown in Nan'an, Quanzhou, Fujian, and became the richest man in the local area, and one of the few pirates who married a Japanese but was still able to officially return to Chinese mainland. In 1633, he defeated the fleet of the Dutch East India Company in the Battle of Kinmen off the coast of Fujian, and since then he has controlled the sea routes and collected fees for merchant ships from various countries. If you don't pay and want to pass through the Zhilong Sea area, I am afraid that you will not escape the fate of being robbed. Zhilong was so strong that the Dutch East India Company was in turmoil, and the Dutch joined forces with other shili to take Zhilong, but they continued to expand their shili and defeated the Dutch several times.

So far, Zheng Zhilong's trade has been extensive in the East and Nanyang: Da Ni, Huni, Champang, Luzon, Yonggang, Beigang, Dayuan, Hirado, Nagasaki, Mumbai, Banten, Old Port, Batavia, Malacca, Cambodia, and Siam. It is estimated that its soldiers include Han, Japanese, Korean, Austronesian, African and other ethnic groups, with a military strength of up to 200,000 and a fleet of more than 3,000 large and small ships, making it the only power in the seas of East and South China. Soon, at the request of the Ming court, Zheng Zhilong continued to lead the army to crusade against Liu Xiang, the only remaining of the other former sworn brothers, and won a complete victory in Humen, which shocked Fujian and became the governor of the capital. Soon after the drought in Fujian Province, Zheng Zhilong proposed to bring the hungry people to Taiwan, and gave the immigrants very preferential financial conditions. Taiwan's fertile land has triggered a wave of Han Chinese immigration to the island of Taiwan, which is the first large-scale organized migration from the mainland to Taiwan in history. At that time, the Dutch East India Company ruled southern Taiwan, and built two cities, Geransha City and Puruminsha City, in Dayuan (present-day Tainan City), garrisoning nearly 2,000 people, but there were tens of thousands of mainland immigrants. In addition, after Japan closed the country, only Chinese and Dutch were allowed to trade, and Zheng Zhilong became richer through trade with Japan.

In 1644 (the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the first year of Shunzhi of the Qing dynasty), Emperor Hongguang of the Southern Ming Dynasty canonized Zheng Zhilong as Nan'anbo, the general town of Fujian, responsible for the anti-Qing military affairs of Fujian Province. In 1645, Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui brothers were named emperor Zhu Yujian, the king of the Tang Dynasty in Fuzhou, with the year name Longwu, Zheng Zhilong was canonized as Nan'an Hou, responsible for all military affairs of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and for a time the power was the government and the opposition, and a few months was the peak of Zheng Zhilong's political career. Although the ideal Tang King wanted to fight back to his hometown Beijing, his less idealistic subordinate did not plan to go on a northern expedition, Zheng Zhilong believed: "The Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty are the same thing, isn't it just a change of master?" This laid the groundwork for his later surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

In the third year of Shunzhi (1646), Zheng Zhilong saw that the situation was unfavorable and did not intend to continue to support Emperor Longwu of the Southern Ming Dynasty, so he negotiated with the Qing Dynasty about surrender, and only brought his henchmen to the north to surrender to the Qing. His son Zheng Sen failed to persuade Zheng Zhilong, so he went to the Confucian Temple to cry and burn Confucian clothes, and said to his father: "If the father is gone, the child will come to avenge his father", and then led his troops to the sea into Jinmen to continue to oppose the Qing Dynasty. In the same year, the Qing army conquered Fujian and captured Zhu Yujian, the emperor of Longwu, while Zheng Zhilong, who surrendered to the Qing army, was betrayed by the commander of the Southern Expedition, Baylor [Bolo], and transferred to Beijing. Zhilong was incorporated into the Red Banner of the Han Army, and in August of the fifth year of Shunzhi (1648), he was returned to Shunfeng first-class Jingqi Nihafan. In May of the tenth year of Shunzhi (1653), Jin was crowned with Anhou. In order to appease Zheng Sen, the Qing Dynasty gave preferential treatment to Zheng Zhilong, who surrendered, and Zhilong was ordered to return to Zheng Sen several times, but Sen Jun insisted on not accepting it until the little prince came up with this strategy.

It can be seen from this that Zheng Zhilong, who successively returned to the Ming Dynasty to suppress his brothers, and returned to the Qing Dynasty to suppress the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, is so familiar and afraid of the word "treachery"!

