If Zheng Chenggong had not died because of his rebellion, would it be possible for China to include the Philippine Islands in its territory?

Falling in love with others outside of marriage is a very serious moral issue, which can destroy the family and harm others and yourself. Generally, extramarital love has a maximum impact on no more than two families, but there was a love affair in history that had such a huge impact that it even affected the territory of China.

Without this accident, China might have included the Philippine Islands in its territory, and China would have added 7,600 islands and 290,000 square kilometers of territory.

Zheng Chenggong is a national hero who has been recorded in history. He spent his whole life in the military in order to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. He prevented the orphans of the Qing Dynasty from going north to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

Although Zheng Chenggong led his troops fiercely and was brave and good at fighting, it was still difficult to fully confront the Qing Dynasty. Even if you don't count the military strength, just looking at the military salary, his financial resources cannot be compared with the wealth of the entire country. Especially after the failure of the Northern Expedition to Nanjing, Zheng Chenggong's troops were severely weakened and severely lacking in military rations.

In ancient times, soldiers and horses had to go ahead before food and grass were used. This shows the importance of food and grass to the army. So where would Zheng Chenggong go to make money? Zheng Chenggong has a famous saying: "If you want a country to be strong and prosperous, you must not ignore the ocean. Wealth comes from the sea, and danger also comes from the sea... Once the king of another country seizes Nanyang, China will be in danger!"

From here on It can be known that Zheng Chenggong attaches great importance to the marine economy. In addition, Zheng Chenggong's father was a maritime businessman who prospered through maritime smuggling and married five wives in his life. Zheng Chenggong can be regarded as inheriting his father's business. Most of the huge military pay he needed for the war came from coastal trade.

But the Qing court did not sit still and waited for death. They captured Zheng Chenggong's former subordinate Huang Wu. Huang Wu naturally knew Zheng Chenggong's financial sources and suggested that the Qing court ban maritime trade. In this way, Zheng Chenggong's financial path was completely cut off.

Zheng Chenggong weighed the overall situation and decided to march into Taiwan. This would not only facilitate maritime trade, but also tax Taiwan residents, so as to solve the military expenditure problem. In 1661, Zheng Chenggong led 25,000 soldiers and hundreds of warships to march towards Taiwan.

In fact, Taiwan has been a territory of China since ancient times. A large number of Central Plains people have immigrated here to take root and develop, and they have made a great success.

However, because this small island has not received much attention from the historical authorities, it is the army of the Dutch colonists who occupy it. They have two major defensive fortresses, Relanja City and Prominja City. Zheng Jun Entering the Taijiang inland sea from the Luermen Channel, a fierce battle broke out with a Dutch warship in the Taijiang waters, and artillery fire was flying for a while.

The Dutch army was defeated and many warships were captured by the Zheng army. The warship Hector was directly sunk. From then on, it was difficult for the Dutch colonists to succeed again. On February 9, 1662, the Dutch colonists surrendered to Zheng Chenggong and withdrew from Taiwan forever.

After Taiwan was recovered, Zheng Chenggong began to plan an expedition to the Philippines.

Why do you suddenly want to attack the Philippines? We have to start from the beginning. In fact, the Chinese people have a very deep relationship with the Philippines. As early as Zheng He's voyages to the West, a large number of Chinese moved to the Philippines to live in the Philippines. They worked and did business on the island and have completely become members of the Philippine island.

In 1565, the Spanish colonists occupied the Philippines. Since the occupation, they have been very repulsive to the original Chinese residents, fighting with fists and kicks, and often persecuting the Chinese at will.

In 1603, the Chinese could not bear the miserable life and launched an uprising. Although they called it an uprising, in fact they just hoped to attract the attention of the authorities and obtain a fair living environment. As a result, the Spanish authorities did not hesitate to launch persecution and killed more than 20,000 Chinese in one fell swoop.

Such cruel behavior quickly spread back to the Ming Dynasty, but at that time, the Ming Dynasty was also in a state of internal and external troubles and had no time to care about the tragedy that happened in the Philippines. It just issued an "Edict" "Lu Song Jie", he said in a nonchalant way, "It is necessary to remember the emperor's great kindness and the great benevolence and righteousness of China."

It probably means what you did. I won’t pursue the matter. You should be grateful to China and treat the Chinese well. Of course, such weak "verbal excitement" could not stop the Spaniards from committing atrocities, but made them even more unscrupulous. In 1639, the Chinese stood up to resist again and suffered even more serious massacres. More than 70,000 Chinese were killed in the two uprisings.

In 1657, the Chinese leader in the Philippines could not stand the tyranny of the Spanish. He complained that the sky was not working and the land was not responding. He could only write to Zheng Chenggong.

As a result, Zheng Chenggong became furious after reading the letter, and was about to launch an army to attack the Philippines. However, Zheng's army was indistinguishable from the Qing army at that time, and his subordinates were afraid that allocating part of his troops to attack the Philippines would affect the situation. Overall situation, Zheng Chenggong was stopped under all kinds of dissuasion.

In 1661, after Zheng Chenggong defeated the Dutch army in Taiwan, he sent a letter to the Philippine authorities. In the letter, he condemned their arbitrary massacre of overseas Chinese in a very tyrannical manner and warned the Philippine authorities to surrender and surrender. Send offerings.

As a result, the Philippine authorities still did not take it seriously. They believed that it was impossible for anyone to come from thousands of miles away to rescue them. Zheng Chenggong was very angry when he found out. While comforting the Chinese who fled to Taiwan from the Philippines, he began to plan an attack on the Philippines.

