Chapter 6 Qing Unification Section 1 Shi Lang appears

In 1644, the 6-year-old Shunzhi entered the customs and could not wait to sacrifice to the heavens and the earth, and it was he who represented the Qing Dynasty to comply with the Mandate of Heaven to inherit the unification and unify China. But in fact, this is only a political declaration and slogan, until the capture of Taiwan in 1684, it was the real sense of the completion of reunification, becoming the lord of China.

Section 1 Shi Lang appears

To solve the Taiwan issue, the Qing Dynasty needs a water army and a general who commands the army. A thousand armies are easy to get and difficult to find, and this general was born in the Ming Zheng clique - Shi Lang.

Shi Lang was reversed

As mentioned earlier, after Shi Lang followed Zheng Zhilong to qing, he was unhappy in the Qing camp and was forced to turn to Zheng Chenggong again. After defecting to Zheng, Shi Lang's main job was to help Zheng expand his territory, collect grain and recruit troops, and adopt the strategy of suppressing and suppressing surrenders, cracking down on some disobedient township regiments and armed forces, so that they could hand over grain and send troops.

To interject, these township regiments are also very sad and urgent, in the Qing and Ming tug-of-war zone, today's surname is Ming, tomorrow's surname is Qing, the day after tomorrow's surname is Ming, so repeatedly, only know the chaos under the world, do not know whose world it is. As a result, these township regiments and armed supporters divided their territory to protect themselves, neither paying taxes and grain to the officials of the Qing Dynasty, nor obeying Zheng Chenggong's orders. Being beaten by the Qing court and beaten by Ming Zheng should be said to be a bit unjust.

In this chaotic world, where disasters are raging everywhere, who is not wronged!

Zheng Chenggong advocates "chaotic use of heavy classics". Heavy taxes were levied on every land occupied, and the rebels were "slaughtered as many men and women as possible", without regard for the feelings of the people. The heart is full of the way of the sages of the kings and subjects, the great affairs of the world, the great cause of resisting the Qing, giving up one's family and giving up one's own business to serve the country, and the people making a little sacrifice is nothing.

Being a saint yourself requires others to be a saint as well, and the result is often to lose some of the people's hearts.

Shi Lang was very resistant to Zheng Chenggong's practice of collecting taxes and killings, and repeatedly suggested a slightly softer approach, which caused Zheng's dissatisfaction.

At this time, Shi Lang, who was bent on making progress, always wanted to express himself, and was arrogant and arrogant, always thinking that he was very capable, so he was at odds with some of the generals under Zheng Chenggong. Saying that Shi Lang is capable does have some skills, other generals are mostly avoiding Shi Lang, only Chen Bin dares to fight with Shi Lang, and also says: One hand can defeat Shi Lang. At the end of 1650, Chen Bin suddenly led his troops away from Zheng Chenggong, and at the same time wrote to Zheng Chenggong to complain to Zheng Chenggong: He was forced away by Shi Lang.

In fact, Zheng Chenggong already knew that Shi and Chen were competing. Shi Lang managed Zuo Xianfeng Town and Chen Bin managed Houjin Town, both of which were brave generals. Zheng Chenggong did not reconcile the contradictions between the two, a bit of laissez-faire meaning, may be trying to engage in mutual containment, the result is that Zheng Chenggong's skills are limited, the balance technique is not used well, Chen Bin ran first. Of course, Zheng Chenggong would not record this account on his own head, but on Shi Lang's head.

In February 1651, the Southern Ming Yongli regime was surrounded and suppressed by the Qing army, and it was in danger, and Zheng Chenggong was ordered to serve the king.

According to the war situation at that time, Zheng Chenggong could not quench his thirst in the near water, and his own strength, especially the strength of infantry and cavalry, was also limited, and from the perspective of realism, he should not go to Qinwang. Shi Langjin advised Zheng to successfully abandon King Qin. Zheng insisted on going to the rescue on the grounds that he was favored by the emperor, although the moth put out the fire.

From Shi Lang's advice, Zheng smelled that Shi Lang was not a loyal person, coupled with his previous dissatisfaction with Shi Lang, so he used the topic to play and let Shi Lang hand over his military power to stay in the camp, and Zheng led a large army to continue to serve the king.

Just when Zheng Chenggong was leading his troops to the West Qin King, Zhang Xuesheng, the Inspector of Fujian in the Qing Dynasty, and the General Soldier of the Right Road took the opportunity to attack Xiamen. Zheng Zhiguan, who was in charge of the defense of Xiamen, did not dare to face the battle when he heard the news, and fled to the sea with gold and silver treasures without permission, and the Qing army quickly occupied Xiamen.

