6-19 Heroes from ancient times came out as teenagers
6-20 Zheng Zhilong
Zheng Zhilong, who took over the robes and hat of the Commander-in-Chief, behaved very calmly, with no joy or disdain on his face. It seemed that for him, the title of Commander-in-Chief of the General Military Department of Fujian Navy in the Ming Dynasty was a dispensable little thing.
Toy, not worth mentioning.
After the reward was awarded, a banquet was supposed to be held, firstly to welcome the Governor, and to celebrate the recruitment of Zheng's army, but Zheng Zhilong refused to attend the banquet because he was ill.
Watching Zheng Zhilong's men go away, a smile appeared on Xiong Wencan's face. He thought that Zheng Zhilong's daring not to attend the banquet was a sign of guilt. This new governor could actually make Zheng Zhilong, who was full of courage, so fearful.
It seems that the imperial court is really having a party this time.
Xiong Wencan has been dealing with Zheng Zhilong for more than a year or two. This is not the first time that Zheng Zhilong has been recruited by the imperial court. Several years ago, the imperial court granted the great pirate Zheng Zhilong the official title of guerrilla general, hoping that he could eliminate the barbarians and pacify the bandits.
, but Zheng Zhilong and his subordinates had long-standing habits that were hard to change. They did their own thing and did not listen to the orders of their superiors. Therefore, Xiong Wencan plotted to capture him, but failed. The two sides had a fierce battle, and the seeds of mutual distrust were sown from then on.
Zheng Zhilong was unwilling to attend the banquet, which did not dampen the mood of the generals of the Southern Expedition Fleet at all, because they were very excited about the solid feeling of setting foot on land again. At the banquet, they exchanged glasses with their Fujian colleagues and drank happily.
All this is just an appearance. In fact, the atmosphere in Quanzhou City is very tense. The officers and soldiers and Zheng Jun have maintained a high level of vigilance for fear that the other party will eat them. Even the newly arrived Southern Expeditionary Army is no exception. Wen Getao led a water force
The ghost troops were on guard near the fleet station, for fear of any emergencies. The red shirt regiment troops who landed ashore were also very alert, and their muskets were loaded with live ammunition.
After the banquet, Liu Ziguang, who was not drunk at all, returned to the house arranged for him by Xiong Wencan, lit a candle, took out Zheng Zhilong's files and started reading. There were not many words about the Zheng family in the Dongchang archives, and they were inconsistent.
The words are unclear. What Liu Ziguang is holding now is the file provided by the Fujian official. Xiong Wencan is a capable person. He has worked hard on the research of his old rival Zheng Zhilong and is extremely meticulous.
Liu Ziguang picked up a Zhonghua cigarette, lit it with the flame of the candle, and immersed himself in the legendary story of a hero in troubled times...
In the 32nd year of Wanli, Zheng Zhilong was born in a small official family in Shijing, Nan'an. His original name was Yiguan, with the courtesy name Feihuang, and later changed to Zhilong. Later, he also had a Japanese name, Hirado Laoyiguan, and a Dutch name, Nicholas.
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Shijing is a fishing village in southern Fujian. Zheng Yiguan was "less downtrodden" and studied maritime affairs since he was a child. His parents and fellow villagers said that he had a "dissolute temperament, did not like reading, had physical strength, and was good at boxing and sticks."
When Zheng Yiguan was seventeen years old, due to the difficulty of his family's livelihood, he and his younger brothers Zhihu and Zhibao went to Xiangshan Ao, Guangdong, one of the centers of Sino-foreign trade at that time, to follow his uncle Huang Cheng. Huang Cheng was a maritime businessman engaged in overseas trade in Macau.
He left Zheng Yiguan as his assistant to assist in business. Zheng Yiguan used his wisdom and talents in business competition and interest competition, learned to do business, visited Badawi, and learned Lusitan and Portuguese.
During his dealings with the Portuguese, he was influenced by them and received Catholic baptism. He took the Christian name of Jasper and his other name of Nicholas. Foreigners called him Nicholas.
Huang Cheng was engaged in business and trading in the East. Seeing that Zheng Yiguan was capable, he condemned the ship of the Japanese Hirado overseas Chinese Li Dan (from Quanzhou) and escorted a batch of sugar, nan, musk, deerskin and other goods from Xiangshan. He went overseas, went to Japan, and settled in Nagasaki. He was unfamiliar with the people and the land, so he started to make a living by selling shoes, or sewing for others to make ends meet. Later he turned to business, selling sugar, chinensis, musk, etc. to his uncle Huang Cheng. Things. Zheng Yiguan was engaged in commercial activities and foreign trade, and later became a subordinate of Li Dan, helping Li Dan in business. He became a subordinate of Li Dan, the most powerful maritime merchant at that time, and "served it as his father". Li Dan had strong capital. , owns a fleet, specializes in overseas trade, and is the leader of the local overseas Chinese. Li Dan felt that Yiguan was capable and reliable, so he "adopted him as his adopted son" and gave him some assets and ships to do business in Vietnam and make huge profits. In a few years, Zheng Yiguan became a wealthy businessman. He often traveled between China and Japan and was highly regarded by overseas Chinese living in Japan.
