Southern Ming, my destiny is too abstract

Chapter 121 Mental Illness Zheng Yanping
Zheng Sen, also known as Fusong, with the courtesy name Mingyan and the pseudonym Damu, was given the imperial surname during the reign of Emperor Longwu and later the name Chenggong.

Yongli conferred the title of Prince of Yanping on him.

He is known as Zheng Yanping, with the surname Zheng, the surname Guocheng, and the surname Guoye.

There are many names.

He would not be like Dai Qing, who took the surname Zheng Zhilong and the name given by Emperor Longwu.

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Zheng Yanping, who lacks both loyalty and filial piety, would probably kill someone if he heard you call him that.

Even if he was called by his Japanese name, Tagawa Fukumatsu, he wouldn't mind for the sake of his mother.

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Zheng Yanping opened his eyes with sweat all over his forehead.

He dreamed of his teacher, parents and the late emperor again.

His mentor father, who had shaved his head, was asking him to surrender, and his mother, whose belly he had disemboweled with his own hands, was calling him to take revenge.

The late emperor, who died a martyr for his country, shed tears of blood and asked him why he ran to the barbaric island of Iju.

Have you forgotten the great hatred of the king's death and the destruction of your country, and are you going to live in exile overseas?

In his dream, he defended himself, "I didn't. I'm short of food now. I want to use Yizhou as a logistical base to store food and build up troops. Once I've recovered, I'll raise my army to Nandu again."

The corpse of the late Emperor Longwu pressed down on him, and he angrily asked, "Is there any land in Yizhou that can be cultivated and grown?"

Zheng Yanping retreated repeatedly in his dream, shaking his head violently: "I was deceived by He Bin."

"He was the one who lied to me that Yizhou had thousands of miles of fertile land."

"Then why don't you return to Jinxia?"

Zheng Yanping was speechless for a moment.

At this moment, many complicated noises rang out around him again.

"Lord Guoxing, where is the food you mentioned?"

"We are so hungry. We are almost starving to death."

Zheng Yanping looked around and saw the bloated corpses of soldiers who had starved to death in Yizhou all around him.

At this time, many ghost shadows rushed out from the hungry ghosts.

"Guo Xing thieves, why are you stealing our food and slaughtering us Chaozhou people?"

In an instant, Zheng Yanping was surrounded by many figures.

"surrender!"

"revenge!"

"Rejuvenation!"

"Give me back my life!"

Countless voices pierced through his mind, waking him up from his nightmare.

The mountain-like pressure has kept Zheng Yanping awake for a long time.

He had just been woken up from his sleep, and his tired nap was full of nightmares.

After calming down a little, Zheng Yanping stepped over the Japanese woman, Portuguese woman, Dutch woman, and African woman on the bed, put on his shoes, put on a silk dress, and walked towards the conference room.

The exhausted Zheng Yanping was in a trance and saw a dense crowd of ghosts standing behind Zhu Wenwu in the hall.

I blinked and there was no ghost anymore.

After forcing himself to cheer up, Zheng Yanping nodded slightly to the civil and military officials and sat in the main seat.

Zheng Yanping directly asked about the most important Dutch reinforcements at the moment.

"What kind of fleet appeared on the sea? Has the Dutch East India Company ever sent so many ships for trade in the past?"

Mao Nanshiding was the commander-in-chief of the city of Provintia. Soon after the war began, he surrendered due to lack of food and water.

He knew that Koxinga thought it was a Batavia merchant ship.

After all, the war has been going south so far, and it is difficult for Kiichi to send a request for help to the headquarters.

Mao Nanshiding said cautiously, "In the past, there were only so many merchant ships when the trade route between China and Japan was first opened."

"Nowadays, there are only about ten merchant ships a year."

"This is a war fleet sent to attack the enemies of the East India Company. These are the three flags on the main ship."

"On one side is the admiral, on the other side is the vice admiral, and on the other side is the rear admiral."

After listening to the interpreter's translation, Zheng Yanping's face instantly darkened:

"Who is this fleet targeting?"

"Kiichi can't possibly report against the monsoon."

"Batavia can't possibly know about the war in Yizhou. Who are they sending this fleet to attack?"

