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Since the Ming Dynasty, the Dongfan has never belonged to the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

This is well documented.

The power of the Ming Dynasty ended eastward only at the Penghu Islands.

The Ming Dynasty established three Penghu Inspection Offices in Penghu around the Ming Dynasty, but they were all set up and abolished, and then removed. There was no other reason. This is because of the "Emperor Ming Dynasty Confucianism" of the Ming Taizu. It clearly announced that fifteen overseas countries would be listed as "non-invested countries", including "Xiaoliu Qunguo" and "Da Ryukyu Kingdom".

Among them, the Great Ryukyu Kingdom had frequent contacts with the Ming Dynasty and could be called the vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.

The Kingdom of Da Ryukyu came to pay tribute continuously throughout the year, and the Ming Dynasty did not treat them unfairly. All the princes and sons of the accompanied ministers entered the Imperial Academy and treated them very well.

The Little Liuqiu Kingdom (that is, Dongfan Island) has never existed in a country, so it has never been connected and naturally has never paid tribute.

Zhu Yuanzhang believed that these fifteen countries had basically no value for conquest. After all, it was a planting industry at that time, and only land that could farm was the land needed by the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, before the Ming Dynasty, Penghu was included in the territory as Chinese land, the Song Dynasty was the first to be included in the territory.

At that time, Wang Dayou, an official of the Song Dynasty, sent military and civilians to garrison Penghu, calling Penghu "Pinghu" and under Jinjiang County. As a result, the ownership of Penghu was officially announced.

After the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, the Penghu Inspection Department was officially established. However, it also stopped in Penghu and had no interest in the Dongfan Island.

Finally, Lao Zhu established the Ming Dynasty, which inherited the Penghu Inspection Office of the Yuan Dynasty.

But Lao Zhu was even more speechless. In just five years, the Penghu Inspection Department was abolished. The "Huangming Shifa Record" records: "Our dynasty believes in the country, and it is difficult for us to rebel and submit, so we moved it to the real world, and there is no one in the lake."

In other words, Zhu Yuanzhang believed that the people on the sea were difficult to rule, so he migrated all the people of the Penghu Islands to the mainland, making the Penghu Islands a deserted island.

The implementation of this policy is actually to cooperate with the maritime ban.

The government office has retreated and the officers and soldiers have also retreated. Who is the happiest? Of course, it is the pirates.

The sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the Penghu Islands have since become the bases of pirates.

Until the Jiajing period, the number of residents of the Penghu Islands began to increase again. The pirates in Shanghai were really distorted and invaded the mainland from time to time. The Ming Dynasty decided to reset the Penghu Inspection Office and belonged to Tong'an to rule and control it.

Unfortunately, in just over a year, the imperial court abolished the Penghu Inspection Department.

The reason is the same, the sea and sky are separated, and the people are exhausted and the money is abandoned!

Until the Wanli period, the Japanese pirates invaded the coastal areas. In order to prevent Japanese pirates, the imperial court set up another Penghu raider.

However, the Ming Dynasty's jurisdiction over Penghu this time was very weak. Fujian Governor Huang Chengxuan wrote in his memorial that the Penghu army had the name of guarding but not guarding.

It was not until the fifth year of the Tianqi revelation that the Dutch invaded Penghu, and the Ming Dynasty was forced to increase its troops and build a city in Penghu, set up a guerrilla warfare, commanded two generals, and built a fort to defend it.

However, after the Japanese pirates suppressed the pacification, they finally withdrew their troops and transferred their salaries, and the Ming Dynasty gave up on Penghu.

The Ming Dynasty enjoyed the country for nearly three hundred years, but ultimately did not expand its territory overseas. The only springboard, Penghu Inspection Office, also established a retreat, which is extremely impressive.

The real reason is that the Ming Dynasty's ban on seas made the East Fan Island a homeless land.