4 days after the fall of Xiamen, Zheng Hongkui led some of his men and horses to counterattack, and Shi Lang heard that he also led his own troops to participate, killing Ma Degong and shrinking in Xiamen City did not dare to meet the battle, so he had to send someone to ask for help. As a result, Zhang Xuesheng sent Feng Junrui, a staff general from Zhangzhou, to lead 600 troops to the rescue, but was blocked by Zheng Jun. In desperation, Ma Degong remembered that after Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing court, his family lived in Anping and was under the control of the Qing court, so he sent someone to intercede with Zheng Zhilong's mother, asking her to write a letter to Zheng Hongkui and release the Qing army back to the mainland.

After Receiving the letter, Zheng Hongkui, hindered by his mother's life, may also not want to make relations with the Qing court too stiff, returned the 8 ships captured by the Qing soldiers, and also sent 30 other ships to send Ma Degong and his troops back to the mainland.

When Zheng Hongkui and Shi Lang recaptured Xiamen, Zheng Chenggong led his troops to rush back in a hurry, and when they arrived, they found that his father had accumulated a huge wealth as a pirate and had been looted, and the Qing army was also driven away, leaving only the lonely city of Xiamen.

Zheng Chenggong sighed, "The boat provided by Zheng Zhibao, who came to Xia, retreated but relied on Zheng Hongkui to send it away, and it was Zheng Zhiguan who sent Xiamen to Qingbing. ”

After returning to Xia, Zheng Hongkui invited Zheng Chenggong into the city to discuss important matters, but Zheng Chenggong refused, replying: "You are good with the Qing court, please let me enter the city without good intentions, you do not kill the Qing soldiers, we will not meet."

Zheng Hongkui heard: "I let the horse go because my brother Zheng Zhilong was in the Qing court, and the letter of his mother, you actually doubted me, which makes people sigh."

After Zheng Hongkui was disappointed, he left the Kinmen garrison and handed over the army to Zheng Chenggong, focusing on business himself and no longer caring about political affairs.

After dealing with Zheng Hongkui's affairs, Zheng Chenggong once again pursued the merits and punished, killed Zheng Zhiguan who abandoned the city, and rewarded LangHua with 200 silver red stripes...

Shi Lang shied away on the grounds that he had not been able to capture the horse, which actually implied that Zheng Chenggong should restore him to his position as a left pioneer, but Zheng Chenggong deliberately knocked Shi Lang not to give Shi Lang the command of the army, and Shi Lang, who wanted to make meritorious achievements, had a great deal of resentment.

Shi Lang was in charge of the left forward town, his brother Shi Xian was in charge of the left town, Ming Zheng was in charge of the five towns, the Shi Lang brothers controlled the two towns, usually the Shi family brothers were very stubborn, Zheng Chenggong was worried that the Shi Lang brothers were too powerful, and it was expected that they intended to suppress them.

Therefore, Shi Lang proposed to others to cut his home, but in fact he was blackmailing Zheng Chenggong. Zheng Chenggong did not eat this set, and strictly decreed: "Shi Lang is not allowed to cut his home, and then hand it over to Shi Lang after the reorganization of Forward Town."

You must know that Shi Lang is a very radical person, where he can wait for so long, he does not Zheng Chenggong's hand, cut his own hair, and does not obey Zheng's orders, indicating that the hard bar is in the end, and Zheng Chenggong has a great hatred in his heart.

Once there was a gap between the two, a fuse index exploded. The fuse was Zengde. Zeng De was a subordinate of Zheng Cai, who was later incorporated into Shi Lang's command and belonged to the elder rank of ming zheng's army. This person saw that Shi Lang had lost his position, left without authorization, and switched to Zheng Chenggong's account.

When Shi Lang found out, he was furious and sent someone to arrest ZengDe.

Zheng Chenggong heard the news and issued an order: "Do not kill."

Shi Lang ignored it and said, "I don't dare to violate the laws of the land, and if the lord of the clan wants to violate the law for personal gain, the country will be chaotic," so he beheaded Zeng De.

Shi Lang was obviously "resisting the will and not obeying the will", and Zheng Chenggong concluded that Shi Lang already had a backbone, but in view of the fact that Shi Lang and his brother Shi Xian were also in charge of the army, Zheng did not dare to take the initiative and pretended to send someone to tell Shi Xian to relay to Shi Lang: "I don't care."

