When it comes to Taiwan, the treasure island of our motherland, I'm afraid we have a lot of topics to talk about. Today we will mainly talk about the history of Taiwan that we have to remember.

When it comes to Taiwan, the treasure island of the motherland, I'm afraid we have a lot of topics to talk about. Today we will mainly talk about the history of Taiwan that we have to remember.

Taiwan's history

Taiwan, known as the island barbarian in ancient times, was called Yingzhou, and to Ming Dynasty , it was called " Chicken Hall" and "Master" and so on. Although the names are different, the history of Taiwan's subordinate to China has begun in 230 AD. The prefect of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, the "Linhai Water and Earth Records" records in detail Taiwan at that time. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, the Han people had begun to explore Taiwan. Although the maritime ban was implemented in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there was still a steady stream of Han people who moved to Taiwan. At this time, although the Central Plains government did not establish a county in Taiwan, its ties with China were inseparable.

By the middle and late Ming dynasties, the Chinese almost controlled the entire Chinese waters, and the period of large-scale development in Taiwan also came.

Some people say that it was Kangxi that regained Taiwan. The Qing Dynasty played a decisive role in regaining Taiwan, but in fact, it is not. It is the one that really regained Taiwan and has great significance for China to own Taiwan. Zheng Chenggong

Why is it said that only Zheng Chenggong is considered to regaining Taiwan? Let's start with the Age of Discovery.

With the great geographical discovery in the 15th and 16th century AD, the arrival of the maritime power era caused Western maritime power countries to expand their power around the world and establish their colonies and strongholds. The Dutch , which belongs to the Dutch East India Company, invaded Taiwan in order to establish strongholds for trade with China and Japan. The Dutch and the Spanish also fought a war for their colonization in Taiwan. In the end, the Dutch drove away the Spaniards and established Relan Cham City and Promin Cham City in Taiwan. At that time, the Ming government was busy dealing with the invasion of Japanese pirates. Then he encountered the Later Jin Dynasty entering the pass. He was about to be destroyed and his family was destroyed, so he had no time to react to this, so that the Dutch leisurely stayed in Taiwan for 38 years.

It can be imagined that Taiwan is under the rule of Western forces at this time. Once it continues for a long time, this treasure island of the motherland will no longer belong to the motherland.

At this time, on mainland China, iron hooves were trampling on thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, and wars were everywhere. In order to restore the rivers and mountains, countless people of lofty ideals and national heroes fought hard, and Zheng Chenggong was one of them.

Chinese soldier "Zheng Chenggong" recovered Taiwan

Zheng Chenggong, whose real name is Sen, also known as Zheng Damu, and his ancestral home is Nan'an, Quanzhou, Fujian. He was born in a pirate family. His father Zheng Zhilong was a famous "pirate king" in the late Ming Dynasty. His mother came from Japan Takawa . It is precisely because of his identity that many bad intentions advocated that he was a Japanese and a great Japanese pirate. In fact, although Zheng Chenggong's mother, although the Takawa clan, was Japanese, had part of Han blood. The Takawa clan was even tempted by Zheng Chenggong's father Zheng Zhilong was promised by the Qing army and was immediately under house arrest by the Qing army. When the Qing army invaded Nan'an and robbed her home, facing the tyrannical power of the Qing army, the historical books record that "the young lady did not move, scolded Gushan and died." Zheng Chenggong's mother cursed in the face of the Qing army's coercion: "I am the wife of the General of the Ming Dynasty in China, how could she be willing to serve you invaders?" Then she drew her sword and died.

I don’t know what kind of mentality is the people who slander Zheng Chenggong as Japanese pirates or Japanese. I’m afraid they have foreign or foreign bloodlines to slander national heroes because they are not Chinese or Han people. For example, Li Shimin became Xianbei, Zhu Yuanzhang became a man of , and even Zheng Chenggong became a man of japan. This is definitely ulterior motive. Just talking about this mother of Japanese descent, such a heroic mother, is it probably not an exaggeration to say that she is Chinese?

Faced with such national hatred, Zheng Chenggong led his troops to resist and became one of the two pillars of the late Southern Ming Dynasty. He also said with the famous general Li Dingguo that he swore to fight against the Qing Dynasty in the name of "Zheng Xiaobo recruiting the general to punish the country". Zheng Chenggong's troops attacked the invading Qing army many times, and made great achievements in combat. He was also named the Prince of Yanping by Emperor Yongli. This is also the origin of Zheng Chenggong's "Zheng Yanping".

Although Zheng Chenggong was determined to resist the Qing Dynasty and attempted to restore the country, in the face of the betrayal of the traitors and the inaction of the ruling class, the counterattack plan failed many times. Zheng Chenggong even fought under the city of Nanjing and could almost worship the Taizu Tomb, but was eventually frustrated. In order to consolidate the base area that carried the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong decided to expel the Dutch who invaded Taiwan and recover the territory.