Facing the wrath of the King of Koxinga, Mao Nanshiding shrank back:

"I don't know. Perhaps it's to deal with the Portuguese in Macau. Vanderlan wanted to plunder Macau at the beginning of the year."

Seeing that he couldn't get anything out of him, Zheng Yanping waved him away.

Then he turned his anger on He Bin, who had instigated him to attack Yizhou Island:
"Where's the rice from Yizhou you mentioned?"

"You said the Dutch wouldn't send reinforcements until next year at the earliest, and what's on the sea now?"

He Bin was about to make an excuse.

Zheng Yanping turned a deaf ear to the advice and ordered the soldiers to detain He Bin and execute him a few days later.

When Yang Chaodong, the prefect of Yizhou, heard He Bin crying out for justice outside, he hesitated and said:

"Lord, He Bin knows the local situation in Yizhou and the deployment of the Dutch company, so he can be of some use."

Zheng Yanping narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at Yang Chaodong.

Thoughts are racing.

I didn't expect that Yang Chaodong and He Bin had any collusion, and I felt relieved.

"Prefect Yang is right. Let's spare He Bin's life first. We can sacrifice him once we capture Zelandia."

Yang Chaodong's lips moved, but he did not speak in the end. He begged for mercy for He Bin, the biggest contributor to the capture of Yizhou.

Koxinga has gone a little crazy since his defeat in Nando.

No one could persuade him not to kill.

Zheng Yanping thought for a moment and said, "The enemy's forces at sea are unknown, and there are only a few thousand people in Mingjing."

"Even if we recall the Ma Xin who was besieging Zeelandia, there are only 2,000 men."

"The Dutch have powerful artillery. Two thousand men cannot defend Mingjing."

"The most urgent task is to recall all the troops from all over Yizhou."

Zeelandia was difficult to capture, and Zheng Yanping did not want to lose too many troops. Apart from the thousand or so soldiers who laid siege to the city, most of the troops were dispersed throughout Yizhou to deal with the Yizhou mountain barbarians.

Yang Chaodong replied, "Lord, recalling the troops will take at least half a month."

"Should we retreat inland to avoid the Dutch ships and artillery?"

"Or maybe ask for some reinforcements from Kinmen, Xiamen and Penghu?"

Zheng Yanping glanced at Yang Chaodong again, and spoke after a long while:
"Mao Nanshiding surrendered because he had no food or water."

"If the Dutch recapture this city, they will have two footholds, and we will then besiege two strong cities."

"We cannot hand over the Ming capital to the Dutch."

Yang Chaodong thought about it and agreed with Koxinga's opinion.

He ordered Yang Chaodong to recall Ma Xin.

When Yang Chaodong was about to leave after receiving the order, Zheng Yanping asked:

"Prefect Yang, how many people have starved to death in the Yizhou army now?"

Yang Chaodong paused after hearing this and said cautiously:
"Yizhou Prefecture's statistics show thirty-four people."

Zheng Yanping asked seriously, "What's the reality?"

Yang Chaodong bowed slightly: "One thousand and sixty-two people."

Zheng Yanping closed his eyes upon hearing this.

Seeing that Koxinga had no other instructions, Yang Chaodong slowly left.

The back of Zheng Yanping's head began to hurt again.

The various Ming army towns in Donghai basically disagreed with his attack and recovery of Yizhou because of the lack of food and fodder and logistics.

Zheng Tai had long been pretending to obey and secretly refusing to provide food and weapons to Yizhou.

He joined forces with other generals who were dissatisfied with him and secretly established his own independent regime.

Can that kid Zheng Jing suppress them?
There was no rice or fodder on Yizhou Island as He Bin said, and the army had already started to starve.

The fields in Yizhou are not fertile at all, and are as bad as the fields in Fujian.

It will take at least two months for the sweet potatoes to be harvested.

I'm afraid thousands of soldiers will starve to death again.

The big-bellied king of the mountain barbarians took advantage of the terrain and mountains to repeatedly attack the Ming army.

Two thousand soldiers were lost at the hands of the mountain barbarians alone.

Since they couldn't take down Zeelandia, the Dutch sent reinforcements with more than 30 ships.

