Lin Zexu, who has seven younger brothers, whose descendants live in which country?

As a national hero in China, the topic of Zheng Chenggong has been talked about by people, among which the firm resistance to the Qing Dynasty and the recovery of Taiwan Province Province are well known. However, little known is that Zheng Chenggong has seven younger brothers, one of whom is the same mother and brother. He once fought against the Qing Dynasty with Zheng Chenggong, and now his descendants still exist, mainly in Japan.

Zheng Zhilong, 1604, from Shijing, Nan 'an, Fujian. Due to the difficulties of family livelihood, 17 went out to wander the rivers and lakes and visited Macao, Manila, Japan and other places.

1623, uncle Huang Cheng set up a cargo, and asked Zheng Zhilong to sail from Macau to Japan to trade with the fleet of Japanese overseas Chinese Li Dan. Later, Zheng Zhilong took refuge in the door of Li Dan, the largest maritime merchant in China at that time, to "take care of his father". Li Dan thinks Zheng Zhilong is capable and reliable, so he "takes him as his adopted son" and gives him some assets and ships to do business in Vietnam, which makes him profitable. A few years later, Zheng Zhilong became a very rich man, traveling frequently between China and Japan, and became an outstanding figure among overseas Chinese living in Japan. Japanese aristocrats often make friends and are called "old officials".

Zheng Zhilong impressed Li Dan. In addition to his natural ability, he also has a genius advantage, that is, Zheng Zhilong is a language genius, proficient in Japanese, Dutch and Spanish, which is an essential skill for maritime business.

More importantly, during his stay in Japan, Zheng Zhilong got love and tied the knot with a Japanese woman named Tian Chuan!

Tian Chuanshi is a retainer of Hirado Francisco, and his father is Yu Huang of Lany. According to the Records of Nanming History and Zheng Genealogy, Song was born in 1602 and lost his father at an early age. His mother remarried Weng Shi, an overseas Chinese blacksmith who immigrated from Quanzhou, Fujian, China, and became Weng Shi's stepdaughter, so she was also called Weng Shi and Weng.

1623, Song married Zheng Zhilong and gave birth to a son named Zheng Sen () the following year. At that time, Tian Chuanshi was traveling, picking up shells at the seaside. When she was about to have a baby, Zheng Chenggong was born next to a boulder before she got home. Later, this stone was named Birthday Stone, and there was a monument to Zheng Chenggong's Birthday Stone. 1626, Tian Chuanshi gave birth to another son, named Qi Shunmen. He took a Japanese name because Zheng Zhilong adopted him to his wife's house, so he was also called "Lany Jirozaemono".

After returning to Ming Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong married Zhuang, Lin, Shi, Cai, Zeng and Cai, and gave birth to five sons. Among them, after the death of Zheng Chenggong, Zheng was appointed as the agent to surrender the general, and was defeated by Zheng Jing and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Zheng He and Zheng Zhilong were killed together, and the records of,, and are unknown.

Zheng Chenggong's five younger brothers are temporarily not on the list. What is his life experience?

After returning to China, Zheng Zhilong kept close contact with Japan, overseas Chinese in Japan and Tian. Every year, merchant ships come to Nagasaki, "alphabetically numbered" and "giving money to the ship every year". More importantly, on the business page of Zheng Zhilong, the host of the Japanese branch is Lany VII Men, who once worked as the representative of the Zheng family in Japan and engaged in Sino-Japanese trade with amazing profits. So, 1645, Zheng Zhilong sent someone to bring Tian to Anping, Fujian, and left Saemon in Japan.

There is also a saying that Japan was worried that Zheng Zhilong would not come to Japan for trade, so Tian and Qi Samen were not allowed to return to China. Later, after Tian's persuasion, the Japanese side asked Tian to go to China on the condition that he wanted to stay in Japan.

In the second year of Tian Chuanshi's visit to China, Zheng Zhilong was immediately placed under house arrest by Boluo, commander-in-chief of the Qing army. Later, the Qing army looted Nan 'an, Zheng Zhilong's hometown, and took away the wealth of the Zheng family for decades. At the same time, in order to avoid being insulted, Tian Chuanshi committed suicide by cutting his abdomen with a sword at the age of 45.

However, Huang Zongxi's "The Story of Giving Surnames" records: "Success is a great hatred. The mother's abdomen was cut off by foreign law, and the intestines were washed away and suffered again." If he hadn't been insulted by the Qing soldiers, Zheng Chenggong wouldn't have washed his mother's internal organs in the Japanese way. Therefore, it is most likely that the Qing soldiers insulted Tian Chuanshi, and then Tian Chuanshi committed suicide. This shows that the Qing soldiers at that time were really inhuman and treated the defected princes and wives, not to mention others.

After Zheng Zhilong's surrender to the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong's father's headquarters fought against the Qing Dynasty in the southeast coast of China, and became one of the main military forces in the late Ming Dynasty.

When the news of Tian's martyrdom and uprising against the Qing Dynasty spread to Japan, he wrote to his brother many times, asking to return to China to take part in the uprising against the Qing Dynasty. At that time, Japan refused to put the Seven Ropes Gate back, so the Seven Ropes Gate contributed to Japan's anti-Qing dynasty, constantly providing manpower and material resources for Zheng Chenggong and maintaining the lifeline of organizing maritime trade until the Tokugawa shogunate locked the country. It can be said that Zheng Chenggong was able to persist in the anti-Qing restoration, thanks to Lany and Saemon.

In the 12th year of Nanming (1662), the second year after Taiwan Province Province was recovered, Zheng Chenggong died of sudden illness, and Lany VII was deeply saddened by the news. Thirty-four years later, 1696, Simon Lany VII died in Japan at the age of 70.

After Saemon's death, his son "Saemon" restored the surname of Zheng and was named Daozhou. Since then, all future generations have used the surname Zheng. After the Seventh Gate, several generations served as Nagasaki's foreign trade affairs. The seventh Sun Zhengjiao served as the general manager of Tokugawa shogunate. After the Meiji Restoration, the eighth Sun Zhengyong served as the clerk and acting minister of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the ninth Sun Zhengyong served as the Japanese Consul General in Tianjin. Among them, Zheng Yongqing, the younger brother of Zheng Yongchang, was the first coffee producer in Japan, opened the first "coffee teahouse" in Japan, and later immigrated to the United States. His descendants are still in San Francisco, USA.

However, a grandson of Saemon XII has now changed his Japanese surname. Saemon's first 1 1 Sun Zhengyi (a former professor at Hosei University) was named Zheng Xiyi, and his second was named Zheng Bangfu, but in 1955 Zheng Bangfu changed his surname to "Zhu Fu" and became "Zhu Fubang Fu". It is worth mentioning that Zheng Shenyi's two sons respect Zheng Chenggong very much. 196 1 year, attended the conference to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the return of national heroes to Taiwan Province, and met with the Zheng clan in Taiwan Province province. Zheng Bangfu (also known as Fu Zhu Bangfu) came to Shijing Town, Nan 'an, Fujian Province to seek roots and worship ancestors and sweep Zheng Chenggong's mausoleum. In short, today, the descendants of Lany Qisaimen often go to Chinese mainland to worship their ancestors, which can be described as "drinking water and thinking of the source, not forgetting the roots".