"Sen'er, there are unspeakable secrets for my father!" Zheng Zhilong couldn't bear the anger in his heart, especially when he thought of the emperor's advice to him that day in the Imperial Palace. Or more accurately, the meaning of the prince who is less than half a year old and has a supernatural holy child is right-

"Zheng Sen has been unsubordinate and unfilial for a long time, but he must not be rash with King An. For the sake of today's plan, only with the courtesy of the monarch and the minister, the love of father and son, the grace of mother and son, the righteousness of brothers, and the blessing of future generations to make him care, to the loyalty and filial piety of Confucianism as his concern, and to the immensity of the imperial court to make him jealous, can he be made to comply. He will pacify Taiwan one day, the Zheng family will always be the town of Taiwan, and the imperial court will only appoint the defense generals, the admiral Xuezheng, the political envoys, and the envoys to the assistants, and the descendants of future generations can all inherit the throne and protect the glory of the generations......"

Thinking of this, Zheng Zhilong, the king of Tong'an, continued to show concern and worry on his face, and said slowly:

"Do you know that if you continue to oppose the Qing Dynasty, you will be alone, and it will not be long away. Before his father went south, the imperial court had ordered the general Jidu to command 100,000 troops, and he was ready to attack. Moreover, Qin Shizhen, the governor of Zhejiang, had also recruited troops and horses and built warships along the coast of Zhejiang and Fujian according to the instructions of the imperial court. Pingnan Wang Shang Kexi, Jingnan King Geng Jimao guarded the two Guangzhou, has won Xinhui, now the trend, Yu Sen'er can be said to be the back of the enemy, the north and south are trapped, only to take advantage of the trend, temporarily stationed in Fujian, cooperate with the imperial court, pacify the southeast. After that, my father and son worked together to recover Taiwan, so that they could have a place to live and live, and only then could their children and grandchildren enjoy peace! After Zheng Zhilong finished speaking, he helped up his son who was kneeling on the ground, and saw clearly what expression was on his face.

Seeing Zheng Sen's pale and sad face, Zheng Zhilong was overjoyed, knowing that he had clearly understood the current situation of his tens of thousands of horses, so he continued: "Besides, even if you raise an army to the north, you may be able to temporarily succeed, but it will be difficult to defeat the power of a country in the end. The small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, now there is continuous infighting, and it is only in a moment that it is falling apart, why should Sen'er be foolish and loyal to him? As soon as Nanming dies, if you break your arm, you can only flee to Taiwan. Rather than this, why not use the power of the imperial court to settle Taiwan as soon as possible, thinking that my Zheng family is the foundation? Even if the garrison generals, admirals, political envoys, and other court officials come to assist, they are also subject to your jurisdiction, just like Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, and Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan. After speaking, Zheng Zhilong sat back in his main seat very calmly, hugged the Spanish five-string acoustic guitar that had followed him for decades, and played his favorite dance song by himself, accompanied by the bright and cheerful melody and modulation, intentionally or unintentionally observing the changes in his son's face.

Zheng Sen didn't know that what his father said was true. Since Emperor Shunzhi and his father worshiped Chongzhen and proclaimed the world together, he Zheng Sen has been like a lamb on a shelf, and he has not been fried for a day - raising troops and trapping his father and brother in fire and water; The troops did not move, and they were helpless to be coerced and coerced by the Southern Ming Dynasty and the Great Western Army. What's even more hateful is that Emperor Shunzhi actually said that he could kill his father and oppose the Qing Dynasty, but he would not confront him head-on, but would wait until he recovered Taiwan and expelled the Yangyi, and then came to the so-called "Chinese warriors, competing for the best"! In other words, it is okay to kill your father and oppose the Qing Dynasty, but if you disturb the southeast and hinder the imperial court from recovering Taiwan, you are the sinner of the people of China! As a self-proclaimed Ming dynasty surnamed Ming who is orthodox in China, his generals and the people of Li cannot tolerate this! For today's plan, I can only take advantage of the trend and do this Haicheng King! Thinking of this, Zheng Sen showed a resolute look, and pulled out his saber with a "bang", which immediately caused a big break in the Spanish guitar dance music on that side, and the two younger brothers on the side were also frightened and overwhelmed.