Zheng Yiguan was also enthusiastic about learning swordsmanship and got to know "a man named Weng, a metallurgist in Quanzhou" who started his career by "forging swords for the Lord of the city".
In his capacity as a leader of overseas Chinese, Zheng Yiguan paid an audience to the Japanese shogunate General Tokugawa Ieyasu to present medicines to Sunfu. Ieyasu personally inquired about China affairs and was overjoyed. He ordered him to entertain him at the Nagasaki Hotel and gave him generous gifts. Zheng Yiguan was summoned by the shogunate. The Japanese regarded him as a glorious and prominent figure, and he was often visited by local dignitaries, so he was called an "old official".
Hirado Island was the center of Japan's foreign trade at that time, with merchant ships from all over the world gathered. Because Zheng Yiguan was familiar with overseas affairs and good at diplomacy, he was valued by the Japanese government. After his initial summons, he "visited the feudal lord's home many times". Later, he moved to Hirado, Hizen Province, and was favored by Matsuura Hou Youyu, Marquis Matsuura granted him land to build a new house in Senrihama, Kawachiura, Hirado, near Nagasaki, and introduced the marriage of Tagawa Matsu, the daughter of Hirado Marquis' retainer, Emperor Tagawa Yu.
Tagawa Yuhuang, also known as Emperor Wengyu, is an expatriate from China who moved to Hirado, and is known as the Tagawa clan in Japan. Tagawamatsu is a Japanese and is the adopted daughter of Emperor Wengyu, so he is also called the Weng clan. The Tagawa clan is seventeen years old and has a good nature. In the year following their marriage, on the 14th day of the seventh lunar month in the Jiazi ancient calendar, the Tagawa family went on a trip to Qianli Beach to collect shells. When she was about to give birth, she did not return home in time, so she gave birth to her eldest son, Zheng Sen, against the boulder on the beach.
Zheng Yiguan did not watch his wife and children live a peaceful life in Japan. He was assigned by his adoptive father Li Dan to work as a general agent for the Spanish. He was mainly responsible for contacting the Ming pirates, jointly dealing with the imperial navy, and plundering merchant ships.
Zheng Yiguan was not used to working under the arrogant Spanish nobles. Finally, one day he started his first rebellion. He led seven or eight brothers to do a big deal and sold out the Spanish flight schedule. It was given to Spain's mortal enemy, the Dutch, and since then it has sided with the Dutch, a rising star in the sea.
Zheng Yiguan formed a loose alliance with the Dutch and the English to jointly fight against the Spanish. He also worked as a maritime merchant and pirate, monopolizing the trade from Fujian and Guangdong to the Song Dynasty and the Japanese country, and made a lot of money for a while.
Two months later, Li Dan, the leader of the Japanese overseas community in Nagasaki and Hirado, passed away in Hirado. After Li Dan's death, his property and career were all owned by Zheng Yiguan, who suddenly received a large amount of wealth and helpers. The official's self-confidence was so high that he actually contacted a group of heroes with the intention of overthrowing the Tokugawa shogunate!
This group of Hokkien people who were engaged in overseas adventures were reported before they could officially take action. Zheng Yiguan led his people in panic and fled in 13 ships. They sailed to Zhouzaiwei, an outer island on the west coast of Jiuzhou, and his subordinate Chen Zhongji suggested: "I heard that Taiwan is a deserted island on the sea. It controls the southeast, and the land is fertile and can be dominated. Now we should take the land first, and then invade the four directions. Then Fuyu's career can be achieved."
Zheng Yiguan was convinced of this and led his team to Taiwan to cut down trees and open up land to build settlements. At the same time, he sent people to lead a fleet to Zhangquan's hometown to recruit immigrants, totaling more than 3,000 people. The settlers were divided into ten villages.
They provided silver, cattle, farm tools, etc. to start Taiwan's earliest large-scale reclamation activities. At the same time, they organized sea fishing and island hunting to develop the mountain and sea economy to meet the material needs of immigrants' production and life.
After Zheng Yiguan established his own company, he recruited Zheng Xing, Zheng Ming, Yang Geng, Chen Hui, Zheng Cai and other generals from Fujian. He had staff officers, military commanders, transportation supervisors, left and right counselors, etc., who acted as unified commanders for all the people in the village.
He established the local ruling regime of the Zheng family that has begun to take shape. He divided his subordinates into eighteen vanguards and formed the "Eighteen Zhi".