Obviously telling not to calculate is actually very calculating. Zheng found the right moment, ordered the soldiers and towns not to move, and asked the general to discuss the major matters in the former battalion, and the troops were handed over to the deputy commanders for dispatch. Shi Xian, unaware of the plan, gladly went there, and was captured on the spot, and Zheng ordered someone to arrest Shi Lang and his family.

At this point, the Shi brothers and their families were swept away by Zheng Chenggong.

After Shi Lang was arrested and imprisoned, Zheng Chenggong did not punish him immediately, and may feel that the matter needed to be studied repeatedly, and such a gap gave Shi Lang the opportunity to seek a way to survive.

Shi Lang was in custody, and in prison, he was still relatively well informed, and his father sent a message: "The limit is coming, there is no point in father and son dying together, you and your brother can escape for your lives and run for your lives."

Shi Lang was shocked, and after thinking about it, he laughed, and the detainees did not know whether it was a plan and asked: Why are you laughing?

Shi Lang replied: The lord of the clan wants me to pay two thousand gold to atone for my sins, I have more than a thousand, and it is enough to borrow a few hundred.

Shi Lang threatened to borrow silver, and the guards did not suspect it, so they accompanied them to collect silver. Halfway through, Shi Lang took the opportunity to escape and ran into the mountain forest, and Zheng Chenggong heard the news and ordered a martial law search throughout Xiamen.

At this time, Shi Lang ran away, but he suffered from the guards guarding him, most likely moving his head.

After Shi Lang escaped, he hid in the mountains and forests, eating and sleeping in the wind, feeling that it was not a way to go on for a long time, and he did not want to be "Taishan". So he took advantage of the night to go down the mountain and find his subordinate Su Mao.

Su Mao was the deputy pioneer, Shi Langzheng pioneer, Su Mao did not report it, but hid it in his bedroom. It shows that on the one hand, Su Mao is serious about love and righteousness, on the other hand, it also shows that Shi Lang has formed a small group, and Zheng Chenggong cannot absolutely control the troops.

The next day, Su Mao prepared a banquet and summoned Shi Lang's old general Zheng Wenxing and others to come to the party, Su Mao deliberately tested the generals, and during the banquet, the blame department would hunt down Shi Lang for not being effective, and everyone's face changed slightly, and they all resigned and left.

On the next day, Su Mao prepared wine again, and blamed the old general, Lin Zhao and others threw away the chopsticks: You are Shi Lang's confidant, you are so treacherous, what face do you have?

Su Mao was overjoyed, and it seemed that everyone had no intention of betraying Shi Lang, so he told everyone the news that Shi Lang was in his home.

Shi Lang took the opportunity to come out of the bedroom, greeted the generals, and planned to secretly send Shi Lang away from Xiamen in a small boat and go to Anping to join Zheng Zhibao.

After Zheng Zhibao followed Zheng Zhilong to the Qing court, he had been exchanging letters with Zheng Chenggong. Shi Lang defected to Zheng Zhibao just to beg Zheng Zhibao to mediate in the middle, and Zheng Chenggong iced the previous suspicions, returned to the team himself, and Zheng Successfully released his family.

Zheng Chenggong was originally very dissatisfied with the division of the Zheng clan, and on the one hand, his heart was toward the Qing court, and on the other hand, his heart was toward the Ming Chamber, which in itself made Zheng Chenggong lead the troops to have moral trouble.

Logically, fornicating with the Qing court can be blamed, but your Relatives of Zheng Chenggong are having an affair, and everyone is watching Zheng Chenggong, who is bent on opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty.

It can be seen from this that Shi Lang's plan to ask Zheng Zhiguan to mediate will inevitably fail. During the mediation period, Zheng Chenggong sent people to An parallel to stab Shi Lang unsuccessfully, folding his face, but provoking Zheng Zhiguan's protection of Shi Lang.

Zheng successfully assassinated, and was unwilling to accept mediation, so angry, annoyed and ashamed, angrily killed his brother Shi Xian and his father Shi Daxuan.

Shi Lang bore the revenge of killing his father and brother, and could never return to Zhengying. The 31-year-old Shi Lang completely fell to the Qing court and was willing to drive.

Shi Lang joined Ming Zheng at the age of 17, decided to leave at the age of 31, from the regimental commander to the independent first army, from the Shi family brothers in Ming Zheng Yaowu to the old father, brothers were killed, life is like a roller coaster, have to make people feel that the world is uncertain.

