When Zheng Chenggong became strong, he joined forces with the anti-Qing general Zhang Huangyan and led an army to attack Nanjing by land and water until it reached the gates. However, he was deceived by the fake surrender of the Qing army and returned to Xiamen after defeat. After Zheng Chenggong returned to Xiamen, he began to plan * * * as a base for anti-Qing and regaining sight. Just then, He Tingbin, who worked as an interpreter in the Dutch army, rushed to Xiamen, met Zheng Chenggong and made suggestions to him. He Tingbin also gave Zheng Chenggong a map of Taiwan marked with the layout of the military forces of the Dutch aggressors. In March of A.D. 166 1, Zheng Chenggong sent his son Zheng Jing to lead some troops to stay in Xiamen. He personally led 25,000 soldiers and set out from Kinmen in hundreds of warships. After crossing the Taiwan Province Strait, the army rested in Penghu, ready to take Taiwan Province Province directly.
In order to stop Zheng Chenggong's army, the Dutch invaders concentrated their troops in two castles, Taipa and Chini, and sank them in the port to prevent Zheng Chenggong's fleet from landing. Under the guidance of He, he sailed into Luermen at high tide and landed on Taiwan Province Island. After a fierce battle, the Dutch invaders were defeated and dared not fight two more cities. While sending reinforcements to Java, they also sent messengers to Zheng Jun's peace camp, trying to exchange100,000 taels of silver for Zheng Chenggong's troops to withdraw from Taiwan Province. Zheng Chenggong flatly rejected the demands of the Dutch invaders and forced the Dutch who were entrenched in Chibi to surrender by cutting off the water source in Chibi City. Zheng Chenggong decided to take a long siege to force the invading army of Taiwan Province to surrender. After an eight-month siege, Zheng Chenggong ordered a storm on cities in Taiwan Province Province. The Dutch invaders had no choice but to surrender. At the beginning of 1662, Zheng Chenggong drove the Dutch invaders out of Taiwan Province province.
Soon after Zheng Chenggong's success, he suddenly died of a sudden illness at the age of 38. There is a saying about Zheng Chenggong's death: Zheng Chenggong received a vicious letter at the same time, saying that his father was reported by a domestic slave, Yi Daqi, and that there were letters between Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Chenggong, with no good intentions. The Qing court was furious and put Zheng Zhilong's family to death. After hearing the news, Zheng Chenggong patted his chest and looked at the north and shouted, "If you take my advice, how could you be killed?" ?
Soon, I was even more angry and sad to learn that traitors had dug Zheng's ancestral grave in his hometown. He gritted his teeth and swore that people are alive and have enemies. What does it have to do with the dead? If one day I lead the troops back and don't chop you inch by inch, I will be a gentleman for nothing. Zheng Chenggong's wish came true after 14. When Zheng Jing captured Zhangzhou, he also dug Huang Wu's grave and whipped his body to avenge his father.
In April 1662, Lin Ying, a military officer of Nanming, got a haircut and became a monk. He fled from Yunnan to Taiwan Province Province to see Zheng Chenggong and cried to Zheng Chenggong: The emperor (Emperor Li Yong) listened to the traitor Ma Jixiang, betrayed Li Guotai and fled to Myanmar. Now Wu Sangui has attacked Myanmar, and the king of Myanmar has dedicated the emperor to Wu Sangui. It is said that he has been killed by Wu Sangui. Zheng Chenggong also burst into tears.
Who knows that a wave is not flat, and another wave rises. Tang Xianyue, a subordinate of Zheng Chenggong, accused Zheng Jing, Zheng Chenggong's son, of adultery with his wet nurse. Immediately grabbed his chest and sent someone to Xiamen to behead Zheng Jing and his baby and wet nurse Chen. Those who stayed in Xiamen refused to carry out the order. Zheng Chenggong climbs the mountain every day to see if there are any ships coming in the direction of Penghu, so he suffers from the cold. On the eighth day, he suddenly roared, "How can I see the old emperor underground?" Then he scratched his face with both hands and died. Therefore, the annals of Taiwan Province said that Zheng Chenggong died of a cold.
