According to "County Records of Taiwan Province Province", "When Gong was ill, it was dark on the second day of May, and the wasps made a scene. On the third day, it was even stormy, and the waves in the offshore waters of Taijiang and Anping soared into the sky. Then the lightning in Lei Zhen was like a landslide ... On the fifth day, the remainder was clear, and on the eighth day, the surname Ye died. "
Some people say that Zheng Chenggong is from Nan 'an, Fujian. Emperor Qianlong of the Ming Dynasty once gave Zhu the surname, which made him successful. Therefore, later generations also called it "the surname of the country." Zheng Chenggong's father, Zheng Zhilong, was also a businessman and thief in his early years, and finally became an official in Fujian. When Zheng Zhilong lived in Hirado in his early years, he married a local woman, Lany, and gave birth to Zheng Chenggong. Zheng Chenggong returned to China from Japan at the age of seven and began to receive Confucian education. In the first year of Shunzhi (A.D. 1644), Li Yong, Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, conferred the title of Zheng Zhilong as Nan 'anbo, a general town in Fujian, in charge of the anti-Qing military in Fujian. The following year, the brothers Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui established Zhu Weidi, the king of the Tang Dynasty, in Fuzhou, with the title of longwu, and Zheng Zhilong was posthumously named Hou Nan 'an, responsible for all military affairs in Nanming. When the Qing army marched into Fujian, Zheng Zhilong fell, and the Longwu regime also perished. When Zheng Chenggong learned that his father was going to settle down, he tried to dissuade him. Seeing his father's stubbornness, Zheng Chenggong ran to Nan 'ao Island in a rage, recruited thousands of soldiers and resolutely resisted the Qing Dynasty. The Qing dynasty sent people to seduce him several times, but Zheng Chenggong refused.
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 to seize Taiwan Province as a base for fighting against the Qing Dynasty and regaining sight. At this moment, He Tingbin, a translator in the Dutch army, rushed to Xiamen to see Zheng Chenggong and suggested that he recover Taiwan Province Province. 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 prevent Zheng Chenggong's troops from attacking Taiwan Province Province, the Dutch invaders concentrated their troops in two castles, Taiwan Province Province and Chikan, and sank them in the harbor 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.
Shortly after Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan Province Province, he died of sudden illness at the age of 38. Regarding the death of Zheng Chenggong, there is a saying that when Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan Province, he also received a vicious letter, saying that his father was reported by his domestic slave Yi Daqi, who said that there were letters between Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Chenggong, and they were up to no good. The Qing court was furious and put Zheng Zhilong's family to death. When Zheng Chenggong heard the news, he beat his chest and looked at the north and shouted, "If you listened to me, 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, "What does it have to do with the dead if people are alive and have enemies?" 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, rebelled against Li Guotai and took refuge in Myanmar. Now Wu Sangui has attacked Myanmar, and the king of Myanmar has dedicated the emperor to Wu Sangui, which is said to have 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 from Rongcun" contains: "Ma Xin recommended the doctor, and it was too late to eat coolants for heatstroke." "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" that Zheng Chenggong might have noticed that someone had murdered himself, but it was too late.
Before, the Qing government did have the idea of murdering Zheng Chenggong. According to the Foreign Records of Taiwan Province, at that time, the Qing government sent a senior officer to sneak into Zheng County 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, "every time he tried to take medicine, he trembled." When he was afraid, he told their father. His father was "shocked by the news" and angered: "Killing his father is heartless; 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? If you hurry to surrender, you may be exempted from punishment. " So I took them to Zheng Chenggong's residence to surrender. Zheng Chenggong not only didn't punish them, but also rewarded them. He said confidently, "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, it is impossible to get close (referring to Zheng Chenggong)." 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, the Qing government was seriously doubted. At the same time, some people think that it is, Zheng Mingjun, Zheng and others, especially 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. Zheng Tai and Zheng Chenggong had contradictions as early as when they led the army to attack Taiwan. 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. He wrote five big characters before the meeting: "the user loses 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.