Single-mindedly seeking revenge

After Shi Lang surrendered to Qing, he was arranged to garrison Tong'an, and he was fiercely eager for the Qing court to send troops to Xiamen, and he could charge into the battlefield, with the hatred in his heart.

Bad luck. At this time, the anti-Qing forces in the southwest region, under the leadership of Li Dingguo and others, echoed with the Zheng army, constantly defeated the Qing army, and won some victories in a series of battles. In order to break this two-front battle situation, the Qing court decided to mainly attack the anti-Qing forces in the southwest, after all, there was the emperor "walking the heavenly son" Zhu Youluo. The Qing court has always regarded itself as the successor of the Ming Dynasty, how can it tolerate the Ming Dynasty and the Son of Heaven, as the saying goes, "How can Lao Tzu inherit the family property if he does not die"

Take a comfortable measure against Zheng Chenggong Group. The overall strategy of the Qing court was: first concentrate on suppressing the southwest, temporarily pacify the southeast, if Zheng surrendered, if he did not surrender to defeat the southwest, and then turn around and clean up Zheng Chenggong.

The Qing court's wishful thinking was clanging, and Zheng Chenggong would also take the opportunity to breathe a sigh of relief, but Shi Lang's plan to take revenge by borrowing the power of the Qing soldiers was temporarily frustrated.

At this time, Shi Lang had to accept the edict of the imperial court and follow the army into Guangdong to attack Li Dingguo's army. Shi Lang followed Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, in a fierce siege of Chaozhou, and Li Ding's general Hao Shangjiu could not bear to rush to Zheng Chenggong for help, and Zheng dispatched troops to help.

After the reinforcements arrived, Hao Shangjiu, because he had a festival with Zheng before, was worried that Zheng had successfully robbed his city, and he was "leading the tiger to drive away the wolf" and did not let the reinforcements enter the city. Helplessly, the reinforcements had to retreat. Under the fierce attack of the Qing soldiers, chaozhou city was destroyed, and Hao Shangjiu was cornered and fell into the well and died.

I have to say that teammates who are not afraid of god are afraid of teammates like pigs.

After the Qing army attacked Chaozhou, Shi Lang continued to attack Liangguang with a large army, and although Shi Lang had positive performances, he had no right to decide in front of the Eight Banners and other iron-hoofed forces, and after all, he was not so dazzling. After the end of the war between the two cantons, Shi Lang was dismissed from his post and lived idly in Quanzhou.

A year later, Shi Lang was reinstated by Huang Wubaoju, who was also a descendant of the Qing Dynasty, and was appointed as the deputy envoy of Tong'an, serving under Ji Du and Li Litai.

In 1657, the Qing army attacked the town of Min'an and Luoxing, the gateway to Fuzhou, and Shi Lang was appointed as the vanguard, first attacking the town of Min'an and then trapping the town of Luoxing.

Zheng Jun's defender at Luoxing Town was Chen Bin, who was at odds with Shi Lang while zheng was in camp. However, in order to capture the town of Luoxing before the reinforcements arrived, Shi Langxiushu Chen Bin explained the interests and disadvantages, not to kill and surrender, and to give preferential treatment to prisoners and other lenient policies.

Chen Bin surrendered after 4 days of being trapped and did not see reinforcements. After the surrender, Shi Lang advised Li Litai to kill the general. Chen Bin and more than 500 other people were all beheaded.

It can be said that at this time, Shi Lang was completely filled with hatred and wanted to avenge Zheng Chenggong's demonstration.

After this battle, Shi Lang was promoted from deputy envoy of Tong'an to deputy general of Tong'an, led the garrison, and successfully succeeded in tong'an's highest military commander. At this time, Shi Lang and Zheng Chenggong had the opportunity to directly confront each other, but Zheng Did not take it as the main opponent and directly targeted the Northern Expedition to Nanjing.

Ignored, Shi Lang did not idle, using his influence in the Past in the Zheng Army, taking the way of appearing and surrendering some of the Zheng Army soldiers.

In July 1659, Zheng Chengcheng's Northern Expedition was newly defeated, and the Qing court wanted to defeat the Zheng clan in one fell swoop and eliminate it.

In October 1659, the governor of Fujian, Li Litai, personally visited the coast to survey the terrain, accompanied by Huang Wu and Shi Lang.

In March 1660, the Ningnan general Dasu led his troops to Quanzhou and mobilized all kinds of men and horses to prepare to capture Xiamen.