Seeing all this in front of him, Zheng Sen was extremely disdainful in his heart, but what could he do, the father who once won the sea and repeatedly broke the Netherlands, has now served the Qing court with all his heart, and the brothers on both sides are also useless scholars, but how can he make fun of them? Now, I can only send people to the fence! Thinking of this, Zheng Sen slowly knelt down in front of his father, sighed lightly, and then said in a lofty voice:

"Father, my sons understand! From today on, you and I, father and son, will work together to defend Taiwan for this Qing Dynasty and never return to the (anti)dynasty! With that, he gently stroked his index finger on the blade, and instantly blood beads poured out. Then he pulled hard, tore off the placket of the former Ming Dynasty clothes, and wrote eight big characters with blood on his fingers: "Shizhen Taiwan, never oppose the DPRK"!

"Good! Sen'er, you have made a great contribution to the unification of China, the people of Limin, and the Qing Dynasty! Zheng Zhilong took out a roll of yellow silk from his sleeve as if he had obtained a treasure, and slowly unfolded it solemnly, and said: "Zheng Sen, the king of Haicheng, receives the order!" ”

Zheng Sen didn't expect to have this hand, and was hesitating, but seeing that the two brothers had already knelt down again to listen to the order, he had to kowtow to listen to the order in doubt.

"Minister, Zheng Sen, King of Haicheng, welcome the holy decree!"

"Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict says[2]: Zheng Sen, the king of Haicheng, respects the will of heaven, comforts the people, and leads his troops to surrender, and I am very relieved! From now on, you can continue to enjoy the name of 'success', said Haicheng King Zheng Chenggong, to show that the world is one family, respect the Qing Dynasty, and hope to Tong'an Wang Zheng Zhilong, Haicheng Wang Zheng Chenggong, can inherit the aspirations of the people, comfort the people's hearts, assist the government internally, and promote the national prestige externally, so that the sea is unified and the four seas are submitted! If I and my descendants fail to the Qing, the two kings can raise troops against the dynasty and uphold the power of the sky! Chin this! The first day of September in the eleventh year of Shunzhi. ”

"Thanksgiving!" The Zheng brothers knelt to receive the holy decree, burned incense and offered it, and it was done. And the oath written in blood on the placket of the official uniform of the Ming Dynasty, together with the "summary report" of Zheng Zhilong, the king of An, was sent to the imperial court overnight. The next day, Zheng Zhilong, the king of Tong'an, escorted a group of prisoners who came to the city, and they were beheaded by Qi Shu, and King Haicheng also fainted to the ground crying......

As a result, as mentioned above, Li Dingguo of the Great Western Army was very annoyed that the lone army resisted the Manchu official army, and the result was a great defeat and retreated into Yungui.

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Miyagi, Beijing. On the New Year's Day of the twelfth year of Shunzhi, it was the first festival called the "Spring Festival" that Hongyi had in the Qing Dynasty, and on that day, the emperor's son, who was less than nine months old, was held by the empress dowager and sat next to the emperor to accept the "simple" greetings of hundreds of civil and military officials and Manchu and Han ministers[3], and no one raised objections, and no one even felt that it was inappropriate......

On the same day, Fulin, who has always been afraid of pox and has been out of the palace to avoid acne in the first month for several years, was drunk in Cining Palace for the first time, and even hugged his little prince for a good affection......

"Mother is more expensive than child"! Concubine Kang, who had not enjoyed the favor of heaven for a long time, lay on the dragon bed of the Yugong Palace and looked at the sleeping emperor beside her, and sighed sincerely. She also knew that on the morning of the same day, Zheng Zhilong, the king of Tong'an, and Zheng Chenggong, the king of Haicheng, jointly wrote a blood letter to the imperial court, accepted the title, and led the crowd to adapt it, saying that after attacking Taiwan, she asked the imperial court to appoint a political envoy, and since then the Zheng family has been guarding the southeast and will never return to the (anti) dynasty! Then, Zheng's father and son counterattacked, cooperating with Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, and Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, to defeat tens of thousands of horses and horses of the Great Western Army in one fell swoop. Li Dingguo of the Great Western Army denounced Zheng's treachery, and he could only pack up and join the army all the way to the west, until he turned into Yunman, leaving only a remnant of his life. and Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu in the former Ming Dynasty [4], was also escorted to Jingshi. It's just that at the insistence of his son, he was placed and taken care of by the good students, and he didn't ask for the guilt. There is also his own uncle, Fujian governor Tong Guoqi [5], who was also ordered by the emperor to be sent to Quanzhou to comfort the Zheng family and reward the three armies.

