Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Qin Shihuang changed counties and counties, and the county was transformed into a land of hundreds of miles, becoming one of the smallest administrative divisions of the ruling class.

According to this rule, if the Ming Dynasty continues, after a long time, the king will find ways to clean up the Zheng family, and Ryukyu will become a county system and completely become a territory directly under the central dynasty.

(The Qing Dynasty in history also adopted this approach to Ryukyu.)

This is the rule of China, including those in Jizhou, the same process. (Unfortunately, history was interrupted...)

Zheng Zhilong's behavior in managing Ryukyu is a method that China has always adopted.

However, Zheng Zhilong met a strong enemy-the Dutch.

Today, the Dutch build fortresses on Ryukyu Island and massacre natives and Han people in an attempt to use Ryukyu as a basis to break the Zheng family's rule over the China Sea.

Zheng Zhilong encountered the biggest external threat!

The Dutch are ready to make a move!

If it is not handled well, it may even turn the huge Zheng family into ashes!

……

I have to say, history is such a coincidence!

Zheng Zhilong has his own considerations, and from his standpoint, this cannot be called a mistake.

And Zheng Sen also has his own considerations!

According to the classification of later generations, Zheng Sen is a standard angry youth.

He regards the interests of the country as greater than the interests of the Zheng family...

……

Zheng Zhilong was furious and stood up directly and said:

"I think you are stupid because of reading!"

Zheng Zhilong stood up with a puff of sleeves:

"It's been half a year since you left. Jinjin misses you very much. Please stay at home for three months!"

Zheng Sen's expression changed drastically and he said anxiously:

"Dad, listen to me..."

Zheng Zhilong interrupted him directly:

"Jinjin already knows how to call daddy, but he doesn't remember what you look like. You are not allowed to go anywhere for these three months. Please stay with him!"

After Zheng Zhilong finished speaking, he stood up and left directly.

He wanted to use Zheng Jing to tie up his son...

In Zheng Zhilong's view, the love between father and son can always make Zheng Sen change his mind.

……

When Zheng Sen returned, everyone in the Zheng family rejoiced and had a big banquet for three days.

Although the father and son were unhappy, Zheng Zhilong was Zheng Sen's father after all.

The family dinner went on as usual.

On the evening of the second day, Zheng Zhilong received an urgent letter.

But it turned out that the Dutch attacked two of Zheng's camps on Ryukyu Island.

Zheng recruited refugees to reclaim Ryukyu, and 18 people were killed and more than 100 people were kidnapped.

Eight of the soldiers used by Zheng to maintain law and order were killed.

Two hundred of the cattle distributed by the Zheng family to the refugees were taken away, and the goods were taken away in vain.

In Zheng Zhilong's opinion, this is a great shame and humiliation!

Since the great victory at Liaoluowan in the sixth year of Chongzhen (1633), the defeated Dutch have paid annual tribute to the Zheng family to obtain the second-hand trade allowed by the Zheng family.

The Dutch pay Zheng 12 gold francs every year!

Almost equivalent to two golds - between two golds (the exact gold content of the gold franc during this period has not been found.)

At this time, the Dutch were still the world's dominant "sea coachmen". Zheng Zhilong saw that the Netherlands had surrendered and was unwilling to fight to the death with the Netherlands, so the two sides lived in peace.

Unexpectedly, the Dutch attacked the Ryukyu natives and not only enslaved the natives, but also extended their black hands to the villages under the protection of the Zheng family!

This is a bad sign!

Zheng Zhilong immediately counted the warships overnight to give the Dutch a good look.

……

Zheng Sen stayed at home for three days.

After the Zheng family's carnival was over, Zheng Sen received accurate news - his father had gone to Ryukyu.

Zheng Sen looked at the ship transfer seal in his arms and smiled.

He held the seal and took Shi Lang directly to the navy camp.

Zheng Sen changed Zheng Zhilong's words and changed Zheng Zhilong's original order to mobilize one hundred sand ships to Zheng Hongkui into mobilizing [-] war ships and one hundred sand ships...

In order to prevent his father from getting the news and returning to stop him, Zheng Sen directly set sail and headed north without all the troops!

Zheng Sen started his journey north.

……

The war in the north has ended, and Li Zicheng failed.

Time goes back to April [-]th.

Li Zicheng stopped.

The reason why he stopped is not recorded in history, but it was vaguely mentioned that Wu Sangui pretended to surrender again...

What happened to Li Zicheng at this time?

Was he waiting for follow-up troops, or was he really deceived by Wu Sangui?

……

Li Zicheng asked Niu Jinxing to stay in the capital and rushed to Shanhaiguan first, letting Liu Zongmin arrive later.

However, as soon as Li Zicheng left the capital, the city of Beijing was in chaos.

Li Zicheng's act of forcing wages made the officials who single-handedly ruined Chongzhen regret it.

Therefore, after seeing Li Zicheng leave, the gentry began to work together underground to overthrow Li Zicheng and restore the rule of the Ming Dynasty...

Daming was really good to them...

Many people still want to go back to the Ming Dynasty and continue to be "loyal" to the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the officials and gentry secretly agreed to make Prince Chongzhen the emperor on the [-]th of this month and raise the bright flag again.

In order to quell the rebellion of the gentry, Liu Zongmin killed dozens of gentry families and wrote notices about the killing of these people and posted them everywhere on the city walls.

However, Liu Zongmin's torture, instead of frightening the gentry, actually made the connection more intense!

Liu Zongmin left three days after Li Zicheng. After he left with his army...

Not only was there a fierce rebellion in Beijing, but even the northern land, which had long been calmed down, was also rebelling everywhere.

The local officials appointed by Li Zicheng were killed one by one by the local gentry.

The whole of Shandong was in rebellion. Only Zhou Zuoding, the magistrate of Xintai County, defended the city by himself and under the banner of Dashun.

(I have gathered that during this period, more than 130 Dashun officials were killed by local gentry, including military generals who stayed in the capital!

What about the ones that are not recorded?

Obviously, after Li Zicheng left, the whole country turned against him...

The list is attached at the end of the chapter. )

Li Zicheng waited for three days. After Liu Zongmin joined him, the two of them headed straight for Shanhaiguan with hundreds of generals and less than [-] soldiers.

Wu Sangui took his original headquarters and recruited a total of more than 6 people. The governor of Jiliao, Wang Yongji, the governor of Liaodong, Li Yutian, and Tang Tong, who had previously been "defeated", surrendered 12 troops. It is conservatively estimated that the number of troops is at least more than [-].

Li Zicheng divided his troops into two groups and asked Tang Tong to take a detour to attack Wu Sangui's rear. He and the other generals went straight to Shanhaiguan with less than [-] troops (part of which was given to Tang Tong).

twenty days.

Seeing Li Zicheng's menacing approach, Wu Sangui quickly wrote a letter to Dorgon again. The letter not only reiterated the ideas of "breaking the soil to reward each other" and "drawing rivers to rule", but also urged Dorgon to "hurry up" Complete the tiger brigade and go straight into the mountains and seas”!