In May 1660, the Qing army launched a large-scale attack, resulting in a major defeat, and finally recognized the reality that qing was good at land warfare and Zheng Xi was accustomed to water warfare.

After the defeat of this battle, the main general was not Shi Lang, there was no negligence, he was not held accountable, but he was blessed by misfortune and was promoted to the general of Tong'an.

In 1662, the Qing court learned the lessons of the ineffective naval battle and decided to form a water division, which was recommended by the university Shi Sunahai and approved by Ao Bai, and Shi Lang was smoothly appointed as the admiral of the Fujian water division.

On June 23, 1662, Zheng died of illness after successfully recovering Taiwan, and a chaotic transfer of power occurred within the Zheng clique.

In June 1663, Shi Lang's attack on Xiamen was approved by the imperial court.

On July 3, Geng Jimao, Li Litai, and others discussed the issue of coordinated operations among various units in Quanzhou, and agreed to attack together on August 18. The scene of the large-scale mobilization of the Qing army was reconnoitred by the Zheng army and began to deploy defense. The Qing court's strategy of wanting a surprise attack failed, and it had to adjust the date of the battle. During this period, Shi Lang supervised the construction of warships while collecting intelligence and actively preparing for war.

On October 20, Ma De led more than 400 Quanzhou warships, together with 7 Dutch splint ships, and directly attacked Xiamen, hoping to come out on top. As a result, after encountering a fierce blow from Zheng Jun, Ma Degong was surrounded by jumping into the sea and died.

At this time, Shi Lang and Huang Wu, much smarter than Ma Degong, used their influence in the Zheng army to secretly collude with Chen Sheng, the defender of Xiamen Gaoqi. Shi Lang attacked the Zheng general Huang Tinghai, but Chen Sheng did not support him, resulting in Huang Ting's defeat. Shi Lang seized the opportunity to attack Xiamen. This triggered a chain reaction, Zheng Jun was defeated in Xiamen, and Zheng Jing, Zhou Quanbin and others had to retreat to the Golden Gate.

On the 21st, Shi Lang led Qing troops to seize Xiamen. On the 24th, Shi Lang teamed up with the Dutch splint and attacked the Golden Gate. Zheng's army was defeated and unable to resist, and on October 24, it captured Kinmen.

This was also the first time that the Chinese army (the Qing court) and the Western army (the Netherlands) fought jointly and won victory.

After the victory, Shi Lang pretended to resign his official position on the grounds that his mother was old, and returned to his hometown to support his elderly mother. The imperial court naturally understood Shi Lang's intentions, but the superficial article should be enough, and the two words were not allowed.

On July 18, 1664, Shi Lang was promoted from the admiral of the Fujian Water Division to the position of Right Governor and General of Jinghai, and he had the right to attack Taiwan. At the same time, zhou quanbin, Yang Fu, Lin Shun, and other generals who were formerly demoted to the Qing dynasty after Zheng Jun were transferred to Shi Lang's control.

It should be known that a big reason why the Qing court was able to sit in the country was to use the enemy's people to fight the enemy, such as Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong, and other original Ming generals who surrendered to the Qing and became the main force in the war against the Ming. The Qing court used Shi Lang, Zhou Quanbin and other generals to deal with Ming Zheng, which was simply concocted.

After being promoted and granted the right to monopolize Taiwan, Shi Lang was greatly pleased and actively reorganized his armaments.

In November, Shi Lang led his army from Xiamen to march east to Taiwan, but suddenly the hurricane broke out, unable to sail, and returned to the garrison. Shi Lang reported the situation to the imperial court for understanding.

Fast forward to 1665, the imperial court only saw Shi Lang's armament and war flowers and silver, but did not see the actual results, the people in power in the imperial court (Ao Bai, etc.) were anxious, and the deadline was called Shi Lang to march east to Taiwan, completely completing the great cause of reunification.

In March, under the hope of the imperial court, Shi Lang again led the sailors to set off, but as a result, he encountered strong winds and waves just after leaving the port, so he had to return to the port to wait. It was not until April 17, when the sky finally cleared, that Shi Lang went to sea again, and as a result, there was a strong wind, and Shi Lang's ship was blown into the Chaozhou sea and the wind and waves became smaller. On the 26th, he returned to Xiamen.

The two defeats caused an uproar in the Qing court, although Shi Lang's defense was difficult to dispel. At this time, the imperial court was divided over whether to fight or let Taiwan go (after all, the Qing court wanted to settle in the Central Plains instead of Taiwan), and the meeting of the deliberators and kings did not have a clear result for half a day.

