Zheng Chenggong and Lany Seven Saemon, they are brothers! Where are the descendants of the Zheng family?

I believe the name Zheng Chenggong is familiar to everyone. He recovered Taiwan Province Island from the Dutch colonists and made great achievements for the Chinese nation. Speaking of Zheng Chenggong and his family, there have actually been many stories. This family was a rare family with an international background in China in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. For example, Zheng Chenggong himself can actually be regarded as a Chinese-Japanese hybrid, and he also has a younger brother with only a Japanese name. Zheng Chenggong's family later even became the standard bearer of the Qing Dynasty, and his brother's family later became completely Japanese. So what kind of story happened to this family at that time? Zheng Zhilong, who has a complicated background, talks about the international background of Zheng Chenggong's family. Of course, first of all, he has to talk about Zheng Chenggong's father Zheng Zhilong, because Zheng Zhilong's background is complicated, so it can be said that even in modern times, it will exceed most people's imagination. Zheng Zhilong was born in Quanzhou, Fujian. His father, Zheng Shibiao, once worked as a petty official in Quanzhou. However, due to family difficulties, when Zheng Zhilong was 17 years old, Zheng Shibiao asked him to take his two younger brothers to Macau to take refuge in his uncle Huang Cheng who was doing business there. At that time, Macao was actually occupied by Portuguese, so Zheng Zhilong learned Portuguese in order to make a living. Moreover, in order to gain the trust of the Portuguese, he joined Catholicism and got a Portuguese Catholic name, Nicholas Iquan Gaspard. During Zheng Zhilong's stay in Macau described by the Portuguese, Zheng Zhilong met Li Dan, a maritime merchant who lived in Japan at that time. Later, with the consent of his uncle Huang Cheng, Zheng Zhilong went to Nagasaki, Japan, and became Li Dan's staff. This year, he was only 19 years old. After arriving in Japan, he soon married the daughter of a local overseas Chinese, Emperor Weng Yi. However, although this girl comes from an overseas Chinese family, she is the daughter brought by the overseas Chinese's Japanese wife when she remarried to this overseas Chinese, so the overseas Chinese's daughter is actually Japanese, and her biological father's surname is Lany, so she is sometimes called Tian Chuanshi. So when you see this, you will know that before Zheng Chenggong was born, Zheng Zhilong actually had the background of at least three countries. Zheng Chenggong was born in Nagasaki, Japan, one year after Tian Chuanshi married him. Therefore, Zheng Chenggong is indeed a Sino-Japanese hybrid born in Nagasaki, Japan. And two years later, Tian Chuanshi gave birth to Zheng Zhilong's second son, Zheng Chenggong's younger brother. Monument to the birthplace of Zheng Chenggong in Nagasaki, Japan. Before and after that, Zheng Zhilong was first sent by Li Dan to the Dutch who occupied Taiwan Province at that time as an interpreter, but he left the Dutch soon after, and started a career of being a businessman and a thief by himself. By 1627, Zheng Zhilong's fleet had grown to 7 ships, and it also harassed the coastal areas of Guangdong and Fujian from time to time, because it became a very headache for the Ming Dynasty. However, a year later, Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian in the Ming Dynasty, contacted Zheng Zhilong to woo him. Since then, Zheng Zhilong has become a coastal defense guerrilla under Xiong Wencan. Zheng Zhilong, who became an official of the Ming Dynasty after the Zheng brothers separated the two countries, soon remembered his wife and children who were still in Japan. In 163, he first took his eldest son Zheng Chenggong back to China, but his wife, Tian Chuanshi, was banned from going abroad by the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan, and the youngest son was only 3 years old at that time, so he stayed in Japan with his mother. At that time, both Tian Chuanshi and his biological father's family thought that Zheng Zhilong would never return to Japan, so they decided to give Zheng Chenggong's younger brother to the Lany family for adoption and named him Lany Jirozaemono. China Taiwan * * * Nanzheng Chenggong ancestral temple is like Zheng Chenggong's mother and son, so Tian Chuanshi and her second son have been living in Japan ever since. But neither Zheng Zhilong nor Zheng Chenggong forgot Tian Chuanshi, so they have been trying to get their mother and son to China. However, the efforts of the father and son didn't make progress until 15 years later. At that time, Zheng Zhilong obtained the concession of the Japanese shogunate through some old relations in Japan, and finally he was able to receive Tian Chuanshi from China. But this does not mean that the Zheng family can finally reunite, because the Tokugawa shogunate allowed Tian to go to China, but it did not allow Zheng Chenggong's younger brother Jirozaemono to go to China. Although Tian Chuanshi also tried to spend a lot of money to dredge the shogunate, the shogunate knew that the Zheng Zhilong family was rich at that time, so he wanted his family to keep a hostage in Japan in order to gain greater benefits in the future. Therefore, no matter how Tian Chuanshi pleaded, the attitude of the shogunate was always very firm, and Jirozaemono could never leave Japan. In the end, Tian Chuanshi had no choice but to come to China in 1645 and reunite with Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Chenggong, while Jirozaemono was left in Japan. According to some historical records, before Mr. Tian left Japan to board the ship, he cried and said to Jirozaemono, Don't forget your father and brother, and don't forget the China where your mother went today. So later Lany Jirozaemono lived alone in Japan, and later he changed his name to Lany Seven Saemon. However, although his parents and brothers have both returned to China, they have not lost touch with each other. Because the Japanese shogunate kept him in Japan to do more business with the Zheng family in the future, it did not stop the correspondence between their family. At that time, it was in the troubled times of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In 1644, the Ming Dynasty perished. Later, Zheng Zhilong, Huang Daozhou and others established Zhu Yujian, the imperial clan of the Ming Dynasty, as emperor in Fuzhou, and established the Nanming Longwu regime. Because of his achievements, Zheng Zhilong was in power for a while, and his family's business was getting bigger and bigger. Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Chenggong are like a father and son, so Zheng Zhilong asked his second son, Lany Qi Saemon, to be the general representative of his family in Japan, to take care of the trade affairs in Japan for himself. Seven Saemon also accumulated a lot of wealth during this period and became an important figure in Japan. But this situation didn't last long. In 1646, the Qing army went south, and Hong Chengchou, a fellow countryman of Quanzhou in Zheng Zhilong, persuaded Zheng Zhilong to surrender. In December of that year, Zheng Zhilong was cleared. However, Zheng Chenggong always refused to surrender, and then he led the army to continue to resist. Less than a year later, Anping, Fujian, where Tian Chuanshi was located, was conquered by the Qing army, and Tian Chuanshi died of suicide to avoid * * *. Therefore, since then, Zheng Chenggong has had the enemy of killing his mother with the Qing army. Some scholars believe that Zheng Chenggong's vow not to surrender to the Qing Dynasty has a lot to do with this matter. And seven Saemon, who lived alone with her mother since childhood, also made up his mind to support Zheng Chenggong's resistance to the Qing Dynasty. Later, in the process of Zheng Chenggong's * * *, the Dutch colonists tried to fight for a long time after losing the first battle. According to some records, Qi Saemon, who was very successful in Japanese business at that time, also sent dozens of ships of materials and money to Zheng Chenggong, helping Zheng Chenggong finally make the Dutch finally surrender through long-term siege and successfully recover Taiwan Province. The different fates of the descendants of the Zheng brothers. Later, however, the descendants of the two brothers, Zheng Chenggong and Lany Seven Saemon, experienced their own vicissitudes with the changes of the times. First of all, shortly after Zheng Chenggong * * *, the Tokugawa shogunate began to implement the policy of sea ban, and the contact between the Zheng family and the Lany family was gradually interrupted. In 1683, the Qing Dynasty launched a * * * war, and the Qing army defeated the Zheng army in the Penghu naval battle. Then Zheng Keshuang, the grandson of Zheng Chenggong, led his family to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. Later, the Zheng family was moved to Beijing, and was incorporated into the Yellow Flag of the Eight Banners of the Han Army in the Qing Dynasty. Zheng Keshuang himself was named the Duke of the Han Army. Later, the descendants of the Zheng family have been holding the position of assistant leader under Zhenghuang Banner. During the Yongzheng period, the portrait of Zheng Keshuang was changed from the yellow flag to the red flag during the adaptation of the Eight Banners, and later generations always had a hereditary assistant until the late Qing Dynasty. In 192, Zheng Yi and Zheng Ze, who were considered to be the grandchildren of Zheng Chenggong IX, also rebuilt Zheng's genealogy. In 193, Zheng Ze also donated a portrait of Zheng Chenggong to the predecessor of the Museum of Chinese History, but the family was never heard from again. However, the Lany family gradually became Japanese after Japan's maritime ban. Later, in Nagasaki, where Tian Chuanjia was located, there was also a Chinese family named Zheng for a long time. They were considered to be descendants of Lany Seven Saemon. At the end of 19th century, a man named Zheng Yongbang in this family once became a Japanese diplomat. In the negotiations after the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, he also served as an interpreter for Japanese negotiator Ito Bowen. A few years later, he even served as the Japanese consul in Tianjin. Later, the family name was changed to Fukuju in Japan. In recent years, some people have been to Quanzhou to participate in activities related to Zheng Chenggong. Therefore, the Zheng family is indeed a family with very diverse ancestors and descendants. However, Taohuashi's gossip holds that to evaluate a person's historical position, what he has done will definitely overshadow his family background. Although Zheng Chenggong's family background is very complicated, during his lifetime, he expelled the Dutch colonists and regained the treasure island of Taiwan Province occupied by western colonists for the Chinese nation. There is no dispute about this historical event, so his historical achievements should be remembered under any circumstances.