Ming Zhengzhi, I am Zheng Kezang

\\Speaking of which, following the usual practice of previous years, Zheng Cong, Zheng Ming, Zheng Keshuang, Zheng Keju and other clan members who arrived in Taiwan accompanied Zheng Kezang to attend the reunion banquet in Anping City. However, since Chen Xianqiao and other wives, concubines and children stayed in Wuchang and did not go south, Zheng Kezang was actually a loner.

It's not that Zheng Kezang is living a life of innocence and desperation alone, but the clothes are not as good as the newcomers, and the beauties presented from all over the way can't bring Zheng Kezang the warmth of his family.Fortunately, this kind of time will soon end. On the first day of the first month of the first lunar month, Zheng Kezang personally led the civil and military clans in Taiwan to worship Zheng's ancestral temple and the mausoleum of the two generations of ancestors, and reported the fact that the Ming Dynasty will soon be replaced. The main purpose of his coming to Taiwan.

On the third day of the first lunar month, Zheng Kezang went north alone, and arrived at the Sanduao military port in Zhili Prefecture, Funing that day;

Zheng Kezang, who abandoned his boat and landed, immediately inspected Taizhou Xinfu City, which is under construction at the foot of Baiyun Mountain.Taizhou Fucheng was originally located in Linhai, in the same country as the county seat of Linhai County.Earlier, according to Zheng Kezang's order to "attach Guoli City", Linhai County was moved to the north of Shujiang, but the county seat was not built.

After Zheng Kezang decided to replace the Ming Dynasty, he re-divided the province and divided Zhejiang Province into two. Among them, West Zhejiang Province with Hangzhou as its capital was composed of Hangzhou, Yanzhou, Quzhou, and Huzhou in the original Zhejiang Province and the original Anhui Province. Chizhou, Huizhou, and Xuanzhou are composed of three prefectures; while Taizhou is the capital of Eastern Zhejiang Province, which consists of six prefectures of Taizhou, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Jinhua, Chuzhou, and Wenzhou in Zhejiang Province plus Funing Zhili Prefecture, which was originally affiliated to Fujian. composition.

The reason why Eastern Zhejiang Province does not use Shaoxing, a famous city, or Ningbo, a major maritime trade port, as its capital is because of the consideration of the comprehensive development of the whole province.There are many mountains and water in western Zhejiang, and only plains are scarce. Farming alone cannot satisfy the people’s livelihood and government income and expenditure. Therefore, it is necessary to vigorously develop maritime trade and industrial and agricultural production related to maritime trade. Shaoxing and Ningbo’s The location too far north is not conducive to the radiation of the southern provinces, but Taizhou is located in the coastal center of the entire western Zhejiang and is adjacent to Jinhua, Chuzhou and other inland counties, which is more conducive to the formation of the western Zhejiang economic circle.It was based on this consideration that Zheng Kezang finally decided to choose Taizhou as the capital of the new province.

As a provincial capital city, Taizhou Fucheng naturally has to consider its future capacity and development prospects. As a result, the relatively inland old Fucheng is no longer suitable, so Zheng Kezang moved Linhai County back to its original site , and re-construction of the new Taizhou prefectural city and western Zhejiang provincial capital at the foot of Baiyun Mountain on the south bank of the Shujiang River.

Of course, as a future provincial capital, it is not as simple as just building a city and enclosing a city wall. It is also necessary as a supporting defense project. Forts, such as the Yuhuan Military Port in Taiping County (Wenling), and so on.

Since Zheng Fan's financial resources are always in a state of tension, the construction progress of the western Zhejiang provincial city is seriously behind. Woolen cloth.

However, the delay in the progress of the project did not affect the commissioning of some of the buildings, such as the Xingyuan of the Governor of Western Zhejiang, and the Yamen of the Western Zhejiang Branch, which also served as the Treasury of Western Zhejiang Province, etc. Therefore, Zheng Kezang did not lack places to stay.

"The construction of Xinchang Fucheng is worthy of imitation in western Zhejiang." Zheng Kezang said to Ke Dingkai, the first governor of Western Zhejiang. Although he could not hear any dissatisfaction from his tone, Ke Dingkai knew Zheng Kezang's temper well. But know that the crisis has emerged. "Urban construction, if the government is too busy, it can be done by businessmen."

Zheng Kezang's meaning is very clear. The Zhongyang Ministry of Industry and the West Zhejiang Ministry of Industry, which are in charge of construction, can completely concentrate on planning the roads of the city first. As for the buildings on both sides of the road, except for Zhengfu land, they can be sold to businessmen. For management, refer to the successful experience of Xinchang Fucheng construction, the government can not only get enough benefits from it, but also save manpower and material resources for more important city wall construction, there is no need to do everything by yourself.

"I understand, I will arrange it now." Ke Ding responded repeatedly, but he was still a little worried. "It's just that I think that the financial resources in western Zhejiang have been attracted to the development of Shujiang Port, and I'm afraid that the people will no longer be able to undertake the construction of Taizhou Xinfu City."