In my opinion, in addition to his sense of responsibility as a son of China, Zheng Chenggong also had his own small calculations in attacking the Philippines.

As we mentioned earlier, Zheng Chenggong sent troops to attack Taiwan in order to solve the problem of military pay. However, the situation in Taiwan was not very good at that time. Due to the harsh natural conditions, the growth of crops was much worse than that on the mainland. This small island is completely insufficient for the consumption of a huge army.

If we were to choose another site, the Philippines would indeed be a good choice. The hot and humid climate is suitable for crop growth, and the economy has a century-long maritime trade construction. It is perfect as a supply for the rear army.

As for the difficulty of attacking the Philippines? According to historical records, the influence of Spanish colonists on the sea was not even as great as that of the Netherlands. Zheng Chenggong's navy was already considered the strongest combat force in the South China Sea at that time. Coupled with the long-suffering Filipino Chinese who cooperated internally and externally, it was believed that Zheng Chenggong could conquer the Philippines with just a "little effort."

On the other hand, the Spanish colonists at this time were no longer as arrogant and domineering as they were at that time. After hearing the news that Zheng Chenggong would launch a large-scale attack, they all panicked and even applied to the headquarters several times to run back quickly. "Old Home" escapes for his life.

Just when Zheng Chenggong was preparing his army to march into the Philippines, an accident happened. Zheng Chenggong's father-in-law Tang Xianyue came to ask: "You can't even manage your own family, how can you govern the country?"

Zheng Chenggong was confused. It turned out that his son Zheng Jing was guarding Xiamen. At that time, he got together with his fourth brother's wet nurse, and they gave birth to a child. A nanny is an elder like a mother. This is no longer just a matter of extramarital love. In the larger world, it can be considered a complicated relationship.

Zheng Chenggong once said: "A son has heard that his father taught his son to be loyal, but he has never heard that his son taught him to be loyal." He was a man who attached great importance to etiquette and integrity, but as a result, such a shocking scandal broke out in his family. Zheng Chenggong was so angry that he jumped on the floor and ordered Zheng Jing, the wet nurse, and the evil son to be executed.

As a result, he was opposed by almost everyone. When Zheng Jing saw that the incident was exposed, he became even more outrageous. He took the wet nurse as his concubine openly. Zheng Chenggong was so angry that he couldn't afford to fall ill. He passed away within a few days at the age of only 39.

After Zheng Chenggong died, his son Zheng Jing inherited the title of King Yanping and the important task of resisting the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty. He also thought about raising troops to attack the Philippines, but unfortunately he had no ambitions and no ability. During his management, the Zheng family army suffered heavy losses and heavy casualties.

The most important thing is that the Zheng family army, which was like an iron plate at the beginning, is now disorganized, and more than half of the people want to surrender. In 1683, Zheng Keshuang, the grandson of Zheng Chenggong who was in power, surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and Taiwan was officially included in the territory of the Qing Dynasty in 1684 and belonged to Fujian Province.

It is estimated that many readers will have a question after seeing this. As King of Yanping, Zheng Chenggong is in charge of the entire Zheng family army. Why is it so difficult to execute the son of a general? Was he reluctant to execute his son?

Of course not. Zheng Chenggong took his face very seriously throughout his life, and he wished he could cut this scum of the family into pieces. Zheng Chenggong ultimately failed to execute his son for two main reasons.

First, from the perspective of family governance, Zheng Chenggong originally wanted to execute Zheng Jing, the wet nurse and the child. At that time, as an elder, he was indeed qualified to decide the life and death of his son. But Zheng Chenggong's cousin Zheng Tai stood up. He advised Zheng Chenggong to let his son go and execute the wet nurse who was unruly. As Zheng Chenggong's eldest brother, Zheng Tai's words naturally have more weight in the Zheng family, so Zheng Jing was saved by Zheng Tai.

Second, since Zheng Chenggong was unable to manage his family, he sent generals to execute Zheng Jing. As a result, none of his generals obeyed Zheng Chenggong's orders. The reason is actually easy to understand. Zheng Jing has been trained as Zheng Chenggong's successor. Zheng Jing has also accumulated his own team over the years.

When the generals gathered together, Zheng Chenggong was now bedridden. If everyone worked together to save Zheng Jing, Zheng Jing would definitely remember their kindness. When Zheng Chenggong returned to the west, Zheng Jing would naturally take over the Zheng family army, then My road to promotion has not been smooth sailing yet.

In this way, even until Zheng Chenggong passed away, he could not execute this shameful traitor. It is said that before Zheng Chenggong died, he cried out that such a scandal had happened at home, and he was too shameless to face the late emperor, and his own face was torn.

"Xi Su came to the river and vowed to destroy Hu, and a hundred thousand lions swallowed up Wu." Zheng Chenggong was brave and good at fighting throughout his life, full of national sentiments, and explained to the world what loyalty is. Even his mortal enemy Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty said: "Zheng Chenggong is a relic of the Ming Dynasty, not a traitor of my rebellious ministers."

He also wrote an elegiac couplet for Zheng Chenggong: Four towns have many hearts. The garrison troops on the two islands dared to fight for half of the territory to the southeast. The kings did not know that there was a lonely loyalist overseas without an inch of land and a will to resist.

It is a pity that Zheng Chenggong lived a loyal and brave life, but eventually died of a sudden illness due to an extramarital love affair with his son. Without this untimely farce, my country's territory might really have increased by 290,000 square kilometers.