When he arrived in Xiangshanao, Zheng Yiguan saw at a glance that the cause of maritime trade was a good opportunity for him to dream of getting ahead, and he showed a strong interest in it, and people changed their laziness in the past and became smart and diligent.Huang Cheng saw that Zheng Yiguan was smart and capable, and he was extremely important to him.In 1623, the third year of Tomorrow's Qi, Huang Cheng asked Zheng Yiguan to follow the Japanese overseas Chinese Li Dan, who was also from Quanzhou, to escort a batch of goods, from Xiangshanao to Japan.Since then, Zheng Yiguan left his uncle and lived in Nagasaki, Japan, where he lived for a long time.He saw a better opportunity again.The sea ship that Zheng Yiguan followed to Japan belonged to Li Dan, an overseas Chinese in Hirado, Japan.Li Dan was not an ordinary overseas Chinese, he was the general leader of overseas Chinese in Japan at that time, with strong capital, a fleet of ships, and specialized in overseas trade.That's a nice thing to say.What's not good is that Li Dan was the big leader of the pirates at that time.Normal trade, you need to occupy funds, you can't do it without money, how can it be faster than being a pirate, Zheng Yiguan is ready to deliberately befriend Li Dan from then on, and start his career as a pirate.When he first arrived in Japan, he didn't know Li Dan, so he couldn't go directly to someone's door, people knew what you were doing Zheng Yiguan was unfamiliar, so he had to think about his life first.In the beginning, he made a living by selling shoes or sewing for others.It seems that this future pirate will really know a lot, versatile, and even can do shoe repair, which indirectly proves his cleverness.Later, after selling shoes and sewing to make a little money, he began to do business and deal with Li Dan's subordinates.Finally one day, his cleverness was discovered by Li Dan, who took him in and helped him in business.In order to tie up Li Dan, Zheng Yiguan "took his father's business".Li Dan also felt that he was capable and reliable, and "raised him as a righteous son", handed him some assets and ships, and let him do business in Vietnam and Cambodia.When the opportunity comes, you have to seize it.Within a few years, Zheng Yiguan became a giant and often traveled back and forth between China and Japan.Overseas Chinese living in Japan, "salty push", became one of the other leaders of those overseas Chinese who worked part-time pirates in Japan, in addition to Li Dan.At this point, he has already stood out and is completely developed, and ordinary people are satisfied, but Zheng Yiguan does not.He saw an even greater opportunity, that is, to make friends with the Tokugawa shogunate, the ruling family in Japan at that time.Only when officials and bandits collude will the interests be maximized.Zheng Yiguan was quite scheming, and he first designed a series of plans for himself to collude with the Tokugawa family.First of all, in the name of enthusiastic learning swordsmanship, he met the "Quanzhou smelter surnamed Weng", who started "forging swords for the lord of the city". ”Successfully entered the Japanese aristocratic circle.After being familiar with the Japanese aristocratic circle and gaining some fame, he was qualified as a leader of overseas Chinese, and promoted the Japanese shogunate Tokugawa Ieyasu to present medicine in the Jinggang of Junfu today.Ieyasu personally asked about Chinese affairs, and was overjoyed, and ordered to be entertained at the Nagasaki Hotel, and gave him a good fortune.Japan's hierarchical concept is very strict, can be summoned by the shogunate, in the eyes of the Japanese, that Zheng Yiguan is definitely not an ordinary nobleman, that is a glorious and prominent man Since then, he has successfully established himself among the local nobles, faintly becoming a pivotal leader, and was called "the old official" by the Japanese.Hirado Island, where Zheng Yiguan lived in Japan, was the center of Japan's foreign trade at that time, and merchant ships from all over the world gathered.Because Zheng Yiguan was familiar with overseas affairs and was good at diplomacy, he was valued by the Japanese government.After being summoned by Tokugawa Ieyasu, he became famous for "visiting the feudal lord's house many times", so he was favored by the Marquis of Matsuura.Marquis Matsuura built a new house for him near Nagasaki, in Kawachiura Senrihama in Hirado, which is now Chirihama in Matsuura County, Nagasaki Prefecture, and introduced Tagawa Matsu, the daughter of Emperor Tagawa Yu, a retainer of Marquis Hirado, to him as his daughter-in-law.Emperor Tagawa Yu, also known as Emperor Weng Yu, was an expatriate who moved to Hirado in China, and was a maritime merchant from Quanzhou in Japan, and the Tagawa clan in Japan.Tagawa Matsu is a Japanese and is the adopted daughter of Emperor Weng Yu, so she is also known as Weng's.In 1624, the fourth year of Tomorrow's Apocalypse, Tagawa Matsu grew his son Zheng Chenggong, formerly known as Zheng Sen.The successful name was given by Emperor Zhu Yujian of Longwu in the future, and the title of the national surname also came from this.In this year, Zheng Yiguan was ordered by his father-in-law Li Dan to go to Penghu, Taiwan, to work as a translator for the Dutch East India Company at that time.When Zheng Yiguan started to trade, he dealt with the Dutch and the Spaniards, and he quickly learned Dutch and Spanish, which is not ordinarily smart.At that time, the Ming Dynasty pursued a policy of closing the country to the outside world and basically withdrew from overseas competition.And Spain, the original maritime hegemon, is also declining.On the southeast coast, the Dutch East India Company rose to prominence and competed with the Spaniards for trading territory.Due to his very little dealings with Chinese officials, Zheng Yiguan had little to do as an interpreter.The Dutch gave him a part of the merchant ships and told him to go to the sea to plunder the Spanish merchant ships, and occasionally came across Chinese merchant ships, and also snatched them back, so that except for the merchant ships of the East India Company, the rest of the merchant ships could not trade.From then on, Zheng Yiguan began his career as a pirate.The following year, with enough experience as a pirate, Zheng Yiguan left the Dutch and officially began his independent maritime career as a businessman and a thief.In this year, the big boss Li Dan died, and Zheng Yiguan, as an adopted son, inherited most of Li Dan's property in Taiwan and Japan, and his power became more and more powerful.At this time, another pirate leader in Japan, Yan Siqi, the leader of overseas Chinese, was wanted by the Japanese government for trying to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate, and also ran from Japan to Taiwan.Yan Siqi's power was much greater than that of Zheng Yiguan, and after he arrived in Taiwan, he joined forces with Zheng Yiguan and other small groups of pirates, and used merchant ships to transport many people who could not survive from Fujian, and reclaimed wasteland in Taiwan and built a walled city.At that time, Taiwan was only in the south, and a small part of the current Tainan area was the sphere of influence of the Dutch, and the rest was the paradise of a group of pirates such as Yan Siqi and Zheng Yiguan.Later, Zheng Chenggong attacked the Dutch in Taiwan, on the grounds that Taiwan originally belonged to their Zheng family and should be returned to him.Not long after, the big leader of Yan Siqi enjoyed uncontrol, overeating, and killed himself.Taiwan's most powerful, except for Yan Siqi, is Zheng Yiguan.The pirate leaders publicly elected Zheng Yiguan as the leader of the alliance, and since then he has become the lord of Taiwan.After Zheng Yiguan set up his own door, he recruited his brothers from his hometown in Fujian, as well as Zheng Xing, Zheng Ming, Yang Geng, Chen Hui, Zheng Cai and other general nephews and generals.He divided his subordinates into eighteen vanguards, formed the "Eighteen Zhi", and changed his name to "Zhilong" instead of "Yiguan", from which Zheng Zhilong's name came from
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