The day when Yizhou would be pacified was becoming increasingly distant.

Zheng Yanping never thought about returning to Jinmen and Xiamen.

He couldn't go back until he conquered Izumo or even Luzon.

After the defeat of Nando, people's morale was low and the army was unstable.

The Yongli Emperor of Yunnan and Yunnan fled to the wilderness and his life or death was unknown.

The Qing Dynasty had already established its rule over the world, and many generals no longer wanted to resist the Qing.

Many people originally gathered under his command because of maritime trade and had no thoughts of loyalty to the country.

During the Qing Dynasty, the borders were moved and the sea was closed, making maritime trade difficult.

Those maritime merchants and pirate generals were already thinking of surrendering, and all gathered around Zheng Tai, hoping to seize power.

If Zheng Yanping had not defeated the Qing army in Kinmen and Xiamen and boosted morale, he would have been unable to control his army long ago.

Even with the momentum of a great victory, almost everyone disagreed with him advancing eastward to Yizhou.

There are several small islands in Kinmen and Xiamen, and there is no food at sea, so sooner or later everyone will have to flee.

Zheng Yanping gritted his teeth.

A group of villains without a king or a country.

There were also Prince Lu and Zhang Huangyan, who indirectly harmed the previous Emperor Longwu. After Emperor Yongli had no news, he wanted to support Prince Lu to govern.

If we cannot lay a logistical foundation, even if we allow you to become emperor, it will only mean that the Ming Dynasty will have another emperor who will die for his country.

Emperor Yongli, where are you?!
Zheng Yanping urgently needed an orthodox Ming emperor to stand up for him and win over the hearts of the people.

No one dared to say anything more about the legitimacy of Emperor Yongli.

The grandson of Emperor Shenzong, the younger brother of Emperors Tianqi, Chongzhen and Hongguang, and the heir designated by Emperor Longwu.

Except for the pseudo-Qing Dynasty, the whole world recognized the legitimacy of the Ming Dynasty.

Last year, upon learning that Yongli was going on a hunting expedition to the south, Zheng Yanping sent an envoy to try to get him to sail to Fujian.

His life or death is still unknown.

At the beginning of the year, there was some false news coming from Southeast Asia.

It was said that the Crown Prince Yongli led the remnants of the Ming army to capture Hongsha, and single-handedly massacred 200,000 Hongsha troops.

Without the exaggerated part at the end, Zheng Yanping could still believe that Li Dingguo, like him, wanted to lay a solid foundation and recuperate his troops.

Two hundred thousand southern barbarian soldiers?

Relying on the teenage Prince Yongli?
Zheng Yanping, who was confused by the Yizhou mountain barbarians, didn't believe it at all.

Zheng Yanping covered his increasingly painful head.

Thinking of the fleeing Emperor Yongli, he remembered the previous emperor who died for his country, his mother who died in disgrace, and his ancestral tomb that was dug up by rebels.

"For seventeen years, the country has been adrift, we have shed tears and blood, and now we are stranded in a wilderness, with no way forward or backward."

Zheng Yanping grabbed his numb face with both hands and said in pain:
"Oh, Heaven, why have you allowed me, a solitary minister, to come to this point?"

Zheng Yanping saw the illusion again.

At the entrance of the hall, countless figures with broken limbs and arms were waving at him.

"Koxinga, please come to the underworld and stay with us."

Zheng Yanping was out of breath and asked frantically to his guards:
"So many ghosts, so many ghosts, don't you see them?"

The guards, accustomed to Koxinga's hysterics, bowed and said, "Koxinga, there's nothing unusual."

"Only General Ma Xin has returned."

Zheng Yanping looked intently and saw that the ghost shadows gradually faded away, and Ma Xin came to him in a hurry.

Ma Xin excitedly said, "Lord Koxinga, Zeelandia has been captured, and Yizhou has been completely pacified."

"Prince Yongli, we are here with our best troops to support you. We also have plenty of rice from Southeast Asia. We will no longer have to worry about food."

The numbness and pain in Zheng Yanping's body suddenly disappeared, leaving only confusion.

"what?"

(End of this chapter)