At this time, China was invading the Qing army, burning, killing and robbing everywhere. The Ming army lost troops fled. The beautiful mountains and rivers were in a sea of ​​blood. In order to have a stable anti-Qing base, the Ming Dynasty represented by Zheng Chenggong began the process of regaining Taiwan. Zheng Chenggong led 20,000 troops to raise an army in the name of the Ming Dynasty's recruitment of the general, and issued a letter of surrender to the Dutch Governor. The book said, "However, Taiwan was long been managed by the Chinese people, and China's land is the land. Now I will come to seek it, and the land will belong to me." After that, the Ming army besieged the city in September and completely defeated the Dutch colonists. The Dutch Taiwanese chief signed a surrender. Taiwan finally returned to the embrace of the motherland. The national hero Zheng Chenggong created a major military victory in defeating the West with Chinese soldiers.

After that, Zheng Chenggong changed Chikan Tower to Chengtian Prefecture and established prefectures. This was the beginning of the Central Plains dynasty's establishment of counties in Taiwan, and it was also an inseparable ironclad evidence that Taiwan belonged to China. Since then, it has vigorously developed Taiwan, introduced immigrants, established industry and commerce, and developed trade, which has quickly promoted Taiwan's economic and cultural development and became the rear of the Anti-Qing War.

It can be said that Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan is the true Chinese who recovered the treasure island from foreign enemies. Zheng Chenggong is neither a Japanese pirate nor a Japanese. He represents the Chinese government and exercises sovereignty over Taiwan. This is also the origin of Zheng Chenggong's national hero.

Kangxi's recovery of Taiwan is not as meaning as Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan

Kangxi's "recovery" of Taiwan cannot be regarded as "recovery" to a large extent. We cannot use the TV series adapted from the novel. Kangxi's great talent and strategy must be recaptured and safeguarded the reunification of the motherland. The vulgar fat man in Taiwan is determined to resist unification and determine history. In fact, the Qing Dynasty occupied most of China's territory at that time, but its purpose for Taiwan was not to regain its purpose. Emperor Kangxi at that time did not have the sense of responsibility for national unity and national unity like this. The only reason for his attack on Taiwan was because Taiwan was the place where the remnants of the Ming Dynasty existed, and the last expectation of the Han people at that time. As long as the Ming Zheng regime in Taiwan was present, the Han people's hearts would be towards the Ming Dynasty because of this, so he must conquer Taiwan, which was his main purpose.

In other words, if Taiwan was still a Dutch at that time, it would not have any threat to the Qing Dynasty. It would not be certain whether Taiwan would be fighting or not.

Why do you say that? We can take a look at the process of Kangxi conquering Taiwan.

Since being expelled from Taiwan by Zheng Chenggong, the Dutch colonists were still unwilling to give up. They hoped to use Taiwan as the base to encroach on or even colonize the East Asian continent. In order to achieve this goal, the Dutch colonists and the Qing Dynasty, which was in the Ming Dynasty, hit it off. The two sides signed the Qing Dynasty's Agreement, agreeing to jointly attack Taiwan, and after capturing Kinmen and Xiamen , they handed over these two places to the Qing army. After capturing Taiwan, the Qing army handed over Taiwan to the Dutch.

Yes, this treaty was done by the Qing army to eliminate Ming and Zheng by the Dutchman, even if it was sent to Taiwan.

Since then, the Dutch fleet with more than 400 cannons and nearly 3,000 soldiers, and 17 warships jointly captured Xiamen and Kinmen. These are things we cannot see in history books, but the Dutch fleet under the banner of "assisting the Qing Dynasty and attacking Taiwan" did exist.

The Dutch then captured Taiwan's chicken coop, but because the Qing army was busy with the Three Feudal Rebellion and failed to cooperate effectively, the colonization failed and was eventually driven away. When the Qing army was freed up to occupy Fujian and asked the Dutch to send troops again, the Netherlands began to be busy with the war in Java and failed to cooperate effectively. Even after the Qing army captured Taiwan, someone proposed to give Taiwan Island to the Dutch, and finally did not give up Taiwan Island under the opposition of Shi Lang .

Speaking of this, we need to note that the purpose of the Qing army's war against Taiwan was not to safeguard the reunification and territorial integrity of the motherland. On the contrary, the purpose of the Ming and Zheng army was to safeguard the reunification and territorial integrity of the motherland. The purpose of the Qing army was actually just to eliminate the remnants of the Ming and the Ming and Zheng army was realized after they were attacked. That is, although Taiwan was not sent out, the control of the Ming and Zheng army's surrounding waters and even Asian waters was gone. The Chinese Sea once again became the world of the Dutch, Spanish and British, until the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 was finally lost.

Therefore, although Kangxi attacked Taiwan, its achievements were far inferior to Zheng Chenggong, because if Zheng Chenggong did not recover Taiwan, Taiwan would definitely become the hand of colonists. Kangxi and the colonists jointly attacked Taiwan with the purpose of eliminating the threat, which belonged to the civil war between China, and these were obvious at a glance. Of course, in some aspects, although Kangxi did not have the awareness of safeguarding the territory of the motherland, his actions actually consolidated Taiwan into the territory of the motherland, but this time it is only.

So Taiwan has never been a dowry brought by the Qing Dynasty. In other words, if the Zheng army succeeded in restoring the Ming Dynasty or other dynasties were established, Taiwan would not be abandoned. Instead, the Qing army almost planned to abandon Taiwan. Even if it did not give up in the end, it actually gave up the maritime power around Taiwan, which led to the tragedy that later became a semi-colonial.