According to the abnormal performance before his death and the background of the internal struggle of Zheng Group at that time, some people think that he died of poisoning. The main basis of this statement is that the situation before Zheng Chenggong's death is very similar to the symptoms of poisoning attack after poisoning, and Zheng Chenggong's death is recorded in Li Guangdi's Continued Quotations from Rongcun, Notes on Bohai Sea in Charlene Marilynn Dangelo and Talking about River Zagreb in Lin Shi. For example, "The Continued Quotations of Rongcun" contains: Ma Xin recommended doctors to take coolants because of heatstroke, and it was too late to die. "Talking about Lotus Gate" said: (Success) suddenly went crazy and bit his finger to death; "Moon Hee of Minhai" said that Zheng Chenggong threw the medicine on the ground before he died, and then stamped his foot and shouted. Zheng Chenggong may have noticed that someone murdered himself, but it was too late.
In the past, Qing * * * did have the idea of murdering Zheng Chenggong. According to the Foreign Records of Taiwan Province, at that time, Qing sent a senior officer to sneak into Zheng Jun with a peacock gall, and bribed Zheng Chenggong's cook with a large sum of money to poison Zheng Chenggong and his generals when he had a meeting with his subordinates. Although the chef was greedy for money, he was afraid that things would be exposed. After careful consideration, he dared not do it and gave it to his brother. When his brother was really poisoned, he was shivering and terrified every time he wanted to take medicine. He told their father about it. Hearing this, the father was shocked and angered the two men, saying: it is disloyal to murder the master; It is dishonest to promise others without doing it. It is better to be dishonest than disloyal.
How can you do something to destroy the nine clans? Turn yourself in and maybe get away with it. So I took them to Zheng Chenggong's residence to surrender. Zheng Chenggong not only didn't punish them, but also rewarded them. He confidently said, I was born, how could I be poisoned by mortals. Since then, Zheng Chenggong has strengthened security measures. In this way, even if someone wants to poison, he can't be nearby. But this does not rule out the possibility that Zheng Chenggong was poisoned.
Zheng Chenggong's mysterious death of Ma Xin seems to prove that Zheng Chenggong may have been poisoned. Ma Xin was a general in the Qing Dynasty and later became a confidant of Zheng Chenggong. On the day Zheng Chenggong died, he was prescribed by a doctor he recommended. At night, Zheng Chenggong died, and he himself suddenly died of illness. According to Li Guangdi, Ma Xin died the day after Zheng Chenggong's death. According to Jiang Risheng's "Outside Taiwan", his death was only five days apart from Zheng Chenggong's death. Therefore, Ma Xin may be directly involved in the murder of Zheng Chenggong, but he was later killed to keep him silent.
If Zheng Chenggong was poisoned, who was the murderer? Of course, Qing * * * has great suspicion. At the same time, some people think that Zheng Mingjun, Zheng and others, especially others, are brothers. Zheng Chenggong, who was sexually violent, used severe means. Many of Zheng's subordinates, including his elders and relatives, were executed for crimes, which made people panic. Many of them defected under the temptation of senior officials of the Qing court, and the internal relations of Zheng Group were extremely tense. As early as Zheng Chenggong led an army to attack * * *, Zheng Tai had a contradiction with Zheng Chenggong. At that time, Zheng Tai was a grain delivery officer. When the supply of Zheng Chenggong's troops was difficult, Zheng Chenggong was extremely dissatisfied with Zheng Tai's dereliction of duty. Before the meeting, he wrote five big characters: if the household fails, be convicted first! This means that if something goes wrong, Zheng Tai will be punished first. After his death, Zheng Jing, who was forged by others, carried out the ambitious but talented Zheng Jiwei. Finally, their plot was foiled by Zheng Jing, Zheng Tai died in prison, and Zheng Mingjun and others led the army to surrender to the Qing Dynasty with their relatives. According to this analysis, it is possible that Zheng Tai and others planned the murder of Zheng Chenggong.
After Zheng Chenggong's death, Zheng Jing was busy dealing with Zheng Tai's rebellion and recovered Zheng Tai's huge sum in Japan. He was almost killed by Zheng Chenggong for committing rape, so Zheng Chenggong's death was not investigated at that time. It seems that the cause of death of a generation of national heroes needs more historical discoveries to confirm.