Futai through the ages, the platform through the ages, the Zheng family is one person, and the Shi family is one person. This is a couplet from the Shi Lang Memorial Hall in Yakou Village, Jinjiang, Fujian, which talks about Zheng Chenggong and Shi Lang, who recovered Taiwan from the Dutch before and after, and pacified Taiwan to unify China. These two people have similar achievements, but they were on the same page during their lifetimes, and even said that Shi Lang's father and younger brother were killed by Zheng Chenggong, and many netizens said that our people surnamed Shi never married people surnamed Zheng, so what is going on? Today, let's talk about Shi Lang and Zheng Chenggong's deep hatred.
Shi Lang joined the army at the age of 17 and once followed Zheng Chenggong's father, Zheng Zhilong, to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, but he did not mix well there and was discriminated against, so he joined Zheng Chenggong's army against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty. Shi Lang fought wittily and bravely, and became a very young and promising of Zheng Chenggong's subordinates, and he knew how to fight well. However, the good times did not last long, because of the different strategic thinking, he had an estrangement with Zheng Chenggong, and Shi Lang had Zheng Chenggong's strategy"Abandon the water to the land, and raise military salaries by plundering"Zheng Chenggong was very unhappy with his objections, so he reduced his military power and ordered Shi Lang to return to Xiamen as a leisure man. After returning to Xiamen, he happened to encounter the Qing army Ma Degong sneaking attack on Xiamen, but Zheng Zhiguan, the main general of the Zheng army, who was originally responsible for guarding Xiamen, abandoned the city in panic and fled.
At that time, Shi Lang ignored that he was already a person without military power, and personally led more than 60 people around him to take the initiative to resist the Qing army, and was unstoppable, killing the brother of Ma Degong, the main general of the Qing army, Ma Degong was almost captured alive, and the remnants of the Qing army fled from Xiamen in a hurry.
But when Zheng Chenggong returned to Xiamen, he ostensibly gave 200 taels **, but he did not return his military power. This made Shi Lang very dissatisfied, and he tentatively said to Zheng Chenggong that he was disheartened and wanted to become a monk. However, Zheng Chenggong was unmoved, and said that either you will become a monk, or you will recruit troops yourself.
Shi Lang was very hopeful, and shaved his hair in a fit of anger, and since then he and Zheng Chenggong have basically broken up.
What led to the public break between Zheng Chenggong and Shi Lang was the Zeng De incident. Zeng De was originally Shi Lang's subordinate, and later Shi Lang was deprived of military power, so he offered his hospitality to Zheng Chenggong, Shi Lang was very angry when he knew it, and in order to vent this breath, he ignored Zheng Chenggong's opposition and killed Zeng De. Of course, let's insert a sentence here, Zeng De used to be Zheng Zhilong's subordinate, he was a very close subordinate of the Zheng Group, not an ordinary big soldier. Zheng Chenggong learned that Shi Lang dared to kill his cronies without authorization, so he thought he had a counterintention, and in a fit of rage, Shi Lang and his father and his family were all arrested, but unexpectedly, Shi Lang fled back to the mainland with the help of some cronies. After Zheng Chenggong heard about it, he was even more convinced that Shi Lang had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, so he simply killed Shi Lang's father and younger brother. After Shi Lang learned the news that his father and younger brother were killed, he hated Zheng Chenggong to the core, and since then he has taken refuge in the Qing Dynasty. This led to Shi Lang's second betrayal of the Ming Dynasty.
Because Shi Lang had rich experience in naval warfare, he became the best choice for the Qing Dynasty to attack Taiwan. He also did not live up to the expectations of the Qing Dynasty, used proper tactics, and led the Qing Dynasty naval division to successfully occupy Taiwan, making contributions to the unification of the whole country. After entering the stage, Shi Lang immediately took the initiative to go to the temple of Zheng Chenggong, after the sacrifice was completed, Shi Lang was choked up, and the old tears were rampant, and since then the relationship between him and Zheng Chenggong's father and son has come to a successful end.