From then on, it was renamed "Zhilong" instead of "Yiguan". Zheng Zhilong continued to expand its great undertakings, and its power continued to grow, becoming the largest armed group on the sea at that time. "Everything in our mainland is clear to the chest. As time goes by,
To attract, lure with money, gather hundreds of boats, gather tens of thousands of followers... treat the virtuous and respect the scholars, rob the rich and give to the poor, do not reject those who come, and do not pursue those who leave."
At this time, a severe drought occurred in Fujian across the sea. The fields were covered with red soil, and even the grass roots and bark of many villages were eaten away. Zheng Zhilong took advantage of this opportunity and led his fleet to attack Fujian and various parts of Guangdong. Across the southeast sea, his momentum was invincible, and the officers and soldiers were exhausted.
, nothing could be done. During the attack, Zheng Zhilong and others also recruited tens of thousands of hungry people from Quanzhou to go to Taiwan to cultivate land. The hungry people and unemployed people on the coast competed to seek refuge. In this battle, Zheng Zhilong defeated the officers and soldiers, making Xiamen the Zheng family's territory and power.
It is getting stronger and stronger, and the officers and soldiers are invincible.
The Ming Dynasty officially retreated from the sea, and merchants and pirates became the rulers of the sea. Zheng Zhilong's increasing maritime power aroused fear in the court, and sent troops to pursue him many times, but all failed. The court was unable to destroy Zheng Zhilong, and in order to take advantage of this
A maritime force competed with the Western barbarians and suppressed other "pirates", so they had no choice but to appease Zheng Zhilong.
Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, promised Zheng Chenggong the title of Five Tiger Guerrilla General. From then on, Zheng Zhilong had a legal official status and left Taiwan, the maritime trade base where he had been operating for many years, to take up residence in the Fujian Sea. At this time, Zheng Zhilong had more than 30,000 troops.
There were more than a thousand ships. Southern Fujian was hit by a severe drought that year, and many people were hungry. Zheng Zhilong once again recruited tens of thousands of people affected by the Zhangquan disaster. "Everyone was given three taels of silver, and three people were given an ox." They were shipped to Taiwan to reclaim wasteland.
The settlement further increased Taiwan's strength.
Zheng Zhilong, who became the official army of the Ming Dynasty, exterminated the heroes, legally controlled the East-West trade, and moved a large number of people to his private territory of Taiwan. This aroused the uneasiness of the governor Xiong Wencan, who was afraid that he had recruited a rebel with the world in mind, so he designed
Capture and kill Zheng Zhilong, but how could such a small trick deal with Zheng Zhilong, who was used to big winds and waves? After a bloody battle, Zheng Jun drove the imperial forces out of the Xiamen area and headed north with the intention of occupying the whole of Fujian. However, the pirates
Without the warships, their combat effectiveness declined, and they ended up in a draw with the Fujian army. From then on, the imperial court and the Zheng family fell into a tug-of-war that lasted for several years.
After the Zheng family cleared the obstacles at sea, "from now on, the sea atmosphere calmed down, and foreign goods were sold and sold. Domestic and foreign merchants all used the Zheng family's flag. There was no warning and no danger. The merchants had twenty times the profit. Zhilong used the sea to facilitate transportation to the court.
He made great use of Xiamen's navigation and business base to break the official sea ban and prosper the sea market. His armed fleet had a clear flag and strong armor, and sailed along the coast of Ming Dynasty, Taiwan, Macau and Japan, and traveled to Song Dynasty and other Southeast Asia.
Each region made full use of its own power and financial resources to expand maritime trade, almost monopolizing the trade between China and overseas countries. No ships could travel without the flag of the Zheng family. Each ship was paid three thousand gold, and the annual income was tens of millions.
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He also had his own merchant fleet, with hundreds of giant cargo ships loaded with silk, porcelain, ironware and other goods, sailing to Siam, Champa, Cochin, Sriwijaya, the Philippines, Chileuba, Malacca and other countries for trade.
, in exchange for sumac, pepper, ivory, rhinoceros horn, etc. In just a few years, it became the richest trading house in Southeast Asia.
Such huge profits naturally aroused the envy of others. Spain, the Netherlands, England and other countries, which were originally at war, unanimously targeted the Zheng family, which was a big and popular family. It was difficult for them to defeat four people with just two fists, and even a good man could not stand up to a pack of wolves.
Under the attack of several maritime powers, the Zheng family army retreated steadily and gradually lost control of the main island of Taiwan and Penghu. The maritime advantage was broken and more than half of the fleet was lost. Now it can only wander around the offshore. If it were not so, the proud Zheng Zhilong would not
Will he agree to the harsh request of the imperial court and become a small general soldier?
After reading these legendary experiences, Liu Ziguang sighed. This person's life was so exciting. He was even more impressive than the protagonists who traveled through history. Even Liu Ziguang felt a little ashamed of himself.
I never believe that such a person would be willing to surrender to anyone, Liu Ziguang said to himself.