In the first month of 1668, the imperial court summoned Shi Lang to Beijing to discuss in person on the grounds that crossing the sea to conquer Taiwan was a major matter. After Shi Lang arrived in the capital, he spoke a serious Southern Fujian dialect and was ridiculed when he debated with the ministers. Hey, on the importance of speaking Mandarin (Mandarin)!

As a result, those who advocated appeasement gained the upper hand, the Fujian Marine Division was dismissed, and the surrendered Ming Zheng officers and soldiers were transferred to inland provinces other than Fujian to reclaim the land.

The transformation of the capital

The Fujian Marine Division was dismissed, and Shi Lang also lost his job, had no battle to fight, and remained in the capital as a minister of the interior. I can't help but scream at the sky, not knowing when I can take revenge.

It can be said that Shi Lang actively advocated the use of force against the Zheng clan, largely because of the revenge, but also to make meritorious contributions. Contrary to his wishes, after the plan failed, but in the time of idleness in the capital, in the time of not being able to ask for it, Shi Lang's temperament was smoothed out, and when he went out of the mountains to conquer Taiwan, he was no longer the Shi Lang who was bent on revenge and was eager for success.

Shi Lang's life in the capital was politically unstable and economically difficult. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the officials' salaries were not high, and there were many ugly incomes to support daily expenses. The officials of the capital waited for the local officials to send them "charcoal respect", "ice respect" or "other respect" to increase their income, and at this time, Shi Lang was serving as the minister of the interior in the capital, from Yipin, assisting the minister of the guard to take charge of the command of the guards and the army, although it seems to be a prominent status, but it is equivalent to the bodyguard has no real power, and the local official naturally will not send anything.

Shi Lang was so poor: the clothes were simple, and his wife Zhang Shi also had to do some needlework to subsidize the family.

In such an embarrassing situation, how could Shi Lang save himself? That is to find a gap to vent bitterness, this gap is to continue to pay attention to the situation in Taiwan, through the exchange of letters to relatives and old generals in Fujian's hometown to collect Zheng Jun's changes, in the mind to plan the platform strategy.

In the eyes of outsiders, this is undoubtedly Shi Lang's personal obscenity, but Shi Lang also gets what he wants. Otherwise, in the case of political unambitiousness and economic embarrassment, it is not depressed to death.

In addition to paying attention to and collecting intelligence on Taiwan, Shi Lang also had many contacts with Fujian officials in Beijing. After all, before entering Beijing for the first time, when the imperial court debated, Shi Lang suffered a loss in the southern Fujian dialect. Walking around with Fujian officials and speaking Fujian dialect together, it is still relatively cordial.

Among the people who visited, the person who supported Shi Lang the most was Li Guangdi. Li Guangdi, a native of Anxi, Fujian Province, was a member of the Cabinet University at the time, and often had the opportunity to get close to the Kangxi Emperor and participate in decision-making. Shi Lang deliberately showed his talents in front of Li Guangdi.

One day, Shi Lang and Li Guangdi had a very pleasant conversation and reviewed the case of Zheng Chenggong's Northern Expedition to Nanjing.

Li Guang said: Zheng should not besiege Nanjing, but should threaten Shandong from Jianghuai, that is, to threaten the capital.

Shi Lang retorted: Then the Zheng army would lose even more miserably, even if they reached the Beijing Division unimpeded, but to use the water division to fight the elite of the imperial army was to find death.

Shi Lang thought: The Zheng army should not besiege Nanjing, but should take Xiangfan directly along the Yangtze River, echoing the anti-Qing forces in Yunnan and Guangdong, and connecting the anti-Qing forces south of the Yangtze River.

Li Guangdi thought it was.

Shi Lang explained: Zheng Jun's strengths are in the water division, and should not abandon the strengths to change the water division to the land division to attack the jiancheng city of Nanjing.

In this way, day after day of exchanges, Shi Lang entered Li Guangdi's magic eye, laying the foundation for Li Tingshi in the future.

While getting close to Li Guangdi and others, Shi Lang also deliberately got to know Wu Qijue, who was on an errand with him and was deeply trusted by Kangxi.

At the same time as making friends with the ministers, Shi Lang knew that he did not read much, and used his leisure time to read, mainly history books. Reading can enlighten wisdom, can be reasonable, can aspire, and can cultivate morality. Especially when reading Wu Zixu's biography, Shi Lang had more personal feelings.