"Huangming Shixu" greatly restricted the thoughts of the next few emperors on overseas use of military force. Of course, the filth between civil officials of the Ming Dynasty and the rampant ancestral teachings made emperors of all dynasties lose the possibility of using military force on the Dongfan Island.

So, who or who are struggling in Dongfan Island east of Penghu during the past century?

Pirates, first of all, pirates.

Here we have to mention a person named Yan Siqi.

Yan Siqi was originally from Haicheng County, Zhangzhou, but later went into exile in Japan for committing murder.

He made a living by operating trade between the two countries, but after the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, maritime trade between the two countries was illegal, and Yan Siqi became a pirate.

Originally, this profession was quite good, because the Ming Dynasty, who was the strongest, had no interest in overseas development at this time, Yan Siqi brought a group of people, set up a few boats, and did business without any money, so he should not live too freely.

But the problem is that people's ambitions change due to changes in status.

Yan Siqi is rich and has some people under him. He wants to take over as king and take over the nest.

If he wants to occupy the East Fan Island as king, then we have to give him a thumbs up now. Yan Siqi will definitely be earlier than Zheng Sen.

But Yan Siqi wanted to despise the desolation of Dongfan Island, so he set his mind on the Japanese.

Yan Siqi actually plotted to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate, take over the Tokugawa shogunate, and put it into action. It was so awesome. Unfortunately, he was very ambitious and lacked strong enough backing, and finally ended in failure.

In this way, Yan Siqi lost his foothold in both countries. Fortunately, the sea was his hometown, so Yan Siqi led the remnants to officially enter the northern part of Dongfan Island. In order to survive and develop, he finally endured his character and sent ships to Fujian to recruit immigrants many times, bringing advanced production technology and production tools to develop the northern part of Dongfan Island.

The sixth year of Apocalypse is destined to be an unusual day.

In January, Nurhaci, the founding emperor of the Qing Dynasty, led an army of 130,000 to besiege Ningyuan City, but he was seriously injured and retreated.

In May, the Wanggong Factory in Shuntian Prefecture exploded.

In June, a strong earthquake occurred in Lingqiu, Shanxi.

In October, Nurhaci died and Huang Taiji ascended the throne.

Compared to these big things, pirates are just small things.

But this pirate is really not to be seen, because he is Zheng Sen's father, Zheng Zhilong.

If Zheng Zhilong could truly resist the Qing Dynasty after surrendering to the Ming Dynasty, then the Qing court would definitely not be able to unify the world. At least the Qing court was unable to attack the Yangtze River, because the Zheng family navy was an invincible existence in East Asia at that time.

Zheng Zhilong wants to defect to Yan Siqi?

In fact, it is very simple. I can't live anymore. There was a severe drought in Fujian that year and hunger was everywhere.

Zheng Zhilong, who worked as a pirate, saw that it was impossible for the imperial court to provide relief, so he took advantage of Yan Siqi's recruitment of immigrants from Fujian and summoned tens of thousands of hungry people in Quanzhou to the island to expand the reclamation.

But this move completely made the Ming Dynasty angry. It is okay to starve to death, but it is not accurate to surrender to the enemy!

Quanzhou official Xu Xinsu submitted a memorial, advocating the joint efforts of the Dutch Red-Mao East India Company to deal with Zheng Zhilong.

The court agreed, but the East India Company did not.

So, with the support of Yan Siqi, Zheng Zhilong took the opportunity to lead a large number of pirates to attack Fujian, defeat the defenders, kill Xu Xinsu, and relieve his chest tightness.

From then on, Zheng Zhilong officially defected to Yan Siqi and settled in the northern part of the Eastern Vatican.

However, Zheng Zhilong brought too many people from Quanzhou, and later his power grew stronger and he was noisy in the way of taking over the main, eventually replacing Yan Siqi and becoming the pirate leader on the southeast coast.

But why are Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong limited to the northern part of the Eastern Vocational Department?

The reason is very simple, because at this time, foreigners from the West had already begun to get involved in the southern part of the East Vanguard.
Chapter completed!