At night, two of the five places in Qiandong in the northeast corner of Miyagi. Baby Hongyi, who was sitting on the kang practicing something at this time, had a lot of messy things in front of him, let him grab and grab, while grabbing, he also vibrated with words: "National hero ~ Zheng Chenggong!" ......" and then said to Liang Gong next to him: "Change to a big one!" ”

"Huh!" Xiao Gongzi hurriedly brought a large plate with seals and books in it; pen, ink, paper, inkstone; abacus, coins; knives and bows; There's even jewelry, rouge, and a bunch of food ...... Suddenly, the second elder brother Hongyi grabbed Xiao Gongzi's winter hat and held it firmly in his hand at once. In the past two months, the little prince has been grabbing and grabbing like this for some reason, seeing what to catch, and it is a catch! I have grabbed the headdress of the palace maid, the hat of the eunuch, everything, but I just don't throw it away! After grabbing it, he smiled, and motioned for his subordinates to come and get it back. Today is the third time I have been "hit"!

Covering his bare head, Liang Gong didn't forget to flatter a few words: "Master, you are really accurate!" Isn't it a little difficult for the minions to give you a little bit later? Hehe! ”

Hongyi smiled and returned his hat, but did not answer.

Master, I have a whole set of exercises jihua, you don't understand at all, I'm practicing the "grip talus", understand? It's going to be a big hit right away! Hongyi was thinking about the arrival of that "big day" in his heart......

[1] Li Dingguo, the word Hongyuan, Trumpet Yichun. An outstanding military strategist in the late Ming Dynasty. Young Congzhong uprising, one of the leaders of the Daxi peasant army in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. The family is a farmer. In the third year of Chongzhen (1630), Li Dingguo, who was ten years old, participated in Zhang Xianzhong's rebel army and was loved by Zhang Xianzhong. Li Dingguo followed Zhang Xianzhong's rebel army to fight in Qin, Jin, Henan, and Chu, and was known for his bravery in the face of the enemy's battle. He is known for his bravery and kills countless enemies. The Onishi regime was established, and General Anxi was promoted, together with Sun Kewang, Liu Wenxiu, and Ai Nengqi, to be raised as a righteous son, collectively known as the Four Generals. A few years later, in the first year of Dashun, after the death of Xianzhong, he led the rest of the Great Western Army into Yunnan to resist the Qing Dynasty. So as to make great achievements. In the eighth year of Yongli in the Southern Ming Dynasty and the eleventh year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1654), Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong contacted each other, and met with Xinhui, Guangdong. If the Yangtze River goes west to the north and attacks Jiangxi, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces, the great cause of rejuvenation is expected. Zheng Chenggong sent Lin Cha and Zhou Rui to supervise the army to the west, but for some reason delayed the appointment with Li Dingguo; As a result, Li Dingguo fought alone, coupled with the epidemic of plague, although Zhaoqing was recovered, he was defeated outside Guangzhou and returned. Li Dingguo originally had great expectations for joining Zheng Chenggong in the Northern Expedition, and even promoted the marriage of Li and Zheng to consolidate the friendship; However, because Zheng Chenggong repeatedly missed the military period, Li Dingguo was quite disappointed. In the tenth year of Yongli in the Southern Ming Dynasty and the thirteenth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1656), Li Dingguo led the elite soldiers to welcome the King of Gui into Kunming, and called Wuhua Mountain as the "capital of Yunnan", and Li Dingguo was named the King of Jin.

[2] Standard reading, not "Fengtian carrier, the emperor said"! Please check and shoot bricks again!

[3] According to the official history, on the New Year's Day of the twelfth year of Shunzhi, the edict "exempted from the celebration ceremony", which is estimated to avoid pox. Seen in "Qing Dynasty Official Cultivation: Qing Shizu Records", Zhonghua Book Company, 1985 punctuated edition.

[4] Zhu Yihai, King of Lu of the Southern Ming Dynasty. In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), King Lu was knighted. The following year, the Qing soldiers fell into Nanjing, and Zhang Guowei, Qian Sule and others raised troops in eastern Zhejiang and supported him in Shaoxing to supervise the country. It was in conflict with the Tang regime, which was proclaimed emperor in Fujian. In the first year of Shaowu (1646), the Qing soldiers captured eastern Zhejiang, went into exile at sea, went to Shipu, attached to Zhang Mingzhen, and then went to Zhoushan. In the seventh year of Yongli (1653), the name of the prison state was abolished. He later died of illness in Taiwan.

[5] Tong Guoqi, then governor of Fujian, grandson of Tong Yangxing. Concubine Kang Tong Jia's great-grandfather is Tong Yangzhen (also known as Tong Yangzheng), and he is Tong Yang's cousin.