"Ke Qing, you have underestimated the power of Zhejiang businessmen." Zheng Kezang sneered. "Even if the pockets of western Zhejiang merchants are empty, aren't they still merchants from eastern Zhejiang and Fujian? The world is bustling and bustling, and they all come for profit. I don't believe they can't see how much profit a new provincial city will have in the future." Seeing Ke Dingkai who was still hesitant, Zheng Kezang promised. "In this way, I will arrange for the Ministry of Internal Affairs to squeeze out a little money to set an example for the world's businessmen, but you can't fool the widows, you spend money alone, and the best place should be left to the Ministry of Internal Affairs That's it??????"

"My lord is not well, Zheng Ni is on the move." Even though it is the first month, since Zheng Kezang has already arrived in Taizhou, the western Zhejiang garrison who got the news naturally no longer cares about taking any annual leave. "The old slave hid a boat at Hou'ao, the prince quickly took the son and the others to flee, the old slave will hold them back."

"Flee, where are you going?" Gaotang County Wang Zhu Hechen, who was holding his newborn son and watching the princess paint, sat on a chair with a wry smile. "I think the sea is already densely covered with Zheng's boats at this moment." Zhu Hezhen shook his head at the loyal old servant in front of him. "I can't escape. The Zheng family started as a navy division. Who can escape their pursuit when they reach the sea."

The loyal servant knelt down on the ground and persuaded: "My lord, you can't just sit and wait for death, Daming Jiangshan??????"

"Da Ming Jiangshan died long ago." Zhu Hezhang interrupted the other party's unfinished words. "Early when Lord Yongli died in the battle in Burma, the Ming Dynasty was over, and what remained after that was just the Zheng family's plaything." Zhu Heting straightened up. "Since my father and grandfather passed away successively, I have already understood the final outcome. How the Taizu treated King Xiaoming back then will be retribution to my generation today, but there is nothing to say about it. Winners and losers?" .” Zhu Heping patted the shoulder of the weeping old slave. "Okay, don't cry, Li Banban, you go and get that thing, it's time to get on the road."

"My lord, I can't!" the eunuch surnamed Li who was hugging Zhu He and not letting go was crying. "My lord can't!"

"Get up, let go." Zhu Hechen, whose freedom was restricted, was a little anxious. "Zheng Jun is about to rush in. Does Li Banban want to see Gu suffer all kinds of grievances and torture before dying without dignity? What, I don't want to, why are you still in a daze? Why don't you hurry up and get the medicine? It's too late It's too late."

The eunuch surnamed Li rushed into the apse crying to get water and medicine by himself. While there was still time, Zhu Hezhe looked at his wife and the boy in his hand with reluctance, and said in a dejected voice: "It's all Solitude has dragged you down??????"

"What are you talking about, my lord?" Princess Gaotang is also the daughter of a loyal minister in the Ming Dynasty, otherwise she would not have married into the dangerous Gaotang Palace before. Since she is a loyal minister and strong daughter, she is naturally upright, so the princess remained calm. expressed his opinion. "Not being able to live together, but being able to die together is a concubine's blessing." Even so, looking at the baby in Zhu Hechen's hands, the little woman still showed a trace of reluctance on her face. "It's just that Yu'er is poor, she is still under the age, and she will accompany you and my husband and wife to Huangquan."

Eunuch Li, who was in tears, came out with a wooden tray with three cups of tea on it. At this time, the Gaotang palace was in chaos. Many court ladies who thought they would be insulted had committed suicide by hanging themselves, and some were loyal. The eunuchs also chose to throw themselves into the lake. Only those eunuchs sent by Zheng Fan to monitor Zhu Heping were maintaining order in a high-spirited manner at the moment. temple.

Seeing that Li Banban took out the medicine, Zhu Hezhu reached out and grabbed the tray, and handed one of the cups to his wife with great heaviness.Princess Gaotang smiled miserably, and then dripped a few drops into her son's mouth.The baby who was still asleep smashed his mouth, swallowed the tea, and then saw a burst of green air emerge.The child who was awakened by the severe pain began to cry bitterly, but soon as the medicine dissipated, the crying gradually stopped.

The weeping princess looked at the stiff child and uttered a miserable scream, then raised her head and drank the poisoned tea, her legs and feet trembled for a while before she passed away.Holding the corpses of his wife and children, Zhu Heping looked miserable, but without hesitation, he picked up the teacup and drank it down. Under the double pain of his body and spirit, he was almost twisted into a ball.Eunuch Li, who kowtowed repeatedly at the corpses of the three people in the room, picked up the remaining tea and drank it. At this time, the door of the palace finally broke open, and Eunuch Li grinned at the visitor, then threw himself on the ground... ????

Judging from the secret documents declassified hundreds of years later, Zheng Kezang, who decided to grant the status of state guest to the Ming Dynasty, did not issue an order to exterminate the Ming clan at that time, and was enshrined in Zhoushan and other places. However, in the process of carrying out the order to invite the Ming clan to go to Nanjing to observe the ceremony and receive Zen, many Zheng Jun officers promised to eradicate the rebellious thoughts of the previous dynasty, and deliberately resorted to violence and bluff to force most of the descendants of the Zhu family who did not know the truth to die. He chose to die with the country, and the family of Gaotang County King Zhu Hezhen was one of the victims??????

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Zheng Kezang arrived in Ningbo, and then he went to Hangzhou by land. At this moment, there were only less than [-] members of the Ming clan left, and they took their families and relatives with them to take a Shanghai boat all the way to Nanjing. drive away.