Wu Zixu's father, Wu Hao, was the Prince of Chuping, and was killed by King Chuping along with his eldest son Wu Shang because he was slandered by Fei Wuji. Wu Zixu fled from the State of Chu to the State of Wu and became a vassal of the King of Wu, serving the State of Wu.

In 506 BC, Wu Zixu and Sun Wu led troops to attack the capital of Chu, and Wu Zixu excavated the tomb of King ChuPing and whipped three hundred corpses to avenge his father and brother.

However, Sima Qian, in the "Records of History", regarded Wu Zixu's act of whipping corpses as "the extreme of the heavenly path". Wu Zixu did not end well in the end.

Shi Lang felt that he was very similar to What happened to Wu Zixu, his father and brother were beheaded by Zheng Chenggong, and he was also bent on serving the Qing court, hoping to take revenge by killing The Zheng clan. And the object of Shi Lang's revenge, Zheng Chenggong, was already dead, and the object of Wu Zixu's revenge, King Chuping, died before Wu Zixu's revenge.

Striking historical similarities, Shi Lang saw Sima Qian's evaluation of Wu Zixu and savored Wu Zixu's ending, which made him shudder.

Shi Lang's compassion for others was aroused.

In the 13 years of studying in the capital, Shi Lang's hatred gradually faded, and the desire to unify the country, eliminate the turmoil of the Zheng Army, and let the sea frontier be peaceful gradually became his pursuit.

Reinstated as Admiral of the Admiralty

Sometimes it's not your personal efforts that you can get results, you have to look at others, you have to see if anyone helps you.

In 1676, Kangxi re-established the Admiral of the Water Division, and Huang Fang (Huang Wu's son) hereditary Duke Haicheng and concurrently took charge of the Fujian Admiralty, but died of illness during the battle against the Zheng Army.

Yao Qisheng, who had successively served as an envoy and viceroy of Fujian, repeatedly recommended Shi Lang to the imperial court to serve as the admiral of the water division, but the imperial court did not allow it. The trusted Wan Zhengse was appointed as the Admiral of the Admiralty.

Wan Zhengse also did not live up to the trust of the imperial court, and in the later stages of the rebellion of the imperial court to suppress the San Francisco, Yao Qisheng and Wan Zhengse retook Kinmen and Xiamen. However, at a time when Wan Zhengse was in a state of great spirit, when Kangxi intended to send troops to Taiwan, Wan Zhengse disapproved of sending troops to Taiwan on the grounds that "the Waves in the Taiwan Strait were rough, the passes were shallow and narrow, one person was guarding the danger, and everything was impossible to open," and stood in opposition to the supreme leader.

Kangxi was full of trust and love, but Wan Zhengse just did not go to the Tao, and even wrote "Three Difficulties and Six Inseparables", in a word, "Can't fight". Just like the "Heavenly Dynasty", the Army said that as long as I could cross the sea, the Navy said that as long as the Air Force could escort me, the Air Force said that as long as there were no foreign troops, I could...

Kangxi saw Wan Zhengse's omission, and the Kangxi Emperor angrily rebuked: "I have made him capable and entrusted with heavy responsibilities, but he is afraid that the thief will not succeed!" ”

If the great Qing Dynasty is great, there will always be people who are willing to do it if you don't do it, and the removal of admirals has been put on the agenda.

The reason why Kangxi had such great doubts about Shi Lang was that Shi Lang repeatedly rebelled, and Kangxi did not recognize him in terms of character; second, Shi Lang had twice used troops in Taiwan, and the Eastern Expedition was fruitless; third, Shi Lang's son Shi Shize served under Zheng Jing after he was captured by Zheng Jun.

The position of Admiral of the Admiralty is of great importance and must be cautious.

Later, Yao Qisheng sang "For The Good Compassion of Shi Qi Shi Hai to Comfort the Faithful Soul Book": After Shi Shize was captured by Zheng Jing, he pretended to greet him, but he was in Cao Ying's heart in Han. Secretly contacted Shi Mingliang of Kangsu Town and wrote a letter to Yao Qisheng, indicating his willingness to submit. In 1679, when the Qing army attacked Xiamen and Kinmen, Shi Shize and Shi Mingliang planned to capture Zheng Jing. The result was revealed, and in 1680, Shi Shize and Shi Mingliang were beheaded by Zheng Jing.

At this time, Shi Lang's fellow villager, Li Guangdi, who was usually interested in making friends, played a role and actively recommended Shi Lang to Kangxi to come out of the mountain.

Kangxi asked: Does Shi Lang really have the ability?

Li Guangdi: Shi Lang really has the ability and is more familiar with the maritime.

It is recorded that Li Guangdi recommended Shi Lang to Kangxi at least 3 times. The last time he defended, Li Guangdi gave 4 reasons.

Shi Lang's family was killed by the Zheng clan, which was a feud, and he would not turn to the Zheng clan. He was very familiar with the sea situation unmatched. He was strategic and not a brave man. Zheng Shi was also afraid of him, and he could use him to capture Zheng's momentum.

Yao Qisheng even guaranteed shi Lang's death with the life of his whole family that shi Lang would not surrender to the enemy.

Kangxi finally summoned Shi Lang alone, and Shi Lang was able to state the situation at sea, and Kangxi Dayue, prince Shaobao, returned to serve as the admiral of Fujian.

Shi Lang was also very good at doing things, and asked to send the imperial bodyguard Wu Qijue to accompany him to Zhengtai and take the initiative to let Kangxi's cronies monitor him and dispel Kangxi's doubts.

Fight for the right to expropriate

Yao Qisheng was instrumental in Shi Lang's comeback, but Shi Lang, in order to ensure the consistency of the leadership of military operations, turned his face and asked the imperial court for exclusive expropriation.

The reason given: Since he was appointed as the admiral of the water division, it was his duty to command the Zhoushi Zhengtai, and Yao Qisheng and others were all local officials, so they should guard the local area and stay behind to respond.

According to custom, the Governor's notes to the Emperor should be copied and informed by the Governor. After Yao Qisheng saw Shi Lang's recital, he was horrified, an ungrateful white-eyed wolf, who wanted to monopolize the great feats of unifying Taiwan alone.

The next day, he immediately joined hands with the Inspector of Fujian to play "Attacking Taiwan for the Attack on Freshwater", asking Kangxi to allow him to march with Shi Lang.

First, the troops should be divided into two routes, with Shi Lang leading the way to attack Penghu and Yao Qisheng leading the way to attack Tamsui on The main island of Taiwan, forming a situation of pinch attack.

Second, Yao Qisheng has donated funds for shipbuilding and recruitment for many years, and if Shi Lang is specially recruited, these warships cannot go together.

Third, most of Shi Lang's officers and men were in charge of the army, and Shi Lang was in charge of the sailors; if Yao Qisheng did not go to sea, the army would have no one to command.

Fourth, he made it clear that before he (Yao Qisheng) left the school, he would make proper arrangements for the affairs of various parts of Fujian and would not make a mistake because of going to sea.

Kangxi received a letter from the Admiral of the Fujian Admiralty and the Governor of Fujian, and as the Supreme Leader, he was quite angry when he saw that his men had not yet fought for power. However, Kangxi, who was a great talent, did not show it, in order to mobilize the enthusiasm of the two men: on the one hand, he affirmed Shi Lang's enterprising spirit, and on the other hand, he agreed that Yao Qisheng and Shi Lang were on the same march.

Yao Qisheng and Shi Lang's first round, Yao Sheng.

Its implementation of the right to fight for the exclusive conquest, in addition to the idea of competing for merit, is more to avoid failure. Because at that time, the boat division was very dependent on the weather, but the sea climate was changing rapidly, if they could not grasp the absolute command and discuss everything, then the opportunity would be fleeting, which might lead to failure.

On March 1, 1682 (lunar calendar), Shi Lang wrote "Secret Chen Zhuan Zheng Shu"; on March 29, Yao Qisheng wrote "Please Allow to Enter the Taiwan Affairs With Tichen".

On July 13, 1682, Shi Lang wrote a letter entitled "Decisive Plan to Advance and Suppress Shu"; soon after, Yao Qisheng wrote "Fear xuan song shu".

Each speaking for its own reasons, Shi Lang advocated a personal special expedition and rode on the south wind to attack; Yao Qisheng advocated marching together and riding the north wind to attack.

After many times of repetition, the contradiction between Yao and Shi entered a white-hot situation, kangxi could no longer be with the mud, and if he continued to let the two of them march together, he would definitely fail. The relevant matters were referred to the Council of Ministers. Everyone believes that if one person leads the army to attack and suppress his will, two people leading the army will inevitably hinder each other and it is not convenient to act. Kangxi went from good to good, leaving Shi Lang to recruit and Yao Qisheng to be responsible for supporting logistics.